*Erratum* - the sausages in the breakfast meal are omitted from the nutrition analysis: meal and day totals should increase by 216 calories, 14g protein
amazing as always! would be cool to see the items get ticked off a mini info-graphic as they get used :) (also was the back burner on for the France adjacent soup? )
Oh yes! What a great idea! I would make it even more challenging. Possibly, there would be no electricity in post apocalyptic world. So prepare every meal without using electricity.
I realize, and appreciate the effort, I remember coming across this channel and was like this is different, and just never stopped watching discovering more and more "themes" or whatever you want to label them as like weird stuff in a can and the mud larking, the pickle making and of course the challenges this is the best channel on UA-cam in my opinion, thanks atomic shrimp
Yeah, somewhere close to 100 hours of work for the 5 episodes (that does include the shopping and cooking). For some types of content, it's more than an hour per minute of finished video. For this one, I cut corners on some of the editing, so the ratio is a bit more friendly
Yes, a "time budget" challenge would be interesting. There's also a budget challenge where you try to figure out how to make meals as if you are not in traditional housing and don't have all the mod cons (like a fridge, different cooking methods besides a hotplate, not a wide variety of utensils and seasonings, etc.). A lot of houseless people who reside in shelters or vehicles, etc. don't have a lot of options. I enjoyed your "chapatis." I have made those a million times and love to keep some in a sealed container in the fridge for meals (usually an accompanying bread for an Indian-type meal, just heat and serve with some chutney) and they are wonderful heated with a little bit of butter & jam as a snack.
Yeah i think that’s great, I also think another cool idea is cooking everything outside, for example on a fire with foraged ingredients. I wonder if he would have enough foragable food to forage everything ?
I agree, any challenge that gets shrimp in the kitchen is a delight to watch. He has such a unique cooking approach that inspires me to cook some less traditional things.
Bushcraft and Camping channels do all of the outdoor cooking all the time. They use limited ingredients because they have to pack and carry everything into the wilderness. Some forage, some fish, but YT restricts hunting to age limits, so none of the large channels hunt. TAOutdoors, Joe Robinett, Matthew Posa, Bushcraft Tools, Carlisle195- is a chef and camper. Townsends is a history channel that cooks recipes from the 1700's, using period recipes and techniques. There are plenty of channels that cook outside and with limited ingredients. Yes, he can totally do this, but his niche is in a different genre.
Atomic Shrimp Onion Soup sounds like something you'd forage out of an abandoned vending machine in Fallout or Bioshock! So happy to see you do one of these again :)
@@tenzinc1514 Lol, i was thinking more of mutated species of shrimp that are really big and spicy, and probably would eat you if they weren't in the soup :D
I second this! I’m short on time, and trying to eat unprocessed foods and no refined sugar, and I find it difficult...but I know there must be solutions!
As a vegetarian I use Marmite in stews and soups all the time for the "beefy" flavor. My favorite is mushroom stew loaded with potatoes, carrots, and onion. All your meals look good! Lots of variety and nutrition.
Atomic Shrimp have you considered doing a kind of historical type of eating on a budget where you use the limits established during wartime rationing? Ruth Goodman incorporated that during her series “Wartime Farm” and I thought it was so darn interesting. Just an idea!
Yeah, I've been thinking about that. Fun fact: the main location for Wartime Farm is just down the road from me. Funner fact: Jenny appears in the choir in the Christmas special episode.
@@AtomicShrimp that would be a great episode. I was thinking of that when I saw you using the lard and saving sausage fat. My parents were raised in the Depression and were very economical cooks. During the war here excess cooking fat was collected for the war effort for soap and lubricant. But it wasn't a requirement, people usually saved it to cook and impart favors to food.
Those tortillia are actually the italian traditional flat bread called Piadina. They are made with just flour, lard, baking power and salt and cooked on a cast iron skillet called "Testo"
You're really helping me discover how to substitute missing ingredients in my recipes. I am living off $2au a day as I'm a student however I buy groceries once a month and do urban foraging so it is easier. I know you're not playing poor but this is inspiring me to problem solve and make my own budget stretch further.
me and my dad did pretty much that, our weekly food spending was about $20 to $30AUD. luckily it's just because he thinks eating yummy food isn't necessary. a lot of bulk frozen meat from Chinatown, a lot of bulk rice / pasta.
Haha Eva wanting you to throw the rocks for her was adorable. I felt the frustration when you gave up and threw one to show her, I've definitely been there done that with my dog.
A limited time challenge would be very interesting for working people. Allowing say 1 hour for all food prep for a day. This could just be time actually spend chopping, frying etc and exclude something put in a slow cooker for a few hours as that is not "hands on" time. I think it would be an interesting exercise in product choice, finding convenience foods to help with your time limit such as tinned potatoes rather than fresh potatoes and how that affects flavour and nutritional potential as it's not always a clear cut thing.
I think this comment deserves a lot more likes. I'd have thought prep time is probably the biggest factor in a lot of people's reluctance to cook for themselves and choose ready meals or Just Eat. I know Mr Shrimp says he doesn't do these challenges to prove that people can get by on low budgets, but I'd like to think I'm learning from these videos. And yes, I'm aware that the likes of Jamie has done time limited food challenges, but I find Shrimp more engaging...
@@rogink Yes there are plenty of quick meal cook books and videos but they are all very self contained and rarely cooked on a budget. A challenge involving time but also keeping to a budget and doing multiple meals over the course of several days is much more of a realistic scenario. A simple example would be, frozen roast potatoes, how do they compare in terms of time, effort and money to a "real" roast potato. I have my suspicion that FRPs are cheaper than "real" RPs especially if you cook them in a small and efficient oven or air fryer. I know they are certainly faster for me, 25 mins freezer to table in my air fryer, minimal effort and attention. As good as a real RP, no, but not far off and they are pretty good for a midweek meal.
@@rogink Good point - prep time puts me off cooking sometimes. Would be great to see the Shrimp do 'time budget' cooking because it'd be realistic. Unlike Mr Oliver whose "30 minute recipes" only work if you've got servants.
Prep time is enjoyable for me. I used to watch/listen to cooking shows on a small tv whilst chopping and prepping. I now spend one hour a day doing something food related. Like gardening, soaking sprouting seeds, soaking beans, using a new-fangled Instant Pot to pressure cook, and a rice cooker for rice, barley, quinoa, and millet. This morning I spent 5 minutes starting brown rice in the rice cooker and "boiled" 12 eggs in the Instant Pot. This is prep work for making egg salad later for lunches, plus I have plans to make a salmon loaf from the brown rice and canned salmon. That loaf will feed us for a week. A cucumber, tomato, sweet onion, and sunflower salad will take me 10 minutes. This is the principle of "cook once, eat many times". So one hour of prep a week yields quick meals all week.
It would be really interesting to do a "limited ingredients" challenge rather than limited budget where you have to find lots of different uses in as many distinct dishes as you can.
