*Tomatoes* Please stop telling me I paid for the wrong kind of tomato. Vine tomatoes were the only variety on sale loose. This was a vine tomato, just separated from the vine. 6:41 *Screen caption says 'tomato' for a mushroom.* I know. Impossible to edit after upload. *Insinuations about dog abuse* If you have been a subscriber for any amount of time, you won't be in any doubt about how much I love this little dog. If you think that me barking 'shut up' at her (and that's what this was - big dog barking at little dog) in this video is remotely any kind of abuse, you must be new here and you probably don't know me, or Eva. For those few of you that stretched your own imagination to the notion that I must be hitting, kicking or otherwise physically abusing Eva. or described my raised voice as 'screaming' - Your mind supplied that detail. You have a problem. In case there could be any doubt, this little doggo is my cherished companion and has saved my life. Here's what you really need to see: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-op1DBcc6ubY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cKo4dW9-5Kw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a8ncYInW50s.html
the snowflakes who think that is "dog abuse" need to get their heads checked. Also nothing to more hypocritical than coddling dogs more than actual human babies while still eating meat and burgers and nuggets
Man I'm like 6 minutes into the video and it came down here to see if I could find a frame of reference for the currency (I'm American) and that's just so disheartening for this to be the first thing I see. I'm sorry man that sucks people are mean.
I love how unpretentious this man is, he's just a normal guy. His home is a bit messy, his dog is a bit noisy, there's no fancy editing. Just a guy trying to show us how you can be creative on a budget and good tips when times are hard.
@2manynegativewaves lmao in a real life situation he wouldn't have those restrictions. The dude set all those restrictions on himself and still managed to make three square meals for a day.
@@roseclouds5838 I think we are at crossed paths somehow. I regularly have a pound or a pound and change to eat. I've a limited time left and my Dr is so pissed about how I'm treated by the state. They are starving the ill and poor to death. Fact when they send you for your medical the staff get a bonus for finding you fit and nothing for allowing you to claim sickness benefit. 10 friends have committed suicide because of this. International agencies are now giving grants to help the poor in the UK and the Government does not want it as they are embarrassed that the UK now qualifying for poverty relief like India etc. India has a bigger Middle class than the UK. AI is set to decimate the upper middle class, Dr's lawyers etc. Civil war is coming within the next 3 years
I aspire to live like this someday- not necessarily living on £1 but rather being creative with your meals, foraging, being able to tell which plants are edible and whatnot. i imagine its really satisfying to find and create your own meals. furthermore these foraging/cooking related videos are always quite calming and interesting to watch or listen to while multitasking. very grateful for your content 🙂
Okay literally everyone complaining about this being “offensive”. This is genuinely educational, I’m 18, living alone, no education or a job, my parents were both dead by the time I was 16 and I had no life experience. This video and the others like it have helped me budget, made me realise where I needed to spend my money and what wasn’t necessary buying. I keep coming back to watch it when I end up short at the end of the month, or even fortnight. I’m living off of 180 a month, add on rent, council tax and other bills I need to pay, some weekly. So coming from someone who is struggling this video is not offensive, it’s educational.
People are stupid nowadays. I'd get it if he was doing a video like "look what poor people have to eat, it's disgusting!". But he's doing it out of interest and generally is pretty happy with the outcome. Can't see any issue with that.
The sad thing is that some people are in this category due to not having enough income due to disabilities and lack of support and i dont refer to those who scam the system
Sy Rehn in the UK and Ireland tax is already included in the price you see on the shelves. We don’t add it at the till like in the states. So he legitimately paid a pound.
This video is one of my "comfort videos". I've watched this so many times since I first came across your channel. There's something about it that I find so soothing. Thank you, you've brought me an awful lot of comfort over the years.
You can get one from the road side for free! Same with the onion but mushrooms are usually better from the woods and the onions are too strong to really enjoy.
@Evelyn Z. Luckily I know my shrooms! It takes a lot of slowly acquired knowledge... not suggesting a random person just go pick whatever they find growing on the road side!
Well said. Many times I enjoyed a fast food meal, satisfying, yet I know others out there with nothing. I need to be grateful for having a decent well paid employment, and offer my thanks to my Creator, and remember I have responsibilities to other less fortunate as well.
