I add a cup of blueberries and a ground up fresh apple, along with a sprinkle of cinnamon, to our breakfast oatmeal. Yields 2 *generous* servings and keeps us full for hours. I use a TBSP of brown sugar and 2 ounces of half-and-half in mine; he uses a little more of each. Especially now that the cold weather is shaking its fist at us, we appreciate this nice warm kick-start meal even more!
We are lunch people but we try to go out to local Mom Pop's to keep them in business Yes saving money is great but understand spend enjoy your money if investested or pension money. Yes soc sec isn't enough to live.
I've switched to two meals per day, too. Breakfast and dinner. I usually have a snack in between like half an apple with some peanut butter, or an orange, maybe a protein bar if they were on sale recently. Store brand bars are $0.40 if they're on sale.
I disagree. My husband is too thin. Also, I understand that it's better not to eat fruits and veggies at the same meal, so I have a fruit meal and a veggie meal with legumes, etc. no snacking. I find having a 24-hour intermittent fasting from the end of breakfast one day until breakfast the following day works well for me. Everybody is different. We all have to find what works best for our particular bodies and lifestyles
Hello sweet folks☺️. I love the way you present the information. I am from the Tulsa, Oklahoma area and grew up in northeastern Oklahoma (not too far from where The Pioneer Woman, Reed Drummond lives.). I grew up with the term supper meaning the evening meal. The term dinner was used when referring to a nicer meal at the lunch hour. For example, we had a nicer meal on Sunday at lunch time. It was referred to as Sunday dinner. Lunch was thought of as a more casual noontime meal. I was blessed to have a great cook as a mother, so weekly supper meals were delicious, but they were not as decorated or elaborate as a dinner. I am from German decent on my fathers side and Cherokee Indian decent on my mothers. I knew my great grandmother and she would tell me her memories of watching the covered wagons coming into Indian Territory (before it became Oklahoma). God bless you two and your family for the efforts you make to educate those who can so benefit from tips in being selectively frugal and budgeting!
My mom was from England so my dad finally solved the Dinner / Supper debate by pointing out that DINNER was the MAIN meal of the day.. whenever that is. Our main meal here in New England was 6:00 pm ( Dinner) as everyone was away at work at noon.. so Lunch. Supper was a light meal later on a Sunday evening.
My mom is from Tennessee and my father is from South America. I learned from both sides of my families how to make so many delicious meals for little cost. The cost of food was never talked about only because it didn’t cost that much, we never bought a lot of processed foods, snacks, or anything like that it was always made at home. Peruvian stew with pork, chicken stew with tomatoes and potatoes, chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, pinto beans with ham or bacon… All of these are very economical and so good for you.
I live alone. I do a lot of prepping my food. I make my own parfaits and wraps. I go to the produce stand and get individual veggies to make my own veggie trays. I try to think outside of the box that I can. Thank you for your tips.
Buying in bulk, meal prep, making everything from scratch, and eating 2 meals a day (with the addition of a healthy snack as needed) has saved our family thousands of dollars over the years. No going back
I love the… know your cost per serving per meal. That really puts everything in perspective of why or why not your grocery bill is or isn’t high. Traditionally breakfast is the cheapest meal & I am always dumbfounded when people pay so much money for breakfast eating out. I saw one place a bowl of oatmeal was $6.25 😮
Breakfast is one of the most economical meals of the day. A carton of eggs ( 2.00 ), a loaf of whole grain bread ( 3.50 ), 5/6 bananas ( organic around 1.50 ), organic butter ( 5.00 lb.and last a month ), brewed coffee ( 8.00 a bag ), coffee creamer ( 3.00 a jar for a month ). With each of those items, you can have a daily breakfast for one week for around $2.00.
I grow as many of my fruits and veggies as possible. I’ve been a home canner since I was married and had to make ends meet almost 48 years ago. What I can’t grow I buy in bulk. It really makes sense when budgeting.
I put 2-3 cups of water in my crockpot. I mix my oatmeal in a glass bowl that fits inside the crockpot. I cook on low overnight in the crockpot. It’s all ready in am. I’ve got one dish to wash in the morning. Lots of great recipes on Pinterest for crockpot oatmeal.
Thanks for another great video! Boxed cereal prices are so high! My favorite vegan pancake recipe has much fewer ingredients: Whisk one cup flour (any kind--buckwheat is particularly good!) with one TABLESPOON baking POWDER. Add one cup plant milk. When dropping in the pan, top with blueberries. Serve with maple syrup and/or applesauce. Easy peasy! I liked Mint Mobile until it stopped working well in my area. I dealt with dropped calls and delayed voicemails for many months. They kept reassuring me they were working on the issue in my area. After missing some important business and family calls with no solution in sight from Mint, I finally had to switch😕 BTW I grew up in Ohio. We ate dinner in the evening. Here in Minnesota (where I now live), the evening meal is supper. I still call it dinner lol😉
I, too, had “BAD LUCK” with Mint Mobile here in Treasure Valley, Idaho! So frustrated with them, put up with them several months after I should have switched!! Grrrr!!!!
Grandma called it supper and I was raised calling it dinner. Grandma was raised with calling lunch dinner. I think you're exactly right it depends on where you were raised, and with what generations you were raised around.
