I love your videos. When I was undergoing radiation treatments and had to be isolated for a time period I got a cheap toaster oven with small pans from GFS. I took cheap garlic toast and topped it with tomato, pepperoni and cheese. I also made a cheap basic muffin mix and added diced strawberries or blueberries. I experimented. I came up with these turkey meatballs and had those with rice. I used one pound of ground turkey with egg, ground up croutons and spices. Those were delicious. That was a tough time and I beat the cancer.
Wow your Walmart is so much prettier then mine, I just love budget videos. People get so creative with them. Again Im so happy i came across your channel...... Im sure that this will be very helpful for people living on a budget / living in collage or just need ideas.. I will say now with inflation i sure do miss those prices... I have a microwave cookbook. and i will say this video gave me the idea to pull it out and use it today..
I use turkey pepperoni and cheese on a tortilla, fold it and get it crisp, cut in half and have for breakfast or lunch. I have done the same with egg added too.
Times like this is when a "packet drawer" comes in handy! Save all the hot sauce, parmesan, red pepper flakes, etc. that you get from take out (or even from the dining hall, lol). One of my favorite ways to eat rice is with just butter and soy sauce. yum!
All I have is a fridge and microwave in the top floor of my parents house. So this is great for my situation. My dad is always lecturing me when I go downstairs to their kitchen, and most of their food is off-limits. My fridge and microwave helps me keep my independence.
CM, it's nice you have that independence in the same house and don't have to leave the upstairs as much. Dads/husbands always teach lessons in the household. That will probably be you one day!
@@wendoxia I'm not a college student for many years. I'm in my mid-twenties. I used to live in the basement until my older brother moved out. I pay rent to my parents with my job I got this year. My new top floor digs are a step up for me.
I can’t even imagine telling my kids, no matter their age, that any food or my kitchen is off limits to them! They could literally have the food off of my plate! Best of luck to you!!
Get some oatmeal it's great to keep you full and filling if your not allergic to peanuts stock up on peanut butter it's great with apples for a filling snack and you can make a peanut sauce
Also to let students know that there are food pantries that they could use to get canned foods and they sometimes contain breakfast bars or oatmeal. The college community boards may have papers posted showing the local pantries.
These videos are always a great watch and bring value to the community. My personal adjustments would be I would eliminate the cream cheese get more eggs and sneak in a can of mixed veggies. Having a pepperoni and egg sandwich for lunch and the mixed veggies with dinner. I would also remix breakfast a little maybe get box of oatmeal instead of the granola bars and have that with the yogurt. Your plan is better I am just spit ballin here. Keep at this you are doing a great thing here.
My favorite college meals were pinto beans with cheese, grilled cheese, or a pita bread with sliced pickles, mustard, and sharp cheddar. So, a lot of cheese! I used to also make pancakes in big batches and eat them on the go (with or without jam) all week. Also, peanut butter and jam or honey sandwiches. These meals also came in handy when I ran out of other items and didn't have time to go shopping.
I'm allergic to pepperoni and cannot stand tomatoes or spinach so those wouldn't "work" for me. Not sure what I would choose instead but I can say that I've had a hotplate for years so I'd use that instead of the microwave. My family "adopts" about 3 or 4 college students every semester and makes sure they have regular meals throughout the semester. We do individual portions of meals (similar to TV dinners but a LOT more healthy) and our kids (who are about the same age as college students so they aren't really noticed) "anonymously" deliver them Sunday evenings. We include salads, sides and condiments along with breakfasts, lunches and dinners. People don't LEARN if their BRAINS aren't fed.
In college, my first year I rented a room with a fridge, sink & washer/dryer. My menu was 8oz milk, 1 cup Raisin Bran cereal, 2 slices bread, tuna W/ mayo, slice of cheese, salt&pepper. I ate 1/2 of the sandwich at lunch and the other 1/2 for dinner. I walked to and from school plus all over campus. I did not gain the freshman 20 lbs, but I was perfect weight, in shape, focused and made a 4.0 that year.
