How Long Can I Live Off £10 of Food from Home Bargains?
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2024
- I'm Trying to Survive as Long as possible off £10 at Home Bargains.
The question is, how much can I buy, and just what can I make for my meals, to be able to keep me alive and from being way too hungry!
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I found a new job guys! Thank you to everyone for all the love and support the last couple of months! 🎉❤
best of luck in your new job i hope you find the time for youtube now and then
Same! Im currently on week 2. I hope it works out (and mine lol)
Just saw this after asking if you found a new job. Congratulations! They are very fortunate to have someone as creative,thrifty and inspiring as you.
👍👍👍
I feel you with being unemployed, my 20 year working career ended over a year ago and the cost of living is horrendous. Lets hope you (and me) get a job soon
Sending good vibes to both of us 🙏🏼
Ii hope you can find a job & things turn out well for you x
Both!
Aldi are tesco stookwell brands are cheaper
If you're interested I know they are crying out for carers and they even offer on the job training. And warehouse work (I know it hard but it's work) is a good option. I have said these jobs because they're no entry level jobs and just require you to be a human being.
That’s a very expensive way to shop. I shop at Home Bargains, but selectively as some things are expensive, more expensive than other places and other items are great bargains. The only way to maximise your savings is to shop around. Keeping an eye on at the very least the prices of the things you buy regularly. 59p for a tiny tin of beans is a rip off.
Aye lidl does a full size tin of beans for 42p
NOPE Aldi still have beans for 28p. for the 410g tin.
There seems to be a tin shrinkage happening the 420g may be going to 410g for the same price. since there website show both sizes
@TheRustylungs morrisons beans are way better. You can get 4 cans for £1.70 which is the same price you said.
I got some carrots for 30p the other day from Morrisons daily
Exactly what I just commented about the beans! A full-size can at Aldi is £0.28.
I thought you did really well - but Home and Bargain isn't as cheap as it used to be. Good luck finding a job and really nice of you to inform people of any help that may be available ❤
Home Bargains is good if you want a product that isn't on offer at another shop nearby. It's the Lidl/ Aldi/ Primark /McDonald's trick now where people associate it with being cheap but even M&S have become cheaper than Lidl in a lot of products
Making your kebabs is a good way to eat cheaply and fairly healthy.
From my local Tesco I bought a pack of 6 Pitta Breads for 50p.8 Tesco sausages for £2. Medium size cucumber for 70p. Red onion for 30p. Tomato's for 90p. White cabbage for 70p. £5.10p total.
With that I can easily make 2 kebabs a day for 3 days plus use up the remaining veg for a salad.
dk why you’d usd cabbage in a salad
@@jaycartwright1170
I use white cabbage, which is the cabbage they use in kebabs in chip shops. At least in the ones where I live.
It's nice and crunchy and goes well with the other veg. Try it and see if you like it. As I said, it's cheap, stays fresh enough to eat for a week and as it's a tightly leaved cabbage, you can make half a dozen kebabs and still have some left over for a salad. Very good value for money food item!
I'm impressed! That looks like food most of us would actually want to eat
My "between jobs" grocery list is:
Loaf of bread,
Dozen eggs,
Package of cheese slices,
Package of pasta,
Can of tomato sauce,
Bacon.
It gives you lots of meal combinations for about 10-ish bucks.
Edit: I worked for a couple of years at a bakery in between jobs. The pay wasn't great but I was able to take home lots of free day old baked goods. I almost never went grocery shopping
I guess all jobs have there percs hey Chris
@@OldManSteveandMeI would take home trays of scones, biscuits, muffins etc. If no one wanted them they would be thrown into a locked dumpster, to discourage potential scavengers.
@@chrism1102 Sounds delightful! I love a chocolate crunch from my local bakery 🧁 call me old school but the simple taste of a chocolate crunch just brings me straight back to lunchtime at primary school when I would go and get seconds before the dinner lady’s packed up. I loved it every Friday I would always have seconds sometimes even thirds 😋😊😇😁🥲☺️😋 the good ole days. If I worked or owned a bakery I would set up a system to make sure I waste nothing and anything that is left over give to a member of staff like yourself. Or make sure the homeless get some food ! Waste not want not…..
