We Asians eat everything with rice because rice makes you feel full. When times get tough, our meals heavily weigh towards rice and other grains paired with small amounts of meats and wild/homegrown vegetables. My advice to everyone? Grow a little garden or just grow small stuff like garlic, cilantro, mint, basil etc. Every penny counts, as Wolfe says, and let me tell you: a touch of garlic can elevate many savory dishes. The small stuff can be grown in pots usually, heck the garlic starts to sprout on its own if left by itself for too long anyways lol. Seeds? Nope, just buy a sprig of the herb you want from the store to plant. Also you can extend meats by padding it with breadcrumbs as if you were making really cheap meatballs.
true words of wisdom there Jane, thank you. my addition: if making meats like chicken save the skin and bones! boil them and save the broth, and if making soup separate the meat from the rest and toss the undesired bit back into the pot and boil further. for a little extra work straining/filtering the broth you get much more flavor, a versatile ingredient, and much added nutrition.
Very well put. My personal advice: Check out Jeb Gardener's channel. He focuses on growing herbs indoors with improvised means, so even people without a garden or exposed windowsill can benefit from fresh herbs.
ive damn near lived off rice, potatoes, eggs, onions, garlic, and spices like chilies. Some nam pla (fish sauce, lime juice, chilies, and garlic made into a sauce) is super cheap and if you dump some on some brown rice with some eggs you've got a healthy, filling, nutritious meal. That sauce will cover up super bland foods like plain rice and allows you to eat more of it without getting sick of tons of rice.
I grew up on struggle meals. It got pretty bad. I remember eating lots of beans and rice growing up. I think about all those people like my parents trying to feed their kid and trying to keep it together. I really appreciate this series. You're doing great work and it means a lot to me that this doesn't feel pandering or anything like that. Great job, sir. Thank you.
I can agree with you on the beans and rice all the time. We were poor and one day I told my mom I'm not going to eat beans anymore. Instead of smacking me she said" cowboys eat beans" sure enough that's all it took because as a kid I was all about cowboy shows and movies. I ate my beans " like the cowboys" after that. Lol
Absolutely ❤ 💯 % We all need to learn how to cook simply with whatever is avaiable, and from scratch. It's a very good idea to keep a couple of the old cookbooks around. Those have the best recipes, and require simple ingredients.
2:19 Thing is, spices are what *allow you* to stretch limited food options far beyond what would normally be tolerable. You can make bulk foods like rice and potatoes different every day of the week so long as you have a few different spices for each dish. They're almost as important an investment as dried beans. It's worth saving money for a couple of good spices to last months. Salt, sugar and pepper are obvious, but it's important to stock at least garlic, onion, and something spiced or funky. You can radically alter the end result just by changing the proportion of different spices, provided you have a set of spices to mix. Source: someone who is actually struggling financially, and wouldn't be able to stretch limited food variety for weeks without spices to vary the dishes. Yes, it is *expensive* as a one-time purchase, but that purchase lasts *months* when used correctly. It is truly an investment.
This is a near universal tip if you're located in the US -- buy your spices in the international/hispanic aisle of your local grocery store. Not all spices will be there, but the ones you do find will often be 1/2 the cost of the "McCormick" and other brands located in the normal spice aisle. Look for brands like Badia, a spice company based in the US. If you live in a big enough town or city, look at Asian markets or other ethnic markets. They too often sell spices incredibly cheap compared to Safeway, Kroger, Stop n Shop, etc.
Dollar Tree sells spices, too! I've bought spices there, and I'm happy with the quality. Even if you can find them cheaper elsewhere, gas prices are high right now. It may make more economical sense to buy as much as possible at one place. Rather than running all over town to save a few cents here and a few cents there.
@@TheHamburgler123 Wanted to add a comment about buying bulk spices, and there it is -- Badia. Head to the bottom shelf, where the big containers are, don't get the normal-sized "spice bottle" ones. The big containers are maybe 1 quart size, not sure, and for example the garlic powder one is 1.5 pounds of garlic. MSG is 1.75 pounds. Those will refill the regular "spice bottle" maybe eight or ten times, and they're like $5.99, $7.99, depending on what it is. ( cut the top off a gallon milk jug for a funnel ) And, the recipe here calls for kosher salt, but be aware that kosher salt doesn't have iodine. No such thing as iodized kosher salt. Look up what iodine does, it's important for metabolism, brain health, you don't want to be leaving it out of your diet, basically.
Do not buy spices at your grocery stock in little bottles, instead go go a online shopping network or health food store and buy them in bulk, which you can split the cost with others, plus the spices will be fresher and taste much better while using less.
great job, i also grew up on struggle meals, everybody laughted at me when they asked me at school what did i eat, i eated only eggs, eggs with this, eggs with that, because we had chickens, and rabbits on farmland, so to break monotony, i made up hundreds of recepies of making eggs, chicken, and rabbits, also vegetables, and wild spices, back in day there were no internet so you cant get recepies as nowdays, my cookbook was yugoslavian army cookbook, witch was suprisingly great, and had many good struggle recepies, even in cookbook there were calories, proteing, carbohidrates per serving, your videos are very interesting, every new idea for cooking is interesting
@@vaughnlcoleman dont know, my recepies are lame, and there are no brainers, anybody can do that, secret is in spice, and here in croatia you have vegeta, that is universal, all in all, also pepper, paprika, chilli peppers, etc, if you have spices, you have it all, all good food that you eat today came from villagers that had no money so they had to invent food, they had no money for only eating meat like kings, think about it, why you eat bread with every meal (it is common here, even bread with soup), it is because meat or whole meal is expensive, so you eat bread with it so you can full yourself, i knew days when i eat half bread and 10 dkg of cheap salami, salami was only for taste, because it was 500 grams of bread and 100 grams of salami, then was even mayonese expensive, even now when i hear 5 course meal, i dont know what they do or who has time to cook all that if you work, but i eat only one dish that i made, but i am happy
Much love to Croatia, must be rough in the Balkans after all it's been through in history so much respect making struggle situations tolerable and still finding happiness in such bleak environments. underrated part of the world.
@@HUYI1 soups go a long way in stretching out ingredients. If you’re really struggling, you can remove all the meat off a rotisserie chicken (save meat for later obviously) and use the remaining bones to make a pretty decent broth. Just add some onions, potatoes, carrots and whatever veggies you like, abit of tomatoe paste if you want a tomatoe soup. You can definitely make enough soup for 3-4 meals with just the broth from that set of bones.
