How many meals can I create with 50 dollars?
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
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00:00 - Intro
01:48 - White Bread
03:06 - Flour Tortillas
04:15 - Butternut Squash Muffins
05:50 - Twice Fried Plantains
06:55 - Thrive Market
08:06 - Spanish Torta
10:25 - Crispy Beef Butternut Squash Soup
12:23 - Fresh Slaw
13:04 - Guacamole
13:29 - Taco Filling
14:55 - Coconut Oatmeal
15:32 - Coconut French Toast
16:25 - Zesty Yogurt Sauce
16:44 - Mac and Cheese
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9/10 for the food, 8/10 for the video. I would've liked to see a breakdown summary at the end, listing each of the meals and how many people they fed. That would really help visualize how far the $50 went.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I need all of the statistics.
For real I would have been fine without some of the cooking if he just showed stats great video though
i believe it was him his 2 girls and wife. my thing is the portions looked small. but this waa a great and fun video! great ideas to use in my future
THIS- I was waiting for the breakdown the whole time
noted for next time!
$50 USD into 2 baked items spread into other meals, 2 snacks for kids, and 6 unique meals. I'd say that's a 10. Blows my mind how far $50 can stretch when you get creative and know how to push the ingredients to the limit.
Something to think about with leftover cabbage: shredded fried cabbage with red pepper flakes and garlic. My husband and I were introduced to it living in China and I still make for him 10 years later living back home in Canada.
It’s also killer with Roman noodles
Sounds like a fantastic low carb noodle substitute as well! Wife has PCOS so always looking for the low carb options
When I have leftover potatoes 🥔 (ie mashed) and 1/3 or 1/2 head cabbage, I like to make Bubble & Squeak...it's like a cast iron skillet leftover casserole. You can toss in some leftover meat, but if I don't have any, I don't miss it...lots of cheese pulls it together. 😋
heya! what do you fry it in
@@SadLittleClownGore my go to is always avocado oil
This might not be for everyone, but sometime I will add cabbage to my soup to give it a fun texture. If you're recreating the soup, you could some of the cabbage that was left at the end in the soup.
Portuguese soup always has cabbage 😅
if you have leftover lettuce. Same thing
I love using cabbage on dumpling or potsticker soups, soooo good!!
Because we do pozole with cabbage, that sounds fantastic to me.
I'm reading this comment right as I'm eating Moldovan borș (or borsch as it's known in other countries). The version my family makes has no meat, with the cabbage being the main star (+ it has beans, potatoes and herbs). I'd recommend giving it a go :)
I love this! As a chronically single person, I find it difficult to not be wasteful, while also sticking to a budget and keeping it healthy, all while trying not to get bored with the same few meals I rotate through. This gave me a bunch of new ideas! Please keep this series going!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
Like to see a spring Mediterranean challenge. Not sure how long butternut squash is going to be available w/in metro areas. So ideally need at least 1 challenge per season based on ingredients being slightly cheaper when they r in season vs not.
I am a single retired nurse living on a limited income ..a social security check once a month.
I loved this video. I grew up in a family of 6 children, most everything we ate was made from scratch.
Thanks for the ideas and information, this will help me have some healthy food on a very limited budget 🌷
Well maybe you shouldn't have been hoeing around and you wouldn't be alone.
With prices so high on everything, we need more inspiration like this!
Keep 'em coming
Cooking with whatever you have left in the fridge and pantry and freezer is fun. It allows you to flex those creativity muscles. You should do these videos more often. Good job 🎉
This was really fun to watch! I hope you do more of these and maybe add onto the challenge. Like $50 plus you’re only allowed a certain amount of time to prep & cook each meal. Or $50 plus limited equipment (like only using equipment that would be available in an average dorm room).
I love this idea! How bout $50 plus gluten and lactose free?
Just say you a poor college student lol.
Spanish tortilla instead of torta. Torta would be like a flat sweet cake. Nice work!
Came to say this. It looks pretty legit though, minus the cheese. I’m going to have to make some this week!
