5 Cheap Dinner Ideas | Kosher and Gluten Free | Orthodox Jewish Mom (Jar of Fireflies)
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2022
- Today I am taking you along as I cook dinner all week for my family. Each meal I made for as inexpensive as possible so cheap dinner ideas are here! Each meal is kosher and gluten free. Here are the recipes from my week of cheap kosher and gluten free dinner ideas:
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Unnamed Chicken Dinner
2 tbsp olive oil $0.151 package chicken breast $101 shallot, chopped $0.702 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped $0.302 tbsp tomato paste $0.102 tbsp GF flour $0.102 tsp sweet paprika $0.20
2 cups Chicken Broth $1.301 can mushrooms $1.50Chopped fresh chives, to serve Mashed potato, to serve $1.50
Roasted broccoli to serve $1.50
Heat 1 tbs oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cut chicken into serving size pieces and slice in half if too thick. Add 1 tbs oil to pan. Cook the chicken for 3 minutes each side or until well browned. Transfer to a plate. Cook garlic and shallot then add in tomato paste, flour and paprika. Mix. Add the stock a little at a time, stirring to combine evenly after each addition. Bring to the boil and let simmer for a few minutes. Add the chicken to the liquid and flip to coat. Simmer for a few minutes before serving. Serve with mashed potato, roasted broccoli
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Tofu Ramen
12-15 ounces extra firm tofu
4 eggs
1/2 ounces dried shiitake mushrooms
4 cups chicken stock
4 squares ramen noodles
Canola oil
Gf flour
Press moisture out of the tofu then cut into cubes. Coat cubes with gf flour. In a skillet, fry tofu in oil. Remove from pan and set aside. In the same pan, add the chopped shiitake and stir fry until golden brown. Add the stock and bring to a simmer. Add noodles and mushrooms and cook per package instructions. Hard boil the eggs. Divide the noodles into four large bowl and ladle the soup on top. For each serving, top with the tofu and 1egg (cut in half)
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Baked Spaghetti
1 box Spaghetti Pasta $3.00
1 jar sauce $3.00
Mozzarella cheese $3.00
1 package vegan ground beef $5.25
Italian seasoning $0.10
Baby spinach $2.30
Cook spaghetti per package instructions. Cook vegan meat per instructions. Chop spinach. Place noodles in a large bowl and add all other ingredients and mix. Place the noodle mixture in a baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes on 350.
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Cornbread Chili Casserole
Cornbread mix $2.70
3/4 cup Soy milk $.35
1/2 cup oil $0.45
1 egg $0.05
1 package ground beef $11.30
1/4 tub vegan sour cream $0.75
1 can corn $0.70
1 onion $0.60
Taco seasoning $0.15
1 can chopped tomatoes $0.60
1 can beans (pinto) $1.00
Cook ground beef, drain and rinse, place back in pan. Add vegan sour cream, corn, taco seasoning, tomatoes and beans, mix. Place in casserole dish. Prepare cornbread according to box. Place batter evenly on top of taco mixture. Bake according to cornbread box instructions
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Bean and cheese burritos
Tortillas $.50
Shredded cheese $2.00
Pinto beans $1.80
1/4 cup Salsa plus more to serve $1.00
sour cream plus more to serve $1.00
Guacamole to serve $0.70
Prepare tortillas by lightly heating up in skillet, set aside. Rinse the beans. In a blender, mix beans, salsa and cream cheese. Put beans and cheese in the tortillas, wrap them, and place in baking dish
Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Serve with sour cream, sliced avocado, and salsa
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Hello and welcome! My name is Chana, I’m married to my best friend, and we have three wonderful children together. We also happen to be Orthodox Jews and we homeschool our kids. This video is a sneak peek into our daily lives :) You can see how this particular Jewish homeschool mom sets up her days, rolls with the punches, and gets it all done. Thanks for watching!
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Whats your favorite inexpensive dinner?
