Eating for $5 a Day from Dollar General | What I Ate Day 2 | Budget Grocery Week
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- Eating for $35 A Week
Day 2 Menu:
Breakfast:
Instant iced coffee with creamer
2 slices of toast with 1/2 a can of pork n beans
Lunch:
Leftover Ham & bean soup served over rice with 1/2 a turkey and ham sandwich
Chips for a mid-day snack Pink lemonade to drink throughout the day
Dinner:
Taco Mac
To a small pot add 1/2 a cup of taco soup broth, 1/2 a cup of water. Bring to a boil then stir in 1/2 a cup of uncooked macaroni. Cover and simmer for 8 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon of cheese powder and 1/4 cup of shredded cheddar cheese. Top with 1/2 a cup of beans, tomatoes, and corn mixture from soup. Add sour cream if desired
I attempted to make a French vanilla rice pudding with the extra creamer packets that wasn't as good as I had hoped. Will table that one for a future video perhaps. - Навчання та стиль
Re: the "failed" rice pudding - Never worry about the missteps as part of your experiments. It's still there for giving ideas to your audience, especially if someone might have more of a taste for it than you do, or if they may have a different ingredient here or there than you may have used. The ideas are just as important as the successful dishes.
As a kid my mom used to make sweet rice for breakfast and we ate it like oatmeal, just add a splash of milk, butter and sugar to a bowl of warm rice. I actually thought the idea of savory rice was weird well into adulthood 😂
That was our breakfast too!!! ❤
Same! Sometimes my mom put raisins in it 🤢
. We always had raisins in it, too, with cinnamon and brown sugar. So yummy.
We did the same
I still love to eat this with my leftover rice!
I'm British, and beans on toast is a staple meal here. I'm glad you liked it 😊
I’m American and haven’t had it your guys’ way since I visited 20 years ago, because I don’t think they make vegetarian beans in tomato sauce here like you guys have it there (I’m vegetarian). I’ve just been eating it in the molasses style sauce as a staple ever since I came back from trip, and love it all the same! Have you ever tried it with the beans in an American style sauce? Just curious. :)
@anti-ethniccleansing465 I think the closest we get to American style beans would be beans in barbecue sauce, not bad, but I prefer the original 😋
I think fried rice is originally from china and does traditionally use soy sauce, but in Japan we don't use soy sauce to make fried rice because of the concern it will make the rice mushy to add liquids (japanese rice is already sticky). Instead we use a powder mix that's sold in packets in the supermarket. The technique I use is I microwave leftover rice (it seperates better in the pan if it's microwaved first), heat oil in a pan and add the rice, stir-fry for just a minute or two, then put beaten eggs directly on top and mix it in, cooking until all wet egg is cooked. Traditionally I believe you're supposed to move the rice out of the way and scramble the egg in litle chunks, but I love the texture of the rice with the egg mixed in, it keeps the rice soft but also helps the grains seperate, and there are no unexpected chunks of egg in your mouth. At this point you turn off the heat, mix in the seasoning packet,and you're done. Japanese fried rice usually doesn't contain meat or vegetables beyond some tiny flakes of scallions or tiny dried baby shrimp in some of the spice packets. When you don't have a spice packet, chicken bullion powder, garlic salt and pepper is a close substitute!
When I was a young mother I used to make what we called hot dogs & rice. I know it sounds weird, but we loved it. My daughters make it to this day. Real cheap comfort food. Hot dogs, onions, Ketchup & vinegar and instant rice. Got the recipe off of a Minute Rice box 50 years ago.
Making that for a work lunch, forgot about how good hot dogs go with buttery or jazzed up rice is!
I ate this growing up as well except I didn't like onions so left that out.
Where can I find the recipe? I would love something like that.
@@CynthiaAva I fry hotdogs and onions in butter, then add water and stir in Minute Rice when water hot. When rice tender I add vinegar and ketchup to taste.
The Scottish eat pork & Beans almost every meal.🤣😂 When I was broke, I made a dish with leftover rice, any meat in the fridge and baked beans adding a tiny bit of ketchup, worcestershire sauce, a small dollop of mustard and any seasonings you like. Maybe even a dab of bell pepper and fresh onion if you have it. This was our go to meal when we had to clean out the fridge or just plain broke. 🥰 It really was good.
