I let an app decide my Easter Brunch! 

Just a tip on the lemon tree thing, this is a good time of year to find lemon trees at places like home Depot and Lowe's for around $30 to $50 range that will be ready to go for fruit next season. You can also plant them in a 25 gallon nursery pot, just the solid black ones. So that way when you move, you can take it with you or you can bring it in the house when it's winter. Garage whatever. Just to protect it. They do sell smaller fruit trees that are around $25, and they are producing fruit, it's just not the best for them to produce fruit yet because the tree needs to get a little stronger. So you could get one of those and still plant it in your pot, you just remove the fruit for the first year or two until the tree gets a couple of feet tall. I live in florida, so we can have our citrus out almost all year. I'm on my first year of a few citrus trees and it was hard to pinch off all the fruit the other day, but I know in a few years I'll have a lot!

I don't want you to sell yourself short! The generative model gave you what you asked for, but YOU decided on the herb potatoes, YOU decided to mix the ingredients together to complement each dish, YOU made the spending decision that made the budget work (buying the ingredients that were on sale, or made the most sense financially). If someone had typed the same thing into chat gpt and just bought what it said and just mixed the ingredients it suggested for the same dishes, this would be a failure. AI is a good brainstorming tool, but it can't make the in-the-moment snap decisions that are intuition-based and required to make something good. Just like a stand mixer makes forming dough easier, YOU still made the dough, YOU still baked the bread. Love your insight into making food work on a budget and making it taste great and easy to make.

I love salad for brunch because so many things are often so rich that the salad is a light option that goes well with all the other dishes.

When you’re looking for a salad bowl at the thrift shop, look for a wide very shallow bowl. That way you make a “flat” salad that doesn’t need to tossed! No toppings sinking to the bottom or going to the first person to dig in if you forget to toss. It makes a lovely presentation that looks delicious to the last serving.

I think your menu looked great. For most holidays at home we have brunch, snacks or appetizers, then dinner. Three full meals is hard for us to eat. I think I’ve decided what I’ll make. Brunch butterscotch Bundt rolls (kind of like monkey bread) spinach, bacon, mozzarella frittata (Maybe a sausage, pepper, and cheddar frittata too.) Snacks/appetizers: Fruit Spinach artichoke dip Crackers, pretzels, chips Dinner: Small ham Hash brown casserole Green beans Small Sweet potato casserole Small Strawberry, pretzel, jello salad Dessert: Cadbury egg cream pie Happy Easter!

You could also reserve an egg or two. Hardboiled eggs as an addition to the salad. Yum

“Fate otherwise known as the internet” - me when googling something 😂

Not only is this a nice brunch in general, and probably lovely for Easter - it also works for Passover as is. The basic menu is dairy with the feta cheese, but has no meat PLUS there's nothing that uses flour at all. It would be perfect for a Passover holiday lunch because the dinners are very heavy and meaty, and this would balance beautifully. I'd happily serve this to guests.

This is such a versatile menu because you can pick the fruit you like, add whatever ingredients you like to the frittata, season the potatoes however you like, and even swap the lemonade for juice or coffee.

I was surprised to see that you got two big platters of fresh fruit for so little money. At Publix, a premade platter would have been over thirty!

Buy a dwarf lemon tree. You can keep it in a container and take it with you

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The 2nd best is now

Cute curls💖

The menu looked good, I think it would have been great to add mini-biscuits, a pull-apart biscuit ring, or maybe slider-sized mini-dinner rolls, but I wouldn't remove the salad to add rolls.

During the summer, Dollar Tree usually has large plastic “crystal looking” serving bowls you should check out.

This is such a great meal! Looks like a delicious brunch anytime! I'm going to try your recipe for lemonade this weekend (I love the idea of using the peel/rind...normally we just leave it in the lemonade for a few hours and then strain it but I think your boil method could really add some extra flavor). I like the salad idea with the meal, but it really depends on who you are feeding...because salad and fruit might be a lot of fresh stuff for some people and they might just do one or the other...but if you have someone watching carbs or something, the salad is a good option if they don't want too much fruit. All-in-all, this was a fun video and I love the idea of it.