@@HUYI1 Well, he was doing this in a crock pot, it might have 'taken' 3 hours, but we probably saw 90% of all the work that went into actually making the soup on camera.
i miss when i was a kid, i grew up in a fishing town and you could get (chum/pink) salmon, sardines, anchovies, muscles, and some other seafood as a cheap protein source. In my parents day salmon was what poor people ate, like beans or eggs in other places. Now many seafood is mostly unafforable for the poor, even sardines and anchovies.
Prices in grocery stores where I live have been inching up steadily for some time now. This month they skyrocketed AND items are becoming harder to find. These kinds of videos are priceless. Thank you.
Hey Larry, That's actually a great meal, all round. Being from and living in the Province of Newfoundland & Labrador, on Canada's East Coast, out in the Atlantic Ocean, now at 66 years of age, I recognize many of your basic meal ideas as much like the many survival foods we developed here over the last few generations. Being from the Island portion of the province, I see how necessity as the mother of invention has led many of the residents to adopt food gathering and preparation methods and sourcing in all parts of North America and Western Europe where low income and disadvantaged clusters of population were literally forced to make do with the little they had to feed and support their families through times so difficult and challenging that today's generation have little knowledge or understanding of. In the process, in my case, at least, many of these food creations and accommodations have become favourites, tradition and our comfort foods. Having gone on a little too much, perhaps, I just want to say that I'm so grateful for what you do; I'm not sure you realize just how valuable and useful many of your viewers have found your service to be. I've tried a number of your ideas and always with pleasing results. It's not so much different, overall, from what many of us have been doing anyway, particularly since the onslaught of problems brought by the pandemic. I'm just happy your channel brings a lot of it together and offers all from a balanced, common sense perspective. Keep 'em comin'. LOL
This is a genuinely great comment. The idea that we’ve circled back to the same struggle meals you ate as a young man serves as a painful reminder that we haven’t progressed as a society at all.
Many of the budget meals you prepare remind me of my late mother's excellent cooking (she was a rural product of the Great Depression and never forgot her roots). I think she would be surprised, and maybe a bit smug, to see how useful those culinary skills she insisted I learn are all these years later. Thanks for both the memories and the encouragement.
Thanks Wolf for hitting this one out of the ball park. This over rice would be great and if the budget has some stretch in it, that would make an excellent chili for chili dogs or pour it over some fritos style chips....
Oh my gosh, that looks amazing!!! I have to tell you about this soup I made the other day. I had a can of progresso lentil soup that I have been staring at for almost a year. It did not seem very appetizing to me. So then I was passing by it once again and I decided to make it into a semi homemade soup more to my liking. Of course I added the soup to a pan, added some greens, water, a little chicken bouillon, a can of chopped tomatoes and a few potatoes. I cooked it until the potatoes were done and oh my goodness, it was next level and everything was something I already had so no extra cost was involved. And it made 3 huge servings!
Caramelise the onions in a pan before adding them so they taste a bit sweeter for those that don't like onions, and chop them finely so that they can almost melt into the dish.
That's how I make my black bean soup, just caramelized onions and black beans. Delish! I eat as soup, hummus, spread, dip, even dessert. It tastes like chocolate mousse to me.
Personally I'd definitely add peas and sweetcorn to that to add some colour. Frozen peas here are still pretty cheap. Sweetcorn had doubled in price though so maybe not the sweetcorn. On the subject of stock it might be worth doing a vid on how to make chicken stock from a roast chicken etc. For thickening up my first thought was pearl barley to turn it into a stew. Again an extremely versatile cheap recipe. Have you considered doing a book?
Broth/ stock thing I picked up recently from Atomic Shrimp and can't praise enough: keep produce trash (onion skins, woody stems, etc) and dry or freeze them (chicken/ other bones can go in too if you freeze them) until you have a tidy container full of them. Add them to water and boil for a while, nothing else in the water, until all the tasty compounds etc leech out of your stuff. Once your broth is dark enough, fish out your solids with a slotted spoon/ etc. Really makes those veggies stretch longer & saves on broth base.
Love what you do Larry, it’s always good for everyone to know how to make nutritious meals on the cheap for their families. We’re looking at at least a year of food supply issues (mostly grains like wheat and rice), so knowledge of how to make food that doesn’t use processed or whole grains is especially important for those of small means, who are always hit hardest by shortages.
That looks delicious! Even if people aren't struggling, it would still be a very wonderful meal to make and serve. I'm saving this to try on my family soon.
In my yard and most areas where there’s grass, often you will see what I call onion grass, and if you pull them by the roots there’s even little onions growing under the ground and they are edible and free. They can be both a vegetable and a spice because they have a garlic flavor. Adam Ragusa did a video on them recently and you can identify them through that, and be sure that your yard isn’t sprayed with pesticides or something in areas you might forage. But there’s a lot of free food you can eat if you know where to look. Even pine trees. Their needles make a nice tea, and some parts of the wood is edible too believe it or not. They call it famine food.
Thank you for the recipe! I like your videos, and now, when my country is at war, people struggle a lot. Food prices are rising for common Russians, who don't even want war. It is especially noticeable for a student like me. I get only ~40 dollars in scholarship for a month, it wasn't enough to live half a month on that before, and now it is practically impossible. I guess that's the price of free higher education
@@bretwilliams249 Nonsense. Here in the UK, it currently averages to about $13k a year, and from what I can find online it's about $5k a year in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea; and about $2k a year in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain.
I've not been in a position where struggle meals have been necessary, but I still love that you do these! Everyone should be making struggle meals from time to time, both for frugality and if things keep getting more expensive and hard to find, those skills might be more in demand than we're comfortable with.
Love your cooking ideas! I’m fortunate to not have to budget as strictly nowadays, but I still like simple “cheap” dishes like this. Never hurts to save for a rainy day.
Larry, always love your recipes and videos! One thing I'd like to note for people who don't know. Most beans (black beans included) are fine but don't cook red kidney beans from dry in a crock pot. Kidney beans MUST be brought to a full boil for a minimum of 10 minutes, which a crock pot doesn't do.
I’ve love you’re budget meal videos, and it’s been awhile since I saw one. Hearing you address us, the people, and giving it a good mix felt like I reunited with an old friend, love ya man
This popped up in my feed…. I subscribed straight away. This looks DELICIOUS!!! This recipe is so versatile. I can’t wait to watch more of your videos!! 😁
I've been binge-watching TheWolfePit videos lately, and yay, a new one! This soup looks similar to a soup I made last night in the pressure cooker, except I used lentils that I had in the larder. Thanks Larry for these inspiring and amusing videos.
