If you're looking to just cut back a bit this week because groceries for your family have gotten a bit out of control, here's a straightforward easy meal plan for the week to feed a family of 5 for $110. Most of these meals are easy to throw together the day before or in the moment and can help you get a balanced meal on the table during a busy school week. This week of meals has a lot of variety, and is not an extreme take on meal planning, but with water as the only "freebie" it's an opportunity to restock on a few baking items you may be running low on as well. I hope you enjoy! 🥰
OMG! SAME HERE! I went to the grocery today, $8 for a small package of deli meat?! $8 for a thing of coke?! This is madness! But! on a happier note, another beautiful video. Love this channel
It's crazy what groceries are now - $8 for a coke is insane! It seems that some things are also no longer being made too, which kind of stinks. 😕 Thanks for chiming in - I always like to know I'm not imagining things 😅
especially if your kids are quite young - cut the chunks in small bites and it looks like a lot! In fact if the kids are toddlers you could give them just 1 or 2 chunks and that would be fine and more for hubby and you!
I've been working on getting healthier and recognizing what portion is considered a serving size has been interesting for certain foods, like this kielbasa. You're right, the smaller chunk or two would be plenty for smaller kiddos. We love the kielbasa like this! Thanks for watching! 🥰
I appreciate how you have a family audience in mind even though you just have to cook for 2. We are a bigger family and I’m always doubling or tripling recipes.
Thank you, Rachel! 😊 I grew up in a family of 8, so I got used to making big batches of things and love feeding all our friends during our game nights each weekend. The hard part is sometimes making food for only 2 during the week for my husband and I 😅 Thank you so much for taking the time to watch!
This is a really great video! I can say as someone who has a family of five with three teens $110 was a very good price for all the ingredients you got. I love making homemade sausage gravy as well and the pizza looked delicious! Thank you!
Thank you!! 😊 It always makes me think of my dad when I make smiley face pancakes 🥞 😋 In fact, I loved pancakes growing up so much that I would ask for them each year on my birthday and still make them each of my birthdays as an adult 😅 Thanks for dropping by to watch!
You really deserve MANY more subscribers! I have a feeling that soon, your channel will explode with growth! Excellent , useful and enjoyable content that is really well put together. 👍👍
Thank you!! 😊 You're so sweet! I'm so glad you're enjoying what you're watching so far and glad you're finding it helpful. I hope that as the channel grows it can reach more and more people that may be needing more ideas on how to stretch their grocery budget farther and I'm so grateful for all the new friends I've found here so far 😊
Rachel, thank you for your videos. You have been teaching me so much and have inspired many dinners in my household. Really enjoy watching your videos and appreciate your hard work!
Thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear that and it makes me so happy to hear the videos are helping ❤️ I'm so grateful for you! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and that this week goes well!
Everything looked great! The pancakes were so stinkin cute and looked so easy! My kids are gonna love them the next time we have pancakes. The baked potatoes with lunch meat is something my husband and I used to have all of the time and I completely forgot about it so simple and delicious (and cheap 🤣) 😋 sausage gravy and biscuits are super delicious 😋 you had a ton of variety and so many delicious looking meals.
Thank you so much Alicia! 💓 I'm so glad you enjoyed the different meal ideas. I never realized how much work goes into full week long meal videos until now - it makes me admire all your videos even more. 🥰
Awe thank you 💙 I just started a new one today. I admire all your videos because I know it must take a tremendous amount of planning to pull off such awesomeness plus the amount if time spent cooking all the individual meals 🙂
Looking forward to watching it! Your videos inspire me so much - I wouldn't have realized how easy it is to make a lump less sausage gravy if I hadn't seen your video a few weeks back. Thanks for inspiring me! 🥰
We're usually making such a small amount that I tend to use the box mix you just add water too so I can just make 2 or 3 pancakes, but this recipe was so good I will start making them from scratch more often. 😋 Thanks for watching! 🥰
Hey Darling! I wanted to share my tip with you about how I make my baked chicken legs. I suggest to dry and then oil the skin, throw on your your favorite seasonings, and bake them on a rack. I never use thermometer only my experience so I say you want your chicken to be nice and brown baked on 170 Celsius degrees. You gonna find lovely brown bits and dripping in the baking pan under the rack, so boil about 450 ml water, and soak the baking pan with it. Now you can scrape it off all those lovely bits and make a wonderful gravy out of it. I really recommend you to try it if you have not tried it yet! 🌺❤
Thank you for the great tip! I'm enjoying reading your comments as you're watching various videos. 🥰 They are making my day! I'm going to have to try baking chicken legs that way!