My friend does that end of week - makes a soup.
Even leftover pizza 😋
I didn’t even realize that was a tripod dog for a minute cuz of how fast and agile it was 👏👏
Thanks for your channel we have food allergies so I can’t usually follow recipes but I use ideas and get inspiration from people so thanks ☺️
Loved the doggos!
The rice pudding would be good had you added some fat to it like butter or margarine. That would make it alot better.
We like cooked rice with butter and sugar as well. A yummy cheap dessert.
My favorite lunch sandwich is grilled ham and cheese. I cook the ham until slightly crispy and then build a grilled cheese sandwich with mustard on the inside. And instead of plain butter to grill it up I use garlic and herb butter. With a dill pickle and chips on the side 😋
Love the tip about flavored butter!!
Baked beans on toast is an Aussie thing too, very very good in winter 😊
Does it snow in australia ?
@@cartqueen6114 depending on where you are 😊
our school used to make a sweet sticky rice and top it with a bit of cherry pie filling as one of our desserts...yummy
i used to make sweet cinnamon rice "cereal" for my kids..simply cooked rice, sweetener of choice, cinnamon and vanilla with a touch of milk..same as a cooked oatmeal 😋
i love beans and weinnie on butter toast
Cherry pie filling is one of my favorite treats. Now I have to go learn how to make sweet sticky rice...
I know you don't have everything to make this happen for this video but a go to lunch I love is a baked tuna melt with the garlic toast at dollar tree. Bake it all together! So good!!
Oh that sounds divine! I love using garlic bread as a base for sandwiches and melts
That does sound yummy!
I noticed they don't have Texas toast anymore at our Dollar Tree. So sad!
@@CynthiaAva maybe just out of stock?? I just got some last week. I made little pizzas lol.
I appreciate how you include snacks and drinks because I don’t think some other UA-camrs are quite honest with what they are truly eating in a week.
Cinnamon Sugar and half and half would be ideal, or whole milk to make the rice pudding better. Adding a banana or some frozen fruit from the dollar tree would be a great flavor booster too!
I love that you're being more adventurous with the camera angles and the editing! it's so cool to see how much you've grown over the past couple of months and see you get more comfortable in front of the camera. keep up the amazing work!!!
I haven't had bean toast since I was a kid; my Irish Gran used to make it for me. Sometimes she would add a slice of melted cheese on top. I love your tri-pod pup and the fact that you are proving to folks that just because an animal is different, they are still perfect.
The pork and beans can be cooked with meat of choice( we used spam, I’ve seen sandwich meat too) and poured over rice! Filling dish and really good
I like this idea.
I was thinking cut up hot dogs.
That is so cool how you take people's suggestions & try them. 😊
One of the reasons Countries across the Pond use beans for Breakfast was that beans are protein filling and stick to your ribs...
Great job..☕🍽♥️🌹
The beans on toast sounds good. I don't know if I could eat it for breakfast but would be a good lunch or dinner. My parents make a version of rice pudding using sugar and evaporated milk.
On the eggs my brother and I used to swap out the parts of the egg we didn’t like he ate the whites I ate the yolks.Your sweet little puppy moves fast for three later I was impressed. You need to bring your boyfriend on Camera and introduce him he looks like he’s a pleasant fellow to know.
I ate my sisters peas when my mom wasn't looking.
That's so cute that 3 legged dogo is fast !!!! Lol
I love the idea of using French vanilla creamer for french toast! I have Bread and I have French vanilla creamer and some eggs I am going to do that 🤤😋
Let's us know how it turns out...
Lol😂, I’ve totally done that same thing with cinnamon before! Lol we did grow up eating white rice with milk, cinnamon, sugar and raisins! I’m from Idaho, so idk where that came from. 🤷♀️
Although Pork and Beans isn't quite the same as Heinz beans, I find the flavor profile to be very similar. I imagine the addition of the pork flavoring would be nicely complemented with an added fried egg on top.
I love beans on toast. Another way I use the beans is on a baked potato. Also make a taco Mac using leftover chili. I can’t make chili in less than probably 5 bowls ful. So freeze some and the rest is a bowl of chili, chili Mac or chili over rice. I would have gone with tortilla chips as well. Great video.