Hey Sam, just wanted to offer some encouragement since I know how much of a mental hurdle it can be while waiting for the next job offer. Your channel is genuine, creative, and funny. I look forward to every weekly upload and haven't missed a video since I subscribed. I am happy to see your channel is growing as fast as it is and have no doubt it will keep up. Also keep the dog clips coming, it is always so funny. Have a great day!
Love this channel! Great tips and advice and better then what’s on the TV these days. Been here since the Tesco video and been a silent subscriber until now. Keep up the content because I really enjoy it as do many others!
Amazingly kind words, thank you!!
I genuinely love these videos for an insight into what other do with a tiny grocery budget. I tend to batch cook at the start of the month (casseroles, rice and lentils, spag bol, curries, chill, etc) and then eat that for a couple of days and freeze some for later in the month. I'm in work but am in a position where I only have about #30 a week to spend on my food shop which feels quite difficult now esp here in London. Hope you find a new job soon!
Definitely prefer Branston BB than Heinz. Good luck with the channel and the job hunt.
They just have more flavour you know? Thank you!
Branston definitely 👍✅
just get the 28p tin and drop in a squirt of Branston Sauce will cost less.
Pro tip. Buy Tesco potatoes for £1.29. Spaghetti is dirt cheap in Tescos too. Ketchup. Also Eggs. Bread. Also they have 85p ready meals for some flavour. And a pack of Vanilla Donuts last days if you store them right. Hit up food banks..and sometimes local communty walk in groups do food cabinets for cheap or free. Lots of experience living on nothing. Cheese is cheap at tescos and goes well in a lot of stuff...also lettuce is cheap. Can last a week on that easily.
Although you can buy some cheap things in HB. It is NOT the cheapest place to get cheap version of foods. For EG.
bean 59p but can just get a tin for 28p for 410g . 39p for oat bust when just pay 90p for a full 1 KG bag of oats.
carrots 65p are 33p in aldi. would not get the Pizza for £1.49 since you can get bigger ones cheaper under a £1. tomatoes 55p Aldi 28p.
Yes the cheese items are good price, the grated for £1.39
If all you can do is last 3 days for £10 then you are not trying I can and have too do far better than that.
I am on UC. and have like £20 a week to buy all food and kitchen etc items with.
So £3.33 a day that you did is far too much for 1 person.
£20 a week? Assuming you're living in social housing so no rent or council tax to worry about you get £369 a month for food and bills. Let's say your gas/electric/water was £200 month which for a single person seem reasonable, you'd be left with £169, even if you factored in phone/tv/broadband you can get decent packages for £30 a month - £139 left, more than £20 a week for food and kitchen items, no? Unless you waste money on luxuries such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc you should have more than that to live on. That said you're bang on about it not being the cheapest place for all items and how he thought half a tin of beans for 59p was a bargain was beyond me :D
@@aaronb7949I wouldn’t class drugs as a luxury 😮
U can actually get 1KG of carrots for 65p from M&S
Does Home Bargains do Yellow Stickers? I don't live in England. I went to school in Nottingham briefly. I didn't recall Home Bargains having food,but that was in the 90's and obviously things change.
I love the fact that these challenges r both entertaining and educational. Living on a budget can be extremely hard but your challenge shows it can be done and not with just boring food. Great job keep it up 😊
Glad you like them!!
Been too busy to watch your last couple videos, amazing to see how much your channel has grown since i last watch one! I remember when the channel just started.
All your videos are amazing, much love
Ahhh Appopl thank you my guy. Love ya x
love you too x@@SamWilder.
The street food counter that sells sushi etc in supermarkets have sachets of wasabi, soy and ginger to take. Some ginger and a little wasabi in your carrot soup could pep it up
i respect this, these videos are slowly improving. good luck on your future challenges my friend!
You can grab a kilo bag of porridge oats at Tesco for 90p! also 1kg spaghetti for 90p. How about making the same vid (10quid) but buy reduced items from the supermarket just before they close? When I was younger, we used to put everything at 20p for last half hour - you could prob last a good week and a bit
Sad to hear about your job! Crossing fingers you get a new one soon. The video was great as per usual, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed 😊
Found this channel yesterday and I'm absolutely obsessed with your content, it's exactly what I've been looking for!
Proud of you!! Everything looked appetizing 😋 😋
Yay! Thank you!
Good luck dude, keep up the excellent content.
