lmao Wagyu beef

@@_efault the staple budget meat ingredient.

You spend a good amount of time explaining this is a challenge in nearly every vid and people still be asking the same basic questions. Like I don't think watching someone eat ramen, egg and some greens for 5 days would make for interesting content. Even with your great personality, no offense m8 lol

​@@firstletterofthealphabet7308 For villain-airs, pardon me, billionaires and trillionaires.

On a semi-related note, I'd be interested to hear your opinion on the suggested 'Vimes Boots' price index.

Yeah, we all love AS. Who couldn't?

Same glad he cleared that up

The only channel where Wadsworth’s Constant doesn’t apply.

Of all the KZfaq videos that I watch your channel has the most interesting content I am thankful for your work.

Fantastic comment 👏.

It's a new scheme and quite limited unfortunately, but it should be global.

Super markets are doing that now here in Hong Kong. Mostly veggies which aren't as fresh as they could be and all sorts of items which may or may not be useful.

In the US at my Kroger grocery store they have a section of $1 veggies or fruit that are almost going bad. I buy from that section all the time and i've gotten some great vegetables and fruit.

costco does but they’re huge

Same. I've only ever seen them at farmers market and china town. Around closing time theyll bag a bunch of vegetables and sell them at a flat rate. I lived near chinatown in college and lived off of those sales. I wish I had them now, but I live far from it.

@JkYeah it is but things don't always stay the same. I've had times where I am not struggling and have been nice places abroad not havingbto worry about money. The company I worked for went bust which is why I am struggling atm although things have already improved since I posted this and will continue to. So yes it's sad but there are so many people worse off.

@@girlonfire937 Keep strong!

@@girlonfire937 you're doing great! keep smashing it :)

@Jk Why are you not nice?

Classic, choosing bad boy, now regrets it

Good tip. I find cornstarch to work a little better though.

its not flour, you use potato flour aka starch or corn. they work better

@@tomaszszupryczynski5453 no you can use flour to but starch is also a thickener

I do this for hot chocolate too, works everytime!

@@get6149 regular flour you will need 20x more to have same effect. and i doubt you would eat that

What does foraging mean? In this context

@@So3oodiya Picking plants like wild garlic, apples, nettles, etc.

Seriously Most my yard is edible And even more going that way this year

@@So3oodiya معلمه انكليزي وما تعرفين انكليزي؟ على الاقل استخدمي ترجمه كوكل

@@AmeenAlnaimi يا لطيف ع الناس الفاضية انا اعرف معناها بشكل عام بس ما اعرفها في حالة معينة و هي وقت الاقتصاد في المال و انصحك بعد كذا انشغل بحياتك و لا تتدخل بحياة الآخرين

I truly wish community gardens were made accessible to people.

Dude I'm in the exact same position!

Oh my god same!!

The budget videos are how I found the channel, love it when we get a new one.

I thought exactly the same earlier

I've just rewatched them all with my gf. Her first time and my third time. This is the content KZfaq was made for.

Such a great way to decrease food waste.

I wish stores in the us would do this, because that’s honestly genius

I'd probably be a bit healthier if that was around where I live lol

they dont do this at my local lidl

@@mrchefchef Lidl does this in the US as well I believe, however there aren't as many Lidl locations in the US as there is in the UK

I don’t wanna work instead live on 1dollar a day😂

@@turuus5215how tf are you supposed to get the dollar genius, not to mention things like shelter and luxuries

@@Aromantic_alien It was a joke, and also people don't lose all their money as soon as they quit a job

Weirder yes but tastes wonderful.

Don't forget the ketchup and carrots and wasn't there honey mustard in that apple coleslaw he made?

@@kerim.peardon5551 ok I threw up

I was gonna say, this is one of the most normal looking meals he's made in these videos

Don't forget chickpea soup made of Bombay mix!

You can also boil them in stock and blend it to make soup, add some chicken and really low cost meal.

My lidl just has left over bread AFTER the registers, which i still don't understand how on earth you're supposed to be able to buy them when you're on your way to exit the store

I've only seen them once in about 10 visits so it's not reliable in my Lidl. Maybe AS's is better.

@@swedneck apparently they put them behind the registers so that they can prevent ppl adding fruits or vegetables to the box. But I also dont see a problem with having them close to the registers.

So idk no of its everywhere the same but the lidl where i work we have an app for those boxes something along the lines of lidl to good to go boxes maybe its the same for you thats why you dont see them cause you have to claim them on the app

Maybe also take inspiration, perhaps the video is not just entertainment but information . Good luck.

Good luck sweetheart, really wish you the best Always stay positive

burada tanıdık birilerini görmek ne güzel. ne dersem diyeyim etkisi olmayacak, fakat kötü şeylerin geçeceğine inan. dertleşmek istersen buradayım.

