Hoping all that read this have full bellies & fuller hearts this holiday season!

Who makes gourmet sweet potato gnocchi on a $5 budget? Brooke does that’s who. Amazing!!!!

I love your no nonsense approach to feeding families. No apologies just common sense. Thanks again for a great video

$5.00 for 3 meals 😱😱😱 what kind of magic is this !!! ❤😂😂😂

A dollar saved is a dollar earned💞

and for the Gnocchi (doesn t add extra cost): after you have cut them in small pieces, as you did - you then use your hands to roll all these little pieces into round small balls (this will keep them FIRM and not dissolving later in the water or pan). Then slightly sprinkle a bit of flour on them so they are not too sticky, and now comes the part that turns them into Gnocchi shape: You take a normal kitchen fork and press the fork tines into/onto the ball, this will giive them shape. 😊

When my girls were little how I made lunch meat ( we were so dirt poor and my 2 minimum wage jobs kept roof over our heads but I had to get creative) I went to meat market and bought cow toung I scrubbed it good and made a hole from large end through tward tip, I then filled it with home made pico ( chopped onions,garlic,tomatos,jalapeños and celantro) sewed up the end to keep filling inside and boiled the toung till almost done then cooked it rest of way on grill. Sliced thin and it was lunch meat for a week. Back then I had to make meals to feed girls and myself because after rent, lights, car insurance, after school care we were lucky to have 30.00 till next biweekly paycheck, gas was a lot cheaper back then so I feel for families today struggling with food prices, rent, holy cow daycare! So hope this tip helps someone to think out of the box to help fill tummy

thank you dear I hope you know how much you mean to us all. you have helped us so much in feeding r family. much love to you

Look forward to watch as I get ready for work…….. you are so sweet….. like the sister we all want ….. much appreciations

I always enjoy your videos but this one is the best yet! I loved the unique menu. Thanks for the time and effort it takes to make so many people feel like we are hanging out in a friends kitchen figuring out life together.

I also love sweet potatoes! And I eat the skins raw. I love all kind of things made with sweet potatoes 🍠!

Gotta send this video to my nephew who’s in college; he blows his paycheck when he first gets it and then complains about he and his roommates eating ramen for the next week! Thank you!

Oatmeal is our cheap go-to breakfast. Filling. Good for you. Lots of fiber and protein. I love roasted sweet potato peelings. I dip them in a cinnamon-butter-brown sugar dip.Sweet potatoes are loaded with potassium, protein & fiber. Vitamin C Iron, Niacin, Magnesium, Calcium. I even like sweet potato soup kinda like butternut squash soup. Chicken pot pie with Jiffy Mix. SUPER idea. You will never starve. Love ya bunches

Tip from a Eye Talian usually they boil gnocchi potatoes with the skin on!

I love your "can do" spirit and your sense of humor.

I made the chicken and biscuits night before last but used cooked egg noodles instead of biscuits because I had them on hand. And added a you che of poultry seasoning and lemon pepper. My family acted like it was a 5 star gourmet meal!

After I boil my gnocchi I toss it in garlic butter and bake it for thirty minutes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and toss with my favorite steamed veggies. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. The biscuit and veggie pot pie will be a great way to use up all the leftover turkey this weekend. Thanks for another great budget meal plan. I prefer granola to oatmeal so that is what I would do with the leftover oats.

You are a HOOT!!!...I love your videos!!!!...Please don't ever change!!!

I have my phone program when your show comes on alarm goes off on my phone and it went off at 8:02 this morning so it's just got on my phone looking forward to see what you got going today and God bless

When I was a little kid I liked to eat raw sweet potatoes and my family thought I was weird. Until you said that I thought I was the only person in the world who likes raw sweet potatoes.

I just picked up a package of boneless pork chops at Walmart reduced to $5.78 15 portions in the package ! It can be done as you have shown if anyone takes the time and energy to shop around.

You know my adopted great grand mother was from Italy,grand father was from Sicily. Yes there is a difference if you lived there back then😮. Well Gma Mary said if you put enough love in your food that is what counts. If you want a treat or two this is what she taught me. If you have fresh herbs dice them very small and put it into your dough. Or put some cimmamon, nutmeg in the dough, fry them in hot oil them toss them in sugar brown or white or both. If you get suprised with guests you can add white potatoes, even left over mashed potatoes work well. 🎉

Great job! This was pretty nutritionally balanced for such a low budget.

OOOH sweet potato gnocchi! I should buy some more while they are on sale

These are my favorite 🎥!!!

This is one of my favorite five dollar meals videos. Keep up the great work. You are helping us all. God Bless

another awesome vid and theres so many ways to amp up each meal.. add a jelly packet to the oatmeal.. add some tomato soup to the gnocchi.. a can of chicken to the biscuit bake..