Loaded baked potatoes were my go-to cheap meal in college. Kinda wished I had more of an imagination with my food back then but it's fun to watch these videos and reminisce the hard times that made me who I am today.
This was my staple too. My imagination did extend to cheddar and bacon bits, or cottage cheese and diced tomatoes... depending on the mood, lol. Peanut butter, bananas, and instant oatmeal packets and cereal were my other staples. Surprisingly, I was aware of Cup-O-Soups, but not ramen. I usually just bought Chunky soups. I learned about ramen later. For vegetables I snacked on celery, carrots and cucumbers.
Going to pass this video onto my daughter as she is at a school with an expensive meal plan that she didn't want to add to her student loans. We couldn't believe they wanted close to $2k for one semester of meals.
@@TheQuaintHousewife We probably spend less than $3000, for 1 year, for 2 people, and there is way too much food in this house. We are in York County, PA.
@@wendoxia A semester is 15 to 16 weeks. In my experience few students make it to the dining halls 3x a day, usually twice a day or less. Too much studying, classes, work, and running around to do.
@@wendoxia I don't know what you mean by living on granola bars. Dining halls have plenty of fast food and junk in it, so they aren't escaping that temptation easily -- and for a much higher price. When I was a student the most popular meals at the dining hall were chicken nuggets, fries, and hot dogs. Why do you think they call it the Freshman 15? A lot of students gain weight because of what they're eating in the cafeteria.
Is she a freshman? I remember my freshman year they just gave me the meal plan, it was like 14 meals a week plus dining dollars to use at the on campus food court or little convenience store. After that I selected to get a cheaper meal plan because I was only going to the cafeteria maybe once or twice a day if that. And hardly ever on the weekends
If you can get a cheap crockpot at a thrift store or from home would help and you could make different meals for cheap.My niece lived in the dorm for a year about an hour from home her mom would visit once a week and take her frozen food that she could put in a crockpot.She also liked to cook all sorts of things on her own she did great.
When I was in college I made noodles, cereal and TV dinners. I wish I had been more creative with my food options back then. Also, I would take fruit and wrap me up a turkey sandwich or two from the cafeteria and slip it in my back pack. Not the best thing to do because they hated for us to take food out of the cafeteria but that's what I usually did
These are some great ideas and funny enough I make some of these things on my own for myself. Another cool suggestion for college kids or those on their own for the first time is a multi function rice cooker which I bought for my cousins going away to college party along with a big bag of rice and microwaveable beans by a brand called Fillo’s. But you know those college students and they’ll probably just eat a lot of fast food LOL!
Yeah! I love budget meal prep because my grocery budget is tiny. I am a property caretaker on a 5 acre mini farm with free rent and utilities. So my income is very low and after I pay bills there is about $10 a week for groceries. I do get a little extra from the cans that I recycle which people throw out in front of the property fence. But it is not much. Because of drought the orchard did not produce this summer.
I'd rather have oatmeal than granola bars for breakfast....healthier and I feel like it would keep me fuller. I'd also use just butter instead of cream cheese. I love these kind of videos. Keep up the great work!
Great addition to your series! I'm wondering if bananas and apples wouldn't add to much more to the budget. I like a banana or even half a banana with cereal in the AM. Apples can be eaten any time and a slicer helps with portioning I guess. Enjoyed this one!😁
This is way better than what I ate my first 2 years in college lol. Just a tip for everyone reading, stir stir stir your eggs in the microwave!! I thought letting it go more than 15 seconds would be okay, and I had many exploded eggs all over my microwave. It was a good breakfast, 2 eggs in a mug with some ketchup or siracha... I also had a crockpot I wasn't supposed to and I used it to boil chicken... and make congee. I can do so much more now lol, but the boiled chicken was nice to have.
@@TheQuaintHousewife I guess so, but I definitely wasted a lot of produce and didn't refrigerate a few things I should have... (V8 after opening and cucumbers).
