Frugal Living! Learn How To Stop Wasting Food! Zero Food Waste!
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- SAVE MONEY! Learn how to stop wasting food!! Use up what's in your refrigerator, freezer, and pantry! Easy frugal recipes and food saving prep ideas! Money saving hints and tips! Early retirement debt free couple shows you how you can have an abundant and full life with less money! Living a debt free life is possible by simple budgeting and not over spending! Debt free living is within reach!
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Blueberry Dump Cake- www.allrecipes.com/recipe/752...
What a great idea! I would love to see more ideas like this one, using different ingredients. Also, you two are an adorable couple - You can tell you love each other very much by how you speak to and about each other.
Thanks so much! 😊 Yes, we are BFF's lol!
These are my favorite videos that you do. I have a thing about not wasting food it gives me good satisfaction to use the last of every single thing. Not only that the way things are going we may need every scrap
Rex thank you!! I agree!
You both are helping me make smart decisions regarding money, life and retirement. Thank you for being caring, positive and reassuring
Jen thanks for the kind words!
Everything looks really delicious. Yesterday I made sweet potato patties, boiling two potatoes, adding some brown sugar and cinnamon and formed them into patties. I then rolled the patties in crushed club crackers (off brand to save $), which needed to used up. I fried them in some butter, and they were absolutely yummy. I crushed too many crackers, so I saved that to use in the salmon patties I will make tomorrow. I dearly love how you save small amounts of leftovers and use them to create new dishes! Diane
Great use of your food Diane! Thanks for being here!
I had a sweet potato farmer tell me if I would bake my sweet potatoes before using in recipes they would be sweeter and she was right 😊
Emmy, you and Paul's attitude is very cool. I appreciate you seeing the possibilities with what you have. I also appreciate you sharing your skills on how to manifest tasty abundance with the minimum as well as the creativity of adapting to using what you have, rather than demonstrating a fear of perceived lack. I expect you'll be aware that there seems to be a new and current social media trend that uses current food shortages as click-bait fear porn to drive traffic to their channels. They focus on the empty shelves, and the 'do it now before it's too late' doomsday scenario. You and Paul are calm and grounded. Instead of panicking us on how to load up in cost-co, you share how to create tastiness with what we have and the value of not letting things waste. Whilst I appreciate the value of the channels that teach how to prep for 25 years of toilet roll and military grade, kevlar (or mylar - what ever it is) lined shipping containers of freeze dried protein meals etc, most of us can't do that. Many of us don't have the budget or we live in downtown apartments. What my long-winded semi-rant is trying to say is that you empower us with creativity, skills and gratitude. Thank you xxx
THANK YOU!! What an uplifting comment...It's great to be encouraged by words such as yours!!
It's mylar, but you can use clean soda bottles to keep rice under the bed! Prepping doesn't have to cost extra. I might buy one or two extra cans every trip.
I agree with you about some of those sites, though, the added fear is completely unnecessary!
We really don't have any food waste anymore, we use up everything. Sometimes as bread spreads (chilis work really well) or we use already cooked/fried veggies in salads, we even freeze old bread and give it a second chance as a "bread-lasagna"...
So smart! Great tips to use up what you have!
I love to use our leftovers for one pot meals. Our meal from today: leftovers rice, peas, carrots, onion, chickpeas, 1/2 sweet potatoe, 1 cup cooked chicken, broth and coconut milk. Some curry powder, pepper, salt and that's it. Put it all together takes under 10 minutes, cooking for 15 minutes on low heat and ready to eat. It was so good! Your recipe with the cheese potatoe muffins is my favourite. I have to try it. Thanks a lot for this amazing video.❤
Sounds great Sabrina! Thank you for sharing my friend!
Ever since my husband and I ate at Garden Grill in Epcot he has been baking all over our leftovers (meat, potatoes, vegetables) in the same square Pyrex after we have a holiday meal. He calls it Garden Grilling it because that’s how they served the meal to us at Disney! It also saves on dishes 😊
I LOVE GARDEN GRILL! Oh my gosh thank you for that smile!
This video reminds me of how excited I was when I first found your channel when you first started. It is the ideas and practical day to day frugal living habits that really make a huge impact on saving money and not wasting anything. You keep me inspired and your videos continue to be so relevant and creative. I knew Paul would say "it is not too sweet!"😄
LOL Jan! I knew he would too! Thank you!
