Can This Chef Make A Three-Course Meal For Two People With $15? • Tasty
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- Can $15 stretch into a 3-course meal for 2?
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catch me walking into the supermarket and buying $0.02 worth of vinegar
You don't have vinegar in your house?
@@tomjordan4123 Yeah, when I buy it, is not just in my house for no reason lol
@@francampos2752 if you still have vinegar in your house, would you buy it again?
@@tomjordan4123 what if you dont have vinegar
Nice catch
I wish this could have been like Guy’s Grocery Games “budget battle” where you’re given a budget and need to shop for the ingredients instead of dividing the cost up by how much of the ingredient you used.
yesss triple g ftw
yes THANK YOU. It kinda feels like cheating to be honest. like u cant just buy $0.08 worth of vinegar lol
@@CutebutPsycho29 you CAN but you have to go to a package free bulk store. You can get ANYTHING package free and in any quantity cause you bring your own containers. But realistically, yeah no you'd buy a bottle of vinegar lol.
Maria Cordova wanna see someone pay 0.10 cents worth of vinegar tho. Point of those shops is to usually buy in bulk as well
@@AshyShep of course, I'm just saying it is possible. There are a lot of people who shop those stores because they only need a little of something for a recipe and don't want to buy an average container because they won't use it again. Makes sense that way.
Supermarket Worker: What are you looking for?
Me: Yeah, I need $0.04 worth of vanilla extract
LOL PEOPLE here aren't really realistic what did u expect? 15$ 3 course meal ? I mean come on don't be that dumb
Shaheer Nadeem she could’ve gotten some instant ramen and put some shrimp or clams or eggs on top (that would prob be like $10)
Sinister Souls it not a three course meal 🤦♀️dude
Exactly!
If you buy a bottle of vanilla you can use the rest of it for all sorts of things. Idk why people seem so fussy about how Buzzfeed calculated the price. One teaspoon of vanilla should obviously not be counted the same as one bottle.
"buy cheaper wine for cooking"
Bold of you to assume that I'm gonna buy expensive wine for drinking
Fighting 😊
lmfaooo
lol
Hahahaha yoonji 😂😂
beazabiny lol
realistically, to make a 3 course with $15
appetizer: lunchables
meal: ramen cup
dessert: oreo cookies
Audrey Huang
What’re lunchables...?
This comment made my day🤣
Amazing xD
what is a ramen cup wat are lunchables?
F. J. Blakemore you dont know whats that?
They should have titled it: How to buy $60 worth of ingredients and only use $15 of it.
Haha yes
Thats considered acceptable waste to rich people from LA. Theyre the upper class of america talking down to poor people lol
this is the most accurate comment I've seen thus far. Totally agree!
Go to the bulk section of your store
You forgot to add "And judge the food prices by LA hipster restaurants standards"
It's $60 worth of groceries, $15 worth of ingredients used, and judged based on a restaurant that has x2 premiums attached to it.
This video makes me feel bamboozled. I was really expecting a $15 meal.
It is a $15 meal. You are expecting going grocery shopping for $15, what is not what this video is about.
s1lvia.m dude shut up. The title and concept is misleading. We get now what it’s about but doesn’t make it good or worth watching
@@silvia5235 SPEAK LOUDER.
Clara was the only real youtuber who made meals for under $15 hahaha
Because that is the challenge. To make a three-course meal that you usually pay for more than $20 but with only a $15 budget.
Damn this comment section..really spilling the tea 😂😂
Only if it’s free
I’m drinking tea watching this 😂
Word 🤣😂
I wish they included like a segment where she’s running around the store looking for the stuff 😢
Edit:Woah ty for 9k likes lol
Exactly what I was hoping as well. She should be shopping for the ingredients herself
All those ingredients combined cost more than 15 dollars. These guys are full of shit
@@daulahiftitah6461 With NYC or LA grocery prices, it would cost >$60, so that's why they skipped that segment.
Delicious Ape they would for sure if they didn’t charge it by the amount she used. Like only a few cents for chili powder instead of the price for the whole container
Yeah!... :(
Can I just ask, why is milk a pantry freebie but olive oil wasn't?
Not all people have olive oil in the pantry😌
Ssshhh you never want drink olive oil as you drink milk
Luke Morgan olive oil is a luxury for most people
A lot of people use other oils.
Also- I know she only used a small amount (19cents) but it’s not like if you only had $15 to do this in real life, you would go out and buy 1tbs of oil!🤷♀️- a minor technicality I know- but it kinda bugged me! Edit: same with the butter, pasta and chilli flakes and wine AND vanilla!
Boy I wish I knew where I could by a 1/2 cup off white wine for 55 cents
You can buy a soul for 62 cents so I'm not surprised
Jaylen *Straightoutda80s* Brown omg 💀💀💀💀
@@kombokhan oh God The Spongebob Vietnam flashbacks are coming back!
It's not difficult to get a cheap bottle of wine for 4 or 5 dollars. Keep the remainder for another recipe or to drink.
I know aldi has bottles of white wine and red wine for $3 👌
I'm going to go to the grocery store and get me some free eggs, milk and sugar!
