Love your videos and vibrant energy! Spend a day in London and show us all the free things you can do and free foods you get on the way. You could even do this for new cities such as Bristol, Manchester, York, Dublin etc :)
you could have bought rolled oats - for porridge, for grinding into flour and mix with banana for pancakes or making flatbread. Also dried chickpeas and beans that you soak and cook - you get a lot for little money and you can make curries, hummus, even black bean brownies! Interesting to see how much food you can get for a tenner in Britain! Greetings from New Zealand.
i thought so too, oats are (at least here) cheaper than corn flakes and make a much tastier breakfast and have different uses like you mentioned, and also great combined with fruits so breakfasts would've been great :)
Yep pays rock ! Cheaper and better than cereal which spike bloody sugars even more and make you more hungry . Lest with oats get bit fibre protein in there depending what you add to it . Pancakes made from oat “ flour rocks “ 🥞 just blend up dried oats and gave oat flour ! I do this all the time ! My son and I live on oats for breakfast or when run out of wraps I make pancakes with chai seeds for school !
You know how people say introverts re-watch the same movies/tv shows because they know how they end and it creates like a comfort zone to them? Well Taz....you are MY comfort creator! I keep re-watching your videos for the last 2 years (maybe even more?) and I just wanted to say thank you so much for that, and I hope you know how big of an impact you make for me and others that enjoy your content! You are truly a blessing for everyone around you.
Thank you so much for reading my comment and making this video. You are so very good at the budgeting videos because you’re brave and willing to experiment with your own recipes. I think you were very successful and I was pleasantly surprised, especially with how good your wonky veg box was and how you used it. If I am remembering correctly you asked for inexpensive pleasures, for me it’s borrowing dogs while their owners have to work, I have a beautiful French bulldog asleep on my knee and it’s fantastic. I get him until 9pm then he goes home and I don’t have the expense of having to pay vet’s fees or food costs. Thanks again for the video
I think it’s important also to remember that people living in genuine poverty often don’t necessarily have access to cheaper supermarkets (don’t drive, no money for transport), have other obstacles such as not having proper cooking equipment, not able to afford the electric/gas to cook, so many things make it a lot more complicated than just buying the £10 worth of food
Definitely- and it's easy to say that spices don't count, but if you use them often it accounts to 1 or 2 quid a week. I don't have a car so my nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's which is hella expensive, like £2 for a broccoli with no option of a wonky box. I'd love to see Taz do this again but at only one supermarket, like Morrisons or Sainsburys.
You're right, but a lot of people find ways like walking or carpooling with a friend etc. And a lot of people have either cheaper shops or aren't afraid to simply ask at closing time if independent shops have food.
And another thing is, this is one week. If you have to do it week in, week out, it is depressing and that's where nutritional deficiencies might start to show themselves, too.
Hey taz, I have noticed that pasta doesn’t refrigerate well, So I suggest only meal prepping the sauce and making the pasta fresh every time you want to have it, and then you can mix the pasta with the sauce . I think this technique will stop it from tasting like cardboard 😂
Refrigerator pasta is hospital food for me because my dad made a batch of it and put it in the microwave when I was Hungry because hospital food is gross
I always meal prep pasta but you have to refrigerate the pasta and the sauce in two different cointainers and heat it up on the stove and not in the microwave
This is amazing!! BUT the real challenge is not getting tired of the middle class and poorer side of life. Where you gota live like this every week. And soon after the budget video we cant go back to buying and eating whatever we want. So the real challenge would be to be on a budget for a month and not get tired of the same kind of breakfast or lunch. That would be very interesting!
I mean, canned food isn't good for health and if she can afford better quality, I don't see why she should do this for a month and risk her health(although she's not living a very healthy life anyway) besides, this wouldn't be realistic even if she does it for a month. She has access to a stove and electricity and a fridge.
middle class people getting sick of their lives? oh the heartbreak oh the misery. middle class are the types that get 2 holidays a year and don't have to live on the breadline. sorry if i misunderstood your comment but the way i interpreted it, it came across as very tone deaf.
I think the OP might be an American, or at least not UK based, because over there "middle class" can mean anyone who isn't wealthy...confuses me living in the states that's for sure
I missed the chaos only your channel brings 😂💜 I’m terrible with budgeting but I love seeing this experiment with the current inflation in the UK economy
I'll repeat what I said when you did this video years ago - I am *so effing jealous* of your wonky veg boxes. That's so much vegetables for so little omg, and they're not even bad! Wish we had something like this here.
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 actually it's a German thing as Lidl and Aldi are German supermarkets, so in reality UK supermarkets should be learning from them. Unfortunately many British supermarkets like M&S have been caught throwing away good food instead of donating it in the past.
I don't know if it happens everywhere but often the 'wonky vegs' are vegetables that farmers get much less profit for as supermarkets can buy them for a much lower price and sell them themselves 'low' but actually make more profit than normal vegetables and so exploitation of farmers. Farmers would NEVER throw away their 'wonky vegs': they are normally used for pre-cut vegetables or for animal feed. So if you CAN you should not buy wonky vegs.
I would have used the fruit to make cereal more exciting 🤷🏻♀️ Also, even with the exchange rate, I am still amazed by the UK’s food prices! Even going to Aldi, our cheapest store, it would be more, and our prices have risen about .25 per item. That wonky veg box is a great idea we don’t do here. For my budgets, I usually choose one flavor profile for most of the week. For example, this week has beef and lentil tacos and a chicken tortilla soup. A lot of the more expensive items are used more as garnish and can be used across multiple recipes.
Don't know where you are from, but there is also this app called too good to go. When stores have too much stuff left, they offer it there. Like a veggybox at the end of the day. We have a lot of animals who need veggies, so it can get expensive, but sometimes I am able to get a box. Also fun for trying new foods since there are very different foods in there sometimes :)
I felt the same when I saw the price of the food over there…amazing! I’ve noticed the price of groceries going up significantly here, even the things that have always been a default more affordable item..like, a bag of carrots or rice. It’s forcing me to stretch my brain to be creative.
@@joyjansen7551 have you heard of olio as they often have surplus veggie amongst other things if you e got animals. Note the food is suitable for human consumption also not just animals
A veg box for £1.50 is absolutely amazing. It looked like only the tomato was really on its. The rest looked good enough for several meals. 😳. I live in Belgium now and there is no doubt that food is more expensive here, compared to the UK (I would say about at least a third more).
I think the 'wonky veg box' is such a big help in these challenges, I hope they become more common in other places too, I'd love to have them where I live!
This is great, Taz! One thing to consider if you try this again is that some people don't drive and can't afford public transport, so they're stuck with having to buy food from the type of shops near them - typically a corner shop or a Metro Tesco. It would be really interesting to see how much less you get for your budget in that type of scenario. (Lidl and Aldi are usually a little out of the way for walking - especially if you have a toddler or a baby to take with you!)
God that’s be tough ! I don’t drive but I have a kid but I get a bus ticket with my company job under tax saver bus ticket scheme to get it for far less cheaper unlimited bus fares .I always count it in as a bill and but everything else so can have this ! But in lucky I live near shops so it didn’t have it I be 3-5km near shop to walk it had be done .
omg I don't have a car and it's like a desert in the city where I live... two days of food from co-op is £10 at least, and at sainsbury's you'd be lucky to survive three days on that budget. I would love to see a video using solely food from one of those places.
I'm lucky I drive but if I didn't it would be £6 in a taxi to my local supermarket each way and no buses go near it. My local shop I could walk to is a garage.
Lidl does it in the Netherlands through 'too good to go ' kind of wonky box but also other stores can do it. Bakery's restaurant supermarkets. It is so perfect !
It is cheaper, but I am not sure if it's the same quality... I have been in Scotland recently and I think the food quality is noticeably worse compared to Czechia - in both supermarkets and restaurants.