I have doordash twice. But in the last 5 days I have been checking the prices and I cant pay rhat to feed 2 people. I made salad with chicken salad and ritz 4 times. I made sloppy joes with big scoop of Amish potatoe salad twice. I made a big batch of spaghetti. I think I am at the 40 bucks that doordash wants 😊
I shop once a week online, and I pick up. I’m a retired widow living alone. I’m low carb and allergic to legumes now but I used to enjoy being vegetarian until my body decided beans, peas, lentils and peanuts were poison. I still save. For savings on meats I buy the loss leader specials on the front of the sale flyer. I feed my freezer (I only have the freezer in my fridge) on super sales. I repackage in ziplock freezer bags and freeze flat. Saves space and easy to thaw. I make a rough menu using 4-5 main meals with the freezer meats. I figure on 2-3 meals as leftovers. Then I buy 4-5 veggies. Those are usually the sale specials or my standard cheap sturdy ones that last a while like cabbage or carrots or broccoli. I eat the delicate veggies first and let the sturdy ones last a while. If I overbought- then my sturdy veggies roll over to next week and I buy less that week. I eat a large late breakfast- scrambled eggs, with bacon which I cook a kg at a time and take a couple of slices out to reheat. A small bowl of cereal or oatmeal porridge with milk and some fruit. My one carb splurge. That holds me till dinner time. Skip lunch but I might have a slice of cheese if I am hungry before dinner. Dinner (I’m in western Canada) is just meat usually baked or air fried. A large serving of vegetable and I’m done. It’s easy. It would be cheaper if I could do legumes but I developed that allergy and I still keep my budget down. I don’t eat bread, pasta, rice, snacks or anything with sugar. I don’t miss them once I got used to the low carb carnivore with veggies life.
I grew up in the South and always had supper. Then I got married and moved to California and now Colorado where we say dinner! Thanks for all the tips!
You can try cooking steel cut oats several days ahead then refrigerating it. I live alone and make 4 servings at a time; gives me enough to rotate into my breakfast for a week when I eat every other day. I add frozen berries, nuts, honey, cinnamon, etc to jazz it up. Delicious!
We have added gardening and bartering for fresh fruit and veggies with friends and family. This year i have canned so much. Blueberry pie filling and jam with my mother in laws blue berries. Grape Jam i made with grapes from friends. I've made my own sauce with my tomatoes. Freeze lots of veggies and fruits. I've canned so much cheap chicken. This year we bought a 50lb bag of quick oats for $29. I buy so much less cereal. I make tons of my own mixes now for pancakes, brownies gravy. We went from spending 800 a month to 400 to now about $250 for a family of 3
We generally eat meat as a flavoring!😊 But we eat a lot of meatless meals. The exception recently has been that one of our sons gets us a Christmas gift and another as a combination birthday gift of Omaha steaks. It’s a wonderful treat that we intersperse throughout the year!
Love the blooper!!!! Where I live there are not a lot of lost leaders. grocery's are high. Rarely do you find discounts. We have Walmart , grocery outlet and a small grocery store and the biggest town to get good prices is 162 miles away. I batch cook lots of soup and chili. I also bake corn muffins and pumpkin muffins. I grew as much as I could to help cut costs.
Sometimes I feel guilty NOT to buy fruits. Apples are $2.49/lb. Sometimes we get it $1.49/lb. Never for less than a dollar. I love to make soup. Especially lentils. Thousands of dollars. $5.00 for a small soup. A bag of lentils is $2.29. 1 Carrot, I red, yellow and green pepper, 1 scallion, and a few cloves of garlic. Less than $10.00 ingtedients. Meat is so expensive. My goodness! Thanks for this video.
One of our favourite soups is split green pea. Maybe that’s not strictly speaking a lentil, but it’s close enough. I don’t worry about whether it’s vegan or vegetarian, but except for some (optional) chicken or turkey stock - usually home made,) and maybe a knob of butter; it usually pretty much is. We will usually serve that with a grilled cheese sandwich. Even a toasted pb&j sammy, on occasion, goes surprisingly well with this. I know: it sounds odd. :)
I come from a family that does eat meat, and for this Christmas we changed it up and had ham. We bought it after Thanksgiving since it was on sale, and then froze it for dinner. After we'd had it a few nights, we froze it and made lentil soup with pieces of the ham in it. Nothing went to waste, and we ended up with a delicious meal!
I live alone and this is how I roll. My lazy way of doing a cheap, healthy wholefoods breakfast is to cook about 4 days worth of wholegrain porridge (oatmeal in the US) with grated carrot, grated apple, cinnamon and raisins in it. That sweetens it naturally, so no other sweeteners are needed (for my taste, anyway). I cook it all up on the first morning and eat one serving, cool, cover and and refrigerate the rest and then each morning put one serving in a seperate bowl and reheat in the microwave for a couple of minutes. It means that I can easily eat it each morning even when I'm in a rush, disorganised or just too lazy to cook. Cheap, VERY filling, and nutritious.
I do something similar. I use steel cut oats in a slow cooker. add whatever extras like frozen blueberries, nuts and coconut. there are endless combos. I agree with the cooking time makes it sweet enough. I do potion into individual containers so I know how many servings there are.
I don't like sweet oatmeal. When I do oatmeal, I will cook up a batch of steel cut and divide it up into individual servings for several days. I then reheat it in the microwave with nuts or seeds in it. Sometimes I have it with left over meat protein.
Hmm..I feel silly because I never thought about grating fruit to put in it..I work at school and sometimes get fruit they are getting rid of from the kitchen. Will have to try it.
For people who aren't making breakfast for a family, I cook my oatmeal in my microwave. 1 1/2 minutes is usually enough to cook it. I usually put a banana in mine with walnuts. Since it's just me, I don't buy in bulk, but I always buy the store brand of oatmeal when it's on sale. I used to buy myself a muffin when I bought groceries as a reward for going to the grocery store. The muffins went up to $1.25 each, so I stopped doing that. (Remember it's just me) I bought Martha White muffin mixes on sale for $0.95 and 1/2 cup of milk is $0.11 right now here. So I get 6 muffins when I use those for just 18 cents each.
I haven't eaten cereal in years. I used to purchase a box of Post Cereal with dates, nuts etc then pour a bowl of less expensive or free cereal and top it with some of the more expensive cereal. This gave me a healthy breakfast or snack but stretched the more costly item. Due to the cost increase of cereal I no longer eat it. Opting instead for Cottage Cheese, 1/2 Banana, 1/2 and Avocado with a Teaspoon of Peanut Butter and 2 Tablespoons of Black Bean and Corn Salsa yummy and filling. I too buy on clearance, sales, use digital and manufacturers coupons. All of which saves me a lot of money. I just saved $330.20 / year on my car insurance offers by shopping around .