@Eredin Glas mr Shrimp asked in the video what we thought about a limited time or other challenge. It's pretty normal to make suggestions to content creators, so I dont know why you're complaining.
I feel like he's already done this with all of his previous limited budget challenges, honestly... I'd like to see something a bit different like one with more foraging (at a different time of year to what he's previously done), or some of the other suggestions I've seen :)
@Adolfthejewbaka _ Bold of you to assume everyone have time to watch Netflix before heading back to the IDE. Edit: unfortunately those people won't have time to watch these things(Atomic Shrimp) though, so you do have a point.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ bit presumptive to assume they're not spending their time on more serious things, no? Just makes you out to look a bit rude and naive.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ it’s not just the physical time, it’s the energy left after work, kids homework, looking after a home and family. Some days are exhausting and the media you mention is the only thing that people are capable of doing as an escape / for pleasure before collapsing into bed. YMMV
@Adolfthejewbaka _ I work a full-time job and am essentially the sole caregiver to my teenager. I do not have a lot of free time. I cook every single meal however, in large batches, on my weekends and occasionally on a weeknight if I have the energy. I have small amounts of downtime at work where I can watch UA-cam for a few minutes at a time. Please don't be so presumptuous as to assume that every single person watching these videos wouldn't benefit from them, or benefit from a variation of them using less time as a key element, just because we have the time to browse UA-cam. I'll also add that not everyone has the same physical capabilities as I do to be able to cook for as long as I do at any given time; people with different abilities could definitely benefit from ideas to minimize cooking prep time.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ I think you have a good point in that most people who "don't have the time" just fail to make the time. That said there is value in quick recipes. Everything takes longer when you are learning and also more mentally taxing. So the pasta sauce I can throw together in the time it takes to cook the pasta may be a reasonable limit to a less experienced cook.
For lovely soft tortilla's without needing lard, you mix flower with cooked, hot potatoes (peeled), until the mixture comes together and it can be rolled out. Lard can be used to fry them, but is not necessary. You'll up the nutrients in your tortilla's too. Don't know if this works with self-raising flower, however.
The idea of limited preparation time is excellent. Reminds me of the recent video Dan Olson did "Jamie Oliver's War on Chicken Nuggets". Goes to show that oftentimes the more scarce resource is the preparation time.
I have never been so emotionally invested in whether or not a sourdough starter works. This series of videos has been great, Mr. Shrimp! My favourites so far.
I always love your videos, I have ADHD and I wouldn't usually be able to sit through these type of videos but for some reason I find yours really intriguing!
Loving this series! I lost my job in October and have been struggling with the rising cost of food here in Canada. You videos help myself and others see that they can have satisfied, full tummies with simple, humble ingredients. Please do more of this series, these videos truly help us!
this is kind of my takeaway from this. While we are not struggeling (yet) with food cost we have surely noticed the increase so I think it can never harm to be frugal.
Simple "going for a walk" videos are lovely to watch, I've really enjoyed the ones you've done so far even though you were plum tuckered out by the end !!!!! Love these budget cooking videos, as per comments below perhaps in the summer you could do an "apocalypse" cooking thing.....I'm sure you'd find a way to create an outdoor oven and hob of sorts. I can see it now, the wood smoke, the sunset, the burnt eyebrows.....
I learned pre-prepared meal prep during the pandemic. Almost always now cook double or triple of what I need and use the remainder throughout the working week for various meals, usually quick dinners after coming home from work. I also regularly cook sausage rolls purely to eat them later cold.
Have you ever thought about or indeed written a cook book? I know you have done this as a challenge, but I think that budget friendly recipes would be invaluable to many especially with the option of adding better quality ingredients as and when budget allows
You can use most root vegetables for cake because they’re naturally quite sweet!. My grandma made a parsnip cake that tasted almost identical to carrot cake and a friend of mine uses courgette in a really nice lemon and lime cake recipe I reckon some curry powder (or similar spice) in those vegetable rostis would be lovely
When I was a very young child in around 1974, 1975, I was 6/7 years old. One thing I remember about that time was how my mother would be constantly experimenting with dishes. I am 1 of 6, hindsight tells me the experimentation was most likely due to having a limited budget at that time. I know my father was out of work for that period, and the general economic situation of the UK was pretty dire. I find this type of content extremely interesting and educational. Today's youngsters take note!
I'm defo taking note, I'm gonna need to start cooking for myself at some point this year. I'm very much paying attention to some of the interesting recipes here that are made with such a small budget.
@@whitebeartigtig I'm a "sort of" Prepper, I always make sure I've got ample food. Not a 5 year pantry but just enough to get me through 3 to 6 months. I lived for a few years in Shetland where most food stocks are delivered by sea from Aberdeen. I learned the lesson on my first winter, when the ferries stop. The food stocks soon run out. Did learn pickling when I got snowed in!
@@whitebeartigtig I'm a "sort of" Prepper, I always make sure I've got ample food. Not a 5 year pantry but just enough to get me through 3 to 6 months. I lived for a few years in Shetland where most food stocks are delivered by sea from Aberdeen. I learned the lesson on my first winter, when the ferries stop. The food stocks soon run out. Did learn pickling when I got snowed in!
I could imagine my Tennessee grandmother using that flatbread dough to make drop dumplings: pinching off bits the size of a coin into boiling soup until cooked through. She would have used chicken of course, but a vegetable soup would work. The surface starch thickens the soup into a gravy. (And yes you would also cook potatoes with the chicken and dumplings, because you have to make it stretch.)
Good morning to you~ I've been up all night waiting for this to drop. I love your LBCs the most of your content -- it gives me ideas for how to be more frugal with my own food budget, and more creative with what I can make with limited ingredients!
Great series. You can feel you're getting more comfortably into your stride with working with this particular combo of available ingredients as the days go by and it's so fun to watch. (Someone commented on a previous video it's like watching someone solve an interesting puzzle and I completely agree.) The foraging segments are so fascinating. I would love to see a more in depth video now and then with that as the focus. (Maybe some more plant close ups to illustrate the differences between similar plants and/or even more detailed commentary. Maybe incorporating "3 Recipes Featuring Crow Garlic" or whatever, with dressings/salad/soup, etc.) I also second the wartime rationing and apocalypse challenge suggestions. I don't know how fun these things might be for you to produce, but I'm just adding my wishlist anyway for whatever it's worth. :)
My response to any question of the form 'What if I did a budget/time budget/strict diet challenge?' is yes. Do them all. Start as soon as you're ready. Your presentation and thoughts about these topics is what I'm here for, often more than the topics themselves. So if it interests you, it interests me.
May i add, that you teach us all that we spend far too much on processed ready made foods, full of fat and salt, which is really bad for us. You have an amazing speaking voice, you pronounce every word perfectly. A big thanks for teaching us that less is quite often more.
try adding a pinch of bicarbonate of soda to onions when caramelising them. It speeds up the process and actually breaks the onion down into a jam which is great for things like soup.
