$25 Budget Thanksgiving | Couples and Small Families 

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Girl, you could put out Thanksgiving videos once a week for a year and I would watch them. It’s SO nice seeing a NORMAL person cooking. I hate those over processed, scripted videos where they live in a 10 million dollar mansion. What do we have in common with those people? Absolutely nothing. With you, it’s like watching a friend or a family member. Thank you for your great videos and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! ❤❤

Your channel is truly the most underrated channel on youtube. So wholesome, informative, and caring.

Lisa, I've been watching you for over a year. This is like watching a friend cook. You are down to earth, and give smart advice. I hope you realize how many people you are helping here on RU-vid.

Lisa, you are a blessing to so many people who have financial constraints. As a child, my parents worked extra hours to keep the family afloat, something I will never forget. As an adult, I have made it a habit to donate to food banks all year round, not just the holidays. Bless you and keep these videos coming. Happy holidays.

Lisa, you could do a Thanksgiving dinner video in the dead of July & we’d all be thrilled to watch it. 😅

Props to you and Mom and Andrew for eating "Thanksgiving" all month!

I still haven't gotten over how you showed us how simple it was to make noodles from scratch!! I know it has nothing to do with Thanksgiving ! Just wanted to thank you for helping us make great things when you can't afford much!! I was raised poor but we never went hungry! Our families and relatives were resourceful in things they grew and hunted and always keeping the simple things needed to make up a stocked pantry!! Happy Thanksgiving ya'll!!🤗 Stay healthy, happy and stay warm!!

2 Thanksgiving videos?! You're spoiling us. I love how you show different options and always try to think outside the box. Love your videos!!! God bless you and your family. ❤

That Lisa Dawn is more than just a thrifty cooking channel. It boosts my mood and brightens my day. You have a very special gift Lisa. I always look forward to your new videos, thank you!

You are a genius!!! Your sweet and kind attitude is a joy!

I must have cranberry sauce, even if I have to open a can. Everything looks so delicious especially that artisan bread loaf. Thanks for sharing and God Bless!

Yummmmmm! With just two of us here, I never make a whole pie. I put one pie crust on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, add 1 can of filling to the center, spreading just a bit, add my spices (or not), fold the pie crust edges in toward the center leaving the center slightly open and then bake. It's a perfect small "tart" like pie for just us two.

It is NEVER too soon for any new videos from you!

Walmart has turkey wings for around $6. This is the option I'm going for the two of us on a budget. Also, don't forget about the loose veggies and the deli! You can grab small portions and a few slices of meats and cheeses.

She’s too cute…always wearing black when she uses flour too😂😂😂! I actually collect aprons yet usually forget to wear one, myself 😊

I love love love the Turkey Breasts by themselves. I am NOT a dark meat person so they are perfect and NO WASTE for my family...... I season mine with butter, paprika, salt and pepper and same NEVER had a BAD ONE!!!! I'm not a pie person either but OMGOSH that pie crust filled with Turkey pot pie filling!!! OMGOSH my mouth is watering!!

Please keep making your awesome videos!!! There will never be too many! Thanks ❤

You can take any left over dough and roll it out. Put some melted butter on it and cinnamon and bake flat. My granny called it her sugar pie. It is delicious.

I love that your videos are pretty much scratch cooking! Yay, another video!

Lisa, you're amazing. Your family is so lucky to have you so invested in cooking for them with such care.

We all want that pie on our plate!!

The thing we all of should take away from this is the effort someone made to make a meal for whoever (friends, family) to enjoy. Very simple. Doing the same thing next week. Not doing traditional Thanksgiving for other reasons this year. Won't be at home and limited resources but going to have a good time.

That coffee table date night setup is super cute, and everything looks like it'd be a perfect Thanksgiving dinner.

I went through my pantry, all I had to buy was a turkey and fresh cranberries. The turkey was $6.00 and the cranberries were $.99. I do keep a pantry, have freezers & start planning my meals from what I have. Only had to buy a turkey because I used up the last one I had in my freezer, a couple of weeks ago so I would have stock for Thanksgiving. We will have a traditional dinner with lots of leftovers and 2 desserts!