Hello! Herb pasta, boulion pasta (we have it with some small bits of bacon, too). Mushroom pasta, Hawaiian rice. Zucchini pasta. All the pasta dishes, basically ;)
Mac and cheese. I know…so exotic. 🤣🤗❤️
Kielbasa Sausage with diced sweet potatoes and zucchini all cooked in a skillet with some spices of your choice. I prefer S&P and Paprika. It's simple, healthy, and quick. One of my favorites.
@@dreaG45 I love mac and cheese!!!
@@couturehelvetica1261 They all sound delicious! I need to really expand my pasta offerings past cheese and sauce lol
You could make your own breadcrumbs. Maybe throw left over challa in a bag in the freezer and when you get enough, dry it in the oven on low heat then grind or crush it in a bag. Might be worth setting aside a loaf for crumbs as well. Seems like it would be cheaper but I'm not sure. I do this with my homemade bread and no one in my house has any idea.
That’s exactly what I’ve started doing :)
Hello again! There is a broth called dashi stock (Japanese) that is easy to make and is 100% vegan. The one I make is a cheaper version contains two ingredients, water and kombu. (Here on youtube there are other variants.) I put the combo in the water and leave it overnight (12 hours), then it is ready. I use this when I cook beans or chickpeas, to get the umami taste and so that I don'tt become queen fart a lot.
Thank you so much! I’ll look into that!
Great dinner ideas - thanks! And your outtakes at the end are one of my favourite parts of your videos lol!! Thanks for keeping it real!
Thanks Andrea :) So glad you love the outtakes and the video
Happy New Year Channa! Thanks for the great recipes. It’s always nice to the change up the rotation. Love how helpful the kids are, and that hug at the end, warmed my heart. See you soon!
Thank you Carol! So glad you enjoyed this :) Happy new year 🎊
I loved this video, definitely do more of these 🍽
Thank you!
Really appreciate this episode!
Awesome! I’m so glad it was helpful!
loved your recipes!
Thank you Margaret’
We eat a lot of fresh vegetables, so my meals are not too affected by the increase in prices overall. This evening I'm cooking roast chicken with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, green beans and roast potatoes. The remaining chicken will be used for lunch tomorrow and a soup with the leftover veg which will be served with bread rolls for another evening meal. I don't like wasting food so have lots of ideas for using leftovers. I'm grateful that my daughter loves vegetables and salads because they are so healthy. I've noticed that gluten free food items are incredibly expensive. Here, vouchers are provided to parents of Celiac children to enable them to reduce costs. Those with very low incomes can get these foods for free. I wish the American authorities would provide similar assistance to its citizens.
Wow that’s so interesting that y’all get vouchers to help people with special food needs!
Awesome ideas
Thank you!
Really enjoyable to watch, especially your little guy setting the table
Thank you!!!
Lol at the bloopers! Happy New Year, Chana. Happiness and good health to you and your family as well! Love seeing someone else cook 😁 and trying new recipes. I make a spaghetti pie also but have never added spinach, will try that next time.
So glad you enjoyed :) And love the name spaghetti pie! Happy new year!
These are such great new dinner ideas! Looking forward to trying them out 🙂 I so appreciate how you introduce new creative concepts in your content from week to week, keeps it very exciting! (Although I would still be watching if every single video was a DITL!😉) Happy 2022 from Canada 🎊🎉
Aw thank you Victoria! It’s so funny I go through phases of more DITL and less lol I think I’m in a less phase right now 😂 But I’m enjoying trying new things :)
Loved the ideas!! Loved you helper!! Thank you for the change up!
You’re so welcome! I’m so glad you liked this! Enjoy the recipes!
Thank you for sharing your meal ideas, loved the addition of the spinach to the baked spaghetti casserole. When my daughter was little I’d make my pasta sauce with tomato sauce and added spinach, carrots, zucchini, onions and garlic in the blender and then added herbs. She loved it!
Love that you add veggies to sauces too! I try to sneak things into spaghetti sauce on the regular and the kids have no idea lol
My husband is home this week so I sent him your video. You’ve saved him so much time for dinner planning, shopping and cooking! We had the chicken tonight and it was delicious! Thank you
Oh that’s awesome!!!
