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I made a meal at home but really wanted fries, so I swung through the McDonalds drive thru. My jaw dropped when it was nearly $5 for a large fry. I cancelled my order and drove back home. I thought that was insane!

I just shopped at an Amish bulk store for the first time today. They don’t have them in my state. My husband and I filled three grocery carts for $400! After seeing your Walmart run I feel on top of the world! Grocery prices are outrageous right now and I’m just glad I am able to feed my family of 10… ❤

I’ll make my weekly grocery list and then go through it again when I’m done and see what I can make myself. Examples like bread, condiments like bbq sauce, muffins, cookies, granola, tortillas, even sour cream (surprisingly easy) and then subtract them from my list. Saves a little extra money, food is cleaner and it tastes better.

"Lay off me, I'm starving!" LOL Chris Farley 🍟

On the drinkable yogurts, my kids love them, but they’d re so experience! I have found that blending a tub of yogurt with almost half the container size of milk, and a Handful of fruit (like in the freezer say frozen blueberries, banana, strawberries, whatever) makes a nice substitute for such a cost savings!

I'm sticking to about 450 a month for my family of 3 for food and 75 a month for household supplies. I'm gearing up for the summer stock ups, especially on the meat deals as we get into grilling season and all the summer holidays. I often take an extra 20-50 bucks a month to stock up my freezers and pantry when there are big sales. From May to September, those deals tend to be on meats. My FoodSaver gets hauled out to seal small portions of steaks, pork chops, ground meat, fish, chicken breasts, lamb, etc. to use through the winter months. It keeps me from over-spending in the meat department all year. I do something similar when beef roasts, pork loins, pork shoulders, turkeys, and hams go on sale during the holidays. Right now, I have a few roasts left to use for slow cooker dishes over the summer and as I build my summer food stocks, but this practice has helped me keep our household budget for groceries and household goods at $450-500 per month without too much sacrifice in the meat department. This year, we are also doing a couple of small garden beds for tomatoes, zucchini and yellow squash, loose leaf lettuce, peppers, cucumbers, and radishes to help spread our dollars at the store since these produce items feature heavily in our diets. Since I will be helping out a family member by watching her daughter this summer, I thought a garden would be fun for she and my son (both 7 and best friends) to help grow food, not to mention the educational experience of learning more about food and gardening.

We are participating in a no meat buying challenge for 6 months in order to rotate our freezer. So far so good. For the breakfast, I cooked up a ton of bacon & sausage in the oven. The bacon was wrapped in parchment and put in ziplock, the sausage was vacuumed. They are in the freezer. A few seconds in the microwave and they are ready to go. I made breakfast for dinner this week. 30ish seconds for the bacon and a few minutes scrambling eggs, toast and done.

I am SO OFFENDED by the grocery prices! One thing I have noticed is that produce hasn't gone up as much in comparison, so I am eating healthier and saving money by making it the star of the show.

We never were an eating out family. Last week we took my 28 year old son out to dinner & he said “ do I have to get water or can I order a soda”? 😂 when we ate out there was a plan and limits!

Hawai'i is a part of the United States. If you want to say that they are not shipped to the lower 48, you just say they're not shipped to the mainland. Have a fantastic summer, Christine!

We're shopping the deals now more then ever. YES on McDonalds being crazy!!! They used to be "ok" food with cheap prices now they're still "ok" food but at the same crazy high price as the much better food I can get somewhere down the road.

I have started making larger meals that feed my family for a few days and making sure that the leftovers get eaten. It has saved so much on my grocery budget!!!!

Best fast camping breakfast... Large wraps with peanut butter and add your own toppings (bananas, granola, honey, syrup, jelly, etc) roll it up and go! Also... JAVA CHIP OREOS FOR THE WIN!!!

When I was 5 mos pregnant with my oldest, I bought a whole package of Oreos with PB filling and I ate all the cream centers out of the whole box in 1 sitting 😂 So I vote PB as the superior Oreo flavor!!