Karen Loaiza cashier wasn’t happy when I said those were supposed to be freebies..
Can you pick me up a 1/2 tablespoon of vinegar while your there? 😂
I think they made those freebies bc a lot of ppl already have them in their homes but if you don't then you can not get them for free so they should have priced everything anyway.
Idk about you but I can purchase those things for like 5$ at Kroger and the amount of uses you get from a gallon of milk and sugar would have probably broke down to minimal if they calculated it. If they added them I doubt it would add more than 2-3$ for the ENTIRE meal for 2...
And pepper🌶️
Okay but I can’t buy vinegar or anything by the tablespoon, that’s not even legit
They have to do math, i think
For example, they buy like a whole bottle and divide the price by the measurement (ie tablespoon) to find the price for that amount. So they do buy things that are above the budget, but only use things within the budget (if that makes sense lol) hope this helped :).
@@albiazamal505 but that makes the challenge way easier, you normally but things full priced, not just a tablespoon
I don't think it was meant to be a challenge, it was just about what may be possible for everyday 'economical' cooking
Mayiris Flores ok you buy the whole thing once but it lasts you for lets say 50 meals. You are going to divide it by 50 so that you can see how much it costed you for that meal.
Its a BIT cheaty to add up the cost by the amount she used. If you only need 34 cents worth of Pasta, you still have to buy the whole package of pasta. So unless you have every ingredient in your pantry, it will cost you more than $15 to make this.
Yeah I thought that was really odd. No one can use .15 worth of vinegar... a bottle costs like 3.99.
Sincerely Eccentric exactly! I thought about that, as well. Like most seafood people buy is by the pound, people purchase a whole bottle of wine and box of pasta, and so forth. And what about things you need that you may not have at home like red pepper flakes and garlic🤔 But digress lol
Right? My thought exactly!
well there is something called stocking tho. She used $15 dolar amount of ingredients, rest unused ingredients that are in packages can still be used in next or following days.
Came here to say this exactly. & the sugar being a pantry freebie. Haha come on.
I'm fine w/freebies like salt, pepper, and maybe the white vinegar because the additional cost is negligible. But eggs?
Well, I think they were counting the freebies as things most people keep in the house
I don't know about you but I always have eggs
I haven't bought eggs in over two years. Huh.
@@betrix3000 wow....and here I am buying eggs every week
It shouldn't be a freebie, but a single egg only costs like 15 cents.
@@Ntyler01mil , not too many places one can buy a single egg
Oh yeah. I don't put any money into buying eggs, milk, sugar, salt and all that, because they just spawn in my fridge for free
😂😂😂😂
Every Indian household has all these all the time🤣❤
JustSaying bro this is so relatable
@Meighan Di Maria oh god i love ur humor
XD
Please make a video on HOW and WHERE to BUY ingredients by the tablespoon.
Bulk bins at stores like WinCo or Sprouts.
Go to the bulk section of your store
Right?! Last time I checked, bulk bins didn't have wet items like vinegar and olive oil...
Most stores don’t have bulk bins.
@@EmeraldHW I've honestly never heard of such a thing.
Ya'll mad about the cost but I'm here in awe by the brulee spoon trick LOL
Saaaammmeee lol
Agree, I'm gonna start making crème brûlée now
Same!! I've been frustrated since forever because we don't have a blowtorch and our grill is weird, but now I don't have to use a lighter anymore °^°
😂💀
Sameee . I can now make my own brulee 😂
I wanted to see what this would really cost me if I had no ingredients available so I did the calculations below! This is also assuming I have all the equipment on hand already (which I don't - no cheese cloth or ramekins)
Calculations based off prices in Walmart in its lowest quantity + generic Walmart branded items. Total comes out to $34.64 before tax.
1 shallot: 0.72
1 quart whole milk: 1.29
16oz white distilled vinegar: 0.89
26oz table salt: 0.89
1 bradley tomato: 0.60
1 yellow peach: 0.66
17oz olive oil: 2.56
1.5oz black pepper: 1.98
1/3lb manila clams: 2.33
1/4lb 21/25 shrimp: 2
16oz linguine: 0.98
1 16oz package of butter: 2.98
1 bulb of garlic: 0.48
1 1.75oz bottle red chili flakes: 0.98
750ml cheap white wine: 2.76
16oz heavy cream: 2.34
1 bottle vanilla extract: 4.12
1 box pure cane sugar: 2.19
Carton of 12 eggs: 1.99
Fresh basil: 1.99
That is over double the amount they set for themselves! That’s such a misleading title.
(Thanks for your hard work btw)
I never buy eggs worth more than $1.00 🤣
Thanks for looking all this up! That is some costly vanilla extract tbh. The $34 price tag isn't that bad especially since a lot of the ingredients are going to last you more than 1 meal but it is certainly not $15 and that's what we were promised. 😐
you must really have nothing to do with your life lmaooo
rewr; nani lmao true! Looks like neither do you!
Technically if she had all that food lying around in the pantry then they could have titled it "Can this chef make a three-course meal for two people for free?"
making an expensive meal and only count by tablespoon and even adding freebies to lower the price
genius, I wish I could buy food like that
You certainly eat like that. You can certainly use the excess.