Great meal ideas
Thank you!
Best video on your channel. I love seeing what different families around the world have for their meals. Do more of these!!!
Thank you! Thank you 💜
It's so great to see gluten free AND kosher recipes, the combination can be a challenge!
It can definitely be a challenge! I hope this video gave you some fun ideas :)
Thank you so much for this video. I love watching cooking videos I always get stuck making the same thing over and over I find this kind of video so helpful.
I’m so glad this was helpful! Enjoy the recipes :)
Great dinner ideas. Thanks 😊
You’re so welcome Barbara!
Happy New Year to you and your family 🎉. Every dish looks delicious
Thank you so much! Happy new year 🎊
Everything looks delish❤️
Thanks Theresa!
All looked great. Take care and be blessed!
Thank you!
I love all your recipes. I always feel like I am in a rut with dinner ideas. Thanks for your ideas. I love your sons head covering. The trucks are so cute. I hope you do more of these dinner ideas
Thank you Daphne! I’m so very glad that you enjoyed!
Hi Chana great video I would love to try the chicken dish it looked lovely. Happy New year to you and your family x
Thank you so much and Happy new year!!
Great easy meal idea's. Thanks
So glad you enjoyed!
Great dinner inspiration! ☺️
So glad you enjoyed!
Omg !! Your pasta bake looks amazing :) I am definitely going to have to try that 🥰
Thank you! Enjoy it!
I was at Half Priced Books today. I found a Kosher cookbook; I was thinking of you. I wasn't sure if it was gluten free though. I earned $11 from selling back old books. Which ended up helping me at the grocery store. At the laundromat, my new tablet wouldn't start. I was worried. Then I decided it was probably cold from being in the car. When I took it home and plugged it in the charger thing, it worked, thankfully. Dad talked me out of getting anything at Half Priced Books. I found trash bags on sale at the grocery store, and it was cheaper than buying the same thing on Amazon. You have a good day.
Love half price books!
Hi Chana: Everything looked sooo good, especially your baked spaghetti dish. 🤗 That's quite a challenge, kosher, gluten free and affordable, but, you aced it! I love mac and cheese and feel that, sometimes, the cheap meals can be the best. Yes, frugality is a good goal for us to have. Hope the new year is happy and healthy for all of you! Rosemarie 💖
Thank you Rosemarie! The spaghetti dish was absolutely delicious and made the best leftovers!
Love this video! I am always looking for easy gluten-free recipes. You did an amazing job
Awesome thank you!
Great dinner ideas Chana ❤️
Thank you Anna!
Wonderful video today Chana!
What a lot of preparation it took and it was really well executed.👍🏻
Helpful to see the ingredients list and cost for each recipe.
My favourite, which I will try pretty soon, is the baked spaghetti.
My kids, when they were your kids ages, loved mac n cheese and I used to put corn, broccoli and cauliflower in there and serve as a side dish or have as a lunch.
I hope you have a great week!
Lesley
Thank you so much Lesley! You’ll love the baked spaghetti, it’s so yum! And very warming in the winter :)
These were great ideas
I’m so glad! Thank you!
I love your wooden kitchen spoon 😊
Thank you!
You are a mind reader! I've been struggling to think of cheaper meals to cook and this has been very helpful. Thank you :)
Perfect! Hope you got some good ideas!
Baked spaghetti is on my next grocery list. Yes, frugal is always a good idea - I am with you on that Chana! Lots of fun ahead, we are off to another wonderful year. Health and Happiness to you and yours this New Year.
Thank you and happy new year to you as well! Enjoy your baked spaghetti!
Hey hey it’s Monday and we have a yummy video from Chana , and what a great video it is , happy new year China from you’re follower here in England 😀
Thank you friend! Happy new year!
This was one of my fav videos from you! Really helpful and made me hungry!!!! Will definitely try the tofu ramen!!!