Still buying the local eggs from my farmer friend for $7 per dozen. I am in Canada and our grocery prices are way higher. I’m sure you’ve heard this multiple times. There’s only two if us, I’m 61 and hubby is 64, we have started a veggie garden (although the raised beds he built were very expensive), and have limited eating out. I’m also working on not wasting food. I don’t stock pile food much, and have a small freezer as we don’t buy much meat. I have no idea what I spend a month for groceries, but it’s probably at least $600 a month, including cleaning products and t.p. etc.

I often make muffins before we leave for camping breakfasts. Or we do granola bars. Both don't need heated up. If I have cooler options, then yogurt and granola is a good option. I've been told getting dry ice for your cooler keeps everything cold much much longer. So if you're doing extended camping, that might be a good option if you want to keep things cold. Finally, if I'm okay with at least starting a fire (but not really tending food on it), I sometimes do pre-made breakfast burritos wrapped in foil. Throw them into the coals and let them warm up.

Camping food 101. The week before you leave meal prep all your food and freeze! Then use what thaws first! For a trip to the lake, tent camping for 5 days for 6 people I made 18 breakfast burritos, 12 breakfast sandwiches, and five 2 gallon freezer bags with pork chili verde, beef stew, green chile chicken, loaded baked potato soup and chicken and shrimp jambalaya. We have a giant Yeti cooler and we actually had to take stuff out to thaw because the Yeti keeps everything frozen! Also packed 2 loaves of bread, lunch meat, sliced cheeses and mustard so we could make sandwiches to take down to the beach with us, or in our packs if we were hiking or biking. Our giant cast iron pot is awesome to cook dinner in on the fire at night when it cools down!

I found tons of good deals on clearance at Kroger this week. These are items I may would not buy ever except they were such good deals, not to mention my kids can make these simple things. Chicken patties doe 2.65 a package. (4 patties). The birthday cake chex mix bars (if you know you know) for 2.06 instead of 8.99, yogurts for 40 cents each and 25 cents each, bags of salad for 1.09 each and some already seasoned chicken for 4 bucks instead of 9.99. Ooh also marinated racks of ribs for 6.99 instead of 19.99

For Oreo flavour mint will forever be my fav! for camping breakfast I fry onions, sausage, hash browns and peppers together before we leave to heat up over the fire. I don’t like eggs so my husband adds eggs after.

Using a cast iron Dutch oven as a “camp crock pot” dump everything in at night before bed and put your coals all around and on the lid then bam breakfast ready to go in the morning. French toast casserole or any breakfast casserole would work to cook low and slow like you would in a crock pot

I'm struggling this last month keeping in budget, but I had our third baby five weeks ago so I'm giving myself some grace for ordering online instead of going in and finding all the best deals.

As someone who can’t eat gluten- I still enjoy watching your snack flavour comparison videos!

We have REALLY cut back all around on food. We only eat out, maybe 2x a month. We use everything in the frig. I am also trying to work through my freezers🤦‍♀️. Planted a container garden with tomatoes, okra, eggplant, zucchini and herbs. We have 2 huge blueberry bushes so we will pick and freeze. And we have just doubled down on convenient meals. They tend to be pricey and less nutritious so they are gone. I work from home & LOVE my crock pot as well as my Ninja oven. Little changes saved over $300 in May🎉

The best Oreo flavor is the Original Oreo's without a doubt!! Second best is Lemon Oreo's Imo!! 😂😂😂 Love from Louisville Kentucky 🥰

Camping hacks for us: I pre make a bunch of breakfast burritos when I have leftover ingredients. Wrap them up in foil and put 4-6 in freezer bags. When we go camping, pull out however many you need for each day. Quick and easy, and no extra prep cooking for vacation. While camping, throw them in a pan over the cook stove, foil and all, and turn a couple of times. Since everything but the shells are pre-cooked, it’s pretty quick, easy, and portable. Plus if you wrap them in a towel after heating them, they will stay warm if you don’t want to eat them right away. Groceries: We are on the west coast, so most of our proteins are caught, hunted, or harvested. We try to keep our grocery budget on dairy, fruits, veg, with occasional snacks. We don’t buy processed or pre-made items. We make from scratch. Healthier and in most cases, cheaper. I’ll have to try to start keeping track of how much fishing and hunting costs us, and then average it out to see what we do or don’t save, although we won’t give up our fresh food we get ourselves. Beef and pork, we buy from a local farmer in bulk every other year or so. Much cheaper, and better if you do it right.

