How Long Can I Live on £10 of Asda Essentials Food?
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- I'm Trying to Survive as Long as possible off £10 at Asda - in the Just Essentials range!
The question is, how much can I buy, and just what can I make for my meals, to be able to keep me alive and from being way too hungry!
Check it out, and let me know in the comments below what you love about Asda!
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the fact you didnt get the garlic bread that like 37p is a crime. its amazing
and potatoes are a maybe?!
It’s a shame it tastes nasty you can jazz it up with a bag of the cheapest mozzarella
Never had a problem with the 37p garlic bread. Tastes pretty alright for the price
oh il keep that in mind for my next shop :)
@@liljasere Air frying is better, cut the slices, so they can brown and also gets done quicker
I wish I was not so fussy with my food. You are so creative and the just essentials range has been a life saver for struggling families. You can see just how popular the videos on it are.
What food do you not like? I might be able to help...
Yes same here I am an arsehole who avoids these economy ranges usually but it's great that they are available my sister buys them lots I've noticed as she has a family and though she has a decent job as a nurse money is tight. Nice to see so far that generally the products seem good!
Most of the basics in my trolley are Morrisons Savers brand, which is their equivalent of Asda Essentials. Got to say, I have never been disappointed. I don't understand why people get all snobby about the various value ranges.
@@snowysnowyriver the cheapest is always packed with sugar or things you don't want. I usually get the second cheapest option.
@@3lli0. I can't overdo either salt or sugar for health reasons, so I do watch those ingredients in particular. Morrisons Savers are pretty good on that. 👍
One hours wage = 4 days of food. Fantastic!
Growing up poor with people around me that didn't have much either, something that was always in abundance were spices. So i would personally suggest to just use the spices you have to make those dishes a bit more flavourable. People can always choose for themselves what they want to do.
Best of luck🍀
Started to gander on this video as I was eating my lunch.
Now as a teen mum of a now 1 year old I’ve been panicking at ideas to feed both me, my infant and my partner on a budget.
This video is incredible! It’s also (very helpful as I do food shops from Asda) thank you for showing people like me that actually you can get by with the little things and that’s okay! Everything looked delicious!❤
Good luck I too was once a young mum and know what a struggle it is. The Asda essentials pasta, porridge oats, rice, eggs, garlic bread and large sacks of potatoes are great basics. And batch cooking things and freezing is a great way of saving pennies and feeding everyone. Also the show and cook book (can find the recipes online) ‘eat well for less’ is really helpful. Good luck 😊 x
I am so impressed that, as a teen mum, you have not gone down the processed food route. I am disappointed that your comment did not get a heart from the creator
❤ not from creator but It's great to read. Go mummy. ❤❤❤
Well done! You sound like you’ve got a good head on your shoulders. And healthy on a budget can be achieved! My mum made sure we ate as healthily as we could although we were on a v tight budget. I’m in my 30s now and my mindset towards food and my taste buds love fresh fruit veg and meats unlike a lot of my friends now who have to seriously force themselves because they grew up on dino nuggets - ( no shade dino nuggets were amazing haha ) unfortunately these diets are fine until you get older and your body physically requires more nutrient dense foods just to keep you fit and healthy. Hope you keep on learning new recipes and enjoying keeping you family healthy, strong and thriving ❤
@@toriladybird511 awhhh thank you so much!!! X
This channel is the lovechild of atomic shrimp and mike jeavons
So true 👍, he has daddy Mike's hairline 😊
YES
100%! I watch both and he reminds me of both in the best way :)
No foraging and proper air fryer use on this channel 😂
Agreed - two creators I really enjoy watching so I can't figure out why I don't particularly vibe with Sam :(
@MyBabyBenson don't think sam has yet allowed him self to flow. Seems his videos are highly structured which can make his personality feel forced sometimes. It's OK to be honest when reporting on the mundane. His recent video when having to review sauce pots was better with this when he was far more literal. Sometimes I think it's a bit over thought for content. His concepts are what will bring the views on these channels.
I don’t know how to put how much I love this channel into words… so underrated
You are too kind!
freeze your onion skins and trimmings, plus carrot peelings, you can add them to your chicken stock. celery works as well.
I find onion skin can be bitter?
@@bernadettemccarthyflahive5357 the skins help colour the stock
@@justinchapman3526 why are we caring about the colour of stock if we're on a budget?
@@LemonLicker i was just stating to the lady above that the skins colour the stock. Being on a budget using skins you normally throw away would be a budget tip would it not? And if you a making a gravy, darker coloured stock tends to help with a traditional gravy colour!