Topping any of these inexpensive ingredients on a baked potato is a great way to create a budget meal. I do all of these. One of my other favorite potato toppings is cottage cheese with either fresh tomatoes or salsa.
Yes, cottage cheese on a baked potato is an excellent meal!
I started making my baked potatoes in an airfryer . Rub with leftover bacon grease poke a few holes in the potatoes. I find i only need to bake them for 40 minutes at 400° . They turn out a bit crispy . Even eaten without butter. When you have to he really frugal. I do like cottage with my potatoes.
I love baked beans on toast with a fried egg on top. Yum!
I grew up with beans on toast here in Canada 🇨🇦 . It was lovely and easy to have on a cold morning and was very filling. I can’t believe how many people think they’re too good for such a simple and nourishing meal.
I don’t think it’s that people think they are too good for it, it’s just not a breakfast people in America are accustomed to, it was good though, I’m excited to have it again 😃
@@DollarTreeDinners you wouldn’t believe the amount of people who think beans on toast is a ‘poor man’s’ food whenever i suggest it. I’m a dietician and try to find easy and accessible foods for many clients who are on strict budgets.
Oh no I’m sorry they aren’t receptive! It’s a very good meal, I liked how full it made me without feeling sluggish or heavy
My grandmother would make rice pudding with leftover rice, milk, sugar and nutmeg.
If you add extra water to your rice and cook it slow and longer, it will be sticky rice. Then use that with the milk, sugar and seasoning of your choice. The rice needs to be way overcooked to come out less grainy.
The suggestions to add an egg are good as well - more like custard.
@@camifbe5565 that’s how I make it too. I love rice pudding so much. I get so excited at Christmas time because I make it with egg nog.
Thank you for being so real and honest!!!! Good video!!😊
Great video, loved the dog show in the middle 💙 If you want to try a good rice pudding try Kozy Shack (I know the name makes it sound funky, but it's the best I've ever had. I look forward to the next video.
The rice reminded me of my Grandmother making sweet rice with sugar, butter and/or milk. I have seen recipes which are more elaborate but she kept it simple the butter with milk or cream with sugar to make a saucy kinda cream rice was something sweet. Of course you could add nuts or raisins outside of this weeks experience.
We were raised in the military. We traveled a lot so when we moved to a new base the house electric wasn't always on yet so my mom had to get creative. She made milk for our cereal with cremora coffee creamer.
Hi Rebecca - thank you for another great video. You look great with or without makeup - no worries. Your recipes are wonderful - you have a great life.
This video with your babies playing warmed my heart. I was unable to have children, so I treat my dog's as if they are my children, I Even cook nutritious meals for them ❤
Mac n cheese with chili mixed in is so good.
You could make a strata with ham, cheese, eggs and broccoli.
The rice pudding may appeal to you more when it has chilled. You could put a dallop of pb&j on it. My kids loved it when they were small.
You could make grilled cheese with a fried egg or stuffed French toast with ham n cheese too. If you can get honey or syrup you could make a honey mustard which could give another option.
A room temp egg, some pantry oil and some mustard whipped with an immersion blender makes a great scratch mayonnaise.
Grilled cheese with a fried egg... um yum!
Yes pork and beans are close also my mom would sometimes add a fried egg on top. Mom was British grew up on it, also French fries with salt and malt vinegar.
I just made the same observation about the egg on top. The addition of the pork flavoring would only add to that, and Pork and beans is so very similar to Heinz beans. Yum. And what a full and complete meal.
My dad would make breakfast rice a lot as I was growing up, we lived in the south most my young childhood (Army brat) and seeing these videos has me longing for nostalgia days
I grew up with my pops feeding me and my sister beans on toast. The pork and beans brand is what we used, it's still one of my favorite meals to this day. Some clever ideas I need to try and lastly.... PUPPIES!! Great videos 👍👍👍👍
Cooking rice for rice pudding requires a lot more liquid than a 2:1 ratio and a longer cooking time than just 15 minutes. Give it another go and top with some fresh fruit. ❤😊
Thanks for such a great video. I get a lot of inspiration from you.