Thank you Jane!!! Enjoy the meal!
LOVE this video and this idea in general! Would love more cooking/meal planning/"what we eat" videos :) You rock!
Thank you so much Clare!
Great idea’s for dinner and really affordable 🤗💕
Thanks Anne!
These are some great recipes! Thank you for sharing. Really enjoyed this video.
Thank you Victoria!
Happy and blessed new year
Happy new year!
Thank you for this video. Great ideas! Booo rising food costs! Thanks again Chana!
Thank you Llisel!
The cornbread taco bake is a family favorite!!
I will be making the baked spaghetti tonight! Thanks for helping me out!
You’re so welcome Molly! Enjoy the meals!!!
Really enjoyed the new ideas. Keep them coming.
So glad! Thank you!
omg this looks so good! I am definitely making it this weekend. My cheapest go-to meal is probably a latke mix from the box, lol, with a couple sides. great video!
Enjoy! Thank you for your kind words!
These were wonderful! Great ideas. I live in a gluten/dairy free household and all these ideas would be great. Especially the Ramen! I never thought about frying tofu. So easy. I bet I could even get my sometimes picky 4 year old to eat it :)
Thank you so much for sharing your life with us ❤
Oh fried tofu is my kids favorite! We also serve fried tofu with rice and sauces (everyone picks something different lol but like teriyaki or sweet chili sauce or something like that)
Awesome video loved the bloopers living life!
Thank you so much Debbie!
Thank you for all your effort on this video!
My pleasure!
I wish I could do this but I live alone. I did tell my nieces and my sons wife to watch this !!! Another great video!!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for sharing, Chana! They all looked delicious, but I think the Tofu noodles and spaghetti would have to be my favourite :) I'm lactose intolerant, so it's always great to learn about yummy new recipes with dairy-free ingredients :) I hope that you have a great week! xx
So glad you found a recipe to try! Enjoy it! It’s my kids favorite:)
Logged on to youtube to watch something while eating breakfast. Perfect timing!
So perfect! And the food video won’t leave you hungry lol
Good morning Chana and kiddos 💕 My favorite meal is chicken and noodles from scratch! A hearty stew we love ❤ 😍
Oh stew! It’s so cold here that’s what I need :)
This was a great video! Other inexpensive dinners I enjoy except for pasta are baked potatoes, fried rice and farmer's omelette, which are all good for using leftover vegetables, meat and rice. Happy New Year to you and your family 👪 ❤
Great meal ideas! Happy new year!
Great meal videos.
Thank you Lisa!
Amazing!! Love your videos! Keep it up☺️☺️
Thank you!
My favorite two were ramen and spaghetti. Breaking down the prices was awesome and makes me realize why my grocery bill is so high. Great video.
Right? As soon as I started looking at things I was like oh I could fix this lol
Always looking for ways to sneak in veggies to my kids dinner lol Thanks!
You’re so welcome!
Happy New Year ^^
My favourite "cheap" meal is pretty basic Pasta with sauce, or rice with vegetables
Happy new year! Pasta is a common fav here in my house too :)
The chicken meal looked delicious even good for a Friday night meal...
It was really good! Everyone loved it too! SO its definitely going to be made again :) And yes, it would be great for Shabbat!
Lol I did the same green spice deal with grandsons when they were younger.. your meals look delicious.Thx for sharing these ideas.
Great minds think alike
Thank you for making this video!! Many blessings!!!
You are so welcome! Thank you!
Yum! I make the chili cornbread casserole too. I put cheddar cheese too. You might use fake beef to be able to add cheese too. It’s a staple for us! Everyone loves it. Great video as always Chana!
Ohhh I bet that would be good with cheese and fake meat!
That multicolored wooden spatula is BEAUTIFUL!
Thank you! It’s my favorite 🤩
That chicken dish looked very tasty, I need to try that one! I have been making baked spaghetti or a variation of for years, always a crowd pleaser! One of my favorite inexpensive meals is baked potatoes with cheese and broccoli, yum! Combine any cheese sauce with cooked or roasted broccoli, heat through and pour over baked potatoes, so easy! As always, a pleasure to to watch and learn...
