Thank you to @PennyFine59 for the inspiration for this $5 Dollar Tree Budget meal challenge! Hopefully the $5 saved will help fill up our tanks so we can make it to the store and back. 😉
Young lady I am so impressed with you and all of these recipes! Awesome job! I was amazed at what you were able to make of of 4 ingredients. This is certainly my favorite dollar store budget meal video. 🙂
That means so much to me! I screenshot comments that are particularly encouraging to re-read if I get discouraged- I just screen shot yours. I really appreciate the encouragement 🥰 Thank you!
I wanted French fries to go with one of my meals back in the mid 80's. I could not afford to buy potatoes. I was living in Idaho at the time. But I had some instant potatoes in the pantry. I mixed the flakes with milk and an egg hoping to keep them together. After shaping the "fries" through cookie press and baking them was one of my worst cooking endeavors. But, we have to try new and different things. We have to accept our failures. That is what makes our successes so joyful and rewarding l.
holy SMOKES your stir fry bag had GOLD in it with all those snap peas!! What an awesome array of ideas for all those meals, SugarPop - you are so creative! (P.S -love that you're wearing Color Street! - I've been a stylist for over 4 years!)
I was definitely excited to see the amount and variety that was in that bag, and felt the quality was also really good. After having tried their brocolli and getting so many pieces that were tough and wooden and inedible, that was such a pleasant surprise. I love Color Street too! My mother in law sends me sets she liked or that fit upcoming holidays so she keeps me supplied 😉 They're so fun and easy to work with!
Thank you! I really appreciate that comment (and you subscribing)! I hope to make many more of these types of videos. Let me know if there are any videos or budget challenges in particular you would like to see - I'd love hearing your suggestions and making videos using those suggestions. 😁
Thank you! 😊 You are so kind! I would love to hear what you use instead of meat in these. Tofu or chickpeas would probably work well, or a meat replacement. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Wow Rachel, you are so creative and have great cooking instinct. These are not your typical $5 beans and rice dishes! I'm not going to buy any new groceries until I use up all the food I have in my fridge and cupboards - and after that I'm going to start cooking these $5 meals and see how it goes. Thank you for tdhese recipes.
I would love to hear how it goes! Another viewer made all of these and tagged me in the pictures on Instagram- I think her meals looked even better than mine! It was so fun to see how they turned out 🥰 I hope you're having a wonderful week!
Aw, thank you Kathy! You are so sweet 🥰 I hope the channel helps anyone needing meal inspiration when they're trying to reset their budget during any week of the month where money is tight. ❤️ Thank you for all the support you give through watching my videos! 😊
Thank you! 😊 I really appreciate the encouragement and I'm really glad you enjoyed the recipes! This one was a lot of fun to make 🥰 Thanks for watching!
Thank you, Cleo! 😊 I was surprised that the variety and quality of the veggies was really good - I was definitely preparing myself to open the bag and find 1 stalk of brocoli, a bean, and 99% carrots 😅
Thank you, Robin! 😊 I hope to do more like this - it was definitely work, but also so much fun to see all the ideas and planning come together and to see what all was possible with some creativity. 😁
Quite impressive! I watch a lot of these budget videos and this is one of the best. Excellent use of a bag of veggies. I think people underestimate the power of buying flour in these vids. New subscriber!
I am so so glad I found your channel! It is a struggle for me to cook just a little food, but here I see the amounts and it makes it so much easier for me to measure. I love your ideas and recipes a lot! God bless you Darling ❤
Thank you! Since it's just my husband and I, I've had to learn how to cook in smaller amounts too. I grew up in a family of 8, so Cooking for 1 or 2 has definitely been a learning curve. I'm glad to be of help! Thanks for letting me know what you find helpful - it helps me know what videos to make more of too. 🥰
These are some great meal ideas! I'm amazed at all the grocery items you are able to buy at the Dollar Tree, our local Dollarama has only dried and canned items and Dollar Tree isn't in the area.
Thank you! I'm learning a bit as I go, and it seems each video has a mini fail of some kind 😅 but I'm learning to just go with it and find ways to salvage whatever fell apart 😊 Thanks for watching!
I have made almost of these recipes and they have come out delicious! I am making the perogies tomorrow night. I am so impressed. My husband and I are new to the empty nesting game and trying to cook for just the 2 of us isn't going too well. Thank you for teaching us. Keep these videos coming. You are helping a lot of us. 😊
I hope you all enjoyed the meals so far and hope the perogies turned out as well! I loved hearing this, and I'm so glad you all are enjoying the meals. I grew up in a family of eight, and after getting married I've been working on learning how to cook for only 2 (or sometimes 1 if I'm making meals for work), and that has been quite the learning curve! I'm used to cooking for a big family 😅 Thank you for the encouragement and for letting me know how the meals have been turning out for you all! 🥰
I was amazed and also enjoyed watching you create.. I was never sure about boiling and cooking items in hot oil on the gas stove but now since Ive been cooking on glass top Im going to try your creations.Love DT and being a Senior on a very stretched budget I can eat better and stretch out my ingredients. Im seeing this on Christmas Day 2023 so a blessing my way came.Thank you for shari g.😊
You are so welcome! I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the video, Cheryl! I hope you get to try some of the ideas out, and I hope you're having a good new year so far! 🥰
I just found your channel and I have to say I follow so many to learn how to feed my large family on a shoe string budget and you have by far beat out everyone of them! well done!!