Yes! Please make more of these, this is brilliant. I'm personally not a fan of eggs but the other meals here are great. Also some tips for students struggling to find food off the meal plan. On campus I tend to do some urban foraging since I can't always make it to a grocery store without a car. The library and main study hall both have little food places where I can get salad dressing packets, salt, pepper, ketchup, mayo, and mustard in little packets. I'll also pay my way into the dining hall every 1-2 weeks or so and stock up on cream cheese and peanut butter packets, amongst other things, and take in some little Tupperware containers to fill with sliced fruit. Also, going to events and club meetings can often mean you get a free meal, and if you stick around long enough sometimes you can snatch the leftovers. My campus also has some apple tress and nut trees (walnuts mostly) which are ripe around the first 2 months of the school year, although I haven't figured out how best to use these yet, if you have ideas? I can also find small amounts of wild asparagus and grape leaves in the Nature Center. (I know stuff like dandelions and plantain are edible as well, and everywhere, but I find them too bitter)
what about checking the clearance/discount areas of stores? You can get real meat and lunch meat, veggies etc for super cheap. actual good that's not over processed junk.
I think this was well put together and well thought out for what you bought and what you made. I especially thought the time taken to make each meal was quite sensible too for a college student who is time poor if they're studying. Probably the only thing that could be improved upon is if there were less processed foods from things like the muesli/granola bars and pepperoni as they are high in sugar and salt, so if you could do a part two of this and leave out the processed stuff that would be great to see, just to improve on the nutrition side of things. Having said that I appreciate that you included things like fresh strawberries, spinach and brown rice to get some good nutrition there, so not saying it was all bad by any means. Probably a healthier box of cereal in place of the muesli bars would be a better option.
When I was a broke college student we bought -1 pack bagels -1 pkg of American cheese aka Kraft Singles -Mr noodles instant ramen -bag of potatoes every few weeks -jar of salsa And some cheap meat Breakfast was bagel in microwave with cheese melted between it like a sandwich or toasted with peanut butter or jam Lunch was bagel with cheese sandwich, baked potato with salsa or cheese, or ramen Dinner was baked potato or homemade oven fries, and the meat. Sometimes some frozen corn or mixed veggies. When we had money, I'd buy a bag of rice and some margarine to add more variety.
Also, scrambled eggs cook up rather nicely in a microwave, especially in a ceramic container (i.e. a coffee mug). Eggs are a great go-to meal that's affordable.
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@@TheQuaintHousewife lololol, I know you are, because you're secretly hilarious, but have a wild side that you keep on the DL to yourself, lol!!!🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 If you talk to yourself outloud, even in the grocery store when looking at cuts of meat, we're probably related!!!🤣🤣🤣🥳🥳🥳
I've had times in my life where I thought I was thinking to myself in my head but then wondered had my lips been moving? I think I talk to myself a lot LOL
IKEA at least in Sweden has really cheap microwave durable plates and bowls in non-seethrough hardened glass, its their cheapest ones so I would belive that they have it in all their stores even outside Sweden.
I think salsa would be great in the eggs and rice. Also, if you get plain yogurt instead of flavored, then you could put that in as well as kind of a sour cream. Not everyone likes plain yogurt though.
I would have added some Salsa to the eggs maybe add some over top the rice! If you can afford it invest in a quality Himalayan pink salt! Regular salt is not good for you stripping out healthy nutrients the body needs. Regular salt is also bleached it will not say this on the label. It is also highly processed. Regular salt can also spike your your blood pressure higher because of the processing. Take care!
Oh, BTW, your wig is super cute, but I actually LOVE your reg hair!!! When mine is a hot mess, I throw it up in a messy top knot bun, like the girls in their 20s do!!! I was thinking that you'd look adorable in one, too!!! Plus my top knots keep me cool! 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
@@TheQuaintHousewife you'd actually look super good in one!!! I just double knotmy pony w the last being a half-loop, then use mini clips to make it look messy. I have longish hair, but it's very fine, so that way bumps it up a bit, but I'd just buy a fake one to put on my method, if my hair was thinner or more fine than it is. 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
Two things I would modify. I would use full fatted greek yogurt...it has more nutrition and those good fats. And I would use liverworst or some turkey bacon instead of pepperoni. But That's personal taste preference. :)
I like your vids alot and I wish you would talk during the grocery shopping montage instead of music. The shopping montages are my fav part of the video it's where I learn the most. Also j just didn't like that music personally. Also do you live in Ontario?? I have that same Great Value brand here but I didn't know it was international
Hi PM, I will do some shopping videos with music, and still some with spoken. I am in the states and Great Value is the basic generic Walmart brand here. Thanks!