I always scrub and peel my lemons before making lemonade. I use them to make limoncello or dry them for lemon zest.

This looks like a lovely and healthy brunch. And vegetarian too!

One of my parents was diabetic so we always had salads and fruits at every gathering. Sometimes it would be a berry fruit salad and a grilled peach and red onion mixed green salad (my favourite). 😊

I saw where Dollar Tree is raising the price to some items to $7.00

6:23 hey! botany nerd here, a lot of people feel this way, so there’s a method humans use called grafting, you take parts of a tree that already fruits and insert it onto a young stem, then you get a young tree that is able to produce fruit! when you’re looking, it should be labeled as “grafted”, good luck!! :)

Hi, I love this menu!!!! I work as a teacher, and I use Chatgpt all the time. It's so helpful. I would leave in the fresh salad, it's nice to have a fresh salad with a meal. I can't wait to try the sundried tomato dressing; that sounds delicious!!!! Please do more Chatgpt menus; it's so much fun! I love watching your cooking show, you're a great cook! Awesome video!

Salad where I live is always included in brunch. It's a nice option because sometimes there can be a lack of vegetable dishes in brunch menus.

One thing about the ai request. Make sure you specify number of servings or people. It could have given you brunch for two.

When you said “ever so lightly”, it reminded me of Lila from ‘Hey Arnold’. And the fact that you’re so nice and soft spoken as her, also with red hair it’s amazing. I really laughed. That’s so great! 😂❤

great idea! About the pineapple, to find out if it's ripe, just try to pull out one of the leaves at the top. If it comes out easily, it's ripe. If it won't come out or you really have to pull it, put it back and keep looking.

I loved how you took what ingredients you had and made the most of them! Such a good example. Ik a lot of people, sometimes myself included, just get tunnel vision with ingredients and such for a recipe. Always love your videos!

Thank you for posting your $ menus they are informative and ideas.

This looks delicious 😋 Only thing I would add is some ham or bacon and I have to have a sweet pastry of some sort. ❤😊

Super cool! Love this video idea. Hope to see more. Maybe ask AI to use only Dollar Tree ingredients for some type of meal plan?? See if AI can work within those parameters.

If Rachel Ray became rich & famous, then this young lady can too! #foodnetwork #bobbyflay #gordonramsey

If you can get one, get a dwarf meyer lemon tree, they are small and you can keep them in pots. The lemons get sweet enough to eat like tangerines while still staying lemony and tart. Quick to fruit as well. We bought ours at home depot, and had fruit the next year. Tangerine and limes also can be grown in a pot.

Save your pineapple bits and core. Process it the same as your lemons for a nice sweet drink. I also freeze the core and use it as ice in a water bottle. 👍

Now that is handy! For some reason I don’t like AI. But this is useful.

I wouldn’t expect salad at a brunch but it wouldn’t make me angry to be served that. It looks delicious!!!

I love those little packs of potatoes 🥔. They're great for something quick and easy.

I am mostly against ai in almost every concept but this seems like one of the few use cases of it where i see the point! happy holidays to you & your family

The cantaloupe looks delicious and it sounded/ looked ripe when you cut it up, juicy and soft. Yum! I grew up on it, but I know many people who don’t like it mostly those who didn’t grow up eating it.

Rebecca, I love your videos and the ideas you give for meals and cooking. Some advice for future videos is that whenever you use the cutting board, please put some type of kitchen towel or cloth under it. Made me a little nervous seeing you cut the cantaloupe and the board moving.

only you could take a computer generated recipe and make it look like it came a 5 star Michelin restaurant

Just a flavor tip for making lemonade: the flavor of lemons change when you heat them, so if you cool your simple syrup with some ice before you add it, you get the best of both worlds for lemon flavor.

My dad’s cousin kept pineapple cores in the freezer to treat sore throats.

Smell the bottom of a pineapple, and if it smells sweet and delicious it’s ready to eat.

Would love to see AI do something with Dollar Tree items. Love your channel!