You can get salt, pepper and milk for free just take a quick trip to a McDonalds and grab some of the sachets.
If you go to a grocery store with a bulk aisle you can get a lot of this stuff by the teaspoon and likely not pay much at all
Exactly...no one can buy portions of pasta or wine. This is not really realistic and can only be done reasonably with produce and seafood. I wish I could buy a quarter cup or pasta or whatever lol
stephi marie bulk sections at grocery stores may have pasta that you can get a quarter cup of
Please next time buy everything for 15dollars instead of using only 1 spoon and saying it is 2 cents. And bring us with you to the store!!
If she did that for this video, the cost of the meal would be $15 but she would have spent like $60. That’s dumb.
Greg that's not dumb.. that's real life.. in real life u can't go n buy $0.22 butter
i am anonymous yeah but in real life you already have more than half of these ingredients already in your pantry and can measure out $0.22 butter. If your plan is to cook once a month and go out and buy every ingredient on the list and let what you don’t use go to waste then cooking is going to be expensive for you. But if that’s what your doing then that’s your decision. Don’t complain about the video.
i am anonymous if you calculate the whole cost of a stick of butter or the whole cost of a bottle of vinegar every time you use a tablespoon you are going to have a seriously screwed up budget for your food.
Maybe that’s why people think eating fast food is cheaper than cooking at home. They’re basing it off of buying a whole bottle of vinegar and a whole stick of butter and a whole carton of milk every time they use a splash of the ingredient. That’s not economical and if you’re looking for the cheaper option as a once a month cook then yeah eating out is cheaper and less wasteful and probably a lot easier.
Greg first thing.. I am not complaining about the video.. I am putting my opinion on the concept of the video which I don't find practical.. I have complete right to do so.. freedom of expression.. why are u getting hurt about it
Sorry but using 2 cents worth of an item doesn’t make this a $15 challenge??? lmao wtf
Yes it does if you buy in bulk
Sadie Crook yeah catch me in bulk barn buying 6 cents worth of vinegar and $1 of clams... tell me who sells that?
@@maizie135 - You can totally buy $1 of clams. They'll sell you as many as you want and charge you by the weight.
Things like vinegar and oil are pantry staples that don't go bad. You wouldn't buy a bottle of vinegar for just one recipe.
Nicholas Miller Nicholas Miller okay, fine, using clams as an example was a poor choice on my part but that doesn’t excuse all of the other items they use for a couple cents worth. They didn’t even use vinegar as one of their “freebies” ... they literally said 8 cents.
Jade Hollamby I literally never comment on videos but this one rubbed me the wrong way. if my comment, among thousands of other people saying the same thing, ruined a video that you enjoyed then maybe don’t use UA-cam comments as a way to determine if you’ll enjoy something, because you will be sorely disappointed.
Boo disappointed that they didn't buy the ingredients. I mean it's not really a challenge if they do it like this.
I mean... $15 if you already have all of the ingredients, sure
I think the point is to show what happens when you budget out everything individually, and a lot of things you probably do keep in the pantry. The milk though shouldn't be a freebie.
@@AdrienneNagle oh ya for sure I just think it seems a bit misleading is all. It for sure gives a good idea of what you can do with a lot of things you probably have though!
Go to the bulk section of your store
Are you guys throwing away the rest of a pasta box when you only use half of it? If not, then it is reasonable to only count the amount she used because at home you would also be able to use the other half of the pasta box for a meal on another day.
@@glassplastic What is a bulk section?
Milk was a freebie?! Not fair. And going to a supermarket and actually spending the budget would’ve made this more legit!:(
Theyre rich privileged people from LA. They dont know what its like to actually struggle in any way.
milk is like what, 1-2 dollars per liter?
2-3 dollars a gallon. 4+ dollars in very expensive areas or getting organic milk.
Well most people have it in their lantry
null akjg jeezus maybe don’t judge people from first glance calm down kid
so can I just go to the store and buy a tablespoon of olive oil for 2 cent?
Yep, same isle with the free eggs and sugar
Bulk store lol
this title was so misleading. the people that tried the food definitely thought Rie bought all those ingredients for $15
It's says a 15$ meal and not a meal made of groceries shopped with 15$
@@shrek4eva481 the title literally says "can this chef make a three course meal with $15", which implies that Rie only had $15 to buy food. there's no way anyone looks at that title and thinks "oh, that means she has all the ingredients she needs and is only using $15 worth of it" because that's not realistic for people who actually need to shop on a budget
Ah yes I love going to the grocery store ad buying a cup of milk and a tablespoon of olive oil
Some groceries sell small bottles of milk
Or small cartons for children
There's barrels of oil for taste testing
I guess pour a tbsp in a small container and then use that?
Crazy how you get so creative when you budget
You forgot about the absolute pleasure of asking for 6 prawns
@@SamaraTrollero where are there taster oil barrels? We dont have that in america.
Also most people already have olive oil so I feel like that’s a pantry freebie
I think that that average household usually has these ingredients in them. Just a thought.