I don’t think there is a noticeable difference btw the quality in Germany and the UK… yes it’s more expensive, but after converting pounds to euro, even that tends to average out. The uk used to be A LOT cheaper, but after brexit, Covid and the whole oil and fuel crisis, the prices have noticeably gone up… :)
What could improve this a bit more, was mix and matching combinations of food. Instead of making egg fried rice so much, why not egg drop soup with veggies in it? Scrambled eggs with tomato on toast for breakfast or even lunch. Pasta could get really boring as well, so I feel you with that one. I would have probably gotten a bag of flour instead to make roti, Trinidad dumplings, wraps etc. Overall, you did good. I have definitely noticed prices increasing. Its kind of worrysome since incomes aren't increasing at the same rate, so I'm having to think of creative things to do with food this month to make it last.
Food prices in Trinidad have also been increasing exponentially. This week I made biryani and paid $10.00 for one dried coconut. Instead of throwing out the coconut meat after getting my coconut milk, I used it to make dumplings. I've found that preparing meal components and storing them in separate containers allows me to have some variation for fairly cheap
TAZ! i haven’t watched your channel in a while (idk why) but i forgot how genuinely comforting and funny you are. i don’t know if it’s just me but your videos feel so natural. i feel like we’re on a facetime call ugh it’s just such good vibes. you’re also great background (thsts a compliment i swear) because i feel like i have someone else in the room talking to me. i’m gonna go binge all the videos i messed. love you bff
I really love that Taz makes these kinds of videos because these are conversations that need to be had. I also liked her promoting the wonky veg boxes and the home cooked meals. That being said, when this is your every day struggle it will take a toll. Because this means never going out for a meal or even a drink and having to be extra creative with a very limited selection of food items. Also, will you have the right nutrition if this is what you eat over a long period of time? Also, £10 a week may not sound like much, but if you're a family of 4 that's £40 a week. And if your children want sweets and snacks it will cost more. Life is hard for those who have no money. Hopefully the salaries will catch up with the price of living.
to answer the table talk: i would say nature. pressing flowers in books, looking at the clouds, listening to the wind blow the trees. it’s so peaceful and makes me so happy. it’s like all my stress fades away. baking as well. i grew up baking with family members and it has always been fun for me, regardless of if i’m good at it or not.
I am well and truly horrible at cooking, but while watching your vid, I was trying to think of other things to make with your ingredients, and immediately soup sprang to mind. Also simple scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes (assuming you had butter), and so on. Honestly, I often raid Pinterest for recipes because it's easy to get inspired by stuff there, and I'm wondering if that would help you next time. Anyways, great vid!
Please try the App Gander. It helps you find all the reduced items in the local shops! I’d love to see how little you could spend for a good weeks worth of food
Every time I watch these I am so jealous of the food prices in the UK!! It’s so different here in the US! I would also seriously love those wonky veg boxes, so cool! Love you and your videos. ❤️
If you do another one of these, could be interesting to get a nutricionist to help make more balanced meals (perhaps with other types of beans, lentils, and other protein rich foods). And maybe doing a £10 vegan version too! 😊
You can figure out what to do about the fish fingers and eggs.... That's the only non-plant-based food she had. Can of black beans, diced onion, flax egg, a little spice: burgers. You're welcome. Small block of tofu, freeze; thaw; squeeze dry; slice and marinate with seasonings of your choice (try bbq;) bake or fry. 😘👌
I think she did it very nutritious only thing she could have done is swapped fish for beans but fish is good for you She could have got other veg box’s but other then that I don’t know what else
If you ever do this type of video again in the future I’d consider making a soup with the extra veg and buying a bag of rice that you make yourself because it ends up being cheaper and it’s a long lasting thing because it’s a dry ingredient. I love these videos!!
Hi Taz, have a suggestion for you regarding your dislike of milk - why not try non dairy version? Almond, oat, rice, soy, coconut milk... are all completely different in taste (actually, maybe leave out oat milk as it can be slimy at times) and also in texture; some are, for example, more watery than others. I make my own soy and coconut milk. Coconut one is the easiest one yet, if you ever decide to play around with it, there is a ton of simple recipes online :) Thanks for another video, always brightens my day when you upload another one 😊I wish we would have wonky box in our Slovenian Lidl though...I should write to Lidl about it🤔
In reality that extra money would be what you use to buy those little extras like spices. So if you had say £5 left at the end of the month, that's what you'd have to buy spices, etc for the next month. If you were doing this long-term you could probably vary it a bit more by buying multiple base items like pasta and rice at the start of the month (larger bags are usually cheaper per kilo). You could also do things like freeze half the pasta sauce or curry for later in the month, then have something different in place of them later in the week. For example, instead of 4 pasta meals in the first week you have 2 in the first week, then 1 the following week and the last one at the end of the month (just defrost and reheat the sauce and cook more pasta).
I think there are several things to keep in mind. Aldi and Lidl really help. But I was in several areas lately where none of these were available and only Sainsburys or even worse a small express shop like Co-Op or small Tesco. While Aldi pasta is still at 27p/55p, Sainsburys is at 70p now and co-op might not have storebrand pasta. So you would have to pay gas/public transport to get to further away, which will increase the cost spend. Those boxes are really good, but the Lidl shops around me haven't had those - might be a London thing. And as you said, in the end you might also get really sick and tired of the 1-3 options you can have on tight budget. But I really like those challenges and get inspired so many times when on a tight budget myself. :)
Hello! you could just ask one of the employees to prepare a fruit&Veg box for you, they're not always on display for customers to pick up! And for the quality i can confirm that there is absolutely nothing wrong with he standard of the food, as this is usually food that has fell out of the original packaging (due to tearing or breaking packaging) and cannot be sold alone. ~Fellow Lidl employee!
They most likely have them in your Lidl I never saw them because I went quite late and most of the time they sell out in the morning. Maybe ask an employee about it. :)
fantastic video as always. I would love to see you try to do a 2 week challenge though. Again it isn't the same as always having just £10 per week for your groceries, but it would be interesting to see if you set yourself £20 for 2 weeks what you could do. With the wonky veg box you could make a thick vegetable soup, and if you bought some dried lentles that would be good in the soup and also in a curry. I think if you started out with the £20 budget you might find it easier to come up with some meals. But well done, you did a great job
I really enjoy these budget videos. I wish we had vegetable boxes like that in the US. We have a few like imperfect foods but it's a monthly prescription which I wouldn't want to do. Anyways, thanks for another great video Taz
Because there was fresh ginger in the box: this can really be a great way to level-up the taste of food. I love it in combination with powdered coriander and cumin. I use these three spices with a spoonful of mango chutney to glaze chicken for frying in the pan and eating it with a fresh leafy salad. Or in a stirfry kind of dish, even in dhals and lentil one-pot stews. Lovely thing with big potential flavourwise.
13:28 to open a can of beans (or any can) with ease, position your can opener on top of the can instead of the side. It won't sink in and won't have any sharp corners. Try it out!
This was very interesting to see, first because having seen your other videos you've improved so much with the meal prep and shopping 😂 i've learnt a lot too. I think the price difference is more evident for families, if you live alone you can maybe get away with spending 10 pounds a week in groceries but feeding more people is complicated and families are usually the ones that struggle the most during inflations for this reason. Also you have to sacrifice nutrition for the sake of budget. Really good video taz!
This challenge looked super easy, I too always get surprised about food prices, in Australia it's hard to get any tinned food for much less that $1 (.55p) I was screaming g for you to make a potato and leek soup.
How does the average wage stack up in Australia to here, genuinely curious what is the typical rent also? My friend went over a few years ago and stayed with family and she was shocked at the food prices. However she said her brother in law's house was incredible and he isn't that well off. Her photos were incredible but she said the price of bread was crazy x
I love seeing videos like this. I'd have considered using some of the fruit to spruce up the cereal, and maybe snagged some lettuce to add some colour to the pasta (or maybe mint?). Personally speaking: it does feel like groceries have gotten more expensive, I think for a cooking challenge you're just not noticing it since you've become a better cook since you did the first of these.
