I wanted to throw something out there for anyone who may have a stove die, and cannot afford to replace it. DON'T replace it! My stove died and I refuse to pay these horrible prices. People often think they have to have a state of the art stove in their kitchen. I bought an Oster french door toaster oven, ($75 on Marketplace) it does everything a big stove does without the energy guzzling, 50% less!! Then I bought a double hot plate for regular cooking, a used Crock Pot, and a steel cart for it all that fits in the space. My energy bill is now $50!! It pays to think outside the American box.
I did the same thing years ago- money was tight- but a toaster oven and hot plate worked just fine for my daughter and me. I now cook and bake with a cook woodstove for 8 months a year and use a single burner hot plate and small charcoal grill in the summer- my electric bill is never more than 30$ and i am not going without anything
One thing I did was just buy a basic cheap stove for $400 last time around. I have a double hotplate, french door Oster countertop oven and air fryer as back up. I find I really don't use my big oven very often.
Thanks for doing this cooking video. So many people are unaware of how easy simple and economical homemade meals can be. From a 72 year old oldster the only thing I would have done different is not poured the potato water down the drain. It would have gone into the soup or even some for the mashed potatoes. Lots of goodness going down that drain. Also have never considered putting butter under the skin, usually put it on top, so thanks for that tip. You are never too old to learn.
I also save the potato water. I use it in soup, homemade bread, gravy or just add it to my dogs' food. I read somewhere that a lot of the water soluble minerals leach out of boiled vegetables so I usually try to use that in something else. i also freeze it in cubes to add to things instead of just using water. Not quite yet 70 here, but not far away. Hoping to make it to 90, if I can keep mobility and health. I will see. Note to PP.... Your video on marrying the right one is absolutely spot on. I make my kiddos watch it at least once a year and I hope they will keep that in mind.
You're doing a great service here by showing how to cook this from start to finish. So many people don't know so it's a great way for them to learn how to cook and save $ too!
Might I suggest when making gravy putting equal parts butter and flour in pan. Whisk for a few minutes under medium low heat then add pan drippings and if too thick add milk or broth. You’ll have a much smoother and tastier gravy
Prepper Princess, Just wanted to see if you know about a vlog a youngman started with his Grandma, called Depression Cooking with Clara. Omygoodness it is precious and so interesting,to hear and see some the types of meals they had during this time.How they made it through on a little amount of food and alot of love. When they had meat it was such a treat. Thought you might enjoy watching. Clara has passed away but what an impact her videos made on so many people.🥰☀️🙏 ❤😊
Prepper Princess Make a paste using baking soda and vinegar to clean your cutting board. Put paste on board and let it set for a while before cleaning. We used this method in a commercial kitchen.
What she saved on the chicken, she lost in electricity by not utilizing her oven to bake/roast the potatoes and mix the potatoes by hand rather than the electric mixer!
Just a litte tip; please only use wooden utensils for your teflon (?) pots. You do not want to eat teflon or other stuff when the pot scratches. Personally I already switched to only metal pots and pans. Aluminium, steel and iron are good and do not mind metal utensils. Easy to find in secons hand shops too
Yay to half and half in the potatoes!! I always do that, as well as butter. So many people seem surprised and even impressed that I make mashed potatoes from scratch. It’s so darn easy, economical and so much better than the packaged crap. My mom always added some of the drippings to packaged gravy. It makes it taste almost homemade.
One thing I do is take a freezer bag and put my veggie scraps, and onion skins in. As I cook, I add more to it. When it gets full, I simmer these scraps with water in a large pot for 2-3 hours on low. Then cool and strain. I end up with homemade veggie broth. You can do the same with chicken or beef bones. When it's cool,I just measure out a cup at a time and freeze in baggies. This saves me so much money.
Gravy = flour & butter roux, add chicken stock, salt, pepper - that's gravy....the stuff in packets is chemicals....all those juices from cooking the chicked would have helped make homemade gravy without the packet stuff.
At night my wife and I slept with CATS (help) - they would get on top of us (the blankets on the king-sized bed) and then a couple would snuggle up close and lay in-between us for maximum warmth then in the morning as the sun-light would come in the bedroom window they would get up and start "licking my nose with their sand-paper tongues" to wake us up so we could go down to the kitchen and open the cans of catfood to feed them - one big HAPPY cat family !!! :-)
I've been watching your video's for years now. I enjoy your updates. Please be careful with metal scraping up against Teflon pots like that. It scrapes off into your food and can cause all kinds of weird things to happen in your body over time, including cancer. But other than that, I appreciate your advice PP!
JUST found your channel. Oh WOW! You cook like I do 😄. I don’t do fancy, it’s not gonna stay fancy once it fills the belly. Working in the garden, yard maintenance, cutting the grass, critter chores… last thing I want is to come in and cook a main dish, throw a side salad together etc Keep it simple 😊 THANK YOU there’s a few channels I watch, the food looks awesome but time consuming. Only thing I do that I’d not give up is dehydrated garden stuff. Easy making soups and stews- just Chuck it in at the end and let it form up and while it’s doing that- make a pan of biscuits 👍 If I could grow coffee and toilet paper I could cut out the trip to town altogether 😄
You should start reserving some potato water on the side because it helps make gravy thicker and you could also add it to your soup for the same reason. 😉 And PS Costco has huge roasted chicken for $5 and they don’t raise the price on it apparently.
I have a freezer full of frozen whole chickens. They go on sale for 99 cents a pound every few months. We use it for everything. Dog food, stir fry, chicken salad, so much. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Hello, prepper princes. Thanks for sharing the soups recipe. I just wanted to share something I learned when I boil potatoes, I never threw the water away, I use it as a base to make my soup and I add the bones there, because I feel like it helps to make it thick and creamy.