I also want to make a quick note here:
I noticed that, when she was shelling her shrimp & deveining them, she did not mention somethig I thought should have been mentioned as a money saving tip.
Save the shells of the shrimp! As well as fish bones, crab/lobster shells & other crustacean shells (like craw fish). You can do this by slowly collecting the 'trash' from your seafood in a gallon bag (keep in freezer until you have enough so it doesn't spoil) and then boiling it to make a sea food stock! This seafood stock can be used in soups, rice (add flavor) and other dishes. You take about a gallon of water, dump your seafood scraps in and let it boil softly for 6hours. Being sure to add water as it evaporates. After the first 4 hours of adding water to keep the level up, allow the last 2hrs for the stock to boil down. After the 6hr is up, add seasoning as you like (never during) and strain the scraps from the stock & throw away. You can do this with vegetable as well. I save carrot skins, potatoe skin, onion nubs, celery butts and pepper scraps. I then freeze my stocks in an icecube tray & then once frozen, dump into a gallon bag labeled 'Sea food stock' or 'Vegetable stock' and use as you like!
Andria B nice tip
Thank you!!!
Do you have a cooking channel?
@@greener336 No, I am sorry I don't. I've thought about it though. I have little tips and tricks about things like this to share. But not enough of them to make.& Keep a channel alive.
But if I DID have the chance to make a channel, I would be a penny pinching channel designed to help people make delicious,.healthy meals on a budget.
@@andriab8517 honestly that sounds pretty awesome! You should consider it
"I decided to make this dish cause eggs and sugar are freebies"
Then its not really a $15 meal????
Yeah but it’s all stuff most people probably already have at home. Eggs sugar milk salt etc.
Yeah but they still had to buy the eggs, sugar, milk, salt etc.
So I made a three meal course with only 1.99$ : the soup is just water cause thats a freebie, a pack of ramen (you can reuse your soup for heating purposes) and water again as a dessert cause you cant be hydrated enough
boy she got two cents worth of vinegar this whole thing isnt a $15 meal
@@yeemcgee8149 Everything had to be bought at some point, so they're still lying. This isn't $15.
The title and video says she's making something from only $15. Not $15 and a full grocery order in the back because that defeats the point on emphasizing the whole $15 idea.
STOP 👏 SAYING 👏 PANTRY 👏 STAPLES 👏 ARE 👏 FREEBIES!!! They are not free! Just because you have access to them in your pantry at work does not mean they just show up in your cabinets at home for free. It drives me insane because you still have to buy those things and it's not like you can just go buy a teaspoon of salt or 1 egg or a cup of sugar. IT
ADDS. UP. 😕
@@yuncq0 I get that they are free for Rei. My point is that they are not free for everyone and they are trying to show that you can cook a meal for 15 dollars. In actuality, th e price of that meal is well beyond 15 dollars as you cannot just buy tablespoons of ingredients and eggs don't just magically replenish themselves. The statement of "I cooked this 3 course meal for $15 dollars" is deceiving.
TheLonelyNoodle that’s not the point fam. The title and freebie shit is misleading. plain and simple.
Hips, Thighs, and Pies but come on if you don’t have sugar or salt in your pantry wtf are you doing and eggs are something you should always have for other things
Pepper or salt or vinegar I can understand, you buy one bottle and it lasts for months if not years. But eggs should have been counted.
By their reasoning you could make an entire meal just using eggs and say it's free.
If eggs are freebies,
1 - Softboiled eggs
2 - Bread with scrambled eggs
3 - Pavlova with some toppings, or not
Yeah that's a realistic way of feeling fancy.
Right... if we could eggs for free no one would ever starve
@@solitarelee6200 bruh what, the term freebies was the items rie was allowed to use from the pantry
I thought she's gonna buy ingredients with those dollars 🤔🤔
Edit: omg thank u for many likes!!!!
Shed have spent like 70 bucks if she did lol. Privledged people have NO idea what its like for poor people lol.
It's how you should measure your market bills actually. When you buy a 500 ml bottle of Olive oil you won't use it in a entire meal. That's why you should keep track of large amounts of bought and cooked food. Also important to see that the intent of the video is more to make people realize that they don't need to go to fancy restaurants to have a fancy meal once in a while, and for a waaaay cheaper price. It's not a guide to "feed your entire family with only 15$", mainly because normal and poor people don't eat 3 course meal at home, because it does not make sense! All the work and time that's needed to prepare this kind of meal is only worth in special ocasions and in way greater amounts of food.
@@jonasfernades241 ...except this video was labeled as a "three-course meal for two people", not a family. Buying certain things in bulk, and then partitioning off food makes sense, no doubt. But saying that you can do this with 15 dollars is just misleading.
@@0hMyGandhi i mentioned the family because of the boy right there speaking about "pRiVileDgEd" people and poor people, also to explain that a 3 course meal doens't make sense in a normal worker routine. As to the "misleading factor" this one just happens if you think that the price of a meal is calculated based on the full ingredient price. Normal and "simple not fancy-seafood" meal for 2 people costs less than 15$, even less if it's only a main dish (which most people actually eat).
ik, they did some math so it's kinda confusing
4:41
That clam died in shock at the amount of teaspoons used.