Keep bananas in the fridge! They last waaaaaay longer! Oh and I think it would be better if you ration the sauce for the pasta so you can eat freshly cooked pasta every time
The food in the UK is still so cheap when compared to what the hourly wage there is, that's so insane. 79p for a 6-pack of eggs? Here in Poland that would be 6pln, which would equal to a pound. And the hourly wage here is ~18pln. So.
@@poopluana It would be similar in Poland, depending on where you buy your eggs. Of course, you could buy 30-packs of eggs and they would be cheaper, but that's not sustainable for me. Eggs sold singularly in small stores/ in small packs in supermarkets range from 10 to 20p per egg and the prices are rapidly rising because of inflation caused both by the pandemic and by the current war.
Such a cool experiment, love that! And i know it must be hard seeing the inflation rate in the UK, but imagine that here, in Poland, the official rate is around 9%, and just like the video you included, the real price growth is much more dramatic. Also, the situation here is more difficult because the minimum and average wage is waaay lower than in the UK whereas the prices, in general, I'd say are lower in the UK than in here. So, pray for us or adopt me if you will, I am a good cook (Self-ad time) haha :D
Hi Taz, the ginger could have been used in many of these recipes like the Veg curry and even fried rice. You just finely chop it and toss it in the way you add garlic. Plus it has medicinal properties too. Please try to use it in future 🙂
Our food costs in the US are probably more than double the UK prices. Is all your food subsidized? One tip is if you're cooking for 1, to freeze stuff if you make bigger meals, like you could make 2 servings of pasta and then freeze the rest of the sauce for another day. The pasta won't freeze well, but the sauce will and it doesn't take up that much room. You can also freeze the bananas to use in smoothies, banana bread, etc.
A lot of stir fry and soup recipes taste good with cheap vegetables, so the veggies box is a steal😁 what we need is good base sauce, salt, pepper, and sugar, the old banana can be used to make banana pudding or bread just need some flour and baking soda, the extra onion can be used as onion rings for snacks, one box goes a long the way. Even when I used to only afford a pack of instant noodle I would add veggies and egg and make stir fry and eat it with rice so one pack noodle can last me 3 meals for a day 😁✌️
I love your budget videos, a trick that helps me with getting through pasta fatigue, with leftover pasta I sort of fry it up with butter and a little cheese so it gets a bit crunchy and usually I prefer that to pasta on the first night
Hey Taz it was nice to see one of your blast from the past vids but i think there are other things to consider as well. Ie energy cost...if people don't have much money, they to be careful what they cook because they can't afford the gas/electric to cook it. They is also longevity. I know u did well on the £10 challenge ans well done! It shiws how much these challenges have helped u grow. Im also not sure how nutritionally balanced your meals might have been. Very well executed challenge!
A little ginger in your fried rice. A veggie fritatta. You can also add the veggies to the rice with some of the tinned tomato, add cumin for a more Mexican rice. Save the pepper, stuff it with rice and seasoned mince and cheese. or add the beans to some rice, canned tomato stuff a pepper.
I saw the leeks and potatoes and immediately thought soup!! - could have made a massive batch to last all week and had with fish finger sandwiches to bulk out if needed. Then egg fried rice or veggie pasta for dinner is a perfect, cheap meal. But like others have said, prepping the sauce and cooking pasta when needed will make it taste better! I also enjoy making bean chillies, and struggle to get bored of them - go great with rice, pasta and jacket potatoes.
So i’ve always wondered whether cooking subscriptions are a valid and worthwhile option for people looking to save a little money on food shops whilst also eating really varied and nutrient dense food. I’d love to see you try out maybe a weeks worth of hellofresh or some other food subscription box as a main source of food
i'm amazed at the lidl prices in aldi! in germany, aldi and lidl are also some of the cheapest supermarkets but i think the prices here are still higher. especially the eggs surprised me as it doesn't look like they're the cheapest version, yet they're still cheaper than our cheapest version. i don't know if everything was cheaper but that was the general feeling i got. it was the same feeling during the last budgeting videos so i think it's not only inflation (when comparing germany and the uk) here. i love these types of videos though! it's nice to see what you can do with little money and it really helps me prepare for living alone because i'll always know what to cook :D of course low-income people may not have the time to spend so much time on cooking and planning and they may struggle more esp if they have kids but i still find the video very interesting!
I was amazed too because it was London but then one has to consider that is pounds and not euros. However, especially the free range eggs would be much more expensive in Germany. Also the microwave rice was surprisingly cheap.
@@hederahelix4600 oh yeah i forgot about the different currency! and yeah, the microwave rice is also a good point, i was wondering why she didn't buy a bigger packet of regular rice as i thought it'd be cheaper.
I love this video and what awareness it brings, once my family of four has its basics in at the beginning of the month we do the rest of the month at £25 a week so glad someone is bringing awareness at price changes. This challenge however would be harder for meat eaters that were most our budget goes x
love that ur never afraid to do these kinda videos. i'm in the us where prices r also climbing, plus i can't eat gluten, so that makes the prices even more challenging. i've had to live like this for the past year, and i know many more ppl have had to eat like this for much longer than me. carefully planning each shop, prepping each meal bc it's cheaper to make things from scratch than to buy premade foods; it can be super taxing. and anyone can do this for a week, but it's cool that u never shy away from these challenges even as ur channel's grown larger. nice to see u regularly putting urself in others' shoes; it builds a lot of compassion. u have my respect for that. also i wish we had those discount veggie boxes at my local grocery stores omg what a deal
I'm living in Mexico atm (originally living in the uk, Cornwall) and everything is so much cheaper here omg- Living in Cornwall, it was a tourist area so everything was already more expensive, and then inflation hit and it was ridiculous, £1.78 per litre for fuel- Now I've moved to mexico and 6 eggs costs 47p (13 pesos) same for milk etc It's crazyyy, thank you for this video Tazzz!! We love youuu
So I googled that leaving food in a tin thing because I’ve always been told the same thing! Turns out it will only affect the taste and isn’t dangerous! Reminds me of how we’ve all been told it’s illegal to drive with the lights on in the car!!
You could have made banana bread with the bananas 🍌😁 you already had eggs, you need flour which is cheap and oil which isn’t as cheap but as someone else commented you could use a bit of it and divide to work out the cost. OR Make banana pancakes and then you need hardly any oil Both great breakfast options 😍 Great video 😌. No idea how you’ve never had a leek, aren’t you Welsh 😂
Yeah but poorer people don't get to buy a tonne of oil and then only use a bit and "work out the cost". If you could do that, this challenge would be the easiest thing ever. You could literally just bulk buy whatever you wanted and then your cost per meal would be incredibly low. The issue is, this is only a realistic option for richer people.
I do wish when we see these that people either factor in travel time, cooking time, non drivers travel cost. Poor people can’t always drive and I can get to Aldi or Lidl. So it’s nearly impossible. But I do love this keep doing them.
yep. Im disabled and can't drive so rely on online grocery orders and they charge 3-5 for delivery and have a charge for baskets under £40. Im lucky to have a parent who is my carer who has a good job but she also works in an industry where prices are rising. Its a job that entirely depends on other people having the funds to do building projects and DIY which is becoming harder because materials are doubling in cost and have been since covid. benefits aren't going up so if I didn't have my mum I'd be screwed. Im in a wheelchair and there's no way I could afford a car and lessons even with the motability scheme and the bus stop closest to me is too far and inaccessible.. It's the poor and disabled who struggle the most yet they won't increase the prices on booze, makes me so angry
@@Jade-fs9kh I am the same - can't drive due to disability and can't access Lidl or any other supermarket myself so get home delivery. I also have celiac ataxia so have to buy everything gluten free (very expensive!). My food bill keeps going up to the point where I am going without food a lot more these days and selling off things I own on gumtree..
