How to Eat Cheaply
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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They don't call them salad days for nothing; you probably can't afford to eat anything else. But there are ways to trim your food budget-and they're even good for you.
Step 1: Switch to tap water
Get over the craze and switch back to tap water. It almost always tastes the same as bottled water, and your savings will add up quickly.
Tip
Keep tap water in the fridge; it tastes better cold.
Step 2: Buy frozen vegetables
Buy frozen vegetables in bulk. They're just as nutritious as fresh one, sometimes even more so because they are flash frozen while fresh and not picked unripe for a cross-country trip.
Tip
Cabbage is one of the healthiest vegetables, can be delicious made into slaw or kimchi, and-unlike many veggies-it is reasonably priced year-round.
Step 3: Use coupons
Use coupons. It may make you feel like someone's grandma, but it'll save you money. Maximize your savings by printing online coupons and finding stores that will double coupons.
Step 4: Go generic
Go generic. In most cases, you're not paying for better quality-you're paying for the expensive advertising campaigns that promote brand names.
Step 5: Eat more eggs
Eat more eggs. They're cheap, packed with protein, and-contrary to popular belief-they don't raise bad cholesterol.
Step 6: Switch to plain yogurt
If you eat yogurt, switch to plain. It's cheaper, healthier, and can be made sweeter and more nutritious by adding a little fresh fruit or a bit of honey.
Tip
Buy bruised and overripe fruit and vegetables at a reduced price at produce markets. Use them in smoothies and soups.
Step 7: Control portions
Don't eat directly from containers. Not only is it mildly depressing, but portion control prevents overeating and makes your food last longer.
Step 8: Air pop popcorn
Invest in a hot air popcorn popper. High in fiber and low in calories and fat, popcorn is a cheap, healthy snack-so long as you air pop it and don't drown it in melted butter.
Step 9: Splurge on early bird special
When you can't eat at home for another meal, splurge-on an early bird special. Sure, you might be surrounded by octogenarians scrabbling over the cheap tapioca pudding, but you'll get your fill on the cheap.
Did You Know?
In May 2007, several politicians attempted to eat for a week on a $28 food allowance, the average amount provided to welfare recipients.
If you keep tap water (or any liquid) in the fridge, make sure to keep it in a closed container. It will save electricity by not making the refrigerator work as hard to keep the evaporated moisture out of the fridge compartment.
sorry, but the tap water in california tastes like crap :)
David
@mrmoodyrudy
in certain countries yes.
Depends on how they treat tap water in your area
@NemesisKult Okay... I'm just saying that if you're ever in a position where you need to eat as cheaply as possible you might not be able to eat healthy food. plus Ramen and Hot Pockets are also just mainly for convience instead of nutrition.
haha, i love his expression at 1:56
Not as funny 😆 as 0:10!
28$ food allowance per week would be luxury for me :D
My mom beat the water industry by a mile. Take your biggest saucepan and fill it with water, and just BOIL IT! It does cost money in gas or electricity to boil, but it's much cheaper than bottled water, and water boiled for just 10 minutes tastes cleaner and better than ANY bottled brand. Also it's germ-free and hasn't been sitting on a shelf for X amount of days or weeks. Also, keeping your fridge very cold makes your water tastier and keeps your food longer!
Things with plenty of carbohydrates like the noodles in pasta/spaghetti give you energy and keep you full for a while, plus its pretty cheap just get the noodles, tomato pasta, whatever else and something to make the meatballs.
I agree it does matter where you live but 84% of American tap water systems have sodium fluoride added in the treatment process. I would recommend an atmospheric water filter that takes moisture from the air & creates pure water to drink.
Just clicked on the video and I saw a man eating out of a trash can. That's GREAT advice :/
Hi Reatz,
Yolks have a lot of B vitamins. It is a waste to throw out the yellow yolks. :)
dont eat from the container and his face afterwards made laugh hard xD
I get the big Walmart container of "quick oats" for about $2.30 and eat it every morning. It stays with me longer than regular cereal and lasts for weeks!
Thanks! I'll start budgeting with oatmeal and see how i feel, (poor college kid) hehe ;D
I agree with pretty much everything except the tap water thing. Our tap water tastes like crap. If you buy one of those water filters you connect to the sink you'll still save money in the long run. :)
For the yogurt, what's really good about the plain stuff is if you have that real vanilla from Mexico, just add a small teaspoon and then add some stevia or xylitol to it and you won't get the sugar rush! Tastes just as good as the flavored yogurt, plus it's WAY healthier for you.