I remember mum making this in the 1970's - she called it a "Spanish omelette" though - probably a result of her travels to Spain as a young adult. I still make it to this day. It is a cheap, really satisfying meal.
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@@charlottetooth1457 in Spain it is called tortilla de patatas or simply tortilla española to differentiate it from tortilla francesa = pure egg omelette
I cried a little when he added cheese to the tortilla 🥲. Also, please peal those potatoes and use olive oil. But I’m happy to see this dish on the channel
Loved the bread crumb topping for the mac and cheese - a great use of the items. I also loved the Spanish Potato, Onion and Egg omelet. You hit a home run with this show and it gives me the knowledge to use up random items that I would have else wise thrown out.
omg PLEASE do more of these! getting to see you stretch your creativity is one of the BEST PARTS. but also, of course, the limited budget and seeing how many meals you can get out of it.
I would definitely say this performance was on 10! Like for sure! It is amazing how many great things can be done from a relatively small list of ingredients. For next time, could you insert like a summary of all you made? Like a list on the screen, having a list of all things made would be pretty impressive to see next to the ingredients you bought :)
i know its not the same but if check the description, there's a link to the individual costs of the items as well as timestamps to each meal made listed out... hope this helps
I was thinking the same. A nice overview of what was made at the end to recap would have made the video perfect!
For a really delicious winter pasta dish, you can use butternut squash to make the winter equivalent of a tomato sauce. I saw a recipe for it, tried it recently & it came out sensational!! Cook up some sausage, reserve it and fry onions and garlic in the sausage fat. Add butternut squash and stock, cook until the squash is tender and partly mash it up with the immersion blender, like you did for your soup. Add cooked pasta, some pasta water, the sausage and a tiny bit of butter, emulsify into a sauce, serve up with permesan and a roasted pumpkin seed topping.
Great idea! You could just roast up the butternut squash seeds instead of buying a pumpkin seed topping. Cheaper and less waste!
That sounds amazing!
@ClaireRousseau: Where did you see the recipe?
@ClaireRousseau: Where did you see the recipe?
10 love the recipes and you showing your kids actually eating it. That is a bonus!
Definitely a 10/10. Great inspiration, especially with the cost of food constantly going up!
This reminds me of the videos your brother made years ago. Living of $3 a day or something. Hope he’s doing well.
Yes! I would love an update
Mike's great and all but Josh was the one who inspired me to get into cooking. Dude was really passionate about it. He's got his own channel @YouEnjoyLife
@@MXdemexhey! Thanks for plugging him! I had no idea and subbed.
What a throwback! I remember seeing them both on some random show with Sean Evans and discovering their channel/this one now has legit gotten me through college, not to mention made me a lot of friends by knowing how to cook without recipes
That video started it all for me
You are always one of my favorite channels! I love your approach to cooking. All of your dishes were hits with me!
Love this. Healthy and home made is what separates your budget videos from most of the rest on UA-cam. Your’s and Josh’s budget videos is how I found this channel. You guys taught me how to cook and freestyle bake. 💖
Love your dad energy, and your creativity! Thanks for the inspiration ❤
Love these videos, Mike nails that trifecta of practicality, flavour, and economics for great family cooking
10/10!
this reminds me of the type of cooking that I had to do this past week for our family with 6 kids and grandparents at an AIRBNB! With only limited pantry/spices we had to cook with the groceries we bought, and try to use everything up before we left (cause we didnt want to travel home with much) - the creativity is so FUN!
Your daughter is adorable!
I love videos that show how to prevent food waste.
this was amazing, watching this i can see how many people who don't have much, and very little experience in cooking can see what you can make with just these items. thank you, you re an inspiration for all of us struggling today with the food prices so high.
10/10 super inspiring for me, I always struggle on those days where ingredients have dwindled before grocery day. It’s really hard to be motivated in the kitchen when you’re the family cook, it feels more like a job than getting creative and things can get a little repetitive but this has definitely given me inspiration thank you!