Most meals are pretty cheap when you break it down like that
I usually refrain from commenting. That being said this is the 4th video I've seen today where they are figuring the price by portion of product used. Pretty misleading. We all know at home You will have to invest in the spices/ ingredients upfront. Example: I will have to spend $4 to buy the red pepper flakes just to use $.02 worth. While I do have most of the ingredients on hand some one who does not will spend $40+ in supplies to still be hungry at the end of this meal. Not impressed by this "budget friendly" option.
U do have a point, i absolutely agree w/ you
If you don't have these basics, why are you even attempting to cook? I'd assume that salt, pepper (actually expensive), spices, olive oil, butter etc. Ie all the cooking essentials are freebies. The main ingredients should be the only things considered for $15.
@@koncker exactly
@@konckerI thought the point of a food vlog was to get people to cook. Any person. Thankfully I know how to cook. So I will save my opinions on the instructions/ methods shown in the video and stick to the point of a 3 course meal for 2 on $15. I am also lucky enough to have a stocked kitchen at (nearly) all times as I make a living cooking for others. I mostly think of the 16 year old version of Me. Fresh out of high school on a budget. That penny pincher would have been diappointed. As I would not have had more than salt, pepper and olive oil/ butter. Maybe garlic. And no grocery in town is going to let Me walk in and buy a handful of this and a pinch of that. The beauty of opinions is that We all have them. We clearly do not agree. And guess what? That's fine by Me! Have a great day.
Molly Pugh nah like I'm simply saying that a lot of things are freebies that you just expect. I mean now you're not gonna include the price of gas on the stove or the electricity right? That's what I mean. You can buy all or most of these for cheap, and although I agree that it's not rly 15 since you gotta pay upfront for a lot of things. But a stove costs around 300+. It should include that in the cost too right :P
“ I hope they think this meal is worth more then 15 dollars “
It is ! Lol
hi excuse me where can I buy two tablespoons of vingear?
In the Tasty pantry
Bulk store lol
@@zawiyaabdi9975 Can you buy milk in bulk? Or vinegar?
@@johannescooks574 nah there are these stores where you usually have self serve kinda thing? I dont really know how to explain it...but! You take your own little brown bag and take how much you need and they have faucets for milk and vinegar too, all you have to do is bring a glass bottle or plastic and it will be weighed 🙂
@@johannescooks574 people usually have milk and vinegar at home. Im not going to waste more money if I already have it lol
And there is also this thing called the Bulk store. Do some research
Love Rie. But this was STUPID
I blame the ppl who gave her this challenge
You can’t just count the price of the amount of stuff used 🤨. You can’t just go to the store and buy a couple of tablespoon/teaspoon of vinegar. It would be more realistic to go and buy the actual product in its original quantity for the $15. 🤦♂️
That's the exact reason I always roll my eyes at budget-friendly videos/articles like this. If you only have $20 for food, a video suggesting you spend $50 on bulk packs of food for cheap meals isn't helpful at all
@@crazysydnee ...it is if you plan on using the excess of the bulk. Spend $50 once and you're fed for a month if you plan it wisely. You'd probably have more money if you didnt spend $20 on every meal you decided to cook, lmao
@@aethoe I get what you're saying, but I'm not saying to spend $20 on every meal. If you don't have much money to start with, and after paying bills you only have $20 left to spend on food for the month and are looking for a video that has recipes that are different than your everyday cheap meals, a video suggesting you spend more than that, even if it sounds better in theory, isn't helpful because you physically don't have more than that to spend.
@@crazysydnee This is a video on how to cook just 1) 3 course meal for two for roughly $15. This is not the video for those tips
Either way, that is how you meal plan. You measure the value based on quantity used. If you buy these items once, they will last you a while. If you only have $20 to spend a month for food, $15 for a single meal won't get you anywhere so im lost as to how this vid is supposed to be any help
Spend $20 on bulk items if that's all you have. Most videos you find on topics like that work in the same way as this one. Value based on quantity used because you dont use a whole pound of pasta for a single meal. If you do, that's poor meal planning and budgeting. Once you actually buy ingredients, it is not hard to find recipes online that coincide with whatever you have in stock. Pro tip, dude, you don't have to follow a recipe to a T if you dont have certain items. Things are easily exchangeable or can be left out entirely. Taking out the shrimp and clams already takes out a good portion of the price of this meal and makes it even more accessible to things most people already have at home. Also, you're not rebuying ingredients every meal. If youre one person, a 12 pack of eggs should last you a little over a week. An example is spending $4-6 on eggs in bulk and you're set for a month if you eat eggs every single day, which most people dont. Do you know how many different ways you can make and use eggs? And only have to rebuy them every month? And that's literally just eggs. Flour, can get a big pack for no more than $4. Salt, something you should have, costs no more than $3. Water, free. Under $20 and you have a variety of things that can be made for a whole month. Hell, the ingredients in bulk last way longer than a month so its basically a, what, ~4 time investment a year for most things in the pantry/stock
I do not get the logic that took you to a video titled 3 course meal for $15 and then expect said video to give you recipe ideas for a $20 limited grocery shopping list per month. And then proceed to be upset when the video gave you exactly what was titled in the video? Would you not have been better off looking for recipe ideas with what you actually have in your kitchen? ...or looking up cheap items to purchase that will last you a while and then looking up recipes based on those items? Just seems lazy to me. Get pissed at the videos that can't possibly be tailored to your exact situation, instead of doing thorough research, budgeting, and planning yourself
Aether Davila damn you sure have a lot of free time, considering the length of your essay 😂
when it's more than 15 dollars because you have nothing in your pantry
Buy 1 pantry staple a week or every few weeks and start building up your pantry items.