Love these challenge videos. A possible video idea could be to write down a large amount of basic ingredients, seperate them into a tin, and blindly pick a few to create a recipe using these limited chosen ingredients. See what you can create?
Half the fun of your "budget" videos is watching you putter around the kitchen doing meal prep, it gives a peek inside your reasoning process. That said, I AM a bit odd, so a "time challenge" series might go over well with many viewers. As long as Eva makes her random appearances, I'll watch just about any video you put out.
It's why I love these. AS says it and it switches on a light bulb. Of course lard is better for frying rather than oil & butter from a cost & flavour perspective. Another way to change the way that I shop & cook.
We boil equal amounts of carrot, swede and potato together for a tastier, healthier mash. As the swede holds quite a bit of water/juice, it needs no butter or milk and it's very nice with sausages and gravy
On the time as a budget , I always like to count the "tools" used to put together a meal, for example boil broccoli and then once drained use the same pot to fry bacon
I like that you didn't forage in this series - helps to make it work for those who might want to do similar but don't have the knowhow to do the foraging part.
I'm not as interested in budgeting of preparation time as much as I'm interested in the budgeting of energy used to cook. I'm imagining your clever thoughts and explanations about the use of soaking times, cooking rice by bringing it to a boil, covering it with something insulating to finish its cooking time, maybe even making home made solar cooker out of aluminium foil. What clever things can be done by cooking many things in the oven all at once? It's a great series.
It would be fascinating to take those oysters and have them analysed. Maybe they are safe to eat or maybe it will be an unfortunate reflection of the local industry.
the oyster beds in the Southampton Water have been surveyed by the food standards agency, but the concern with them these days is sewage discharge from water companies because the shellfish were found with high levels of E.Coli in and they stopped people from harvesting them in a certain area. I'm not sure if that's still the case but i know the water companies are still discharging sewage, as this is currently a hot topic all around the Solent area.
This is a great series. Really enjoyable. I suppose an energy budget would be just as interesting as time. Also, and this might come out in part 5, it would be really interesting to see a food plan video, where you worked out your meals for the week, and the benefits of that approach.
Budgeting the time seems like a great idea, since for many of us that is thr main thing holding us back from cooking meals. I have the money for ingredients (not a lot of money, but about 10-20€ for week of food) but school and work keeps me too busy to cook. It'd be really helpful to get some ideas on how I can time my cooking and what things can/should be prepared in advance .
Your resourcefulness is fantastic! I don’t know what comes in the next two days, but prepping early would have afforded you more opportunities. Particularly with your vegetable stock. It’s day three and you have all that yummy stuff, but if you made your stock on day one, and your stew on day 3 you would have quite the breakfast! I’m a chef, and it is captivating watching you do these challenges. It’s impressive, and it is giving me some really cool ideas!
Loving this mini series. It's amazing how much you learn (Eva is a half wit was the funny one). But the highlight of today I reckon was the onion soup. It looked rather tasty.
Love the series. I'd definitely be interested in a limited time challenge, as someone who doesn't really have the skill or patience for cooking seeing someone with your skills prepare tasty meals quickly would give me some ideas.
I like this series, and think 5 days is decent enough time to delve into the concept and not wear yourself out. The time budget idea sounds like an especially good experiment, and hope you'll give that a go at some point. Thank you for talking through the not-foraging parts. Very engaging video.
I loved the flatbread vs tortilla explanation . Expectations now appropriately set. :') edit: also loved sad burritos. A time budget challenge sounds interesting: might be some great ideas to pick up from those videos.
Would love to see a week of just what you would usually eat in a week and more of you going round a supermarket with commentary! Love those videos! Keep it up! :)
Love these challenges. I'd love to see a foraging only challenge for a couple of days (or perhaps a foraging + some extras if that's too difficult). Although I guess that'll depend a lot on the time of year!
Love the idea of "time budget" videos. Many people are time poor rather than extremely cash poor. I'm one of them, though I am still on a limited budget.
As a student, videos like this are really helpful for different ideas for meals that'll use up ingredients in my cupboard and won't be out of my budget, obviously my budget isn't as strict. So many cooking videos require things that aren't easy to find, aren't versatile, and certainly won't be in lidil. Keep up the good work!
I think your point that this is not proof "people on benefits can make do with less" in the description is spot on. Yes you can survive on ~£5 for 5 days, but to do that you are using extra spices (which have a cost), liberal amounts of salt (that has a cost), pepper, water, power, equipment and utensils. Possibly more important is a willingness and ability to cook from scratch, to make adjustments for available ingredients, and a willingness to eat "interesting" dishes.
Thanks for doing this series again, it's really great to see a series like this done by someone really knowledgable. I am just at the bit where you are considering the time saving aspect by cooking in bulk but something that I was thinking (which has never been more relevant) is the energy factor. It would be great if you had or could get (or create an Amazon wishlist for some of these things and we can buy them for you) but an energy meter to estimate the cost of cooking 15 separate meals as opposed to bulk cooking 80% of your food on Day 1 and simply reheating? Might make an interesting video because the energy costs for all of this for 5 days might be as much as (or more than) £5...
I’ve just discovered your videos as of last night and I’ve been binging! You’re so innovative and I’m learning a lot. I love how thorough you are, thank you so much for sharing with us!
I spent 2-1/2 hours making 14 delicious meals from scratch. If you divide the time by 14, that is not bad for relatively inexpensive, delicious healthy meals. By batch cooking, you won't waste produce that might spoil. Also by portioning meals, less likely to overeat. Won't eat all 14 meals this week, will freeze some, and supplement with previously prepared meals. Doing this means you always have good meal options. Less temptation to get fast food or order 🍕. TFS
That is blazing fast, especially if you divide up the time used by the dished made. I just spend an hour making (as in actually rolling) rice balls the other day, took me almost an hour. But we did eat them on three days, but still. :D
Would love the time challenge. Also thanks for inspiring me to cook more variable. Watching you makes me wanna cook good stuff instead of throwing together whatever or even just eating raw whatever i can grab from the fridge. So ty for adjusting my priorities. Cooking a good quick meal after a hard day is so much more rewarding and replenishing than dropping onto the sofa & doing nothing
Soup looked really nice. Sausage croutons are a game changer the French are missing. Probably already have meals planned out, but think you have the stuff for onion bhajis. Be interested to see if you had that in mind already if its in a later episode.
Came to the channel for more ideas on how to feed self healthily on a tiny budget for next few months. Stayed for your creativity and engaging personality (also Eva). The foraging parts of your content are interesting but I find the recipes you make up without them more relatable as I live in a very urban environment. Restricted prep time is a great content idea - interesting and useful. One of the biggest food struggles is when you are out at work all week but still need to keep your meals really cheap.