Great ideas as always. The fact that u can make three meals on a $5 budget, with these prices on groceries is amazing! Thanks for all the tips and advice. Blessings to u all

Love it . Your veggies and biscuits casserole looks yummy

Thank you Brooke. I just returned back to work so I am in that several week gap before pay day 😮. These videos are a huge help to me.

The last one looked 💣

Happy Thanksgiving 😊 I ❤ your ❤ ideas I 💡 get the budget ideas 💡 and that I could 😉 add 😉 change it to my preferences 😀 very good food thank 😊 you ❤ so much 😊 I do have a open 😊 mind 😊

not sure how i found you but ... I freakin love your channel and you.. I love that you keep it real! I hear people all the time say how they wont eat this or that because their parents fed it to the all the time growing up. However to me I cant make or eat those hardship meals enough, to me that is TRUE comfort food. TY and I will be back

So glad I found you on youtube. I think we all need to learn how to cook more frugal with food prices rising. TFS

I think you did great! Everything looked tasty and filling...what more could anyone want? Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours😁

I'm going to remember this recipe. Cuz I'm going to use it. Thank you thank you thank you

Wow thank you I can make that for my husband,we're litter guy at today I miss him.he so cute.thank you for your meals

Brooke I came across your channel a few weeks ago. I enjoy the videos and my family enjoys the meals! Thank you for what you do!

I watch your videos with a smile on my face. You did so WELL! Looked like some fancy cooking to me and it was only 5 bucks for the day?!? You are amazing. Thank you for sharing.

Looks like you have a fun, happy, household!!!!!!!

Love these 5$videos

🏆Girl, you're the winner, winner of $5 dinners!

Very creative, Brooke. Thank you for showing ways to feed your family or just yourself by trying something new in the kitchen! Bravo!

Love these videos! Thank you! The only unfortunate part is that depending on where you live, there might not be the stores you shop at to get those low prices. I'm in MA, and the prices are high (unless you get a really good sale). We have Walmart here, but not Aldi and a few other places you have shopped at in various videos.

I love watching ur videos n ur meals look so good, being a diabetic I can't have them, so I'm always looking for ways to sub ingredients. Wishing you n ur family a Happy n safe Thanksgiving

A little sage in with the butter for that gnocchi would be bomb...and perfect for fall.

Great filling meals!!

for a change up: if you don't want to go with biscuit mix on top of the chicken and veggies, you could mix up a package of stuffing and put that on either the top or the bottom...dts/usa

You have helped so many of my clients. Thank you.

I am so amazed by you, I am going to share your videos. I am certain in these times people will appreciate you and your ideas. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

I want to do this sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving and see how my family likes it never made it before but I'm going to try it

I love love your extreme budget videos !!!!!! They have helped me so much because sometimes I only 5 or 10 dollars . Your awesomme Brooke

Excellent ideas with a lot of flavors and color. Oatmeal ideas: day 2 add cinnamon; day 3 empty jelly jar a little on sides - put warm water in jar -shake shake - then add jelly water to oatmeal - cook as usual add sugar; day 5 same with syrup jar like day 3. If you learn to eat frugally and to stockpile first 2 weeks, then 1 month, then 3 months and eventually 6mos-1yr. Start small and build on it. Copy Southern Frugal Momma’s $5 emergency meals. You can substitute based on sales items no longer cheap- regular potatoes for sweet potatoes. Eat white rice and flavor it. Walmart has 5lbs of white rice for $2.78. Cheap white rice recipes - fried rice (with any bits of meat), cooked rice+small amount of milk+sugar/cinnamon, congee serve with boil egg or hard boiled egg add items you like. Wheat bread, Oatmeal, potatoes and top with things you like: chili, cheese, beans. If you eat this way for one week, you will save enough to start buying in bulk, example: Turkey $0.27-$0.37lb, ham $0.59-$0.99lb, chicken quarters $0.48lb, potatoes $0.25lb, rice $0.48lb, sweet potatoes $0.25lb, noodles buy flour make your own for $0.50lb, popcorn kernels 32oz bag $2.28, after you have 3 months of food consider saving for a small chest freezer and then move on to end goal of 1 year of food storage. Then you shop your pantry, not the grocery store until the next cheap stock up price comes along. Even with today’s prices you can feed a family of 4 for $40 a week. This week Brewers ice cream is $1.13 for 48oz. GV jello $0.74, dessert is possible.

Love these! Great inspiration!

Thank you so much the.5.oo meals that help me out out.thank you honey,hope you have a good day.

I've never seen that cheap bag of oats whenever I search walmart's website for oats but I searched the brand and it popped up. Added a few bags to my shopping cart. Oats are so expensive lately!

I make chicken and biscuits but I always add cheddar cheese into mine! Its good.