In my dorm room we couldn’t have any open heat sources, but we could have things like a rice cooker and crock pot. I had both from the thrift store, but I wish I would have known how to cook in either one! I ended up eating mostly microwave chicken nuggets because I didn’t know how to cook anything that wasn’t baked.
or a small rice cooker. a lot of dorms don't allow hot plates because of the fire hazard. enclosed appliances like a microwave are more likely to be allowed. definitely recommend college students go the second-hand stores to find gently used, affordable appliances!
I love your videos.
When I was undergoing radiation treatments and had to be isolated for a time period I got a cheap toaster oven with small pans from GFS. I took cheap garlic toast and topped it with tomato, pepperoni and cheese. I also made a cheap basic muffin mix and added diced strawberries or blueberries. I experimented. I came up with these turkey meatballs and had those with rice. I used one pound of ground turkey with egg, ground up croutons and spices. Those were delicious.
That was a tough time and I beat the cancer.
Holly, so glad to hear you got through your treatment. It sounds like you had some tasty nourishment to help you along. XOXO
Congratulations on beating cancer! Your menu sounds delicious. 😋😋
So thankful you did
Wow your Walmart is so much prettier then mine, I just love budget videos. People get so creative with them. Again Im so happy i came across your channel...... Im sure that this will be very helpful for people living on a budget / living in collage or just need ideas.. I will say now with inflation i sure do miss those prices... I have a microwave cookbook. and i will say this video gave me the idea to pull it out and use it today..
I use turkey pepperoni and cheese on a tortilla, fold it and get it crisp, cut in half and have for breakfast or lunch. I have done the same with egg added too.
Times like this is when a "packet drawer" comes in handy! Save all the hot sauce, parmesan, red pepper flakes, etc. that you get from take out (or even from the dining hall, lol). One of my favorite ways to eat rice is with just butter and soy sauce. yum!
For sure. A packet drawer is like a little treasure chest of stuff that makes plain food taste great.
Love the idea of the granola bars, yogurt, and fruit.
Thanks Samantha!
All I have is a fridge and microwave in the top floor of my parents house. So this is great for my situation. My dad is always lecturing me when I go downstairs to their kitchen, and most of their food is off-limits. My fridge and microwave helps me keep my independence.
CM, it's nice you have that independence in the same house and don't have to leave the upstairs as much. Dads/husbands always teach lessons in the household. That will probably be you one day!
@@wendoxia I'm not a college student for many years. I'm in my mid-twenties. I used to live in the basement until my older brother moved out. I pay rent to my parents with my job I got this year. My new top floor digs are a step up for me.
Hello CM, keep your independence and remember This too shall pass.
Invest in a MicroHearth or Range Mate. Then you can grill, bake, steam, & toast. You’ll drive your Dad batty at how you can survive without him.
I can’t even imagine telling my kids, no matter their age, that any food or my kitchen is off limits to them! They could literally have the food off of my plate! Best of luck to you!!
Get some oatmeal it's great to keep you full and filling if your not allergic to peanuts stock up on peanut butter it's great with apples for a filling snack and you can make a peanut sauce
Very creative. Thank you for sharing your ideas 🐱
Also to let students know that there are food pantries that they could use to get canned foods and they sometimes contain breakfast bars or oatmeal. The college community boards may have papers posted showing the local pantries.
This is so smart. I wish they taught this in school.
I core my tomato too. Cream cheese is expensive where I'm from and I usually make my bread from scratch by hand because it's cheaper.