Hi Christine I can't the recent video where you said you have been covering food on KZfaq for 7 years and asked what we want to see. But I want to say yes we want to see the beans, rice and oatmeal again. I also really think the videos where you take the food bank box and cook from it and add other stuff is such a wonderful concept. Thank you for the content.

I've been able to keep my grocery costs low by using food waste prevention apps (I use foodhero and flashfood) in order to buy foods that I proceed to freeze afterwards. The foods are usually between 30% to 80% off, depending on how close they are to their date. I also started going to the bulk food store more often to fill up my jars. For example, I got a cup worth of bay leaves for 0.83$ CAD!! (Probably around 0.50-0.65$ USD). That amount of bay leaves would likely cost 8-10$ in here. In my case, the more environmentally-friendly options turn out to be my best money savers 😊 I'm hoping to start a little balcony garden in my appartment soon, but we'll see how that goes. Have a fun time camping, Christine! 🎉

Avid campers here ( and trail runners). Go to for breakfast is oatmeal or cereal with yoghurt and fresh fruit. Pancakes happen when I do a tempo run and the girls make them while I am out. For lunch big fans of a simple charcuterie board. Think lunchables plus fun add ons like olives and peppers stuffed with cheese. Super simple. Fast. Delicious

The energy balls you’ve made. A variation on that. Make up a batch of hearty “cookies”. Elven bread.

Would love to see your meal plans and recipes throughout the month. I really miss those

Currently in my small Australian town, these are some of our grocery prices at 26/5/23. Eggs - $5.20/dozen Beechwood Smoked Picnic Ham - $9.50/kg (minimum buy 3.1kg) Fresh Strawberries - $6.50/250g Loose Carrots - $2.50/kg Red Royale Potatoes - $4.50/kg Capsicums (Bell Peppers) - Red & Green $5.90/kg Yellow $10.90/kg Fresh Salmon Portions - $36/kg Skinless, Boneless Chicken Breast - $11/kg from deli or $15/kg prepacked

I always make biscuits ahead of time with sausage or ham to take when we camp. We just grab one and pop it in the microwave. Southernfrugalmomma posted a video a couple of weeks ago on how she makes breakfast “freezer” sandwiches and wraps.

We went camping over memorial day. We took our metal tea kettle and boiled water on the camp stove, then we transferred it to a pot on the second burner of the camp stove and we made.... OATMEAL!!! it was amazing. Oatmeal + cinnamon + brown sugar + fuji apple chunks was delicious!! (we also had raisins and chocolate chips and butter and salt for others). We made breakfast for 15ish people by this method of cooking oatmeal AND my husband made scrambled eggs on the second camp stove. Juice and milk for drinks. it was DELICIOUS!

Overnight oats. I add a couple of scoops of protein powder too it to up the protein and that also sweetens it. We do a variety maybe chocolate protein some pb powder then top with peanuts and coconibs. Vanilla protein put some fruit in it etc. One bowl mixed the night before scoop out in the morning on paper plates. Done.😊

There is only my husband and I but my brother is staying here to help me out because I can't use my right hand for a while but we spent and this included plants for the garden. 301.87 not bad especially since I stocked up on bacon for 2.99 a pack and other marked down meats. Loved your video as always. Thanks for all the tips and laughs you give your viewers ❤❤

Backpacking breakfasts: instant oatmeal, instant rice with cinnamon and milk powder, protein bar, powdered eggs, avocado or peanut butter toast, trail mix, protein drink.