I love how versatile this channel is. Food analysis and tasting, lovely cooking as well as recipes, and budget meals. I have to say sir, you really provide something precious here, for "us, the people". Thank you for the recipes and the great entertainment.
1st time seeing yout videos/channel. Love ❤️ that this highly adaptive to circumstances, finances and availability recipe is also vegan. Thank you. I will be returning to procure this hearty, cost/resource conscious recipe. I am feeding a crowd this weekend; you have truly offered inspiration to fill my loved ones bellies with this delicious meal.
This video series is one of the best ways to cook for me as a single person, have it for dinner every night and i can switch recipes and still keep my food budget low. Thank you!
Cotija cheese is the best for black beans. It's like Mexican Parmesan. I also like how you say to use what you have. I watch some other channels and ask "how do you afford all that?" Thank you for the service you provide, especially for the once again struggling.
I watched a wonderful channel with great food but she did a seafood chowder that where I live would’ve cost over $100, and I live at the ocean where you would think seafood is cheap… Not!
Thank you for the videos. I stumbled upon your channel years ago and have watched ever since. You do a great service for the community, and I love the content. Please keep doing this great work. This meal looked super delicious by the way
Great job again Larry. Swap the black beans for great northerns and I practically raised my son's on that recipe.... along with Alber's corn meal cornbread recipe on the box.
Great vid. I never really bothered making soup as all the online recipies seemed over complicated for 'just' soup Till I followed Adam Ragusea's advice and just chopped up some veg, threw it in water and boiled it. Chuck in some beens/grains, fennell seeds and a bit of cooked bacon and you make a really tasty hearty soup for of about 5 servings for under £4. Haven't thought to make it in a slow-cooker/crock-pot yet. Must try that - cheers!
Made this at the start of last week, recipe as given filled ym multi-cooker nicely, used canned beans so cook time was around the 3 hour mark, came out thick and filling, surprisingly though with little spice after everything cooked down, though in fairness i went light on the chilli powder as i put a whole red chilli in there (deseeded), my 7yo asked me to add a few things to give it a kick, ended up adding some bbq and worcestershire sauces, a splash of dark soy, and a squirt of sirracha, gave it a more rounded flavour profile, all in all though its an excellent base sauce to work from, and it fed both of us for 4 days, in combination with rice and tortillas one day, chips (fries) and some cheese the next, and some rice and a small ommlette the next, and more chips the 4th as my son absolutely LOVED that combo. will definitely be making this again soon, many thansk Wolfe, keep up the good work!
I count myself lucky for liking soup so much. It's really the ultimate food. Easy and dirt cheap to make, super easy on the stomach, extremely healthy. Gives you long-lasting good energy, and stores very well for the week.
I like to add a few spoonfuls of oil to my veggie dishes at the start, with the spices. There are elements in the food that are only soluble in oil, like that nice red color that comes out of tomatoes, and add a great deal of flavor when released. This is a beautiful black bean soup.
Great recipe. I've done that in college. Just added some Ramen noodles. Unfortunately I know some people that would have problems affording the electricity to heat that up. I try to help as much as I can. You do a great job helping people sustain on their own. This is a good meal that also provides the PRIDE of supplying a meal to their family. That's important. Keep it up. I enjoy your full food reviews but you are helping lots of people including people I know. Thank you good man!
Gowing up, our struggle meals as Hispanics in South Texas: 1. bean tacos. Get some cooked pinto beans, fry and mash them in bacon grease or lard, smear on homemade flour tortillas, and there was dinner. If we had it, we added cheese to it. 2. Fideo (or vermicelli) a soupy, tomato based pasta soup.
This is quite a time-consuming dish to prepare... but it really does look delicious. The closest I can think of a dish with beans that takes roughly this long to cook is the original Feijoada, from my home country of Brazil. Your videos are great, and I like the bidget perspective. Works well with our current economy.
It's dry beans, though. Three hours is probably the minimum time there, unless you're making black-eyed peas or lentils. Black beans, pinto beans, they're usually better with even more time.
Also, prioritize which spices if you can squeeze that in. My grandpa said it was bad enough eating poor food during the depression. Not having salt, pepper or some Tabasco made it feel worse. My recommendation is always salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder. Even if you have to buy just one a payday. Then I picked up dehydrated onions ( most of these are Badia). I bought their dried peppers instead of liquid as I don’t go through that fast enough.
This was great. I literally added every vegetable I needed to use up to mine.(along with the carrots onion and celery) which included a yellow and poblano pepper. And a zucchini I diced up. A starting to shrivel Serrano, and a peeled and chopped large tomato. I was surprised it was as good as it was.
Thank you so much for this and all the recipes you share! I prefer using my crock pot for most of my meals. Would love to see more crock pot recipes, thank you again.
Thanks for sharing this one! Its been great at using up the leftovers as well as giving me a reason to stop by the farmers market on the way home from work every week.
And instead of cilantro or parsley, just use what your lawn provides. Dandelion greens are awesome (but bitter), so rinse very well, poach or simmer, and touch em up with a little vinegar or hot sauce..maybe some sugar.
I really enjoy watching and making these budget meals. There's a great youtube channel called Great Depression Cooking. She has since passed on, but great stories and recipes .
Great basic recipe! I just love how you say at the very beginning to add or omit ingredients that you like or don't like yet you have so many comments that start with "you lost me at..(ingredient) when truly the only ingredient not optional is beans, and it could really be any kind of beans. I think you did an excellent job with this recipe!
This looks DELICICIOUS! So creamy. I would omit whole onions because we don’t like them, band maybe add some thing else. But yeeesss this looks so good!
consider not adding them raw, but caramelizing it then adding to the soup (before blend) it adds a lot of flavour :D and by caramelizing it , it no longer have that strong of a onion-y taste/smell
Love this video! Love vegetarian meals too. We'll be eating a lot of them over the next year, I'm sure, and recipes like this are invaluable! Keep them coming!
I’ve made a soup like this for a while and it’s really good. Thanks for making such a good vegan recipe! I’m not vegetarian or vegan myself but there’s plenty of days where I just don’t really want meat. I love this recipe.
Amazing simple black bean soup! Thank you, sir, for showing us how to stretch our food, using methods which don’t require starvation or giving up our trucks, both of which would only make the problem worse. We have to be fed enough at work to not be distracted, and to get there, huge numbers of us Americans require vehicles. We can’t just drive less, but we can cook at home, and bring our lunch to work.