Thank you so much, Amy! Your comment made my day! I really appreciate you watching and hope to keep making these types of videos to help anyone trying to feed people while staying on a low budget, like I am 😅🥰
Of all the budget meals ideas, your's is by far the best I have seen on UA-cam so far.. Great recipes ideas with only 4 ingredients and inexpensive.. Great Job.. a suggestion on making tater tots out of mashed potatoes, try baking them instead of frying so they hold up their shape. The perogies are more like little empanadas.. but still a great idea with the ingredients you had to work with. I will be trying these out. Thanks for sharing. Blessings to you and yours. New subscriber.
Thank you! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed it and hope you enjoy the recipes. Great idea on baking the Tater tots to help them hold their shape. I will probably revisit the idea in a future video and try that. Hope you're having a wonderful week! 😊
I do love making these meals for one, since I always have to make meals for my week of work, it gives me some fun meals to have the next week, and I think makes it easier to multiply if you are trying to feed more people. Thanks so much for watching and for the feedback! 🥰
Thank you! 😁 I love making homemade noodles - I learned how to make homemade egg noodles from my grandma and now it always makes me think of her when I make them. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Fantastic! I'm so glad to hear that and happy you're here 💛 I really enjoyed the challenge of so few ingredients, I think I'll be doing some different takes on the $5 challenge for some future videos as well. Thanks for watching!! 🥰
Welcome! I'm so glad you're here! I truly enjoy making these budget videos, and they've been really helpful to me as I stretch out grocery bill during all this inflation. I hope to continue making videos that are helpful for anyone trying to stretch their budget like I am. Thanks again for being here! 😊
Wow! You are amazing! I've watched many many budget videos, but your variety from such few items is great. Who would have thought about separating stir fry. Thanks
omg! i love this! with this economy this is good!! specially i'm not so well in the kitchen and you showing this little recipes definitely is gonna help me!
❤ You are so inspiring. I am just getting started on a dollar tree grocery challenge. Everything I've seen in the video so far looks amazing and at the beginning Everything sounded fantastic and I can't wait to see the rest ❤
"Liked" as soon as I saw you making your own gnocchi, oh my goodness! I love the pierogi's, those look so good. I am also really glad you included the "oops", and I'm not the only one, lol. TFS 😊
One of the most impressive stretching of a small list of ingredients into a variety of meals! The only thing I see consistently in budget meal challenges everywhere is the use of butter, which has gotten very expensive where I live, so I wonder if adding that cost in might be an aspect of a future challenge, or maybe talk about how often the staples need to be bought and restocked?
Thank you for watching! 😊 I definitely think that's a great idea - butter can be pricey. We switched to Margarine for a lot of things because it's half the price of butter in our area, and you are so right - the price would be higher if the butter was factored in. I like the idea of a video on restocking staples and how to do so on a budget or how to work it into a weekly budget. Keep the great ideas coming - I really appreciate it and it helps me make videos that will hopefully be helpful as that's my main goal with this channel. 😊
My friend you have a really fantastic channel I like how you spent time to create and presents these awesome video full support always from me big like 👍 also keep up the great job 🍒🍒🍒❤️❤️🍒🍒
Oh my goodness, I am so excited to try some of these! I had to give up dairy a few years back, and I haven't had a pierogi since! I am very impressed with what you were able to do with these ingredients.
Thank you! 😊 One of my past roommates in college grew up near Russia and taught me how to make perogies one evening. We ended up with delicious perogies but a lot of smoke from all the cooking so we opened our apartment door to let some of the smoke out. Our next door neighbors came out of their place and asked what smelled so good and we told them we were making perogies. We wound up sharing with them and made some new friends. 😉 It is a great memory now. Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy your perogies 🥰
Thanks for subbing! Welcome! I'm so glad youre enjoying the channel, and thank you for the compliment on my nails - they were a gift from my mother-in-love. 😊 Thanks for watching! 🥰
If you can manage to get a rutabaga, using it make the gnocchi or extend the gnocchi adds a lot of nutrition. Also, that is a creative way to make cottage pie on a budget (it’s really only shepherd’s pie if you use lamb).
I'm not knocking anyone, & I know that people all over the world call them something different😃, & here in our area of this big beautiful world that God has given us, we call those types of pies "potpies", or "slab pies". Thank you for the brilliant ideas in this epi. I'm getting my own ideas, too. 😅❤
I love watching these challenge videos and yours has blown my mind!!!! I shared it with my mom and she was just as blown away. We were in dollar tree a few days ago and she asked me to try it out and see if I can make everything. Challenge accepted, lol. I don’t make videos but I’ll be sure to update you when I try it. So far I’ve only purchased the stir fry because they only had cheddar bacon burgers and I don’t eat pork. I already have the flour and potatoes in my cupboard. My stir fry has an overwhelming amount of carrots and broccoli so I’ll use them in place of something else in a recipe or 2. I had a small amount of peppers and 3 pea pods. Wish me luck 🍀
Rachel, I hope you enjoyed my pics and recipe alterations I shared on Instagram. I really enjoyed recreating your recipes and trying everything. These are definitely tasty dishes with more flavor than I thought they would have. Thank you for sharing them. Oh, I’m MeJLynne on Instagram.