Several people in the big family have auto-immune conditions, so we cannot do any grains, starches, legumes, sugar and so on, so mainly have to make all sorts of meat and cauliflower/ broccoli. I cannot even tolerate any vegetables at all. I do buy in bulk both chickens and ground beef. Then cut up chickens and put in freezer. Re-pack ground beef to one time use of about 2,5 lbs at a time.( 7 people in the family). We spend most of our income on groceries. At least this way of life allows me to avoid the medications that were prescribed and gives me freedom of movement. I couldn't walk three years ago - RA. Now in remission.
I very fortunate to buy rotisserie chicken on weekends and just make rice. Beats fast food. With kids and one on the way I’m so proud of myself that when I was able to cook the chicken I did. Now that I’m exhausted all the time I can just pay for convenience. Then when I’m able to again I’ll go right back to cooking from scratch. Because there’s always time when you just can’t. Always love your video. ❤
have to tell you the trick to potatoes! 1st you don’t drain all the potato water. Most of it but you leave like 1/2- 1 cup in the bottom depending on the amount of potatoes. Then you put at least 1/2 a stick on top (again, depending on how many potatoes) & put the lid back on. Let it melt! Then start your beaters. You mix the milk or heavy cream 1/2 way through for creaminess. I don’t know why this is the way, but I’m tellin ya, every Idahoan mama I have ever known does it this way. Ya know…. Experts and all 😁
My husband and I would get a weeks worth of dinners on one chicken when we first got married. Chicken dinners, soup and enough chicken meat bits for a couple of chicken salad sandwiches. I used make corn meal mush and pour it into a bread pan. When cooled, we could slice it and fry it with an egg or two for a meal also. We just made it work.
Thanks for posting this video. I spend entirely too much on food for myself each week as well as eating too much. This video inspires me to really cut back and rethink how I’m feeding myself. You are the best! Thanks Amber!
A few things I learned from my kids’ great GMA: 1) scrape carrots with the back of the knife (don’t peel) 2) save some of that potato water! It’s good for plants, good to ad back in immediately when mashing potatoes (use less butter!), and is great for use in bread making (bread stays fresh longer). Also, buy half n half as it costs less than good milk when watered down and lasts far longer in the carton. It makes a better coffee creamer too. And eggnog! 3) homemade tortillas are better, cheaper and easy! 4) a cheap easy meal: cabbage and noodles (cook a chub of Jimmy Dean sausage in 1-2 T oil then cook shredded cabbage on top, turning every 5 min for about 35 min or so. While cabbage cooks, boil and drain wide egg noodles. Toss together . No seasonings needed. 5) turn down that boil: saves energy. Also put a lid on the pot, esp in summer.
I got a BBQ/ roast chicken s on special $6.00. I made salad and chicken(2 meals) chicken rolls(2 meals) ,curried chicken and rice(6 meals), and 4 litres of chicken and vegetable both The vegetable were all from our garden. We live in a sub tropical area in Queensland Australia ,so can grow vegetable all year round.
I do this all the time with whole chickens or like last week turkey as it was 99 cents/lb. These are easy Sunday night roasted dinners and we rotate through a whole chicken, beef roast, whole chicken, pork loin roast and sometimes we'll throw a ham in there somewhere when it's on sale for 99 cents/lb. For the two of us we make 4 baked potatoes on the same roasting pan and frozen veggies. That's 2 dinners and we slice the rest of the meat thin for lunches for the week. My chicken soup carcass is simmered for 6 hours along with the aromatic scraps from the veggies that will be in the final soup. The other awesome thing to make with the leftover chicken is chicken salad which we can never get enough of, the trick is to add just barely enough mayo so it's not drowning in it. Cheers!
I'm single and work 50 hr a week as a nurse. No pets. I splurge on the rotisserie chicken and pair it with plain baked potatoes and veg. No butter. Just salt and pepper.
@@nicod2213 I buy the chicken on Friday after work and put it in the fridge. On Saturday, I bake 8-10 potatoes and a big pot of vegetables. All of that goes in the fridge. I eat reheated precooked meals every evening after work. I also make a 9x13 egg/ham/spinach/cheese/potato casserole every Saturday. That feeds me breakfast for the week. (Sometimes I use chicken and broccoli or ground beef and tomatoes instead of the ham and spinach). Last weekend, I made ham and beans and cornbread for my dinners. Next week will be chicken and rice or potatoes and Brussels sprouts. I only have time to cook one day a week Lunch is always fruit ,Greek yogurt and cottage cheese at the nurses station.
Wow that sounds so yummy and I like your breakfast ideas. It sounds heartier than the carb options I usually have. You sound very busy! Cooking is such a challenge for me 🙂
@@nicod2213 It works with chili, spaghetti and meatballs, turkey and stuffing... Just make a big batch of meat, carbs and veg and your set for the next week. Get creative!
Just goes to show how with a bit of effort, you can eat perfectly well, on very little. Half a chicken made into 6 meals plus stock, well done! Your mashed spuds looked so fluffy and yummy! Thanks for giving ideas and inspiration to those who may need help.
I've been watching your videos and got serious about decreasing my grocery spending. Thank you so much! Nutritious, cheap, easy to prepare food for days. I've been making mostly big pot of simple veggie soup. Keeps me satisfied and glad I'm decreasing my food bill and not suffering for it.
My go-to recipe is white wine, garlic, butter, Italian herbs, s&p. I serve with rice pilaf, then make a casserole with the leftovers before dumping the whole carcass, skin, pan scrapings and all into the crock pot to make soup base. The butter, wine and herbs give it a nice flavor. Even if you only get a few servings of soup it’s money saved.
For 8 years I had a local TV cooking show. I never heard of putting butter under the skin of chicken. Turkey breast, yes, but not chicken. I cant wait to try this.