Hi, so I work for ASDA, and the catch is that ASDA breaks even at best on those Just Essentials items, the whole range is loss leading to get people in the door so that people spend more money on GM, George, and BWS, things that have huge profit margins by comparison.
P.S. Those Lemon Cheesecakes are not part of Just Essentials, that is part of 'The Bakery' range they have some very similar packaging. You need to look for JE on the shelf lables.
@Samkainsta So the reason why Lidl and Aldi can offer such low prices for their products and still make a profit, is that they own more of their own production & supply chain, ASDA does not, so after everyone before it gets to an ASDA store has taken their slice ASDA makes no money or less.
Paying a Farmer, a trucker, and a food plant worker using machines you own is cheaper than buying from an independent farmer, Eddie Stobart, and then a food packing brand to make your budget range.
We tried ASDA food with the online shopping. Everything both fridge and cupboard items were delivered with an expiry date being the next day. Absolute waste of money because no matter how much you're saving on that shop 80% is going in the bin and we needed to buy food again. Now swapped to Waitrose Essentials and never going back. Very good price, excellent quality and in an online shop the cupboard items have long expiry dates. The fridge items are staggered and you'll have one or 2 things expiring the same week, everything else 7, 10 and 14 days later. Nothing goes in the bin. That's actual saving.
@@BP-of5cpI used to work for Waitrose picking their online orders. You’re specifically trained to pick the item for the customer that will last the longest at home. I.e. picking green bananas. Customers who don’t want it have the option to ask I.e. for ripe bananas
Or even labels😂!!
this series is so useful in this day and age, i will actually make some of these dishes
additional tip, the chicken carcass, you put in a pot with water , season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and bring to a rolling boil, then simmer for a couple a couple of hours (or pressure cook in a ninja for 1hr) . Strain and you now have a chicken broth you can use for stews and soups.
and now i got to the part where you kept the carcass and made a stock 😂
@@nicholascook9173 😂
I know someone who can only afford the Asda essentials stuff. It's hard for him because he still runs out of food halfway through the month despite trying his best. He got put off relying on food banks after some woman grilled him about what he was doing to find work. He worked all his days! He got ill and couldn't work. Still can't but is in this financial mess.
A few months ago, my local Asda had a sign next to every single Essentials items, saying "Only 3 per customer due to high demand". This range is popular. With the cost of living going up so much, people need to eat on a budget.
That’s true, I bought 4 packs of Essentials noodles and got told to put one back.
@@sashaboo72 That's bad, especially if you have a family to feed.
@@WelshGingerCat well yeah exactly, times are hard and I’m always looking for the cheapest stuff.
People fall for it but Aldi is still the cheapest
If you were truely hard up for cash, you wouldn't be buying 3 of each item.
Porridge oats, eggs, bread, pasta, sardines,beans, potatoes, dried pulses, stock cubes, a small chicken, bag of frozen mixed veg, enough to eat well for a week, with change left,. Compared to previous times its luxury.
And if you want to push the boat out, custard creams, about three years ago they were 19p . Cheap meal..Long grain rice, pan fried sardines, black pepper and drizzled in lemon. Old hobo staple of corned beef stew now too expensive. But still nice. Nice cheap snack, fry some potato slices in oil with garlic powder, high heat to get them crisp, Cheaper then chips, now at 4 quid a bag. Next level, get a lurcher, for free rabbit meat. Which in WW2 in the UK was a national staple. Another cheap snack, moisten oats, mix with banana or honey make into bars and fry on high heat. Hobo popcorn looks good but complicated. Home rice made pudding another cheap snack. If I had to I could make a tenner last a month.
@@JoeFarrell-e3f how much would the lurcher cost?
@@adamwade2546 Dog sanctuaries are full of them. Lovely dogs.
I’m loving this series! You’re really opening my mind to how much I’m being ripped off and I’m also stupid enough to pay the premium
I make a chicken last 10 days. 2 legs, breast can do 2 days in curry with veg. 1 breast roasted.Then soup for days. I put in skin, all bones and carcass so have plenty of meat from underneath etc. Take off big bits if meat, cook for 2 hours, strain and pick out rest of chicken. Fry onion maybe with a piece if bacon, add stock then all sorts of vegetables, finally add the meat and either rice or tiny noodles....
No you don't.