I absolutely LOVED seeing the recreations - you did such a phenomenal job! I'm so impressed! That was just what I needed to see. Sometimes I make recipes and they turn out well and I think they taste good, but after I post I second guess myself and whether or not others will make the recipe and think it tastes good or whether it will turn out well for others as well. It was so reassuring to see the recipes turned out for you and that you and your family enjoyed them. Thank you so much for sharing! 🥰
@@rachelresetshi dear, I made these recipes again tonight. My mother in law is staying with us and I wanted to make her something you can’t just pick up in a restaurant. I did have a few adjustments since I was making them in a larger amount. I purchased a stir fry from Walmart and it had different ingredients, still had the green beans, broccoli, carrots and peppers, but it also had a tiny ear of corn and a handful of water chestnuts. I also used ground turkey, only because it’s cheaper, I added a dash of worshtershire sauce and about 2 tbs of powdered beef bullion. And I used bow tie pasta instead of making my own. I made your pasta (bow tie) with broccoli and mini meatballs, carrot gnocchi (I added some of the meat because she doesn’t eat only veg), shepherd’s pie (I chopped up the water chestnuts and tiny ear of corn and cooked them with the meat) and I cooked the green beans but didn’t make the volcano since we’re eating these dishes together. I hated cheating by not making it all from scratch, but I knew it would be ok.
@Mejlynne I love the adjustments you made too! It's all about making the meals work for you. I'm glad to hear you all enjoyed them again and love hearing the tweaks you made to make the meals feed more than 1 person! 🥰
Use 4 Oz beef patty browned, no drained, and one can CAMPBELLS pork and beans. Nothing else except a little water. A delicious transformation takes place. Serve with a hot buttered biscuit for 2-3 meals for $2 main dish total. I prefer a couple corn cakes i make so cheap and easy with maseca flour.
Just started viewing this and had to comment at 40 seconds. Why? ONE PERSON menu making and cooking! THAT is VERY different. At least for me it is. I AM married, but it's sandwich meals for the hubs as he works a weird swing shift and often has to leave at 1 in the p.m. at the earliest, but 2:30 p.m. is the most common hour when he leaves for work and doesn't get back home till 12, even 14 hours later and so I am most often cooking for just me. So I thank you much, much, much for this video.
I know what you mean 😊 and thank you for the encouragement! My husband works in the food service industry so he gets lunch at work most days, but I generally have to make my lunch and cooking for one can be hard to do! I will definitely be posting more cooking for one type of videos in the future (in fact, one was just posted a few minutes ago 😉). Thank you again for watching and for the kind words! 💜
Thank you so much! That really helps my video get to more people that may be needing some cheap meal ideas 🥰 Thanks for watching! I hope you have a wonderful week! 👍
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Rachel don't listen to the complainers asking for you to include gas prices in your videos. My gosh they should have bought a house closer to a grocery store....LOL... Some people simply regret their life choices 🤣. Next you'll hear them complain about the spices you add. Great video.
Totally thought you would puree the carrots, mix with potato, and make carrot gnocchi vs gnocchi with carrots. Not that either is bad, I was looking forward to orange colored gnocchi, lol
Aw, that would have been an awesome idea! Yeah...I probably should have named it Gnocchi With Carrots, but I was running into an issue when the titles of the recipes got too long where they ran into the title of the next dish I was making in that one clip of the veggies laid out on the cutting board, so I had to keep it short and sweet 😉 That would be a fun way to incorporate more veggies, though. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Brit here so I can't follow exactly but just wanted to say it's impressive and thinking outside the box❤ Just curious though how do you budget for the "freebies"?
In this particular video I didn't really budget for the Freebies, but it has been a critique I have taken to heart in future videos. I recently did a month long series of eating off of $80 and included many of the foundational spices and oils as part of the budget, and in future Extreme Grocery Budget Challenges I have mainly included salt, pepper, and a fat source as the Freebies. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Thanks for watching! 🥰 I would say, I've found a lot of the ingredients for cheaper prices at other stores, so don't worry if you don't have the exact store. Hopefully the ingredients can be found in a store local to Australia. I love hearing where everyone is watching from! 🥰
Boa tarde tudo bem ,eu já cheguei amada pra acompanhar o seu trabalho que essa receita maravilhosa e deve ser uma delícia parabéns um grande abraço do meu Pará que Deus abençoe você e sua família,
I'm absolutely amazed and impressed with your creativity🥰 You go, girl! 💪💪💪 As for pierogi, the traditional filling with mashed potato is to add cottage cheese and some garlic plus salt&pepper to the mix. My favourite combination, frankly speaking 😀 so I never ever mess up with the recipe... But your idea is also very inspirational I may even give it a try 😁
I had a child in my teens, and truly struggled to put food on the table. I did the usual WIC and sometimes even the church to help me feed my daughter. It was always the same type foods that keep you alive, pasta jar sauce, tuna, peanut butter (and I am forever grateful, do not get me wrong here) BUT Once, I got a $35 voucher for the local store for whatever I wanted. Right or wrong, all I bought was spices and sauces, because it was the one thing I could never afford, and in 1989, that was a lot of seasoning. This video struck me very wrong in its intimating that a 'poor' kitchen has half of what it calls 'freebies'
I appreciate you sharing, and you are absolutely right - there were a lot of 'freebies' included in this video. I hesitated on adding all of the spices to the dishes, but I opted to add them as options if people have them, while also trying to make sure that each dish could still work if you only had salt and pepper and a fat source like oil or margarine. It wouldn't make each meal the most flavorful of meals, but the nutrition would be there still through the veggies, carbohydrates, and protein through the meat. We're on a tight grocery budget currently because of some large unexpected bills, but family have given us various goods they won't use and that has helped. Even so, when we ran out of Oregano a few weeks ago, I still had to wait a week or two before going and buying it because our food budget had been used - it just wasn't essential, although it would have been nice to have. I do enjoy making these videos, they encourage me to be creative during times when I might be more inclined to be discouraged or fearful. Some seasons we have more, but other seasons the car breaks down and the bill makes you have to see just how long you can make the food you already have last. That was my reality last week, which is why the video I put out today used only ingredients I already had on hand - and I am so grateful to have food on hand for these tyoes of weeks and months. I say all this, just because I want you to know I hear you, and I truly appreciate you sharing some of your story. ❤️
Thank you to @PennyFine59 for the inspiration for this $5 Dollar Tree Budget meal challenge! Hopefully the $5 saved will help fill up our tanks so we can make it to the store and back. 😉
Young lady I am so impressed with you and all of these recipes! Awesome job! I was amazed at what you were able to make of of 4 ingredients. This is certainly my favorite dollar store budget meal video. 🙂
That means so much to me! I screenshot comments that are particularly encouraging to re-read if I get discouraged- I just screen shot yours. I really appreciate the encouragement 🥰 Thank you!