Seems like everything is getting along nicely. Have to imagine you'll be a tad done with onions for a little while after this. It would be good to see a quick summary of what's left on day 4 to see where you're at ingredients wise. Great show!
A limited time eating challenge could be great - especially if you focused on making it nutritional as possible, since it feels like a common hindrance to eating healthy is often time over anything else
and hell yeah a limited time challenge would be cool! i'd also love to see a sort of "random challenge", like you did with the ingredients - write the food down, put the papers in the jar (or jars, if maybe you wanna do 'protein', 'carb', 'fruits and vegs' separately) and try to make a meal with what comes up :)
Ive been watching your scambaiting vids for a few years, which have brought me so much entertainment, but im just recently going through some of the other playlists you've got here. I'm really enjoying these budget challenges
It would be interesting to see you do a comparison challenge - a meal using the most expensive ingredients you can find, compared to the cheapest ingredients!
Well he probably couldn’t afford “the most expensive” but maybe just expensive ingredients would count. Or maybe the most expensive at major supermarkets.
These are SO fascinating to watch, not sure why, but I absolutely love these videos and find myself craving more immediately! I'm already crossing my fingers you'll go straight into another similar challenge (in fact I'd love to see another one with more foraging, maybe even with foraging as the main part). It's interesting that you've managed to overshoot the nutritional targets by so much on every day (except day 1, which is clearly down to just having 2 meals - plus I guess you adjusted accordingly?) - it will be interesting to see if you're lacking anything by day 5 (variety, in particular)!
You are sharing wonderful ideas for many who's budget is tottering on the edge and sharing excellent Ideas with those of us who, don't have a limitless budget, and need the spark of inspiration.
A lot of weekly meal plans work with batch-cooking stuff, like making a double portion of rice today and using the other half tomorrow. Or one day's tomato sauce becomes another day's soup (with water and some vegetables added). I think it'd be interesting to see you come up with one on the fly.
i found it super interesting how you picked your spices. What would you think about a 2 day challenge in which you write down a bunch of ingredients (or even have your fans submit ingredients to a database) and then randomly select say 1 type of fat (butter, lard, heavy cream, olive oil, sesame oil etc), 3 fruits, 7 veggies, 2 grain based things (quinoa, bulgur, rye bread, cookies, crackers, white rice...), 5 herbs/spices, maybe even something like cooking methods (deep fry, oven, boil, pan fry, open fire, etc), and you go to the supermarket without a budget, but you have to use all selected ingredients and methods. Maybe you re-roll your cooking method for every meal or something like that to make it worse :D
I do this. I buy clearance produce and meats and then decide what i'm making afterwards. :) Saves a ton of money and keeps cooking from being boring! In WW2 they used carrots to sweeten cookies and all kinds of things, so it doesn't surprise me that your cakes were sweet. :)
Time budget challenge would be cool. Also, have you ever thought about using a go-pro (or some other action cam) on a headstrap? Might be an easier way to avoid some difficulties when filming and cooking at the same time.
Sometimes I stop and reflect on the the food I've been eating, and I usually find it to be cheap. Mind you, I buy locally produced things since I live in a village where there are farmers.But still, food can be cheap if you know what you're doing and if you forage a bit. I love these "on a budget"-videos. They make you think, so thank you for that and the other great content!
*Erratum* - the sausages in the breakfast meal are omitted from the nutrition analysis: meal and day totals should increase by 216 calories, 14g protein
loved the mini root cakes gotta get the carrrot cakes in when you can adds plenty of breakfast sweetness
Damn ur good. Love the content
This is the first time I had ever seen, read, that word
Thankyou
thaw some sauceages and use your flour and lard and a bit of caramelised onion to make a pork pie, if you get a herby bonus, it'll be delicious
amazing as always! would be cool to see the items get ticked off a mini info-graphic as they get used :) (also was the back burner on for the France adjacent soup? )
I’d love to see an “apocalypse” challenge only using items that would last 5+ years on the shelf. Thank you for your great videos!
Oh yes! What a great idea! I would make it even more challenging. Possibly, there would be no electricity in post apocalyptic world. So prepare every meal without using electricity.
Brilliant
This would be awesome. Especially including Davids idea below of no electricity.
wow this is a great idea
While I think having both a monetary and temporal budget sounds like a good challenge, I think this sounds even better.
Not sure people realise how much effort goes into making these videos and all the editing . Great videos
truly. it's like 6 hours of editing for 15 minutes of content, bonkers
I realize, but I don't know!
Absolutely! Cheers! Atomic Shrimp.
I realize, and appreciate the effort, I remember coming across this channel and was like this is different, and just never stopped watching discovering more and more "themes" or whatever you want to label them as like weird stuff in a can and the mud larking, the pickle making and of course the challenges this is the best channel on UA-cam in my opinion, thanks atomic shrimp
Yeah, somewhere close to 100 hours of work for the 5 episodes (that does include the shopping and cooking). For some types of content, it's more than an hour per minute of finished video. For this one, I cut corners on some of the editing, so the ratio is a bit more friendly
Another classic dad joke: "I've never really cried peeling onions; never really thought of it as that sad" 😂 what a legend. Great series, once again
Eva is the doggiest dog ever. Such a sweet and energetic girl
i cant say that. my dog may have internet access. he's a crafty little rascal. god forbid him hearing me say i like another dog more than him.
Adorable little half-wit isn't she?
@@richardlooch2109 what sort of reply is this lmao. Loved it, really made me laugh!
This is the commentiest comment, such a funny and creative comment
Yes, a "time budget" challenge would be interesting. There's also a budget challenge where you try to figure out how to make meals as if you are not in traditional housing and don't have all the mod cons (like a fridge, different cooking methods besides a hotplate, not a wide variety of utensils and seasonings, etc.). A lot of houseless people who reside in shelters or vehicles, etc. don't have a lot of options.
I enjoyed your "chapatis." I have made those a million times and love to keep some in a sealed container in the fridge for meals (usually an accompanying bread for an Indian-type meal, just heat and serve with some chutney) and they are wonderful heated with a little bit of butter & jam as a snack.
Yeah i think that’s great, I also think another cool idea is cooking everything outside, for example on a fire with foraged ingredients. I wonder if he would have enough foragable food to forage everything ?
@paravandroid yeah. I think they couldn’t definitely do something like that
And limited toilet roll and no shower or bath.
I agree, any challenge that gets shrimp in the kitchen is a delight to watch. He has such a unique cooking approach that inspires me to cook some less traditional things.
Bushcraft and Camping channels do all of the outdoor cooking all the time. They use limited ingredients because they have to pack and carry everything into the wilderness. Some forage, some fish, but YT restricts hunting to age limits, so none of the large channels hunt.
TAOutdoors, Joe Robinett, Matthew Posa, Bushcraft Tools, Carlisle195- is a chef and camper. Townsends is a history channel that cooks recipes from the 1700's, using period recipes and techniques. There are plenty of channels that cook outside and with limited ingredients. Yes, he can totally do this, but his niche is in a different genre.
