I Ate Nothing But Pound Shop Food for 48 Hours 

Your response to Comment Cook has been overwhelmingly positive and thanks for all the dish ideas! I’ve decided to bring the first episode forward to 22nd December. ❤ keep ‘em coming!

As an ex-pat who has been living State-side for almost 15 years now, I was thrilled to experience my first visit to Poundland when I flew back to the UK in August. Your video is bringing back memories of my UK summer, thank you! Totally on your side when it comes to coffee! Soak the gammon for an hour or so beforehand and it really helps reduce the saltiness!

Tip for you! When buying a Gammon Joint, I usually soak in water to get rid of some of the salt! xx

Our regular meals: Congee (just keep cooking rice in a light stock until it breaks down into a rice porridge really!) Shan tofu (chickpea flour, water, salt - cook the crap out of it and then put it in a container to set. I usually bake it in cubes with pepper and spices) Watermelon rind story fry (peel off the green skin from the rind, cut up the rind finely, boil it and then fry it with onion, carrot, other veg with garlic, ginger, soy sauce and a bit of mirin. Serve over rice with sesame oil.)

Breakfast bites, one of my favorite budget recipes. Fry up some bacon, like half a 1lb pack of rashers, or even better those cheap bacon pieces, just chop em up! (IMPORTANT! - Keep the bacon fat for later on in the recipe, don't throw it away!) Chop the bacon into small pieces and let cool. While the bacon is cooling, whisk up a few eggs, add a splash of milk, salt and pepper and any other seasonings you like to taste. Grate a couple of ounces of cheese and whisk into the egg mix ( If you like it extra cheesy and can afford to splurge, sprinkle some Parmesan in too.) Add the chopped up bacon pieces and mix well. Coat individual muffin trays with the bacon grease you saved previously, and then pour in the eggie cheesy bacony 'batter' to each individual tray, filling each one to about three quarters full. Top with extra cheese if you have it, and then bake in the oven at about 350 degrees until they begin to brown and a knife pulls out clean. They will puff up considerably while baking, but will deflate when they cool, that's normal. These "brekkie bites" can be frozen for several weeks and used as needed! Great budget breakfast or great to add to lunchboxes!

Hi from West Virginia! Today, I'm making a WV-native lunch/snack, pepperoni rolls. A dinner we eat often in the colder months is chicken potpie. Love the videos!

That cheese and spring onion filling is soooo good.

A west Yorkshire style corned beef ash. Large pan, add chopped taties, carrot, peas, onion, and frozen mixed veg and a tin of corned beef, add water to cover, boil for 30-40 minutes, add some gravy grounds and brown sauce. Then serve on Yorkshire puddings.

Pitta pizza. Pitta base. Tin tomatoes blitzed with half an onion , topped with cheese and any topping. Oven for 15 minutes

For milk. 1 tin of evaporated milk (cheap supermarket brand) and 500ml of water. That is how the GF likes it and that makes 1L. For me that is way to thick so add 750ml. You can also use them to make yogurt. Very simple just need a warm place and a starter. I used Yeo Valley Natural Yogurt as my starter. Once you made your first batch take some of that and put into the ice tray and freeze. Then when you want to make another batch to pop in some of the frozen yogurt cubes. I just pour in a 410G can of Evaporated Milk with 500ml of water into a 1L mason jar with 3 tablespoons of Yeo Valley Natural Yogurt. Boil a kettle and put the jar into a pot and fill it a little with boiling water. After 10hrs you have yogurt. Its that easy to make.

Love this channel no falseness just really genuine ❤

Love this! More more more please

😊 that was great thanks. Love Mr Happy mug and.your pets. From Melbourne Australia.

My favourite Dish I make . Lime and Coriander Chicken (can be eaten hot or cold) Served with boiled jersey new potatoes with a knob of salted butter, with a salad. Served cold . It is lovely on buttered crusty bread . Or sliced with hot chips and sweetcorn . Ingredients . 4 Breasts of Chicken (can add more chicken add more vegetable oil.) 2 fresh limes squeezed . Lime juice 4 table spoons if you dont have fresh. Half a clove of garlic (crushed/chopped finely) Can use garlic paste. 2 green chilli peppers (chopped finely) You can use red if you have no green REMOVE SEEDS Bunch of Coriander (finely Chopped) Fresh Vegetable Oil 4 Tbsp (The veggie oil is to combine the marinade together so up to you how much oil you wish to use. Just dont use too much) Place lime juice, the crushed or finely chop garlic, finely chopped chillies, finely chopped coriander into a bowl . Dont forget to remove the seeds from the chillies . Add vegetable oil to combine the ingredient's in the bowl. Add the breasts of chicken to the bowl , making sure the marinade is covering the chicken. Cover and place in the fridge for 24 hours or you can put the marinade and chicken in a sealy bag. If you have a food processor to do all the fine chopping , this marinade can be whipped up extremely fast . Depending on the size of your chicken breasts and the oven . Pre heat oven to a Medium heat . Middle shelf Place the chicken into a heat proof dish . Scoop out the marinade on to the top of each individual breasts of chicken . Gas mark 5 , 180 degrees . 45 to 50 maybe more. Check there are no bloody bits. Let the chicken rest for 5 to ten minutes. You can make individual foil parcels. The last twenty minute open the parcel so the top crisps up slightly . Close the parcel back up again when you pull them out so none of the juice escape. Moist and juicy chicken . It is not really a spicy dish either . Even the kids have eaten this and loved it .