I have watched many of your videos, but this is the first time I've been genuinely enthused by one. You've managed to make something that is inexpensive, nutritious, and delicious (I'm sure.) So as much as I enjoy watching you eat heavily processed food that I won't touch, I really liked this a lot more. But please do not stop reviewing heavily processed cheap food, because it is still entertaining.
This is the second struggle meal in a row featured here a couple days after I made it pretty much exactly the same way! It's like Larry is spying on my kitchen..... Seriously, though, this meal was awesome. I thought it was too carrot-y, but when I blended it up, it really smoothed it out and it was delicious!
Love the recipe and using the crock-pot is an easy way to cook. I do suggest using a pressure cooker to cut back on the necessary spices and retaining color, flavors and nutrition. If you don't have a pressure cooker, do what other crock-pot chefs do and hold off on the seasonings until before the end of cooking time.
I can’t wait to try this recipe I’ve got black beans in my pantry and I was really wondering what to do today cause I plan to make soup but didn’t quite get to the store so I think I’m going to copy your recipe I have everything here to make it and it won’t cost me anything either except what I have in the pantry thanks for the idea
If you are looking for cheaper spices, make sure to check your ethnic markets near you or in bigger cities if you live in rural areas. A jar of paprika in a grocery store can be $6 for an ounce, but at the Asian or Indian market a 7 oz bag can be $2.50. And they carry a LOT of different spices for you to try and keep your cooking interesting.
I appreciate these videos a lot! One thing I want to note that Americans are some of the most meat-obsessed people on the planet! In much of the world meat is something of a rarity, and eaten in much lower quantities. Some of this is economics but a lot of it is cultural. In lots of Asian meals meat is an accent used to add flavor, not the main part of the meal. I'm in the USA and a bit of a carnivore but lots of things can be made with little meat. One of the best things out there is eggs! From a health standpoint they're amazing, and I like them in many forms. They're also fairly inexpensive. Stirring an egg into the your soup right at the end is sublime! If you can shop at a warehouse store- I like Costco- they have a pretty good diced bacon in shelf stable bags (refrigerate after opening). Adding chopped bacon or other finely diced meat can give you that flavor and mouthfeel without being super expensive. It depends on how cheap you have to go of course. But even six or eight oz of diced bacon or chopped ham can transform a bean soup into a heartier meal.
looks good and cheap! I would suggest though maximizing the flavors you are working with by sautéing the onions and other veggies a bit to start building more complex flavors
One very simple way of doing the spices for bean dishes like this is curry powder & some form of sweet sweet parika/red chilli pepper powder at a 2:1/3:1 ratio depending on your preference. This is especially good if you have beef stock or maybe a bit of stale beer. Thanks for this series, Mr. Wolfe. I always learn how to simplify & rethink more with every video.
I used to make pretty much exactly this a couple times a month when we were struggling. Just out of college, student loans like whoa, crappy entry level job, long commute, shitty car ..... Yep. Been there. And I still make this sometimes, because it just tastes good! But I do use my instant pot now 😁
Sweep the kitchen floor soup! Some Bisquick or pancake mix with water to make some big fluffy dumplings cooked on top and you'll be fuller, happy and ready for bed. Thanks Larry! Good food for no matter who you are or whatever your budget.
Thanks for sharing this. I like these types of videos, because they show creativity and human resourcefulness. I also share this type of content with clients I work with, who often have limited financial resources.
I just use Mrs Dash garlic and herb seasoning instead of buying a ton of herbs and seasonings I'd hardly ever use and would go to waste. The Mrs Dash works for everything I cook and makes it so tasty. Even better than Italian seasoning for spaghetti sauce as far as I'm concerned.
We Asians eat everything with rice because rice makes you feel full. When times get tough, our meals heavily weigh towards rice and other grains paired with small amounts of meats and wild/homegrown vegetables. My advice to everyone? Grow a little garden or just grow small stuff like garlic, cilantro, mint, basil etc. Every penny counts, as Wolfe says, and let me tell you: a touch of garlic can elevate many savory dishes. The small stuff can be grown in pots usually, heck the garlic starts to sprout on its own if left by itself for too long anyways lol. Seeds? Nope, just buy a sprig of the herb you want from the store to plant. Also you can extend meats by padding it with breadcrumbs as if you were making really cheap meatballs.
excellent suggestions. Yeah, grow what you can. !
true words of wisdom there Jane, thank you.
my addition: if making meats like chicken save the skin and bones! boil them and save the broth, and if making soup separate the meat from the rest and toss the undesired bit back into the pot and boil further. for a little extra work straining/filtering the broth you get much more flavor, a versatile ingredient, and much added nutrition.
Very well put. My personal advice: Check out Jeb Gardener's channel. He focuses on growing herbs indoors with improvised means, so even people without a garden or exposed windowsill can benefit from fresh herbs.
ive damn near lived off rice, potatoes, eggs, onions, garlic, and spices like chilies. Some nam pla (fish sauce, lime juice, chilies, and garlic made into a sauce) is super cheap and if you dump some on some brown rice with some eggs you've got a healthy, filling, nutritious meal. That sauce will cover up super bland foods like plain rice and allows you to eat more of it without getting sick of tons of rice.
And then watch eating vid on UA-cam to trick the minds.
I grew up on struggle meals. It got pretty bad. I remember eating lots of beans and rice growing up. I think about all those people like my parents trying to feed their kid and trying to keep it together. I really appreciate this series. You're doing great work and it means a lot to me that this doesn't feel pandering or anything like that. Great job, sir. Thank you.
I can agree with you on the beans and rice all the time. We were poor and one day I told my mom I'm not going to eat beans anymore. Instead of smacking me she said" cowboys eat beans" sure enough that's all it took because as a kid I was all about cowboy shows and movies. I ate my beans " like the cowboys" after that. Lol
@@rickdaystar477 I love it. Yeah, man. The resourcefulness doesn't stop when the dinner hits the plate. You have to get your kids to eat it too 😂
I actually love beans & rice. Just add some sausage, bell pepper, & onions.
Some of the concoctions my mother made growing up are still enough to make me shudder. Mostly, I just wanted to say that I like your avatar DRAP. :)
Absolutely ❤ 💯 %
We all need to learn how to cook simply with whatever is avaiable, and from scratch.
It's a very good idea to keep a couple of the old cookbooks around. Those have the best recipes, and require simple ingredients.
2:19 Thing is, spices are what *allow you* to stretch limited food options far beyond what would normally be tolerable.