Another good video. With food prices rising practically weekly. We all need to go back to a pre-20th century way of living. And make sure that nothing gets wasted.
Absolutely right!
Left-Overs become Do-Overs- This Channel makes me come back and Do-Over each video! Thank you Emmy and Paul!! ❤
You are so sweet Jan! Honestly...
I just love Paul, his comments.
I know right lol!
Stir Fry's are so great for using up different veggies and meat. I have used celery that was going bad, small piece of leftover cabbage, zucchini on its last leg. My son particularly loves the celery. Hardly ever the same things twice in it. Always turns out great. The sesame oil if you can afford it really makes it. I will try the butter next time as I bet it gives great extra flavor.
The butter really did make it extra yummy!
Absolutely love your videos. Emmy- you and Paul are so happy and it genuinely comes through in your videos. Keep up the good work! Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you so much for your kindness Amber!
Paul is right dump cakes are amazing still warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Yum! Thanks!
Tip…I was taught that if you do not have better enough to fill up all the muffin tins to put around 2 tbsp of water in the empty ones. It helps muffins / cupcakes or whatever bake evenly
I heard that too... maybe next time though they seemed to bake fine lol
Good morning Emmy and Paul
Good afternoon Terri!
Hello Emmy and Paul :) We've been re-engineering our meal plan to include more meals that we have canned. It will give us a measure of security should the grocery shelves be empty or priced too high. I'll meal plan from the pantry and freezer and restock when things are on sale. We canned chicken torilla soup, beef stew ans chipotle black beans this week.
I love, love, love your no waste meals! ❤❤❤
Wow! That is wonderful! Great job!
When I have stuff about to go off I generally throw it in a soup or stew - as long as you boil it everyday, then keep it cold in-between, it’s good to go!
I generally add bits to it daily and flavour it with herbs and spices, and either with tomato or just stock, the next day add chilli powder, then curry powder and if there’s some left on the fourth day it goes in a pie or under a mashed potato topping.
If you’re running out of veggies, you can add lentils, rice, beans or pasta, but you have to be careful with how much heat you are using as these can burn on the bottom - if they do, don’t scrape the bottom but tip the rest into another pan to rescue it and add a bit of liquid smoke and call it barbecue flavour! :-)
Billie from England.
Thanks for sharing your tips!
You are so right about the Japanese sesame oil. I was lucky to find two bottles on clearance, with 50% off tags. They were well worth the price. And, a little goes a long way. Duncan Hines lemon cake mix would be really good with the blueberries 🫐 😋
Yes lemon would be awesome!
Love love love your videos xxx
Thanks so very much!
Love your zero waste cooking videos! You are so creative! I wish you did more than two videos a week. I love getting a glimpse into your life. I feel like I’m sitting at the table having coffee with you and soaking in all of your knowledge. Thank you for sharing with us!
Oh Cindy thank you! So kind of you to say!
I don’t like mashed potatoes but I got excited as a kid when I saw my mom made them. It meant the next day we had potato pancakes.
Potato pancakes are delish!
Hello .we are here watching another great video.
Thanks so much Steve! How is your brother in law? We have been praying!
@@FrugalMoneySaver Thank you both so much. Still in ICU but making progress. Thank Jesus
Hi Emmy! I always keep in my mind foods I have to use up before they go bad and incorporate into meals. I made a pasta bake with leftover sauce from chicken cacciatore I had made. I topped the casserole with ricotta I had stored "upside down" that was out of date. The ricotta was perfectly fine and added a nice creaminess to the dish. Last night I made my first peach cobbler with peaches I needed to use before they went bad. It turned out great! With the price of food these days, I try not to waste anything!
Chris you sound like a pro in the kitchen!! Great ways to stretch your food and dollar!
What a delicious frugal meal. I love it! You are such an inspiration!
Thank you so much Laura!
I love mixing and matching and coming up with recipes.
Have a great weekend.
You too Sandra!
Your into was so pleasingly fall. I thought, sesame oil would put the stir fry over the top…and you put some in! I’ve made a batch of rice in the afternoon and cooled it on a refrigerated baking sheet so I can have “leftover” cold rice to make fried rice for dinner.