Which store sells olive oil and vinegar by the teaspoon? Honestly rolled my eyes so hard, I think I saw my brain
bulk stores
Not everywhere has stores like that though. The only sort of bulk stores anywhere close to me are placed that sell things like legumes, flours/powders and chocolate coated fruits and nuts.
You buy the whole bottle. The whole point is the value of the meals are only 15 dollars. It's not like you're going to freaking use the whole bottle of oil and vinegar in one 3 course meal right. Use your brain.
But what if you only have 15 dollars??
@@somatia350 you can still buy a good meal with 15 dollars. Don't have to cook lol
It’s a nice idea but there are so many freebies or tablespoon prices that it’s kinda bs to think you can do this in $15
Nope. Go to a store and buy all the things you need like the rest of us have to and only use $15.
Exactly. Sure the exact price for the exact ingredients in these meals is $15 but if someone only had &15 to spare they wouldn’t be able to make it.
the upfront cost is more yes no doubt but they didnt use every ounce of the ingredients they bought
@@alexc4018 but that's the thing. For the average person buying these ingredients it would be expensive
@@kaishamcmanis4650 yeah not all these ingredients are too common
@@alexc4018 a better challenge would be having a real $15 and only using it for every ingredient. Regardless of amount used
I like the concept but it was exacuted poorly. Pantry freebies should only be pantry staples, salt pepper, spices, vinegar and oil.
And she should actlualy need to shop. You cant only total up what she used. You cant buy a 1/3 lb pasta you have to buy at least 1/2 usualy whole lb.
Try again tasty.
Ally Gee technically your wrong because certain stores let you bring your own bags and take out your exact measurements and I’m talking particularly about the pasta mainly if you would like to see a video where they shop refer to to the zero waste segment. I also apologize for not adding commas or periods
Okay I get your point with the pantry freebies. That is straight up not.. ideal.. But for the rest of the ingredients she used, I think they just bought the whole products already like packs or bottles and they divided the price by the amount that she used..
From my experience most kitchens have egg and milk
First off, depends on the store
Second "ExAcUtEd
@@madduude yes those stores exist but even when i lived in a big city id have to drive an hour to find a store like that. But most stores sell bulk spices.
But it boils down to personal preference. Im expressing mine 🤷
If you only have 15$, no way you're spending half of it on the cheapest wine bottle.
Me : *Ah yes, 1 tsp of soy sauce please!*
Shopkeeper: *That would be $ 0.01*
Tasty, how many times do we all have to tell you her name is RIE NOT “THIS CHEF”
new viewers wont click on a video with a name in it. Marketing 101. these repeated comments are retarded.
Lady Patriot well I mean if they use her picture as the thumb nail every time?
Dear Rie, I love you, I love all of your videos. But not this one. It doesn’t make any sense.
It does. It absolutely does. Watch ANY other video like this and it's set up the exact same. Including ones that are supposed to be budget friendly.
@Aylis GarciaWalker you also don't use the entire 3 dollars of it in one recipe. All videos with this concept are made like this and you can in fact buy just the amount you need in many stores these days. You're point isn't even valid. You can bring a container and get the EXACT amount of vinegar you need in many places🤷
@@rubyblack6682 it might be normal where you're from but there is absolutely no where near me at least that let's you buy just what you need
OblinOats Same. I still liked the video but I found the pricing wierd too, you can't really get 1tbsp of whatever (atleast where I live).
@Aylis GarciaWalker the video doesn't tell you can buy 2 cent worth of vinegar either
*converts 15$ to my hometown's currency*
me: ok that's actually expensive, she even cheated
We could have actually bought everything with that 🤝🏼that too full bottles and freebies who 🤠
Yup!
You just spent an hour deviding the cost of 1 olive oil bottle you just bought for 22.99 by 69 to get the cost of 2 tablespoons.
Milk and eggs are freebies... lol. The whole point of this is misleading.
Love Rie, but this challenge wasn't even legit.
And sugar and salt and pepper lol
I love Rie but this title is so misleading! Also, pantry freebies... What? That’s cheating
Thirstae For Tae love your profile pic!
Pantry freebies are a staple of food articles about simple/budget cooking. Tasty didn't invent or expand that. Even 5 ingredient (or whatever #) recipes do that.
It assumes you are a person who eats.
Are you telling me you dont already have stuff like salt and pepper in your kitchen? You have to buy it every time you make a meal?
So...you don’t own salt? Guess you don’t cook then
Thirstae For Tae Salt and Pepper are understandable freebies because it’s very unlikely that you’d go into a house that doesn’t have salt and pepper.
