How I Spent Only $25 on Groceries and Made Meals for an Entire Week!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- In this video, I’m sharing how I managed to spend only $25 at the grocery store and made all my meals for an entire week! 🛒🍽️ With the rising cost of groceries, it's crucial to learn how to stretch every dollar. I'll show you how smart shopping, meal planning, and a bit of creativity can help you eat well on a tight budget.
✨ Key Takeaways:
1. Meal Planning: Planning your meals with your available ingredients in advance ensures you maximize what you have and avoid food waste.
2. Smart Shopping: See how I shopped the sales, special deals, and choose budget-friendly ingredients.
3. Cooking Tips: Simple, delicious recipes that are easy to make and light on your wallet.
💡 Recipes Included:
- Spaghetti with marinara sauce, chicken alfredo, chicken stir fry, potato corn chowder with homemade croutons.
By following these tips and recipes, you’ll see how possible it is to eat healthily and deliciously on a very tight budget. Say goodbye to expensive grocery bills and hello to smart, frugal living!
🔔 Don’t forget to *LIKE**, **COMMENT**, and **SUBSCRIBE* for more budget-friendly meal ideas and money-saving tips. Let me know in the comments below how you stretch your grocery budget!
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-- GROCERY LIST--
1 gallon milk 2.79
5 lbs potatoes .48
Oatmeal 1.48
Gravy mix .45 each
Alfredo mix .45
Spaghetti mix .45
Jam 2.48
Peanut Butter 1.68
Pasta .98
Season Salt (bulk) .36
Sugar (bulk) .27
Tomato Sauce (2 cans) .28 each
Top Ramen .30
Frozen Veggies 1.18
2 lbs frozen chicken breasts 4.98
Margarine 1.38
Bread 1.34
Bananas 1.64 lbs .95
Corn ( 2 ears) .40
Strawberries 1.28
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If you enjoyed this video, check out our other videos on budget-friendly recipes and frugal living tips. Thanks for watching and happy cooking! 🍴❤️
You are so lucky to have a WinCo. Being able to buy those potatoes really helped your budget. Where I live potatoes rarely get below $1.00 per lb. It was fun watching this after I just made a huge shopping trip to Costco. But I did buy about 4 months worth of meat. Costco is an hour away so we only go every 3-4 months. Good luck with your channel
Just found your channel and I have subscribed. 😊😊 I love these kind of budget challenges.
Brilliant video, I cannot believe what you did with so little money. I am inspired! ❤
Great video... you should this as a week to week monthly series. Using items you have leftover from the previous week to build on your menu. I think it's okay to use pantry staples...oil, black pepper and salt... plus any spice most cooks would normally have. I like that you used the ramen...most of these challenges shy away from Ramen. It has its place in budget cooking...ask any college student or single mom. It may not be nutritionally the best but it's a tummy filler. Sometimes that's all you can aim for.
Re: the plain oatmeal. It would be much better with a spoonful of jam. Looks like you had plenty left. You can also put a spoonful of peanut butter in it.
Only difference Iwould boil the corn cob with the potatoes and save some of the water to give a very strong corn flavor by using the water for some of the liquid in soup. Otherwise excellent onall
I am a new subscriber. Need to try this challenge. I am 68 year old senior living on fixed income. Have some diet restrictions being a new diabetic.
I just came across your channel, thank you so much for sharing this video with us.
I think youre great, so pleasant. Good luck with your channel it will grow😊 p.s. i love winco hauls and am envious.
@@kjking66 Thank you! 😊
Very good video. Thanks for sharing. Would love to see more of these!
I just found your channel with this video in my feed today, so glad it popped up! Never have I seen a 5# bag of potatoes for $0.48!! 😮🤩I wish we had a Winco in Florida!! All your meals looked fantastic - especially for $25!! I'm totally into frugal grocery shopping and making the most of every little bit and bite that we are blessed with, so I really enjoyed this video and had to sub. ❤
@@betterlivingonabudget Thank you so much!
Looks good! Why put ingredients away?
Like seeing all you purchased
List of ingredients please
@ireneroy8820 I just added the shopping list to the video description :)
I shop at Winco too. I buy sales at other stores, but I know when it comes down to it, Winco is cheapest on basics and some paper goods too. Whatever I can’t get at Winco first I might get at other stores.
Me too!!
Five pounds of potatoes for 48 cents? Score.
@kimthompson1618 I know right! That was a great deal!
5 lbs of yellow gold run $4.00-$6.00 here on the west coast.