You can make bulk foods like rice and potatoes different every day of the week so long as you have a few different spices for each dish. They're almost as important an investment as dried beans. It's worth saving money for a couple of good spices to last months. Salt, sugar and pepper are obvious, but it's important to stock at least garlic, onion, and something spiced or funky. You can radically alter the end result just by changing the proportion of different spices, provided you have a set of spices to mix.
Source: someone who is actually struggling financially, and wouldn't be able to stretch limited food variety for weeks without spices to vary the dishes. Yes, it is *expensive* as a one-time purchase, but that purchase lasts *months* when used correctly. It is truly an investment.
there's also those big spice racks that come with lifetime free refills, I see them in every supermarket during the summer
This is a near universal tip if you're located in the US -- buy your spices in the international/hispanic aisle of your local grocery store. Not all spices will be there, but the ones you do find will often be 1/2 the cost of the "McCormick" and other brands located in the normal spice aisle. Look for brands like Badia, a spice company based in the US.
If you live in a big enough town or city, look at Asian markets or other ethnic markets. They too often sell spices incredibly cheap compared to Safeway, Kroger, Stop n Shop, etc.
Dollar Tree sells spices, too! I've bought spices there, and I'm happy with the quality. Even if you can find them cheaper elsewhere, gas prices are high right now. It may make more economical sense to buy as much as possible at one place. Rather than running all over town to save a few cents here and a few cents there.
@@TheHamburgler123 Wanted to add a comment about buying bulk spices, and there it is -- Badia. Head to the bottom shelf, where the big containers are, don't get the normal-sized "spice bottle" ones. The big containers are maybe 1 quart size, not sure, and for example the garlic powder one is 1.5 pounds of garlic. MSG is 1.75 pounds. Those will refill the regular "spice bottle" maybe eight or ten times, and they're like $5.99, $7.99, depending on what it is. ( cut the top off a gallon milk jug for a funnel )
And, the recipe here calls for kosher salt, but be aware that kosher salt doesn't have iodine. No such thing as iodized kosher salt. Look up what iodine does, it's important for metabolism, brain health, you don't want to be leaving it out of your diet, basically.
Do not buy spices at your grocery stock in little bottles, instead go go a online shopping network or health food store and buy them in bulk, which you can split the cost with others, plus the spices will be fresher and taste much better while using less.
great job, i also grew up on struggle meals, everybody laughted at me when they asked me at school what did i eat, i eated only eggs, eggs with this, eggs with that, because we had chickens, and rabbits on farmland, so to break monotony, i made up hundreds of recepies of making eggs, chicken, and rabbits, also vegetables, and wild spices, back in day there were no internet so you cant get recepies as nowdays, my cookbook was yugoslavian army cookbook, witch was suprisingly great, and had many good struggle recepies, even in cookbook there were calories, proteing, carbohidrates per serving, your videos are very interesting, every new idea for cooking is interesting
you oughta write down some of those recipes! i’m sure the world would love to hear some of them!
@@vaughnlcoleman dont know, my recepies are lame, and there are no brainers, anybody can do that, secret is in spice, and here in croatia you have vegeta, that is universal, all in all, also pepper, paprika, chilli peppers, etc, if you have spices, you have it all, all good food that you eat today came from villagers that had no money so they had to invent food, they had no money for only eating meat like kings, think about it, why you eat bread with every meal (it is common here, even bread with soup), it is because meat or whole meal is expensive, so you eat bread with it so you can full yourself, i knew days when i eat half bread and 10 dkg of cheap salami, salami was only for taste, because it was 500 grams of bread and 100 grams of salami, then was even mayonese expensive, even now when i hear 5 course meal, i dont know what they do or who has time to cook all that if you work, but i eat only one dish that i made, but i am happy
Much love to Croatia, must be rough in the Balkans after all it's been through in history so much respect making struggle situations tolerable and still finding happiness in such bleak environments. underrated part of the world.
Sad that even the cheap food isnt cheap anymore wolfe has the answer
nothing is cheap anymore tbh, i'm lucky that i get donations to cook basic stuff for myself although i don't cook soup that will take 3 hours LOL
@@HUYI1 soups go a long way in stretching out ingredients. If you’re really struggling, you can remove all the meat off a rotisserie chicken (save meat for later obviously) and use the remaining bones to make a pretty decent broth. Just add some onions, potatoes, carrots and whatever veggies you like, abit of tomatoe paste if you want a tomatoe soup. You can definitely make enough soup for 3-4 meals with just the broth from that set of bones.
@@HUYI1 Well, he was doing this in a crock pot, it might have 'taken' 3 hours, but we probably saw 90% of all the work that went into actually making the soup on camera.
i miss when i was a kid, i grew up in a fishing town and you could get (chum/pink) salmon, sardines, anchovies, muscles, and some other seafood as a cheap protein source. In my parents day salmon was what poor people ate, like beans or eggs in other places. Now many seafood is mostly unafforable for the poor, even sardines and anchovies.
@@arthas640 Ikr? Canned salmon is nearly $4 can...its crazy
That looks absolutely delicious Larry. Thanks for helping all those out there struggling right now. Beans and an incredibly tasty and healthy food!
Prices in grocery stores where I live have been inching up steadily for some time now. This month they skyrocketed AND items are becoming harder to find. These kinds of videos are priceless. Thank you.
Larry totally needs to come out with a Struggle Meals Cookbook.
Struggle meals are going to be important now. Keep them coming.
Hey Larry,
That's actually a great meal, all round. Being from and living in the Province of Newfoundland & Labrador, on Canada's East Coast, out in the Atlantic Ocean, now at 66 years of age, I recognize many of your basic meal ideas as much like the many survival foods we developed here over the last few generations. Being from the Island portion of the province, I see how necessity as the mother of invention has led many of the residents to adopt food gathering and preparation methods and sourcing in all parts of North America and Western Europe where low income and disadvantaged clusters of population were literally forced to make do with the little they had to feed and support their families through times so difficult and challenging that today's generation have little knowledge or understanding of. In the process, in my case, at least, many of these food creations and accommodations have become favourites, tradition and our comfort foods.
Having gone on a little too much, perhaps, I just want to say that I'm so grateful for what you do; I'm not sure you realize just how valuable and useful many of your viewers have found your service to be. I've tried a number of your ideas and always with pleasing results. It's not so much different, overall, from what many of us have been doing anyway, particularly since the onslaught of problems brought by the pandemic. I'm just happy your channel brings a lot of it together and offers all from a balanced, common sense perspective.