Wow, only just found this video and your channel.. and I did a food shop at HB yesterday 😅 I say food shop, I bought food that is cheaper there than most other places and I could also get food for my bunny and medical supplies.. Home Bargains is an amazing shop, (sorry you didn't get onions at your HB that day😮, ours had them)..
I live in a very working class old mining town in the East Mids, our HomeBargains is always busy, all day every day..
Keeps us alive 😂
I love Branston beans personally,more beans and the sauce is better than Heinz, but that is just my preference..
Glad your video appeared in my feed 😀
1 kg oats is less than a quid, and will keep you fed for 3 days if you are in a bind. Same with lentils. Oatcups like that is one meal, and costs what? 0.20 quid? 0.30? It is not a bad first attempt though, but yeah.
Hi Sam, thanks for the video, and the insight into budget cooking. I don't do much myself, I think a blender might be on my agenda. The practicality seems good, and it's been years since I had one. Hope you situation picks up soon.
I just randomly clicked on this video. Watched a few minutes. Thought you must've had a few hundred thousand subs at least because the idea is great, production is great. Alas, only 4K SUBS!! Crazy. Wishing you the best from Australia!
Maybe one day :)
Come across this channel thinking it was another UA-camr and it’s good to see you on here Sam! I do love a budget video as I am also keeping money spending on the minimum, I don’t have the confidence or video skills to make something like this though but am feeling inspired, keep it up!
Mike jeavons?
Thank you Sam that was very creative on your home made meals well done sorry to hear that your have time out but chin up and remember you have the love of your lovely partner and the most adorable Reilly so keep smiling you are truly blessed in life .xxx
Love your vids. Some really helpful ideas there on a limited budget especially when theres too much end of month left and not enough money
Thank you!! I’m glad they help someone! I’ll defo be going back!
I generally go there before doing my shopping. You can sometimes pick up stuff in there cheaper than the main supermarkets. Every penny helps towards the next shop. I've started doing a budget envelope for shopping and videos like yours really helps. So thanks Sam and keep up the good work 😁
just stumbled across your channel , i have loved and subbed, looking forward to more content. best of luck to you man
This was awesome really enjoyed it. I love when people get creative with limited budgets
04:10 that cracked me up angry bite! i have no idea how i ended up here. anyways i have subscribed. good luck on job search
You are a very talented content creator. Wishing for you much success!
01:33 - we love the majora's mask inspiration here
Yoooo @HyruleGamer !! I’m honoured!
I have so much Majora merch in the house, it made sense haha!
Your video came up in my recommendations and loved it, I have subscribed. Best wishes getting a new job.
Subscribed, Probaly won’t do much but it must be a struggle unemployed in this cost of living crisis!
Sending love 💙
Great vid as usual 🎉
Big fan of this content. Subbed 👍🏼
I've never seen this channel before, but I can already tell I'll love the content! You have a new sub. :)
You're not gonna be unemployed for long if you keep doing videos like this mate ! Amazing video x
Supermarkets often have budget options, like Co-Op's 40p pasta. Stretching £10 for a week or two is totally doable with planning, but finding the cheapest across stores takes some effort. Remember, prices vary by location, so this video is a guide, not a strict shopping list.
Well done to everyone commenting, liking & subscribing. This channel popped up on my algorithm as a result! Good luck with your job search, being unemployed is awful
Great video as always.
icl this has the editing of a channel w 70-80k, was shocked when I saw u only had 5k. good video bro
Good luck bro and good video xx
Appreciate it
Hey sam, would love to see the same concept but for Lidl! they have really cheap packets of 1kg rice for like 50p etc.
Maybe try this tip. If green onions are cheap, buy a bunch, stick into a glass of water and your tops will grow. Clip for flavor and fresh green veg.
I’ve heard this but never tried it! I’m going to do it :)
Also buy celery and put in a tall glass, vase or similar with a little water and the tops keep growing... Eat the sticks on their own (snack), chop up to add to salads, soup or even with beans on toast. Celery can be roasted, grilled for chared crunch'! The green leaves act as a nice garnish to most meals from curries to cheese on toast etc. One or two bunches easily last a week on the window ledge... 😊👍
Genuinely you can do a shop at Lidl, look for reduced items and buy very basic things, own branded of course. Example a full tin of beans (your Branston tin was half a tin) is something like 26p. I'm also unemployed but even when I was making a very good salary, I'd still shop like that. Always check out the reduced stuff - the use by dates are a con - especially if you freeze/refrigerate things and at Aldi they often have 75% reductions!