@@lbee8710 I am so sorry, that's awful that you're missing out on food because you have dietary needs due to your celiac! Is there any charities nearby who could possibly help you? Maybe they could help source gluten free foods or someone could volunteer to do a monthly shop for you to stock your freezer with celiac friendly staples? It makes me so upset that people are going hungry and without heat etc while MPs get a raise. It's disgusting
I've been watching a lot of your videos, I really enjoy your budget and travel videos. I am from Melbourne, Australia and I am moving to London for a year or two in December! So would love to see more general London videos with tips and tricks. Maybe you could do a travel London video or like public transport, or where to go out for the evening on a budget. That kind of thing 😊
My and my daughter absolutely love all your videos. As she is coeliac, what about doing a living on x amount being gluten free? As gluten free is ridiculously priced and it will be interesting to see what you get and how u find the experience. Plus my daughter would love to see this and she will feel so can completely relate to it and she loves you too! ❤️
Idea: let’s suggest taz to film food related videos regularly so that she ends up eating healthier and spend less on deliveroo! (Idea coming from someone who’s living off take aways too😂) Hope you’re all well x
I'd be really interested in seeing you do this for multiple weeks in a row to see how consistently those things are available and how much you can handle of similar flavors
Inexpensive things that brings me immense joy is music, just pure magical and new music. Others things include being kind to people and giving attention and compliments and just taking care of people (gets exhausted but hey we trying), and exercising. I love these things so much. I too wanna feel loved and wanted and not feel lonely which I feel intensely most of the times when sad, but I love myself and I realised it's okay to feel certain emotions and it's okay to cry. If you feel sad, feel free to cry because it's so good afterwards, love you Taz you made me realise so many things and also changed me a lot. I feel more calmer, happier and accepting things which I didn't used to do before ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love those videos sooo much, taz might think she doesn’t know how to cook that well but honestly just getting to her level would be so impressive for me
I remember watching an episode of Two greedy Italians and Genaro who lived in the poor south said they often just had pasta and olive oil ( that's it) for meals. He said one of his friends once went home and asked what was for supper/evening meal and his mother said " nothing" . People were often reliant on essentially poaching/hunting rabbits etc and foraging for food. We really don't know how lucky we are to have choice.
I loved watching you order from 'Too Good to Go'. Maybe you could do a video around that? What about ordering the best and worst reviewed TGTG magic bags. Love all your videos, thank you for motivating me to be happy. XX
Hey Taz idk if you see this but if you do I just wanna say a massive thank you for all your videos as they have helped me get through life and my darkest of moments especially my suicidal thoughts and I appreciate it so much and I always turn to your videos to make me smile and cope with everything so thank you for everything and keep up the videos!! ❤️❤️
You did an incredible job! Oooh you know you could enjoy this if you got a bag of flour because you can make flatbreads with dips or as a wrap, or use it to make mug cakes or pancakes. Just extra variety xx
Great work! I have to say, don't rely on being able to get a £1.50 box , Where I live they have been doing them about 3 years and I think we have managed to get one about 3 times, when you get one it is usually about £15 worth of produce . Go for plain white rice over basmati if money is an issue. A bag of oats is way better value than cornflakes even the 55p flakes as it will be more filling and you can make crumble topping, thicken things with it and make biscuits.
I would say if you do this again, to definitely factor in spices/oil etc. Just do the maths, so if it's 100g for £1 in total and you only use a TSP then work that out and add it. Because although you don't but things every week, if someone is on a budget of £10 a week, over the course of a month they DO have to factor it in
Loved seeing a video like this again! They’re definitely my favourite of yours ❤️ it’s interesting to see the difference between prices in London vs Australia! It would be good to see this challenge be done for a few weeks or a month. See if the meal plans would be similar to a single week or if it would change as you can bulk a bit more or even get different protein types
Regardless of inflation, the UK still has some of the cheapest prices for groceries. If you've ever seen prices in North America.. it's devastating and only getting worse. Some places in Europe are really high priced as well. UK is still, by far, one of the most reasonably priced for groceries.
Also, what gets on my wick the most.. is that no matter where you are in the world, prices are going up but minimum wage most certainly isn't... at least not to a degree that can keep up with the inflation.
I no would be a lengthy process, but what about if you did the £10 a week budget for a month…. I’m thinking the extra £1.73 a week would able you to buy things like flour to maybe make a pie or vegetable pasties xxx I’m a 47 year old woman in full time employment and I don’t realy have to worry about the budget shopping, but I enjoy watching your videos so much I’m now going to give the £10 budget a try … I’m rather excited xxxx thank you for the love you share with us I think your your amazing taz xxx
Inexpensive thing that makes me happy and excited is getting sticky notes or that memo notes with cute design that I always use to write down my to do list in my physical calendar, and I just need to cross goal or deadline that I've finished or achieved. Personally this is my most inexpensive thing that gives me such great amount of excitement.
Love this but did it make much difference to your energy bills? I have always wondered if what you can save on food do you loose in cooking costs? Thanks for doing these they are really good fun and very interesting
With the veg boxes you can kind of just roast all the veg you have left and turn it into soup. You can have it with the bread and it’s really easy to make because most veg chucked into a pot blended up taste nice.
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You should try re doing the color wheel food challenge
Love your videos and vibrant energy! Spend a day in London and show us all the free things you can do and free foods you get on the way. You could even do this for new cities such as Bristol, Manchester, York, Dublin etc :)
Day in the life video of what you do for work, staying motivated and daily routines
you could have bought rolled oats - for porridge, for grinding into flour and mix with banana for pancakes or making flatbread. Also dried chickpeas and beans that you soak and cook - you get a lot for little money and you can make curries, hummus, even black bean brownies! Interesting to see how much food you can get for a tenner in Britain! Greetings from New Zealand.
heyyyy from New Zealand as well!! 💛
i thought so too, oats are (at least here) cheaper than corn flakes and make a much tastier breakfast and have different uses like you mentioned, and also great combined with fruits so breakfasts would've been great :)
Yep pays rock ! Cheaper and better than cereal which spike bloody sugars even more and make you more hungry . Lest with oats get bit fibre protein in there depending what you add to it .
Pancakes made from oat “ flour rocks “ 🥞 just blend up dried oats and gave oat flour ! I do this all the time ! My son and I live on oats for breakfast or when run out of wraps I make pancakes with chai seeds for school !
I’m a kiwi too! It’s sooo much cheaper compared to our prices!
Food in nz is so much more expensive compared to Britain
You know how people say introverts re-watch the same movies/tv shows because they know how they end and it creates like a comfort zone to them? Well Taz....you are MY comfort creator! I keep re-watching your videos for the last 2 years (maybe even more?) and I just wanted to say thank you so much for that, and I hope you know how big of an impact you make for me and others that enjoy your content! You are truly a blessing for everyone around you.
@Ariel Roxanne me but with tvd.
same! i’ve watched her videos multiple times lol
Ah didn't know that but that explains a lot! My watch list is so long bc I end up rewatching the things I know I like for this exact reason 😄
@Ariel Roxanne Gilmore Girls gives me such a comforting feeling too
I heard that’s common with people that have anxiety not introverts but either way it make sense lol 🤞😎
Thank you so much for reading my comment and making this video. You are so very good at the budgeting videos because you’re brave and willing to experiment with your own recipes. I think you were very successful and I was pleasantly surprised, especially with how good your wonky veg box was and how you used it. If I am remembering correctly you asked for inexpensive pleasures, for me it’s borrowing dogs while their owners have to work, I have a beautiful French bulldog asleep on my knee and it’s fantastic. I get him until 9pm then he goes home and I don’t have the expense of having to pay vet’s fees or food costs. Thanks again for the video
I think it’s important also to remember that people living in genuine poverty often don’t necessarily have access to cheaper supermarkets (don’t drive, no money for transport), have other obstacles such as not having proper cooking equipment, not able to afford the electric/gas to cook, so many things make it a lot more complicated than just buying the £10 worth of food
Definitely- and it's easy to say that spices don't count, but if you use them often it accounts to 1 or 2 quid a week. I don't have a car so my nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's which is hella expensive, like £2 for a broccoli with no option of a wonky box. I'd love to see Taz do this again but at only one supermarket, like Morrisons or Sainsburys.
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You're right, but a lot of people find ways like walking or carpooling with a friend etc. And a lot of people have either cheaper shops or aren't afraid to simply ask at closing time if independent shops have food.