Love you rachel you're so easy on explaining all ur recipes❤❤
Love how you switch up each meal . My brain would of made one big meal and eat it for days . But that's so boring . So I love how you think.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked the different meals! ☺️
I wanted French fries to go with one of my meals back in the mid 80's. I could not afford to buy potatoes. I was living in Idaho at the time. But I had some instant potatoes in the pantry. I mixed the flakes with milk and an egg hoping to keep them together. After shaping the "fries" through cookie press and baking them was one of my worst cooking endeavors. But, we have to try new and different things. We have to accept our failures. That is what makes our successes so joyful and rewarding l.
You are a culinary genius. I subscribed to your channel solely due to your incredible creativity on this $5 budget menu. Wow!!! 😍
Thank you so much Rebecca! You're so kind - I am so glad to have you here and glad you enjoyed the video! 🥰
holy SMOKES your stir fry bag had GOLD in it with all those snap peas!! What an awesome array of ideas for all those meals, SugarPop - you are so creative! (P.S -love that you're wearing Color Street! - I've been a stylist for over 4 years!)
I was definitely excited to see the amount and variety that was in that bag, and felt the quality was also really good. After having tried their brocolli and getting so many pieces that were tough and wooden and inedible, that was such a pleasant surprise.
I love Color Street too! My mother in law sends me sets she liked or that fit upcoming holidays so she keeps me supplied 😉 They're so fun and easy to work with!
Ok wow! I watch a lot of budget cooking videos but my goodness! You could be on chopped with your creativity! Subscribed!!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I really appreciate that comment (and you subscribing)! I hope to make many more of these types of videos. Let me know if there are any videos or budget challenges in particular you would like to see - I'd love hearing your suggestions and making videos using those suggestions. 😁
I feel like you need a TV show your content is amazing 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾💕💕💕
Aw, you're so sweet! I really appreciate it! Thank you for being such an encouragement to me! ❤️🥰
Yes you do need your own tv show!! So organized and ingenious!! I’m going to try it with other ingredients-I don’t eat meat-
Thank you! 😊 You are so kind! I would love to hear what you use instead of meat in these. Tofu or chickpeas would probably work well, or a meat replacement. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Wow Rachel, you are so creative and have great cooking instinct. These are not your typical $5 beans and rice dishes! I'm not going to buy any new groceries until I use up all the food I have in my fridge and cupboards - and after that I'm going to start cooking these $5 meals and see how it goes. Thank you for tdhese recipes.
Actually, I basically already have all these ingredients from other stores, so I'll start making these meals now!
I would love to hear how it goes! Another viewer made all of these and tagged me in the pictures on Instagram- I think her meals looked even better than mine! It was so fun to see how they turned out 🥰 I hope you're having a wonderful week!
Rachel. You deserve many more than a few hundred subscribers 💕 I hope your channel becomes wildly popular.
Aw, thank you Kathy! You are so sweet 🥰 I hope the channel helps anyone needing meal inspiration when they're trying to reset their budget during any week of the month where money is tight. ❤️ Thank you for all the support you give through watching my videos! 😊
You are an amazing young woman! So creative. Enjoyed watching! Thanks!
Thank you so much Holly! I love reading your sweet comments as you watch different videos here. And, I am so glad you enjoyed watching! 😊
You are a very creative young lady. I was very impressed how you made so many different meals with only $5.00. You go girl ❤
Thank you! 😊 I really appreciate the encouragement and I'm really glad you enjoyed the recipes! This one was a lot of fun to make 🥰 Thanks for watching!
This is so creative! Only 4 items wow! Really smart to divide up the bag of veggies. They went a long way. That was a lot of hard work.. thank you!!
Thank you, Cleo! 😊 I was surprised that the variety and quality of the veggies was really good - I was definitely preparing myself to open the bag and find 1 stalk of brocoli, a bean, and 99% carrots 😅
@@rachelresets 🤣
incredible!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😊 I hope you have a wonderful week!
Absolutely amazing! This was perfection! I hope you do more like this!
Thank you, Robin! 😊 I hope to do more like this - it was definitely work, but also so much fun to see all the ideas and planning come together and to see what all was possible with some creativity. 😁
Quite impressive! I watch a lot of these budget videos and this is one of the best. Excellent use of a bag of veggies. I think people underestimate the power of buying flour in these vids. New subscriber!