You look so young and fresh today…so pretty! Will be trying the beans on toast. Love your fur babies!!! I mash my eggs like you do. You could also add the rice to your leftover soup and that would be a good lunch. I’ve also made cold baked bean sandwiches with miracle whip. Sorry I missed the part about you adding the rice to your soup. Love you!
my father was raised during the depression and beans on toast was something they ate and loved it til the day he died..
I've had beans and toast in England and Ireland and I'd say Pork and Beans are very close. Grill a tomato with it. So yummy.
Beans on toast is a staple in Britain. 😃😃
When I was a kid my mom's mom would make sunny side up eggs, dice fresh tomato, and chop that up with a lil mayo mixed in with salt n pepper, then scoop onto toast. girllllll it was so good. This made me think of it, haven't had that in years.
I was wondering if you could use your Mac and sausage to make some kind of creamy cheesy sausage soup? 😅
Your videos keep me thinking. ❤❤
A fried egg salad sandwich. Genius.
That tomato chopped up w mayo and 🍳 sounds like a great go to breakfast!!
I never thought to do that or have it for breakfast…
Sausage w Mac & cheese as soup, you can’t go wrong with that! Now I’m hungry!
Hi, coming from a Puerto Rican household rice is a staple. We make a sweet coconut rice at Christmas that’s really yummy. You cook your rice in coconut milk, brown sugar, raisins and all the Christmas spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, vanilla and anise. It’s cooked on low heat for a really long time. The rice turns creamy. Stir in shaved coconut. We pour it into a plate and cool in fridge. Cut into wedges and serve cold.
Rice pudding is so much more than what you tried. Give it a try again with the right ingredients somwtime. I'll bet you love it!
My youngest son used to only eat the egg whites and leave the yolks on his plate 🤣 Now that he’s an adult he eats the whole eggs. I think it was a texture thing for him. He would always eat the yolks when they were hard boiled or scrambled. Love your videos. I always get such great ideas from you. Your fur babies are adorable.
Baked beans + cheese in a tortilla as a quesadilla is also bomb.
Hi there, a British subscriber here! I am working my way through your back catalogue of videos and was particularly interested when I saw beans on toast in the thumbnail. Yes us Brits LOVE our beans on toast, it's the ultimate cheap comfort food. However I feel it's more of a lunch option rather than breakfast, for me at least. The British equivalent to pork and beans is baked beans and pork sausages. This is another difference between the two nations as we like a 'banger' (as in 'bangers and mash') and you prefer breakfast sausage, or what we would call sausage meat here. I saw you did a version of "bangers and mash' using smoked sausage from DG in one of your other videos , so at least you know what a 'banger' is, lol.
A great dessert would be cake mix cookies. 1 box of cake mix, 2 eggs and 1/2 cup oil. You can add any extras like Chico chips or nuts. Also use dough as a base for other desserts. A little cream cheese with powder sugar and a few berries ECT.
My mom used to make bean sandwiches with Grandma Browns beans. They are a dryer and stiffer baked bean. She spread the cold beans on bread with some ketchup. We kids didn't like it. But she loved it!
This suggestion has probably already been made loads of times, but if you ever have lettuce, 'taco rice' was a dish I fell in love with in Japan! Top fluffy rice with lettuce, chili con carne, sour cream or full fat yoghurt, grated cheddar, coriander and a bit of red salsa! 💕
I'm having a famtastic time watching this series. You and your viewers are coming up with so many ideas I hadn't thought of.
My mom made rice pudding. She added milk, raisins, cinnamon, sugar and an egg. She them baked it till set. We LOVED it hot with more sugar an milk. Yummmmm 😊
I would eat brown sugar on rice as a kid. So sweet and good!
Brown sugar instead of regular sugar is an awesome suggestion.
The dogs add a perfect transition between meals. ❤
When you’re not doing a budget plan, cook 1 part rice in 4 parts milk in the top of a double boiler until the rice is cooked and most of the milk is absorbed. Add sugar, cream, and cinnamon or nutmeg to taste. Raisins are also good in it. This is my favorite rice pudding and is very creamy and doesn’t taste as “ricey”
It's so funny. People think I'm weird when I have a family dinner and have bread and butter. It's how I grew up and my kids did so it's "normal" for us. Loved the mac n cheese with the taco soup...that actually looked amazing. I really like the tomato, corn, bean and rice combination with anything. Maybe next time skip the creamer and maybe coffee and get a cookie mix for sweets. I find you really just need a "taste" of sweets. I think the other ideas were great with the ham and maybe egg sandwich. LOVE these videos.