For the pineapple there's a method 0f zero waste presentation (NO CUTTING EVEN) you twist off the top, bang the bottom a bout a dozen times and hard roll the sides for about 6+ min and then the litle triangle bits just pull out into little cones! Soooo coool so ya about 15 min prep but looks amazing

I'm really happy with your cooking site. I have spent quite a bit of time looking for Easter brunch, dinner and dessert ideas. I do like to include a nice salad with any of my holiday meals. Thank you for sharing your time and ideas with us. Happy Easter 🐰 🐣

I use my lemon peels to make a cleaning solution it smells fantastic

This was a great use of technology. I wonder if the search looked at local store prices. Once you have a menu then a search could find the best prices. Ever think about canning? You might be the person to bridge the gap. I can beans, meat on sale, fruit on sale or locally picked, and repackage things like olives and jalapeños into smaller 2 person jars. Buy once, eat forever and save. It’s a hobby for me now as I only work part time. Great video … Peace. PS get your lemon tree! You are worth it! Bring in during winter to garage or out of weather. Take it wherever. 🍋

Thank you! I know what I'm making for Easter now! This is one of the best looking meals I've seen you make! 🐰🌻🐇🐣

Allrecipes does a dinner spinner option you put in what you have on hand and spin and it comes up with an option

This menu looks so good! Easy shop, easy prepare, and tasty! I could make this for my grandkids and the only thing they might ask for is toast! Thank you for all the work you do! Happy Easter to you and yours!

I love a colorful buffet. You did good.

I also hate cantaloupes and biting into cherry tomatoes. Whenever I order a salad and it comes with whole tomatoes and and other large chunks of veg I have to cut them up to be the same size. My family thinks I'm crazy 😅

I've seen some really poorly constructed menus come out of this same tool (recipes with incorrect measurements that caused inedible food), I'm glad that it worked for you! It would be interesting to see if it continues working well for you in the future

I for sure love salad for brunch! Breakfast food seems to always be so heavy so a salad is such a nice balance

😮the hair!😁 Do it again. This was a great idea I enjoyed the video. *For anyone looking add the rind to some water and the seed things. It flavors the water and wastes less! Fast fact: I have the pants to that shirt 🤭

So excited to get the notification and Happy Easter to you and your family!

Living in the Rio Grande Valley TX we have access to cheaper fresh fruit. It's worth investing in a pineapple corer if you do a lot of fresh.

I love your hair like that. Also if u wish to have a Lemon tree you can get a dwarf lemon tree and grow it in a large pot indoors. Then when u move u can plant it 😊

They have dwarf varieties of lemon trees. They grow really well in a planter and they produce quickly.

Rebecca you could NEVER be replaced by AI!!! Ever, ever ever. I'm an Executive Assistant and come across AI a lot with my job - its not at the top of my favorite things list. I'll stick to going to your channel and looking at the playlist if I decide to venture into that unused room called a kitchen. 🤣🤣🤣

I wish I would have seen this before I bought everything for Easter last week. We are having half the people we normally do and it would be a great year to do something different and this looks amazing! And I plan on using that app. That was just cool.

I would love to see more of your sun dried tomato dressing ideas, even in Conjunction with your brown bag series.

Strawberries would be so good on the salad too! This is beautiful. Love this! Also, a great twist on a video! A+ p.S. super cute hair!

I use my egg shells in the garden so I do the same thing.

Love salad with frittata or at Brunch. I'd take salad over potatoes or rolls/biscuits/bread any day & any meal.

Great menu! Most impressive is that all is fresh and no processed foods! No canned or frozen foods either!!

Great menu 😊 If ham lunch meat in fridge add some to the frittata. Frittata's are wonderful when our garden is overflowing or produce on sale. 😊

I’m so old and technology illiterate that I have no clue what AI is but I’m always here for your beautiful content!! By the way…your red curls are stunning!! I’m in the bleaching process right now😂. I always go back light for warm weather! I’ve got one more bleach bath and then my old 58 yr old ass is going neon yellow!!!😂❤. We’re very lucky at our Food Lion because the young lady that runs the produce department is awesome!!! She really stays on top of things!! If you’ll put 2 of the lemon halves on top of each other in the press and mash them again you’ll get more juice! I saw this somewhere a few yrs ago and I always do it and it really works. Welcome to the I despise any kind of melon club🤢.