Hello Rachel! Thanks for another great video! Grocery prices are crazy. I love the sweet potato meal and the pizza looked amazing!!! Also how cute are these pancakes!😍😋
Thank you so much, Molly! I was reminded of and inspired by some of your meal prep videos when I made the kielbasa meal, although I would have to leave off the sweet potato and double the brocolli to keep it more keto friendly. Your videos always inspire me to eat more healthily ❤️ 🥰
You are very creative. Thank You for sharing the recipes 😊 One thing I thought about is you can add oregano and/or rosemary to your dough while making it in your bread machine.
That's a great idea to add Oregano or rosemary! I've done that off camera before when making bread to go with spaghetti and it's delicious 😋 Great suggestion!
I learned a lot of my cooking from scratch from my mom. I spent most of my formative years in the Philippines so sometimes ingredients we wanted weren't available. I still remember how she would show me how to make sour cream from whipped cream and vinegar. We definitely cooked and baked a lot together. Welcome as well! I'm so glad to have you here! 😊
I have to say, I stopped making pancakes homemade since I found the 10lb bag of mix from Sam's club for $6ish. I love the smiley face thingy--totally going to make that for only kid left in the house, the hubby! You need a griddle, girl! 8 pieces of French toast at one time! Do you do any cooking with lentils or garbonzos?
Sam's Club is awesome! I do cook with lentils and garbonzos but haven't in a video yet (but the video that will be posting in a few minutes uses garbanzos heavily 😉😏).
The 1 person and 2 person cooking is easier for me to make as usually it is just me or my husband and I eating. I hope you are having a wonderful week so far, my friend! 🥰
We currently don't have kids yet - Lord willing that will change in the near future, but that's why I typically only have 1 or 2 servings for things in my meal plans. For this video, I planned as though we were feeding 5 and my husband and I ended up eating these meals for over 2 weeks instead. I had several people request a video for a larger family, and that was the best way I could work out to do that while not wasting any food 😅 I'm excited to see how meal planning and budgeting will keep evolving for us as we start having kids. (Oh, and the meal plan in the description box with grocery list is for 5 people so it includes 5 sweet potatoes and double certain ingredients as well). I hope all that made sense 🥰 Thanks for being here!
If you're looking to just cut back a bit this week because groceries for your family have gotten a bit out of control, here's a straightforward easy meal plan for the week to feed a family of 5 for $110. Most of these meals are easy to throw together the day before or in the moment and can help you get a balanced meal on the table during a busy school week. This week of meals has a lot of variety, and is not an extreme take on meal planning, but with water as the only "freebie" it's an opportunity to restock on a few baking items you may be running low on as well. I hope you enjoy! 🥰
Easy meal plans wrote down of your recipes and this cooking off stock pile for months and still have alot left have a great week 😀
@@hello-vs4me That is so awesome to hear! I hope you are having a great week as well and that you are blessed with many delicious meals 😋
OMG! SAME HERE! I went to the grocery today, $8 for a small package of deli meat?! $8 for a thing of coke?! This is madness!
But! on a happier note, another beautiful video. Love this channel
It's crazy what groceries are now - $8 for a coke is insane! It seems that some things are also no longer being made too, which kind of stinks. 😕
Thanks for chiming in - I always like to know I'm not imagining things 😅
We do our corn in the microwave in the husk also, but only for 3 minutes for one.
I love corn on the cob, and ever since learning this easy way of steaming it we have eaten it more at our house 😋 Thank you for watching! 😊
cut the way you did in big chunks - each person would get 3 chunks making 7 servings with couple left over chunks - it's doable!
especially if your kids are quite young - cut the chunks in small bites and it looks like a lot! In fact if the kids are toddlers you could give them just 1 or 2 chunks and that would be fine and more for hubby and you!
I've been working on getting healthier and recognizing what portion is considered a serving size has been interesting for certain foods, like this kielbasa. You're right, the smaller chunk or two would be plenty for smaller kiddos. We love the kielbasa like this! Thanks for watching! 🥰
I appreciate how you have a family audience in mind even though you just have to cook for 2. We are a bigger family and I’m always doubling or tripling recipes.