Atomic Shrimp Onion Soup sounds like something you'd forage out of an abandoned vending machine in Fallout or Bioshock!
So happy to see you do one of these again :)
Shrimp onion soup that’s survived a atomic bomb is probably gross asf
@@tenzinc1514 Lol, i was thinking more of mutated species of shrimp that are really big and spicy, and probably would eat you if they weren't in the soup :D
@@TrustworthyFella and eat a onion, and then some water soup
@@TrustworthyFella it all comes together in your stomach
youre telling me a shrimp onioned this soup?
I love when you cover things you can't forage "because swans belong to the Queen," and "because that's called rustling."
I read somewhere that its only mute swans.
ah yes the queen.
No the swans AND the whales belong to the King.
@@amsodoneworkingnow1978The “King” IS a whale
These are the absolute best way to wake up! Nothing more lovely than having my morning cup of tea and watching your videos! So very relaxing.
Couldn’t agree more! ❤️
Same 💚
Same here 🤗
especially on a sunday
Same!
Restricted prep time series is an amazing idea. A good variety of dishes from healthy, reasonably priced raw ingredients.
I second this! I’m short on time, and trying to eat unprocessed foods and no refined sugar, and I find it difficult...but I know there must be solutions!
My dad always held that the French had no claim to something as simple and universal as onion soup, and called it Northumbrionion Soup in protest
From the rural US a year later, I'm taking up his cause somewhere I just might be able to get it some purchase.
As a vegetarian I use Marmite in stews and soups all the time for the "beefy" flavor. My favorite is mushroom stew loaded with potatoes, carrots, and onion. All your meals look good! Lots of variety and nutrition.
This series is really making me think my kitchen is missing marmite. I am going to add it to the grocery list this week!
So you're not vegetarian then
@@swanningabout What's the joke I'm missing?
@@digitalspecter It's not a joke mate. Marmite not being vegetarian but consumed by the poster who says they are Vegetarian
@@swanningabout What is non veg about a byproduct of beer production?
Have you considered making chili "oil"? Melt lard and fry the chili flakes in it, then use the lard for recepies to extend it.
Did he have chilli flakes in his budgeted ingredients? Or did you just mean generally?
@@ricos1497 he drew chili flakes as one of the 5 spices he could use in the first video
Yes 1 tsp chili flakes (see day 1)
@@ricos1497 he did have that in the little jar of choices he could use!
Hes made chili oil for a budget challenge, I’m pretty sure
Atomic Shrimp have you considered doing a kind of historical type of eating on a budget where you use the limits established during wartime rationing?
Ruth Goodman incorporated that during her series “Wartime Farm” and I thought it was so darn interesting.
Just an idea!
Yeah, I've been thinking about that. Fun fact: the main location for Wartime Farm is just down the road from me. Funner fact: Jenny appears in the choir in the Christmas special episode.
@@AtomicShrimp oh how cool! That must have been an awesome experience for her.
@@AtomicShrimp what makes it a "fun" fact?
@@swanningabout You have a problem with use of idiom?
@@AtomicShrimp that would be a great episode. I was thinking of that when I saw you using the lard and saving sausage fat. My parents were raised in the Depression and were very economical cooks. During the war here excess cooking fat was collected for the war effort for soap and lubricant. But it wasn't a requirement, people usually saved it to cook and impart favors to food.
Those tortillia are actually the italian traditional flat bread called Piadina. They are made with just flour, lard, baking power and salt and cooked on a cast iron skillet called "Testo"
You're really helping me discover how to substitute missing ingredients in my recipes. I am living off $2au a day as I'm a student however I buy groceries once a month and do urban foraging so it is easier. I know you're not playing poor but this is inspiring me to problem solve and make my own budget stretch further.
you need your own videos!
me and my dad did pretty much that, our weekly food spending was about $20 to $30AUD. luckily it's just because he thinks eating yummy food isn't necessary. a lot of bulk frozen meat from Chinatown, a lot of bulk rice / pasta.
Pretty sure you didnt intend it lol but urban foraging is a jokey way of saying shoplifting where im from
Haha Eva wanting you to throw the rocks for her was adorable. I felt the frustration when you gave up and threw one to show her, I've definitely been there done that with my dog.
A limited time challenge would be very interesting for working people. Allowing say 1 hour for all food prep for a day. This could just be time actually spend chopping, frying etc and exclude something put in a slow cooker for a few hours as that is not "hands on" time.
I think it would be an interesting exercise in product choice, finding convenience foods to help with your time limit such as tinned potatoes rather than fresh potatoes and how that affects flavour and nutritional potential as it's not always a clear cut thing.
I think this comment deserves a lot more likes. I'd have thought prep time is probably the biggest factor in a lot of people's reluctance to cook for themselves and choose ready meals or Just Eat.
I know Mr Shrimp says he doesn't do these challenges to prove that people can get by on low budgets, but I'd like to think I'm learning from these videos.
And yes, I'm aware that the likes of Jamie has done time limited food challenges, but I find Shrimp more engaging...
@@rogink Yes there are plenty of quick meal cook books and videos but they are all very self contained and rarely cooked on a budget. A challenge involving time but also keeping to a budget and doing multiple meals over the course of several days is much more of a realistic scenario.
A simple example would be, frozen roast potatoes, how do they compare in terms of time, effort and money to a "real" roast potato. I have my suspicion that FRPs are cheaper than "real" RPs especially if you cook them in a small and efficient oven or air fryer. I know they are certainly faster for me, 25 mins freezer to table in my air fryer, minimal effort and attention. As good as a real RP, no, but not far off and they are pretty good for a midweek meal.
@@rogink Good point - prep time puts me off cooking sometimes. Would be great to see the Shrimp do 'time budget' cooking because it'd be realistic. Unlike Mr Oliver whose "30 minute recipes" only work if you've got servants.
Prep time is enjoyable for me. I used to watch/listen to cooking shows on a small tv whilst chopping and prepping. I now spend one hour a day doing something food related. Like gardening, soaking sprouting seeds, soaking beans, using a new-fangled Instant Pot to pressure cook, and a rice cooker for rice, barley, quinoa, and millet. This morning I spent 5 minutes starting brown rice in the rice cooker and "boiled" 12 eggs in the Instant Pot. This is prep work for making egg salad later for lunches, plus I have plans to make a salmon loaf from the brown rice and canned salmon. That loaf will feed us for a week. A cucumber, tomato, sweet onion, and sunflower salad will take me 10 minutes. This is the principle of "cook once, eat many times". So one hour of prep a week yields quick meals all week.
Love the
"Look what you could have foraged" segment, brilliant.
It would be really interesting to do a "limited ingredients" challenge rather than limited budget where you have to find lots of different uses in as many distinct dishes as you can.