These videos are always a great watch and bring value to the community. My personal adjustments would be I would eliminate the cream cheese get more eggs and sneak in a can of mixed veggies. Having a pepperoni and egg sandwich for lunch and the mixed veggies with dinner. I would also remix breakfast a little maybe get box of oatmeal instead of the granola bars and have that with the yogurt. Your plan is better I am just spit ballin here. Keep at this you are doing a great thing here.
Thanks Ike. Your ideas are great too.
This is a great post. Gives additional options!
This is my favorite type of video. I’m no longer a college student, but I’m going to use these recipes regardless. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Good to hear and thanks, GG!
My favorite college meals were pinto beans with cheese, grilled cheese, or a pita bread with sliced pickles, mustard, and sharp cheddar. So, a lot of cheese! I used to also make pancakes in big batches and eat them on the go (with or without jam) all week. Also, peanut butter and jam or honey sandwiches. These meals also came in handy when I ran out of other items and didn't have time to go shopping.
I'm allergic to pepperoni and cannot stand tomatoes or spinach so those wouldn't "work" for me. Not sure what I would choose instead but I can say that I've had a hotplate for years so I'd use that instead of the microwave.
My family "adopts" about 3 or 4 college students every semester and makes sure they have regular meals throughout the semester. We do individual portions of meals (similar to TV dinners but a LOT more healthy) and our kids (who are about the same age as college students so they aren't really noticed) "anonymously" deliver them Sunday evenings. We include salads, sides and condiments along with breakfasts, lunches and dinners. People don't LEARN if their BRAINS aren't fed.
How do you go about doing that? I think I'd like to do something like that!
Just switch it out for things you do like that are similar.
Many colleges ban hot plates. Any sandwich substitute is good: cucumbers, lettuce, cold cuts.
In college, my first year I rented a room with a fridge, sink & washer/dryer. My menu was 8oz milk, 1 cup Raisin Bran cereal, 2 slices bread, tuna W/ mayo, slice of cheese, salt&pepper. I ate 1/2 of the sandwich at lunch and the other 1/2 for dinner. I walked to and from school plus all over campus. I did not gain the freshman 20 lbs, but I was perfect weight, in shape, focused and made a 4.0 that year.
Loaded baked potatoes were my go-to cheap meal in college. Kinda wished I had more of an imagination with my food back then but it's fun to watch these videos and reminisce the hard times that made me who I am today.
This was my staple too. My imagination did extend to cheddar and bacon bits, or cottage cheese and diced tomatoes... depending on the mood, lol. Peanut butter, bananas, and instant oatmeal packets and cereal were my other staples. Surprisingly, I was aware of Cup-O-Soups, but not ramen. I usually just bought Chunky soups. I learned about ramen later. For vegetables I snacked on celery, carrots and cucumbers.
So helpful to those without a lot of experience in meal planning and budgeting for food. Great job!
Thanks Purrmeow!
Going to pass this video onto my daughter as she is at a school with an expensive meal plan that she didn't want to add to her student loans. We couldn't believe they wanted close to $2k for one semester of meals.
$2K?!?! for one semester? OMG that is higher than I thought. Those prices have sure gone up!
@@TheQuaintHousewife We probably spend less than $3000, for 1 year, for 2 people, and there is way too much food in this house. We are in York County, PA.
@@wendoxia A semester is 15 to 16 weeks. In my experience few students make it to the dining halls 3x a day, usually twice a day or less. Too much studying, classes, work, and running around to do.
@@wendoxia I don't know what you mean by living on granola bars. Dining halls have plenty of fast food and junk in it, so they aren't escaping that temptation easily -- and for a much higher price. When I was a student the most popular meals at the dining hall were chicken nuggets, fries, and hot dogs. Why do you think they call it the Freshman 15? A lot of students gain weight because of what they're eating in the cafeteria.
Is she a freshman? I remember my freshman year they just gave me the meal plan, it was like 14 meals a week plus dining dollars to use at the on campus food court or little convenience store. After that I selected to get a cheaper meal plan because I was only going to the cafeteria maybe once or twice a day if that. And hardly ever on the weekends
If you can get a cheap crockpot at a thrift store or from home would help and you could make different meals for cheap.My niece lived in the dorm for a year about an hour from home her mom would visit once a week and take her frozen food that she could put in a crockpot.She also liked to cook all sorts of things on her own she did great.