REAL mashed potatoes = yummy! Not made from instant flakes, and I do "not" mean that to be an insult to anybody that does prefer / does use instant potatoes. Your cooking / food preparation videos are always calming, though I realize that's not actually your intention. I always enjoy them. Thank you for sharing your time with us. I spent my morning helping somebody make (meat) jerky using your recipe. It turned out great; they are super pleased about the results. It was a lot of meat. And I'm always certain to credit you for the recipe, Prepper Princess.
Ive been really frugal since i was a teenager in Philippines now 35 after i paid off my car and little house, i kinda relax a bit from restricting myself especially food. I treat myself with travel, clothes, eating out. Now back to being frugal again watching your videos. I remember I watched your videos when you only got 25k subs.
Great vid ! I made chicken supper yesterday ❤🙂 I've never seen chicken in an oven pan without putting water and herbs and spices with a bit of melted butter in the water ... if you bake chicken in approx 4- 6 cups of water in that pan, it will make a lovely gravy when you thicken it. ✌️
Not sure if you care about health but scratching no stick pans can cause the coating on the pan not to be safe. You can use silicone lined whisks to prevent that.
I had a relative who was staying with me temporarily. Was too rough with pans and scratched the coating. I told him it can be dangerous but he looked at me like I was crazy. It is a real risk folks. Use a rubber or wooden spoon or spatula with this type of pan.
Have you considered Barley as a welcome addition to your stew? It adds body as well as fiber, grain. So good. Powdered Creamer is also good in mashed potatoes PS. WinCo also has it in bulk
I love your cooking segments! I always get inspired to copy off of them and it makes me so mindful of how we used to cook back in the midwest back in the seventies when things really really were tight. Do as many of these as you want!❤❤❤❤
I think a lot of people are cooking cheap and boring these days. I’ve been doing that for over 20 years. Would love to see what you make for ideas. I’m relying more on my home canned stuff and enhanced my garden for this year. Food prices and quality suck these days. I’ve stopped buying certain things. Moist? Really? People have issues with moist? Ya gotta let us in on the nervous breakdown people are gonna have giving the dogs the beaters! Chicken looked good!
You can also use the potato water for the soup or add powdered milk/creamer for the mashed potatoes. This saves some extra vitamins in the potato water.
Cabbage is my go to , I make cabbage soup with onion, canned tomato, chix or veggie bouillon , carrots , celery or whatever veggie I have that’s on its way out (squash etc) . It in the crockpot and cook all day. Definitely could add rice, chicken or pasta , it’s really good and hardy. I add a splash of cream or half and half and a little Parmesan cheese if I hv it….its old school cabbage soup, but I still love it and it’s cheap. Lol
My first time watching this channel. Thank you so much for these meal ideas. We are a family of 6. Tha last time we ate out it was almost $100. We are on a fixed income and can't do it. Again thank you❤
Iffen you don't have enough broth to make gravy, you can always use it to make your mashed potatoes in lieu of milk. I have done this a handful of times (I always end up adding a scant bit of bullion granules as well), and it is a hit in my house.
I love these meals. But, using the metal utensils in a non-stick pan has caused chips. Those chemicals can disrupt your endocrine system and lead to thyroid issues. I use wooden utensils or I use stainless steel pots and pans. Don’t make me worry about you!
At one time, iodine was added to salt , hence the word "iodized" on the pkg. People that did not have a lot of seafood in their diet were prone to getting goiters. This occurred a lot in the plains where fish were not consumed regularly. If you aren't using iodized salt and do not eat seafood, make sure your endocrinologist knows this. Of course, I am sure there are other causes for goiters. Just a brief history of a food additive some may avoid, not knowing the reason behind it.
@@paulet3682 I live in SD and don't eat any seafood at all. I use a lot of seasoning salt. So not sure if that has iodized salt in it? I did find out two family members had them in the past. One had to have all of it removed. Kind of worried that is what is going to happen to me. Mine is substernal and 5.7cm long!
I have that orange handled pot! I got it from my sister. She got new pots and pans for Christmas. That’s what she asked my brother-in-law for. lol. Her old pots were better than mine. I gave mine away to someone who didn’t have any. So it was a win/win.
Cabbage is my other staple vegetable in addition to the others mentioned. Cabbage is cheap and can be used in so many ways. Love your channel.....I have been binge watching.
Fried cabbage with bacon or ham is incredible. It's actually more like sauteed, not fried in oil. I also will pick up ham hocks and make them with cabbage and potatoes. You only need 2 or 3 for a big pot. Ham hocks also are great for a big pot of great northern beans, pinto beans or even black eyed peas.
Isn't it amazing just how much you can save by learning to cook? Just learning basic cooking techniques will do, and your meals are so much healthier, too!
I've been trying to encourage my young male coworkers and they are coming around! One went on a field trip to the Latino market for sale items where he bought the 10lb bag of leg quarters and today we went to the produce stand.
I think you used non-stick pans. They tend to flake Teflon and cause health problems. I want you to live long and do prepper videos for a long time. I like your practical thought process on food. Our children won't starve, wishful thinking.😊😊😊😊😊😊
You can put that chicken in the crockpot with nothing but seasonings such as salt and pepper. No water, no oil. Just chicken and whatever seasonings. A whole chicken will be fall apart tender in about 6 hours. A half chicken would take less time but I've never done a half chicken. So that'd be something you'd just check around 3.5 hours in.
When you are out of milk (or anytime) you can use some of the potato water. Until you get use to how much you want to add just reserve a couple cups of it and add a little at a time with the butter until it’s the consistency you like.