Eggs in my part of Az is $6.78 for a 60ct. I’m so glad that I have a store up the street that’s a combo of family dollar & dollar tree so it seems like everything is on sell. There’s also a $.99 cent store that even sells produce. Other than produce, eggs, & every day condiments I don’t buy food anymore since I’m doing a kitchen/pantry clean out. I’ve been doing it since Christmas, it was my New Year’s resolution to clean it out. As for camping I recommend hobo packs. It’s basically your favorite sheet pan meals folded in foil.

for my grocery habits, I've been using a lot of your tips, and I definitely started leaning more vegetarian. (I love tofu, so i already had that going for me.) I tried premaking my black beans a couple weeks ago instead of using the cans, and they were incredible! I made a whole bag without realizing how many beans that would be, which was really something because I'm only cooking for one. I used them in rice bowls and then I made some taquitos, but I STILL have some stored away

Camping meals for us is always easy. We often will freeze a container of chili so then it acts like ice and it can be one of the dinners. Lunches are salami cheese and crackers, maybe a chip and dip too. Have an AMAZING time outdoors and thanks for the content!

I went to Smith’s and got so lucky! Found so many markdowns that I couldn’t resist. I found lots of meats, and some produce for our tortoises. Came home and repacked everything with my food saver and now we are stocked up for a few months!

This is unreal, I’d love to see what you and your family ate during May 2023 given you didn’t purchase much.

I refuse to make my grocery budget higher, so I just get more creative in what I make and how I buy. Kids are getting less cereal and more oatmeal for breakfasts, we do use slightly less meat in a lot of meals or I find I switch the protein to something cheaper. I am far more conscious of leftovers now, and if they're not eaten the next day they get frozen to be repurposed later.

I can NOT believe you have an 18yo!!! She was so WITTLE when I started watching you all those years ago! Its been so wonderful seeing your adorable family grow up!

We usually have fried sausage and potatoes for dinner one night. I pre-chop the potatoes before the trip and store them in water. I always make extra, so the next moring start to reheat the sausage & potatoes, then add scrambled eggs in it. Put it in a tortilla add whatever toppings and we're good. This may be more that some want to do, but just putting it out there. I've actually preped potatoes to send with my hubby for hunting. He hasn't been able to go for a few years, i miss Venison 😢

Love watching the grocery hauls! Second only to the budget meals. ❤

I got a ham for .24 a lb at Aldi! I'm so proud of it 😂 Groceries are so expensive I do the bulk of my shopping at Aldi and that saves money over the other stores, and there are tons of things I just don't get anymore, its too expensive.

I wish we had a normal grocery store and bread shop! I only have Walmart and for the past month I’ve spent $300 a week for a family of 4

I absolutely love to watch your videos. I love to see how little you spent where you spent it and how you spent it. Your sense of humor is like the icing on the cake. I also like to see what you're cooking so keep those videos coming too. I love to hear about your adventures and how you're fitting this in with everyday life. Keep up the good work!!

You go girl, have fun! 🎉 Camping breakfasts; muffins, baked (ahead) oatmeal, baked (ahead) donuts, breakfast cookies, quick breads, hard boiled eggs, etc. 😊

I love your get out and get moving approach to camping, family reunions, and even get togethers with friends. Have FUN and leave behind the cooking!