That chicken dish was really delicious:) baked potatoes with cheese and broccoli sounds delicious too!
I just wanted to thank you. Your videos are very informative. I am familiar with Jewish culture (my father was ashkenazi ) so it’s fascinating to see the slight variations between Sephardic and Ashkenazi traditions. Great cooking ideas.
Thank you! So happy to hear you like these :)
Just what I’m looking for! Thank you for sharing this recipe. You’ve presented in a clear and easy way to follow along! I love that you make it look easy! As a fellow you tube cooking creator I’m inspired by your channel! I hope we can learn from each other! Thank you for sharing your talent with all of us!
This video took a lot of work! Thank you for the recipes 🥰
You’re so welcome! And oh my gosh yes it was so much work lol I have so much respect now for people who do this type of video on the regular lol
@@jaroffireflies Right?! I have one going up that's just about bread and it's hard to edit. Bravo for a week's worth! You're up there with Sonya now 😉
@@jackandpicklesvlogs oh my meals will never compare to Sonya’s! She’s so awesome!
I'm trying all of your recipes!! Even the vegan cheese and beef ones! I'm lactose intolerant and gluten sensitive so I'm excited to try them with my family!! Many blessings.
Yay! I’m so glad this video had so many great ideas for you!!! Enjoy them Maria!
You put together some nice meals for your family! Breakstone butter is Kosher! I love it and buy it all the time.
Thank you!
This is looking so tempting. Surely so delicious, flavourful and nicely explained. The cooking and preparation method of the recipe is so nice.. the end result is superb.❤💕Stay Blessed and stay connected!😍
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed!
LOVE cooking vides...thanks for the awesome video.
Thank you Debbie!
Ohhhh, they all look amazing! Prices definitely going up for food. What I love is to add corn starch if I fry things (like tofu) or these thin eggplants cut in bite size pieces. It makes them crunchy and even my picky eaters love it. I think my most favourite inexpensive dinner is both vegetarian corn soup and mapo tofu (I use either beef or Turkey minced meat but you can make it vegetarian to begin with.) lovely video as always🤍
I’ve read that about cornstarch but I think I must be done g it wrong because it never works for me lol
Dear Channah, thank you for yet another video to accompany my evening tea!
As a housewife on food restrictions (Muslim living in Switzerland- meat has to be halal and we have no halal butchers nearby so we have to cross borders and buy in bulks in Germany, I am lactose intolerant and have irritable bowel syndrome so I eat at home) and also a budget, I feel ya. I can share little tips for anyone who wants to eat better but has to spend less on it.
One thing that I do is always plan ahead. I write out a weekly meal plan every Sunday. I tape it on my fridge. I also write what is missing in my fridge/pantry and shop accordingly weekly. It also creates less clutter in my fridge/ pantry, ensures that I use everything that I have, prevents me to overbuy.
Usually I spend around 50-60 Francs every week on groceries. (1 USD= 0.92 Francs) When I first arrived, I'd spend around 150. What I did was to stop buying the instant or ready to eat ingredients and focus on the basic ones. For example, a package of cornmeal for cornbread can produce 3-4 cornbreads. But a cornbread mix only produces one. Same goes for any basic ingredient: I do not buy canned beans. I buy dried ones. If 250 gr of a canned bean is around 2 francs, 500 gr of dried one is the same price and I can make 2 full meals with it. I wet them a night before, cook the entire package in pressure cooker for an hour and use the half, freeze the other half. It goes anything that is a grain: Lentils, beans, chickpeas etc. I always have bags of cooked grain in my freezer. I started this after accidentally buying a can of lentils with bacon in it. You find animal products in most random places even in bread. Sometimes they use lard in them which is bizarre for my Middle Eastern upbringing.