My favourite comfort food is spag bowl

Get yourself a good basic Dahl recipe and then you can add things that need using up, I like to bulk mine with tin chickpeas and butternut squash. And if you make in bulk it freezes well

Nice meal ideas. Something i cook (in bulk, so i can freeze it and don't have to cook for a bit) on a regular basis: Tacomix on a regular piece of bread with ranchdressing. Construded of a bag tacomixherbs, minced meat, chopped up bell peppers, leek, corn and whatever i can throw in there. And on the side some cucumber for freshness.

I really enjoyed the video even tho I'm not from the UK and have never been in a poundland before. My comfort meal is basically pasta with butter and cinnamon but one of my favorite meals at the moment is a tofu tortilla- you cut a few cherry tomatoes and a some garlic and fry it in a pan with some oil, then add grated tofu(around 150 grams) for spices I use salt, veggie soup powder and shawarma seasoning. When the tofu is ready, set it aside and put a tortilla on the pan so it warms up, then add some tofu on one side and close it. The amount is enough for 2 tortillas, I eat it with some avocado slices and a little lemon juice

I've recently been making a meal I don't have a name for... It's Potatoes fried in a bit of butter (Plant based) with onions, mushrooms, garlic and plant based chicken. I top it off with some other plant based cheese and then bake it in the oven. I don't have timings etc as I just wing it! Herbs and spices are transferable also! for comfort food I tend to go for a mushroom stroganoff with about 3/4 types of mushroom in it

The roast dinners are actually really good but only the chicken … it’s good if you make your own gravy too

TIme for my favourite comfort food Big Scotch eggs First boil as many eggs as you want to eat, and once hardboiled peel them and place them to the side Next skin some sausages and wrap the eggs in a layer of sausage meat, making sure the eggs are fully covered place the sausage wrapped eggs to the side Now, make a load of breadcrumbs and leave them in a bowl on the side After this, get 2 or 3 eggs and crack them into a bowl, then whisk them with a fork to break the yolk Coat the sausage covered eggs in the egg yolk and then cover them in bread crumbs Once each one is fully covered in a good layer of breadcrumbs, place them in the oven I usually put them into the oven with a heat of 180 degrees on a fan oven, and leave them for 20 minutes and they should be done

fave dish - tofu bánh mì

Great review Sam x

This video was very enjoyable! I love how you explained everything. You make me smile a lot. Today was a rough day and this made me pass some time while studying. I have two recipes to recommend for you. Beef Wellington and Dolmeh. They are two dishes that my mom would make me each time I passed really hard exams! Beef Wellington was for when I passed my chemistry exams. She would always make it so tender! She was the perfect cook for it. Dolmeh was for when I passed my biotech exams. She would make it so tasty I would drool everywhere! I hope you make them, I would love seeing that again as my mom passed away and I am not a very good cook, so I love seeing people make those dishes and have a good time like I did back then with her.

That is a really good store! Here 🇨🇦 we have dollarama and we don’t get even close to half of what you have at poundland. Any food items are dry goods. We don’t have any frozen or refrigerated items. I don’t understand it because they would for sure sell out. Make something else from poundland, like a pizza or some nice pasta dish, but make it from scratch. Good luck and may the force be with you. ❤

Chicken, bacon and mushroom pot pie with crispy roasties and veg... delish!

Beans, penne pasta, cheese and ham. Can’t go wrong with it. Doesn’t take long and it’s so simple

Soak the gammon steaks in water for a couple of hours before cooking and it will release a lot of the salt.