If buying strawberries and also making lemonade you can toss the strawberry tops in with those lemon peels to make a strawberry syrup and have "pink" lemonade. Salad and frittata/quiche is a pretty common dish served at brunch restaurants. I personally am like you and don't really want a salad with my eggs.

We like tapioca pudding but mine is never sweet enough or its too sweet i keep wating for a pudding recipe from you,all your videos are super great you have such wonderful ideas.❤ ps i love pineapple🍍 and🥭 mangos😊

Yaaaas come through with the curly hair! Love it!!

Salad with frittata goes together well. Roasted potatoes looks yummy.

Excited for this! You look beautiful love the curls and I really love your content!

Video idea-- eclipse party lunch!

Growing up my grandmother always had salad and biscuits with brunch

OMGoodness.....it look's beautiful AND yummmmmmy 😋 ❤ 🐇 Happy Easter 🐣

Wow, what a great idea. Heading straight to my laptop to test this out because it takes quite a bit of time to make meal plan and grocery list

Ok, so honestly, I've watched your video many times. I love this menu... We are on a budget and I plan to make this menu for Easter Brynch instead of traditional ham, mashed potatoes, and all the other carb filled sides the family wants. Lol.... The only thing I'm swapping is the salad for slices ham and biscuits 😋 the leftovers are fir dinner... yeah, I get to cook once. Also adding sliced 🥝 kiwi to fruit plate, bc the kids love em.... TY for this.😊❤

That fruit looked amazing. I love all fruit except honeydew and raspberries. Honeydew for the taste and raspberries for the way the seeds stick in my teeth.

Great video. You can use the lemon 🍋 , the olive 🫒 oil, to make your own vinaigrette with the herbs 🌿

Cinnamon roll bunnies, Cresent roll pin wheels with sausage and egg and cheese, breakfast potatoes, strawberries and pineapples, lemonade and bacon

You should have rested your lemon rind before squeezing the juice. It has SO MUCH FLAVOR, that you could add to the heated liquids, then strain if you don't want rind in your lemonaide.

Salad and quiche is one of my favorite brunch combos. Biscuits or some kind of bread would be nice with the frittata, where it doesn’t have a crust. Potatoes and fruit are probably enough carbs though. AI did a good job here. Looking forward to future experiments. Love your channel!

You almost had it correct, the difference between a frittata and a quiche is a crust and lots of cream. A frittata’s just a baked omelette with veggie. But a quiche has a lot of cream in it plus a crust.

Not sure how this ended up in my algorithm but i love it. I found my new favorite cooking channel!!

The sun dried tomato dressing is amazing on pasta salad

My favorite method for lemonade is to slice lemons into a glass pitcher (peel and all) put in your sugar and mash around with a wpoden spoon untill juice flows well. Add room temp water to dissolve sugar. Chill and filter adding more water if needed. This method gets that good lemon oil out.

That’s a nice vegetarian brunch, that can easily be made vegan or any other desired method for a similar price.👏🏽❤️

This is great! If you added a little more to your budget you could have gotten puff pastry and cream cheese and made berry cream cheese danish for an added sweet treat

I've been using this same AI program to help me with my very specific needs meal plan. But I never thought to ask for a shopping list!! 😂😂😂 derp. It's the little obvious things that can trip you up, right?

Oh oh oh! You can always add some strawberries to your lemonade. 🍓 ❤

Just saying, “YUM.”

That brunch looks so good! I think salad at a brunch is a thing...they would have the salad bar open if you were to go to a restaurant for brunch.

awesome idea!!! love this

“I would normally replace the salad with soemthing like biscuits” 😂 same girl

That looks delicious 💕 Happy Easter to you and your family!

I also have something in common with you! I also do not like any melons! The smell keeps me far away! lol

So festive and yummy looking. And your hair is gorgeous!

This meal looks super yummy...all the fresh fruits and vegetables and I love a frittata, I've made them many different ways...one of my faves is potato and onion, using frozen French fries for the potato. And tomato basil goat cheese. So good!😄