Keep 'em comin'. LOL
Thank you Alex!
This is a genuinely great comment. The idea that we’ve circled back to the same struggle meals you ate as a young man serves as a painful reminder that we haven’t progressed as a society at all.
Many of the budget meals you prepare remind me of my late mother's excellent cooking (she was a rural product of the Great Depression and never forgot her roots). I think she would be surprised, and maybe a bit smug, to see how useful those culinary skills she insisted I learn are all these years later. Thanks for both the memories and the encouragement.
Thanks Wolf for hitting this one out of the ball park. This over rice would be great and if the budget has some stretch in it, that would make an excellent chili for chili dogs or pour it over some fritos style chips....
Oh my gosh, that looks amazing!!! I have to tell you about this soup I made the other day. I had a can of progresso lentil soup that I have been staring at for almost a year. It did not seem very appetizing to me. So then I was passing by it once again and I decided to make it into a semi homemade soup more to my liking. Of course I added the soup to a pan, added some greens, water, a little chicken bouillon, a can of chopped tomatoes and a few potatoes. I cooked it until the potatoes were done and oh my goodness, it was next level and everything was something I already had so no extra cost was involved. And it made 3 huge servings!
Caramelise the onions in a pan before adding them so they taste a bit sweeter for those that don't like onions, and chop them finely so that they can almost melt into the dish.
That's how I make my black bean soup, just caramelized onions and black beans. Delish! I eat as soup, hummus, spread, dip, even dessert. It tastes like chocolate mousse to me.
Personally I'd definitely add peas and sweetcorn to that to add some colour. Frozen peas here are still pretty cheap. Sweetcorn had doubled in price though so maybe not the sweetcorn. On the subject of stock it might be worth doing a vid on how to make chicken stock from a roast chicken etc. For thickening up my first thought was pearl barley to turn it into a stew. Again an extremely versatile cheap recipe. Have you considered doing a book?
This is why he always says to mix, match, and add things you want or take out things you dont.
Broth/ stock thing I picked up recently from Atomic Shrimp and can't praise enough: keep produce trash (onion skins, woody stems, etc) and dry or freeze them (chicken/ other bones can go in too if you freeze them) until you have a tidy container full of them. Add them to water and boil for a while, nothing else in the water, until all the tasty compounds etc leech out of your stuff. Once your broth is dark enough, fish out your solids with a slotted spoon/ etc. Really makes those veggies stretch longer & saves on broth base.
Love what you do Larry, it’s always good for everyone to know how to make nutritious meals on the cheap for their families.
We’re looking at at least a year of food supply issues (mostly grains like wheat and rice), so knowledge of how to make food that doesn’t use processed or whole grains is especially important for those of small means, who are always hit hardest by shortages.
That looks delicious! Even if people aren't struggling, it would still be a very wonderful meal to make and serve. I'm saving this to try on my family soon.
In my yard and most areas where there’s grass, often you will see what I call onion grass, and if you pull them by the roots there’s even little onions growing under the ground and they are edible and free. They can be both a vegetable and a spice because they have a garlic flavor. Adam Ragusa did a video on them recently and you can identify them through that, and be sure that your yard isn’t sprayed with pesticides or something in areas you might forage. But there’s a lot of free food you can eat if you know where to look. Even pine trees. Their needles make a nice tea, and some parts of the wood is edible too believe it or not. They call it famine food.
I live in Oregon Oman’s find these all over the yard I never thought to pull them I’d just cut the tops and use em for chives.
Thank you for the recipe! I like your videos, and now, when my country is at war, people struggle a lot. Food prices are rising for common Russians, who don't even want war. It is especially noticeable for a student like me. I get only ~40 dollars in scholarship for a month, it wasn't enough to live half a month on that before, and now it is practically impossible. I guess that's the price of free higher education
Good luck to you. Praying for the citizenry of both Ukraine and Russia. God bless.
Russia gets free college education?
@@csmead209 yeah, basically every first world nation does except the U.S.
@@bretwilliams249 Nonsense. Here in the UK, it currently averages to about $13k a year, and from what I can find online it's about $5k a year in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea; and about $2k a year in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain.
Just keep your head low youngster, and survive this war, that you didn't make. Take your education as you can, and especially if its offered to you.
I love that it was blended to smooth. I'd eat this over brown rice ALL day. Delicious.
I've not been in a position where struggle meals have been necessary, but I still love that you do these! Everyone should be making struggle meals from time to time, both for frugality and if things keep getting more expensive and hard to find, those skills might be more in demand than we're comfortable with.
Looks like this is another great recipe Larry. I can’t wait to try it.
Love your cooking ideas! I’m fortunate to not have to budget as strictly nowadays, but I still like simple “cheap” dishes like this. Never hurts to save for a rainy day.
Larry, always love your recipes and videos!
One thing I'd like to note for people who don't know. Most beans (black beans included) are fine but don't cook red kidney beans from dry in a crock pot. Kidney beans MUST be brought to a full boil for a minimum of 10 minutes, which a crock pot doesn't do.
I’ve love you’re budget meal videos, and it’s been awhile since I saw one. Hearing you address us, the people, and giving it a good mix felt like I reunited with an old friend, love ya man
This popped up in my feed…. I subscribed straight away. This looks DELICIOUS!!! This recipe is so versatile. I can’t wait to watch more of your videos!! 😁
I've been binge-watching TheWolfePit videos lately, and yay, a new one! This soup looks similar to a soup I made last night in the pressure cooker, except I used lentils that I had in the larder. Thanks Larry for these inspiring and amusing videos.
So Glad you’re still making videos. I have a feeling these are going to come in very handy in the coming year
I love how versatile this channel is. Food analysis and tasting, lovely cooking as well as recipes, and budget meals. I have to say sir, you really provide something precious here, for "us, the people". Thank you for the recipes and the great entertainment.
Looks great! I also like that what you show is so flexible, hinting at the basics of cooking: aromatics, protein, how to turn it into soup, etc.
1st time seeing yout videos/channel. Love ❤️ that this highly adaptive to circumstances, finances and availability recipe is also vegan. Thank you. I will be returning to procure this hearty, cost/resource conscious recipe. I am feeding a crowd this weekend; you have truly offered inspiration to fill my loved ones bellies with this delicious meal.
This video series is one of the best ways to cook for me as a single person, have it for dinner every night and i can switch recipes and still keep my food budget low. Thank you!