So technically it's only 15 bucks but you cant buy the tiny quantities of vanilla, vinegar, etc.... and there were the freebies!
" can we go shopping with you next time? "
Rie sweating
it makes me sad that they won’t do an ACTUAL 15 dollar meal bc you still have to buy the full product even if you only use 1/2 a tablespoon or wtv
It can be spread over mutliple meals there trying to say that each meal cost that much
Sivan Kwok yeah but for people who actually only have 15 dollars and want to make a meal out of it this doesn’t work.. and you can make rlly good meals with just 15 dollars but not like this
The problem is if you don't have vanilla extract at home, you can't just go out and buy 1 tbsp of extract and have it cost only $0.01
Which is why you buy a bottle once (and unless youre buying expensive ass shit then it only costs about $3-4) and get this, you use the whole bottle for multiple meals instead of for just one. Wow! Meal planning! Amazing new concept!!
@@aethoe But the title is "Can This Chef Make A Three-Course Meal For Two People With $15?" I thought it means she used $15 to buy everything (full size). Sorry if I offended you, and you didn't have to come at me like that
@@evelyntang9138 It's $15 worth of ingredients, the video is not wrong. I'm not sure what's misleading. If you want a $15 budget shopping video, look for one that says exactly that. This is a meal plan video where most people have most of these items readily available at home. Of everything they listed in this video that would require someone to go out and buy it, it's not more than $25. And vanilla, olive oil, etc all of that stuff can be used multiple times so it's basically a one time purchase until you run out. So you're not rebuying vanilla extract for every meal, you already have some for next time. That's kinda how grocery shopping and cost effective meal planning works. It's not really coming at you when all it takes is realizing that spending $15 worth of ingredients for every single meal is not feasible. If you eat 2 meals a day, then that's roughly $900 on a months worth of groceries. See how that logic works?
@@cloverthv ...it's still $15? The cost of the meal is ~$15? The title of the vid isn't grocery shopping for $15, they've used a little less than $15 to make this whole meal. With $15, they've made a 3 course meal that's valued based off of what was used. Which is how grocery shopping works
At this point, even if they changed the one word, it would not have made a difference at all. If it's this hard to grasp a basic concept, what makes you think you wouldn't have come to the same video and still incorrectly assume what it's about?
Hm. So i guess we ought to factor in the price of the stove, the cookware used, the utilities being used that'll contribute to the utility bills, gotta get in the amount of time occupied in the kitchen because that goes to the cost of rent, etc. Do you see the logic behind what you're saying?
Most homes, even poor homes, have milk and eggs. Most homes have these ingredients already stocked. If you don't, then you clearly do not cook or eat a majority of what Americans do. If you're looking to make something you've never made before while having never cooked, of course you're going to have to spend money on ingredients you don't have. But why would you spend money on something you'll only use once
Do you go to McDonald's and get charged for the whole price of each item used? No. Because that's illogical since you only use a portion of the ingredients already in stock. That's the only way to properly value anything. Do you pay the mechanic the price of every single tool he used to fix your vehicle? No. Just the amount of whatever was replaced and labor
Dude, do you work? Do you pay bills? Do you have any idea of how buying things actually works?
This seems like cheating to be quite honest. Was expecting for the ingredients to all have been bought for 15 dollars, not saying a teaspoon equals two cents.
No hate to you or the show, just feel that this is a tad misleading for someone looking for how to make something nice on a true budget at the grocery store. ♥️
last time i checked you can’t measure out a half tsp of vinegar and walk up to the cashier like: ‘hi this is two cents, yes?”
Very misleading title. Given that you have to keep in mind some people might have to buy these things from the store, since they may not have it.
Hows this a $15 challenge, it's just a cooking recipe for a 3 course meal.
Me after watching this: Babe dont forget to buy 2tbsp of white vinegar.
This video concept makes sense but you can’t realistically buy thing like that....
And here in Indonesia you can make great foods for more than 10 people with 15 usd lol
Agreed. Lol
Cannot compare it like that tbh. Should compare it with what 15 usd would be in idr. Because ofc those 15 usd would be very big in our country for blah blah blah reasons. For example idr 50k for 3 courses, but even so we can still get three nice meals especially a sachet of royco helps for seasoning lmao.
Damn😁😁
True. In India those $15 would mean around ₹900-₹1200 and that is enough for a week of simple home food or 2 days of luxurious meals.
Same here in the Philippines lol. It's like around 750 PHP and can buy a formidable meal for the day for 6 people 😂
Pantry freebies are cheating I feel. You should buy everything except water in the budget
But ppl have many of the stuff in their pantry tho
I mean if you dont have salt pepper sugar etc in your pantry how are you supposed to cook?
@@jomsies most people have that
You dont buy vanilla extract by the teaspoon tho.
the problem with these budget videos is that when you're gonna replicate it at home, you don't buy $1.45 for a cup of heavy cream, but the whole bottle. so in the end, it'll cost more than $15 for sure, and you'll have a lot of leftover ingredients.
it only applies to restaurants, which will use all of it and actually save money when making these dishes.
also, HTF oil and vinegar are not pantry free, but milk and eggs are??? that doesn't make any sense.