Your meal idea's are super satisfying too! One of my absolute favorites is your Chicken A La King Casserole with the biscuits on top~ I make it every week. Can't wait to try beans on toast ~ sounds like a great breakfast idea for me ~ you're saving us so much money❤
So I just found your channel when you started meal prepping for the senior lady and her son (I’m the British lady that suggested a fish pie 😊) and because I enjoyed your content I’ve been watching a few of your videos, well a lot LOL, but anyway, the beans on toast thing, because I live in the states but I’m from England you’re right about the beans, maple, sugary an all that sweet flavour but not the staple for beans on toast, the closest thing to baked beans is the van camp pork n beans or any shop brand for the same kind BUT you have to butter your toast with butter or margarine and then add a blob of it to the beans, this thickens them up to be more like Heinz baked beans. On dry toast it’s not the same. You need buttered toast at least and if you can a blob in the beans to make them thick and creamy. That’s what makes the traditional beans on toast. Give it another whirl 😁 if not for a video but to try it yourself. Cheap and cheerful and a huge staple even now in England, just like jacket potatoes and beans with lots of butter. Baked Beans and cheese on toast or in jacket potatoes is another big hit because it’s flavorful and cheap. Even now. I still see it on the cafe menu’s when I visit my family. Also jacket potatoes and tuna mayonnaise…another biggy 😁 I dare you to buy another tin of beans and add butter to your toast and add grated cheese to your beans in a pan and melt and combine it and completely top your toast! It’s amazing! I promise you 😁 it’s so cheap but fixe it a try!!
Another awesome video! I have a breakfast suggestion for you This is great if you are in a hurry. It is very simple and quick. just make toast as you normally would do. Add butter or margarine and sprinkle powder Jello on it. I like the Orange one, but if you like you can combine them. Orange with Lemon etc...
Growing up we often ate what we called.. (rice and raisins) mom cooked raisins along with the rice. We then (in a bowl added a little sugar and milk) wasan absolute favorite. I especially loved dipping toast with jelly in it.
We also had lima beans over buttered bread.
Fantastic ideas. Your enthusiasm for what you do is infectious.
Your doggos are adorable! I enjoy your videos and appreciate you having lots of unique meal choices!
I love watching your videos. I love your creativity. That a thing I lack, creativity. Same thing almost every day.
As a British girl. Yes that is the closest to our beans on toast 😁
Yay! I got a British stamp of approval! That makes me happy 😃 thanks
@@DollarTreeDinners I genuinely love your channel. I've done some of your meals like the pierogi lasagna. Much love to you ❤️❤️
Since I cook for 2 people I definitely would do a 3 or 4 egg scramble with some ham and toast for a side, possibly with the beans.
My mom is a huge rice pudding lover but personally I dislike rice in any sweet recipe. However, in an effort to make my mom happy AND me too I found a sub in for myself. If you toast bread up very dry like you were making croutons, if you then soak that in a mix of an egg, a splash of milk I actually use one of those little half and half cups from a diner and then you mash your rice up or blend it actually, and you top it with the toast cubes, then pour the egg cream mix on top. Then I sprinkle a raw sugar packet on top with a dash of either cinnamon or a tiny tad of nutmeg. And I cook mine in my air fryer and it's a great dessert alone or with some ice cream even. It's the only way I can stand rice as a dessert. I also use chopped nuts at times it's all about preference. Hope this helps!
Thank you for your videos. Keep doing just what you are! You're a gem!!
A rice pudding suggestion, a fragrant rice like jasmine or basmati can help with the flavor bc they dont have that plain white rice flavor. I like to get carolina jasmine rice when i can, it has a naturally sweeter/more floral taste that works well in desserts. any brand of jasmine or basmati rice will do though.
I really like Ranch beans on toast. I also like Ranch beans with pasta. Really quick, throw-together meals with two ingredients. And Van Camps pork and beans are the only ones I'll eat. They are the best.