I’m 70 y/o, raised in a low income family of 12 in Ontario, Canada. Breakfast Dinner Supper “Lunch” was a snack after playing cards, going to Church or visiting with friends and family.
Hello Hope and Larry. We're from Michigan and it's supper here. My meals plans include what I have or on sale and isn't always specific for day and more ideas of what to have. It helps for leftovers or if we are busy and pull out something easier. Have a great day 😀
Hello Hope and Larry. I have been binging your videos for several weeks. One of your top 10, I was able to say "I do that, I do that.....". Really enjoy all of your content. Also a fan of excel . Would love to see a deep dive into the grocery shopping tracking system you have established. Thank you for being real.
Supper is every night, usually at 6pm. Dinner is served on Sunday after church services around 1pm when you have all the kids (and the grand kids, cousins, niece/nephews, family friends 5 blocks down, the stranger you met on your way home) all come home for a weekly meal. Basically dinner is Thanksgiving without the turkey... unless you just happen to be roasting a turkey that Sunday. Midwest- Indiana specifically.
Not sure what they call it in the US but here in Australia we have what is called Imperfect Picks or Odd Bunch Picks which are perfectly good quality fruit and vegetables that might not look so aesthetically perfect. You can save a fair bit of money using these and they taste just as good as the more expensive perfectly looking stuff.
Good ideas! We make breakfast sandwiches sometimes and freeze them. We make homemade pancakes when we have those. Also, we just made homemade veggie soup with green beans from the garden and tomato sauce I made along with other veggies and fried and drained hamburger. So good! Would like to try a muffin recipe. Yum.
Thank you for another excellent video. Im disabled for 15 years and its getting so much more expensive hust for a medicare plan where i live. Small fixed i come. If not for the Senior Center that serves lubch free 5 days a week, i would be going hungry for sure!
Originally from Yorkshire with a welsh mum. Always breakfast dinner and tea. Main mealvwas always at midday wirh dad popping back from working locally. We always had porridge in thecwinter with dad making it daily. Now i am retired i have the time to make it but still pop it in the microwave 80% of the time. I followed your vid on making i stant oats and keep some ground up oats in a bottle so i can grab them when needed. Good for adding a little to my bread mix when i make it. I add pulped apple to porridge for sweetner. I am bottling it daily at the moment and can not keep up with the fruit falling from the trees. I am the onlybone eating it butbi still bottle all i can. It comes in as desert with yogurt as well. It all saves money inbthe long run. Love your vids and look forward to watching them. I am a non meat eater as well. Saves a lot of cash.😊
After you mentioned red mesh bags first time, I bought all the produce I could get in them and they lasted in a fridge soo long. I kept inventing new dishes and save on vegetables, I forgot about that, thanks for reminding. Ours are big, here in EU, 2 or 4 pounds per produce for 1€ for smaller one and 2€ for larger.
Here’s my daily breakfast: 1 cup oatmeal mixed with 1 cup water, cooked on high in the microwave oven for one-and-a-half minutes. I then top the bowl with blueberries. While the oatmeal is cooking, I also heat up a mug-full of skim milk in a saucepan on high. I then squirt enough chocolate syrup into the hot milk mug to make my beverage delicious. Breakfast is ready usually within 2 minutes. No need to wait as the water boils on the stove. Growing up, my family always had breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I love soups and stews! Made a french lentil rice soup yesterday, so tasty! Will be making it again 😊 One of my favourite salads in a texmex quinoa salad.
Western Canada, we call it dinner at our house (and we eat meats and dairy however have been eating more plant based due to recent health concerns. I didn’t realize how much plant based I already enjoyed 😅 and made before needing to look closer at our meals)
Thanks to your ideas (bulk buying and making at home), we have greatly reduced our food budget. I’ve started making and freezing my own waffles (using foraged blackberries in season) and they taste better than store bought and are cheaper per unit. Little wins add up to big wins. Thank you, Hope and Larry! Oh, PS- born in the south, my family called it supper😊
We eat a lot of trail mix and it is different every time based on what I've gotten cheaply. Chocolate covered cranberries, yes please I scored 10 bags for free. Butterscotch chips for $.50 made an interesting batch.
Thanks again to both of you for reminding me of all the ways to eat healthy and frugally ! Love listening to you guys . I do need to work on meal planning …although I’m great at making soup and using leftovers on the fly !
That's what I do because I don't eat a lot of meat but my son does because he works long hours everyday. Like one meal we have hamburgers then I make ,casseroles or wraps. I usually get 4-2 serving meals. And yes I have started buying rotisserie chickens at Sam's club and boning the chicken out packing it into 6oz. Freezer bags a.d making bone broth and canning it for later meals. And making egg noodles and dumplings stretch out the months meals. And even can the dark meat of the chicken in broth for chicken or noodle soups. I gleen my veggies so I can buy 4 rotisserie chickens $20., 4lbs organic grounded beef $17.46, 2 porkloins $17.00,$4.69 1lb. Bacon. 2 bags onions,3-10 lb. Bags of potatoes 2-2 lb. Bags carrots,1 head of cabbage,s5lbs selfrise flour&5 lbs. All purpose flour ,2lbs butter, 48 ozs veggie oil,spices,tea bags,sugar. That way I can make egg roll wraps,egg noodles,dumplings,soft tacos, 2lbs pinto beans ,2lbs long grain rice. I use my lefted over meats and veggies for egg rolls or burritos and freeze what's not Eatting for later lunches. I did spend more this month on meats but they usually extend over too the next month . I will only but a few meats. I have a master list of all meats veggies grains dairy spices. And recipes in one binder. And yes I've stock up for winter months because can't be in the cold.
Being raised in the south, this is the way I was taught. Dinner is the largest meal of the day. So, if your largest meal of the day is in the middle of the day, then you’ll have dinner and supper will be in the evening. If your largest meal of the day is in the evening, then you’ll have lunch and dinner in the evening.