That's nothing. I make a chicken last 20 days. HALF a leg can do 2 days in a curry with veg. One single chicken breast for the family's Sunday roast. Skin, bones and carcass go into a perpetual soup I use for a fortnight. Giblets can be made into a pie or sneaked into a salad. A chicken risotto which I flavour by waving the chicken carcass near the pot while it's cooking. Finally, grind the carcass to make bonemeal (extra vitamins). Soup stock can also be chilled, scrape off the fat and you can make candles.
😂@@gurok2
Lol
Bet you’re good fun to be around!!🤦🏼♂️
“I’ve got two really decent looking breasts” definitely intentional 😂
That too had me in stitches!
was looking for this comment 💀
Most of the basics in my trolley are Morrisons Savers brand, which is their equivalent of Asda Essentials. Got to say, I have never been disappointed. I don't understand why people get all snobby about the various value ranges.
Marketing has fooled people more than they are aware
Read the ingredients and compare. Didn’t that green grocer, Gregg Wallace do a series swapping basic store brand for national brands to compare price, taste and nutrition? People save a lot with the swaps.
You seem to be very good at putting dishes together 🍽 👨🍳
Thank you friend!
You can look beyond the Just Essentials range for value too. Dried peas are a good way to produce mushy peas. Asda stock cubes are good to flavour rice. If you roast the chicken, then joint it -- you waste less. Then later in week cook down the carcass with vegetables to make soup on day 1, then add pasta to make a bake for day 2. I'm in my 70s and grew up after the war -- when at junior school, there were no tomatoes unless you grew them yourself !! How we take tinned tomatoes for granted !
You can grow seed sprouts on the windowsill to stretch your salads out and add flavour -- cress, onion, mung beans (ie beansprouts), cabbage, daikon etc. Moles seeds sell wholesale packets -- the minimum order is about £20 -- but that provides you with salads for at least a year, if you can have the discipline to grow them at home !
The yellow ready meals are £1 in asda here in Scotland 😊, 24p cheese 🧀 onion pasty, FFS, England 🇬🇧
The fresh ready meals? or the frozen ones? if fresh then how much are your frozen ones cos they're like 90p in the north of England, they'd have to be practically free in Scotland in that case haha.
That was a fresh ready meal, the frozen ones are £1
This video inspired me to get out of bed and put a ready meal on.
Would be great if you showed us what you bought/ a breakdown of the item costs (the reciept maybe) & what's left (if anything) at the end
The pasta soup dish you made is called pastina in Italy. We make the brodo from the chicken carcas and then boil the pasta into it at the end. Then we top with parmesan cheese shavings and black pepper. Soooooo good!
Ps if you had any onions left you could have made an onion soup. 😊
Sam, this one was really good. You had a lot of different great foods there. When you make your chicken stock you can freeze some and could possibly use in your next budget meals as your one extra item :) Thanks so much for sharing!!
My favorite UA-cam channel ❤️
Ahh thank you so much :)
Also try fried potatoes with onions Add garlic salt as your spice
Yours is the best budget meal video I have seen -- and I watch them regularly. Here are some hints from someone in their late 70s. If you roast a chicken and veg on day 1 (and turn the heating off) it can save money. You can use fenugreek (curry plant) to impart a curry flavour. I often use cheese powder to give cheesy flavour -- it has fewer calories too. Seed sprout salads you can grow yourself.
Really enjoy your vids, thank you. Just had tinned peaches and Greek yogurt and honey for breakfast. Such a good idea and much more interesting than cereal. Nice idea, cheers. Keep up the good work.
My little go to is the frozen spag bol...in a bowl with slme nachos on the side. Its 88p at time of writing . The chicken curry frozen meal is ok as well.
Excellent video sam , nodoubt you have helped many people out with this vid. Nice one man
The essentials range are loss leaders. It's to get u in the door so u buy other more expensive branded goods
Other supermarkets with own brands work on the same policy.
Asda have cut a lot of there just essentials range and it is limited to what they sell of the range online and that not great when people need it more than ever. But sainsbury have a budget range called Stamford and Co and its good considering its a budget range.
Tip: Try adding half a beef or chicken stock cube into your tomato pasta sauce. It just takes some of the tartness out of the tomatoes.
Tip - just buy some curry powder and spices and you can make lots of curry sauces instead of buying the jars. You can add a tin of coconut milk if you want too :)
@@thelittlesthobo7100 oh I normally do! Just spices eat up so much of the £10 budget in these challenges 😅🥲
If I could give one piece of good advice it would be to NOT throw away leftover or oartially eaten meals - bit of cling wrap or tuppaware, and those 'leftovers' become a new tasty meal the next day when warmed up
You should write a book on these cheap meals.