I agree
onion and potato would totally be the stars of that challenge
@Eredin Glas You know Shrimp literally asks for feedback and video suggestions, right? you'd know that if you watched his videos.
@Eredin Glas mr Shrimp asked in the video what we thought about a limited time or other challenge. It's pretty normal to make suggestions to content creators, so I dont know why you're complaining.
I feel like he's already done this with all of his previous limited budget challenges, honestly... I'd like to see something a bit different like one with more foraging (at a different time of year to what he's previously done), or some of the other suggestions I've seen :)
A lot of people do have busy lives, and won't have a lot of time for cooking.
I'd be interested in a challenge that puts restrictions on cooking time.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ Bold of you to assume everyone have time to watch Netflix before heading back to the IDE.
Edit: unfortunately those people won't have time to watch these things(Atomic Shrimp) though, so you do have a point.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ bit presumptive to assume they're not spending their time on more serious things, no? Just makes you out to look a bit rude and naive.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ it’s not just the physical time, it’s the energy left after work, kids homework, looking after a home and family. Some days are exhausting and the media you mention is the only thing that people are capable of doing as an escape / for pleasure before collapsing into bed. YMMV
@Adolfthejewbaka _ I work a full-time job and am essentially the sole caregiver to my teenager. I do not have a lot of free time. I cook every single meal however, in large batches, on my weekends and occasionally on a weeknight if I have the energy. I have small amounts of downtime at work where I can watch UA-cam for a few minutes at a time. Please don't be so presumptuous as to assume that every single person watching these videos wouldn't benefit from them, or benefit from a variation of them using less time as a key element, just because we have the time to browse UA-cam. I'll also add that not everyone has the same physical capabilities as I do to be able to cook for as long as I do at any given time; people with different abilities could definitely benefit from ideas to minimize cooking prep time.
@Adolfthejewbaka _ I think you have a good point in that most people who "don't have the time" just fail to make the time. That said there is value in quick recipes. Everything takes longer when you are learning and also more mentally taxing. So the pasta sauce I can throw together in the time it takes to cook the pasta may be a reasonable limit to a less experienced cook.
For lovely soft tortilla's without needing lard, you mix flower with cooked, hot potatoes (peeled), until the mixture comes together and it can be rolled out. Lard can be used to fry them, but is not necessary. You'll up the nutrients in your tortilla's too. Don't know if this works with self-raising flower, however.
Just a tip for you, you used the wrong type of flour. Flower is relating to the plant, however flour is relating to the food. 👍🏻
@@megsmith6758 Theyre MSc, not MEng
Sounds like a potato farl!
Nothing better than an Atomic Shrimp cooking video to start the day. Cheers Mike!
All with the Atomic Shrimp Onion Soup
The idea of limited preparation time is excellent. Reminds me of the recent video Dan Olson did "Jamie Oliver's War on Chicken Nuggets". Goes to show that oftentimes the more scarce resource is the preparation time.
I have never been so emotionally invested in whether or not a sourdough starter works. This series of videos has been great, Mr. Shrimp! My favourites so far.
I always love your videos, I have ADHD and I wouldn't usually be able to sit through these type of videos but for some reason I find yours really intriguing!
Necessity is the mother of all invention & limitation breeds creativity. There is always something to inspire in these videos!
12:55 was such a dog owner moment! Anything you pick up around a dog, they think you’ll throw it for them
Loving this series! I lost my job in October and have been struggling with the rising cost of food here in Canada. You videos help myself and others see that they can have satisfied, full tummies with simple, humble ingredients. Please do more of this series, these videos truly help us!
God bless Canada. ♥️
this is kind of my takeaway from this. While we are not struggeling (yet) with food cost we have surely noticed the increase so I think it can never harm to be frugal.
@@steff8069 It definitely makes it easier to make it a habit before you really need it.
Simple "going for a walk" videos are lovely to watch, I've really enjoyed the ones you've done so far even though you were plum tuckered out by the end !!!!! Love these budget cooking videos, as per comments below perhaps in the summer you could do an "apocalypse" cooking thing.....I'm sure you'd find a way to create an outdoor oven and hob of sorts. I can see it now, the wood smoke, the sunset, the burnt eyebrows.....
I learned pre-prepared meal prep during the pandemic. Almost always now cook double or triple of what I need and use the remainder throughout the working week for various meals, usually quick dinners after coming home from work.
I also regularly cook sausage rolls purely to eat them later cold.
I really love it when Eva starts yelling! She makes me smile.
I know, right! So sassy
'Throw the ball! Oh, throw! The! Ball!' 8-P
Love her! My dog was barking and looking around the house haha. Bless him x
Have you ever thought about or indeed written a cook book? I know you have done this as a challenge, but I think that budget friendly recipes would be invaluable to many especially with the option of adding better quality ingredients as and when budget allows
You can use most root vegetables for cake because they’re naturally quite sweet!. My grandma made a parsnip cake that tasted almost identical to carrot cake and a friend of mine uses courgette in a really nice lemon and lime cake recipe
I reckon some curry powder (or similar spice) in those vegetable rostis would be lovely
Zucchini chocolate cake and beetroot chocolate cake are favourites of mine. So moist.
When I was a very young child in around 1974, 1975, I was 6/7 years old. One thing I remember about that time was how my mother would be constantly experimenting with dishes. I am 1 of 6, hindsight tells me the experimentation was most likely due to having a limited budget at that time. I know my father was out of work for that period, and the general economic situation of the UK was pretty dire.
I find this type of content extremely interesting and educational. Today's youngsters take note!
I'm defo taking note, I'm gonna need to start cooking for myself at some point this year. I'm very much paying attention to some of the interesting recipes here that are made with such a small budget.
Seems like we are heading into dire times once again, so said experimentation will come in handy
@@whitebeartigtig I'm a "sort of" Prepper, I always make sure I've got ample food. Not a 5 year pantry but just enough to get me through 3 to 6 months.
I lived for a few years in Shetland where most food stocks are delivered by sea from Aberdeen. I learned the lesson on my first winter, when the ferries stop. The food stocks soon run out.
Did learn pickling when I got snowed in!
@@whitebeartigtig I'm a "sort of" Prepper, I always make sure I've got ample food. Not a 5 year pantry but just enough to get me through 3 to 6 months.
I lived for a few years in Shetland where most food stocks are delivered by sea from Aberdeen. I learned the lesson on my first winter, when the ferries stop. The food stocks soon run out.
Did learn pickling when I got snowed in!
A today’s youngster here, definitely taking lots of notes!
Absolutely loving this series Mr Shrimp. Thank you for taking the trouble to make it - oh and Eva...adorable.
I could imagine my Tennessee grandmother using that flatbread dough to make drop dumplings: pinching off bits the size of a coin into boiling soup until cooked through. She would have used chicken of course, but a vegetable soup would work. The surface starch thickens the soup into a gravy. (And yes you would also cook potatoes with the chicken and dumplings, because you have to make it stretch.)