Can you please do a 10.00 a week grocery haul and meal plan? I am 76 years old and do not drive anymore and have no one to take me to food pantries. I have walmart deliver my groceries but sometimes a neighbor will take me id I pay for their gas which I always offer some money. I called several churches to see if they will deliver me a box of food but they said they could not do that because then everyone would want them to deliver to them also and I understand that Thank you for your time
$10 per week is fine once in a while but is not sustainable long term. If you are only living on $10 per week, please apply for food stamps. You can use them on the Walmart website
I did check into food stamps and I was only going to get 9.00 a month !!!!!!!!!!!! I was beyond shocked with that amount and told them I was not interested. But they did say your food stamps will roll over every month so in 9 months I would have 81.00 dollars. wth??????
@@peggyaustin5238 Check with your doctor to see if you qualify for a healthy food allowance through your Medicare. Some will give you money for "healthy" food if you have certain health issues. I'm 70 and get $50/month.
Love the videos you are inspiring and a great source for ideas. I guess you would agree that staying healthy is probably the best way to save thousands of dollars. On that note I couldn't but notice your cooking pans are peeling off the non stick coating. You've probably heard it before and is not of my business but since I like you a lot, just in case you haven't heard that is really bad for a person's health. In my kitchen I only use Stainless steel, glass, ceramic and some wood utensils. I believe a new stainless steel pan set would be a great and wise investment. Keep the videos coming and stay healthy and also consider this as not Hate but love 😘❤
Fantastic how many meals you stretched this out to---and good portions of comfort food that one would really want to eat. Those potatoes and gravy had my mouth watering. I'm psyched to meal prep this weekend now too! God bless you all here. :)
Does anyone in the US use real garlic? I'm serious. Here in Europe noone ises garlic powder. Garlic and onion are really unexpensive. If you use the fresh version, it adds soo much flavour😅
Grow my own. Last year we had so much we peeled, diced, and froze the excess in portion size. We are still using it and it should last until this next harvest.
Yes, we use fresh but live waaay out in the country not near stores, so we always have granulated garlic at the ready when we don’t have fresh available.
I roast a chicken with a little water (maybe a couple of bouillon cubes) in an Speckled Enameled Roasting Pan with Lid always gives me lots of gravy. If you want it browned, drain the drippings and put back into the oven w/o lid for 5-10 minutes. Juicy (moist) chicken and gravy.
Looks amazing , Well done Bet it tastes delish too I allways devide my meats too , Whatever we have ,surprising how many meals u can get with a little meat We don't need a lot do we When I was unemployed and got 4 kids too feed I'd have little to live on I'd go the butchers and buy A couple pound of mince meat ,ground beef Sausage bacon and eggs A few tins beans A sack potatoes some veg And one chicken The one chicken like u did two Sunday lunches Soups and a curry , Surprising isn't it ,when u have to u do The food I bought had to last 2 weeks
I wanted to throw something out there for anyone who may have a stove die, and cannot afford to replace it. DON'T replace it! My stove died and I refuse to pay these horrible prices. People often think they have to have a state of the art stove in their kitchen. I bought an Oster french door toaster oven, ($75 on Marketplace) it does everything a big stove does without the energy guzzling, 50% less!! Then I bought a double hot plate for regular cooking, a used Crock Pot, and a steel cart for it all that fits in the space. My energy bill is now $50!! It pays to think outside the American box.
I did the same thing years ago- money was tight- but a toaster oven and hot plate worked just fine for my daughter and me. I now cook and bake with a cook woodstove for 8 months a year and use a single burner hot plate and small charcoal grill in the summer- my electric bill is never more than 30$ and i am not going without anything
My small air fryer has pretty much replaced my oven.
One thing I did was just buy a basic cheap stove for $400 last time around. I have a double hotplate, french door Oster countertop oven and air fryer as back up. I find I really don't use my big oven very often.
Great idea
A cheap stove costs ~300€ in my country, mini ovens and a air fryers are cheaper but they are small but I guess for one person is enough.
Thanks for doing this cooking video. So many people are unaware of how easy simple and economical homemade meals can be. From a 72 year old oldster the only thing I would have done different is not poured the potato water down the drain. It would have gone into the soup or even some for the mashed potatoes. Lots of goodness going down that drain. Also have never considered putting butter under the skin, usually put it on top, so thanks for that tip. You are never too old to learn.
Potstoe wster in homemade bread😊
Also add that potato water to your chicken drippings to stretch it to make gravy!
Would have used some of that potato water with potato flakes to bulk the mash potatoes. As well as using it with the chicken juice and gravy packet. 😋
My refrigerator has nothing. Lol
I also save the potato water. I use it in soup, homemade bread, gravy or just add it to my dogs' food. I read somewhere that a lot of the water soluble minerals leach out of boiled vegetables so I usually try to use that in something else. i also freeze it in cubes to add to things instead of just using water. Not quite yet 70 here, but not far away. Hoping to make it to 90, if I can keep mobility and health. I will see. Note to PP.... Your video on marrying the right one is absolutely spot on. I make my kiddos watch it at least once a year and I hope they will keep that in mind.
I love your videos!! I love the lifestyle. I ate my last $15 Panera salad & said no more of this I can make it better at home for much less.
You're doing a great service here by showing how to cook this from start to finish. So many people don't know so it's a great way for them to learn how to cook and save $ too!
My mother always used the potato or vegetable water to make gravy. It is full of vitamins and flavor,
Might I suggest when making gravy putting equal parts butter and flour in pan. Whisk for a few minutes under medium low heat then add pan drippings and if too thick add milk or broth. You’ll have a much smoother and tastier gravy
Prepper Princess, Just wanted to see if you know about a vlog a youngman started with his Grandma, called Depression Cooking with Clara. Omygoodness it is precious and so interesting,to hear and see some the types of meals they had during this time.How they made it through on a little amount of food and alot of love. When they had meat it was such a treat. Thought you might enjoy watching. Clara has passed away but what an impact her videos made on so many people.🥰☀️🙏 ❤😊
Yes I watch them also, the Grandmother was so sweet.
