10 Best Foods To Buy When You Have No Money! Easy Grocery Budget Ideas 

same its simple , im healing my gut issues JUST BY QUITTING things, that simple i have self control when my health is clearly improving =)

Ya. I added a little salt, but I hear you

@@CaseyBlake-n8o I grew up not using much salt my grandma had high blood pressure. I was telling a friend about this . And I might have been eating a little bit of dirt but as a kid you don’t think about that of course I washed the potatoes before I put them into the pot to boil. lol I am not much for English peas I can remember my sister making me sit at the table until I eat mine. But the ones we grew in the garden I can remember picking them and eating some right out of the shells they where good as long as they was small. I am just a few years older than Tawra. She is around my kid sisters age. I grew up having a garden. Playing outside better be with in holling distance of grandma and she could not holler. lol just had to check in once in awhile. I had ten acres to play on my sister is almost 7 years younger. We grew up with wells you had to no witch well you was on before getting in the shower so you didn’t run out of water in the middle if you was on the shallow well lol At that time you had to watch out for snakes that slither on the ground now you have to watch out for snakes that walk on to legs. I had know idea how much groceries cost as a kid. Part of the time I remember was durning President Carters time. With the hostages. I think one of my best memories has a young adult my baby sister was learning to drive so momma would take us out on the gravel roads. We would pick up cans. She would let me out they would drive up the road always. Pull over and momma and my sister would walk I would get to the truck and do the same. Drive past them a little bit and get out and start picking them up. Daddy told momma one time she was wasting more gas then we was earring selling the cans I thing I might have worked out even or so. We would end up with about six 4/bags at least depending on what road we went on. This one time we toke the car instead . We came across some running water in the road. Momma and I was talking about if she could drive through it. I suggested I get out and wade through and see how deep it was on me. Alter I started through she saw that it was better to try and turn around. I can’t remember how deep it was but it had a dip in it. Now I would have got soaked if I had slipped down. It was fun going out like that. Now kinds would say gross I am not picking up cans momma can I have a twenty to spend. I don’t know why I told you all of this. Just had some memories come back talk in about different foods I guess.

We were the same but I’m in England.I’m not bothered for pasta & rice.I even have my own chip pan(fries) .Potatoes are expensive now …🇬🇧🇺🇸

​@KathyHankins-zf8hb I used to take my kids out to pick up cans, too! I had 2, then 3 kids while doing this... I got out an OLD stroller with an axle on it. Put baby in seat with tied in. 3yr old stood on axle cover in back and held onto handle, and 9yr old walked. I tied a trash bag onto the handle bar. We did one side of roads on the way out and on the way back we covered the other side of the road. If I had thought about it a little more, we could have done both sides of the road going out and taken different roads coming back and we could have made more money. Oh well, hind sight is 20/20! LOL! We lived on a single income, so in order to make both ends meet, we had to get creative. While walking, I also kept an eye out for useful items at the curb, and ask if they were being thrown out, if yes, I would get the car once we were home and go pick them up. Bunk beds, baby beds, etc. Take them home, sanitize them, add 75 cents worth of nuts and bolts, maybe. That's how we got most of our furniture and if I found something better, I would sell our old stuff and keep the better ones. Once I even found almost new carpet for a house we bought that REALLY, REALLY needed new carpet badly. It was being replaced because of a stain on one edge, we installed it where the couch would cover the stain, and beautiful, clean newer carpeting! Thank you for reminding me of these memories! Those were the days! One minimum wage job and we ended up with a house of our own and pretty nice furniture, while I stayed home with the kids! Although, I did also clean 2 houses a week for total of $50wk. Took play pen to put kids in while I cleaned and simply charged by the house instead of by the hour so no one felt cheated by the time I spent with the kids!

@@tbacon2784 My parents where retired already when we was picking up cans it was just something fun to do and get away from the house daddy always though we was wasting time. But my younger sister was getting driving lessons that way. And even though momma didn’t say out loud it gave my daddy a quite house to watch is baseball in for awhile. And it’s a fond memory I have with my momma. She has been gone since Sept of 2000 and my daddy died in 2006

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As long as you can handle the cholesterol

@@Angela-zv1fw And that's why a lot of Great Depresion cooking featured a white sauce or gravy. Of course more folks lived closer to more dairy cows of thier own, thier neighbirs', or down the road a while.