Thank you!! And you are so right! I love using flour, because you can make so many things out of it if you have a bit of time to put into the meals. 😊
I am so so glad I found your channel! It is a struggle for me to cook just a little food, but here I see the amounts and it makes it so much easier for me to measure. I love your ideas and recipes a lot! God bless you Darling ❤
Thank you! Since it's just my husband and I, I've had to learn how to cook in smaller amounts too. I grew up in a family of 8, so Cooking for 1 or 2 has definitely been a learning curve. I'm glad to be of help! Thanks for letting me know what you find helpful - it helps me know what videos to make more of too. 🥰
I really do love the $5 meals!
Thank you! 😊 I enjoyed eating each meal for work this past week.
These are some great meal ideas! I'm amazed at all the grocery items you are able to buy at the Dollar Tree, our local Dollarama has only dried and canned items and Dollar Tree isn't in the area.
I have loved seeing what all the Dollar Tree has gotten and started selling. They do have a really good variety. Thanks for watching! 🥰
So impressed with your creativity! I'm so hesitant to try making anything from scratch, but you did it so well.
Thank you! I'm learning a bit as I go, and it seems each video has a mini fail of some kind 😅 but I'm learning to just go with it and find ways to salvage whatever fell apart 😊 Thanks for watching!
I have made almost of these recipes and they have come out delicious! I am making the perogies tomorrow night. I am so impressed. My husband and I are new to the empty nesting game and trying to cook for just the 2 of us isn't going too well. Thank you for teaching us. Keep these videos coming. You are helping a lot of us. 😊
I hope you all enjoyed the meals so far and hope the perogies turned out as well! I loved hearing this, and I'm so glad you all are enjoying the meals. I grew up in a family of eight, and after getting married I've been working on learning how to cook for only 2 (or sometimes 1 if I'm making meals for work), and that has been quite the learning curve! I'm used to cooking for a big family 😅 Thank you for the encouragement and for letting me know how the meals have been turning out for you all! 🥰
I was amazed and also enjoyed watching you create..
I was never sure about boiling and cooking items in hot oil on the gas stove but now since Ive been cooking on glass top Im going to try your creations.Love DT and being a Senior on a very stretched budget I can eat better and stretch out my ingredients.
Im seeing this on Christmas Day 2023 so a blessing my way came.Thank you for shari g.😊
You are so welcome! I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the video, Cheryl! I hope you get to try some of the ideas out, and I hope you're having a good new year so far! 🥰
Wow ! So creative and all looks delicious for 5 dollars
Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and glad to hear from you! 😊
I just found your channel and I have to say I follow so many to learn how to feed my large family on a shoe string budget and you have by far beat out everyone of them! well done!!
Thank you so much, Amy! Your comment made my day! I really appreciate you watching and hope to keep making these types of videos to help anyone trying to feed people while staying on a low budget, like I am 😅🥰
@@rachelresets you're very welcome and thank you for showing us how to do it.
So impressive. I will try this challenge with my kids so they can value and appreciate things.
That's an awesome idea 😊 I hope they enjoy these recipes! ❤️
So creative! This is the best Dollar Tree budget menu plan I have seen! Awesome job! ❤️
Thank you so much! I really had a lot of fun with this one and also enjoyed the meals during the week of work after. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Delicious 😋 yummy food 😋😋😋😋😋😋. Looking forward to seeing more creative videos like this one 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much! I hope to make more videos like this one 😁
You have such a great ideas for meals!
Thank you so much, Heather! 🥰
I like your idea of separating the vegetable stir fry💕
Thank you, Kathy! 😊
Of all the budget meals ideas, your's is by far the best I have seen on UA-cam so far.. Great recipes ideas with only 4 ingredients and inexpensive.. Great Job.. a suggestion on making tater tots out of mashed potatoes, try baking them instead of frying so they hold up their shape. The perogies are more like little empanadas.. but still a great idea with the ingredients you had to work with. I will be trying these out. Thanks for sharing. Blessings to you and yours. New subscriber.
Thank you! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed it and hope you enjoy the recipes. Great idea on baking the Tater tots to help them hold their shape. I will probably revisit the idea in a future video and try that. Hope you're having a wonderful week! 😊
Okay I'm leaving another comment....gifted.... you are gifted 💖
🥰 You make me smile. Thank you for all your kindness!
@@rachelresets You are welcome 🤗😁🤗😁. Continue to bless others.
Nice 👍 Again thank you for the recipes. Look for food pantries in your area as well. When I felt God tell me that - I said what? It changed my life 😅
You are right, food pantries are always an option and I'm so grateful for that option! 😅
Love love love these meals for one. Please keep making them!
I do love making these meals for one, since I always have to make meals for my week of work, it gives me some fun meals to have the next week, and I think makes it easier to multiply if you are trying to feed more people. Thanks so much for watching and for the feedback! 🥰
Very interesting recipes, thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 🥰
You killed this challenge!
Thank you 😊 It was a fun one and definitely a challenge, but the results made a great week of work meals for me - which is always a bonus! 😄
Wow, I love all your meal ideas. I want to try the homemade noodles.
Thank you! 😁 I love making homemade noodles - I learned how to make homemade egg noodles from my grandma and now it always makes me think of her when I make them. Thanks for watching! 🥰
This is great!
Thank you! 😊 I really appreciate the encouraging comment ❤️
Terrific video. I just became a subscriber! I got so many ideas and inspirations from this. Really happy that your video showed up on my feed.