You should have a watch of Atomic Shrimp's cooking stuff on his channel, get a few ideas off him as he does these challenges and makes some wacky meals some good, some OK and some not so good, he also forages for bits n bobs too to use in his challenges
also the face after the slow mo footage and the tomatoes should have been done in slow mo lol
a cheat hack with mushy peas, I actually make fritters out of them, you could have ground up rice to make rice flour or just use a bit of four and mix it together with whatever veg, no egg needed as the mushy peas bind it pretty well. An easy way to change up the ole mushy peas. Add a little of that mild curry sauce in the mix and bobs your uncle, veg fritter from mushy peas.
Must try that one - sounds interesting- I'm trying eat veggie at leat once a week! Thanks
@lynnoorman2144 I did it instead of lentils one night using a lentil patty recipe was happy with how it turned out too 😋
Asda has always had the best low cost range imo. Smart Price got me through Uni without having to starve! You did a great job making that tenner last so long!
Longest one yet!
Great. I nearly always base my Saturday night meal around the leftovers from the previous week. 😊
Could do a £10 challenge Sainsburys basic range
great video mate. Looking forward to what's next!
Sam u did a cracking job with a tenner the chck soup looked great enjoying your channel my dear
A break down of the prices of items would have been useful too x
There is plenty of eatable meat on the carcas if roasted so you can clean it off the bones. This would make another meal.
It all went in the soup :)
Every time I sauté onions my whole family will be …ohhhh what smells so good…onions do Make
everything better!
except liver. Liver ruined onions for me for more than a year in my childhood😊
@@hmsmile1225 Liver and onion, lovely jubbly.
@@grahamjohnson4702 Still don´t like fried liver, but I do enjoy fried liversausage (different from liverpate for bread) and bloodsausage with onions and potatoes
Always save the carcass! Makes the most amazing broth for soups, stews or gravy 👍🏻
Yup. That’s why I made a soup from it.
Cornish pasties are just top tier.
I’m picky but I love Cornish pasties.
Not that it really matters but just to say Cornish pasties are not made with mince this is maybe why it was not called a Cornish pasty. I enjoy these videos ❤
Culinary genius on a budget!
Hardly a genius but thank you!
The £1 lasagnes are fucking awesome. Microwave for 5 minutes to defrost then air fry for 10 minutes. They come out awesome compared to just microwaving them
I've had the Morrisons and Iceland ones not too bad, and you can jazz them up with a lot more mature cheddar on the top.
A little bit of mixed herb in that chicken stock would elevate it to new heights. A whole chicken is the best value roast you can do. Whether you roast or cut it up as you did, always save the carcass for soup!
For the chicken noodle soup, you could smash the pasta up into smaller bits and it would be a bit easier to eat in a soup if that makes sense? That looked lovely as a cheap, homemade soup 😊
This is the first video of yours I've watched and I'm now subscribed. Fantastic, realistic content!
You missed a trick with the pasty- they do a box of 4 cheese and bean bakes for 1.10 and they are really tasty! :)
You can put a tiny bit of water into sauce jars and give it a shake to get the remaining sauce out of it.
Easy to make your own chicken curry. Particularly as yo have already got yogurt. Gently fry spices in a little oil then add the onion and chicken. When cooked put in a tbls of yogurt. If you go to an asian grocer you can get the basic spices, they last a long time and will create 100 dishes out of leftovers
@@kithale316 oh I usually would but these challenges I allow myself one teaspoon of a single spice for the dish
Don't have an Asda near us, but use the sainsbury's basics range- including the mini pizzas we add veggies to the top
Iceland have a £1 meal range, which is liveable but unenjoyable. Lidl and Aldi have similar meals but are about 20p cheaper. I mean, if you wanted you could probably live until at least the average UK lifespan (late-70s I think?) on just rice and fruit.
That's not living. That's barely surviving, and I wouldn't count on living to 50 eating like that. 😂
I always buy the just essentials during my food shop. My kids love the noodles I think they’re about 20p a pack? And the cheese slices, perfect for snacks! You can make your pennies go a long way if you’re clever and creative! 😊
You have the voice of Will from inbetweeners. I am enjoying this video with my eyes closed. Thanks.
I use frozen vegetables in my meals and love making smoothies with their frozen fruits. They have a good range.
Chickpeas are very good value too
Can’t beat cooking the bones and skins etc for broth.
Honestly love your videos so much👏👏
I'd have been inclined to cook the whole chicken as a roast dinner. You'd have the legs and wings for lunch, breasts for main meals and you can pick all the underneath bits for making a nice broth or soup.