Here I am, frantically taking notes (awesome recipes❤) and I hear this cute "omnomnom". Made my day ☺️ I am making the last recipe tonight. Literally have a small chunk of the last of my homemade bread from your recipe. Mine was a little hard (my fault for not kneading it thoroughly). Killed it with this one 🙌
Forgot about plantains... brb doing a quick store run because SHEESH those look good
I loved all the dishes so much so I would love all the written recipes. You should do a cookbook, please.
Amazing to watch the great relationship he has to food.
These are great- I love videos like this! They are alot of work- but so worth it! 10 outta 10!
Excellent, really enjoyed watching the dishes you created especially as ingredients began to diminish. As you rightly said it’s key to have an idea as to what style of cooking you’re intending to create as this will keep waste to a minimum. Loved the Spanish omelette and the pastes dish is definitely one to try. It would be great to make a series of these videos Mike as so many of us would benefit from the no waste, limited budget menu for both the singletons amongst us as well as for families needing to cook to a budget while keeping things interesting. Great episode as usual.
10/10! Please do more of these budget challenges.
Wow, definitely 10/10, especially with the last dish 😮 Thank you for the inspiration 😁
Love having a pot of soup in the fridge for quick and inexpensive meals.
Okay, even someone who has cooked for over 50 years can be inspired. Thanks! Tonight I'm making sheet pan black bean tacos, with cabbage slaw filling and topped with guacamole from an avodaco I have left. Sometimes I get tired, sometimes I get inspired.
Definitely a 10! You are a very creative cook, and I really enjoyed watching you use all $50 worth of ingredients in some amazing dishes.
Awesome video. My best takeaways were browning the beef longer for flavor, having one flavor profile in mind, those smashed plantain in the air fryer (soooo easy) look so delicious, and your baked goods to set you up for the week. Everything looks so delicious. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences with us, I have been enjoying your content for years now and always learn something.
I love this format, and I hope you do more of these! I cook like this a lot--looking at what I have in the fridge and figuring out what to make from there. I feel like I don't use up things quick enough and elements go bad. Hearing your thought process, especially for unconventional recipes, is very inspiring. 9/10
I would love to see a similar video, but feeding your family for a whole week and what you make/spend! I have a 1.5 year old and my husband and i struggle trying to keep it cheap, creative, and easy! Thanks for the inspo!
10/10, very fun challenge and you used almost everything. Please do more!
I'm feeling an 8.5 to a 9. Rules were stretched a bit, but some of the product, esp. that last meal when you basically had just a bunch of leftovers, was pretty epic.
It did inspire me to go into the kitchen and start cooking. Thanks Mike! I was kinda fed up with the content lately but this has brought back a spark I once got from yt cooking channels :)
things like this are my favorite on your channel. this and the $3 a day style. all the money challenge ones end up really making you shine!!
This i give an absolute 10!! Thank u for the inspiration and your 1st videos glimpse of the whole emty refrigerator challenge not to waste food and gives your creativity a challenge ❤❤ God bless you and your beautiful family
All my friends and I had those flannel nightgowns way back when. So cute!
10/10. Would love to see more of this concept.
Great video! I always forget the cabbage in winter dishes. One of my most loved veggies is the celery. Once you add it to a chilli or pasta sauce it just gets significantly better. Quite cheap for the amount of flavour you get.
I honestly congratulate your creativity! That was very creative 👌
Loved this! Please do more of these for us home cooks!
I would love a video were you show spice blends that you do. Like your go to spice mixes for roasted veggies, meats and chicken and some crazy blends. (Ofc salt and pepper is nice and simple but sometimes you want more spices)
A 10!!! You are teaching me to be creative within the restrictions of what you have on hand - I love it!!!
10!!! That’s was amazing! I forwarded this video to my young adult children on a budget! Thank you for sharing.
Definitely a 10! I've been making homemade bread since October and haven't eaten store-bought bread since. I've been making my own hamburger buns and anything else in the bread family. I LOVE homemade tortillas! I never liked the aftertaste that I feel the ones from the store have. I made some last night for tacos. Last year I took the red cabbage and green cabbage (mostly red) and made a sweet, pickled coleslaw and canned it up. I LOVE adding it to the top of my tacos! Very good recipe ideas. You are so creative!