You take 7 in the morning that adds up quickly

@@vickiehat1074 if seeking grams of protien eggs are still cheaper at $5/doz than most other forms.

@@Angela-zv1fw When the Canadians tried to duplicate the American study thry couldn't. If they manipulated thier data with rrspectvyo volumes and a 2 row row-shift they could. Noone listened to them in the US and Canada never did shift thier stance. Then the American said some decades later that the problems with eggs was in how thry were cooked as well citing sunny side up cooked in a depth of butter and what thry were paired with citing bacon and sausage.

I do the cookie logs in the freezer also. I love having fresh baked cookies in a hurry like that!

@@suzyq1865 We have never had a steady spot for chips nor snack crackers in the larder. But there for a while we did have a somewhat steady stream of folks that dropped in. Often when the doorbell rang, I turned on the oven, brought out the frozen cookie dough and at least 1 cookie sheet; someone else got the door. It was a hit and certainly no more expensive than chips and crackers; without an event designation, neither chips nor snack crackers lasted very long on the shelf anyway.

Good idea. I have been wanting peanut butter cookies for a couple of months now. I did not want to make and eat so many cookies.

Yes! I love that🙂

I use toast, top with cheese and a fried yolky egg. Delicious!

The flower arrangement behind you ladies is beautiful!

@@NormandMeunier I also love a yolky egg🙂

@@Angela-zv1fw LOL, she was talking about your thyroid.

Our Grocery Outlets are becoming disappointing. All more expensive products to begin with and few great prices.

@terryhenderson424 I am sorry to hear that. The 2 near me are fabulous. When they want to get rid of stuff, they are 10 for .97. I just freeze the cheeses, lunch meat, hot dogs, and butter. I buy this cheap. Sometimes, I kick myself for not getting more of certain things. I always buy lactose free things if they are cheap. I don't care if the half and half or cheese has lactose or not. I bought some of the plant milk mozzarella at 10 for .97, last week. I wish I would've bought more than 3. I had never seen cheese in a portable bottle. It tastes just like mozzarella on my fettuccine. I was shocked.

@Kathylouise You, dear madam, are brilliant! I'm going to find my local restaurant supply and do same.

@@kathylouise1936 We used to be able to find 4, 3, and 2 for $1 items. Now it's getting harder and harder to justbfinfv$1 items. I used to walk out with savings 2 to 4 times what I spent; now I'm lucky to get 1/2 again of what I spend. This said, I'm not buying a glass jar of spaghetti sauce at $3.50/ each even if the price is $8.99 elsewhere; that same spaghetti sauce is $7.99 this month.

​@@kathylouise1936Awesome

A few months ago, and since early 2023 forward, the Flowers bakery outlet's lowest bread was 2.79! Dollar bread, a distant memory and I quit buying it. Nature's Own and Wonder bread are their most well known brands. I finally started seeing dollar loaves a month or two ago and so happy. Unfortunately, buns and dinner rolls are $2 a package. Considering all bread is $4 and up locally, it is usually cheaper.

@@NormandMeunier $1 bread is day old bread. Usually the day old bread is a variety of prices like 4/$5, 3/$5, and there is another?x/$5. On and off you must buy in units of $5 else pay a higher price each but because we buy in units of $10 at the register for our $10 punch card buying in units of $5 is easy.... As I type this, I seem to remember they have a special Saturday sale once a month and I wonder if they were getting ready for this with the variety in thier $1 packages. The store is more than 20 miles away, 5 cities up the line, and 30 to 60 minute drive depending upon traffic so we don't destination shop it; rather we go when we are elsewise driving past while aiming for a Thursday......A lot of the loaves run the equivalent to $2/ ea and up yet are much cheaper than the same in area grocery stores; some are resaurant fare only. Some are day old and others are not. Outside of the limited keto, we aim for nothing but the cheapest. - The have closed down most of the Orowheat outlets and thier bread is more expensive both in grocery stores and in the outlets. There is one lower to home (or was) but we don't pass through that general direction and area very often so havent made the destination trip there; while further away the outlet we passed elsewise every so often closed and we would stop in a couple of times per year. - I think regular price for the least expensive sized store brand sandwich loaves has risen to $1.99 or $2.49. Ill have to peek as we shop during the next month out of curiosity's sake. Typically we can find a bit better quakity even among the sandwich bread loaves at the outlet store we go to.