Prepper Princess Make a paste using baking soda and vinegar to clean your cutting board. Put paste on board and let it set for a while before cleaning. We used this method in a commercial kitchen.
Cooking half a chicken is clever…saving the other half for later so economical!
What she saved on the chicken, she lost in electricity by not utilizing her oven to bake/roast the potatoes and mix the potatoes by hand rather than the electric mixer!
Potato water helps with gravy the starch in the water helps with thickening and it has flavor. My grandma and mom always did that's how I learned
Just a litte tip; please only use wooden utensils for your teflon (?) pots. You do not want to eat teflon or other stuff when the pot scratches. Personally I already switched to only metal pots and pans. Aluminium, steel and iron are good and do not mind metal utensils. Easy to find in secons hand shops too
I stretch foodshopping till all the food is used. It stimulates my creativity in creating healthy meals
You can use your potato water for your plants.
Yess! I love your cooking videos 🥳🥂
Save your potato water and use it to make the gravy.....adds flavor and helps thicken.....
One thing I use for cheap scape meals is I go to Asian stores, and I buy cheap rice Noodles. Then flavor them with whatever I have on hand.
Yay to half and half in the potatoes!! I always do that, as well as butter. So many people seem surprised and even impressed that I make mashed potatoes from scratch. It’s so darn easy, economical and so much better than the packaged crap. My mom always added some of the drippings to packaged gravy. It makes it taste almost homemade.
One thing I do is take a freezer bag and put my veggie scraps, and onion skins in. As I cook, I add more to it. When it gets full, I simmer these scraps with water in a large pot for 2-3 hours on low. Then cool and strain. I end up with homemade veggie broth. You can do the same with chicken or beef bones. When it's cool,I just measure out a cup at a time and freeze in baggies. This saves me so much money.
Gravy = flour & butter roux, add chicken stock, salt, pepper - that's gravy....the stuff in packets is chemicals....all those juices from cooking the chicked would have helped make homemade gravy without the packet stuff.
Add the water from cooked vegetables to your soup to maximize the flavors
Hey, you can use the water from the potatoes to make gravy with too. Helps to thicken and adds flavour 😊 I love my potatoes 🥔!
The pan you used for the gravy needs to be tossed out already. Once the non-stick coating is peeling, harmful chemicals can leach into your food.
At night my wife and I slept with CATS (help) - they would get on top of us (the blankets on the king-sized bed) and then a couple would snuggle up close and lay in-between us for maximum warmth then in the morning as the sun-light would come in the bedroom window they would get up and start "licking my nose with their sand-paper tongues" to wake us up so we could go down to the kitchen and open the cans of catfood to feed them - one big HAPPY cat family !!! :-)
I've been watching your video's for years now. I enjoy your updates. Please be careful with metal scraping up against Teflon pots like that. It scrapes off into your food and can cause all kinds of weird things to happen in your body over time, including cancer. But other than that, I appreciate your advice PP!
I’m so glad you said something about the metal on teflon. I have thrown away many pots and pans because my kids used metal on them and ruined them
@@kellykahnkauffman5549 I love to cook with glassware
It certainly sounded like the non- stick pan was getting scratched.
I cook with vintage glass cookware. Visions Visionwear
JUST found your channel. Oh WOW! You cook like I do 😄. I don’t do fancy, it’s not gonna stay fancy once it fills the belly. Working in the garden, yard maintenance, cutting the grass, critter chores… last thing I want is to come in and cook a main dish, throw a side salad together etc Keep it simple 😊 THANK YOU there’s a few channels I watch, the food looks awesome but time consuming. Only thing I do that I’d not give up is dehydrated garden stuff. Easy making soups and stews- just Chuck it in at the end and let it form up and while it’s doing that- make a pan of biscuits 👍 If I could grow coffee and toilet paper I could cut out the trip to town altogether 😄
You should start reserving some potato water on the side because it helps make gravy thicker and you could also add it to your soup for the same reason. 😉
And PS Costco has huge roasted chicken for $5 and they don’t raise the price on it apparently.
You could use the potato water for tastier gravy. It adds extra nourishment.
I have a freezer full of frozen whole chickens. They go on sale for 99 cents a pound every few months. We use it for everything. Dog food, stir fry, chicken salad, so much. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Hello, prepper princes. Thanks for sharing the soups recipe. I just wanted to share something I learned when I boil potatoes, I never threw the water away, I use it as a base to make my soup and I add the bones there, because I feel like it helps to make it thick and creamy.
I like your cooking videos!!
Pro tip for the mashed potatoes. You can make them with part of the water they cooked in. It will require less milk, is cheaper and tastes as good.
Several people in the big family have auto-immune conditions, so we cannot do any grains, starches, legumes, sugar and so on, so mainly have to make all sorts of meat and cauliflower/ broccoli. I cannot even tolerate any vegetables at all. I do buy in bulk both chickens and ground beef. Then cut up chickens and put in freezer. Re-pack ground beef to one time use of about 2,5 lbs at a time.( 7 people in the family). We spend most of our income on groceries. At least this way of life allows me to avoid the medications that were prescribed and gives me freedom of movement. I couldn't walk three years ago - RA. Now in remission.
I just love you. You have changed my life. So many things we dont even think about cost us big money. You have changed the way I think!