Thank you, Rachel! 😊 I grew up in a family of 8, so I got used to making big batches of things and love feeding all our friends during our game nights each weekend. The hard part is sometimes making food for only 2 during the week for my husband and I 😅 Thank you so much for taking the time to watch!
This is a really great video! I can say as someone who has a family of five with three teens $110 was a very good price for all the ingredients you got. I love making homemade sausage gravy as well and the pizza looked delicious! Thank you!
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It's always surprising how fast everything adds up with groceries. 😅
Those pancakes looked like happy clouds.. Great job on the meal plan..
Thank you!! 😊 It always makes me think of my dad when I make smiley face pancakes 🥞 😋 In fact, I loved pancakes growing up so much that I would ask for them each year on my birthday and still make them each of my birthdays as an adult 😅 Thanks for dropping by to watch!
Thank you, for taking time out of your days to make this recipe videos for us . Greatly appreciate it..
Thank YOU for watching! It's always so good to hear from you! 💜
You really deserve MANY more subscribers! I have a feeling that soon, your channel will explode with growth! Excellent , useful and enjoyable content that is really well put together. 👍👍
Thank you!! 😊 You're so sweet! I'm so glad you're enjoying what you're watching so far and glad you're finding it helpful. I hope that as the channel grows it can reach more and more people that may be needing more ideas on how to stretch their grocery budget farther and I'm so grateful for all the new friends I've found here so far 😊
Amazing job! Love this and how you're helping so many.
Thank you! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! ❤️
Great video! You've put a lot of work into it and into all the information in the "show more" section. Thanks for all the amazing recipe and ideas,
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😉 Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! 💜
Hey Rachel, here watching! Yum, Zucchini muffins, so good! I loved these meals and love that it's all on a budget!
I love zuchini muffins - and these were especially good! 😋 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 🥰
This is really good budget meals for the family 🙂😊👍
Thank you!! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Very nice helpful vlog
Thank you!! 😊 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 💜
Rachel, thank you for your videos. You have been teaching me so much and have inspired many dinners in my household. Really enjoy watching your videos and appreciate your hard work!
Thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear that and it makes me so happy to hear the videos are helping ❤️ I'm so grateful for you! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and that this week goes well!
Everything looked great! The pancakes were so stinkin cute and looked so easy! My kids are gonna love them the next time we have pancakes. The baked potatoes with lunch meat is something my husband and I used to have all of the time and I completely forgot about it so simple and delicious (and cheap 🤣) 😋 sausage gravy and biscuits are super delicious 😋 you had a ton of variety and so many delicious looking meals.
Thank you so much Alicia! 💓 I'm so glad you enjoyed the different meal ideas. I never realized how much work goes into full week long meal videos until now - it makes me admire all your videos even more. 🥰
Awe thank you 💙 I just started a new one today. I admire all your videos because I know it must take a tremendous amount of planning to pull off such awesomeness plus the amount if time spent cooking all the individual meals 🙂
Looking forward to watching it! Your videos inspire me so much - I wouldn't have realized how easy it is to make a lump less sausage gravy if I hadn't seen your video a few weeks back. Thanks for inspiring me! 🥰
These are great ideas. Thank you so much for speaking proper English. Most people do not speak correctly anymore.
One of the things I haven’t bought in a long time is pancake box mix. Making your own is super easy and I always have the ingredients in my pantry:)
We're usually making such a small amount that I tend to use the box mix you just add water too so I can just make 2 or 3 pancakes, but this recipe was so good I will start making them from scratch more often. 😋 Thanks for watching! 🥰
Hey Darling! I wanted to share my tip with you about how I make my baked chicken legs. I suggest to dry and then oil the skin, throw on your your favorite seasonings, and bake them on a rack. I never use thermometer only my experience so I say you want your chicken to be nice and brown baked on 170 Celsius degrees. You gonna find lovely brown bits and dripping in the baking pan under the rack, so boil about 450 ml water, and soak the baking pan with it. Now you can scrape it off all those lovely bits and make a wonderful gravy out of it. I really recommend you to try it if you have not tried it yet! 🌺❤
Thank you for the great tip! I'm enjoying reading your comments as you're watching various videos. 🥰 They are making my day! I'm going to have to try baking chicken legs that way!
