Episode 8 - Low Budget Meals At EVERY Store | Meals To Make When Money Is Tight

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Hey y’all! Hope you like the new series!
Love Brooke
Sticky Meatballs-
Ground pork or chicken
1/2 cup diced green onion
Sprinkle of ginger
Drop of sesame oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 pinches pepper
1 TBS Minced garlic or garlic powder
2 TBS cornstarch
Sticky Sauce-
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup water
1/2 TBS corn starch
1 TBS honey
Drop of sesame oil
Green Beans- all of this is to
Your own liking.
Fresh green beans
Onion powder or minced onion
Garlic powder or minced garlic
Soy sauce
Olive oil
Pepper
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@LoriFalce Год назад

I think you should do a $5 dinner without pantry items and then the same meal with pantry items so you can show the difference it can make.

@Swimdown24 Год назад

I love this idea!!!

@sherrywagner8449 Год назад

I like that idea

@andreagreen4365 Год назад

I was thinking the same thing!!

@theresarogerssimpson1280 8 месяцев назад

That's a great idea.

@DebbieandEddieBFF 4 месяца назад

❤

@kathyconger2188 Год назад

That did not look like a budget meal! That looked good enough to make any day of the wk even without financial struggles! Great job Brooke!👍🏻

@gia4408 Год назад

I love how your men love you and hype you up. I can only recall MAYBE 2x one of them didn't like something and that's pretty freakin awesome! I only have sons myself and while i always wanted a girl, there's something special about being the only woman in the house. On tv the other day, somebody said that as mothers we raise our daughters and love our sons. It sounds wild, but i think it may be true. Being a " boy mom" is special.

@sunflower.power.yall. Год назад

Swear this is one of the sweetest families on YT

@chercharliescrafts736 9 месяцев назад

Brooke!! PLEASE GIVE US A RUN DOWN OF SIMPLE PANTRY ITEMS. I know u say it but I’d like to see it ; it will help me sooo much. Just a rundown!! Ty ty ty , Brooke!!

@The_Buz Год назад

My Neighbor showed me this a few years ago and our family loves it. It's cheap, and easy, a 1 pot dinner. Brown 1-2 lbs of hamburger 1 can of refried beans 1 can of Rotila 1 package of chili mix 1/2 to 1 whole chopped up onion mix it all together with the brown meat Searve with Heated tortillas You can add anything you like but fill and roll up to burrito If you want add lettuce tomato, sour cream and cheese on top We always called it Dog Food. But it's really just beef and bean burritos But there so easy and so good Hope you try this because the kids will give 2 thumbs up for this...

@janeadams5207 Год назад

rice in your meatballs is from “porcupine meatballs” an old school pressure cooker meal which is one of my dad’s only specialties. I can’t believe everyone on earth hasn’t made it on tik tok yet lol. It involves tomato soup minced onions par boiled rice and ground beef. Best over mashed potatoes.

@thumpzH Год назад

My mom made porcupine meatballs too. I make it today as a comfort meal. So good and simple.

@managing_the_motherload 9 месяцев назад

Your boys are going to have high expectations in their future spouses if they go off of cooking ability alone 😂 thats a good thing. 👍 ❤

@julieparnell8380 Год назад

Can we do some episodes of letting us tell you what we have and you telling/showing us what you would create with it?! I think that would be soooo helpful and fun!

@SauerPatchGardening Год назад

That's $1.40 a plate! That is awsome. And no way you could get this meal anywhere for $1.40 a plate! Great job

@mousemeat1352 3 месяца назад

Perfect execution of a difficult budget amount of meals supported by a basic pantry can be really good. Being frugal doesn't have to taste bad. Bottom line food in your stomachs has great value.❤❤

@andreaemmason5702 Год назад

Hello from England, prepping is not huge over here however since I was a child I was taught to have a well stocked pantry and make sure you budget and stock up when you can. My family has never gone without even when we have had nothing. Keep up what you are doing lovely lady doing an amazing job xx

@barbck Год назад

Meatballs with rice are called Porcipine Meatballs! They are delicious with Gravy!

@kimwhite5466 Год назад

I make my porcupine meatballs with beef rice a roni and hamburger meat.

@FindingMyLight Год назад

I was coming down here to say that as well,, they are so good

@sherrylewis9327 Год назад

And leftover rice can be used if you don't have Minute Rice lying around the pantry. The ends won't poke out like the other though so it does kinda spoil the visual effect.

@alieshahill8937 Год назад

I much prefer these with using pantry ingredients. More realistic to my shopping and cooking.

@deyonmcclintock9600 23 дня назад

Ive been watching for 6 months or so and this series popped up today....i was thrilled and watched them all!