Good for you! Stay low-stress. Decades of cooking for my family has taught me that allowing myself to enjoy cooking( as you obviously do), makes cooking a pleasant task and not a chore. Love your videos, by the way. They are delightfully restful to watch as well as being really informative.

I love your content! Am I being greedy to say I wish you posted more often?! Lol 😆 Last month it had been awhile since you had last posted, so I watched every single one of your videos again. Got my Lisa fix. 🥰

I'm so grateful to have so many good prices by me, the sales are beyond what i could've wanted. One of my local chain stores has turkeys for $0.59/lb with a $25 purchase and 5 pounds bags of russet potatoes for $0.49 --- that's half the meal right there!

Is it weird I consider you one of my besties. I get so excited seeing a new video!!!💜💜💜

"wisdom and privilege" that's very sage of you.

Thank you for taking the time to do these! 🥰 Have a blessed holiday with you and your loved ones ❤️

So happy when I see a new video up. Thank you, Lisa!

Thank you for doing each of these videos! I have been shopping around and realize my local grocery store is actually more expensive than the surrounding stores, even the "fancy" market had many items much cheaper! It feels like a giant puzzle I am trying to figure out!

Great video! Would love to see your Friendsgiving prep!

Yes, my stove has the same marks from the self clean feature. Great video!

I Live Your Videos Lisa!! You're the reason I shop a Lot More @ Dollar Tree. Keep the Great Video's Coming!!😀❤👏👏👏👏

Love your videos! Hoping your channel keeps growing!

That looks so good. Always enjoy your videos. Happy Turkey Day from the UK

Love That Lisa Dawn❤

Oh my gosh! Yay! A new video to watch on my lunch hour! Love your vids!!

Absolutely love every one of your videos!!! I’m a 68 yr old senior, married 47 years & I learn so much from you. My Mother was an amazing baker, always had homemade bread growing up. I love watching you bake & one day I’m going to try making bread & that pie crust!!!

Great looking pie! 👌Love your videos and your warm and beautiful spirit!

Dinner 🍽️ and Dessert looked Absolutely DELICIOUS!😋😋

Publix put their brand turkeys on sale this week and we were able to get a 10 lb. one for $4. It really brought down the cost of our Thanksgiving!

🍏 Pie is amazing 🍎~ I Love when You do these Videos for Special Occasions ~ Everything looked great ~

I love this Thanksgiving meal. You've shown me that I can make it whenever I want to have all the Yummieness of Thanksgiving any time. I'm going to be moving into an apartment and this is perfect and I will have leftovers. 😋

My friend adds carrots to her stuffing too soo good!!

I can't even begin to express how impressed I am with this dinner! Absolutely gorgeous bird,pie ,and dressing. I almost forgot about the gravy and veggies. Really truly an amazing and inspiring video.

Hi Lisa--I LOVE your videos! We have Winn-Dixie stores down here and I got a full-size Jenny O turkey for 0.49 per pound (limit 1). I really admire how you do so many things from scratch--bread, rolls, pasta, etc. Watching your videos has made me a better shopper--thanks! Happy Holidays to you and your family!

We love your videos! Great ideas!!❤️ May you have many things to be Thankful for!🧡🍁🍂 We are thankful for You!🧡

Your whole meal looks amazing! Now I can’t wait for thanksgiving! 🦃

It’s never too soon! Thanks for this video. And your pie crust came out great!

I was so excited to grab a 13 pound turkey for $6! Got it at stop and shop in my local area 😊

This is cool. Thanks for showing us options. Will watch you always. Saving money and easy quick cooking. Your the best!!!❤❤❤

Yes! It's just me and my Mama 👩‍🦰👵 this year, we're skipping the turkey and focusing on what we really love to eat!

Just a comment for perspective: I just went through a very similar shopping list at my local Safeway here in suburban Honolulu and pretty much did the same for only $40. There were a LOT of deals, including an $8 loss-leader turkey. Happy Thanksgiving, Lisa and everyone!