@@jaywalker3087 I'm sorry to hear this. I just replied about Olio which is for sharing food for free within your local community... but RU-vid deleted it thinking it was spam? Trying again. It's really useful. I collect bread at the end of the day from a bakery and list it on there, and my neighbours and local community come and collect it for free. It's not just bread on there but from local supermarkets etc. So could be really handy. Have a look. Good luck. X
When I was homeless, I would buy a clove of garlic, a single onion, and take a shit ton of ketchup and salt packets from McDonald's and boil it together with some water to make a hobo tomato soup
And the thing is.... I don't understand his obsession with shrumes.... a fairly low nutritional value relative for the price and weight... Yes can often be delicious but there are much better foods For example eggs..... Not extremely expensive not that cheap but still a high quality source of prominent and a good healthy yolk full of the good types of fat and cholesterol and lots and lots of nutrients... Lots of ways to incorporate into food And well u get the point.... Why shrumes....
@@SebastianDingleswitch i mean... when we're talking about saving some money taste isn't as important as nutritional value... Also yeah i know... delicious (well some... it's a bit of a matter of taste... my old man loves pickled russian mushrooms and they disgust me to the degree of puking.... so u know...)
I don't know why I watch these videos, but they are really addictive. I think the thing I like about them the most is this guy is just straight to the point, no ads/sponsors, no clickbait, no stupid gawping mouth thumbnails. This is like a time machine back to 2009 youtube when videos were wholesome and made with a soul
I work as a professional cook, and watched the whole video in complete awe. Using all your ingredients as efficiently as possible and being able to create three fulfilling meals out of what you had is absolutely amazing.
now try and do the same thing when creating a meal ... keep it cheap keep it low cost .. and make it good ... THAT would be a true test ... ie fettuccine alfredo with some meat and a salad ... for under 2 bucks ... kind of idea
In the States in the Manager caught you doing that they'd be pissed. Managers get bonuses based on how much of those condiments are used, sometimes those bonuses are the bulk of their pay.
Maybe I'm weird for coming back to watch this multiple times. But from the very savvy selection of items to the polite, unobtrusive yet very effective urban scavenging, to finding those apples (and having the expertise to know they could still be edible), to scoring the free coffee from trash, and finally being able to combine these disparate cheap (or free) ingredients into 3 tasty meals that each look like they were each deliberately planned and shopped for, I find it totally inspirational. Like a near-perfect example of cleverness and resourcefulness resulting in triumph.
Ewan Urquhart I like that “hi there” is in the beginning of that, because the when you put the other person’s username at the beginning of a comment it makes it seem like you’re asking a staff member at a grocery store where the frozen foods isle is or something.
Many years ago, when I was extremely poor, there was a TV programme on late at night that showed you how to feed yourself with dirt-cheap ingredients. I think it was aimed at stoners but it saved my life 😋
Do you mean "Get Stuffed?" I used to watch that. It was on at about 2:00am. One thing they always said was "Wash your hands!" Before starting. My happy bachelor days, mid 1990s.
@@deborahchesser7375 Not all....some are making money out of the virus lie. My local chippie was able to stay open throughout ...and was also given the contract to feed the homeless people who were being put up in hotels. Because who wouldn't want to eat nasty beige food with no nutritional value every night? The contract could have been given to somewhere that wasn't 'allowed' to open. So certain hotels have also done ok out of it, whilst others have been shut down.The council will decide who gets the contracts...they'll give business to their freemason friends.
I mean seriously the bin was less than 7 fucking feet away from the trash! And judging from the fact that the bin was closer to the mcdonalds than the trash that means those people were deliberatly being stupid
I once took advantage of reduced offers such as 3 for the price of 2. The items were reduced to really cheap but the system still took off the full price of 1 item so i was actually in credit. One cashier was dumbfounded and wouldn't let me leave. So i ran to the fish counter (it wasn't busy) and got a lobster. I had to pay a pittance as the credit was so much. That satisfied her and she reluctantly let me go due to no manager coming.
I love this sticker idea. We don't have that in Australia. The produce gets weighed at the checkout. Sometimes it's hard to keep to an exact budget when you are only approximating the cost of the fresh stuff.
@@robynw6307 We used to have stickers in the Netherlands, but now they get weighed at checkout, but you can do a check at the vegetable isle to see what the price will be. The reason they did this is because a lot of people would fill their bag with stuff, print a sticker on it, fill it more and then go to checkout.