Wa state
5 lbs of potatoes here in Texas is $3.00
I'm in Australia and the CHEAPEST everyday price for potatoes is $6.50/5kg
We need a WinCo here in Florida.
I am from England and I could easily live off £25 and eat healthy and have fun flavours. I watch these videos and I'm always grateful that our prices are so cheap even with the cost of living. Sometimes they seem expensive but compared to the US they are cheap.
To be fair, 25 pounds is currently a little over $34 American
Very nice job!
I just subscribed. I watched this episode and am going to be watching the rest of your content😀
Thank you for the well thought out and beautifully executed content.
May God bless you and bring many people to this channel. There is such a great need for this information at this time.
@@suzynnnnn Thank you so much! I started the channel after trying to help my twenty-five year old figure out how to eat on a tight budget.
@@TheEmptyPantry24 That is such a great motivator. The young people definitely need to get encouraged and equipped.
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Awesome! You did great. Thanks for sharing!🎉
I have never ever heard of cooking chicken frozen
Really enjoyed your video!🐱
@@susanwilson6133 Thank you so much!!
Excellent menu for 25 dollars for one person. Peace!
A home made pie crust would have made gorgeous pot pie with the chicken and veggies. Potato and veg water is good for making gravy. Also the cooked chicken juice is perfect to make a gravy with the potato water. Add a bullion cube, if needed, pepper, and parsley with cornstarch as a thickener and walla, gravy. Our Gandmas had to use everything available back in the day. That meat juice is great to freeze in ice cube trays for depth of flavor in rice, pasta and potatoes. Im getting much better at keeping it especially with oils and butter being so expensive now. I keep breakfast sausage fats now after cooking the entire package. It makes quite a bit of tasty juice cooking it this way. I just freeze the cooked sausage and reheat it saving me time. Our local butcher sells meat cheaper than the local food store and its much better quality so don’t shy away from the but her shop if you are lucky enough to have one 😊
I did this for years, you don't need meat. You buy oats, rice, pasta, tomato paste (add water to make sauce or soup), a few basic herbs/spices, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage, frozen vegetables, flour, yeast, sugar, corn meal, baking soda, baking powder, lentils, beans, tofu. If you are not vegan you can get some eggs, milk, tuna, sardines, cheese. Bananas are the cheapest fruit or apples in season. It requires some basic cooking skills but it's still possible to do it. 3 meals a day, little snacking if any, don't buy processed foods or junk food. If you eat meat it will be difficult. This is what I did. Please don't tell me I will become a diabetic eating like this, it is not true, I have done it for years. If you have dietary or medical restrictions then maybe you will have to do something else.
Awesome meal plan. I would eat any of these recipes. I am trying a budget for 2 people might increase it to 40 for us.
You can put on unshucked corn right in the oven and when it's done cooking the husk and silk will come right off
I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Those are awesome prices, just wow😮😮
WOW…..wish we had a WinCo!! That’s crazy! Well done.
Thanks!
When me and my husband were very young were were pretty poor. We ate a lot of spaghetti and sauce
It's a solid meal and makes great left overs!
You did great with this challenge. Instead of plain oatmeal, add strawberry 🍓 jam.
Great idea!!
It looks great!
Great video 😊
I don't think it's reasonable to not use salt and pepper for these challenges. Even if someone doesn't have them in their pantry, packets are available free almost everywhere, and nobody will complain if you take a few packets now and then.
New subscriber here ❤
Welcome!!
If you Counted up the calories I bet you were on the low side. At least I’d eat more than that!
Great meals fir 25 dollats a week
You could have put the rest of your veggies in the alfredo, and some chicken in the spaghetti. But you did amazing. If only you had enough money to buy a small amount of cheese for grilled cheese, cheese on the chicken for spaghetti, and a little on your alfredo. You also could have had a baked potato with shredded chicken, butter and a little of the alfredo sauce or that cheese you couldnt afford on such a strict budget. lol But otherwise you clearly showed that you CAN eat on a tight budget if you have to. Honestly, most people include salt, pepper (spices from your cabinet if they are familiar ones like italian seasoning or cinnamon) and oils when they show these types of video challenges. So you could have purchased that coveted cheese. lol
@qq1651 Oh, those are great ideas!
Wish California had winco
@@hello-vs4me I think there are a few locations in Cali. It's a great store!
I like how you thought of the cost breakdown. I am not sure if I missed this but how many people will this feed
@planningfoodmoneywithmiche7868 This was done just for one person, but since I did have quite a bit of leftover ingredients, it could have easily fed two light eaters.
Salt is not expensive
true, true :)