I enjoy that you are doing more then one version of the same festival. That Apple Pie looked amazing! I feel that one tin made it deep enough. For me, I would only use two tins if I had a lot of people and even then, I would prefer to make two pies with one tin each, though that would be extra work! Thank you for the video! Have an amazing week!

I'm not cooking this year. From time to time we eat out for Thanksgiving, and this is the year. But when I do cook it's for many people and I take two days to prep and cook. I pick and choose what short cuts to take to make it easier and you always have such good ones and great tips. I shop weeks ahead because I hate crowds when shopping and I don't generally shop in multiple stores because of gas prices distance so I do miss some good sales. I love your videos. You are so down to earth and real. I keep going back to your older videos because I enjoy them so much. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Lisa, I think you are the greatest!!!you are such a good cook .did you learn from your mother?

Have the BEST holiday! Ur so appreciated! 🤗

I will never have enough great things to say about you. The work that you put into these videos & the goodness in your heart is incredibly inspiring. Keep up all of the awesome work!

Thank you for another wonderful video. I watch your videos every day and it has helped me get a better understanding of cooking from scratch. Your videos are so much fun to watch. I hope you know you are a natural at this and I hope to see more. Also please write a cook book!

Thank you for being one that doesn't think you have to make a green bean casserole. You also proved that the major grocery chains are making you spend more money to so call save money on a turkey but some of use need more than one and don't need the extra groceries that you have to spend to get that second turkey because the limit is one. I needed 3 for a church meal but had to buy the breasts which might be more per pound but came in under $20 dollars for each compared to $30 to $35 dollars. We bought 3 hams too and I have to feed about 140 people with that on a small budget and I spent around $103 dollars for around 85 pounds of meat. Each family will bring a veg or some kind of dessert or casserole if they can but no one will be turned away.

Yes, another post! Love your channel!

A store near me had sweet potato for 5 lbs for one dollar. I love them so I got a lot of them. I like homemade bread better than store bought. Turkey was .99 lb.

So good....mmmmmmm....tip...roll out extra pie crust, spread butter over top sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar....pop into a 350 oven until golden brown. Of course on a cookie sheet. Or make little fruit tarts using your favorite jam or jelly. Your pie looks amazing...love it when they turn out well. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours😊

You are a very knowledgeable cook! I appreciate all the tips you have ❤

That looks like a great meal!! Beautiful and tasty and also bountiful! On the pie crust, it did come out looking perfect. Tip: when you don't have an egg for a wash, you can substitute a little melted butter and get a beautiful finish, too. Thank you, Lisa. Happy Thanksgiving!!

I love your videos, your wonderful teaching methods about cooking inspire we fearful people to expand our horizons. Your videos are very relaxing too, I enjoy listening to them while I work. Thank you Lisa, God Bless you!

Thank you Lisa. 😊 I hope you and your family have a happy Thanksgiving. 🦃🍞🥧🍠

I love your Videos. I could watch them every day. Delicious looking meal. That homemade bread and pie looks delicious. Happy Thanksgiving!

Delicious!!!!!! Good job! Happy Holidays!!!😊

Love ALL your videos!!!! Especially your Friendsgiving one a while ago!!!!

One thing I do to save money from buying so much butter, etc. for cooking is I save my bacon fat and fat from frying hamburger. The hamburger fat usually has liquid too, so I refrigerate overnight, them skim the fat off to use. The liquid, I put in a container I keep in the fridge with odds and ends of meat and veggies. When it gets full, I add whatever I think it needs, and I have a pot of veggie soup, and it is delicious!

Excellent program and the pie turned out beautifully.

So happy to see you! Can't wait to watch! As an aside, with the great garden you had, I have seen several videos about growing your own sweet potatoes from ONE store bought sweet potato. A great idea I've seen is drilling holes in plastic bins and using them for semi-permanent raised beds. When I watch garden videos I always think of how well your garden worked out this last summer. There are some great low-cost gardening hacks to be found on YT.

it sure aint too soon! i seen this video and was like, wow, yes! another video, their awesome :) have a wonderful weekend :)

Heck yeah Lisa!! I’m always ready for one of your videos!! U r awesome!! I hope you and your family have a very blessed and happy Thanksgiving!!🦃🍽

Your pie was beautiful!