My dad used to make corn beef hash pie so it’s litterally tin of corned beef potatoes tin of baked beans some bistro for moisture in pastry it’s cheap very filling great in colder months 😎👍🏻 great channel your inspirational 😇🙏🏻

Hi! I’m from NC in the United States and I couldn’t figure out what pound land was until the last part of the video 😂 it’s like our dollar tree but you have much better products!! Love your channel

A cheap dish I make is gnocchi, chopped frankfurters and veg (usually peppers, onions, courgettes) in a bolognaise sauce and it's amazing

we have poundland in the republic too (its called dealz here since we obvi dont use pounds lol) and im sooo shocked to find out they have fresh produce and stuff over there? theres two in my city, ones a convenience store and ones a proper supermarket-sized one, the larger one only has 2 fridges for drinks, no meal deals or meat afaik. no freezers at all. i guess theyre more for snacks over here? you absolutely wouldnt be able to do this challenge over here without feeling like absolute shit lol

Thank you for the video

Sam next time you bye gammon get a pan put the gammon in and boil it twice n throw away the water this gets rid of the salt the you can do it to your taste love your vlogs thank you

Cool video

Since I'm from Boston, I'll say Boston baked beans. Pretty much every recipe is very close, but here's the ingredients list from the recipe I have bookmarked: 1 pound (2 to 2 1/4 cups) dry white beans such as Navy beans or Great Northern beans (can also use kidney beans) 1/3 cup molasses 1/3 cup brown sugar 3 to 4 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves 3 cups hot water 1/2 pound salt pork (can sub bacon), cut into 1/2-inch to 1-inch pieces 1 medium onion, (1 1/2 cups) chopped I soak the beans overnight, then cook the bacon and onions until cooked through, then throw everything into a slow cooker for 6-8 hours, covered over the top with aluminum foil (to prevent drying out). You can also cook them in the oven in a covered dish.

Oh my goodness, your dog with a cone head. Poor thing! The meals look great!

Betty Crocker cookies - American measurements not UK. Timing based on their ovens which are F not C and different type of ovens. Poundland sounds so strange dollar stores are longer called dollar stores they don't exist anymore they were changed to other names like buck or two in Canada and had names like value store, variety store smart dollar and still existing the reject store in Australia

those cookies you have to mix buy hand u cant stir the water into it with a spatula that's why u had to add water XD

I regularly eat lentil and vegetable curry.

I love those oat pots but I never fill it up to the line coz I hate runny porridge

Cook the gammon in a different pot and boil in water and throw away water and add to rice less salty.

Those potatoes are the worst ever 😂😂

my indugent meal is a stilton and brocaley rissoto

The trick with the Kershaws meals to make them look the front of the box is to serve it onto a saucer.

Bachelors broccoli and cheese Pasta and cook some bacon with extra cheese!!

Hello there mate

philidelphia and ham pasta

For comment cook i like doing Nacho's taco's or a good old corn beef hash

Comment cook My lazy go to for work is a pack of mexcian rice , tin of tuna mayonnaise and some grated cheese. Easy 1000kcl in a meal 😜 (I'm like 11 stone 5"10 so focus on high kcal meals and never gain weight 😂)

The crab sandwich filler is so lush and I'm fussy about fishy fillers

Cornbeef hash the Lancashire way😊

Yehr its a shame the prices arent a pound anymore used to get some good deals only a few years ago not so sure now 🤔

I find Poundland sandwiches ok but there are better options out there

School meals, no, just no, I can't 🤮🤢

Yeah pound shop food is actually surprisingly good quality for what it is

That's like the Dollar Tree here in the USA. Everything is a "Dollar" now a $1.25. A recipe my mom used to make that I still make is Soup. Ground Beef with either rice or pasta, and to keep things cheap she used canned veggies: corn, green beans, and diced tomatoes. And however much water to cover the pasta with. And whatever seasoning she had on hand. Made the pasta version today cause of being sick. Quick and simple to make.

i call our dish we make tomato puree noodles its just like a snack with fresh noodles (actual tomatoes or tomato puree) and a bit of cheese and mushroom

Some of the stuff will be more expensive than the supermarkets. You really have to compare.

Since when did poundland have a freezer damn what posh poundland you go lol

48 hours should try 48 days, when I was 18 I went 3 days with nothing but water

hi from Portugal- cook bacalhau a bras

English Muffin Pizzas - ham, pineapple pieces and shredded cheese add sauce if you want to, really good :) :) But you can do any topping which is why its so great :) :)

What are your fur baby’s called 😍🐈🐕

chx Korma and rice

Is Carolina ur housemate?😊

What does “Bob’s your uncle” mean?

“Bacon thing”

My dish is a tin of drained hotdogs, add £1 tin of chocolate custard and eat from a £2 poundland tuperware

poundland food value is crap.

Don't bother with Poundland, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland are much cheaper and much better value.

starting to question your taste as you think every piece of sh*t is "good"

Urghhh another nice bit of class tourism. Totally tone deaf and really quite lazy stuff. It's like a Brasseye sketch from the 90s... posho explores the proletariat's ways... but does he survive? FFS