Stew and dumplings is very popular in the UK or it was when I was growing up. Instead of soup you would drop the dumplings into a stew
This gives me some nice ideas for Allotment Harvest Glut. Will try the "rösti" with Jerusalem Artichokes. And grow some swedes this year
Oh thats a good idea
It’s 1am here but I’m definitely staying up to watch this
3am here 🙃
@@Jabozanator you and me both
@@Jabozanator saaame lol but i must consume
Good morning to you~ I've been up all night waiting for this to drop. I love your LBCs the most of your content -- it gives me ideas for how to be more frugal with my own food budget, and more creative with what I can make with limited ingredients!
Great series. You can feel you're getting more comfortably into your stride with working with this particular combo of available ingredients as the days go by and it's so fun to watch. (Someone commented on a previous video it's like watching someone solve an interesting puzzle and I completely agree.)
The foraging segments are so fascinating. I would love to see a more in depth video now and then with that as the focus. (Maybe some more plant close ups to illustrate the differences between similar plants and/or even more detailed commentary. Maybe incorporating "3 Recipes Featuring Crow Garlic" or whatever, with dressings/salad/soup, etc.) I also second the wartime rationing and apocalypse challenge suggestions. I don't know how fun these things might be for you to produce, but I'm just adding my wishlist anyway for whatever it's worth. :)
When I make tortillas I use hot milk, I think the heat helps the lard melt and mix in well but I just really enjoy the feeling of the warm dough
My response to any question of the form 'What if I did a budget/time budget/strict diet challenge?' is yes. Do them all. Start as soon as you're ready.
Your presentation and thoughts about these topics is what I'm here for, often more than the topics themselves. So if it interests you, it interests me.
Agreed 100%
By accident this was without eggs and without milk.
Still doing it gluten free would be a challange on a budget.
May i add, that you teach us all that we spend far too much on processed ready made foods, full of fat and salt, which is really bad for us. You have an amazing speaking voice, you pronounce every word perfectly. A big thanks for teaching us that less is quite often more.
This is worth staying up late for! Creative budget cookery magic!
I'm with ya on avoiding the oysters. Just a reality of proximity. Great vid as always my friend 👍
try adding a pinch of bicarbonate of soda to onions when caramelising them. It speeds up the process and actually breaks the onion down into a jam which is great for things like soup.
Love these challenge videos. A possible video idea could be to write down a large amount of basic ingredients, seperate them into a tin, and blindly pick a few to create a recipe using these limited chosen ingredients. See what you can create?
Half the fun of your "budget" videos is watching you putter around the kitchen doing meal prep, it gives a peek inside your reasoning process. That said, I AM a bit odd, so a "time challenge" series might go over well with many viewers. As long as Eva makes her random appearances, I'll watch just about any video you put out.
It's why I love these. AS says it and it switches on a light bulb. Of course lard is better for frying rather than oil & butter from a cost & flavour perspective. Another way to change the way that I shop & cook.
We boil equal amounts of carrot, swede and potato together for a tastier, healthier mash. As the swede holds quite a bit of water/juice, it needs no butter or milk and it's very nice with sausages and gravy
Good idea, thanks. 😊
On the time as a budget , I always like to count the "tools" used to put together a meal, for example boil broccoli and then once drained use the same pot to fry bacon
I like that you didn't forage in this series - helps to make it work for those who might want to do similar but don't have the knowhow to do the foraging part.
I'm not as interested in budgeting of preparation time as much as I'm interested in the budgeting of energy used to cook. I'm imagining your clever thoughts and explanations about the use of soaking times, cooking rice by bringing it to a boil, covering it with something insulating to finish its cooking time, maybe even making home made solar cooker out of aluminium foil. What clever things can be done by cooking many things in the oven all at once? It's a great series.
It would be fascinating to take those oysters and have them analysed. Maybe they are safe to eat or maybe it will be an unfortunate reflection of the local industry.
Commenting to make the algorithm push this further up so Atomic Shrimp might see it.
This is a great idea.
the oyster beds in the Southampton Water have been surveyed by the food standards agency, but the concern with them these days is sewage discharge from water companies because the shellfish were found with high levels of E.Coli in and they stopped people from harvesting them in a certain area. I'm not sure if that's still the case but i know the water companies are still discharging sewage, as this is currently a hot topic all around the Solent area.
This is a great series. Really enjoyable. I suppose an energy budget would be just as interesting as time. Also, and this might come out in part 5, it would be really interesting to see a food plan video, where you worked out your meals for the week, and the benefits of that approach.
Enjoying this challenge. That onion soup looked fab.
I'm thinking scones with carrot & apricot jam.😊
Nice try. But scones need milk, which I'm sure is off limits.
@@rogink could try it with water or something I’m sure. All about experimentation here!
Budgeting the time seems like a great idea, since for many of us that is thr main thing holding us back from cooking meals. I have the money for ingredients (not a lot of money, but about 10-20€ for week of food) but school and work keeps me too busy to cook. It'd be really helpful to get some ideas on how I can time my cooking and what things can/should be prepared in advance .
Your resourcefulness is fantastic! I don’t know what comes in the next two days, but prepping early would have afforded you more opportunities. Particularly with your vegetable stock. It’s day three and you have all that yummy stuff, but if you made your stock on day one, and your stew on day 3 you would have quite the breakfast! I’m a chef, and it is captivating watching you do these challenges. It’s impressive, and it is giving me some really cool ideas!
"If I tell you it's a flat bread, it's gonna be flat, and it's gonna be bread.". Wise words indeed.
Loving this mini series. It's amazing how much you learn (Eva is a half wit was the funny one). But the highlight of today I reckon was the onion soup. It looked rather tasty.
The chapatis look nice ❤️😊
Love the series. I'd definitely be interested in a limited time challenge, as someone who doesn't really have the skill or patience for cooking seeing someone with your skills prepare tasty meals quickly would give me some ideas.
I like this series, and think 5 days is decent enough time to delve into the concept and not wear yourself out. The time budget idea sounds like an especially good experiment, and hope you'll give that a go at some point. Thank you for talking through the not-foraging parts. Very engaging video.
I loved the flatbread vs tortilla explanation . Expectations now appropriately set. :') edit: also loved sad burritos.
A time budget challenge sounds interesting: might be some great ideas to pick up from those videos.
As some one that scrimps forages and lives on a budget of ever lasting debt I do enjoy your channel!
Would love to see a week of just what you would usually eat in a week and more of you going round a supermarket with commentary! Love those videos! Keep it up! :)
Love these challenges. I'd love to see a foraging only challenge for a couple of days (or perhaps a foraging + some extras if that's too difficult). Although I guess that'll depend a lot on the time of year!
Love the idea of "time budget" videos. Many people are time poor rather than extremely cash poor. I'm one of them, though I am still on a limited budget.