Frozen peas are also good with eggs and rice. Could add onions if you have it or maybe some mushrooms with the spinach
I would splurge for a jar if salsa. Great addition to the rice and salsa scrambled egg are delicious!
I love these recipes, thank you for this video! Can’t wait to try that pizza sandwich!
Thanks Ash. Enjoy!
Frozen spinach hack! Portion into ice cube tray. Re-freeze. Can keep frozen spinach in ziplock bags. No waste. Use as needed.
Overnight oats is a quick meal and can easily be flavored in many different ways which can be eaten cold or warmed.
Thank you Sue.
When I was in college I made noodles, cereal and TV dinners. I wish I had been more creative with my food options back then. Also, I would take fruit and wrap me up a turkey sandwich or two from the cafeteria and slip it in my back pack. Not the best thing to do because they hated for us to take food out of the cafeteria but that's what I usually did
Bertitia, so many of us took the dining hall food out of there! XOXO
thank you always making budget videos like these. i love your creativity! i always get new ideas from you. hope you have a wonderful week!
Great ideas!
I’m so thankful to have found your channel a couple of years ago.
Thank you for continuing to come up with wonderful videos and ideas! ❤️
You are so welcome!
Been a while! Was just binge watching your other videos and this came out! My favourite kind :)
Oh thanks RR!
On the sandwiches, just make 1 and a half sandwiches at a time (three slices of bread), which spreads it out better.
I'm not a college student but I loved everything in this video, thank you.👍
Thanks for watching Rennie. I like seeing you here :)
These are some great ideas and funny enough I make some of these things on my own for myself. Another cool suggestion for college kids or those on their own for the first time is a multi function rice cooker which I bought for my cousins going away to college party along with a big bag of rice and microwaveable beans by a brand called Fillo’s. But you know those college students and they’ll probably just eat a lot of fast food LOL!
Yes, they will end up eating fast food easily LOL
Yay new video! I love budget menu videos! And I am renting a room situation
Yay, thanks!
Yeah! I love budget meal prep because my grocery budget is tiny. I am a property caretaker on a 5 acre mini farm with free rent and utilities. So my income is very low and after I pay bills there is about $10 a week for groceries. I do get a little extra from the cans that I recycle which people throw out in front of the property fence. But it is not much. Because of drought the orchard did not produce this summer.
I'd rather have oatmeal than granola bars for breakfast....healthier and I feel like it would keep me fuller. I'd also use just butter instead of cream cheese. I love these kind of videos. Keep up the great work!
The cream cheese, tomato, pepperoni was for a "pizza" vibe... but any variation is lovely.
Great addition to your series! I'm wondering if bananas and apples wouldn't add to much more to the budget. I like a banana or even half a banana with cereal in the AM. Apples can be eaten any time and a slicer helps with portioning I guess.
Enjoyed this one!😁
Yes, I think bananas and apples would be especially good additions. Thanks David.
also cutting apples and cooking them on the microwave with a little bit of water, are perfect with yogurt
This is way better than what I ate my first 2 years in college lol. Just a tip for everyone reading, stir stir stir your eggs in the microwave!! I thought letting it go more than 15 seconds would be okay, and I had many exploded eggs all over my microwave. It was a good breakfast, 2 eggs in a mug with some ketchup or siracha... I also had a crockpot I wasn't supposed to and I used it to boil chicken... and make congee. I can do so much more now lol, but the boiled chicken was nice to have.
Bee, you had enough knowledge to get you through!
@@TheQuaintHousewife I guess so, but I definitely wasted a lot of produce and didn't refrigerate a few things I should have... (V8 after opening and cucumbers).
Yes! Please make more of these, this is brilliant. I'm personally not a fan of eggs but the other meals here are great.