I very fortunate to buy rotisserie chicken on weekends and just make rice. Beats fast food. With kids and one on the way I’m so proud of myself that when I was able to cook the chicken I did. Now that I’m exhausted all the time I can just pay for convenience. Then when I’m able to again I’ll go right back to cooking from scratch. Because there’s always time when you just can’t. Always love your video. ❤
I would have used potato water in the soup instead of tipping it away. Xx
have to tell you the trick to potatoes! 1st you don’t drain all the potato water. Most of it but you leave like 1/2- 1 cup in the bottom depending on the amount of potatoes. Then you put at least 1/2 a stick on top (again, depending on how many potatoes) & put the lid back on. Let it melt! Then start your beaters. You mix the milk or heavy cream 1/2 way through for creaminess. I don’t know why this is the way, but I’m tellin ya, every Idahoan mama I have ever known does it this way. Ya know…. Experts and all 😁
Enjoyed, but please consider teflon free cookware, or at the very least silicone utensils.😏
My husband and I would get a weeks worth of dinners on one chicken when we first got married. Chicken dinners, soup and enough chicken meat bits for a couple of chicken salad sandwiches. I used make corn meal mush and pour it into a bread pan. When cooled, we could slice it and fry it with an egg or two for a meal also. We just made it work.
That potato water you put down the drain would have been in my soup!
Thanks for posting this video. I spend entirely too much on food for myself each week as well as eating too much. This video inspires me to really cut back and rethink how I’m feeding myself. You are the best! Thanks Amber!
If you saved the potato water you could have used it in your gravy instead of plain water and used the calories that went down the drain.
A few things I learned from my kids’ great GMA:
1) scrape carrots with the back of the knife (don’t peel)
2) save some of that potato water! It’s good for plants, good to ad back in immediately when mashing potatoes (use less butter!), and is great for use in bread making (bread stays fresh longer).
Also, buy half n half as it costs less than good milk when watered down and lasts far longer in the carton.
It makes a better coffee creamer too. And eggnog!
3) homemade tortillas are better, cheaper and easy!
4) a cheap easy meal: cabbage and noodles (cook a chub of Jimmy Dean sausage in 1-2 T oil then cook shredded cabbage on top, turning every 5 min for about 35 min or so. While cabbage cooks, boil and drain wide egg noodles. Toss together .
No seasonings needed.
5) turn down that boil: saves energy. Also put a lid on the pot, esp in summer.
I got a BBQ/ roast chicken s on special $6.00. I made salad and chicken(2 meals) chicken rolls(2 meals) ,curried chicken and rice(6 meals), and 4 litres of chicken and vegetable both
The vegetable were all from our garden. We live in a sub tropical area in Queensland Australia ,so can grow vegetable all year round.
I do this all the time with whole chickens or like last week turkey as it was 99 cents/lb. These are easy Sunday night roasted dinners and we rotate through a whole chicken, beef roast, whole chicken, pork loin roast and sometimes we'll throw a ham in there somewhere when it's on sale for 99 cents/lb. For the two of us we make 4 baked potatoes on the same roasting pan and frozen veggies. That's 2 dinners and we slice the rest of the meat thin for lunches for the week. My chicken soup carcass is simmered for 6 hours along with the aromatic scraps from the veggies that will be in the final soup. The other awesome thing to make with the leftover chicken is chicken salad which we can never get enough of, the trick is to add just barely enough mayo so it's not drowning in it.
Cheers!
Great ideas!
Looks delicious! Try saving some of the potato water to make the gravy.. yummy!
I'm single and work 50 hr a week as a nurse. No pets. I splurge on the rotisserie chicken and pair it with plain baked potatoes and veg. No butter. Just salt and pepper.
How do you do it with the chicken being hot when u buy it? By the time you cook the potatos etc? Interested 😊
@@nicod2213 I buy the chicken on Friday after work and put it in the fridge. On Saturday, I bake 8-10 potatoes and a big pot of vegetables. All of that goes in the fridge. I eat reheated precooked meals every evening after work. I also make a 9x13 egg/ham/spinach/cheese/potato casserole every Saturday. That feeds me breakfast for the week. (Sometimes I use chicken and broccoli or ground beef and tomatoes instead of the ham and spinach). Last weekend, I made ham and beans and cornbread for my dinners. Next week will be chicken and rice or potatoes and Brussels sprouts. I only have time to cook one day a week Lunch is always fruit ,Greek yogurt and cottage cheese at the nurses station.
Wow that sounds so yummy and I like your breakfast ideas. It sounds heartier than the carb options I usually have. You sound very busy! Cooking is such a challenge for me 🙂
@teresahunt5521 I've screenshotted the info you gave for meal ideas 💡 thanks 😉
@@nicod2213 It works with chili, spaghetti and meatballs, turkey and stuffing... Just make a big batch of meat, carbs and veg and your set for the next week. Get creative!
Just goes to show how with a bit of effort, you can eat perfectly well, on very little. Half a chicken made into 6 meals plus stock, well done! Your mashed spuds looked so fluffy and yummy! Thanks for giving ideas and inspiration to those who may need help.
I've been watching your videos and got serious about decreasing my grocery spending. Thank you so much! Nutritious, cheap, easy to prepare food for days. I've been making mostly big pot of simple veggie soup. Keeps me satisfied and glad I'm decreasing my food bill and not suffering for it.
My go-to recipe is white wine, garlic, butter, Italian herbs, s&p. I serve with rice pilaf, then make a casserole with the leftovers before dumping the whole carcass, skin, pan scrapings and all into the crock pot to make soup base. The butter, wine and herbs give it a nice flavor. Even if you only get a few servings of soup it’s money saved.
I really love these cooking videos, I like the cheap basic meal ideas. Look forward to more 😊
For 8 years I had a local TV cooking show. I never heard of putting butter under the skin of chicken. Turkey breast, yes, but not chicken. I cant wait to try this.
REAL mashed potatoes = yummy! Not made from instant flakes, and I do "not" mean that to be an insult to anybody that does prefer / does use instant potatoes. Your cooking / food preparation videos are always calming, though I realize that's not actually your intention. I always enjoy them. Thank you for sharing your time with us.