@@lagonas2110 As far as I know, they still double-check the weight at the till. But it's quicker to just scan the barcode and check the weight / items are correct, rather than the shop assistant having to remember a code for each piece of produce.
I know he shouted at the dog but if you own a dog you can't say you've never told it to shut up. Anyway, the dogs behaviour around him was *not* that of a dog who was abused. Please stop.
Agreed I have 2 dogs and one is a bit of a pain and she will randomly start barking. We all just tell her to shut up then she looks at us looks away and barks again
I told my dog to shut up just yesterday. She has a bad habit of barking at whoever enters the house, seems to not fully recognice us until she has smelled us. Problem is, if its late it echoes and really disturbs the neighbors. A couple tiny growls is ok, but if she flat out barks i tell her to shut up. Right that second she knows is me, and starts wagging her tail and celebrating.
I really appreciate how you didn’t use some situation specific way, like having a complete garden, or getting a major sale or discount. This is actually useful since it’s rather useable year round.
@Max Gun that wasn’t a suggestion it came from personal experience, people who can help being poor ie not using it all on drugs and unnecessary things should all go burn alive
Not only was I skeptical that you could do this for 1 pound, but that you were also going to stretch it out to a 45min video that kept my attention. Well done, man. Well done.
You can go to local farm and by an egg for 10p Also all local shops have to get rid of their rolls by closing, and a bag of three can be as little as 15p Total is £0.25p Restaurants do small packs of butter which you can take and sachets of Tom and brown sauce and Mayo. One jacket potatoe is 11p and a tin of beans is 23p from Aldi This is two meals - Egg on roll (or egg Mayo) And, jacket potatoe and beans. Full Total £0.59p One loose Tomatoe is £0.7p and a bag of mozzarella is £0.32p both from Aldi (this can be put on a roll and grilled) Full total £0.98p 2p change!!
@@joshuamartin4547 I wouldn't have even thought of foraging even though it's such an easy idea. And he knows what he is looking for too and how to find it. He really is genius.
Can't believe some people think he's treating Eva poorly because he raised his voice. The Man went to play with his dog before making himself breakfast. I say that to my siblings all the time but that shit doesn't mean I hit them or bully them. Sometimes dogs or people get annoying and you gotta let em know
@@macrolmacrol3954 they're stupid in my opinion. They only judge one part of the story but doesn't even know the other parts and just straight up assume bull turd
I think my favourite part of this was me having the same pig dog toy at home, then my dog hearing it and running off to find her own pig toy and bringing it to me. It's wholesome content like this that makes youtube worth it.
The prices there are insane. 15p for a can of peas. Thats roughly 19C USD. You can't get a can of anything like that for less than 75 cents here on the West Coast of the USA. For that amount of money he spent you'd be lucky to get half the items. Great video though.
Portion sizes are absolutely wack here as well. I would probably eat twice his total amount of food in one sitting, and I don't weigh a pound over 210. I've got no idea how I'm not broke.
Tanya Obiedzinski That must be regional. I live in Northern VA and a can of beans is about 45-50 cents (37-41p). That’s the cheapest can I’ve ever seen in the store. Lidl is the same. Those are the least expensive grocery stores in my area.
I have to say, these budget videos are a total guilty pleasure of mine and this is by far one of the most innovative ones I’ve seen. Not only were very smart with your decisions at the store and with condiments but you went so far as to use waste as resources and scavenge outside on the beach and in foresty areas. I am genuinely super impressed with this video, great job man!
The challenge stands on the prerequisite that consumerism functions at full speed, bringing dirt cheap products to the supermarket, as well as throwing away loads of waste (the free condiments). He may be capable in hunting/foraging but this challenge does not prove that.
I was going to say spending so much time to save tiny amounts of money makes no sense... Then I saw the number of views on this video and concluded it is time very well spent.
I honestly didn't expect this video to take off like that (but of course I am delighted it did) The effort was sort of the intent of it - this is not so much a money saving attempt as it is an exercise is stretching my creative muscles
@@AtomicShrimp And damn nice creativity too! Once you had piled everything together I was struggling to put anything together. The soup was the closest I could get to your solutions.