I really like your budget meal videos. We have a family of 6. I would love to see some ideas with just a little higher budget.

Good creative use of limited ingredients! You could grind up some of the oats to flour for the gnocchi if you’re really strapped. A can or two of Vienna sausages added to the casserole may prove budget friendly. Have a happy thanksgiving!🦃

Impressive, I'm going to try these for sure. I'll have to add a can of chicken to the casserole though so my husband will consider it dinner.

This was awesome! Was nice to not see rice and beans for once 😂

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Love your willingness to share!

Fantastic ideas. Thanks for sharing

Yep because my dad never liked the sweet potatoes turned into mush and added marshmallows to the top so we make candied sweet potatoes out of the can unless we had them growing it’s just brown sugar some of the juice from the can and butter sliced them up put them in a frying pan and candy them you can also make carrots that way

Girl!! You are a magician in the kitchen!!!! Thank you for sharing! I just found you and I’m going watch all your content!! I’m subscribed now! I’m not missing anything!!

“Know-key” Great job!!

Awesome recipes ideas, thanks for sharing Brooke ❤️❤️❤️Happy Thanksgiving

I love all your content! You're the best! I would love to see another pantry/fridge/freezer challenge. You've been stocking up 5 bucks at a time. I'd be interested to know how far it gets ya. Thank you so much for all the amazing videos!!

I made all of these this week- we are LOVING the veggie crm of chicken bake. I made one with a drop biscuit top, and one that I added beans and a dash of Adobe chipotle seasoning, w cornbread on to-So good.

Your the sweetest thing! Just love love love your channel!❤😊

The sweet potato gnocchi looks delicious!

I would've never thought to make sweet potato gnocchi... Looks yummy

Great job! You are most certainly helping lots of families out there.

Kudos on the gnocchi. I would have never thought to make that!

Sorry I keep commenting but I'm so excited you're turning me into a good cook! I was never very good at cooking. I made the suddenly salad added onion and cucumber used mayo instead of oil and added adobo. Delicious! Also made the canned mix veg with cream of mushroom since my son is vegetarian and it was awesome!! Thank you so much!

Dear Brooke, thank you, you have given me confidence to cook Xmas dinner (first time in my 52yrs) thank you so much and wishing you and your family a very happy Xmas. 😊

I love the veggie pot pie bake thing you had for dinner 💝 Looked so good. And that sweet potato Gnocchi was so simple to make. Looks good

Loved this video!! Sweet potato gnocchi!! Wow! Gotta try that!! Oatmeal is one of my favorites,So warm and filling. Just like a Big Hug!! Thank you for these emergency videos!! Sometimes we just need to stretch the food budget and this helps!!❤️😊

Amazing! I just lost my job, so this is very helpful! Thank you Brooke! I love your channel ❤

You are wonderful and I love your recipes! They so so helpful!

The chicken pot pie looked really good! Im amazed what you can do with $5. On another subject, I wanted to tell you that dinner for me tonight was beef enchiladas Rojas with Spanish rice and free-ride beans!

Great job. It’s amazing how much better rolls taste when ya pan toast them… that and the gnocchi looked great to me… 🤷🏻‍♀️

Good afternoon angel girl 😇 God bless you and your family. You always put a smile on my face!!!! Thank you for all that you are doing for everyone!!!!! Have a blessed day 😇 Love you guys 😇🥰

Another awesome video! ♥️♥️♥️

I put a little cinnamon in my oatmeal, which is a pantry item for me.

I love oatmeal. So that was a great breakfast. You lunch and dinner looked delicious. I use to get low on money, well I still do but I grocery shop sales and I have been adding a few extra cans of food here and there so it leaves me a bigger budget when there's good meat sales. I usually pressure can it and it makes super quick meals.

Add vanilla and cinnamon to the oatmeal, yum!

Love these vids - always nice to see a new way to do things

Good to know how to eat low budget! Love this video. Happy Thanksgiving to you and family! Hugs from ca.

Great emergency meal plan Brooke. Love these video's.

I always had butter on any hot cereal usually brown sugar and a Tbls or 2 milk to cool it off. Im a sweet grits kind of girl.

Wow! You continue to amaze!! Never would have thought of using that sweet potato that way. - The non-chicken casserole looked yummy!! Great job!!

My son won't eat sweet potatoes but he loves pumpkin and white potatoes. I bet this would work with either of those too. I will sure try this. Gnochi is very expensive now days.. This recipe is cheap and tasty!

Thanks for sharing some budget friendly meals Brooke!! 😋😋

Great ideas! The chicken-less pot pie looked awesome!

Seems like she would be an amazing coupon momma 👀😊

i LOVVVE oatmeal and butter and sugar... sooo good... looks good girl!

Had no idea it was so easy to make gnocchi. This was a great video

Thank you for another helpful video! Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