It was sooo yummy!!
I love your positivity. So needed today 🤗💞💞💞
You are so welcome!!
You are so inspiring! I found 2 pork chops in the freezer and put them in my tiny crockpot with some teriyaki sauce that I needed to use up, cooked on low til tender (about 5 hours on low) and then used several bits and pieces of frozen veggies, garlic, ginger, leftover aldente spaghetti in fry pan, then added the pork chops….wow…..lo mein!!!!!
YUM!! Good for you!
This was wonderful!! We have stir fry on the meal plan today...I was thinking of skipping it and just having canned chili, but I got my rear into the kitchen and chopped veggies while I watched! Thank you for the motivation!!💛💛💛 We are using all sorts of ingredients we got from Imperfect Foods and I am adding leftover rice and also leftover chicken! Less food waste!🙌
Sounds great! Good for you!! Thanks for sharing!
I love these videos about zero food waste. Thank you!!
Thanks Amy!
15,000 and still responding to every comment?! Love, love, love you!!!
LOVE you more! We have to have a lasagne date!! I'll call you next week!
@@FrugalMoneySaver Yeeeeees, please!
Ummm, sadly WE NEVER have leftover mashed potatoes!🤣 Love your "clean out the fridge" ideas! You and Paul are such a blessing!
Thanks so much Sally!!
Emmy, those potato puffs look amazing. Yum. And a great way to not waste that small amount. Here, where I love potatoes have been extra expensive at 4.00 for a 10lb bag, but this week a store here had them on sale for 2 10lb bags for 3.00. oh my goodness, you know I grabbed 2 bags. Love potatoes.
Love your channel.
Great deal on the potatoes!!
Thank you for the huge work you put in to encourage us!
You are so welcome Judy!
@@FrugalMoneySaver Thank you!
I had leftover mashed potatoes and made a delicious potato soup last night- i add some 1/2 &1/2 and water to thin it down and get it smooth. Then added garlic powder, salt, onion powder and black pepper. I then stirred in some cheese i had on hand- any flavor will work, but sharp cheddar is wonderful. My mom stills makes potato soup like this and she’ll add some chopped ham, or peas, broccoli… basically anything you have hand! I served mine with some garlic toast, and everyone loved it.❤️
Sounds so good Barb! Thanks for sharing!
Since 1969 I have been teased for saving my butter wrappers - I think I have saved a lot in 52 years!
LOL!! The best tip ever right Colleen!!
We eat a lot of leftovers with 5 people in house. Don't like to cook every day :). When I make a whole pork loin for example we use leftovers by cutting up into bite size pieces and use in tacos/burritos - add salsa and cheese and veggies - a whole new meal. Cut up chicken, beef - same way - sometimes I'll freeze the leftover cut up meat and use in a stew or casserole or stir fry another week. I hate wasting but sometimes you get in a rut/ life happens/ you overbuy and then discover the eaters won't be home for dinner!
What a great ways to save money on food! Thank you!
Your dishes all looked delicious! I may have to try those potato puffs SOON! Nearly every Sunday afternoon after church, I pull out my instant pot and clean out the veggie bin in the refrigerator, any leftover cooked vegetables from the week, and any partially used up bags of frozen vegetables to make soup for lunch for the following week. When I have potatoes that need to be used up, or leftover rice, or leftover beans - I toss those in too. If I have leftover salsa - I add Mexican seasonings and its a Southwest soup - if I have leftover pasta sauce - I add Italian seasonings and its an Italian vegetable soup. It helps me use up what we have on hand and I get to enjoy hot lunches all week long with a minimal investment of time. It's a win-win!
Loris those are some great tips! You are really stretching your food budget for sure!
I ❤ your channel I think I have watched almost every single video you have made
I am so happy when I come across a new one😊
So many of the tips that you have shared I remember doing with my mom I am almost 70 and every time you pull out a body wrap I have to laugh😂
My mom used to use them all the time and had a whole collection of them in the butter drawer of the fridge
We were a family of seven so we use a lot of butter
I love the way you and Paul complement each other and interact
I love how how he is your taster
Your videos always make me smile
I am so blessed to have come across your
Channel
Channel, what a kind encouraging comment! Thank you!