I’ve watched this video over 40 times now (mostly while eating something myself). And I enjoy coming back to this video every single time. Thanks Atomic shrimp
I've watched it and the other food challenges quite a bit (although this one is my favorite). I'm prepping for upcoming food shortages and I like to watch these to expand my mind with what's possible to do with food. The other day when I was shopping, I was eyeing a jar of artichoke hearts in oil thinking, "That's got usable cooking oil in it, plus the veggies." And I already walk around my yard and look for edible weeds. You ought to see my packet (aka sachet) collection, though! It takes up a whole shelf in the fridge. I can flavor meals for a long time with just it.
100% believed you were about to try to scavenge food out of those discarded McDonalds bags lol. Was so relieved when you revealed it was for coffee stickers.
@@historyman9436 What ever limits you are putting on yourself are probably unhealthy then. I'm a composer of music and also draw art, sure it's still not great but it's something I enjoy. If you want to get into either just take a stab into it, you're not going to do it ever if you don't even try, sure I'm embarrassed of my first pieces of art but you gotta start somewhere. Anyways I wish you luck with what ever you want to be more creative about~
Things I learned from this? - How to take advantage of litterers - Apples can stay edible frozen over winter - You can make a dog smell plants for ya to check if they've been peed on - Mayo and ketchup go well together - New veggie slicing techniques - Bananas melt - Squeezing onions for flavor - How mushy beans are made This was a good video. Thank you.
Mayo and ketchup make up the base of a lot of American sauces. Big Mac sauce, chik-fil-a sauce and many other “secret sauces” are ketchup Mayo relish and sometimes onion
I just tried making pea and hamless soup with the same tinned mushy peas and genius ingredient of bbq sauce. It’s really good! Much easier than faffing about with dried peas. I’ll be making it again. 😃
while I still use canned beans and such myself, I just recently read a study done in Germany, where "Konsumentenschutz" tested various brands of canned beans, and all but one (even the organic brand) were over the allowed maximum for some chemical that is contained in the plastic lining that is in cans. That made my quick and easy rice and (canned) beans meal much more uninteresting. ^^ Will be cooking form scratch more in the future.
Telling a dog to shut up is in no way abuse. I have a dog and they sometimes bark anoyingly at nothing or at people loudly and you have to tell them to shut up. People are so ready to accuse people for barely anything these days! Also this is the best and most realistic go at the challenge from the other ones i have seen 😀
I scream at my dogs to shut up when they bark at absolutely nothing. That does not mean my dogs are abused. I can't believe people are getting upset over that
K Armstrong yelling at a dog is just fine they need to be shown not to do things. Just not towering over them and acting threatening. Saying shut up quietly doesn’t do shit
Well done. It reminds me of a time I was dead broke and I was living on; Pearl Barley, which is very cheap and goes a LONG way. Chicken frames from the chicken shop and 'Day Old' bread from the Vietnamese bakery. $.50 packet+ $2per bag and $1.50 per largish bag respectively.. That was $4. and would last several days as soup, mainly with the 'usable' bread. It wasn't really 'day' old, most of it was mouldy. The birds got those ones.
That reminds me of the stuff my mum (single mum at that time) used to cook when I was a toddler in the late seventies. It's actually quite delicious considering!
Finally a no bullshit experiment without "oh my grandma gave me this jar of jam and a bag of potatoes last week" or "i gonna eat dinner at my friends place".
I assume you're referring to Boris. I also assume that you're not from northern Europe, because here grandmas giving their kids preserved food is incredibly common. Like I have a bag of apples, like three jars of jam and probably two or three boxes of berries in the freezer. I get it sounds cheap and a bit dumb, but in reality it's pretty reasonable.
And I thought I could squeeze a buck.... Honestly, this is the first time in a long time that I have been truly impressed by a youtuber talking about how to eat creatively and healthfully (more or less) on a very limited income. I've worked my entire life trying to help the economically disadvantaged find ways to eat healthy on a budget. You, sir, blew my mind. Excellent video.
The sad truth is when you are so desperate you are not always in a good place to think up ideas. It is when things are better all of the sudden you have ideas. Oh! I could have done that! Yeah! Thanks idea for coming to me when I don't need it anymore but yeah!
@Harry Beaver yes it will all of it. The apple, the oignon, the carrot, the mushroom, the tomato, the bread, the peas. All of it, not one of this can be called or considered healthy. 🙄
@Harry Beaver because when you have one euro to eat, what can you do? Go to your organic market and buy fresh and trendy products. Or not eat at all if you can't afford it. I think you are delusional as to what it is to not have money.