@xXKawaiiBabyXx That's what she said.
Oatmeal is a fantastic food choice. Protein, whole grain, and very cheap. A $3 can of oatmeal lasts me about 2 weeks. And that's if I eat it for breakfast everyday
I wasn't talking about your weight, but about the money 'saved' when using a meat-including diet.
Yes, I'm a vegetarian, have been so for 2 and a half years. And oh I know what I'm talking about. I come from a mostly vegetarian family, so I know what it's like. And not all replacements for meat, fish and poultry are expensive, you know. There are enough vegetarian products around here that are delicious, nutritionous but unexpensive, but perhaps it depends on where you live (I'm Dutch)
I totally know how u feel man! I'm in college, and no money. i spend only 15-20 a week on food, a lot of ramen, rice, eggs, bread that's about it, im getting skinnier by the day, 155lbs, 5'11 ;(
The Hot air popcorn is true. Jiffy Pop (Yellow Corn is the best) better than Orville. 17 cups will run you around 300 calories (Huge bucket) and 2 teaspoons of low fat margarine add another 70 calories (no biggie). Cheap and will fill you up whether on a budget or trying to lose weight.
I live in new york seriously tap water is really weird here on thanksgiving a few days ago the water from the tap was like littlelishred so be careful what u drink.
@xXKawaiiBabyXx Srry. I couldn't help it.
Hehe.
This made me chuckle.
@HardCoreStrategy well i dont drink that i drink water that comes a filter that comes from a sink
Except that it doesn't taste like the freezer when it melts in your drink! And the cubes don't stick together. Ice is only 99 cents so it's not a bad investment. I always buy bagged ice, though not bottled water.
Ha! I KNEW I wasn't crazy to think tap water is always better cold!!!
Good info.
I love eggs, and I eat them every day. I can't believe people think they raise bad cholesterol
1:08...ITS LYK THAT BOX OF "FROOTY O's" i saw at dollar general!
I watch these videos not for the how to, but for the humor.
buy a water pitcher that filters tap or get a refridgerator with the water filter
You can get stuff in mcdonalds for 1 dollar in USA? I live in europe, and here the cheapest thing in mcdonalds costs 1 euro(1.4 usd) and its the very smallest hamburger, you would need like atlest 5 to feel like you've eate anything. If you want to really full you have to spend atleast 10 dollars. It's cheper to in in real restourants here.
and it doubles in size!!! :D
I steal apples from trees
I steal salt to drop onto slugs
You can always boil the water to purify it.
most generic products are good
u dont need a popcorn maker - if u cant afford to eat u cant afford a pocorn maker
anyone can eat cheaply try lentils cheap and they can be put in most things except icecream to bulk it upp and they are healthy
actually the pool of liquid is caused by the cream seperating from the water as all mixtures do eventually. Trust me, I dont eat sour cream out of the container, and it happens to me all the time.
@ellenino sometimes i do..y
kewl we have the same air popper XD
Except for the flouride in the water... if we can find a cheap way to filter that crap out we'll be good. I've been getting my water from a friends well for awile.
and you would think a dollar store or 99 cent store would be cheap but their canned goods are usualy 30 cents more than they would be at the supermarket.
just don't buy name brand and try to buy foods in bulk and you should be okay
I used to live on 5 quid a week last autumn...
it work out great, for a week in 2007 somewhere in USA.
o yea, politicians eating cheap is worthy of pointing out.
Step 1: NEVER EVER eat out. EVER. Eat the same stuff everyday. Never buy anything unless it is reduced to the clearance center. Never buy fast food. Don't buy pre-cooked food. Do not bake a single cake, or use the oven for anything. Buy every box of bruised old fruit you can find. Buy the bones that the butcher doesn't want anymore that are usually donated to the dog pound. Pack your lunch yourself. Eat every piece of leftovers, no crumbs allowed.
Scource: First hand experience from my mother.
U know, calling people idiot doesn't make u a smartass.
And since boiling is soooo redundant, why do we have kettles? Or would u be so kind as to state ur source to prove ur point. And just so u know, i am only 13.
(hey man, i am always learning and i am happy that u tell me new info, thanks! :)
Sorry if i have offended ya, not intended. Thanks again. :D
yum...kimchi...
LOL he got his eggs in a bowl and put a toy chicken with it lol
ok, the tap water thing... If u live next to a flowing river, tap is ok. but where i am, there are too many chemicals and crap in the water. and the brita filters dont do shit to make the water better.
Might come in handy when I go to USA! Lol! Hope not!!