Cotija cheese is the best for black beans. It's like Mexican Parmesan. I also like how you say to use what you have. I watch some other channels and ask "how do you afford all that?" Thank you for the service you provide, especially for the once again struggling.
I watched a wonderful channel with great food but she did a seafood chowder that where I live would’ve cost over $100, and I live at the ocean where you would think seafood is cheap… Not!
Thank you for the videos. I stumbled upon your channel years ago and have watched ever since. You do a great service for the community, and I love the content. Please keep doing this great work.
This meal looked super delicious by the way
“As we all go broke at the gas pumps”
I have never related more to a phrase in my life
This man will forver be a legend for me. Brings me back to when we had chicken soup and popcorn when i was young
Great job again Larry. Swap the black beans for great northerns and I practically raised my son's on that recipe.... along with Alber's corn meal cornbread recipe on the box.
Now more than ever we need these videos, Wolfe! So frustrating and sad to go to the grocery store now.
I really like this. We're not really struggling, but saving money and still enjoying the food is fantastic!
Great vid. I never really bothered making soup as all the online recipies seemed over complicated for 'just' soup Till I followed Adam Ragusea's advice and just chopped up some veg, threw it in water and boiled it. Chuck in some beens/grains, fennell seeds and a bit of cooked bacon and you make a really tasty hearty soup for of about 5 servings for under £4. Haven't thought to make it in a slow-cooker/crock-pot yet. Must try that - cheers!
Love this! Thanks for coming up with helpful, nutritious recipes!
Made this at the start of last week, recipe as given filled ym multi-cooker nicely, used canned beans so cook time was around the 3 hour mark, came out thick and filling, surprisingly though with little spice after everything cooked down, though in fairness i went light on the chilli powder as i put a whole red chilli in there (deseeded), my 7yo asked me to add a few things to give it a kick, ended up adding some bbq and worcestershire sauces, a splash of dark soy, and a squirt of sirracha, gave it a more rounded flavour profile, all in all though its an excellent base sauce to work from, and it fed both of us for 4 days, in combination with rice and tortillas one day, chips (fries) and some cheese the next, and some rice and a small ommlette the next, and more chips the 4th as my son absolutely LOVED that combo.
will definitely be making this again soon, many thansk Wolfe, keep up the good work!
I count myself lucky for liking soup so much. It's really the ultimate food. Easy and dirt cheap to make, super easy on the stomach, extremely healthy. Gives you long-lasting good energy, and stores very well for the week.
I like to add a few spoonfuls of oil to my veggie dishes at the start, with the spices. There are elements in the food that are only soluble in oil, like that nice red color that comes out of tomatoes, and add a great deal of flavor when released. This is a beautiful black bean soup.
We here in the UK LOVE YOU WOLFIE👍👍❤❤ We too are going through some bad times we love your cheap meals recipes
Great recipe. I've done that in college. Just added some Ramen noodles. Unfortunately I know some people that would have problems affording the electricity to heat that up. I try to help as much as I can. You do a great job helping people sustain on their own. This is a good meal that also provides the PRIDE of supplying a meal to their family. That's important. Keep it up. I enjoy your full food reviews but you are helping lots of people including people I know. Thank you good man!
Gowing up, our struggle meals as Hispanics in South Texas:
1. bean tacos. Get some cooked pinto beans, fry and mash them in bacon grease or lard, smear on homemade flour tortillas, and there was dinner. If we had it, we added cheese to it.
2. Fideo (or vermicelli) a soupy, tomato based pasta soup.
This is quite a time-consuming dish to prepare... but it really does look delicious. The closest I can think of a dish with beans that takes roughly this long to cook is the original Feijoada, from my home country of Brazil. Your videos are great, and I like the bidget perspective. Works well with our current economy.
use a slow cooker and toss them in the night before, and tada~ breakfast is ready when you're awake
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throw some bones or meat in and let it go overnight at low heat, will be very tasty when you get back home the next day
It's dry beans, though. Three hours is probably the minimum time there, unless you're making black-eyed peas or lentils. Black beans, pinto beans, they're usually better with even more time.
It makes a great crock pot dish though.
Dry beans needs to be cooked in high heat to destroy the toxins in them.
I’m so glad I rediscovered this channel. God bless you
Also, prioritize which spices if you can squeeze that in. My grandpa said it was bad enough eating poor food during the depression. Not having salt, pepper or some Tabasco made it feel worse. My recommendation is always salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder. Even if you have to buy just one a payday. Then I picked up dehydrated onions ( most of these are Badia). I bought their dried peppers instead of liquid as I don’t go through that fast enough.
Dollar Tree usually always has some good herbs and spices for a dollar.
Is a fresh onion or a bulb of garlic that expensive in some places??
Also, keep Sriracha, Tabasco, or other hot sauce on hand at all times...they're not expensive and they last.
This was great. I literally added every vegetable I needed to use up to mine.(along with the carrots onion and celery) which included a yellow and poblano pepper. And a zucchini I diced up. A starting to shrivel Serrano, and a peeled and chopped large tomato. I was surprised it was as good as it was.
Thank you so much for this and all the recipes you share! I prefer using my crock pot for most of my meals. Would love to see more crock pot recipes, thank you again.
Thanks for sharing this one! Its been great at using up the leftovers as well as giving me a reason to stop by the farmers market on the way home from work every week.
Thank you as always! May the struggling prevail!
A fat dollop of sour cream on that at the end and you have a literal champion's dinner
Fresh home-grown store bought minced garlic 😅
Beans are a budget's best friend, cook up a skillet of cornbread and that's a feast!
And a flatulence holocaust...
Looks delicious! Can't wait to try, may make this for dinner guests tonight. Thanks, take care.
And instead of cilantro or parsley, just use what your lawn provides. Dandelion greens are awesome (but bitter), so rinse very well, poach or simmer, and touch em up with a little vinegar or hot sauce..maybe some sugar.
If you have leftover bacon grease/fat, add it in with the onions. It adds a LOT of flavor to the beans
Thank u for all of your budget meals they really help feed my family good looking out much love!
I really enjoy watching and making these budget meals. There's a great youtube channel called Great Depression Cooking. She has since passed on, but great stories and recipes .
Great basic recipe! I just love how you say at the very beginning to add or omit ingredients that you like or don't like yet you have so many comments that start with "you lost me at..(ingredient) when truly the only ingredient not optional is beans, and it could really be any kind of beans. I think you did an excellent job with this recipe!
God bless you. I have all this in my cabinets. Looks great.