@kellycrawford1625 9 месяцев назад

People remember to get cooking utensils & gadgets for house warming gifts & bridal showers. I would really like to see what you would do if you were making a “pantry” basket for these occasions. You could do a few videos with different dollar amounts. I would have loved a gift like this when I started out on my own!

@thaseasoned1511 Год назад

You are a beautiful mother with beautiful children

@JeanetteParmantie-jq5xy 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the pantry idea.

@jeannetaylor2217 Год назад

Young lady, I could eat that entire bag of green beans!! They are my favorite. I cook bacon crispy, drain some of the grease and stir fry the green beans. When ready to serve, I crumble the crispy bacon on top. DELICIOUS, YUMMY ❤. WHAT you heard about the minute rice is correct. You can use any ground meat, add the minute rice, your seasoning and make your meatballs. I call them porcupine meatballs 💕🙏🙏

@4gotitalready Год назад

I LOVE this gal!!!! So many ideas and a loving, actively involved family makes me smile! Your ideas keep me coming back-THANK-YOU!!!!

@rubyjones679 Год назад

That looks just like meal from the Hello Fresh meals and it is a lot more than $7! Great job!!

@jessicaschenk3509 Год назад

I wouldn’t call it an emergency pantry, just a working pantry. You want to use that stuff regularly, not just when you are low on funds. You are so right to stress how important it is to keep a stocked pantry!

@donamariaallen3132 Год назад

❤ sweet and yummiest ❤

@lyndarussell241 2 месяца назад

Those meatballs look amazing! I like how you showed using cornstarch as a binder. You are so awesome. Love all your videos! Thank you for sharing and have a beautiful, Blessed day ❤

@lorentrain6174 Год назад

Bravo! This was Genius!!! I will definitely try. One note. I am Italian and we cook our meetball in the oven at 400 for 20 minutes.

@rebaburn2677 6 месяцев назад

I definitely really always have these pantry items too. So I definitely agree that these items are important when building meals day to day😊

@stellaunger8568 Год назад

Please show you followers how to keep green onions growing in a glass with a little water, fresh greens for free after the first initial purchase. Great looking meal. ❤️😁🌹

@Pamzollman Год назад

My grandmother used to make porcupine meatballs in her pressure cooker (this was decades before Instant pot). She always used ground beef and regular rice, not minute rice, and they turned out so yummy! She would make a gravy and serve the porcupine meatballs with the gravy over rice with vegetables on the side. Such good memories!

@Ladypavs Год назад

Porcupine meatballs was our go to meal when my husband and I were first married. Some weeks it was more rice than meat but it was always tasty.

@tnredrose Год назад

I have added instant rice to my meatballs for years. We called them porcupine meatballs. I now make my own instant rice. Just take left over cooked rice and dehydrate it. Works just like the store bought but soooo much cheaper.

@barbarawarren9645 Год назад

For $7 that looks delicious!!

@tinablair2206 Год назад

❤ another great meal. A can of pineapple would be great in the meatball sauce too. I don't know why but I love green beans with rice. I haven't made them this way, but you can bet I'm going to try to now.... Also, preach about building up your pantry. I watch another RU-vidr (Jessica Wanders) who is doing a series with $21 for a week and shows how to roll the extra items forward and build your pantry over time. You and Jessica seem to have a lot in common, but she lives in British Columbia so her prices are higher! She gardens and cans like you! I so enjoy your videos, THANK YOU

@bobbieseright5117 Год назад

An idea I'd like to see would be showing the different meals you could get at a specific store if you have 3 different amounts like 5, 10, or 15 dollars. Thank you for the content.

@marybethsmith6458 Год назад

That looked delicious. You are right, that's at least a 15$ plate at any Asian restaurant.

@amandasnailtasticnails9657 Год назад

Yeah I remember my mom telling me that rice will bulk up meat when I was young. Yes I agree with a well stocked pantry. I’m gearing up on living on my pantry items. I stock up on pantry items during the school year and live off my pantry during the summer time. The only food items I’ll need is fresh produce if funds get really tight I’ll go venture out to my local food pantries. I like coming here to your channel to learn how to cook Asian dishes. My question is how did you learn to make it. I’d like to add more into my cooking. I mostly create pasta style dishes mainly because that’s what is easily available to me.

@lindawestfall5660 Год назад

A hundred years ago in GIrl Scout camp we made the meatballs with rice in them and ate them in tomato soup. They were called porcupine meatballs.

@rebaburn2677 6 месяцев назад

Love this idea of the game you are doing!! Way to be original! 🎉

@sherryarmstrong4683 11 месяцев назад

I have a recipe for you. Porcupine balls! Ground meat, rice (I don't remember if the rice is cooked first), seasonings, cooked in a tomato sauce that has Worcestershire sauce and a little brown sugar. I think your boys would love it! I'd Google the recipe. It's really good.