@@nadeawilliams7749 spent child hood at diners in Paramus with parents. They are making a comeback here in Monmouth county as they are beginning to offer the overstuffed specials you can get two meals out of at a fair price.
Breakfast for me is normally either egg bites, with eggs from my chickens, baked oatmeal, French toast or pancakes with homemade maple syrup. I don't always eat lunch. But if I do, more often than not it's a PB and J sandwich. Dinner varies. But I eat a lot of chicken. Since I'm a widow, I'll make enough for a family and freeze the leftovers in individual servings. The only thing I normally splurge on is steak if it's on sale. But it's cheaper than going out for a steak dinner.
During 2020 The stores within walking distance never ran out of meat, most other items that I use n $ tree always had to n paper towels. I'm very frugal but do use paper towels .love your videos, been watching a long while.
Thank you , great advice 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇❤️❤️❤️we have a great Amish store near us, they also sell bulk foods, I get sugar for baking, flour, oats, 😇I also love wheat berries and gring my own flour/ supper 🤣🤣🤣
One way to strech ground meat is to saute up with lots of small diced or grated vegies like onion, carrot, mushrooms, zuccini, peppers. They will meld with the meat and can more than double it. I split and freeze the extra for a second meal.
Hope said it “I may have to raise my goal”. As an American I have to raise my goal for everything. Food, clothing, warmth, cool, taxes. It’s a nightmare. Sick of it. I never see anything at a deep discount anywhere by me.
We make a large pot of oatmeal with dried fruit and cinnamon cooked in it and on the weekend. We store it in the refrigerator and reheat it in the microwave daily. It tastes better than fresh made because the flavor of the fruit pervades the oatmeal as it sits. We don’t add sugar. The fruit is enough. This saves time in the morning, tastes better and makes a pretty good snack too. If we have any leftover at the end of the week, I use it to make an oatmeal cake.
Great video!! Meal planning is a key to saving money, and you are right--it doesn't take as long as some may think. I grew up in a very small town in the Deep South, and it has always been breakfast, dinner, and supper.
Great tips! know you both are vegan and I totally respect that. I am not vegan. Meat and eggs were never a big part of my life/meals tho. I however am reconsidering. I've recently learned the FDA and USDA have been lying to us about the whole food pyramid etc. I know this comment sounds crazy. You can/should research such for yourselves.
Doesn't sound crazy at all. It is right to question things and do research. We should take more responsibility,and not just believe what governments tell us.
English speakers in Quebec say supper if it is an informal meal at home or an informal meal in a restaurant such as a fast food one. However, we say dinner for a more formal meal at home or to celebrate or when inviting guests. If one goes to eat in a nice restaurant, it is called dinner also.
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Thank you for a great and educational video!
Supper. Traditional Southern Supper: Pinto beans, fried potatoes, okra/ other veggies, and cornbread. Throw in a slice of homegrown tomato. Yum yum!
I add a cup of blueberries and a ground up fresh apple, along with a sprinkle of cinnamon, to our breakfast oatmeal. Yields 2 *generous* servings and keeps us full for hours. I use a TBSP of brown sugar and 2 ounces of half-and-half in mine; he uses a little more of each. Especially now that the cold weather is shaking its fist at us, we appreciate this nice warm kick-start meal even more!
@@LauraMacMillan-el2kc yummy. Love thin sliced apples or pears on pancakes as well. With tad of cinnamon…
Gotta try that. Sounds yummy!
Hello, I would like to add : the quality of the home made food is a lot better and healthier than the one you buy in a restaurant. So you win twice!
We do intermittent fasting and eat our first meal around noon. Then supper in the evening. That saves money!
We are lunch people but we try to go out to local Mom Pop's to keep them in business Yes saving money is great but understand spend enjoy your money if investested or pension money. Yes soc sec isn't enough to live.
I've switched to two meals per day, too. Breakfast and dinner. I usually have a snack in between like half an apple with some peanut butter, or an orange, maybe a protein bar if they were on sale recently. Store brand bars are $0.40 if they're on sale.
I disagree. My husband is too thin. Also, I understand that it's better not to eat fruits and veggies at the same meal, so I have a fruit meal and a veggie meal with legumes, etc. no snacking. I find having a 24-hour intermittent fasting from the end of breakfast one day until breakfast the following day works well for me. Everybody is different. We all have to find what works best for our particular bodies and lifestyles
My grandparents ate breakfast in the morning, dinner at noon, “a little lunch” in the later afternoon, and supper in the evening.
mine too, I still do this. main meal around noon. lite dinner(lunch type or snack meal or a desssert)
That’s what we do also .
Hello sweet folks☺️. I love the way you present the information. I am from the Tulsa, Oklahoma area and grew up in northeastern Oklahoma (not too far from where The Pioneer Woman, Reed Drummond lives.). I grew up with the term supper meaning the evening meal. The term dinner was used when referring to a nicer meal at the lunch hour. For example, we had a nicer meal on Sunday at lunch time. It was referred to as Sunday dinner. Lunch was thought of as a more casual noontime meal. I was blessed to have a great cook as a mother, so weekly supper meals were delicious, but they were not as decorated or elaborate as a dinner. I am from German decent on my fathers side and Cherokee Indian decent on my mothers. I knew my great grandmother and she would tell me her memories of watching the covered wagons coming into Indian Territory (before it became Oklahoma). God bless you two and your family for the efforts you make to educate those who can so benefit from tips in being selectively frugal and budgeting!
Alaska born, Oregon raised, retired in Idaho: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I eat mostly carnivore. Beef, bacon, butter, eggs. Many of your tips still are useful.
Grew up on a farm in Iowa; dinner was the noon meal and supper was the evening meal. 🙂
My mom was from England so my dad finally solved the Dinner / Supper debate by pointing out that DINNER was the MAIN meal of the day.. whenever that is.
Our main meal here in New England was 6:00 pm ( Dinner) as everyone was away at work at noon.. so Lunch.
Supper was a light meal later on a Sunday evening.