Camping food: Apples, cheese sticks, granola bars without any chocolate, baby oranges - clementines, baby carrots, celery sticks and maybe some ranch and peanut butter or pimento cheese for dip/filling the centers, cheese cubes, water and more water, pound cake, unfrosted cupcakes. We are not an egg eating family, but others may want some previously hard boiled eggs for the first day or two. Ziploc bags full of Cheerios for everyone, to eat as they ride or hike; can be supplemented with raisins, nuts, etc. Large, unfrosted sugar cookies. Frozen individual containers of milk - think school cafeteria size, first use is to keep food cold and when thawed to drink. Camp Cooking - if it can't be cooked in foil, it is not done. Dishes are paper, and are disposed of in trash or burned. Have a plan for utensils. Cold lunchmeat and cheese sandwiches the first night; use rolls or sturdy bread. Made ahead of time (use butter on bread to keep sandwiches from getting soggy), or on the spot. Chips/pretzels, tortilla chips. A large, cold pasta salad, with chunks of meat and cheese. Store in a gallon or two ziploc bag, double bag it, and serve it in paper cups with a fork or spoon to eat. Hotdogs with or without rolls, and everyone cooks their own, on a stick, wooden or steel. Foil babies: wrapped in two pieces of strong aluminum foil: piece of boneless, skinless chicken breast or a thin ground beef pattie, covered with a few slices of potato, onion, chunked or thin sliced baby carrots, salt and pepper, double wrapped and cooked in the coals, or on a grate over the coals. A boneless roast beef, with some chunked red potatoes, sliced or chunked onions, carrots, water or broth, salt and pepper, Italian seasoning if you remember, all cooked together in a foil pan with a foil lid in the coals for about an hour. Brownies, no icing or sticky toppings. One night you eat dinner out, at a restaurant.

Hear me out!😆 make and freeze breakfast burritos before you go, wrap them in foil, throw them on some hot coals in the morning and boom. 5 minute breakfast

Cleaning through the freezer is the way to go. And, I'm involving my son (who lives with me) on the grocery flyer perusing each week to find the best deals of the week at various stores. We're having fun and he's learning, too! Memorial Day weekend is the time in our area to stock up on beef and pork. Lots of BBQ specials going. We used to go out to eat a couple times a week - but lately it's been be once a month. Uno. And you know what?! We enjoy it more! It's a treat! We look forward to the lunch special at our local, fabulous sushi place. Really enjoying the content, Christine. Enjoy your biking!

I bought a dozen eggs for $1.08 this morning, which is surely a better price than it was months ago. The best oreo flavor is definitely the dark chocolate flavored ones! It also makes me feel less guilty when I eat half a sleeve in one sitting 😅

Love love love your grocery hauls!

11:10 Thanks to you I’m exploring beans 😁 So far, I only knew green beans and kidney beans. I also never had beans with rice before and I‘m really loving it. I had leftover Pinto beans, red lentils and Beluga lentils sitting in my pantry so I threw them into a pot with tomato sauce, taco seasoning and spices last weekend. I had a ton to freeze and I’m planning to use it as a stew, over rice or as a soup ☺️

Camping breakfast? Overnight Oats! Oats+ plant milk + fruit + cinnamon + a little sugar. In the morning, the oats are done and ready to eat cold OR put in frying pan for a quick warm up and back in the container to eat F A S T....biking!

I've done so much better sticking to my grocery budget lately using some of your tips, especially shopping my pantry and planning meals around what I already have. Peanut butter Oreos dunked in milk (of course) are the best I've ever had!

Several years ago my family, living in Michigan, went to Hell, MI. It was fourth of July and I swear it was in the 30’s at night. In a tent? Mom and I got in the back of their station wagon and covered up. Mom gave Dad an ultimatum that if we were it was going in something with heat. Long story short they went from slide in to a 40’ fifth wheel and living in it full time. My husband and I joined them when I retired. Loved it but couldn’t afford it today.😮

In regards to the Cinnamon Rolls………since you can buy flour so cheap, just make your own dough. So very easy. Just roll out the dough, butter it and add your cinnamon and sugar. Roll it tight starting at the longest edge and seal. Use Dental Floss ( clean of course 😛 ) to slice your slices. Way cheaper than those tubes.

Breakfast cookies Or instant oatmeal just add water to a mug. Protein balls, hard boiled eggs, versatile make egg salad or deviled eggs, cooked chicken and romaine lettuce cut up in a ziplock add dressing and shake voila instant salad add croutons. Cooked taco meat can be quick salad too

I always make breakfast sandwiches at home, wrap in foil, and reheat over the morning camp fire. Staple for camping.

I love you videos so much!!! keep it up!