Fantastic! I'm so glad to hear that and happy you're here 💛 I really enjoyed the challenge of so few ingredients, I think I'll be doing some different takes on the $5 challenge for some future videos as well. Thanks for watching!! 🥰
I am inspired by your creativity and ability to stretch a buck! Well done🙂
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the meal ideas and can't wait to make more videos like this one. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Just found your channel and you really amazed me today. You’re very creative with food ingredients! 👏🏻 great job!
Welcome! I'm so glad you're here! I truly enjoy making these budget videos, and they've been really helpful to me as I stretch out grocery bill during all this inflation. I hope to continue making videos that are helpful for anyone trying to stretch their budget like I am. Thanks again for being here! 😊
Oh my word you got me @ the Gnocvi and Carrot dinner this a great video ! Really creative meals
Thank you so much! It was so much fun to see what all I could make with the ingredients I got. Thanks for watching! 🥰
great budget eats!!! best ive seen... thanks for all the great ideas!!!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the recipe ideas! ☺️ Thank you for watching!
Great meal ideas 🧡🧡
I'm so glad you liked the video! 😁
Very impressive!!!!!!
Thank you, Tyler! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. This was a fun one to really try and stretch my creativity 😁 Thanks for watching!
You're so creative! Awesome
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kindness 🥰
Y0U ARE AMAZING ‼️‼️
Thank you, Trish! I really appreciate it 🥰
Hi friend ! Great! very nice!
keep dear 😇😇😇
Thank you so much! I hope you're having a wonderful week! 💛
Wow! You are amazing! I've watched many many budget videos, but your variety from such few items is great. Who would have thought about separating stir fry. Thanks
You're welcome! 😁 I'm so glad you enjoyed it - I loved making this one and seeing how everything turned out in the end 😊
so awesome, Rachel! well done. Awesome budget and awesome meals!
Thank you! 😊 I was excited at how many meals one bag of flour could easily make. Thanks for watching! 🥰
omg! i love this! with this economy this is good!! specially i'm not so well in the kitchen and you showing this little recipes definitely is gonna help me!
I'm so glad Emma! 😊 I'm so grateful to be able to share ideas that have helped me when money is tight.
Genius!!!
Thank you so much!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🥰
❤ You are so inspiring. I am just getting started on a dollar tree grocery challenge. Everything I've seen in the video so far looks amazing and at the beginning Everything sounded fantastic and I can't wait to see the rest ❤
Thank you! 😊 I'm glad you're here!
I am excited to see your challenge if you post it to your channel! I love watching these types of videos as much as I like making them myself. 😍
It will be up next week ❤ I love watching them also.
Fantastic - I will be looking out for it! I've been enjoying checking out your channel ❤️
Thank you ❤ I just finished the video I am SO impressed at the variety you got for only 5 dollars
Wow, wow, wow!! New subscriber and really enjoying your content...so creative!!
Thank you so much! Welcome! So glad to hear you're enjoying the videos and meal ideas! 🥰
This was quite impressive.
Thank you so much! It was fun to create! 😁
"Liked" as soon as I saw you making your own gnocchi, oh my goodness! I love the pierogi's, those look so good. I am also really glad you included the "oops", and I'm not the only one, lol. TFS 😊
Thank you - I'm glad I'm not the only one tweaking things as I go along when I make mistakes or my experiments don't turn out as I hoped. 😅
One of the most impressive stretching of a small list of ingredients into a variety of meals! The only thing I see consistently in budget meal challenges everywhere is the use of butter, which has gotten very expensive where I live, so I wonder if adding that cost in might be an aspect of a future challenge, or maybe talk about how often the staples need to be bought and restocked?
Thank you for watching! 😊 I definitely think that's a great idea - butter can be pricey. We switched to Margarine for a lot of things because it's half the price of butter in our area, and you are so right - the price would be higher if the butter was factored in. I like the idea of a video on restocking staples and how to do so on a budget or how to work it into a weekly budget. Keep the great ideas coming - I really appreciate it and it helps me make videos that will hopefully be helpful as that's my main goal with this channel. 😊
Everything looks awesome and I want to make pizza pockets with that dough you made looks so easy and cheap too.
Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it! 🥰
My friend you have a really fantastic channel I like how you spent time to create and presents these awesome video full support always from me big like 👍 also keep up the great job 🍒🍒🍒❤️❤️🍒🍒
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment 😁
This is wonderful..thank you
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
Just amazing
😁 Thank you so much for taking the time to watch! 💜 I appreciate the encouragement!
Very impressive! You sure know how to stretch a dollar.
Thank you so much! And thank you for watching! 🥰
fantastic content. Thank you for sharing. Have a nice day!❤👍
Thank you so much! I hope you're having a wonderful week! 💛
Congrats, you were very creative and I enjoyed watching you put it all together.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind comment and you taking the time to watch! 🥰
Great ideas 💡😁👍
Thank you so much! So glad to hear you're enjoying the videos and meal ideas! 🥰
Awesome and well plan meals
Thank you so much! 😁 I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
Oh my goodness, I am so excited to try some of these! I had to give up dairy a few years back, and I haven't had a pierogi since! I am very impressed with what you were able to do with these ingredients.
Thank you! 😊 One of my past roommates in college grew up near Russia and taught me how to make perogies one evening. We ended up with delicious perogies but a lot of smoke from all the cooking so we opened our apartment door to let some of the smoke out. Our next door neighbors came out of their place and asked what smelled so good and we told them we were making perogies. We wound up sharing with them and made some new friends. 😉 It is a great memory now. Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy your perogies 🥰
Your brilliant and smart. I didn't notice your nails the first time around. Very nice.