"Kind of a shame that pumpkin pie spice gets all the credit for that flavor combination" is one of my favorite quotes ever!! 😄😄😄

You have such a calming and reassuring voice and manner. It’s a pleasure watching you. You teach in a way that we feel we can do what you do! It is obtainable! I’m grateful. Thank you so much.

Hi Lisa 👋 omg is there anything you cannot make? Seriously, how delicious this all looked and that pie was cooked to absolute perfection 🥧 ❤ I just kept telling myself, no Tammy, you are a grown woman and no they cannot adopt you 😂🤣 seriously though, I bet Andrew gets super excited when you are filming, just knowing something delicious is coming. I would absolutely love to see you do a homemade original cheesecake, crust included, please 🙏🏼🙏🏼 as usual, it was so great to see you again and looking forward to the next one. May you and your family have a beautiful, blessed holiday ✌🏻💖

What a beautiful meal. I'd say I'm blown away that it only cost $25, but I've seen your sorcery, so knew what you were capable of. It's still quite impressive!

You did an awesome job again. THANK YOU

"Wisdom and privilege". What an insightful way to say that. Love you Lisa Dawn ❤

Looks amazing. I love the idea of putting all those veggies together.

Omgosh, that’s all looks so delicious, and that pie, looks perfect 😊

Any extra pastry means jam tarts! If you don't have a tray with dimples for individual tarts just cut rectangles or squares. A teaspoon of jam/jelly/leftover cranberry sauce in the middle and fold over and crimp with a fork.

That pie was beautiful!

Happy Thanksgiving, Lisa!!

I can’t believe it’s Thanksgiving already!😀🐕😊

I’ve been a silent viewer long enough!! You my dear are very creative & aren’t afraid to take risks. You’re truly an amazing chef. You know your ingredients & how to make them work w the bare minimal & over the top. I love your 1$ videos as u state we don’t know what others have an u truly open the door to creative cooking for so many that don’t see what you or I or others can see!! Absolutely amazing delightful & very creative . Thank you for sharing your amazing talents & I’m sorry I haven’t spoke up sooner! I’m kind of shy so plz forgive me! I love that you share the great & not so perfect recipes. More importantly the will to work with it an figure a way to turn it into something off the wall amazes me in all your videos. Some creators make it seem like everything we do actually falls perfectly into place not!! It’s very humbling to see you be so transparent & honest w the viewer. Pretty rare yet so deeply appreciated ❤❤❤ I just wanted to say I love your content & that Risky side of you!! Keep making these awesome videos I’ve learned quite a few things form ya myself & I know so many others have too! Keep shining bright & remember what u put out will come bk 10 fold & you my dear are so deserving of that! I can’t stress enough how much you’re helping a new mommy or son who didn’t get cooking advice even adults. What you’re doing is selfless & helps others expand their creative abilities!! I can’t click on your videos fast enough. Just like you say u have to take Risks sometimes right or play around! Well I’m not playing when I say I LOVE ❤️ your content❣️ You’re Deeply appreciated ❤❤❤ & Loved ❤❤❤

Your meal looks delicious! I love your trivet it’s the same one my mom had when I was a kid in the 80’s! 😊

I love your videos! I’m not even done with it and I have to comment. These videos are so helpful for people who struggle with food insecurity. I’m grateful to live with my family but these give me so many budget ideas! Love your channel keep being great ❤

Thank you for giving me something to binge watch while I'm suffering with THE BIG C ! I'm enjoying you & your channel so much !!! 💯💯💯🤎👍🏽

I loved the way the bread turned out.

Love this!!! Yummy - girl you are inspiring, happy holidays to you and yours.

Lisa.....such a great video. Thanks so much for showing us how to eat on a budget! That pie is absolutely picture perfect. Happy Thanksgiving.

I try to shop on Tuesday or Wednesday, the start and end of the weekly sales in my area that way I know next weeks prices and what is worth stocking up on.

Have you tried The Pink Stuff cleaner? It might help on your stove!