What! That's bananas ha 😅
My mom is from Tennessee and my father is from South America. I learned from both sides of my families how to make so many delicious meals for little cost. The cost of food was never talked about only because it didn’t cost that much, we never bought a lot of processed foods, snacks, or anything like that it was always made at home. Peruvian stew with pork, chicken stew with tomatoes and potatoes, chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, pinto beans with ham or bacon… All of these are very economical and so good for you.
I live alone. I do a lot of prepping my food. I make my own parfaits and wraps. I go to the produce stand and get individual veggies to make my own veggie trays. I try to think outside of the box that I can. Thank you for your tips.
Supper. I am 78 and it has been supper all my life. Breakfast, Dinner and supper. From Georgia . Love your videos.
Born in Illinois. Until I was a teen, it was breakfast, dinner, supper. Then, "they" switched it on us to breakfast, lunch, and dinner. LOL.
Same here from northwest Louisiana.
Born in the Midwest....supper. Although it’s occasionally called dinner.
Buying in bulk, meal prep, making everything from scratch, and eating 2 meals a day (with the addition of a healthy snack as needed) has saved our family thousands of dollars over the years. No going back
I have to admit just cooking and not ordering take out can save so many people a ton of money.
I agree. The price of even fast food is crazy. You could go have a sir down dinner served to you for same price just a couple of years ago.
I love the… know your cost per serving per meal.
That really puts everything in perspective of why or why not your grocery bill is or isn’t high.
Traditionally breakfast is the cheapest meal & I am always dumbfounded when people pay so much money for breakfast eating out. I saw one place a bowl of oatmeal was $6.25 😮
Breakfast is one of the most economical meals of the day. A carton of eggs ( 2.00 ), a loaf of whole grain bread ( 3.50 ), 5/6 bananas ( organic around 1.50 ), organic butter ( 5.00 lb.and last a month ), brewed coffee ( 8.00 a bag ), coffee creamer ( 3.00 a jar for a month ). With each of those items, you can have a daily breakfast for one week for around $2.00.
p.s. I was quoting breakfast apiece for two people in our home. Still cheaper to fix at home with a family.
I say " supper is ready". But we " go out to dinner". Lol. Either way it's the evening meal. Great tips. Thank u!
I grow as many of my fruits and veggies as possible. I’ve been a home canner since I was married and had to make ends meet almost 48 years ago. What I can’t grow I buy in bulk. It really makes sense when budgeting.
I put 2-3 cups of water in my crockpot. I mix my oatmeal in a glass bowl that fits inside the crockpot. I cook on low overnight in the crockpot. It’s all ready in am. I’ve got one dish to wash in the morning. Lots of great recipes on Pinterest for crockpot oatmeal.
I'll check that out. Never thought of that.
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Thanks for another great video! Boxed cereal prices are so high! My favorite vegan pancake recipe has much fewer ingredients: Whisk one cup flour (any kind--buckwheat is particularly good!) with one TABLESPOON baking POWDER. Add one cup plant milk. When dropping in the pan, top with blueberries. Serve with maple syrup and/or applesauce. Easy peasy!
I liked Mint Mobile until it stopped working well in my area. I dealt with dropped calls and delayed voicemails for many months. They kept reassuring me they were working on the issue in my area. After missing some important business and family calls with no solution in sight from Mint, I finally had to switch😕
BTW I grew up in Ohio. We ate dinner in the evening. Here in Minnesota (where I now live), the evening meal is supper. I still call it dinner lol😉
I, too, had “BAD LUCK” with Mint Mobile here in Treasure Valley, Idaho! So frustrated with them, put up with them several months after I should have switched!! Grrrr!!!!
Thanks for the pancake recipe!
Raised in Southern Ontario Canada. It was supper - unless we were going out - to friends, family, a restaurant; didn't matter - then it was dinner!
Grandma called it supper and I was raised calling it dinner. Grandma was raised with calling lunch dinner. I think you're exactly right it depends on where you were raised, and with what generations you were raised around.
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Grandma's terms are based out of old Scotland! Are you descended from a Scottish ancestor!
@scotland99 My grandpa was full Scottish
I have to buy the more expensive gluten free oats (Celiac disease) but it is still cheaper and more filling than boxed cereal.
Got a jar of pickled red onions at food bank, very good.
I have doordash twice. But in the last 5 days I have been checking the prices and I cant pay rhat to feed 2 people. I made salad with chicken salad and ritz 4 times. I made sloppy joes with big scoop of Amish potatoe salad twice. I made a big batch of spaghetti. I think I am at the 40 bucks that doordash wants 😊
I'm British and it has always been breakfast, lunch & tea for me except if you're referring to Sunday dinner 😊
I shop once a week online, and I pick up. I’m a retired widow living alone. I’m low carb and allergic to legumes now but I used to enjoy being vegetarian until my body decided beans, peas, lentils and peanuts were poison. I still save.
For savings on meats I buy the loss leader specials on the front of the sale flyer. I feed my freezer (I only have the freezer in my fridge) on super sales. I repackage in ziplock freezer bags and freeze flat. Saves space and easy to thaw.
I make a rough menu using 4-5 main meals with the freezer meats. I figure on 2-3 meals as leftovers. Then I buy 4-5 veggies. Those are usually the sale specials or my standard cheap sturdy ones that last a while like cabbage or carrots or broccoli.
I eat the delicate veggies first and let the sturdy ones last a while. If I overbought- then my sturdy veggies roll over to next week and I buy less that week.
I eat a large late breakfast- scrambled eggs, with bacon which I cook a kg at a time and take a couple of slices out to reheat. A small bowl of cereal or oatmeal porridge with milk and some fruit. My one carb splurge. That holds me till dinner time.
Skip lunch but I might have a slice of cheese if I am hungry before dinner.
Dinner (I’m in western Canada) is just meat usually baked or air fried. A large serving of vegetable and I’m done. It’s easy.