Congratulations 🎉 i love all the recipes. 10
That cabagge could've been a nice salad with some salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. It would've tasted really fresh alongside the pasta. Also, in my country we make pasta with fried cabbage, you saute the cabagge until it's brown and sweet and add cooked pasta in it. You can also add some sausages. It tastes like heaven ❤
I am so incredibly impressed! I am not thrilled about butternut squash, but the meals looked really good. The most impressive for me was the Mac & Cheese with the topping. That truly put the meal over the top! Definitely gave me some great ideas, I truly appreciate you!!!
Loved this video! As a SAHM and the main cook in the family, it is so important for me to use up every ingredient. I make soups all the time (it is a Polish custom to eat soup as a first course) and that soup looked very delicious! Love all the kid options it gave me more ideas to try !
in Germany it is also very common to start a meal with soup. In no way is it considered old people's food ! You get a delicious variety of soups also in fine dining restaurants.
this reminded me of coming home from work to watch the British teatime show Ready Steady Cook, where two chefs cooked, with a contestant, and a bag of whatever the contestant brought, it was either £5 or £10 budget, and a store cupboard, and there was a 20 minute timer. One contestant only brought potatoes
This was so amazing. Loved what you created. Reminded me of the earlier days of you and your brother living together and doing challenges. I hope he is well.
Great job! I often find that some of your fabulous recipes are with food that I simply don't eat. But with this challenge, you stretched $50 into meals that I would definitely eat! 10/10!
9/10. Gotta say I love that you were able to feed your kids as well which is who this type of video might be useful for, a parent on a budget. Had to take away the one point because you could’ve fermented the cabbage. But amazing!
Love this idea so much, please do more! You've inspired me to do a challenge of my own when I move next month and don't want to spend a zillion dollars restarting my pantry from scratch. 8/10!
Love it
You need to make more videos like this - this one, along with the one for fermentation, are now my favorite, because I can relate, and can try to make something myself.
LOVE! 10-10-10!!! I've blended up butternut squash as part of a cheese sauce - always delicious.
8/10. Great vid. Honestly about the rue was comindable. I would have liked a picture at the end of all of the meals that could have been Photoshopped together. Do you have a staple pantry video. With the seasonings and other items? Could you have pickled the cabbage
This was a cool and creative video. I often find myself with some produce that didn't get used and only has a day or so left and have to get creative with throwing together unique meals so it doesn't got to waste.
I give you a 10/10, but of course I also give myself 10/10 because I live like this all the time cuz I'm poor and refuse to waste any food box or purchased food. People tell me I am the most imaginative cook they know and stuff always turns out - if not absolutely killer then at least creative and edible. Good job!
I live in Arkansas and the Tortas they make here are sandwiches. They have this amazing fresh pepper blend that gives so much flavor and depth!
Very nice improv skills, my dude.
9/10. I agree with one of the other comments about adding a longer summary of the meals and how many people it fed. I haven't seen any comments complaining about you adding a couple small things here and there. I personally think you stuck to it pretty good. But if there ARE people out there that are nitpicking, all they have to do is buy slightly cheaper ingredients and boom, more money to get the dang sugar. LOL This actually has inspired me to do this. We're on a super tight budget, and on top of that there's been more food waste than usual. I need to get my ass back in gear on this stuff, and I think this might have given me the motivation.
It's so fun to watch you go from an ambitious young man into a loving daddy.
I thought you did very well. On the last recipe I was like what is he going to do with that slice of bread, cilantro and whatever else that was you threw in to your food processor. Then when you sprinkled it on top of the Mac and cheese and baked it and pulled it out of the oven I was like ..whoahhhhhhhhh that was genius and looked so delicious. You did a great job. I am making that soup for sure. And being that the cost of living for most folks has substantially increased as our pay has stagnated this was a very appropriate and inspiring episode. I have been trying to make lunches and breakfasts for my hubby to take to work each day to save money and this gives me new ideas so he doesn't get bored. You get a 10!!🎉
10/10 Hope for more videos like this! Thanks for the inspo.