A really good thing is Buy a chunky can of like steak or meat soup and serve over rice and add a sprinkle of cheese and if you like a dollop of sour cream and also could add crunched up tortilla chip or chips on top. It very filling.
The beans on toast is fun for me as an American. I've heard of melting mozzarella cheese and adding diced tomatoes to add a little something else to it. I like broiling the mozz on top.
You can also elevate the beans on toast by cooking it with the liquid on the stove to thicken up. Optional to season with black pepper, and ketchup (packets if you have) 😊
You have a cute laugh! Dumping the cinnamon and your reaction was so funny :)
Love these posts! Thank you so much for posting!
Aww it was nice to see the pups playing
Try cooking your rice ,when done place some in a bowl add a spoon of sugar mix and then add a scoop It’s sweet and good of vanilla ice cream mix the rice should be hot so the ice cream melts
I grew up eating ice cream on hot rice for dessert! Vanilla ice cream makes a quick copycat of stove-top rice pudding, but my favorite is with chocolate ice cream.
And chili, rice and cheese is a staple in my family
you have 1/2 can of Pork & beans (if you don't want to do another breakfast with it) or 1/2 can of Ham & Bean soup or 1/2 can of chili to use to make another soup using all or part of a can of vegetable, cook the rice but don't drain the rice and then add everything else to the rice and heat before removing from heat add a little of the deli ham chopped up
Awww I have a tri-pawed kitty too and it warmed my heart to see your tri-pawed Pup!! So cute! ❤🥰
Loved this video!! I'm having a lot of fun making the meals along with you! I made my two eggs the first day in an omelet form, yum. So fun! 😊 Can't wait to see the next one next week! Thank you! 🙏
My dad was English. If you add a bit of ketchup and a couple of dashes of Worchestershire sauce to taste adds some zing!
I love these challenges! never personally had pork and beans on toast. my dad would make pork and bean sandwiches when I was a kid. not a huge fan of pork and beans myself! thanks for making these! it inspires the rest of us to get outside of our boxes! xoxo
Thank you again for this I'll be waiting and watching for your next video
Beans on toast has been a fave breakfast at my house for years. We discovered it watching British tv. Lol
my obsession with it is from click for taz, I adore her!
I adore beans on toast, became a fan while living briefly in London. ❤
Beans and toast is one of my favorite meals. I like to add mayo and cheese to the toast.
Love your videos. Thanks for the inspiration.
In the case of the rice pudding, sometimes there are recipes that you can’t diverge from.
As a kid my dad showed me how to fry an mash eggs to go on toast. Good to see others do it. Thank you
GUURL! Its the planet of the sun 🌞 outside and YOUR eating SOUP! 🥵🌡️ 🔥 Im cooking just watching this!
Lol I had to go back and look at your brows at the very beginning. You are too funny 😂 I knew something looked different but couldn’t put my finger on it. I appreciate how well you do your brows!
Beans in England aren't like pork and beans. They're more like a less sweet baked beans here and they're so good with eggs, toast, bacon, hash browns and sausage. 🤤🤤🤤
Pork and beans are in a tomato sauce not a sugar sauce like American baked beans. A British follower did comment and confirm that pork and beans in the US are fairly similar to British baked beans 🥰
I picked up eating beans on toast from a YT program called JOLLY. I like to add syrup to the toast before adding the beans for a sweet version or heat up some chunks of salami or italian sausage and add those for a more savory version. Definitely inexpensive and filling.
I bet some smoked sausage and syrup would set it over the top 🥹
What an interesting suggestion of combining the savory and sweet.
I love your doggos!
I made this a couple days ago but i also chopped n fried 3 hot dogs to mix in it like a beenie weenie type of thing!!!!!
I did enjoy the family time 🥰
I love eating my eggs over easy on my toast. Thanks for your videos, they are awesome and inspirational, I went to my DT and only got 1/2 the stuff for the chicken pot pie, mine doesn't carry as much as others do.
Spicy mustard in tuna salad👌👌👌I also like the way to rashon out ingredients to make more meals
Me and my wife love watching ur vids although there is no dollar store in Hawaii still entertaining to watch keep it up!
I love shopping at Dollar General ❤❤