I buy vegetables that are in the season and eat them only when they are in season. It is cheaper and also I believe that God created them in a specific season for a reason. So in winter, we have plenty of cabbage, brussel sprout, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and leek dishes. In the summer we would have zucchini, green bean, corn, aubergines, green pepper; In spring peas, asparagus..; In autumn pumpkin, celeries, turnips, kale etc etc.. So many colourful, different food we can have every season we are blessed.
What I also like to do is to have weekly routines of food preparations. I never buy soup stock. Anyone that has a pressure cooker can make their own. Usually every Monday I put out a whole chicken and some beef bones, as I go around the house, it gets cooked. The stock is stored separately in tupperwares. Usually I get around 6 litres of stock which lasts me a week. I shred the entire cooked chicken and use it as salad toppings or in soups, burritos etc. I also make my own cashew butter, peanut butter, oat milk, soy milk, coconut milk, green pesto sauce and guacamole because the cost of buying these are higher. Every summer when tomatoes are plenty, I buy in kilos and produce around 100 jars of diced tomatoes, 5 jars of ketchup and 5 kg of tomato paste. Not much is needed, only food processor and a large stewpot. It is done only once a year and lasts me until next summer. For example if I need salsa, I can just pull out my homemade diced tomato jar and add simple ingredients and be done with it. No need to buy extra anything. If I want pudding, I just need some cocoa powder, avocado, melted dark chocolate bar and mix them in a blender. If I have a kid around, I might add a spoon of agave syrup. No need to buy the packaged pudding and play the guessing game of "will I feel sick after eating these?"
It might seem like a lot of work but once you get the hang of it you won't like the store bought ones. Homemade can be adapted to your own individual needs and taste while you are 100% sure about the ingredients. After all, the trouble I have is not purely financial. Any packaged product can cause me to have an unwanted reaction. I have to be extra careful with labels. What I can say is that most of the things I mentioned are simple to make at home. You don't need fancy tools. Pressure cooker, blender, food processor, large pot is all there is needed.
Sorry for the long comment! Love, Ceren.
Thank you so much for sharing all your great tips!
All recipes look great! Definitely going to try the chicken!
My favorite affordable meal is spaghetti.
Spaghetti and is my favorite meal anyway! Especially with meatballs!
Enjoy the chicken!!! It’s definitely making it in our dinner rotation!
lol.. I love how you are trying to record & your little one keeps needing you, Hanna! So sweet! I remember when mine were small , I couldn't go anywhere in the house without one of them needing me! :)
I’m glad I have these little bits of time recorded :)
@@jaroffireflies Yes- they are precious!
Thank you for sharing! Cheap dinners are great, and they will try a version of the “tofu-soup” 😋 Love and blessings from Johanne, Norway 🇳🇴
You’re so welcome! Enjoy!
Baked spaghetti is a favorite of our family! I am going to try the cornbread chili and chicken recipes. They looked delicious. I will say watching this video made me hungry! Lol
I am a fairly frugal when it comes to meal costs. I buy my meat in larger packages and divide them and put them in the freezer. I either eat the leftovers for lunch or freeze them (if enough to do so for another meal or for “ potluck “ meal day.) Have a great week! Blessings!
So glad you got some good ideas from this! Enjoy the recipes!
I LOVED this video! (I’m a little late to the party watching this one but this was a wonderful one!)
Yay! Thank you!
There must be a meal prepping in the air, because quite a few of my family and friends are prepping for future meals and I myself have made three pans of meatloaf, four pans stuffed peppers, and three pans of lasagna, and there's only three of us in the house, once I get down through three or four of those pans I will be making chili and enchiladas for meal prep in the future, I think it's a great idea Chana keep it up
Oh wow good on ya for the meal prepping! I wish I was better at it :)
Hey Chana! Thx for this video..thumbs up!
Thank you Trish! So glad you liked it!