As a student, videos like this are really helpful for different ideas for meals that'll use up ingredients in my cupboard and won't be out of my budget, obviously my budget isn't as strict. So many cooking videos require things that aren't easy to find, aren't versatile, and certainly won't be in lidil. Keep up the good work!
This has been interesting so far, the release schedule is probably not sustainable but it's definitely appreciated this week!
I think your point that this is not proof "people on benefits can make do with less" in the description is spot on. Yes you can survive on ~£5 for 5 days, but to do that you are using extra spices (which have a cost), liberal amounts of salt (that has a cost), pepper, water, power, equipment and utensils.
Possibly more important is a willingness and ability to cook from scratch, to make adjustments for available ingredients, and a willingness to eat "interesting" dishes.
I would be interested to see a 5 day meal plan with a larger budget. I do enjoy seeing your process of "Just winging it".
"Roll, and relax. And then keep on going." Good advice for life, that.
Thanks for doing this series again, it's really great to see a series like this done by someone really knowledgable. I am just at the bit where you are considering the time saving aspect by cooking in bulk but something that I was thinking (which has never been more relevant) is the energy factor. It would be great if you had or could get (or create an Amazon wishlist for some of these things and we can buy them for you) but an energy meter to estimate the cost of cooking 15 separate meals as opposed to bulk cooking 80% of your food on Day 1 and simply reheating? Might make an interesting video because the energy costs for all of this for 5 days might be as much as (or more than) £5...
i like your "making one or two serves with what's on hand" videos more than the idea of a meal prep focussed budget challenge
Eva wanted the flatbread so much she shook with both paws. She is so cute!
I’ve just discovered your videos as of last night and I’ve been binging! You’re so innovative and I’m learning a lot. I love how thorough you are, thank you so much for sharing with us!
I spent 2-1/2 hours making 14 delicious meals from scratch. If you divide the time by 14, that is not bad for relatively inexpensive, delicious healthy meals. By batch cooking, you won't waste produce that might spoil. Also by portioning meals, less likely to overeat. Won't eat all 14 meals this week, will freeze some, and supplement with previously prepared meals. Doing this means you always have good meal options. Less temptation to get fast food or order 🍕. TFS
That is blazing fast, especially if you divide up the time used by the dished made.
I just spend an hour making (as in actually rolling) rice balls the other day, took me almost an hour. But we did eat them on three days, but still. :D
Would love the time challenge.
Also thanks for inspiring me to cook more variable. Watching you makes me wanna cook good stuff instead of throwing together whatever or even just eating raw whatever i can grab from the fridge.
So ty for adjusting my priorities. Cooking a good quick meal after a hard day is so much more rewarding and replenishing than dropping onto the sofa & doing nothing
Soup looked really nice. Sausage croutons are a game changer the French are missing.
Probably already have meals planned out, but think you have the stuff for onion bhajis. Be interested to see if you had that in mind already if its in a later episode.
Came to the channel for more ideas on how to feed self healthily on a tiny budget for next few months. Stayed for your creativity and engaging personality (also Eva). The foraging parts of your content are interesting but I find the recipes you make up without them more relatable as I live in a very urban environment. Restricted prep time is a great content idea - interesting and useful. One of the biggest food struggles is when you are out at work all week but still need to keep your meals really cheap.
Seems like everything is getting along nicely. Have to imagine you'll be a tad done with onions for a little while after this. It would be good to see a quick summary of what's left on day 4 to see where you're at ingredients wise. Great show!
That interaction with your dog 13:00 absolutely killed me🤣
A limited time eating challenge could be great - especially if you focused on making it nutritional as possible, since it feels like a common hindrance to eating healthy is often time over anything else
These series are more than just entertainment at this point, they are purely educational and I love it.
and hell yeah a limited time challenge would be cool! i'd also love to see a sort of "random challenge", like you did with the ingredients - write the food down, put the papers in the jar (or jars, if maybe you wanna do 'protein', 'carb', 'fruits and vegs' separately) and try to make a meal with what comes up :)
Ive been watching your scambaiting vids for a few years, which have brought me so much entertainment, but im just recently going through some of the other playlists you've got here. I'm really enjoying these budget challenges
It would be interesting to see you do a comparison challenge - a meal using the most expensive ingredients you can find, compared to the cheapest ingredients!
Well he probably couldn’t afford “the most expensive” but maybe just expensive ingredients would count. Or maybe the most expensive at major supermarkets.
These are SO fascinating to watch, not sure why, but I absolutely love these videos and find myself craving more immediately! I'm already crossing my fingers you'll go straight into another similar challenge (in fact I'd love to see another one with more foraging, maybe even with foraging as the main part).
It's interesting that you've managed to overshoot the nutritional targets by so much on every day (except day 1, which is clearly down to just having 2 meals - plus I guess you adjusted accordingly?) - it will be interesting to see if you're lacking anything by day 5 (variety, in particular)!
What a wonderful series
You are sharing wonderful ideas for many who's budget is tottering on the edge and sharing excellent Ideas with those of us who, don't have a limitless budget, and need the spark of inspiration.
A lot of weekly meal plans work with batch-cooking stuff, like making a double portion of rice today and using the other half tomorrow. Or one day's tomato sauce becomes another day's soup (with water and some vegetables added). I think it'd be interesting to see you come up with one on the fly.
These are so great to watch. I can’t even describe why. I just love everything about this. Keep doing you, Atomic Shrimp.
i found it super interesting how you picked your spices. What would you think about a 2 day challenge in which you write down a bunch of ingredients (or even have your fans submit ingredients to a database) and then randomly select say 1 type of fat (butter, lard, heavy cream, olive oil, sesame oil etc), 3 fruits, 7 veggies, 2 grain based things (quinoa, bulgur, rye bread, cookies, crackers, white rice...), 5 herbs/spices, maybe even something like cooking methods (deep fry, oven, boil, pan fry, open fire, etc), and you go to the supermarket without a budget, but you have to use all selected ingredients and methods. Maybe you re-roll your cooking method for every meal or something like that to make it worse :D
I do this. I buy clearance produce and meats and then decide what i'm making afterwards. :) Saves a ton of money and keeps cooking from being boring! In WW2 they used carrots to sweeten cookies and all kinds of things, so it doesn't surprise me that your cakes were sweet. :)
Time budget challenge would be cool. Also, have you ever thought about using a go-pro (or some other action cam) on a headstrap? Might be an easier way to avoid some difficulties when filming and cooking at the same time.
Sometimes I stop and reflect on the the food I've been eating, and I usually find it to be cheap. Mind you, I buy locally produced things since I live in a village where there are farmers.But still, food can be cheap if you know what you're doing and if you forage a bit. I love these "on a budget"-videos. They make you think, so thank you for that and the other great content!
Atomic Shrimp fried rice sounds delicious!
Auto-cannibalism is not allowed under the rules of the challenge!
Idk how you are so creative with limited ingredients, you don't even look at recipes which is so damn cool and impressive!