Just discovered your channel I have subscribed 🎉 loving your channel ❤
Another great video!
great content man u deserve way more subs 🔥🔥
Guys it’s cheaper to learn how to cook and buy vegetables, lentils, peas etc and cook a nutritional meal. now this won’t be possible if you don’t open your mind and move away from suger and chemical filled foods that taste great but have no nutritional value and actually make you ill from the inside out. Want to stop feeling tired, lose those black bags under your eyes, improve your mental health all from just eating actual whole foods. Seasonings from around the world is key ✌🏽❤️🌍
Great video Sam!
Thanks!
Good luck with the job hunt!
The food you bought is nearly all ultra processed. I feel for your gut! Your money would go much further if you bought a cheap bag of oats and a pint of milk. Porridge for several days, esp if you dilute the milk with water.
Love the videos mate
Really appreciate it! 😁
Good luck on your job hunt! Hubby and I live in the US, but we love England (hubby was born there). We are going to London in August - can't wait!
Thank you so much! So kind! Enjoy London :)
Great vid, just subbed 😊
Excellent! What a really helpful video. If I wore a cap, I would probably doff it to you, sir. I know where I'm shopping tomorrow. Good luck fella.
I always use the fan oven settings when cooking something in the air fryer
I feel you with being unemployed , been in and out of jobs since covid and where i live theres not many jobs or places i havent worked. praying we find somewhere soon, Great video and also cant beleive as a british person myself you have never been home bargains until this, shock.
The 'essentials' range of most major supermarkets will make your money go much much further.
Asda
Tesco
Sainsbury
What work are you looking for.
Do not forget to supplement with a good multivitamin daily !
Synthetic vitamins are no good for anyone, it's just chemicals, The sun and proper food and water is what you need
New subscriber here🎉 keep going hopefully you will achieve your goals. Keep the grind up my bro🎉🎉🎉
Appreciate it my friend!!
I’m impressed you did great👍👏👏
Subscribed. Not because you are unemployed but because you seem like you are a hard worker. Also i like the vids. Keep going
Love your channel! You are a good husband! Maybe throw a few mushrooms on those pizzas to elevate them next time. I'm in the US, and it's really nice to see how you bargain shop and cook there. Kari
When I make them for myself and not just Carolina I definitely will!
Defo shop around because Home Bargains isn't the cheapest for everything but you can definitely get by really well on just a few basic cheap food stuffs. Pasta (i get the GF stuff from Asda and it's still not that expensive), rice, lentils, eggs, chopped toms and whatever veg is abundant and cheap this season, will serve you really well. Use cheese sparingly, like the luxury it is these days and buy frozen fruit & veg for wizzing up smoothies for breakfast. That's a whole lot of nutrients for not a lot of money. Also - it's wild garlic season right now (March) get out there (do your research first obvs) and wizz a load up with oil, portion off with ice cube trays and bung them in a bag in the freezer and you have oil & garlic to start off any recipe.
good video ^^ think you are an engaging person to watch!
First time viewer and i have to say i loved your video. However, as someone who's recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes i recently went on a nutrition course and my only worry with what you've been eating is the ultra processed foods aren't healthy for you.
However, love your personality, love your kindness with the links so I've subscribed and passed your video on to a couple of people
Good luck something will turn up fab blog x
Love your videos. Good luck with finding a job! Never fun.
This is a joke or he never had to budget in his life.
Loved the video
Tinned fish & rice are essential. I actually used that diet to get in shape and lost a good amount of weight while building a bit of muscle too!
Hope you find something soon! Been there before and it’s horrible 😢
Sorry to hear it - with a lot of shops shutting, there is a structural change in how people find work. Get a part time job for 16hr and top up with benefits, that will keep your head above water. Use food banks, and access all the entitlements.
If you do any work now you will have your benefit reduced by 55p for every £1 you earn. It's called a taper , it's shit, it applies to universal credit but there's a drive to get all benefits switched to uc....so the part time job suggestion is only partly a good idea
You can live off just £5 a week in food in the short term if you have to, it wouldn't be fun, but you would live. Some people are even more savvy than that and could go even lower. You can buy 4 loaves of bread and a tub of butter spread and that would give you the calories you need and you wouldn't go hungry.