Grocery outlet stocks those cinnamon rolls are much better price! Sometimes they have the cinnamon rolls tubes 2 for price of 1, when they are close to expiration date. To save on groceries I purchase whole foods a head of Lettuce, Cabbage, Cauliflower, bag of carrots, onions, celery etc. Then try to get everything used up before the go bad. By making soups, used when baking, salads, sandwiches or tacos. I purchase fruits the same way and rotating my selections. The Cauliflower I steam the whole head at once, then freeze in portions. Use in soup instead of pasta.

For the camping trip make some of your banana nut bread but make big muffins, egg bites, bananas, snack bars, boiled eggs. Many things I'm sure you will get it all done lol. Thanks for sharing. Have fun on your trip!

Your family is beautiful!! So happy I found your channel.

I am so excited that we now have a cattle ranch out here in Pahrump, NV. My new supermarket

The lemon filled oreos!! Yum!! ❤

we make a big batch of burritos then freeze them, we bring them with us and just toast them up in a pan - super easy y super yummy-

I'm so inspired by your methods of saving money. I've been slowly working your strategies into my kitchen, and I have seen a difference. I'm going to need a chest freezer though. I have only my husband and myself to feed, and I did not do anywhere near as good on my food budget. I'll do better in June!

Hi there! I have been watching your KZfaq videos and enjoyed your budget meal recipes. I tried out one of recipes over the weekend..your Potato Soup in the crockpot with the Kraft cheese slices. Omg! The Potato soup was so good! My boyfriend had 3 bowls of it. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!

Omg! Yes to not cooking the whole time you are on vacation! Apparently my father in law and his friend think that I am Buying food for them and my family of 6 for 4 days! 😡I said- I will make extra food for the dinners and that’s it. I am not cooking and serving everyone all weekend. I want to relax too.

I usually bring instant oatmeal in the cups, granola bars and fruit for quick breakfasts when we camp when we aren’t making pancakes or eggs.

When I was growing up we always did boxed cold cereal with milk when we were camping. With fruit like oranges or bananas served on the side. If mom was feeling really fancy, she might serve a quick hot breakfast of pancakes or oatmeal.Oatmeal can be made even faster if you just boil a pot of water and mix with the instant packets.

I love watching your content. Mainly cause you live in Idaho. It makes me feel at home again. I was born and raised there. Thank you for posting informative and thoughtful videos

I love meal prepping before we go on vacation. I usually make breakfast burritos or breakfast sandwiches and freeze them. Then we just throw them in the microwave in the morning. We also do lots of freezer meals that we can throw in the crockpot for dinners. We can put them in the crockpot in the morning and they are ready for dinner when we get home from our daily adventures. It makes vacay so much easier and I don't spend half of my vacation worrying about what we are going to eat.

Hi Christine & family! I have Freddie’s near me and I finally was able to get my hands on marked down flat breads so I had pepperoni at home and got some inexpensive pizza sauce. Oh my! Those flatbread pizzas were a hit! I didn’t try it since I’m celiac but my whole family loved them! Thank you so much for your videos! Much love to you and your family ❤️ I’m still keeping my eye out for those Mark downs.

When we camp I like to pre-cook some meals. For breakfast I would do a large batch of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, hash browns. I make individual foil packets for each person or you could make up each packet the morning you're going to eat them. Then you just put your foil packs over the fire for a couple minutes and you're good to go. You eat right out of the foil packet so it's easy clean up as well. Of course this only works if you have a way to keep food cold. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches on whole wheat bread is a good option if you don't have a fridge or cooler.

Lol that’s so funny!!! Me & my friend have said dollhairs instead of dollars for years. Made me crack up😂

During the height of covid I Incorporated a lot more beans, and also new beans that we really never used before. I like you cannot seem to eat down my freezers. Yes, freezers. I have a 30 cubic refrigerator freezer in my kitchen. I have a 13 cubic refrigerator freezer in my room over the garage. I have a 16 or 17 cubic up right freezer in my garage. Plus I have items in my neighbors freezer in her garage.

