Budget Challenge Revisited: £1.37, One day, 3 Different Meals, No Foraging

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Budget Challenge Revisited: £1.37, One day, 3 Different Meals, No Foraging

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Time for another limited budget challenge - this is another attempt at the inflation-adjusted one pound (adjusted to £1.37) challenge that I did not exactly ace last week.
The reason I do this is as an exercise to try to provoke myself to respond creatively; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability; to think more about what it means to 'try'; to embed a habit of thinking about and focusing upon solutions, not problems and also to experience personal failure in a safe setting. This type of exercise - in this, and in other contexts - has served me very well in life. Those skills, such as they are, have always been the driving force of what I do, on this channel, and everywhere else.
It's important to note what this video is NOT:
This is NOT a tutorial for cooking or budgeting or foraging. No guarantee is made that anyone else will be able to replicate any part of this video (supposing you even wanted to).
This is NOT an attempt to 'play at being poor', although it always does make me appreciate things that I normally take for granted.
This is NOT an attempt to 'prove that people on benefits could get by with less' - if anything, it proves the complete opposite - because this was a difficult thing to do - that's why it's called a 'challenge'.
This is NOT a diet - it would not be a good idea to cook or eat exactly this food every day - or budget like this every day.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Rules & Parameters
0:53 What Went Wrong Last Time
1:31 Shopping
5:56 The Haul
8:13 Breakfast (prep)
12:42 Breakfast (serve)
13:28 Lunch (prep)
21:49 Lunch (serve)
23:39 Dinner (prep)
29:54 Dinner (serve)
31:56 Conclusions
33:15 Nutritional Breakdown

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@mccormack570 Жыл бұрын

Do you think the cashier at the local Tesco has noticed Atomic Shrimp bringing in £1.37 instead of £1 and assumed he must've gotten a big promotion?

@mcsponge7662 Жыл бұрын

@@Akotski-ys9rr i think he was joking mate

@Corkoth55 Жыл бұрын

@@Akotski-ys9rr 1st rule of improv. 🤣🤣

@KatieM786 Жыл бұрын

@@Corkoth55Yes, I think she sees him there and goes ooo there he is 😂

@2lefThumbs Жыл бұрын

@McCormack Brilliant !😂

@benholroyd5221 Жыл бұрын

No, she watches the channel, so knows the KZfaq royalty cheque has come in.

@phillipbuchan9180 Жыл бұрын

From the bottom of my heart I sincerely ask you to please continue making these "Budget Challenge" videos. They are pretty much the only KZfaq content that my elderly father and I enjoy watching together. Thank you so much for making them!

@adixar Жыл бұрын

There are other channels too that do this.

@AirConditioningOGUnit Жыл бұрын

Aww you might also like TheWolfePit he's American and reviews low end food including ingredients. He also makes low cost scratch meals. He's just a wholesome old man.

@Jonahhhh3 Жыл бұрын

That’s so precious ❤

@phillipbuchan9180 Жыл бұрын

@@AirConditioningOGUnit Hi. Yeah I have watched some of his videos before and enjoyed them a lot. I haven't watched any of his content recently though, so thank you for reminding me. :)

@coron1985 Жыл бұрын

@@adixar what's the name?

@Wheely_Dan 7 ай бұрын

How about a “Ready Steady Cook” type challenge where Jenny goes and buys some random ingredients and you have to turn it in to a meal?

@kiyazaki1668 Жыл бұрын

as a broke student in Scotland, Shrimp's challenge videos have given me so much inspiration to make my meals more interesting over the last few years instead of just having beans and toast or noodles, because if he can do stuff like this with such a small budget i can with a much larger budget (relatively anyway lol).

@jamesw512 Жыл бұрын

Same, since watching his channel just my view on a five dollar bill here in America as far what I can eat is incredible!

@PedroBenolielBonito Жыл бұрын

Having lived like a student despite not actually being one at the time, pasta, tinned food and chicken are your best friends. I know chicken isn't as cheap as it used to be back 10 years ago, but there's still the occasional bargain to be found in the Reduced section. Also, one of the massive family packs from Aldi should feed you for about two weeks, or more if you freeze what you don't need. Farmfoods also used to have 8 frozen steaks for 7-8 quid, though I haven't seen those lately. Also, fruit and veg last about 1-2 weeks after their sell-by date. So does cheese. Bread lasts just under a week if kept outside. Eggs are also reduced approximately a week before their actual expiration date, so if you see eggs on Reduced, grab them - they'll still be good until the middle of the following week. Hope this has further helped your cause :)

@marktyler3381 Жыл бұрын

@@PedroBenolielBonito Eggs will last 2 months in the fridge - float test first of course. Cheese also will last for months if you don't let the mould build up. But this challenge is harder than i'd do comfortably. If you take patsa, rice and potatoes out, it's really tough.

@CrimeVid Жыл бұрын

I would be interested in how much it would cost to keep body and soul together, in terms of eating enough not to lose weight (burning muscle). Sort of like student diet, apart from they eat so badly because they spend their allowances on beer ! I lived on a small brown loaf and a quarter pound of Woolworth’s processed cheese per day for over a month !!

@Birodalom1 Жыл бұрын

Being a poor student forced me to learn to cook and eat a lot more vegetables, for which I will be forever grateful.

@mrfreeman1995 Жыл бұрын

It shows how invested we all get in these challenges because I practically said out loud "He's eating the WHOLE banana at once?" as if convinced you would starve for the rest of the day.

@awkwardsity Жыл бұрын