Electricity/Gas and Water Bills:
$15+
Okay. But next time only spend 15 dollars. Really challenge yourselves next time because sometimes that's all some of us have after bill's to spend on groceries.
@kennyxr no I dont have milk or peppers in my apartment. these are basic "necessities" in cooking (however not everyone consumes dairy so not everyone has milk.) Oil/ spices are mainly more common in pantries as milk or peppers which are perishable items.
I cook every day. 2 meals a day (sometimes 1 if I dont have the money )( I live in chicago where taxes are 10 percent and they take 25 percent of your paycheck.) After paying Bill's at the beginning of the month sometimes there is only 50 dollars to spend after gas for a dialy commute to and from work. So no, not everyone has perishable items in their pantry/ fridge at all times. So chill with that judgemental ass tone. 💁♀️ If you want though you are welcome to visit my pantry/ fridge as well as that of others if you dont want to believe it.
*upon rereading you said black pepper. I do apologize for misspeaking*
They shoulda named it--->
*Make It Fancy: with a budget*
This is only $15 if you're a tasty producer and have access to half of the ingredients for free
Tasty:Can this chef make a three course meal with $15?
*PANTRY FREEBIE*
Not trying to hate btw
It’s not a Rie episode without Rie’s “Lady”😂😂
No fair, all of us doesn’t have anything at out pantry. You should’ve count your eggs milk sugar etc.
Can this chef Make a three course meal with no food challenge
Yes but No
that's a very technical 15 bucks, but i guess it works
True, but - you can use the excess ingredients. Presumably you still eat.
That's how you figure out costing in a restaurant.
They did our Rie no justice whatsoever. This is a pretty misleading video; they should have gone to the grocery store and buy the ingredients for $15.
Then it wouldn't be a $15 meal, because she wouldn't have used $15 worth of ingredients. The price of a meal is not the same as the price of ingredients.
I know there’s a lot of complaining about how this isn’t really a $15 meal, but my boyfriend and I have made this exact meal twice and we love it. Definitely one of our staple dinners when we want something date like but we can do ourselves. Thanks Ria!
Is it weird if I Think it's all from a dallor store or under 99¢? 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
🤨 so I can’t wait to find a store that I can get 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper for pennies. 🤷🏼♀️ This is lame cuz I have to buy the whole bottle of spice and pasta. Unrealistic. Just sayin
Marci Sunshine its not unrealistic they have priced the portions they made being three courses for two people, when you buy these ingredients you're spending money worth multiple portions of meals
I watched a video where a girl set up a weekly budget and then did grocery shopping for the whole week within that budget including literally every single ingredient (even spices, oil etc). This way you can see what's economical. If you are on a budget you most likely won't buy expensive things considering that you need the whole package (e.g. olive oil, wine, vanilla) unless you incorporate them into multiple recipes. I think when done this way it is much more sensible.
she didn't buy stuff she used stuffa that they already have but under 15$
Samina C the question was whether she could make a meal with $15 not worth $15
You can go to a bulk store I guess
90% of comments: cheap to count only the usage price
80% of those people: still likes the video cause you cant hate Rie cause shes a pure bean
That spoon trick was really cool.
This is dumb. You can't buy everything to the exact amount you need
I liked the video as I enjoyed watching, but it felt like cheating especially at the end when she was like "only $15"... erm no it was not!
I wish I could go to the store and buy 1 tsp of vanilla extract, or 1/3 of pasta 🤭🤭
You dont use the whole bottle of vanila extract only part of it your spliting it over multiple meals
Heading to the store to buy $0.04 of vanilla extract.
The way they fanned the pasta was so satisfying to watch
me before the video started playing: I can’t wait to try this!!!
me when she started cooking: oh
It took 15 dollars, but actually more like 60 dollars, worth of money, and like 4 hours of time!
What a great tip for people on a budget.
This was sooo fun to watch, I absolutely ADORE Rie!!!
This is lowkey un realistic cause u would have to buy a whole thing of vinegar or Olive Oil to add Tea spoons
It's a 15$ meal, not going grocery shopping for 15$. Learn to read. 🤷🏼♀️
s1lvia.m Obviously i know that tf, i was just saying it’s unrealistic and it might’ve been better to see her go grocery shopping with a bigger budget
All these ingredients collectively cost a minimum of 36.27 from the Ralph's near BuzzFeed's studio in LA, and if you use real vanilla extract it comes in at 41.98.
So not really $15 dinner for two. If you're broke and need to actually get all these ingredients it's how to use $15 out of your $40 of ingredients to make dinner for two.
Rie is just so adorable.. Love her easy go happy attitude. It is super cute.
Woah amazing video, i loved every course meal, specially the creme brule hack!!!!
(Rie in the thumbnail)
Can this che-
Me: yes, yes she can. She’s Rie.
Ok but where do you get 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Rie: im using my hand because hand is ur best tool
Rie's lady: Am I A jOKe tO You!?
😂😂
Everything looks so summery and lovely
Make more cheap 3 course meal recipe please. This is so entertaining and educating, let people know that good food ain’t need to be expensive