Content like this gets more and more needed each year since alot of people don't know how to cook and don't realize how much it cost to live on food prepared by another person as their main way to eat. Learning to cookbatbleast is a timeless dkill
When he got his dog to smell the plant making sure another hasn't peed on it just blew my mind. I was like wow...I really don't think about these things, but this guy just opened my world.
I work at Tesco’s and can tell you a couple pointers: Stores that aren’t extras won’t get delivery on Wednesdays or sundays, except frozen This means on those days there will be more reduced products as well as the following day. If you find anything with your current date as the expiry date then you can ask for a final reduction. This will be reduce more than normal. Hearty food company pasta is a good option too. One 500g bag for a matter of pence, less than 30p, can last for a few meals over a few days. Once every two weeks (normally on a Saturday/Sunday) we get a new merchandising plan so we’ll have reduced to clear items. It’s the time after promotions on products with expiry dates that’s good. A lot of it won’t sell and so it’ll be reduced by a lot more than usual. For example we had a promo on salad, hundreds of bag were about to expire and instead of the normal 25% reduction it was reduced by 90%, so one bag cost 2p Stockwell, growers harvest and hearty food company are Tesco value products that were renamed. Peanut butter and jam is pretty cheap from the brand, with that bread pb&j sandwiches would be pretty cheap.
Ryan M. Woah, people aren’t respecting this comment enough. All of these are true and these are great ways (especially pasta) to make delicious but also cheap meals
I agree! It's been in my recommendations for weeks, even though I've been subscribed for a long time I just never got around to watching it.. Laid in bed at almost 3am... Here I am at 4:20am and I enjoyed every last, sleepless second of it!
The idea for lunch is so completely foreign to me that I can't even imagine what those flavors would be like mixed together, or what fish paste tastes like at all even on its own. But I wish I could go to the shop in Britain just so I could exactly recreate that meal and see what it tastes like! I'm also very interested to see what mushy peas taste like now, especially in relation to fish and chips!
dunno where you are from but fishpaste isnt that uncommon here in my country, and i dont live at the coast like this guy in the video. but also the paste would be 10 times the price minimum. especially if with 40% salmon the mushy pea sounds interesting to me too but never saw that one in shelfs here. must be a british thing only for sure
@@chlorone here's my little tip if your gonna eat mushy peas. The best thing to do is dial 999 for an ambulance first, you then open the tin consume the mushy peas cold with a spoon and await the paramedics to take you directly to the A&E for a stomach pump.
I love this so much, I’m making $300 a month and almost all of it goes to rent, water and electricity, this is truly helpful Edit: 1 year later I’m now working as a janitor in a train station (working on saving some € to afford schooling so I can go to university because I skipped out on that) and earning 650€ a month, Greece’s private sector goes brrr
Apple compote from those 2 foraged apples and sugar packets could have been spread on the remainder of that sliced bread. Also, vegetable stands or green grocers often have produce culls which are sold at reduced price or even discarded.
These days you can't even tell your dog to shut up because Karens will think it's abuse. Please take your ignorance elsewhere,this is not abuse. I admire this youtuber so much,he's able to eat with so less
@@ruben3937 Ok, I am getting a lot of hate now, first thing first I don't know where you live, here in Italy ANYONE (even illegal immigrants) can get a FREE HOUSE, NO BILLS TO PAY, FREE HEALTHCARE, FREE SCHOOL, FREE FOOD, and a 500 EUR/MONTH credit, my uncle also used to be in a bad financial situation but it was in the 70s, It is no more like the 70s now. @Lord Skeletor, so you cant afford food but you have a phone/pc and internet connection... ok...
This video made me really nostalgic, I guess unfortunately. A few years ago I was left homeless after a fire, and suddenly had to provide for myself, my younger sister and our cat with about $50 in my bank and at least a month between checks (and thus, means to find another place to live). Luckily, we were able to couch surf but I still had to find a way to feed us. It was basically just like this, though with more foraging because luckily it was summer. We definitely went without big luxuries, but we also definitely didn't starve. I'm glad to be out of that hardship now, but idk. It's nice to remember and be proud of how resilient I was. Thank you for the video and congrats on your successin the challenge.
Give back me sausage roll because Are you silly? They’ve managed to get themselves out of this situation, so it’s in the past. Also, if couch surfing they’d be likely to access the person’s wifi or have data from a monthly contract. Think first :)