@@rachelresets You can also bake whole chicken that way. You may want to truss the chicken :)
Looks delicious sister thanks for sharing
Thank you!! 😊 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 💜
Hello Rachel! Thanks for another great video! Grocery prices are crazy. I love the sweet potato meal and the pizza looked amazing!!! Also how cute are these pancakes!😍😋
Thank you, Ursula! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed the meals and hope you are enjoying some delicious food this week! 😋 Thanks for watching! 💜
Great budget meals! So yummy❤️
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the encouraging words! 🥰
Awesome meals and budget, Rachel!
Thank you so much, Molly! I was reminded of and inspired by some of your meal prep videos when I made the kielbasa meal, although I would have to leave off the sweet potato and double the brocolli to keep it more keto friendly. Your videos always inspire me to eat more healthily ❤️ 🥰
You are very creative. Thank You for sharing the recipes 😊 One thing I thought about is you can add oregano and/or rosemary to your dough while making it in your bread machine.
That's a great idea to add Oregano or rosemary! I've done that off camera before when making bread to go with spaghetti and it's delicious 😋 Great suggestion!
Love the video!! Thank you for sharing! I can’t wait to try some of the recipes ❤ I’m always looking for good options for less money!
Thank you! 😊 I'm always doing the same, now more than ever 😬 Hope you're having a great week! 💜
Just subbed because you do a lot of cooking from scratch which other "budget" channels don't. I've always cooked from scratch.
I learned a lot of my cooking from scratch from my mom. I spent most of my formative years in the Philippines so sometimes ingredients we wanted weren't available. I still remember how she would show me how to make sour cream from whipped cream and vinegar. We definitely cooked and baked a lot together. Welcome as well! I'm so glad to have you here! 😊
I have to say, I stopped making pancakes homemade since I found the 10lb bag of mix from Sam's club for $6ish. I love the smiley face thingy--totally going to make that for only kid left in the house, the hubby! You need a griddle, girl! 8 pieces of French toast at one time! Do you do any cooking with lentils or garbonzos?
Sam's Club is awesome! I do cook with lentils and garbonzos but haven't in a video yet (but the video that will be posting in a few minutes uses garbanzos heavily 😉😏).
Oh wow! I love those ideas! You did so great😍
Thank you!! 😊 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 💜
I made your pancake recipe with strawberries and made pancake bites family loved them
I'm so glad to hear that! ☺️ Glad you all enjoyed them!
Great recipes. I love your candles and stuff
It's just crazy to me how much food you're able to make for that much money. 🤯
Thank you! 😊 I was excited it all came together in the end - this one took a much longer time to make than I thought it would 😅
Sarap nman n ya. Yummy full watch suporthan with harang
Salamat! 😁 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, and I appreciate the encouragement! 💜
Nice and interesting video,lovely meals
Thank you!! 😊 Thanks for dropping by to watch! 💜
Wow. Everything looks so delicious
Hope ur staying connected
Thank you! 😊 I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for taking the time to watch! 💜
Fantastic! I love game nights,with friends too. Every video is great. I found your channel looking for cooking for 1 as I am now a widow
The 1 person and 2 person cooking is easier for me to make as usually it is just me or my husband and I eating. I hope you are having a wonderful week so far, my friend! 🥰
Great job!
Thank you so much! 🥰 I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
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Thank you, my dear! Watching your eyebrow tutorial right now you just dropped! 💜🥰
Thanks for your videos thanks ❤️
Thank YOU for watching! I love hearing from you! 🥰 How has your week been so far?
That pizza looked delicious
Thank you! It was very delicious! 😋 Thanks for watching!
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😁 Thank you so much for taking the time to watch! 💜
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Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the grocery haul and meals we made today! Thank you so much for your kind comments! 😊
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🥰 Hope you enjoy! Thanks for watching!
On dinners you show yours and husband's what do the kids eat you only make 2 sweet potatoes what did the kid eat
We currently don't have kids yet - Lord willing that will change in the near future, but that's why I typically only have 1 or 2 servings for things in my meal plans. For this video, I planned as though we were feeding 5 and my husband and I ended up eating these meals for over 2 weeks instead. I had several people request a video for a larger family, and that was the best way I could work out to do that while not wasting any food 😅 I'm excited to see how meal planning and budgeting will keep evolving for us as we start having kids. (Oh, and the meal plan in the description box with grocery list is for 5 people so it includes 5 sweet potatoes and double certain ingredients as well). I hope all that made sense 🥰 Thanks for being here!
Why did you say family of 5
Got it sorry
@@hello-vs4me no problem! I'm glad you asked the question in case anyone else is also wondering 🥰