And another thing is, this is one week. If you have to do it week in, week out, it is depressing and that's where nutritional deficiencies might start to show themselves, too.
@@HF-tj8db if ur nearest shops r expensive ones, that means u don't live in a poor area. Or u r not poor at all.
Hey taz, I have noticed that pasta doesn’t refrigerate well, So I suggest only meal prepping the sauce and making the pasta fresh every time you want to have it, and then you can mix the pasta with the sauce . I think this technique will stop it from tasting like cardboard 😂
Yes it's also really easy to cook
Refrigerator pasta is hospital food for me because my dad made a batch of it and put it in the microwave when I was Hungry because hospital food is gross
I always meal prep pasta but you have to refrigerate the pasta and the sauce in two different cointainers and heat it up on the stove and not in the microwave
.....in my humble opinion, creamy pastas taste better the next day. Like tuna bake, creamy garlic prawns fettuccine etc 😋😋😋😋 damn now I'm hungry
you can also cook pasta in the microwave :D
This is amazing!! BUT the real challenge is not getting tired of the middle class and poorer side of life. Where you gota live like this every week. And soon after the budget video we cant go back to buying and eating whatever we want. So the real challenge would be to be on a budget for a month and not get tired of the same kind of breakfast or lunch. That would be very interesting!
it is easier when you can cook
I mean, canned food isn't good for health and if she can afford better quality, I don't see why she should do this for a month and risk her health(although she's not living a very healthy life anyway) besides, this wouldn't be realistic even if she does it for a month. She has access to a stove and electricity and a fridge.
middle class people getting sick of their lives? oh the heartbreak oh the misery. middle class are the types that get 2 holidays a year and don't have to live on the breadline. sorry if i misunderstood your comment but the way i interpreted it, it came across as very tone deaf.
I think the OP might be an American, or at least not UK based, because over there "middle class" can mean anyone who isn't wealthy...confuses me living in the states that's for sure
@@rini9325 Canned veggies ain't bad for you lol
I missed the chaos only your channel brings 😂💜 I’m terrible with budgeting but I love seeing this experiment with the current inflation in the UK economy
I'll repeat what I said when you did this video years ago - I am *so effing jealous* of your wonky veg boxes. That's so much vegetables for so little omg, and they're not even bad! Wish we had something like this here.
America could learn a thing or two from the UK. America has a huge food waste issue
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 I'm not American, but yeah, I've heard that opinion from quite a few Americans.
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 actually it's a German thing as Lidl and Aldi are German supermarkets, so in reality UK supermarkets should be learning from them. Unfortunately many British supermarkets like M&S have been caught throwing away good food instead of donating it in the past.
I don't know if it happens everywhere but often the 'wonky vegs' are vegetables that farmers get much less profit for as supermarkets can buy them for a much lower price and sell them themselves 'low' but actually make more profit than normal vegetables and so exploitation of farmers. Farmers would NEVER throw away their 'wonky vegs': they are normally used for pre-cut vegetables or for animal feed. So if you CAN you should not buy wonky vegs.
@@sbasi2739 I am from Germany and I have never seen those boxes here :(
I would have used the fruit to make cereal more exciting 🤷🏻♀️ Also, even with the exchange rate, I am still amazed by the UK’s food prices! Even going to Aldi, our cheapest store, it would be more, and our prices have risen about .25 per item. That wonky veg box is a great idea we don’t do here. For my budgets, I usually choose one flavor profile for most of the week. For example, this week has beef and lentil tacos and a chicken tortilla soup. A lot of the more expensive items are used more as garnish and can be used across multiple recipes.
Don't know where you are from, but there is also this app called too good to go. When stores have too much stuff left, they offer it there. Like a veggybox at the end of the day. We have a lot of animals who need veggies, so it can get expensive, but sometimes I am able to get a box. Also fun for trying new foods since there are very different foods in there sometimes :)
I felt the same when I saw the price of the food over there…amazing! I’ve noticed the price of groceries going up significantly here, even the things that have always been a default more affordable item..like, a bag of carrots or rice. It’s forcing me to stretch my brain to be creative.
@@joyjansen7551 have you heard of olio as they often have surplus veggie amongst other things if you e got animals. Note the food is suitable for human consumption also not just animals
@@joyjansen7551 I have tried it before, but the only places were in NYC, which is a 5 hour drive. Nothing in my smaller city.
A veg box for £1.50 is absolutely amazing. It looked like only the tomato was really on its. The rest looked good enough for several meals. 😳. I live in Belgium now and there is no doubt that food is more expensive here, compared to the UK (I would say about at least a third more).
I think the 'wonky veg box' is such a big help in these challenges, I hope they become more common in other places too, I'd love to have them where I live!
Would love it if here in the U.S.A We would have the wonky veg box 😢
This is great, Taz! One thing to consider if you try this again is that some people don't drive and can't afford public transport, so they're stuck with having to buy food from the type of shops near them - typically a corner shop or a Metro Tesco. It would be really interesting to see how much less you get for your budget in that type of scenario. (Lidl and Aldi are usually a little out of the way for walking - especially if you have a toddler or a baby to take with you!)
God that’s be tough ! I don’t drive but I have a kid but I get a bus ticket with my company job under tax saver bus ticket scheme to get it for far less cheaper unlimited bus fares .I always count it in as a bill and but everything else so can have this ! But in lucky I live near shops so it didn’t have it I be 3-5km near shop to walk it had be done .
omg I don't have a car and it's like a desert in the city where I live... two days of food from co-op is £10 at least, and at sainsbury's you'd be lucky to survive three days on that budget. I would love to see a video using solely food from one of those places.
I agree! My local shops are Tesco Express and Waitrose, both really expensive, no reduced or wonky options :(
I'm lucky I drive but if I didn't it would be £6 in a taxi to my local supermarket each way and no buses go near it. My local shop I could walk to is a garage.
As a Southeast Asian, having onion, garlic and ginger is invaluable. We put them in almost every dish. That wonky box is so perfect.
Aparently is a UK thing because Lidle isn't doing it somewhere else
Lidl does it in the Netherlands through 'too good to go ' kind of wonky box but also other stores can do it. Bakery's restaurant supermarkets. It is so perfect !
@@loredanadincu7930 there is in France lol
@@zz4753 again where I live isn't. Maybe just in some countries.
It's so interesting to see how cheap Lidl is in the U.K. The same amount of stuff would easily cost double in here in Germany.
Same in Australia
Same in Spain... There is not as much of things below 1€..
It is cheaper, but I am not sure if it's the same quality... I have been in Scotland recently and I think the food quality is noticeably worse compared to Czechia - in both supermarkets and restaurants.
I find the quality of Lidl products to be really bad in the UK.
I don’t think there is a noticeable difference btw the quality in Germany and the UK… yes it’s more expensive, but after converting pounds to euro, even that tends to average out.
The uk used to be A LOT cheaper, but after brexit, Covid and the whole oil and fuel crisis, the prices have noticeably gone up… :)
What could improve this a bit more, was mix and matching combinations of food. Instead of making egg fried rice so much, why not egg drop soup with veggies in it? Scrambled eggs with tomato on toast for breakfast or even lunch. Pasta could get really boring as well, so I feel you with that one. I would have probably gotten a bag of flour instead to make roti, Trinidad dumplings, wraps etc. Overall, you did good. I have definitely noticed prices increasing. Its kind of worrysome since incomes aren't increasing at the same rate, so I'm having to think of creative things to do with food this month to make it last.
Food prices in Trinidad have also been increasing exponentially. This week I made biryani and paid $10.00 for one dried coconut. Instead of throwing out the coconut meat after getting my coconut milk, I used it to make dumplings. I've found that preparing meal components and storing them in separate containers allows me to have some variation for fairly cheap
@@nicolejessemy9880 omg yess! The prices in Trinidad are going up like crazy
@@vannacammeron3860 I'm actually thinking about doing a $100 challenge at some point
TAZ! i haven’t watched your channel in a while (idk why) but i forgot how genuinely comforting and funny you are. i don’t know if it’s just me but your videos feel so natural. i feel like we’re on a facetime call ugh it’s just such good vibes. you’re also great background (thsts a compliment i swear) because i feel like i have someone else in the room talking to me. i’m gonna go binge all the videos i messed. love you bff
I can relate to you so much!
same! i love her so much
same here! watching her vids after long and i remembered why i love her sm
Me tooo!