You could try making a few tortillas at a time. And please use new cardboard boxes often as they attract mold and insects in humid climates. Latching bins are great if you can afford them. ❤

@@SusanPetersenLilly I am also a single person and I live in an apartment I did have a small chest freezer. Now being single it is worth making into smaller packages. There is a store I can get five packages for 25 dollars. So about ever 6 months that is what I will do is go and get five packages and break it down into smaller packages. The last time I went ahead and got 50 dollars. That was at least 4 months ago. And as far as the bread. Keep one of the bread rappers and take a had full of bread out of the one in the freezer. When that loaf is empty. Through away the first bag and keep the newer bag. I can’t drive that is way I buy my groceries the way I do.

I'm in the same position, small apartment, no pantry, limited storage space. I wish I had a deep freezer, even a little one would be wonderful. Im like you, fresh fruits and vegetables, if I don't freeze them a lot of my food will go bad. I have to keep my loaf bread in the freezer or it will go bad. I see these ladies doing organizing videos with their Pantry and their multiple refrigerators and freezers or the ones with "small kitchens". I roll my eyes and laugh. They don't know what small is. It's frustrating not being able to take advantage of food sales, especially meat because I have no space for them in my freezer. . My old refrigerator died so they replaced it with one with even less refrigerator and freezer storage space than the one I had. It also takes more energy to run because my power bill has been $20 higher since I got it!!! I just keep losing!!!

@@CharTurner6928 hey there ! I live alone and no deep freeze either. It works out to put 2 slices of bread in a small freezer bag and take this out when needed. These small bags fit into places much easier than a whole loaf of bread. The freezer bags can also be reused. If you have shelves anywhere in the house, you could put no refrigerated items there. Even canned goods under the bed. Maybe someone could help you build shelves. I keep things in clear latch top bins and stack them to save space. Make a list and tape to the outside what is in the bin. Where there is a will, there is way. lol. Best of luck. You sound like a nice lady. 😍

Buckeyes freeze well. We freeze them every time we make them.

@@Ellie-li7lh good to know! Do you ever freeze them without the chocolate coating and do that later?

@@findingaway5512 we’ve never tried that. We use chocolate chips and a dab of coconut oil for our coating and freeze them coated.

It still works.

The USDA discontinued the (highly influenced) former "Food Pyramid" with the more reasonable "My Plate" diagram in 2011.

LOL me either!

yes.

​@@LivingOnADimeI love the beautiful arrangement ❤

Those flowers are beautiful

I definitely think of pork as the cheap meat. Before we got married, my husband thought I had an inordinate affection for pork. Then he went with me to the store....

I'm not suprised!

Dollar Tree has a loaf of bread, English muffins, buns and maybe bagels for $1.25 each. While I do have WM, I usually get $1 loaves at the thrift bakery. But if you are really broke, you need to eat the cheapest things you can find. Or, make your own. Look up extreme budget challenges here on RU-vid. I find that those videos have adjusted my thinking in a profound way to eat well at very low budget. While I often don't like parts of the meal plans, I can make minor adjustments and enjoy eating when I need to spend as little as possible.

Ok so use what you have.

Safari says “Yes”

@@marilynpeppers1356 Thanks!

@@StephanieJoRountree 👍🏼💜

My daughter has been into bean burritos and she fries them in a pan so they get crispy outside. That is a great option. She makes it all the time when she is hungry.

​@@findingaway5512you can throw them in the air fryer for 5 minutes, and they will crisp, too, no added oil needed.