Thank you so much! How is your day/evening going? I'm looking forward to a day off for Labor Day tomorrow. 😊 Any Labor Day plans?
Fantastic!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the recipe ideas! ☺️ Thank you for watching!
I just subscribed cuz you're awesome
Aw, thank you! 😁 That made me smile!
Great job! Looks delish
Thank you so much! I'm really enjoying the meals these videos are producing 😉 Thanks for watching! 🥰
THAT WAS AMAZING!!
Thank you! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and I really appreciate you watching!
Very good! You can used all yours resources!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
This is the vid that earned you a new subbie! Hello from Texas! I'm so impressed with what you did here!!!
Thank you so much! I'm glad to have you here 😊 Hope you have a wonderful week!
Great job!!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment 😁
Great job!!!!
Thank you!! 😊 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 💜
I've just found your videos and I've subscribed. These are really helpful! And I love your nail design for the 4th of July. ❤ Thats really cute 😊
Thanks for subbing! Welcome! I'm so glad youre enjoying the channel, and thank you for the compliment on my nails - they were a gift from my mother-in-love. 😊 Thanks for watching! 🥰
@@rachelresets Thank you! 😊
If you can manage to get a rutabaga, using it make the gnocchi or extend the gnocchi adds a lot of nutrition. Also, that is a creative way to make cottage pie on a budget (it’s really only shepherd’s pie if you use lamb).
I didn't realize the difference between a Cottage Pie and Shepherd's pie, but that makes sense! I love learning new things, so thanks for sharing! 🥰
I'm not knocking anyone, & I know that people all over the world call them something different😃, & here in our area of this big beautiful world that God has given us, we call those types of pies "potpies", or "slab pies". Thank you for the brilliant ideas in this epi. I'm getting my own ideas, too. 😅❤
Impressive.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ☺️
Amazing job!,,,,
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. Hope you're having a wonderful week 😊
Genius 😁
Thank you, Karen! 😊 Thanks for stopping by to watch!
I love watching these challenge videos and yours has blown my mind!!!! I shared it with my mom and she was just as blown away. We were in dollar tree a few days ago and she asked me to try it out and see if I can make everything. Challenge accepted, lol. I don’t make videos but I’ll be sure to update you when I try it.
So far I’ve only purchased the stir fry because they only had cheddar bacon burgers and I don’t eat pork. I already have the flour and potatoes in my cupboard. My stir fry has an overwhelming amount of carrots and broccoli so I’ll use them in place of something else in a recipe or 2. I had a small amount of peppers and 3 pea pods. Wish me luck 🍀
Rachel, I hope you enjoyed my pics and recipe alterations I shared on Instagram. I really enjoyed recreating your recipes and trying everything. These are definitely tasty dishes with more flavor than I thought they would have. Thank you for sharing them. Oh, I’m MeJLynne on Instagram.
I absolutely LOVED seeing the recreations - you did such a phenomenal job! I'm so impressed! That was just what I needed to see. Sometimes I make recipes and they turn out well and I think they taste good, but after I post I second guess myself and whether or not others will make the recipe and think it tastes good or whether it will turn out well for others as well. It was so reassuring to see the recipes turned out for you and that you and your family enjoyed them. Thank you so much for sharing! 🥰
@@rachelresetshi dear, I made these recipes again tonight. My mother in law is staying with us and I wanted to make her something you can’t just pick up in a restaurant. I did have a few adjustments since I was making them in a larger amount. I purchased a stir fry from Walmart and it had different ingredients, still had the green beans, broccoli, carrots and peppers, but it also had a tiny ear of corn and a handful of water chestnuts. I also used ground turkey, only because it’s cheaper, I added a dash of worshtershire sauce and about 2 tbs of powdered beef bullion. And I used bow tie pasta instead of making my own.
I made your pasta (bow tie) with broccoli and mini meatballs, carrot gnocchi (I added some of the meat because she doesn’t eat only veg), shepherd’s pie (I chopped up the water chestnuts and tiny ear of corn and cooked them with the meat) and I cooked the green beans but didn’t make the volcano since we’re eating these dishes together.
I hated cheating by not making it all from scratch, but I knew it would be ok.
@Mejlynne I love the adjustments you made too! It's all about making the meals work for you. I'm glad to hear you all enjoyed them again and love hearing the tweaks you made to make the meals feed more than 1 person! 🥰
Wow yummy very nice and easy new friend here
Stay connected
Thank you so much! I hope you're having a wonderful week! 💛
Wow! Amazing! 👏👌
Thank you so much for watching and leaving a kind comment 🥰
Its called saving 👏👏👏
Yes! Love it! 👏 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 🥰
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome! Thank YOU for watching! 😊
Use 4 Oz beef patty browned, no drained, and one can CAMPBELLS pork and beans. Nothing else except a little water. A delicious transformation takes place. Serve with a hot buttered biscuit for 2-3 meals for $2 main dish total. I prefer a couple corn cakes i make so cheap and easy with maseca flour.
That sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing that easy meal idea! I love seeing all the great ideas people are sharing in these comments! 🥰
Just started viewing this and had to comment at 40 seconds. Why? ONE PERSON menu making and cooking! THAT is VERY different. At least for me it is. I AM married, but it's sandwich meals for the hubs as he works a weird swing shift and often has to leave at 1 in the p.m. at the earliest, but 2:30 p.m. is the most common hour when he leaves for work and doesn't get back home till 12, even 14 hours later and so I am most often cooking for just me. So I thank you much, much, much for this video.