Also some tips for students struggling to find food off the meal plan. On campus I tend to do some urban foraging since I can't always make it to a grocery store without a car. The library and main study hall both have little food places where I can get salad dressing packets, salt, pepper, ketchup, mayo, and mustard in little packets. I'll also pay my way into the dining hall every 1-2 weeks or so and stock up on cream cheese and peanut butter packets, amongst other things, and take in some little Tupperware containers to fill with sliced fruit. Also, going to events and club meetings can often mean you get a free meal, and if you stick around long enough sometimes you can snatch the leftovers.
My campus also has some apple tress and nut trees (walnuts mostly) which are ripe around the first 2 months of the school year, although I haven't figured out how best to use these yet, if you have ideas? I can also find small amounts of wild asparagus and grape leaves in the Nature Center. (I know stuff like dandelions and plantain are edible as well, and everywhere, but I find them too bitter)
A, I love your techniques for getting extras. It also reminds me of stuff I did when I had a one meal a day dining hall plan.
what about checking the clearance/discount areas of stores? You can get real meat and lunch meat, veggies etc for super cheap. actual good that's not over processed junk.
Who do you get fresh strawberries to stay fresh for a week?
Vicki, I just keep them in my crisper drawer.
Rinse berries in vinegar and water and drain. Kills mould spores and last longer in fridge
I think this was well put together and well thought out for what you bought and what you made.
I especially thought the time taken to make each meal was quite sensible too for a college student who is time poor if they're studying.
Probably the only thing that could be improved upon is if there were less processed foods from things like the muesli/granola bars and pepperoni as they are high in sugar and salt, so if you could do a part two of this and leave out the processed stuff that would be great to see, just to improve on the nutrition side of things.
Having said that I appreciate that you included things like fresh strawberries, spinach and brown rice to get some good nutrition there, so not saying it was all bad by any means. Probably a healthier box of cereal in place of the muesli bars would be a better option.
Thank you for your feedback, AL.
These are my favorite videos!!! Thanks friend !
Glad you like them AP!
This was very creative. I would have bought potatoes. Microwaved potatoes are great. Top with cheese, sour cream or butter. Yum!
You are the best for making these ❤️
Thank you, Ashley! 😊
These are your best videos!
Thanks Orly!
When I was a broke college student we bought
-1 pack bagels
-1 pkg of American cheese aka Kraft Singles
-Mr noodles instant ramen
-bag of potatoes every few weeks
-jar of salsa
And some cheap meat
Breakfast was bagel in microwave with cheese melted between it like a sandwich or toasted with peanut butter or jam
Lunch was bagel with cheese sandwich, baked potato with salsa or cheese, or ramen
Dinner was baked potato or homemade oven fries, and the meat. Sometimes some frozen corn or mixed veggies.
When we had money, I'd buy a bag of rice and some margarine to add more variety.
That is a nice variety. I would have been addicted to those bagel sandwiches.
Love this! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks GB!
With eggs, you could use ramen noodles with various ingredients to make simple ramen meals.
Also, scrambled eggs cook up rather nicely in a microwave, especially in a ceramic container (i.e. a coffee mug). Eggs are a great go-to meal that's affordable.
Love the lunch sandwiches! I don't like pizza but these look so good 💗
I love you, your royal quaintness!!! You're vids make me happy!!! And I don't even eat like you, lol!!! 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
You're just so likeable , and secretly hilarious!!! I'd totally collab w you if I had a channel, but I think that I'm far too loud to be called a quaint housewife. 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍🥳🥳🥳💖💖💖
I love you too, Jenni! I'm not always quaint. It's more so in my head. Sometimes I'm totally obnoxious. XOXO
@@TheQuaintHousewife lololol, I know you are, because you're secretly hilarious, but have a wild side that you keep on the DL to yourself, lol!!!🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 If you talk to yourself outloud, even in the grocery store when looking at cuts of meat, we're probably related!!!🤣🤣🤣🥳🥳🥳
I've had times in my life where I thought I was thinking to myself in my head but then wondered had my lips been moving? I think I talk to myself a lot LOL
creative 🧡🤎🧡🤎 yum. 🥚🍞🍚🍅🥣 Thank you. Love Tamson 😇💗
Tamsi 🤗
IKEA at least in Sweden has really cheap microwave durable plates and bowls in non-seethrough hardened glass, its their cheapest ones so I would belive that they have it in all their stores even outside Sweden.