You are not a disappointment. That is only their opinion of you and your own negativity due to the way you are feeling just now (quite rightly). Take time out to build yourself up day by day, set a goal and do what you can. Be kind to the world and enjoy the company of people who are kind, if they aren't cut them loose and fly solo because when you appreciate your own self-worth friends will appear. I've made friends in the strangest situations. I remember being 27 and feeling I was a complete disaster, I'm 46 now and every day we grow a bit more. ❤

@@zetametallic I love your outlook on life

I agree I'm on a ridiculously strict budget, I just couldnt see going to 3 different shops to save pence worth it, but like I've found out watching atomics challenges saving a few pounds off every shop really could add up over time. Its very interesting to see how creative he can be.

I really appreciate him stating that it isn't about prooving that people poverty could do this, but that he wants to challenge himself to be more creative. I've seen a few things marketed as a budget challenge that actually shames people who regularly have to watch how much they spend. I grew up in household that really had to budget within the pence, and my parents often had to choose which bills to pay. I'm lucky enough to not be in that situation as single person myself, but I'm not stupid enough to think it could never happen to me (especially with all the bill increases in the U.K. at the moment.) I don't know why I went on this rant...

You might look into water fasting and scheduling 1 day/week of water fasting. It saves money and improves the health of the body, and also the health of the mind becoming more mindful of food, inner and outer environments.

don't listen to the quack above me, water fasting is dangerous as hell and there are no proven benefits to it

@@sgt.eclair Trust me, I've had to do it involuntarily more times in my life than I'm comfortable with

That's sweet ❤

It's probably guessable from context but also an example of how automatic captions (aka #CRAPtions) are not great for d/Deaf caption users who need them to have equal access and for others who may use them. Ideally a big channel can & should pay a captioning service. It's not as hard as it sounds. OTOH, not accessible to everyone, but I'm a small channel and it has been hours of work but I've hand-captioned nearly all my videos (might've missed or messed up a few). I'm autistic so, it's a solidarity & awareness thing for me as part of the disabled community. But it's not just disabled people who should care! Sorry to jump on your comment with a soapbox bit of disability activism, it was a golden opportunity to make the point!

I have made poetry out of automatic captions though, or commented ruefully on funny or nice accident, your comment wasn't wrong: just the situation where it's yes, sadly quite hard work to give equality of access if you're not paying for it but the steps that could be taken aren't taken often enough & professional captioning services are quite reasonably priced and very fast.

@@kathybramley5609 Oh don't get me wrong; I'm not Hard of Hearing or Deaf, but captions definitely help me understand what is being spoken as sometimes (either due to not wanting to wake others in the house, KZfaq going derp with the sound, or an undiagnosed auditory processing issue). I greatly appreciate the time and effort you put into your transcriptions. It's one helluva time sink and goodness knows on some channels, they forget how to align the timing (or outright rush the captioning in cases like Paramount Network).

Funny you should say that..when I lived in England, one of the first cookbooks I bought was for students. I used it a ton and made some amazing meals. I will say that some of the ingredients were “dear” as my roommates attested but it was possible to eat good just need some creativity. bearing in mind that economic stress sometimes shuts down that creative part of our brain when we are in survival mode!

​@@dianathompson-sorric6461 perchance, what the book was called?

This is mental, I lived off £30 a week at uni... ten years ago. Back then it wasn't much of a challenge, I could eat more or less what I wanted as long as I bought the cheapest option.

​@@bassetts1899Finished Uni last year and I could easily spend £15-25 on weekly basics. Pasta, Rice, Flour, Eggs etc have shot up siiiiiiignificantly. I found it easier to cook as part of a flat/group though, but I understand not everyone can do that.

I'm currently in uni aswell and have been living off £19 a week and it's been tough especially counting bus money and the 4 pounds I spend on washing clothes every 2 weeks but I have been managing

and every time I have the Genesis song in the head for hours after that.

@@galier2 There must be some misunderstanding, it must be some kind of mistake... on your part.

Did you have to pour bleach on them too?

You should see the food waste on a cruise ship. Horrible!

@@gabriellegibbons9236 Yikes, I can only imagine. And that's twice as bad cause you can't exactly give that food away either, since you're at sea.

there are restraunts that sell for cheaper, excess food i forgot the app name that you could get them from

@@lynoska1951 is it called "Too good to go"

Now… we will wait until one day we’ll get a “100 pounds for 100 days”.

Oi horizon What do you eat while killing p2w serv3rs?

Yes, exactly. That's what makes it fascinating and entertaining to watch.

I just realised this is only day 1; atomic shrimp is spoiling us with new content

lol! I think he's only in his early 40s

Granddad lol

Well he's a little more distant than a father, so if not grandad, maybe uncle?