Brilliant!
Yum!
Great meal!
My cooking has had to change drastically. Being in the South, I loved cooking with fatback, bacon, etc. My poor husband has fatty liver and has to have a low sodium diet. It's a challenge but doing the best I can. I love using what I have to create meals. Just love your videos! Hope you have a wonderful week.
I understand! You have a wonderful week too!
The dessert looks great.
Paul is such an appreciative taste tester
He really is lol!
Emmy, I do the same thing with leftover cauliflower.....mash it, add egg and cheese, some kind of onion, whatever you like. Delicious!
So smart! Thanks!
What a cool channel! I sure do this at home.....I'm married to "Fred Flinestone---"Wilma, where's my dinner!" Funny, but he comes home from work just so hungry...this is done in my house all the time---it's great to see others do this too! Blessings from Dawn @ Rich & Dawn in MN :)
LOL! I understand completely! Every morning Paul asks what's for dinner right after breakfast!
Emmy, I made this cottage pudding today with my little granddaughters and it was amazing! So light and fluffy and just the right amount of sweetness. I followed the same temp as you and cooked it 33 minutes and it was perfect. Thank you for this recipe. ❤️
YAY!!! Love when you all share that with me! So glad it was YUM!
Being Irish, we eat mashed potatoes most days ,also leftover mashed potatoes, going to give your puffed mash a try and going to add some onion also ,thanks again for great money saving ideas / less food waste.
Sounds great! Thank you!
love the experimenting
I love everything about this channel. It always make me happy and positive. Blessings
What a wonderful comment! Thank you!
It depends on the leftovers but my go to is using leftovers in a soup, maybe a stir fry or "leftover buffet " where you choose what you want from leftovers.
Great idea!
Great fun video! ❤
Thank you 🤗
Love these full menu vids!!
Thanks so much!
Beautiful fall decor! Great recipes!
Thanks Jackie!
Everything looked delish!
Thanks so much Nowell!
Thank you for ideas to use up what we have!
You are so welcome!
Everything looks delicious!
Thanks!
I am loving your recipes Emmy, thank you
Thanks Doris!
Yum! Encourages me to use up what I have!
YAY! Thanks Susan!
Thanks for another amazing video, with such delicious frugal recipes!
Thanks so much Marj!
Hey DixieBelle and Paul and Emmy...Ritzi and I send Love and Cheer from Texas Love 💘 ❤ 💗 💕 💖 💓
Love right back Miss Wanda and Ritzi!!
Thanks for another great video Emmy and Paul! I am always amazed at what you make and how great it comes out from such random seeming ingredients 🤔 We usually make stir fry/soup or just fry up the potato and cheese etc but I do find it a struggle sometimes to think what I could do, so thanks for being awesome and inspiring me to use my food without wasting any leftovers - Have a great weekend and love to Dixie ❤
Thanks so much Bex!! Yes, I sometimes surprise myself as well LOL!! Have a great weekend too my friend!!
@@FrugalMoneySaver 👍🥰
I love love love these Use up what you have videos! Keep them coming! Love your channel ❤
Thank you so much!!
Absolutely delish . All of them and great savings too.
Thanks Mary!
A scrumptious trio of recipes Emmy!
Oh yes LOL! Thanks Ruby!
Thank you for making this video
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, Congratulations!!!!!....
You are already halfway to 16K subscribers!!!! The upcoming colder season will have people hunkering down indoors watching UA-cam!!
Thanks for all your entertaining and helpful videos..... ❤️
N. California is "finally" getting much needed rain 😀 (BIG Storm) so today so it will be a day of indoor crafts/projects.
Have a fantastic week!
"See" you Tuesday!!!!!
You have a fantastic week too Sheryl! Thanks for the adorable Halloween card! Your mail always makes me smile!
Another great video on using your leftovers. It all looked delicious
Thanks Lisa!
This video is like magic! You are the Queen of creative! You help me stretch that food, helps stretch that food dollar!
My leftovers are often used with some type of soup recipe, especially this time of year!
Thank you so much!!
I love this kind of video. So great!! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I love to make soups or stews out of leftovers. Stirfry or fritata omelet style dish. The potato puffs is something I keep in mind💡
Yes, so creative and economical!