Agreed. It's an amazing way to get the most delicious and economic and large number of meals
Sam, get yourself to Aldi they have huge Rump steak for £5 n change. I hear they are delicious n worth getting few for freezer while delicious n available.😊
Reviewing a cheese and onion pasty. "It's cheesey, creamy, onioney. I can see where they're going with this" 😂😂
@@belushi7549 😂😅
Wait for the cheesy beany one you will be shocked 😂😂😂
I enjoyed that video and it just shows how you can make a tenner last at Asda 👍
The reason asda can sell at those prices are the manufacturers have been squeezed,which means the suppliers have been squeezed which means the farmers have got hit hard
Do other supermarkets have essential ranges ?
Might be worth a video
I love some of the just essentials products especially the cheese n onion pasty. Some times I buy a bag of just essentials chips and have the pasty with it
I would have used the rice in my soup not pasta. A little bit of curry powder or paste. would give it a kick too. I love a food challenge
that curry actually looked banging tbf, I love cherry tomatoes and never thought of putting in a curry
The cheese and tomato pastas are so good !
Pls, post more content ❤❤❤pls love your content
loving this content, it kinda reminds me of a mike jeavons week on series but all in one video. will deffo be watching more
Use the whole tin of Tomatoes for your Pasta Sauce and freeze what you don’t need.
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Another really enjoyable video
Just found this and a couple of others. Would love for you to do. A budget low car or high protein week. And by protein I mean complete proteins, ie milk and dairy.
If you’d roasted that chicken whole you could have used the carcass/veg scraps/rice to make a hearty soup
@@Jaylobee keep watching 😊
@@SamWilder.😮! Love to make chicken noodle soup 🍲
Try roasting the chicken bones for the chicken stock, the flavour is great!
You should have keep the bones made a nice chicken broth maybe 😊
That same shopping haul would be at least $40-50+ here in Aus… 0.41 for that pastie is insane, I recon it would be $3+ for even a home brand one here. The whole chicken I’m pretty sure is about $12+ here
New sub, loving your content! You should try to see how long you can go on food sourced from Olio.
Started watching you and thought it was a bit shit, now I’m fully aboard the train, keep it going mate, great videos❤
Just essentials is great the food isn't the best quality but it's cheap and it gets the job done it's good for big families and people on a low income. £2.21 for the ready meals is a complete rip off here where i live the yellow essentials ready meals are £1.00.
Love your videos. keep being great
As a single dad of 2 I've been living like this for years. Alot of friends and family spend over £100 on a weekly food shop, it's just excessive and unnecessary. It's very rare I go over £30 a week on my food shop and I get 3 good healthy meals a day for 3 of us.
Fantastic well done!
You said it was good to be cooking properly again, well it's good to see you cooking properly again! I have a tip for anyone looking to make a whole chicken go as far as possible. Invest in a slow cooker, season the chicken however you like, add some cheap veg like onions and carrots to the bottom of the pot then sit the chicken on top. Cook on low for 8 hours then shred all the meat and use it to create all sorts of yummy things for the next few days 🤤
Just essentials mini pizza is 55p but a full size just essentials pizza from freezer isnt much more expensive less than 1£ and I just sprinkle a little more cheese or add mushrooms
Spaghetti is called ‘noodles’ in America where chicken noodle soup is very similar to what you’ve made there.
Noodles in the US doesn’t just mean spaghetti,it can mean Asian noodles,Pennsylvania Dutch noodles,in fact if you say noodles to an American they won’t think you are talking about spaghetti.As for chicken noodle soup, you can use any pasta you like,the tinned one usually has very thin short pieces of pasta in it.
peaches and yogurt is pretty yum
I’m eating a 55p pizza right now and it’s great ❤
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I’d love to be able to shop like this but I’m gluten and dairy intolerant so if I don’t cook, my shopping bill is always high
Great one. Shame I live nowhere near an Asda as I'd give this a go. Have you done Ocardo before?
You should have left a bit of the yoghurt to mix in with the chicken soup 😊
Just don't think any supermarket own brand matches the quality of lidle . I get everything i can at lidle then pop next door to morisons for whatever i could not find at lidle.
Definitely the best bang for buck combo .
You should have put some onion and cherry tomatoes sliced on top of your pizza as extra toppings. Would have jazzed it up nicely
You could of did a chicken and rice soup as well give that a try and maybe grab a single carrot for it those seem to be cheap as well as green onions just ideas