I spent my morning helping somebody make (meat) jerky using your recipe. It turned out great; they are super pleased about the results. It was a lot of meat. And I'm always certain to credit you for the recipe, Prepper Princess.
You are vey inspiring. I went for fast food today, spent 8 dollars for yuck. I will be trying your recipe and cook more at home. LOVE your pups.
Ive been really frugal since i was a teenager in Philippines now 35 after i paid off my car and little house, i kinda relax a bit from restricting myself especially food. I treat myself with travel, clothes, eating out. Now back to being frugal again watching your videos. I remember I watched your videos when you only got 25k subs.
Great vid !
I made chicken supper yesterday ❤🙂
I've never seen chicken in an oven pan without putting water and herbs and spices with a bit of melted butter in the water ... if you bake chicken in approx 4- 6 cups of water in that pan, it will make a lovely gravy when you thicken it. ✌️
Its easy to clean chopping board scrub it with salt and half a lemon , cheers from Aussie 🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘 a quesadilla here in Aussie is about $15_18
Not sure if you care about health but scratching no stick pans can cause the coating on the pan not to be safe. You can use silicone lined whisks to prevent that.
I had a relative who was staying with me temporarily. Was too rough with pans and scratched the coating. I told him it can be dangerous but he looked at me like I was crazy. It is a real risk folks. Use a rubber or wooden spoon or spatula with this type of pan.
They make non-stick pans that are safe with metal utensils.
Corn starch makes easy gravy
Have you considered Barley as a welcome addition to your stew? It adds body as well as fiber, grain. So good. Powdered Creamer is also good in mashed potatoes
PS. WinCo also has it in bulk
Rocky is a very smart boy!💜
Great video. We can use potato cooking water for gravy and in soup too. Some folks water their plants with it.
I tried watering my plants with it and mold grew on top of all the soil. I won't do it ever again.
Keep drained potato water to make bread/rolls
I love your cooking segments! I always get inspired to copy off of them and it makes me so mindful of how we used to cook back in the midwest back in the seventies when things really really were tight. Do as many of these as you want!❤❤❤❤
I think a lot of people are cooking cheap and boring these days. I’ve been doing that for over 20 years. Would love to see what you make for ideas. I’m relying more on my home canned stuff and enhanced my garden for this year. Food prices and quality suck these days. I’ve stopped buying certain things. Moist? Really? People have issues with moist? Ya gotta let us in on the nervous breakdown people are gonna have giving the dogs the beaters! Chicken looked good!
You can also use the potato water for the soup or add powdered milk/creamer for the mashed potatoes. This saves some extra vitamins in the potato water.
I only use stainless cookware and it’s so easy to keep clean. Also, no coating inside so no worries.
I love your videos, you get right to the point, not blabbing away like some cooking shows, I make chicken soup with my bones too. Easy and yummy.
use the those ones after making soup for bone broth add water and a little vinegar every healthy for your body.
Cabbage is my go to , I make cabbage soup with onion, canned tomato, chix or veggie bouillon , carrots , celery or whatever veggie I have that’s on its way out (squash etc) . It in the crockpot and cook all day. Definitely could add rice, chicken or pasta , it’s really good and hardy. I add a splash of cream or half and half and a little Parmesan cheese if I hv it….its old school cabbage soup, but I still love it and it’s cheap. Lol
My first time watching this channel. Thank you so much for these meal ideas. We are a family of 6. Tha last time we ate out it was almost $100. We are on a fixed income and can't do it. Again thank you❤
Iffen you don't have enough broth to make gravy, you can always use it to make your mashed potatoes in lieu of milk. I have done this a handful of times (I always end up adding a scant bit of bullion granules as well), and it is a hit in my house.
These are my favorite videos. Please do more!
I love these meals. But, using the metal utensils in a non-stick pan has caused chips. Those chemicals can disrupt your endocrine system and lead to thyroid issues. I use wooden utensils or I use stainless steel pots and pans. Don’t make me worry about you!
I just found out that I have a goiter on one side of mine. Is stainless steel the best to use?
Thanks
At one time, iodine was added to salt , hence the word "iodized" on the pkg. People that did not have a lot of seafood in their diet were prone to getting goiters. This occurred a lot in the plains where fish were not consumed regularly. If you aren't using iodized salt and do not eat seafood, make sure your endocrinologist knows this. Of course, I am sure there are other causes for goiters. Just a brief history of a food additive some may avoid, not knowing the reason behind it.
@@paulet3682 I live in SD and don't eat any seafood at all. I use a lot of seasoning salt. So not sure if that has iodized salt in it? I did find out two family members had them in the past. One had to have all of it removed. Kind of worried that is what is going to happen to me. Mine is substernal and 5.7cm long!
I have that orange handled pot! I got it from my sister. She got new pots and pans for Christmas. That’s what she asked my brother-in-law for. lol. Her old pots were better than mine. I gave mine away to someone who didn’t have any. So it was a win/win.
I have been using small appliances instead of another stove for years.
Cabbage is my other staple vegetable in addition to the others mentioned. Cabbage is cheap and can be used in so many ways. Love your channel.....I have been binge watching.
How do you cook your cabbage and what do you serve it with? I put it in soup but still have more in the fridge.
Cabbage we use in stews usually although i heard someone say they fry it but we don’t do that
Fried cabbage with bacon or ham is incredible. It's actually more like sauteed, not fried in oil. I also will pick up ham hocks and make them with cabbage and potatoes. You only need 2 or 3 for a big pot. Ham hocks also are great for a big pot of great northern beans, pinto beans or even black eyed peas.
More videos like this one please!!