Great video Chana! I will definitely make the spaghetti bake. I was happy to see carb free pasta! My diet is low carb so I stay away from gluten. I made eggplant parm last night. It takes a bit of time but well worth it. I used coconut and almond flour for dredging. How nice of you to take the time to do a video about inexpensive meals. Very timely! It was obvious that you put a lot of work into breaking everything down for us. Looking forward to your next creative video! 💕
Enjoy the spaghetti! Be forewarned though, gluten free pasta can have just as many carbs as gluten spaghetti depending on what it’s made from.
@@jaroffireflies Thank you Chana for the warning. I try to check carbs on what I buy, but sometimes you just get distracted!
@@MediocreComedian I totally hear that!
Love the olive oil container… I have the same one
So fun!
Thanks for all the great recipes! We are vegetarian and one of my new favorite inexpensive proteins is Texturized Vegetable Protein (TVP). We us Bob red mill brand which is gluten free and kosher.
You’re so welcome!
The taco casserole looked super yummy.
Thank you!
@@jaroffireflies I actually made it, and completely forgot the sour cream step.... Will try it that way next time, but is still super yummy without it.
I enjoyed seeing these recipes and might have to try some of them but I would save a little of the cheese in baked spaghetti to put on top the last few minutes because I like it on top.
Saving the cheese for on top is a great idea :)
Have to say this was very impressive.
Thank you Theresa!
The tofu dish looked really yummy!
Thank you! It’s my kids favorite now :)
Thank you, Chana! Now I am hungry and I am craving baked speggheti! Everything looked yummy, but, I will pass on the tofu. Happy New Year!
Lol glad you enjoyed (minus the tofu) happy new year!
Great ideas, Chana. When my kids were little, they thought that mashed potatoes were green because I used to puree veggies into the mashed potatoes. Sneaky, but successful.
Oh my gosh genius! 😂
One of my ids didn’t like broccoli, but he loved roasted “baby trees” with snow (a little grated cheese)!
Great idea I do that at the daycare
@@burjuddubowy347 so clever!
Pro level on this is boiling black rice and saving the water or using rainbow chard.
Great video! Definitely putting some of these on my list. Any dietary restrictions really make things more expensive!
The definitely make it pricier! Thanks for your kind words :) Enjoy the recipes!
They all looked delicious!! I can't believe how expensive food has become. Terrible!! I love baked spaghetti. I can't believe how big your kids are getting. They're adorable!!
I think people with special food needs are taken terrible advantage of. Sugar free snacks for me are way more expensive and when my dad was alive gluten free was the same way!!
It’s really hard for sure when you have any type of special dietary need, even just trying to shop healthy!
Hi Channah🙋♀️ your burritos is actually ancheladas. I make them once in awhile with cheese inside and speghetti sauce outside and cheese.
Burritos are with aprotien. Usually: rice ,veggies , corn , beans and sauces...wrapped lije a big egg roll. Yumm a meal in it's own.. all look soo yummy.. enjoy
This is such a helpful video! I don't have children, but the rising cost of groceries makes it tricky for my husband and I to cook meals that don't go over our weekly grocery budget.
I’m so glad this was helpful! The leftovers of these meals were all really good :)
In the new year can you make merch that says "Ohhhkay". I feel like I need this in my life.
😂 great idea
Loved the economy meals. I use the Morningstar crumbles to make tacos. Add cheese, taco seasoning mix to crumbles, lettuce and anything I enjoy in a taco. Wrap it in a corn tortilla and my favorite tacos. Not much of a tofu lover but am going to fry it and see if that changes my mind. Also love a vegetarian lasagna, very similar to spaghetti casserole. Keep those meals coming.
Fried tofu changed my mind! I don’t eat it any other way :)
Here’s a hack I do to extend our ground beef and sneak in veggies. It saves money and ups the nutrition.
Cook ground beef as usual, when just about done toss in a bag of frozen cauliflower rice and take a package of mushrooms, run them through your food processor so they’re diced up super fine and add that too. Cook until it all comes together and you won’t even be able to tell! Season as you like it. It stretches one pound into two and you get veggies! 🥳
Awesome thanks so much for the tip Tina!
Hi, love your recipes and am into frugality too 👋💕
So glad you enjoyed!