Cordon Bleu: Feeding My Family a GOURMET Meal with Only $25 

You are crushing it with this series in my opinion. Fresh, delicious food...not prepackaged... affordable...and you teach us the fundamentals of preparing these dishes at home! Thank you!

Before everyone starts busting on me for going to WF, let me say that it by far has the best selection and is still the only store to let me film inside of it in the area. In addition, if you can find all these ingredients for cheaper from your favorite local store then even better!

I love that you actually talked through how you drove down the cost. Many youtubers like Joshua Weissman advertise that they can make a dish for a specific dollar amount. Here, you actually showed how you shop, how you get individual slices of meat or cheese from the deli and I love that.

Love this series, keep making these videos chef!

I’m making this tomorrow!! Billy you are my favorite chef, I love watching your videos.

I love this video. A great tasty meal at an affordable price. Thank you Billy for inspiring me.

Gotta say this was an awesome episode! Good food, affordable and top shelf delivery. LOVE THESE types of episodes! and... its not just that you two show labels/shopping... you make REAL dishes that are affordable and awesome-you are like the only ones i know of along with Chocmiel (A french youtuber) that do it that way so ... great job!

Really digging this budget friendly series.

This is such a great idea. Good and affordable food especially now will help so many struggling families. Thank you!

Made this recipient for my family past week. It turned out great and not 1 toothpick needed. To keep them together. Love the channel. Have made a almost a dozen of your recipes so far and they have all come out great. Thanks for all you do!

Thank you! My chicken Cordon Bleu never looks as pretty as yours. I like serving my friends and family pretty food. With your roll technique, I’m going to ace the pretty. You made me want to call over a few friends just to serve this pretty and delicious meal. P.S. Shop wherever you want to shop. You did a great job making a meal for 4 people under $25 .

This was amazing, love the gravy added at the end as well. I will definitely be trying this whole recipe. 🤤🤤👍🏼👍🏼

I just joined your channel this weekend. I love learning all your techniques. My husband and I always say when we go to a restaurant that we could make it better. I appreciate your trips to the grocery store applying what you are teaching. I look forward to all of your videos. Have a great day.

Thank you for being cognizant of food prices these days. It’s a real struggle for many families to buy enough food to eat each week, even when cooking everything from scratch, avoiding processed food.

Looks Delicious!

Loved this! You did great in the grocery. My kind of guy.👍

Love these videos Chef Billy. 🇨🇦

I love these $25 meals, they are helpful for families on a budget. This looks yummy

its refreshing that you acknowledge the price problem.

Thanks for this video! More videos with simple, delicious and economical meals, please. :)

The way you describe recipes is a great work of art. 🎉 bravo ❤

Wow that is looking good right there! Would love to try this out, and love the grocery take, thanks for sharing! Much love from Singapore ❤️

This is a great series, Chef! More please.

Great job chef! Beautiful plating as well.

First Edit: Thanks Billy for ❤️ing my comments! It means a lot because I love your channel and look forward to them and have taken some of your recipes to heart and enjoy them often! My favorite recipe you made was the French toast, but specifically the marscapone whipped cream. My family loves it and always devours my zucchini bread that I learned from you. It means so much to have your support! Thanks so much ❤️

Loving this series chef! What a lucky father and lucky kids getting gourmet meals all the time! Lol

Making thus tonight. My wife loves your recipes.

Thanx, Chef Billy, for the fantastic recipe and culinary prep techniques.

Loved your spin on cordon Bleu, your so generous with all your information and techniques it make for an interesting watch and the delicious recipe is a bonus. Keep at it 🙌

You forgot something with your Gourmet meal, that would be me. Looks so delicious.

Really enjoy this series!!

One of my favorite dishes. Your way lookes awesome. You da best! Thank you

I've served basically this exact meal with friends. It's always a winner!

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

This looks amazing Chef!!! I am definitely trying this this weekend! Thanks for all you do!.......... UPDATE: I couldn't wait till the weekend! Made this tonight and it was great! I added cream and Dijon Mustard to the gravy, and it paired very well.

This has been my favorite so far. Thank you.

This is like my favorite dish!!!

Looks awesome 👌love these kind of video

Wow! Looks like a great meal. Makes me want to run to the store and make it tonight 😁

Great for my budget

Awesome!!! 😋😋😋🥰

Thank you once again 😎

great content!!

No bashing here, Chef. Looks wonderful. Would you do a video on chicken kiev, sometime, please. 😃

Delicious!

Fun episode! I can do this and will.

I am truly enjoying the new series of $25.00 In these times it’s very helpful. How’s your garden doing?

Gourmet and love the cost!

thanks 😇

Thanks

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Wonderful sharing ! + Like & support ❤wish you all the best❤.