It would be cheaper if I could do legumes but I developed that allergy and I still keep my budget down. I don’t eat bread, pasta, rice, snacks or anything with sugar. I don’t miss them once I got used to the low carb carnivore with veggies life.
I grew up in the South and always had supper. Then I got married and moved to California and now Colorado where we say dinner! Thanks for all the tips!
Breakfast, Dinner and Tea here in the South Wales Valleys 🏴 xx
Does Tea mean dessert in the UK, or is it a light meal? In the US, tea is just a cup of the hot beverage! 😊
@@sherri. Tea means your evening meal, typically the biggest meal of the day :) We also drink a lot of Tea too! Our dessert we call "Afters" xx
I always wish your videos were longer! That is how much I enjoy them and feel like the info is important at the same time.
I am from Ohio but now live in Florida. Supper was always the evening meal. On Sunday- we had Sunday dinner and that was at lunchtime.
Yes it does in Quebec but I think that this is unique to Quebec
Growing up,in Wisconsin, it’s supper
You can try cooking steel cut oats several days ahead then refrigerating it. I live alone and make 4 servings at a time; gives me enough to rotate into my breakfast for a week when I eat every other day. I add frozen berries, nuts, honey, cinnamon, etc to jazz it up. Delicious!
That's only oats I eat. I'm def going to start making in batch to save money and time!
I grew up in Michigan and dinner/supper was used interchangeably, but the afternoon meal was always lunch.
NYC -- Supper for ordinary everyday meals, dinner for Sunday meal or when having company.
We have added gardening and bartering for fresh fruit and veggies with friends and family. This year i have canned so much. Blueberry pie filling and jam with my mother in laws blue berries. Grape Jam i made with grapes from friends. I've made my own sauce with my tomatoes. Freeze lots of veggies and fruits.
I've canned so much cheap chicken.
This year we bought a 50lb bag of quick oats for $29. I buy so much less cereal. I make tons of my own mixes now for pancakes, brownies gravy. We went from spending 800 a month to 400 to now about $250 for a family of 3
👏This was a really good video, the math is broken down and shown just how much money you save eating at home, it’s quite shocking 😳
We generally eat meat as a flavoring!😊 But we eat a lot of meatless meals. The exception recently has been that one of our sons gets us a Christmas gift and another as a combination birthday gift of Omaha steaks. It’s a wonderful treat that we intersperse throughout the year!
Dinner here in Australia, usually. Supper might be a light snack a little later, esp if you have an early dinner.
Same in New Zealand. 🙂
In in Australia to
Love the blooper!!!! Where I live there are not a lot of lost leaders. grocery's are high. Rarely do you find discounts. We have Walmart , grocery outlet and a small grocery store and the biggest town to get good prices is 162 miles away. I batch cook lots of soup and chili. I also bake corn muffins and pumpkin muffins. I grew as much as I could to help cut costs.
Love that you acknowledge the meat eaters! Great ideas!
Born and raised in Rhode Island and it’s always been dinner for me!
I am from the South (still living here) and we always ate “SUPPER”. Thanks for your helpful videos!
Sometimes I feel guilty NOT to buy fruits. Apples are $2.49/lb. Sometimes we get it $1.49/lb. Never for less than a dollar. I love to make soup. Especially lentils. Thousands of dollars. $5.00 for a small soup. A bag of lentils is $2.29. 1 Carrot, I red, yellow and green pepper, 1 scallion, and a few cloves of garlic. Less than $10.00 ingtedients. Meat is so expensive. My goodness! Thanks for this video.
One of our favourite soups is split green pea. Maybe that’s not strictly speaking a lentil, but it’s close enough.
I don’t worry about whether it’s vegan or vegetarian, but except for some (optional) chicken or turkey stock - usually home made,) and maybe a knob of butter; it usually pretty much is. We will usually serve that with a grilled cheese sandwich. Even a toasted pb&j sammy, on occasion, goes surprisingly well with this. I know: it sounds odd. :)
I come from a family that does eat meat, and for this Christmas we changed it up and had ham. We bought it after Thanksgiving since it was on sale, and then froze it for dinner. After we'd had it a few nights, we froze it and made lentil soup with pieces of the ham in it. Nothing went to waste, and we ended up with a delicious meal!
I live alone and this is how I roll. My lazy way of doing a cheap, healthy wholefoods breakfast is to cook about 4 days worth of wholegrain porridge (oatmeal in the US) with grated carrot, grated apple, cinnamon and raisins in it. That sweetens it naturally, so no other sweeteners are needed (for my taste, anyway). I cook it all up on the first morning and eat one serving, cool, cover and and refrigerate the rest and then each morning put one serving in a seperate bowl and reheat in the microwave for a couple of minutes. It means that I can easily eat it each morning even when I'm in a rush, disorganised or just too lazy to cook. Cheap, VERY filling, and nutritious.
I do something similar. I use steel cut oats in a slow cooker. add whatever extras like frozen blueberries, nuts and coconut. there are endless combos. I agree with the cooking time makes it sweet enough. I do potion into individual containers so I know how many servings there are.
I don't like sweet oatmeal. When I do oatmeal, I will cook up a batch of steel cut and divide it up into individual servings for several days. I then reheat it in the microwave with nuts or seeds in it. Sometimes I have it with left over meat protein.
Hmm..I feel silly because I never thought about grating fruit to put in it..I work at school and sometimes get fruit they are getting rid of from the kitchen. Will have to try it.
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That sounds delicious.
Game changer for me was cooking my porridge in the instant pot, so fluffy and delicious.. I never get tired of it 😊
Maryland - breakfast, lunch, dinner
For people who aren't making breakfast for a family, I cook my oatmeal in my microwave. 1 1/2 minutes is usually enough to cook it. I usually put a banana in mine with walnuts. Since it's just me, I don't buy in bulk, but I always buy the store brand of oatmeal when it's on sale.
I used to buy myself a muffin when I bought groceries as a reward for going to the grocery store. The muffins went up to $1.25 each, so I stopped doing that. (Remember it's just me) I bought Martha White muffin mixes on sale for $0.95 and 1/2 cup of milk is $0.11 right now here. So I get 6 muffins when I use those for just 18 cents each.