I did an experiment myself and found that I could easily live off £15 of food for more than a week, there wasn't much protein, but vegetables are cheap, filling and tasty.
i love your videos, you're very entertaining and informative, i hope you soon get a job x
Watching this in May. I hope you have found new employment. You are so creative and great with budgeting any new employer would be very lucky indeed to have you.
Another good one
Buy the cheapest thing from every isle at your biggest local supermarket!
Loooove this idea!
as someone also unemployed living on a tight budget let me suggest Tesco:
70p 4 baking potatoes
£1 Two sachets of instant mash
89P cucumber
75P Tin Tuna
85p Medium Loaf
1.40 pack of 8 tortillas
£3 Fajita mix (chicken and veg, one pack makes all 8 tortillas)
3x 47p Spag Hoops
Exactly a tenner, 2x jacket potatoe meals with 2 potatoes each time with hoops, 2 x 4 fajitas each time, 2-3 tuna and cucumber sandwiches with extra cucumber to add to fajitas, 2 mash and hoops dinners and it comes out to exactly a tenner, thats 11 potential meals, for a tenner, so maybe u can stretch that video to FOUR DAYS!
I've done this challenge and it was easy...
Lentils 0.49p lasts 3 days.
Bread 85p
Potatoes 1.30p
X4 tins beans 1.49
Carrots 0.59p
Mushrooms 0.79p
Eggs 1.20 for a dozen
Cheese 1.79 a bag
Stock cubes 79p
Big Tin of corn 42p
Tin tomatoes 25p
Total is £9.96
You can make the following:
1.Cheese toasties
2.Beans on toast
3.Lentil broth
4.Potatoes and carrot soup (add stock cube and some Lentils.
5. Mushroom omelette
6. Tomatoes on toast.
7. Cheesy potatoes with corn.
8. Chip butties (and egg)
9. Lentil and mushroom patties.
10. Fritters with corn.
11. Cheesy scrambled egg
12. French toast with with side of Mushrooms and rest of tomatoes.
There you go......... People need to stop filling up their baskets and spending money on food that they don't eat. Budget shopping is easy and all you need to be is more creative.
The food above can last, and £10 can stretch..... If people stopped buying £7 coffees and junk food, budgeted wisely, and prepared proper food then they would realise that anything is possible.
The elderly had to ration and didn't even have the ingredients above. People today waste their money and cry victimhood.
I've had to use this method above to survive, and managed because I had no choice..... But when you have people that want luxury and who are greedy, then they'll always find an excuse not to buy frugally or cook food that lasts....
Your choices are a bit healthier than himself at the top. Stay away from the cheap pies lad!
A real genuine not for profit? UA-camr subscribed!
Okay firstly, who knew they did so much normal food 😂 and secondly; were local to one another! That was a shock to see 😂 you certainly did get a lot for your money! Good luck in your job finding journey! ❤
Good luck Sam
Enjoyed viewing the video from Australia 🇦🇺.
Hopefully a job comes up soon 👍
Looks good! I work full time and have to do my weekly on less than a fiver.
Awesome video 😊
Good budgeting, well done
That mushroomy broccoli rice dish looked great. Shame you didn’t have a carrot left to chuck in
The tragic part of a cheap food shop is that convenience foods (e.g. instant noodles) have to take priority over fruit and veg. The things we desperately need, to stay healthy, are cost prohibitive for people struggling to live.
I have some grocery items that get from Home Bargains. Pancakes (pack of 8) £1.79, Rump Beef steak 227g £2.79, sirloin steak 227g £3.39, Potato rosti/slices with onion 400g 99p. (These prices listed are from memory but are close enough correct).
Just found you so interesting hope life goes good for you , seem like a real nice guy x
Great Video Sam those meals you made for £10 look delicious 😋
Goodluck in the job searching :)
I'd love to see you do this same challenge but shopping at a market.
Good luck 👍🏻
When at uni I did a challenge as part of my degree and was able to have 3 meals a day for 1 month for £20. Batch cooking played a large part, though. I bought everything from Aldi.
Hope your luck changes soon we would be paying triple that here in Australia food is so much over priced the government had to step in and create an independent inquiry into the supermarket prices.
I LOVE your videos, thank you again! I watch you from Finland and we don't have stores like that here, but this was very interesting. And: You really are a good husband, making a pizza for your wife and eating soup yourself 😂