I spend about $500 a month on groceries--family of 4 2 21 year olds. I do buy snack foods though-but I make them contribute $ for that. My freezers are full but I keep stocking up on meats when I find a good deal. I usually go to Food Lion early Saturday or sunday morning when they mark down their meats and stock up. One week I buy meats and whatever else we need for the week and the next I buy canned items, condiments etc and whatever is left i either roll it or buy more meats or extra's of other items we use. Im working on getting a few months stockpile, but its just in the beginning stage.

Proud of you!!! Roc on!!!

Yay, these are my favorite videos!

Hope you'll make more cooking videos soon! Inspiration needed!

Thank you so much for this video. Super helpful and well-presented. Your time and effort is most appreciated!

There is just my husband and I, but I still stock my fridge with chicken when it goes on sale since it's pretty much the only meat we eat. As for the rest, I just fill in weekly with fresh veggies that are in season and on sale. I'm also big into coupons and rebate apps so we still do pretty well with the price increases.

I love the run away camper clip- that’s what it’s like!!

Oatmeal and a banana are great easy camping meals if you have to leave in a hurry. Simply heat up some water and boom you are basically done.

If you ever do that Oreo one, the Weee! grocery delivery site carries crazy flavors like Peach blossom Oreos.

The S’moreos or the cookie/brownie ones are my current favorites. Want to try the toffee crunch ones next

We just moved from AZ to CO. We are finally at the point that I could shop for food. There isn’t any budget this month! Now that I am stocked up on food again, I will be able to shop sales and bargains again.

When we camp, I make breakfast burritos ahead of time that we can warm up. Breakfast cookies, energy balls, granola bars, and fruit are always standby options for days we don't want to heat anything. Lunches are always some sort of wrap or sandwich. Tuna salad packs easily, I'll bake a ham and make ham and cheese sandwiches that can be eaten hot or cold, things like summer sausage or pepperoni purchased from the shelf can be packed outside a cooler and used in wraps or eaten on crackers.

I raised 4 boys that loved the outdoors. One of our favorite quick treats while camping… I mixed up a double batch of banana bread. Thinned the batter a bit and made waffles. My boys loved them as well as whatever kid showed up at our tent. (Yes, back in those days a tent and campfire cooking was as fancy as it got)

Plain oreos wrapped in a crescent roll or biscuit in the air fryer cooked and coated in powder sugar is the best oreos ever

We stopped making the bacon and eggs camping breakfast years ago. It takes too long. Breakfast is cereal, shelf stable milk and fruit. Lunch is sandwiches with raw veggies or fruit, chips. Dinner is cooked something simple like hotdogs or hamburgers, salads.

LOL My husband and I just had that McDonald's versus sit down restaurant prices convo, last weekend. It's funny bc it's true! LOL

Omg that salmon looks AMAZING! I’m also trying to get more protein, fresh fruits and veggies, and low sugar. I feel so better. Way less joint pain and faster healing and recovery after my hysterectomy surgery. I’m new to subscribing to your channel and it’s quite helpful. Thanks a bunch! Every bit of savings helps nowadays.

For camping it depends if you're willing to heat up stuff or not. I prep & pre-plan my meals since we tent thus have limited refrigeration. Breakfast no heat = cereal, banana bread, hard boiled eggs and fruit (fresh/tinned). Heat = breakfast burritos, coffee/tea/hot chocolate. Lunches are usually sandwiches = PB&J, canned ham, BLTs (use fully cooked bacon). If I have heat = tinned soup or chili, hot dogs. For dinner, we always have heat so it's anything under the sun. Typically burgers, hot dogs, ribs, foil pack veggies. We've even done pasta when we're with family since it feeds a lot of people easily.

I dont buy a lot of processed or junk food and it keeps my grocery cost down. But my husband and I are retired and enjoy going out to eat, usually for lunch. I usually count it as entertainment and don't add it in my grocery cost. But for May, I decided to add it in. Oh my, that changes my food costs drastically! Almost a third of food cost was for eating out.