Oh yummy! I’ve gotta try those potato puffs!
So good!
Your food looks so good!
Thank you 😋
Love to watch you cook and all your wonderful ideas. Love your fall dishes on your counter. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much! 😊
Brilliant and delicious-looking. Well done!
Thanks so much!
Such a cute couple! Love your videos!!!!!!
Robin thank you!!!
I love the mashed potato idea! My first thought was to add a little bit of diced ham in with it and make it a main meal
Oh yes!
Awesome awesome awesome video. You are so good at these things
Thank you so much 😁
You two are adorable!! Love the way you do this channel together. :)
Thank you so much Tina!! 😊
Love seeing what to do with leftovers! tfs
Thanks for being here!
This was the first video of yours I watched and I really enjoyed it
Oh thanks Carolyn! So happy you enjoyed it!
Lovely flowers
Thanks so very much!
Thanks for the inspiration, I am definitely going to cook the desert next time I am asked to bring a desert to a party, I love to use left over curries to stuff small pumpkins and bake them.
You two are so adorable! Love your channel! Great video on how to use up what’s in your fridge! Wondered if you had a video on preparing a turkey? Could you prepare it the same way you do with your whole chicken recipe?!
Blessings to you both!!
I absolutely loved this video. I'm certainly going to try the dessert.
Keep these awesome videos coming.
Thanks so much Angela!
These are my favorite videos. And those stunning mums!!
Thanks Susan!
You are so creative in the kitchen, I love it. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Thank you so much 😊
Everything looked delicious. I love lemon cake with blueberries .
So good!
Another delightful video from you both. All the recipes looked delicious and I am now itching to make the potato puffs, so much so I think I will deliberately cook too many potatoes to make sure I can. Enjoy your weekend and as always thank you so much for sharing you corner of The World with us all.
Our pleasure! Thank you so much Kathryn!
We had to watch again . going to try those potatoes you did.
Oh I hope you enjoy them! Thanks Steve and Sherry!
I'll need to remember those potato puffs for leftovers from Thanksgiving!
You're fearless with your recipes, lol. And so creative! That blueberry/orange dessert is amazing.
Yes, I figure why not! LOL!
Great video Emmy. I just have to try those potato puffs and the dump cake! I have done the stir fry in the past and I think the rice really makes it. Thanks for all that you and Paul do! Have a wonderful week
Sounds great! Thanks so much Deborah!
That stir fry with the cold cooked rice and Tamari added in was right up my alley, Emmy. And your thin sliced steak looked so delicious when you added it to the fry pan. I have several cake mixes (different varieties) that I completely forgot about until now. I'll be baking one of them tomorrow. In fact, I have a can of apple pie filling that would go just great with it. I can't wait to try my version of a dump cake.
Oh yum! Sounds great!
Put some ice cream on that cake Emmy!!!!!
Any recipe that requires grating butter is not easy to me 😂😂😂
Ahh you know I LOVE THESE ZERO WASTE VIDEOS!!!!
I’m not sure if it’s the inspiration, or the joy and thankfulness that radiates from you over using up the leftovers that get me. I mean, they just inspire me to excavate the fridge and rescue anything getting close to its end
YAY!! That makes me smile! Yeah you really have to be careful grating that butter!
I couldn't believe you made such delicious food with those ingredients.
LOL! Thanks Lorrena!
Love this video! This is how I was raised too. Do more of these (-: from Ontario, Canada
We do have many of these types of videos made! Just search my channel for zero food waste!
Your leftover makeovers looked delicious, Emmy. This is something I try to do often. We love dry beans used in different ways. I cooked large limas early Monday. I try to cook enough to last for several days. I add ham hock to season and fry potatoes and make one pan of cornbread. We live in the South, and we love bread with our beans. If I have extra juice left after the beans are gone, we use that as a bowl of soup one day for lunch. If any potatoes are left, I mix a few beans with the potatoes and use as a side. This week we ate the side with hamburger steaks. Our cornbread lasts about four meals. I've had very little cooking to do with this week's prep.
Thank you for reminding me to use my leftovers. Occasionally, I let them get lost in the shuffle. 🙂
Sounds so wonderful!! Great use of extra food!