I’m glad we are getting into soup season! I make soups from whatever leftovers, or I have a few go-tos. Cozy on a chilly evening!
I haven't eaten cereal in years. I used to purchase a box of Post Cereal with dates, nuts etc then pour a bowl of less expensive or free cereal and top it with some of the more expensive cereal. This gave me a healthy breakfast or snack but stretched the more costly item.
Due to the cost increase of cereal I no longer eat it. Opting instead for Cottage Cheese, 1/2 Banana, 1/2 and Avocado with a Teaspoon of Peanut Butter and 2 Tablespoons of Black Bean and Corn Salsa yummy and filling.
I too buy on clearance, sales, use digital and manufacturers coupons. All of which saves me a lot of money.
I just saved $330.20 / year on my car insurance offers by shopping around .
I’m 70 y/o, raised in a low income family of 12 in Ontario, Canada.
Breakfast
Dinner
Supper
“Lunch” was a snack after playing cards, going to Church or visiting with friends and family.
Hello Hope and Larry. We're from Michigan and it's supper here. My meals plans include what I have or on sale and isn't always specific for day and more ideas of what to have. It helps for leftovers or if we are busy and pull out something easier. Have a great day 😀
Oklahoma here...breakfast, lunch then dinner.
Hello Hope and Larry. I have been binging your videos for several weeks. One of your top 10, I was able to say "I do that, I do that.....". Really enjoy all of your content. Also a fan of excel . Would love to see a deep dive into the grocery shopping tracking system you have established. Thank you for being real.
Supper is every night, usually at 6pm.
Dinner is served on Sunday after church services around 1pm when you have all the kids (and the grand kids, cousins, niece/nephews, family friends 5 blocks down, the stranger you met on your way home) all come home for a weekly meal.
Basically dinner is Thanksgiving without the turkey... unless you just happen to be roasting a turkey that Sunday.
Midwest- Indiana specifically.
Not sure what they call it in the US but here in Australia we have what is called Imperfect Picks or Odd Bunch Picks which are perfectly good quality fruit and vegetables that might not look so aesthetically perfect. You can save a fair bit of money using these and they taste just as good as the more expensive perfectly looking stuff.
❤️🇦🇺 agree
We actually have a mail order place called "Misfits" in US that delivers fresh food that was rejected just because of how it looks. Great deal!
And they are just as healthy as the other.
California. Breakfast Lunch Dinner
Massachusetts... Same. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Good ideas! We make breakfast sandwiches sometimes and freeze them. We make homemade pancakes when we have those. Also, we just made homemade veggie soup with green beans from the garden and tomato sauce I made along with other veggies and fried and drained hamburger. So good! Would like to try a muffin recipe. Yum.
The evening meal is supper 😊
Thank you for another excellent video. Im disabled for 15 years and its getting so much more expensive hust for a medicare plan where i live. Small fixed i come. If not for the Senior Center that serves lubch free 5 days a week, i would be going hungry for sure!
Originally from Yorkshire with a welsh mum. Always breakfast dinner and tea. Main mealvwas always at midday wirh dad popping back from working locally. We always had porridge in thecwinter with dad making it daily. Now i am retired i have the time to make it but still pop it in the microwave 80% of the time. I followed your vid on making i stant oats and keep some ground up oats in a bottle so i can grab them when needed. Good for adding a little to my bread mix when i make it. I add pulped apple to porridge for sweetner. I am bottling it daily at the moment and can not keep up with the fruit falling from the trees. I am the onlybone eating it butbi still bottle all i can. It comes in as desert with yogurt as well. It all saves money inbthe long run.
Love your vids and look forward to watching them. I am a non meat eater as well. Saves a lot of cash.😊
After you mentioned red mesh bags first time, I bought all the produce I could get in them and they lasted in a fridge soo long. I kept inventing new dishes and save on vegetables, I forgot about that, thanks for reminding. Ours are big, here in EU, 2 or 4 pounds per produce for 1€ for smaller one and 2€ for larger.
Here’s my daily breakfast: 1 cup oatmeal mixed with 1 cup water, cooked on high in the microwave oven for one-and-a-half minutes. I then top the bowl with blueberries. While the oatmeal is cooking, I also heat up a mug-full of skim milk in a saucepan on high. I then squirt enough chocolate syrup into the hot milk mug to make my beverage delicious. Breakfast is ready usually within 2 minutes. No need to wait as the water boils on the stove. Growing up, my family always had breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I make mine in the microwave too. I think it tastes better that way. And super quick too.
Wow, you’re almost at 200,000 sub. I started with you when you were only 10,000. Always good information.
Thank you for being with us since the beginning! We appreciate it.
I love soups and stews! Made a french lentil rice soup yesterday, so tasty! Will be making it again 😊 One of my favourite salads in a texmex quinoa salad.
Western Canada, we call it dinner at our house (and we eat meats and dairy however have been eating more plant based due to recent health concerns. I didn’t realize how much plant based I already enjoyed 😅 and made before needing to look closer at our meals)
Thanks to your ideas (bulk buying and making at home), we have greatly reduced our food budget. I’ve started making and freezing my own waffles (using foraged blackberries in season) and they taste better than store bought and are cheaper per unit. Little wins add up to big wins. Thank you, Hope and Larry! Oh, PS- born in the south, my family called it supper😊
You have helped my family tremendously! Thank you so much for all of your amazing content!
We eat a lot of trail mix and it is different every time based on what I've gotten cheaply. Chocolate covered cranberries, yes please I scored 10 bags for free. Butterscotch chips for $.50 made an interesting batch.
Thanks again to both of you for reminding me of all the ways to eat healthy and frugally ! Love listening to you guys .
I do need to work on meal planning …although I’m great at making soup and using leftovers on the fly !
Whole rolled oats can be soaked in water overnight in the pot with a cover on it. It then cooks quickly.