I know what you mean 😊 and thank you for the encouragement! My husband works in the food service industry so he gets lunch at work most days, but I generally have to make my lunch and cooking for one can be hard to do! I will definitely be posting more cooking for one type of videos in the future (in fact, one was just posted a few minutes ago 😉). Thank you again for watching and for the kind words! 💜
Like 12 for your channel Rachel. Looks delicious and inexpensive 👍
Thank you so much! That really helps my video get to more people that may be needing some cheap meal ideas 🥰 Thanks for watching! I hope you have a wonderful week! 👍
Hi Rachel aldi had peachs for 75 cents 2 pound bags 1.50 each bag limit 2 and ground sirloin 10 percent 3.69 a pound limit 2
Thank you for the tips on the peaches and sirloin! 🥰 I really appreciate it!
Nice!!!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! ☺️ I hope you have a wonderful week! 💜
Thật là một công thức hay và đơn giản! Tôi thực sự đánh giá cao những nỗ lực và kỹ năng nấu ăn của bạn. Điều đó trông hoàn toàn tuyệt vời và ngon. Chúc Bạn một ngày vui vẻ ! ❤️🌻🐓
Thank you so much! I hope you're having a wonderful week! 💛
Rachel don't listen to the complainers asking for you to include gas prices in your videos. My gosh they should have bought a house closer to a grocery store....LOL... Some people simply regret their life choices 🤣. Next you'll hear them complain about the spices you add. Great video.
I have a feeling I may get some complaints about spices for my next budget video, but I don't think I could make budget Indian food without spices 😅
Yeah, gas and transportation is a different part of one's budget. 😂
Totally thought you would puree the carrots, mix with potato, and make carrot gnocchi vs gnocchi with carrots. Not that either is bad, I was looking forward to orange colored gnocchi, lol
Aw, that would have been an awesome idea! Yeah...I probably should have named it Gnocchi With Carrots, but I was running into an issue when the titles of the recipes got too long where they ran into the title of the next dish I was making in that one clip of the veggies laid out on the cutting board, so I had to keep it short and sweet 😉 That would be a fun way to incorporate more veggies, though.
Thanks for watching! 🥰
Brit here so I can't follow exactly but just wanted to say it's impressive and thinking outside the box❤ Just curious though how do you budget for the "freebies"?
In this particular video I didn't really budget for the Freebies, but it has been a critique I have taken to heart in future videos. I recently did a month long series of eating off of $80 and included many of the foundational spices and oils as part of the budget, and in future Extreme Grocery Budget Challenges I have mainly included salt, pepper, and a fat source as the Freebies. Thanks for watching! 🥰
Would never thought to separate vegieslike that. Sadly no dollar tree in Australia
Thanks for watching! 🥰 I would say, I've found a lot of the ingredients for cheaper prices at other stores, so don't worry if you don't have the exact store. Hopefully the ingredients can be found in a store local to Australia. I love hearing where everyone is watching from! 🥰
Boa tarde tudo bem ,eu já cheguei amada pra acompanhar o seu trabalho que essa receita maravilhosa e deve ser uma delícia parabéns um grande abraço do meu Pará que Deus abençoe você e sua família,
Thank you so much! I hope you're having a wonderful week! 💛
Very nice👌🏻
Thank you!! 😊
I'm absolutely amazed and impressed with your creativity🥰
You go, girl! 💪💪💪
As for pierogi, the traditional filling with mashed potato is to add cottage cheese and some garlic plus salt&pepper to the mix. My favourite combination, frankly speaking 😀 so I never ever mess up with the recipe...
But your idea is also very inspirational I may even give it a try 😁
That sounds so delicious! 😋 I bet the cottage cheese adds so much great flavor to them. Thanks for watching and sharing your tips!
I had a child in my teens, and truly struggled to put food on the table. I did the usual WIC and sometimes even the church to help me feed my daughter. It was always the same type foods that keep you alive, pasta jar sauce, tuna, peanut butter (and I am forever grateful, do not get me wrong here) BUT Once, I got a $35 voucher for the local store for whatever I wanted. Right or wrong, all I bought was spices and sauces, because it was the one thing I could never afford, and in 1989, that was a lot of seasoning. This video struck me very wrong in its intimating that a 'poor' kitchen has half of what it calls 'freebies'
I appreciate you sharing, and you are absolutely right - there were a lot of 'freebies' included in this video. I hesitated on adding all of the spices to the dishes, but I opted to add them as options if people have them, while also trying to make sure that each dish could still work if you only had salt and pepper and a fat source like oil or margarine. It wouldn't make each meal the most flavorful of meals, but the nutrition would be there still through the veggies, carbohydrates, and protein through the meat. We're on a tight grocery budget currently because of some large unexpected bills, but family have given us various goods they won't use and that has helped. Even so, when we ran out of Oregano a few weeks ago, I still had to wait a week or two before going and buying it because our food budget had been used - it just wasn't essential, although it would have been nice to have. I do enjoy making these videos, they encourage me to be creative during times when I might be more inclined to be discouraged or fearful. Some seasons we have more, but other seasons the car breaks down and the bill makes you have to see just how long you can make the food you already have last. That was my reality last week, which is why the video I put out today used only ingredients I already had on hand - and I am so grateful to have food on hand for these tyoes of weeks and months. I say all this, just because I want you to know I hear you, and I truly appreciate you sharing some of your story. ❤️
Smart woman. Spices are the key. Hopefully the Lord has blessed you with growing your own ❤️