@nancycarney Год назад

My prep pantry cam in handy this weekend. Praise God! Emergency is the word. Every Tuesday morning Kroger has HUGE produce markdowns and bagged 99c bags of produce. YES! They still keep up to 5 days. It doesn't matter what it is. That will be this weeks produce for dinners. 🙂

@stephanieblaylock1 Год назад

I do this with their meat also.

@dawnanderson6486 Год назад

This looks better than a lot of restaurant meals that I've had. I love meals that look pretty and I have all these ingredients so that's what we're going to have for dinner at my house. You and your family are an absolute joy!

@sarahbbudgets Месяц назад

I keep having to come back to this video, because I made the sticky meatballs once just to try out and my husband loves them 😅 it is now made a couple times a month at our house. ❤️

@beckycuker4797 Год назад

That looks amazing! I watch all of your videos, you’re really creative. I’d love to see you plan a months breakfast, lunch, dinner,deserts, and snacks. Cook on sweet friend🎶

@kricketcooper5024 Год назад

Looks like a fancy restaurant meal.

@barbarasutherland8000 Год назад

I went to Dollar tree and the freezer section was empty since the extra food stamps are gone people are emptying the frozen section your channel is helping people to cook for there family especially if they don't have enough money to buy for there family I am glad your doing these shows hopefully you will continue to do more your ideas are very helpful.🌍👍🌍💯🌍🍀🌍💓🌍✌️🌍👏🌍🌟🌍🍚🧄🧅🧈🍛🌍😋🌍

@dylan1962 Год назад

A huge tip on meatballs/loaves - my grandma taught me to use oats to bulk these up. They hold onto moisture very very well, add fiber and complex carbs (keeps you full!) and they’re dirt cheap. * We always topped our meatloaf with ketchup and brown sugar. Simple, but amazing!!

@dylan1962 Год назад

^^ they also work great as a binder with water, no other items needed!

@tinablair2206 Год назад

You can even add it when making burgers. I add a quarter cup to a pound and get 5 burgers instead of 4. Yay for extra servings. My husband likes to have a leftover burger for his lunch, so it's perfect.

@tinashort9098 Год назад

I’m so glad you used pantry items for this!!! Love to you and your sweet family ❤❤

@alishaparr577 Год назад

You could use instant rice or leftover cooked rice, breadcrumbs, oatmeal or crushed potato chips to help stretch meat for meatballs or meatloaf or burgers.

@patdoman8209 Год назад

Definitely check out Porcupine meatballs! Definitely yummy, not expensive and the whole family loves them! We use tomato soup instead of tomato sauce for the gravy ( and put a little sugar, ketchup and pepper to season it) and serve over either mashed potatoes or buttered rice!😊😊😊 Blessings over you and your family😊😊

@LoriFalce Год назад

Porcupines are the best. And we never use minute rice for them, just regular rice.

@jenniferf3704 Год назад

Good Morning Beautiful Friend!!!

@SouthernFrugalMomma Год назад

Hope you have the best day ever!

@shelzp7272 Год назад

Those green beans looked pretty all the way from the store to the plate… 🙆🏻‍♀️

@melanieroberts2221 Год назад

I use corn starch from the baking section on my grandson after each diaper change. I left the paper seal on it and made holes in it. FYI.

@elizabethpraunsmandel2764 Год назад

It's like adding rice to cabbage rolls, cook your rice first then add to meat

@janebain3402 Год назад

Haha you sounded like a Londoner when you said I like it alot at the end!🇬🇧😅🇬🇧

@usernamessuck35 Год назад

Ooo girl you got fancy with it today! Love it! ❤

@symplybeingme Год назад

Looks delicious Brooke thanks for sharing your videos are so relaxing. Blessings to you and your beautiful family

@robinholbrook8296 Год назад

I made this for dinner. It was so good! Thanks! I used ground turkey I had in freezer.

@jeanlujan6129 Год назад

There’s a trick to the parchment paper if you wanted to stay flat either just roll it up into a ball and straighten it back out or get it wet

@s.coloradosteader8097 Год назад

I have some ground chicken which I now know what to make with it. I have all the ingredients except for the sesame oil. Thanks Brooke, another great idea that I will enjoy making.

@tngalvols1184 Год назад

Girl, that looked like a 5-star dinner!! Plated so beautifully!!

@hollygibson628 Год назад

We call the rice meatballs. Porcupine balls. They are in a ketchup/cola sauce. Also betty crocker has a sweet n sour sauce. Taste just like the red sweet n sour sauce from chinese food. I think most of the ingredients are pantry staples.

@littlecreekhomestead4086 Год назад

I make my own minute rice by dehydrating my left over rice. Comes in handy for those nights when I want to add rice to something or just need a super quick dinner!

@Back-handedLuck-ul7ms 9 месяцев назад

@littlecreekhomestead4086 - dehydrating cooked rice is a great idea! Could you post how you do that? I would love to try it.