@@jdh6752 technically that is old enough to be a grandpa, but the kid would be a baby and not posting on youtube

As someone from southern california, it’s a flavor that is very familiar. Seems like some military guys missed the mexican food back home!

Yes! I haven’t thought about King Tacos in forever… thanks. Putting taco rice on the menu for this week.

Living alone, the lettuce I buy, sometimes gets a little - old. So, I just fry it on a pan to fill some other dish. - My friends find that odd, but - you know - no waste....

@@LilA-zl6tf the risk of food poisoning isn't just about the bacteria/fungi. It's also about the toxins that are produced by them, which often cannot be destroyed by cooking. Not sure if what you're doing is safe. If you live outside the city, composting would be good. Even in the city it can be done but I would strongly recommend against it.

What is btl??

@@sameerishaque7635 Buy to let. A rental property.

why were you paying someone else's mortgage?

That's what happens when you rent a property - you're basically paying someone else's mortgage and it keeps you too poor to save up and buy your own.

Just curious, what part of the world are you from?

@@wildaviation5528 the usa probably

Those boxes are not that readily available . You have to get to the shop very early to stand a chance of getting one. Fruit and vegetables are very cheap in the U.K. but meat is extortionate.

I live in Central Illinois USA my local Kroger will bag up fruit and potatoes in mesh bags and sell for $0.99. I'm always looking for apples depending on the size I get four or five in a bag I usually weigh them and they are about two and a quarter pounds for 99 cents that's pretty good. Anytime I buy bagged fruit that sells per bag not per pound I always weigh and get the largest bag. Example if I were to buy a 3lb bag of Mandarin oranges for $2.99 I will weighs several bags and get the heaviest bag. I often buy a package of boneless pork chops that sells 5 for $5 I weigh those and get the heaviest package they are often cheaper then the markdown packages. I have been buying mostly markdown meat for many years or sale prices I rarely will pay full price. I also check mark down and clearance food and non-food items. Over several years shopping this way has saved me quite a bit of money

I occasionally use dry onion flakes but raw or cooked onions bother my stomach

Same

Same, lol, and stayed for that unforgettable table cloth 😂 okay that wasn't all 🤣. Good channel.

Hey, that's awesome!! I hope it goes well!!

@@jaegrant6441 - Thanks so much! Fingers crossed!

I took stock and better do the same for a month. Pantry and freezer bulging so really don't need to shop. And 2 bags of cat food plus treats on hand for my cat. Plenty of litter even. Might skip shopping 2 months, put that money into savings.

We did this last year, decided to eat through a lot of of COVID stocks... we didn't need 6 of everything. 😆 the amount of rice and beans....

He got so lucky with the veg pack! Loved the first installment as well.

@@miekekuppen9275 he could probably have got by on just the £1.50 food box - a big stew and bread.

@@miekekuppen9275 I work at Lidl and they are really good

also purely ramen for 5 days,multiple times a day,is horribly unhealthy,this is just a 5 day challenge that provides a real variety

That is a lot of sodium on top of all that. Sure, there are ways to dilute the soup further or he could just ignore the stock packet and just use the noodles. Either way, as amazing as the stuff tastes, the instant noodle approach prolly wouldn't be the best for ya.

I think it'd make a good April fool's episode. Seeing him try and find ways to make the ramen interesting could be fun (and it would sorta fit the challenge of working with limited materials)

@@seamoose9039 I agree. There's tons of ways to modify and prepare ramen in different ways to shake it up.

@@Shenorai ramen has a pretty unexceptional amount of sodium unless you actually drink all the broth. Given that the broth is just water and the flavor packet and a bit of starch from the noodles there's not really a reason to do that.

Fortunately he's still allowing levitation, so it shouldn't be that bad.

they sound like lovely, happy dogs! hope you're doing well

Reminds me of the pottage they apparently ate a lot in the Middle Ages. A pot of food that was kept on the simmer, in which all of the scraps were thrown and then eaten. I wonder what your Aunt and Uncle put in their soup? Just veggies and a bit of left over meat, or some flavourings/stock too? I think I want to do this on some level….