I really love that Taz makes these kinds of videos because these are conversations that need to be had. I also liked her promoting the wonky veg boxes and the home cooked meals.
That being said, when this is your every day struggle it will take a toll. Because this means never going out for a meal or even a drink and having to be extra creative with a very limited selection of food items. Also, will you have the right nutrition if this is what you eat over a long period of time?
Also, £10 a week may not sound like much, but if you're a family of 4 that's £40 a week. And if your children want sweets and snacks it will cost more.
Life is hard for those who have no money. Hopefully the salaries will catch up with the price of living.
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i would say nature. pressing flowers in books, looking at the clouds, listening to the wind blow the trees. it’s so peaceful and makes me so happy. it’s like all my stress fades away. baking as well. i grew up baking with family members and it has always been fun for me, regardless of if i’m good at it or not.
I am well and truly horrible at cooking, but while watching your vid, I was trying to think of other things to make with your ingredients, and immediately soup sprang to mind. Also simple scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes (assuming you had butter), and so on. Honestly, I often raid Pinterest for recipes because it's easy to get inspired by stuff there, and I'm wondering if that would help you next time. Anyways, great vid!
Please try the App Gander.
It helps you find all the reduced items in the local shops!
I’d love to see how little you could spend for a good weeks worth of food
Good tip
Every time I watch these I am so jealous of the food prices in the UK!! It’s so different here in the US! I would also seriously love those wonky veg boxes, so cool! Love you and your videos. ❤️
If you do another one of these, could be interesting to get a nutricionist to help make more balanced meals (perhaps with other types of beans, lentils, and other protein rich foods). And maybe doing a £10 vegan version too! 😊
You can figure out what to do about the fish fingers and eggs.... That's the only non-plant-based food she had.
Can of black beans, diced onion, flax egg, a little spice: burgers. You're welcome.
Small block of tofu, freeze; thaw; squeeze dry; slice and marinate with seasonings of your choice (try bbq;) bake or fry. 😘👌
It is vegan except for milk and fish fingers you can replace with vegan milk
People who have only £10 for a week don’t have money for consulting a nutritionist etc. This is the reality.
I think she did it very nutritious only thing she could have done is swapped fish for beans but fish is good for you
She could have got other veg box’s but other then that I don’t know what else
If you ever do this type of video again in the future I’d consider making a soup with the extra veg and buying a bag of rice that you make yourself because it ends up being cheaper and it’s a long lasting thing because it’s a dry ingredient. I love these videos!!
Hi Taz, have a suggestion for you regarding your dislike of milk - why not try non dairy version? Almond, oat, rice, soy, coconut milk... are all completely different in taste (actually, maybe leave out oat milk as it can be slimy at times) and also in texture; some are, for example, more watery than others. I make my own soy and coconut milk. Coconut one is the easiest one yet, if you ever decide to play around with it, there is a ton of simple recipes online :) Thanks for another video, always brightens my day when you upload another one 😊I wish we would have wonky box in our Slovenian Lidl though...I should write to Lidl about it🤔
For a challenge like this she should try soy, other plant milks don't have any protein and have very little calories.
Ste izvedeli, če imajo wonky box?
@@Tara-cu6ff I've written them an email the same day and have not heard back to this day. I guess their customer service is not their priority.
Would love to see you do a 'zero-waste'/sustainable challenge again, since London has more zero waste shops and options
In reality that extra money would be what you use to buy those little extras like spices. So if you had say £5 left at the end of the month, that's what you'd have to buy spices, etc for the next month.
If you were doing this long-term you could probably vary it a bit more by buying multiple base items like pasta and rice at the start of the month (larger bags are usually cheaper per kilo). You could also do things like freeze half the pasta sauce or curry for later in the month, then have something different in place of them later in the week. For example, instead of 4 pasta meals in the first week you have 2 in the first week, then 1 the following week and the last one at the end of the month (just defrost and reheat the sauce and cook more pasta).
I think there are several things to keep in mind. Aldi and Lidl really help. But I was in several areas lately where none of these were available and only Sainsburys or even worse a small express shop like Co-Op or small Tesco. While Aldi pasta is still at 27p/55p, Sainsburys is at 70p now and co-op might not have storebrand pasta. So you would have to pay gas/public transport to get to further away, which will increase the cost spend. Those boxes are really good, but the Lidl shops around me haven't had those - might be a London thing. And as you said, in the end you might also get really sick and tired of the 1-3 options you can have on tight budget. But I really like those challenges and get inspired so many times when on a tight budget myself. :)
Hello! you could just ask one of the employees to prepare a fruit&Veg box for you, they're not always on display for customers to pick up! And for the quality i can confirm that there is absolutely nothing wrong with he standard of the food, as this is usually food that has fell out of the original packaging (due to tearing or breaking packaging) and cannot be sold alone. ~Fellow Lidl employee!
They most likely have them in your Lidl I never saw them because I went quite late and most of the time they sell out in the morning. Maybe ask an employee about it. :)
fantastic video as always. I would love to see you try to do a 2 week challenge though. Again it isn't the same as always having just £10 per week for your groceries, but it would be interesting to see if you set yourself £20 for 2 weeks what you could do. With the wonky veg box you could make a thick vegetable soup, and if you bought some dried lentles that would be good in the soup and also in a curry. I think if you started out with the £20 budget you might find it easier to come up with some meals. But well done, you did a great job
I really enjoy these budget videos. I wish we had vegetable boxes like that in the US. We have a few like imperfect foods but it's a monthly prescription which I wouldn't want to do. Anyways, thanks for another great video Taz
Because there was fresh ginger in the box: this can really be a great way to level-up the taste of food. I love it in combination with powdered coriander and cumin.
I use these three spices with a spoonful of mango chutney to glaze chicken for frying in the pan and eating it with a fresh leafy salad.
Or in a stirfry kind of dish, even in dhals and lentil one-pot stews.
Lovely thing with big potential flavourwise.
13:28 to open a can of beans (or any can) with ease, position your can opener on top of the can instead of the side. It won't sink in and won't have any sharp corners. Try it out!
You can also mix water with milk to make it last longer.
And add water to baked beans and jar sauces for it to go a longer way
This was very interesting to see, first because having seen your other videos you've improved so much with the meal prep and shopping 😂 i've learnt a lot too. I think the price difference is more evident for families, if you live alone you can maybe get away with spending 10 pounds a week in groceries but feeding more people is complicated and families are usually the ones that struggle the most during inflations for this reason. Also you have to sacrifice nutrition for the sake of budget. Really good video taz!
Please can you do 2 or 3 weeks on the trot on a £10 budget? I’d love to see how you manage that and if it can be done! Love your budget vids!! X
This challenge looked super easy, I too always get surprised about food prices, in Australia it's hard to get any tinned food for much less that $1 (.55p) I was screaming g for you to make a potato and leek soup.
How does the average wage stack up in Australia to here, genuinely curious what is the typical rent also? My friend went over a few years ago and stayed with family and she was shocked at the food prices. However she said her brother in law's house was incredible and he isn't that well off. Her photos were incredible but she said the price of bread was crazy x
Taz, you can freeze ginger so if you don't have use for it one week, put it in the freezer and save for another time
I love seeing videos like this. I'd have considered using some of the fruit to spruce up the cereal, and maybe snagged some lettuce to add some colour to the pasta (or maybe mint?). Personally speaking: it does feel like groceries have gotten more expensive, I think for a cooking challenge you're just not noticing it since you've become a better cook since you did the first of these.
That veg box is the coolest thing ever I wish we had something that cheap and efficient against food waste in Germany!
I just had the same thought😅 Maybe we all can send a message to Lidl Deutschland and ask them to do it in Germany too?