This looks DELICICIOUS! So creamy. I would omit whole onions because we don’t like them, band maybe add some thing else. But yeeesss this looks so good!
consider not adding them raw, but caramelizing it then adding to the soup (before blend) it adds a lot of flavour :D and by caramelizing it , it no longer have that strong of a onion-y taste/smell
It's funny how different our taste are. I LOVE raw onions. But not a fan of carmelized onions. But I'd still eat them.
How can ppl not like onion 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Love this video! Love vegetarian meals too. We'll be eating a lot of them over the next year, I'm sure, and recipes like this are invaluable! Keep them coming!
That looks so good!! Personally, im not struggling financially and I dont need to eat on a budget but I will definitely still make this!
i've learned from your channel that beans are the go-to food during a struggle. they have the right balance of nutritional value and yumminess.
I’ve made a soup like this for a while and it’s really good. Thanks for making such a good vegan recipe! I’m not vegetarian or vegan myself but there’s plenty of days where I just don’t really want meat. I love this recipe.
Hi there! I've been enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work. It's very much appreciated!
Great video at the right time for any family facing hardship.
Love this recipe & I love that it can be cooked in a crock pot!! Set it and forget it!
More bean-filled vegetarian recipes please😃
Good job Larry I can't wait to make this! The only thing I would serve to go with it would be buttery garlic toast!🤣
Glad to catch another humble food video 🙌🙌🙌
Larry, that looks freaking delicious! I'm planning on making this fir sure! Thank you for sharing.
Amazing simple black bean soup! Thank you, sir, for showing us how to stretch our food, using methods which don’t require starvation or giving up our trucks, both of which would only make the problem worse. We have to be fed enough at work to not be distracted, and to get there, huge numbers of us Americans require vehicles. We can’t just drive less, but we can cook at home, and bring our lunch to work.
I have watched many of your videos, but this is the first time I've been genuinely enthused by one. You've managed to make something that is inexpensive, nutritious, and delicious (I'm sure.) So as much as I enjoy watching you eat heavily processed food that I won't touch, I really liked this a lot more. But please do not stop reviewing heavily processed cheap food, because it is still entertaining.
This is the second struggle meal in a row featured here a couple days after I made it pretty much exactly the same way! It's like Larry is spying on my kitchen..... Seriously, though, this meal was awesome. I thought it was too carrot-y, but when I blended it up, it really smoothed it out and it was delicious!
Love the recipe and using the crock-pot is an easy way to cook. I do suggest using a pressure cooker to cut back on the necessary spices and retaining color, flavors and nutrition. If you don't have a pressure cooker, do what other crock-pot chefs do and hold off on the seasonings until before the end of cooking time.
I can’t wait to try this recipe I’ve got black beans in my pantry and I was really wondering what to do today cause I plan to make soup but didn’t quite get to the store so I think I’m going to copy your recipe I have everything here to make it and it won’t cost me anything either except what I have in the pantry thanks for the idea
looks so good, i will make it, using a package of chili mix i have, and canned beans i have, i can't wait to try !
If you are looking for cheaper spices, make sure to check your ethnic markets near you or in bigger cities if you live in rural areas. A jar of paprika in a grocery store can be $6 for an ounce, but at the Asian or Indian market a 7 oz bag can be $2.50. And they carry a LOT of different spices for you to try and keep your cooking interesting.
I appreciate these videos a lot! One thing I want to note that Americans are some of the most meat-obsessed people on the planet! In much of the world meat is something of a rarity, and eaten in much lower quantities. Some of this is economics but a lot of it is cultural. In lots of Asian meals meat is an accent used to add flavor, not the main part of the meal. I'm in the USA and a bit of a carnivore but lots of things can be made with little meat. One of the best things out there is eggs! From a health standpoint they're amazing, and I like them in many forms. They're also fairly inexpensive. Stirring an egg into the your soup right at the end is sublime! If you can shop at a warehouse store- I like Costco- they have a pretty good diced bacon in shelf stable bags (refrigerate after opening). Adding chopped bacon or other finely diced meat can give you that flavor and mouthfeel without being super expensive. It depends on how cheap you have to go of course. But even six or eight oz of diced bacon or chopped ham can transform a bean soup into a heartier meal.
The US is slowly relearning why the rest of the world eats mostly grains, beans, veggies, and fruit: grinding poverty.
Serve over rice, macaroni noodles, baked potato or cornbread on the side. Maybe some plain yogurt on top (cheap replacement for sour cream).
I love your recipes. All very simple and hearty.
looks good and cheap! I would suggest though maximizing the flavors you are working with by sautéing the onions and other veggies a bit to start building more complex flavors
I love these so much!! Thanks to you for all your hard work - so inspiring
One very simple way of doing the spices for bean dishes like this is curry powder & some form of sweet sweet parika/red chilli pepper powder at a 2:1/3:1 ratio depending on your preference. This is especially good if you have beef stock or maybe a bit of stale beer.
Thanks for this series, Mr. Wolfe. I always learn how to simplify & rethink more with every video.
I used to make pretty much exactly this a couple times a month when we were struggling. Just out of college, student loans like whoa, crappy entry level job, long commute, shitty car .....
Yep. Been there. And I still make this sometimes, because it just tastes good!
But I do use my instant pot now 😁
Thank you so much for helping us stretch our food dollar. We need all the info we can get. GOD BLESS YOU
Looks great! Hey this will all come in handy soon thats forsure. I appreciate your videos and giving us these tips.
Ooh, red onions…
You must be rich!
This looked delicious btw. I’m tryin it.
Love your videos, there always fun, and festive, your struggle meal videos are awesome, I made the one with rice and lentils.
These are always Fantastic!
You and Mrs. TheWolfPit put a lot of thought into them.
Hello. You popped recommended list. So I subscribed straight away 👍👍👍👍💕💕💕
Sweep the kitchen floor soup! Some Bisquick or pancake mix with water to make some big fluffy dumplings cooked on top and you'll be fuller, happy and ready for bed.
Thanks Larry!
Good food for no matter who you are or whatever your budget.
Thanks again oh great WolfePit. These eating on a budget videos are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for sharing this. I like these types of videos, because they show creativity and human resourcefulness. I also share this type of content with clients I work with, who often have limited financial resources.
I just use Mrs Dash garlic and herb seasoning instead of buying a ton of herbs and seasonings I'd hardly ever use and would go to waste. The Mrs Dash works for everything I cook and makes it so tasty. Even better than Italian seasoning for spaghetti sauce as far as I'm concerned.