@@Becoming0ne Hi. The business end of the farm was tomatoes. They had a contract to grow for Campbell's Soups who supplied the seed and contracted the swarms of migrant harvesters. There were always a couple hundred pounds that would be left on the vine and ripen late. Aunt Dot would invite a few of the local churches to pick over the remainder for their needs. They always had a couple of acres set aside for growing all kinds of other vegetables for their year-round use and to sell at the stand on the road. If there was ever anything that went bad in the field it was always dropped off at the neighbor's home for their pigs. Her soup stock always had tomatoes, onion, celery and a big marrow bone and I'm sure it was somewhat salted. The pot had to be about 20 gallons. From this she would draw off several quarts of stock into another, smaller pot to which she would add whatever she was in the mood for, or whatever needed to be eaten (she only canned vegetables that were perfect). This was the pot that she would add fresh herbs to - typically thyme and sage. She mostly only added beef or pork, occasionally a chicken if it stopped laying. These were roasted Sunday mornings at sunrise and would be portioned through the week. For any given dinner she would serve some sort of meat with potatoes and a bowl of soup. These days I still make trips to the local farmer's market and pick up my order of fresh vegetables. I'll make 14 quarts at a time and pressure-can them to have through the year. If you ever stop by for dinner - expect soup! Thanks to Aunt Dot and Uncle Ed, there could never be a better childhood than mine

@@wayne00k wow, thanks for sharing so much detail. It sounds so happy and wholesome. I’m also glad you had such a beautiful childhood. Thank you for sharing some of the lessons learned. I am definitely going to get back to making my own stocks and commit to having soup on the go more often, keeping Aunt Dot’s methods in mind. ❤️

..or a punk band's name!

No forage is hard Most my yard is edible

It really depends which stores you have in your areas too. Some places in the US have really good budget grocery stores and others only have the higher end ones. I was just thinking about trying something like this for 7 days, but there are 7 different grocery stores and 3 are budget ones where I live. So It's a lot easier for find good deals on smaller things. It'd be virtually impossible in many bigger cities though, as a single thing of lard or rice is lien $6 because of the ridiculous cost of living.

We used to have a store like that when I was a student. One stock cube, one gram of flour etc. was fabulous and I still miss it over two decades later. Apparently they fell out of favour with health and safety inspectors. I suspect that was a convenient excuse.

Same here

I've heard it's easier to find fruits and vegetables in more of the countryside in Russia. Very beautiful place, though cold by my standards, haha (I'm Sicilian, and visited Chelyabinsk).

You make such a great point. In India, cheap cuts of frozen meat and canned food are actually considered decent quality and passed off at higher prices. But grains and fresh vegetables are significantly more affordable if you get them at the local market instead of a supermarket. It's so interesting to see these differences.

I doubt if you'd consider our low quality sausages here in the UK. They're 40% meat but the rest is not made up with much fat but grainy fillers like rusk or soya. Whereas I'm guessing in Russia a low meat percentage sausage would have a lot of fat, which is better.

@@simonh6371 The 40% meat thing was confusing for me at first, being from the US, sausages having filler is normally considered not a sausage tbh. I wish we had easier access to fresh veggies, it can be hard to get good stuff here for things like that, and a good stew once a week would be lovely. Also, Blackcurrant is still extremely hard to find, and that's terrible ngl, one of my favorite fruit preserves or jams.

@@Waskomsause I've lived in a few European countries (Netherlands, Germany Austria and Spain) and there too a product with 40% meat wouldn't be considered a sausage either. In those countries they have stuck to traditional foods and recipes whereas we in the UK kinda deviated from that starting in the Industrial Revolution, when food needed to be stored for a long time, but there was no refrigeration. Also in those countries they haven't gone with the ''fat is bad'' ideology which is actually wrong, here in the UK we have more obese people than anywhere in Europe, due to high sugar and carb consumption.

I always rinse wash my rice before cooking, but I didn't realise to soak it a little first. I usually start it from cold water, so would that count? I've also heard that eating the rice the next day actually is a great way to keep off weight, as the starches have changed and the grain metabolises differently than when eaten straight away. Is that something you've heard of?

@@jaegrant6441 It's called resistant starch. Some swear of it, I never really noticed a difference.

Better is of course totally subjective and also depends on the preparation the rice is destined for - some of which require that starch coat be there.

@@galier2 yes, Madeline Lemon has a video on soaking rice for resistant starch, it's good in a keto diet she thinks. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMifrdaokqulj3k.html

You are so right. I found this out by accident and I got better rice so always do it now.

I think you will do well to do a week on £16 ! Having lived in Sweden , I know how ordinary things like a swede or cabbage can cost . On the plus side, the potatoes in the big hoppers were always cheap ( south west Sweden) and white cabbage costs a very low price per kilo at certain times of year. On midsummers eve last year, the new potatoes were nearly free ! To buy locally produced new potatoes here in Wales,even in the summer would be quite expensive. I do miss the quality of the milk , cheese and bread though.

Surely it can't be 2-3 times as expensive? More expensive yes, but all food 2-3 times?

@@iPelaaja1 Yeah, it's possible.

@@iPelaaja1 the same tin of beans from his shopping episode a week ago that cost him 22p costs me 67p, from the same store. So you can imagine everything else that's more expensive.

Food prices here in Norway make me weep.

Not where I live in northern Norway either. I’m just too far north for rosemary to thrive.

Yeah you see wild rosemary everywhere in the UK I think, at least where I live