@lswest1569 Год назад

Wonderful looking meal! Different! Thanks so much for a great idea. 😉

@willowzoey3096 Год назад

Very good dinner for $7. we couldn't even get the ground, beef, pork or chicken for that! I live in Canada

@melodyshomesteadlife Год назад

Gorgeous presentation and that looks so deliscious!!!

@tina6277 9 месяцев назад

My expensive grocery store has a fresh sushi place chopsticks and soy packets are free with purchase. If the raw stuff is not your thing they have fully cooked items too.

@sharendonnelly7770 9 месяцев назад

Binge watched all 8 "low budget meals every store". Brooke, awesome job! That was a great series, really liked what you made on the random budget amounts. Five gold stars!

@susannmoreno1458 Год назад

Our family enjoys the Mexican soup called Abondigas. It's a meatball with rice soup. Cheap and easy tasty too. Google this soup It's my go to. Dinner in 1 hour

@janaebraden9377 Год назад

Share that recipe please...I eat soups year round.

@janaebraden9377 Год назад

@@rhondavigil795 I did Thank you for the tip. The soup looks wonderful.

@theresarogerssimpson1280 8 месяцев назад

I always use regular rice instead of minute rice. ❤

@susanprather5962 Год назад

This looks delish and nice plate presentation. 😂

@dellasmalley6097 Год назад

I so Appreciate urchannel n have done a a lot of ur low budget meals. You n ur family have a Great week n enjoy☺🌹

@cherifoster1114 11 месяцев назад

Could you make a extreme budget video with BOGOS,three-fors,etc,with and without the pantry,and so on....🤔🤔🤔🤔👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯💯💯💯

@Pamzollman Год назад

I always look for the manager specials in the produce section of Ingles. You can find some great deals there. Same with the meat section.

@christeenprice5637 Год назад

Girl that looks so yummy,thanks,❤️👍❤️👍❤️

@wendyjones3586 6 месяцев назад

one of the first things I keep in my emergency pantry is the powdered things .. Powdered milk , taters and powdered eggs .. They only need water and can be used for so many things .. I use powdered taters to thicken up stews and things when I can make a rue...

@debraparks6124 19 дней назад

Looks delicious!😊

@Jswilk830 Год назад

Hi Brooke! I am definitely gonna try these sticky meatballs! I’m always looking for new ideas

@karonwoods1583 Год назад

I'm enjoying this series

@nataliegrooman4328 Год назад

Love your RU-vid your adorable and smart😊

@Auroraphox Год назад

ok so that looks absolutely amazing

@southerncaltattooedbiker3643 Год назад

I love the parment paper that you can get at Temu I have bought many different kinds for all baking and for my fryer like you used the other day.

@laurenbutts1021 Год назад

This looks great! Love the plating!

@kimknowlton3334 Год назад

Looks amazing and a great price for 5 people!

@featheredfriendshomestead Год назад

Oh yum this looks delicious thanks for sharing 🥰

@hello-vs4me Год назад

I stocked up 2019 before prices went up now just restock when good sales come up

@misfit7610 Год назад

Beautifully plated!

@karenbrewster7443 Год назад

Another winner!!!

@deanarichardson5284 10 месяцев назад

I make porcupine meatballs that are amazing with rice in them

@wandaknighten3518 Год назад

Hi Brooke , Dusty and boys Thank you Brooke for teaching us how to take only 7 dollars to make a meal plan . Thank you Brooke for all your hard work and research and quick thinking to teach us these meals. Keep the videos coming. Sending lots of love and prayers 🙏❤

@user-Lee2925 3 месяца назад

I make the green beans with balsamic vinegar. I cook it at least 6 cans a week. I don’t like frozen. I have not tried fresh I sauté mine but will try oven

@nicoleturner5808 Год назад

Beautiful!

@gadgetlady4957 Год назад

I always have all of the pantry items that you are using in my pantry too. I don’t have a problem with your including things like that. Now on the other hand, if you included canned fruit, canned veggies or canned meat in your pantry items to add to this meal, even though I also keep those in my pantry too, I would not think it was right to include them for what you are trying to accomplish with this challenge. But that’s just my opinion. I think you are great and really enjoy your videos.😀

@alexachenbach821 Год назад

Hi Brooke. How my cute Little man doing today.tell him i need a happy Dance.linda from iowa😊❤

@susangann68 Год назад

Wow I love your recipe! Thank you so much for sharing ❤

@angelam4258 Год назад

Dang i spend 3 bucks for those sheet tray spice kits...to dollar tree i go come wednesday..we cant get decent green beans fresh like that at any of our stores. That was a great find...to bulk up meat balls use cold leftmover cold cooked rice. I tried minute rice and had issues with it being hard inside the meat ball..but i love minute rice for everything else.