I loved the last dish, would never have thought of putting cilantro in the breadcrumb topping on top of the mac & cheese. I’ve got to try this!
WOW! I always knew I saved more when cooking at home (I try to cook 4-5 meals a week), but the way you did this challenge blew me away. One of my problems is that I don't have the vision or ideas on what to do with the items. I need recipes. I would definitely give you a 10/10. I am so thankful our three girls followed in my footsteps and eat at home most nights too. I would have liked to see each meal listed with the ingredients used, kind of like a visual. Thank you for doing this.
Thank you for the beef and butternut squash/ pumpkin combo. It's delicious but so is pork and butternut squash/ pumpkin. Here in China there is a type of wonton that is pork and butternut squash/ pumpkin during the winter. When I talk about it, no one else seems to know about this combo.
That' s awesome! This is the way I cook, I hardly ever follow the recipe the way is written but always modify it and change things around and sometime I hit the jock pot and sometimes meh! Most of the time is meh for me because it didn't come out as I envision it but part of my family likes it so that is not a total feil! It can alway go to the chickens! So happy with that!
10/10 for you ‼️‼️
You could have fermented the cabbage for another side dish….😊
And added it to the wraps he made
Constraint creates creativity! This is great. You’ve opened my eyes to make some killer dishes with just a handful of ingredients. 10/10 honestly
10/10. I loved this & hope for more like it!
Very inspiring video! With food prices continuously rising, this ideas are more than welcome, plus it’s healthy not ultra processed food. 10/10 and a HURRAY! Many blessings.
Loved the program. I’d give it a 10. I’m gonna be making most of what you posted. Love, love, love your channel. Thanks!!!!
Easy 10/10 please do more of these!
Loved this I think you really did a great job miss seeing you with your brother y’all are both amazing cooks keep it up thanks for the inspiration and your children are precious ❤
I'm so appreciating this....Thank you! Will be making all of these dishes. So brilliant!!
I've never thought of crisping up ground beef and adding it to my soups... definitely taking that with me into the kitchen.
You are an absolute inspiration.
Great use of coconut milk across the recipes. Thanks for lots of good ideas. 10/10
Nice work! 10/10. I loved seeing everything you made with that grocery budget. Your creativity was awesome!
So fun to watch! I love how you create on the fly. That’s the best way to cook! ❤️ 10/10 🎉
Amazing 10/10 - I need this as a blog post so I can meal plan for next week!
I love videos like this! I will definitely be using the "blend a bit of the soup" technique!
Great video!
I've never made a soup not from a recipe before and your crispy beef butternut squash soup idea inspired me to clear out a lot of stuff in kitchen i already had and make a crispy beef and creamy potato mexican soup sorta thing and it turned out awesome.
Great video as usual! Please bring back the college cooking with your brother. Or I would love to see more of your garden if possible.
Loved these! Mac & cheese was genius, please make more of these!
So good! I needed cheap ideas & these are mostly new for me. Thanks!!!
Favorite channel on YT! Thanks for breaking it down and bringing us in. 😊
You are amazing and have inspired me to not just learn how to cook better, but truly enjoy cooking as a staple in my life. Thank you so much Mike!
Mike, Great work and creativity, gotta be a 10, especially as it was backed up by your daughter going Yum Yum Yum, she's a far better judge than me.
Suggestions for future episodes - Do similar challenges at different times of the year when you have all your seasonal fresh produce from your garden available, and see how much you saved, with an estimate of how much your produce cost to grow. Thanks for sharing! 🙂😋😎❤
great idea
@@ProHomeCooks Thank you 🙂❤
This all looks fabulous 10! unfortunately I’m no longer that motivated to get in the kitchen every day. Being retired certainly has cut my cooking in half if not quarters. Fortunately my husband also cooks so we don’t go hungry! Love watching you!