@sophiatoontown ya, i know that but why??
You will need: An extremely low budget
Step one: Go to college
Step two: Get used to ramen, that's all you'll be eating for a while
@mrgdog400 what if you want to live a healthy life style?
lol at the egg part he put a little chicken toy in there o_O
What was that red thing he put inside the bowl with eggs?
Water is good.
But it has probably been added to most of your cheap pre packaged meat products. So buy a smaller piece of organic meat for the same price, and inject your own tap water.
Add around 20/30% water to fruit juice.
Use Fairtrade tea bags more than once by putting them in a small airtight container in between times.
Drink weaker coffee, then your Fairtrade or organic product will last longer, and only cost the same as a cheaper brand.
What else? Fast food always overpriced.
1:24 chicken lol :D
@mrgdog400 :( In Australia we have a $2 menu... and its crap haha
ikr cuz when i try 2 get a couple peices its like all frozen 2 one peice
@Sammykm1234 I noticed that too. xD
I love Chowder. x3
But it takes electricity to boil it. So you would have to pay for it too.
@ryuwar6 im scared to find out...
the chicken in the bowl wtf lol
actually tap water isn't the same, considering where I live they use chlorine to clean it
where i live if u want tap water you gotta drill your own well lol
1:24 - 1:32 superlol
:D
did the 28 bucks plan work out for them?
Oh yeah? In Sweden everyone drinks tap water. I never seen water in a bottle. But we maybe have better water..
Eggs. Cheap and packed with protein.
- Bear Grylls -
I currently spend like 100 a month on groceries, I'm trying to cut that down, I eat only health and all natural foods.
That bowl of eggs contains 4x more cholesterol than you should eat in a day.
What about boiled water/?
I guess leaving traces of salava on dairy products would act as a catylist to the breakdown process.
If you're scared of drinking TAP water, buy a filter. (like Brita filters) FILTERED water tastes better.
It does have fluoride in the tap water and its also whats making kids sick
What's tap water
Actually contrary to popular belief if you do the proper research you will find that fluoride is the cause of tooth decay
*drops the fruit lol
Step one dont eat at all, done, wait SEND IN THE MOTHERFUCKING CLOWNS
@iBePandaBear ys i know miracle whip rocks
spot on ;D
public libraries have free comp use.
Moo paste is glue for cows
"It's ironic how they would make an "eat cheaply" video for people who CANNOT afford food. HOWEVER, the only way they would view this video is by a computer. Here's a better idea for people out there looking for food but can't afford any, sell your computer. "
my computer allows me to find jobs, talk to friends who moved to other countrys without paying a huge phone bill, study, play, listen/create music, imo a computer CAN be in some cases more important/usefull than a car.
moo paste? EEEEW!
Buy seeds and grow vegetables,it's cheap and tastes better.
step 1 go to the homeless line hahahahahha
@mrgdog400 you need a $1.10 for something on the dollar menu
yeah newspaper is cheaper for coupons
When the vid said "get over the craze", it did not mean that it wouldn't cost u ur health. It's better to be safe than sorry.
HAHAHAHHAHA! Man, have u been to india? I can bet u 100 bucks that if u drink their water (unless u live there :p) that u will have a stomach upset. Everyone i know says so. I can from Singapore in case u were wondering. The water here is clean but it's better to be safe than sorry. Because going to the docs is going to cost me alot more that drinking 100% clean water.
@RageStrikes
hahaha xD =P Lmao
Good Point. But ive been drinking it all my life and I haven't exactly turn into a zombie (Yet).
Ha HA my mom makes us do this every day!
so far i don't mind
Are we the only people who always drink tap water? We pop ours in the fridge.
I have to disagree with some parts of the video 1.TAP water taste nasty.2.eggs does raise high cholestorol.
i HATE bottled water. I would drink it if i had to but bottled water just tastes gross to me =P
@reanimat0r21 Well I hope you got a perfect diet then. Otherwise flouride is the least of your troubles.
oats 'n' water, what more do you need?
wtf did he put the chicken in the bowl at 1:24???
My cats wash them selves. No need for any ultimatewertman here then.
X-D
Kimchee!! =D!!!
I drink tap water all the time and I'm neither poisoned nor a zombie. It really depends on where you live, but in the end, bottled water is the dumbest thing anyone can buy. If you're worried about the quality of your tap water, get a brita filter and a reusable bottle. Better for you, the environment and your wallet. Win-win-win.
is that TED MOSBY ? xD
a delicious mixture of poof and nuts