These are some great tips and ideas, especially when prices go higher. Another helpful video. Thank you!
That's what I do because I don't eat a lot of meat but my son does because he works long hours everyday. Like one meal we have hamburgers then I make ,casseroles or wraps. I usually get 4-2 serving meals. And yes I have started buying rotisserie chickens at Sam's club and boning the chicken out packing it into 6oz. Freezer bags a.d making bone broth and canning it for later meals. And making egg noodles and dumplings stretch out the months meals. And even can the dark meat of the chicken in broth for chicken or noodle soups. I gleen my veggies so I can buy 4 rotisserie chickens $20., 4lbs organic grounded beef $17.46, 2 porkloins $17.00,$4.69 1lb. Bacon. 2 bags onions,3-10 lb. Bags of potatoes 2-2 lb. Bags carrots,1 head of cabbage,s5lbs selfrise flour&5 lbs. All purpose flour ,2lbs butter, 48 ozs veggie oil,spices,tea bags,sugar. That way I can make egg roll wraps,egg noodles,dumplings,soft tacos, 2lbs pinto beans ,2lbs long grain rice. I use my lefted over meats and veggies for egg rolls or burritos and freeze what's not Eatting for later lunches. I did spend more this month on meats but they usually extend over too the next month . I will only but a few meats. I have a master list of all meats veggies grains dairy spices. And recipes in one binder. And yes I've stock up for winter months because can't be in the cold.
Good morning from Germany 🙂
Hi, im Marion Kemp, im from London U.K. Lunch is our mid day meal & Dinner is the evening meal & supper may be a tiny snack.
How blessed to be so organizational & mathematically minded!!!
Dinner 😊
Used to fry up corn breaded okra, onion & potatoes, tasty.
Been in Alabama all my life. It's always been supper!
Being raised in the south, this is the way I was taught. Dinner is the largest meal of the day. So, if your largest meal of the day is in the middle of the day, then you’ll have dinner and supper will be in the evening. If your largest meal of the day is in the evening, then you’ll have lunch and dinner in the evening.
What! This is nuts haha! 😂 😊
Dinner! Born and raised in New Jersey
@@nadeawilliams7749 spent child hood at diners in Paramus with parents. They are making a comeback here in Monmouth county as they are beginning to offer the overstuffed specials you can get two meals out of at a fair price.
Thank u soo much for explaining Mint mobile!! 💓 It's next on the list! Thx yummie meals!! 😊
You guys are great! You are so sincere , and I love the tips 😊
Pancakes are even cheaper if you use powdered milk and water, instead of fresh milk
Larry's Dad joke is also appreciated 🤪
Breakfast for me is normally either egg bites, with eggs from my chickens, baked oatmeal, French toast or pancakes with homemade maple syrup.
I don't always eat lunch. But if I do, more often than not it's a PB and J sandwich.
Dinner varies. But I eat a lot of chicken. Since I'm a widow, I'll make enough for a family and freeze the leftovers in individual servings.
The only thing I normally splurge on is steak if it's on sale. But it's cheaper than going out for a steak dinner.
During 2020 The stores within walking distance never ran out of meat, most other items that I use n $ tree always had to n paper towels. I'm very frugal but do use paper towels .love your videos, been watching a long while.
I love cheese, but I don’t go overboard. In New England we called the evening meal supper.
In Upstate Central New York it’s supper.
Thank you , great advice 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇❤️❤️❤️we have a great Amish store near us, they also sell bulk foods, I get sugar for baking, flour, oats, 😇I also love wheat berries and gring my own flour/ supper 🤣🤣🤣
I just absolutely love your channel!
One way to strech ground meat is to saute up with lots of small diced or grated vegies like onion, carrot, mushrooms, zuccini, peppers. They will meld with the meat and can more than double it. I split and freeze the extra for a second meal.
Growing up dinner was at noon ( think farmers) supper was between 5 and 6. Now, dinner is early evening. Lol. I’m in Ontario Canada
In Ohio we called it supper, unless you went out to dinner or invited someone over to dinner. Dinner was special.
Dinner is special, everyday that you get to have it. I’m in NE Ohio & always referred to the last meal as dinner
Hope said it “I may have to raise my goal”. As an American I have to raise my goal for everything. Food, clothing, warmth, cool, taxes. It’s a nightmare. Sick of it. I never see anything at a deep discount anywhere by me.
We make a large pot of oatmeal with dried fruit and cinnamon cooked in it and on the weekend. We store it in the refrigerator and reheat it in the microwave daily. It tastes better than fresh made because the flavor of the fruit pervades the oatmeal as it sits. We don’t add sugar. The fruit is enough. This saves time in the morning, tastes better and makes a pretty good snack too.
If we have any leftover at the end of the week, I use it to make an oatmeal cake.
Great video!! Meal planning is a key to saving money, and you are right--it doesn't take as long as some may think. I grew up in a very small town in the Deep South, and it has always been breakfast, dinner, and supper.
Great tips! know you both are vegan and I totally respect that. I am not vegan. Meat and eggs were never a big part of my life/meals tho. I however am reconsidering. I've recently learned the FDA and USDA have been lying to us about the whole food pyramid etc.
I know this comment sounds crazy. You can/should research such for yourselves.
Doesn't sound crazy at all. It is right to question things and do research. We should take more responsibility,and not just believe what governments tell us.
Is it possible that the government was mistakenly relying on poor outdated science, rather than outright lying?
Tx here! We say dinner unless you speak Spanish. Then it's la cena, as it was in my house. 😀
English speakers in Quebec say supper if it is an informal meal at home or an informal meal in a restaurant such as a fast food one. However, we say dinner for a more formal meal at home or to celebrate or when inviting guests. If one goes to eat in a nice restaurant, it is called dinner also.
In parts of Uk, north west, breakfast, dinner then tea. Supper can be a light snack before bed.
Y'all are fabulous!! Have a blessed weekend. (Supper)
Lol 😂 we usually put it in a bowl 🥣