I think salsa would be great in the eggs and rice. Also, if you get plain yogurt instead of flavored, then you could put that in as well as kind of a sour cream. Not everyone likes plain yogurt though.
Yes, plain yogurt would be good for a dual purpose. Nice idea, lmmiskeify.
Granola-yogurt- berries... nommy breakfast!
LOL Yes!
That brown rice looked really good! Defo better than my stove top brown rice.
Trust me -- same here! XOXO
I would have added some Salsa to the eggs maybe add some over top the rice! If you can afford it invest in a quality Himalayan pink salt! Regular salt is not good for you stripping out healthy nutrients the body needs. Regular salt is also bleached it will not say this on the label. It is also highly processed. Regular salt can also spike your your blood pressure higher because of the processing. Take care!
Oh, BTW, your wig is super cute, but I actually LOVE your reg hair!!! When mine is a hot mess, I throw it up in a messy top knot bun, like the girls in their 20s do!!! I was thinking that you'd look adorable in one, too!!! Plus my top knots keep me cool! 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
Jenni, I love the messy top knot but it does not love me!
@@TheQuaintHousewife you'd actually look super good in one!!! I just double knotmy pony w the last being a half-loop, then use mini clips to make it look messy. I have longish hair, but it's very fine, so that way bumps it up a bit, but I'd just buy a fake one to put on my method, if my hair was thinner or more fine than it is. 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
The PIZZA sandwich was pure GENIUS ! ✔
Two things I would modify. I would use full fatted greek yogurt...it has more nutrition and those good fats.
And I would use liverworst or some turkey bacon instead of pepperoni. But That's personal taste preference. :)
This was a pretty safe sets of meals, I wished you had used more utensils then the microwave but its a good effort.
I like your vids alot and I wish you would talk during the grocery shopping montage instead of music. The shopping montages are my fav part of the video it's where I learn the most. Also j just didn't like that music personally. Also do you live in Ontario?? I have that same Great Value brand here but I didn't know it was international
Hi PM, I will do some shopping videos with music, and still some with spoken. I am in the states and Great Value is the basic generic Walmart brand here. Thanks!
Great Value is Wal-Mart's generic brand everywhere you find their stores.
In my dorm room we couldn’t have any open heat sources, but we could have things like a rice cooker and crock pot. I had both from the thrift store, but I wish I would have known how to cook in either one! I ended up eating mostly microwave chicken nuggets because I didn’t know how to cook anything that wasn’t baked.
For me I'd probably do some soy sauce packets to make dinner a "fried" rice type dish.
Yes, soy sauce packets would change up the flavor instantly.
Keep in mind that in some dorms and rooms an instant pot or hot plate may be an option. Dishes mwy be challenging in a dorm but that's true either way
Or Crockpot. I know pressure cookers cam be expensive
or a small rice cooker. a lot of dorms don't allow hot plates because of the fire hazard. enclosed appliances like a microwave are more likely to be allowed. definitely recommend college students go the second-hand stores to find gently used, affordable appliances!
Amazing 💗
ccool vid. love the fACT YOUR SO GEGUINE
TM, much appreciated. Thanks!
Great video! I attended the U of U! Go Utes!!
that sandwich made me so hungry!
Love your videos but can you also do more videos on GMO free or organic healthy CHEAP meals???
I will look into this, WW. Thanks!
Only 30 seconds in but I like your new “intro”!
Thanks Mary, was hoping so!
I miss you talking through your shopping trips. The music modernizes it a bit, but I miss your narrative.
Hi Kori. I will be doing spoken segments again for shopping. Thanks!
I agree !
Quite housewife
I like ur video s thank u for shareing ur
🙃🙂🙃💕 thats a good budget
My pleasure 😊
Utah?! Do you live in Utah
Not in Utah.
Can you make microwave bread? Only $.25/loaf.
Kind of time-consuming for a student in a dorm with few kitchen items