We almost never go out for dinner. Better meals at lower prices (by far) cooking at home. Easy meals. Tasty. And so much cheaper. Cook at home!

Just an FYI on the chicken..you are always better to buy a whole chicken and cut it up yourself, not because of the cost, but because of the processing methods allowed, even for organic chicken. In the processing plants, whole chickens are sprayed with antibacterial spray and then rinsed before bagged and flash frozen. Chicken parts are soaked in antibacterial spray as the move through the cutting up process so they spend a LOT more time in that solution than a whole chicken. Ever wonder why even organic chicken smells funky after only a day in the fridge...that's why and depending on the pieces, it can soak into the bone. This process is used in every commercial poultry processing plant in this country and is completely condoned by the USDA and FDA as a "safe and effective" practice, but also explains why so many people, like me, have gut issues after eating chicken from restaurants that buy frozen parts to use. I have even gone so far as to raise my own birds and do my own butchering to avoid the issue entirely. Pork is done in the same manner, but beef is not.

I love your 21K fridge!

Once again, great video! You can tell it’s a few months old, just from the price of eggs. Upstate NY, Jan 2023, a dozen eggs average $5/carton. Went to Trader Joe’s yesterday. $3.49? You bet I grabbed a carton!

Recommendations for a good mandolin? It's something I don't have in the kitchen. Thanks Chef!

My Cheap Chicken Cordon Bleu: I buy a spicy chicken sandwich from Mickey D’s. I always ask for extra Mayo. I add deli sliced Ham and Swiss cheese which I bring from home. Viola! Cost is around $2.00 or less.

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Made this. Love it. However, shopping at Lidl, I was able to make this for $12.00 with ham and cheese left for sandwiches, or whatever.

I didn't know the chicken cooked the fast 😊

What are some examples of neutral flavored oil? Also, when the potatoes are soaked to remove some of the starch, is it just to remove extra carb calories or does it improve flavor, or??

What watch are you wearing here?

Dude, 4.65 for 4 slices of ham???? wow. we went to 5.29/lb ish peak in N New England. Sams Club and BJs or Costco are not the place for the deli meats... I shop 3x weekly for work-2 carts and I get that kind of stuff at a regional chain (Market Basket here... but NOT Hannafords which is actually $5 a POUND more for the same exact brand!) Gotta be careful but appreciate your watching the cost. Imported Swiss is 4.99-5.99... your ham is the priciest brand there is so yeah... I pay 5.29 for black forest but not that applegate-still good. Thats $5 a pound cheaper... Like others I really like your trying to get frugal-key these days... You and Brian Lagerstrom are the ONLY ones I know that show labels etc of where and how you shop... Big hats off-keep it up.

I have never tried Cordon bleu! It looks so delicious and easy to make but I just don't know if I could make it and the chicken would be done...Sometimes I just don't trust a meat reader 😕 haha call me silly. I need one of those pounders and maybe then I would feel better about making this dish myself at home.

Take it over the top by adding to the swiss cheese and ham stuffing a 1/4" x 1/4" x length strip of cream cheese or blue cheese or mozzarella plus a strip of sour cream. And forget the breading a d frying mess by wrapping stuffed chicken rolls with Pillsbury crescent or croissant pastry sheets not separated at the perforations. Place on sheet pan, wash with egg or melded butter. Cook in preheated 325°F to 350°F oven for about 40 minutes or until internal temperature is 165°F. Please forgive me but a can of undiluted Cream of Chicken or Cream of Mushroom soup drizzled over and around plated chicken rolls with your choice of minute greenery pieces, i.e. parsley, chives, sage, etc.

1.50 tax for 23$ worth of groceries?!? I WISH

Bleu not blue!! ;-)

I feel like whole foods is the last place to shop when trying to make a budget meal.

In india they cut the chicken for you and a 1.5 kg whole chicken costs 2.5 dollars😂

It's not a 86 dollar meal if the ingredients cost 25 bucks. It's a 25 dollar meal.

Chicken breasts, I would not pay more than $4 in the UK.

Does the quality of the chicken matters

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Are you accepting applications to adopt adult children? I’ll ever peel potatoes and you won’t be violating any child labor laws. Just eat like a king!

Why are you wasting your money at whole foods?

If you want to go out and dine at a restuarant you are not going to get your kids 20+ dollar meals. You are going to get them the kids meals. If you are Chef Billi, you are going to be making more money than the average person. You will buy your kids whatever they want to shut them up while you buy 4 bottles of their most expensive wine and then get your parents to take the kids away and Chef Billi drives home drunk and crashes into a brick wall right next to his house. Sick of these click bait titles. Thankyou

Chef, you should take out that ugly tendon.........

This is such a great idea. Good and affordable food especially now will help so many struggling families. Thank you!