I would have used some of that potato water to make gravy
Isn't it amazing just how much you can save by learning to cook? Just learning basic cooking techniques will do, and your meals are so much healthier, too!
I've been trying to encourage my young male coworkers and they are coming around! One went on a field trip to the Latino market for sale items where he bought the 10lb bag of leg quarters and today we went to the produce stand.
I'm sure this has been said....but, yikes that mixer on a coated pan with forever chemicals!!!!!! Just chips of Teflon in your taters!
She is Clueless to cooking and reality
Where are your 2 helpers? Waiting for you to drop something? Sweet pets. Enjoy your conversations a lot. Thanks.
If you're growing herbs fresh parsley is great mixed with potatoes. Or dried works too.
Thanks for this video. I cannot agree with you more. Many restaurants are soooo overpriced. The recipes are so easy though.
I think you used non-stick pans. They tend to flake Teflon and cause health problems. I want you to live long and do prepper videos for a long time. I like your practical thought process on food. Our children won't starve, wishful thinking.😊😊😊😊😊😊
Was thinking that too.
Especially with the mixer😳.
Pfas are already in everyones body although I agree always use a wooden spoon
You threw the potato water down the sink! Pour into a jug with any veg water too. That is what I use to make my gravy with gravy granules
You can put that chicken in the crockpot with nothing but seasonings such as salt and pepper. No water, no oil. Just chicken and whatever seasonings. A whole chicken will be fall apart tender in about 6 hours. A half chicken would take less time but I've never done a half chicken. So that'd be something you'd just check around 3.5 hours in.
Do you cook it on high or low in the crockpot ?
I cook it on high.
I love your food videos. They inspire me to never waste anything. Thanks.
When you are out of milk (or anytime) you can use some of the potato water. Until you get use to how much you want to add just reserve a couple cups of it and add a little at a time with the butter until it’s the consistency you like.
Your babies are so precious.. And no sorry, you can't move and disturb the fur babies when they are resting..
Can you please do a 10.00 a week grocery haul and meal plan? I am 76 years old and do not drive anymore and have no one to take me to food pantries. I have walmart deliver my groceries but sometimes a neighbor will take me id I pay for their gas which I always offer some money. I called several churches to see if they will deliver me a box of food but they said they could not do that because then everyone would want them to deliver to them also and I understand that Thank you for your time
$10 per week is fine once in a while but is not sustainable long term. If you are only living on $10 per week, please apply for food stamps. You can use them on the Walmart website
@@banonymous6790 I live in erie pa
I did check into food stamps and I was only going to get 9.00 a month !!!!!!!!!!!! I was beyond shocked with that amount and told them I was not interested. But they did say your food stamps will roll over every month so in 9 months I would have 81.00 dollars. wth??????
@@peggyaustin5238 Check with your doctor to see if you qualify for a healthy food allowance through your Medicare. Some will give you money for "healthy" food if you have certain health issues.
I'm 70 and get $50/month.
If you're a renter, it might be easiest to move closer to somewhere walkable or near a bus stop
Cover your chicken with thinfoil over the tray. Saves all the juicy liquids
Thank you for sharing your meals and the description very important having fun watching you cook. Great idea PP! Love chicken and Potatoes 🥔😋
I put some sour cream, as well as butter in my potatoes and it makes them extra yummy.
Love the videos you are inspiring and a great source for ideas. I guess you would agree that staying healthy is probably the best way to save thousands of dollars. On that note I couldn't but notice your cooking pans are peeling off the non stick coating. You've probably heard it before and is not of my business but since I like you a lot, just in case you haven't heard that is really bad for a person's health. In my kitchen I only use Stainless steel, glass, ceramic and some wood utensils. I believe a new stainless steel pan set would be a great and wise investment. Keep the videos coming and stay healthy and also consider this as not Hate but love 😘❤
I agree I love prepper princess and don't want to see her get cancer from scratched and peeling pans!
Your food videos are my favorite. Everything looks delicious and affordable advice. Thanks again.
I so miss these cooking videos from you PP ❤
Fantastic how many meals you stretched this out to---and good portions of comfort food that one would really want to eat. Those potatoes and gravy had my mouth watering. I'm psyched to meal prep this weekend now too! God bless you all here. :)
Ha-ha! As a kid I was always my Grandmothers gravy tester at holiday dinners!
Does anyone in the US use real garlic? I'm serious. Here in Europe noone ises garlic powder. Garlic and onion are really unexpensive. If you use the fresh version, it adds soo much flavour😅
Grow my own. Last year we had so much we peeled, diced, and froze the excess in portion size. We are still using it and it should last until this next harvest.
Yes, I use real garlic when cooking. The flavor is wonderful.
I do but I have the powder for when I work 60 hours a week and have no time to cook from scratch
A little late but yes, grow garlic and use it. But powder comes in handy sometimes
Yes, we use fresh but live waaay out in the country not near stores, so we always have granulated garlic at the ready when we don’t have fresh available.
Depression cooking in 2024!! Very scary
I roast a chicken with a little water (maybe a couple of bouillon cubes) in an Speckled Enameled Roasting Pan with Lid always gives me lots of gravy. If you want it browned, drain the drippings and put back into the oven w/o lid for 5-10 minutes. Juicy (moist) chicken and gravy.
Looks amazing ,
Well done
Bet it tastes delish too
I allways devide my meats too ,
Whatever we have ,surprising how many meals u can get with a little meat
We don't need a lot do we
When I was unemployed and got 4 kids too feed
I'd have little to live on
I'd go the butchers and buy
A couple pound of mince meat ,ground beef
Sausage bacon and eggs
A few tins beans
A sack potatoes some veg
And one chicken
The one chicken like u did two Sunday lunches
Soups and a curry ,
Surprising isn't it ,when u have to u do
The food I bought had to last 2 weeks