Slovakia just began making them in some Lidl shops as a test
Keep bananas in the fridge! They last waaaaaay longer! Oh and I think it would be better if you ration the sauce for the pasta so you can eat freshly cooked pasta every time
Yup. I never pre cook pasta or rice. Always make it the day of. And freezing the sauce is easier and tastier than freezing with the pasta or rice
The food in the UK is still so cheap when compared to what the hourly wage there is, that's so insane. 79p for a 6-pack of eggs? Here in Poland that would be 6pln, which would equal to a pound. And the hourly wage here is ~18pln. So.
In America a dozen eggs will cost almost 2 dollars depending
They don't have stable wages
In Romania it’s 20-25p per ONE egg, with a minimum wage of 387gbp per month. So…
@@poopluana It would be similar in Poland, depending on where you buy your eggs. Of course, you could buy 30-packs of eggs and they would be cheaper, but that's not sustainable for me. Eggs sold singularly in small stores/ in small packs in supermarkets range from 10 to 20p per egg and the prices are rapidly rising because of inflation caused both by the pandemic and by the current war.
In Canada 3.50 now a dozen of eggs it’s crazy
Such a cool experiment, love that! And i know it must be hard seeing the inflation rate in the UK, but imagine that here, in Poland, the official rate is around 9%, and just like the video you included, the real price growth is much more dramatic. Also, the situation here is more difficult because the minimum and average wage is waaay lower than in the UK whereas the prices, in general, I'd say are lower in the UK than in here. So, pray for us or adopt me if you will, I am a good cook (Self-ad time) haha :D
@ the basics ranges had gone up that much at Tesco, I believe, and thanks to Jack Monroe speaking out, they lowered them.
@ Jack Monroe showed all of the price comparisons on twitter, and in an article. Your far-right lyin’ and wangin’ on won’t change that.
Hi Taz, the ginger could have been used in many of these recipes like the Veg curry and even fried rice. You just finely chop it and toss it in the way you add garlic. Plus it has medicinal properties too. Please try to use it in future 🙂
I use it as the basis of a curry, ginger, chilli and garlic
Our food costs in the US are probably more than double the UK prices. Is all your food subsidized?
One tip is if you're cooking for 1, to freeze stuff if you make bigger meals, like you could make 2 servings of pasta and then freeze the rest of the sauce for another day. The pasta won't freeze well, but the sauce will and it doesn't take up that much room. You can also freeze the bananas to use in smoothies, banana bread, etc.
A lot of stir fry and soup recipes taste good with cheap vegetables, so the veggies box is a steal😁 what we need is good base sauce, salt, pepper, and sugar, the old banana can be used to make banana pudding or bread just need some flour and baking soda, the extra onion can be used as onion rings for snacks, one box goes a long the way. Even when I used to only afford a pack of instant noodle I would add veggies and egg and make stir fry and eat it with rice so one pack noodle can last me 3 meals for a day 😁✌️
I love your budget videos, a trick that helps me with getting through pasta fatigue, with leftover pasta I sort of fry it up with butter and a little cheese so it gets a bit crunchy and usually I prefer that to pasta on the first night
You are a professional in budgeting now… Don’t stop these kinds of videos Taz, Cause they are amazing 👌
Hey Taz it was nice to see one of your blast from the past vids but i think there are other things to consider as well. Ie energy cost...if people don't have much money, they to be careful what they cook because they can't afford the gas/electric to cook it. They is also longevity. I know u did well on the £10 challenge ans well done! It shiws how much these challenges have helped u grow. Im also not sure how nutritionally balanced your meals might have been. Very well executed challenge!
legends remember that she has survived for 1£ a day for a week
Yesss, that was a fun series definitely 😩👍
A little ginger in your fried rice. A veggie fritatta. You can also add the veggies to the rice with some of the tinned tomato, add cumin for a more Mexican rice. Save the pepper, stuff it with rice and seasoned mince and cheese. or add the beans to some rice, canned tomato stuff a pepper.
This video is needed especially with food prices getting higher and higher
I saw the leeks and potatoes and immediately thought soup!! - could have made a massive batch to last all week and had with fish finger sandwiches to bulk out if needed. Then egg fried rice or veggie pasta for dinner is a perfect, cheap meal. But like others have said, prepping the sauce and cooking pasta when needed will make it taste better! I also enjoy making bean chillies, and struggle to get bored of them - go great with rice, pasta and jacket potatoes.
So i’ve always wondered whether cooking subscriptions are a valid and worthwhile option for people looking to save a little money on food shops whilst also eating really varied and nutrient dense food. I’d love to see you try out maybe a weeks worth of hellofresh or some other food subscription box as a main source of food
i'm amazed at the lidl prices in aldi! in germany, aldi and lidl are also some of the cheapest supermarkets but i think the prices here are still higher. especially the eggs surprised me as it doesn't look like they're the cheapest version, yet they're still cheaper than our cheapest version. i don't know if everything was cheaper but that was the general feeling i got. it was the same feeling during the last budgeting videos so i think it's not only inflation (when comparing germany and the uk) here. i love these types of videos though! it's nice to see what you can do with little money and it really helps me prepare for living alone because i'll always know what to cook :D of course low-income people may not have the time to spend so much time on cooking and planning and they may struggle more esp if they have kids but i still find the video very interesting!
I was amazed too because it was London but then one has to consider that is pounds and not euros. However, especially the free range eggs would be much more expensive in Germany. Also the microwave rice was surprisingly cheap.
@@hederahelix4600 oh yeah i forgot about the different currency! and yeah, the microwave rice is also a good point, i was wondering why she didn't buy a bigger packet of regular rice as i thought it'd be cheaper.
I love this video and what awareness it brings, once my family of four has its basics in at the beginning of the month we do the rest of the month at £25 a week so glad someone is bringing awareness at price changes. This challenge however would be harder for meat eaters that were most our budget goes x
These videos make my week, appreciate you so so much Taz 🤍
Great video! Not only was educational and an open eye but also, as always, super entertaining and fun
She never misses an opportunity to make my day. This was exactly what I needed, ty
love that ur never afraid to do these kinda videos. i'm in the us where prices r also climbing, plus i can't eat gluten, so that makes the prices even more challenging. i've had to live like this for the past year, and i know many more ppl have had to eat like this for much longer than me. carefully planning each shop, prepping each meal bc it's cheaper to make things from scratch than to buy premade foods; it can be super taxing. and anyone can do this for a week, but it's cool that u never shy away from these challenges even as ur channel's grown larger. nice to see u regularly putting urself in others' shoes; it builds a lot of compassion. u have my respect for that. also i wish we had those discount veggie boxes at my local grocery stores omg what a deal
I’d love a vid on a week of tesco value food shop vs another store brand and see which you prefer xxx
I'd love a day in the life video, Taz on what you do on a daily basis. love the videos as always!
I'm living in Mexico atm (originally living in the uk, Cornwall) and everything is so much cheaper here omg-
Living in Cornwall, it was a tourist area so everything was already more expensive, and then inflation hit and it was ridiculous, £1.78 per litre for fuel-
Now I've moved to mexico and 6 eggs costs 47p (13 pesos) same for milk etc
It's crazyyy, thank you for this video Tazzz!! We love youuu
fellow cornish gal here!
@@sophie23119 Ayyy, lets goo!!
I was based in Bude :)
@@ItzJamiee i live like 10 mins from newquay!
For some reason YT stopped recommending your vids. So happy to re discover you tazz!!!!
Aw you've grown so much
Taz is my comfort person♥️
Just the kind of video I was hoping for you to upload. Thanks!
So I googled that leaving food in a tin thing because I’ve always been told the same thing! Turns out it will only affect the taste and isn’t dangerous! Reminds me of how we’ve all been told it’s illegal to drive with the lights on in the car!!
Oh wow. Yes sure I was told it could give you botulism etc but had never actually looked to see if that was true or not!
These series are the best 🙌🏽
I'm currently pregnant so can't really do this just now but I will definitely give it a try after I've had my baby. You done really well x
You've done sooo well! And you've come such a long way, watching your Videos for quite a while and you've " grown" so much!
You could have made banana bread with the bananas 🍌😁 you already had eggs, you need flour which is cheap and oil which isn’t as cheap but as someone else commented you could use a bit of it and divide to work out the cost.
OR Make banana pancakes and then you need hardly any oil
Both great breakfast options 😍
Great video 😌. No idea how you’ve never had a leek, aren’t you Welsh 😂
Yeah but poorer people don't get to buy a tonne of oil and then only use a bit and "work out the cost". If you could do that, this challenge would be the easiest thing ever. You could literally just bulk buy whatever you wanted and then your cost per meal would be incredibly low. The issue is, this is only a realistic option for richer people.
OMG! Recenly ive been watching your old videos on repeat and this was a taz classic!
I do wish when we see these that people either factor in travel time, cooking time, non drivers travel cost. Poor people can’t always drive and I can get to Aldi or Lidl. So it’s nearly impossible. But I do love this keep doing them.
There's also obviously all the other expenses apart from food, which are going up significantly.
yep. Im disabled and can't drive so rely on online grocery orders and they charge 3-5 for delivery and have a charge for baskets under £40. Im lucky to have a parent who is my carer who has a good job but she also works in an industry where prices are rising. Its a job that entirely depends on other people having the funds to do building projects and DIY which is becoming harder because materials are doubling in cost and have been since covid. benefits aren't going up so if I didn't have my mum I'd be screwed. Im in a wheelchair and there's no way I could afford a car and lessons even with the motability scheme and the bus stop closest to me is too far and inaccessible..
It's the poor and disabled who struggle the most yet they won't increase the prices on booze, makes me so angry
@@Jade-fs9kh I am the same - can't drive due to disability and can't access Lidl or any other supermarket myself so get home delivery. I also have celiac ataxia so have to buy everything gluten free (very expensive!). My food bill keeps going up to the point where I am going without food a lot more these days and selling off things I own on gumtree..
@@lbee8710 I am so sorry, that's awful that you're missing out on food because you have dietary needs due to your celiac! Is there any charities nearby who could possibly help you? Maybe they could help source gluten free foods or someone could volunteer to do a monthly shop for you to stock your freezer with celiac friendly staples?
It makes me so upset that people are going hungry and without heat etc while MPs get a raise. It's disgusting
I've been watching a lot of your videos, I really enjoy your budget and travel videos. I am from Melbourne, Australia and I am moving to London for a year or two in December! So would love to see more general London videos with tips and tricks. Maybe you could do a travel London video or like public transport, or where to go out for the evening on a budget. That kind of thing 😊
My and my daughter absolutely love all your videos. As she is coeliac, what about doing a living on x amount being gluten free? As gluten free is ridiculously priced and it will be interesting to see what you get and how u find the experience. Plus my daughter would love to see this and she will feel so can completely relate to it and she loves you too! ❤️
I’m also coeliac and would love this, it’s so expensive!
Hello Taz, great video again. For me a simple candle light brings me joy. X
Idea: let’s suggest taz to film food related videos regularly so that she ends up eating healthier and spend less on deliveroo! (Idea coming from someone who’s living off take aways too😂)
Hope you’re all well x
That produce box she has access to massively helps! I'm so jealous. I don't have anything like that in my area
I'd be really interested in seeing you do this for multiple weeks in a row to see how consistently those things are available and how much you can handle of similar flavors
Inexpensive things that brings me immense joy is music, just pure magical and new music. Others things include being kind to people and giving attention and compliments and just taking care of people (gets exhausted but hey we trying), and exercising. I love these things so much. I too wanna feel loved and wanted and not feel lonely which I feel intensely most of the times when sad, but I love myself and I realised it's okay to feel certain emotions and it's okay to cry. If you feel sad, feel free to cry because it's so good afterwards, love you Taz you made me realise so many things and also changed me a lot. I feel more calmer, happier and accepting things which I didn't used to do before ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
✨✨i missed these videos so much
I love those videos sooo much, taz might think she doesn’t know how to cook that well but honestly just getting to her level would be so impressive for me
This challenge for a month would be cool to see if you’d get fed up of the food and see how much variety for meals you can actually get on a budget .
I remember watching an episode of Two greedy Italians and Genaro who lived in the poor south said they often just had pasta and olive oil ( that's it) for meals. He said one of his friends once went home and asked what was for supper/evening meal and his mother said " nothing" . People were often reliant on essentially poaching/hunting rabbits etc and foraging for food. We really don't know how lucky we are to have choice.
I loved watching you order from 'Too Good to Go'. Maybe you could do a video around that? What about ordering the best and worst reviewed TGTG magic bags. Love all your videos, thank you for motivating me to be happy. XX
Hey Taz idk if you see this but if you do I just wanna say a massive thank you for all your videos as they have helped me get through life and my darkest of moments especially my suicidal thoughts and I appreciate it so much and I always turn to your videos to make me smile and cope with everything so thank you for everything and keep up the videos!! ❤️❤️
Jesus loves you, seriously love❤️
My favourite thing finishing work at 10 on a Monday is coming home and having your videos (new or old) and eating my dinner xx
Taz should do a living off ramen for a week video. Loved this one
That would be very unhealthy
You did an incredible job! Oooh you know you could enjoy this if you got a bag of flour because you can make flatbreads with dips or as a wrap, or use it to make mug cakes or pancakes. Just extra variety xx
It would be cool to see the monthly version of this, same weekly budget
Great work! I have to say, don't rely on being able to get a £1.50 box , Where I live they have been doing them about 3 years and I think we have managed to get one about 3 times, when you get one it is usually about £15 worth of produce . Go for plain white rice over basmati if money is an issue. A bag of oats is way better value than cornflakes even the 55p flakes as it will be more filling and you can make crumble topping, thicken things with it and make biscuits.
I would say if you do this again, to definitely factor in spices/oil etc. Just do the maths, so if it's 100g for £1 in total and you only use a TSP then work that out and add it. Because although you don't but things every week, if someone is on a budget of £10 a week, over the course of a month they DO have to factor it in
Loved seeing a video like this again! They’re definitely my favourite of yours ❤️ it’s interesting to see the difference between prices in London vs Australia!
It would be good to see this challenge be done for a few weeks or a month. See if the meal plans would be similar to a single week or if it would change as you can bulk a bit more or even get different protein types
Regardless of inflation, the UK still has some of the cheapest prices for groceries. If you've ever seen prices in North America.. it's devastating and only getting worse. Some places in Europe are really high priced as well. UK is still, by far, one of the most reasonably priced for groceries.
Also, what gets on my wick the most.. is that no matter where you are in the world, prices are going up but minimum wage most certainly isn't... at least not to a degree that can keep up with the inflation.
I no would be a lengthy process, but what about if you did the £10 a week budget for a month…. I’m thinking the extra £1.73 a week would able you to buy things like flour to maybe make a pie or vegetable pasties xxx I’m a 47 year old woman in full time employment and I don’t realy have to worry about the budget shopping, but I enjoy watching your videos so much I’m now going to give the £10 budget a try … I’m rather excited xxxx thank you for the love you share with us I think your your amazing taz xxx
try eating cereals w any kind of yogurt instead of milk, its life changing.
I like granola with plain yogurt
Inexpensive thing that makes me happy and excited is getting sticky notes or that memo notes with cute design that I always use to write down my to do list in my physical calendar, and I just need to cross goal or deadline that I've finished or achieved. Personally this is my most inexpensive thing that gives me such great amount of excitement.
Love this but did it make much difference to your energy bills? I have always wondered if what you can save on food do you loose in cooking costs? Thanks for doing these they are really good fun and very interesting
These videos are some of my favourites! I love it, great vid!
I wish I could go to London someday, I would like to meet Taz too, she's one of my favorite here on youtube.😊
With the veg boxes you can kind of just roast all the veg you have left and turn it into soup. You can have it with the bread and it’s really easy to make because most veg chucked into a pot blended up taste nice.
bananas in cornflakes with milk is the best. try it!