It seems this video from 4 months ago has got a new lease of life, as the views/comments recently are incredible. I think i should maybe do another one? What do you guys think?

Hey thanks for the mention! Really enjoyed watching this - interesting about the soup - I keep forgetting how satisfying and tasty soup can be until I try it again and remember.

Bang on review mate; the key word here is "budget" buying cheap food because we are brassick, we have all been there, living like this for quite a few years not just a few weeks. This is why I like my food cupboards and freezers full now, because of all the years being skint, I feel comfortable when I know the cupboards are full, and the reason I buy in bulk now. The initial purchase for bulk buying is more expensive but its cheaper long term. Well done Deano.

You know what would be cool is to a 9 day challenge where you spend £5 every three days - so £15, as you would build up surplus - such as the pasta and maybe sausages - so ideally your pantry grows and meals get better :-)

I am a single mum of 3 . Sometimes I make veg samosas with a sauce made from beans and tomatoes. You save a lot of money by making things from scratch even though it takes a bit longer. Great video mate. Thank you 😊

Great video. I often buy a bag of ‘soup mix’ veggies from Morrisons (even better if they’re reduced). A tin of chopped tomatoes, a stock cube and some broken up spaghetti and I’ve got minestrone soup that lasts me all week. You can also buy a bag of dried soup mix which is pearl barley, lentils, etc. Add that and it makes the soup mega filling

Brilliant effort. Told you your coming on cooking. Emjoyed the longer length too no waiting for part 2 xx

Liked and subscribed, fully deserved for the effort put in. You’ve opened my mind to trying to spend less on food. The amount I buy and end up throwing away is incredible. You’ve inspired me with this challenge.

You could take the sausage meat out and make meatballs with salt pepper and herbs 👍👍 good luck with the challenge. Nev

Hey bud, i have never watched a video this long, if i had seen how long it was i would never of watched it, but it was brilliant! I am amazed i managed to sit through it but it was easy! i struggle to sit through anything more than 20 mins tbh I have not watched a film in 40 years last one was Top Gun 1983 i think! I need to cut down on my food spending so i found this very helpful Many thanks mate!

Bravo! You came up with some great and plentiful meal options for so little. I have never used jarred sauce, not that there is anything wrong with it, but my mom always made her own and so do I now. The secret is, the longer you cook your tomatoes, the darker and less acidic it gets and the more tasty it becomes. If you sauté your veggies and then let them cook for a while in the sauce 🤤

Its a good idea to invest in a food vacuum sealer machine and the bags/rolls. Any left over food with liquid in it, like stews and soups etc, you can make up portion sized bags, add the food, seal and freeze, and do boil in a bag with it from frozen, hence no food waste, and meals available at short notice, when needed or short of cash. Don't forget to lable up, and date yor bags, most of it will keep for 3 months plus.

Really impressive, well done. Its nice to see a video like this thats done by a "normal bloke" not a chef. Anyone could re-create this meal plan.

I was born in England and lived there untilI was 15 then moved to Florida. This is real comfort food to me. Keep going and make more videos.

Well done Deano 😊 You executed that challenge like a champ! I think we make food too complicated. This shows that keeping it simple really does make life easier and cheaper.

A channel called atomic Shrimp is the king of this type of challenge, you can buy the ingredients and make as many pancakes as you like. You've just mentioned him in your intro, lol, foraging, and limits what you can use out the cupboards. Using the skins and bones to make stock or soup.

Loved this video mate - first time I've seen your channel. Enjoyed every minute of it and the sausage meatballs looked great! The time flew by so don't worry about the length of the video. Conor

Tomato and bean pasta for lunch and Sausage, onion and mushrooms with herbs and gravy and sliced potatoes on top to make a hotpot for 3rd day

Another great video giving ideas for cheap meals. You could chop some of the sausages into small pieces and frying off till well browned they would give more flavour like that and maybe a packet of heap stuffing would help too

This has been a great video - very useful to show what you can do with some cheap ingredients, and it looked healthy! I'm definitely writing that sausage meatballs pasta dish down in my little personal recipe notebook thingy - I'll credit you fully of course just incase someone finds the book in future lol! (you never know, it could end up in a museum in the future marked "stuff people ate in the 21st century"🤣)

Well done mate shows you can eat and feed families for really cheap if you have to. I am ex chef but would have maybe done a little different and maybe made meals the same for more than once but yeah you nailed it. So sad so many cannot do this would have money to spend on other treats for them. I live like this but buy reductions and eat well and feed others to people always amazed how good real food is as i call it you learnt this quite evidently with your soup. Much better for you than heinz veg plus additives colurings stablizers presevativives.. need i go on.!x

Thank you for such an eye opening video! This is such a Godsend to so many of us now a days struggling with the rising cost of living. A lot of times people just don't know what to do when trying to feed themselves and family and your video shows them what they CAN do. Thank you!

This is good it's giving people an idea on what and how to have an idea on how to budget thank you

I probably would've taken some of the sausage out of the casings, fried it up, added spices, flour and butter (since you don't have milk) let that cook with the bacon fat and cook the flour taste out then add water and let it thicken. It'll be like creamed sausage or sausage gravy, have it over bread or a baked potato. Yum!

Great video Deano! Your cooking skills are really coming on. 👍👍👍

I'm just finding your channel. I really enjoyed the video. I hope you continue the budget videos. And the three days in one video was great!

Popped up on my feed today after your last, eat what you want for cheap. Love atomic shrimp too, the foraging gives me some ideas.

Tht was class bro so little change but eat for days keep them coming

fantastic ideas .. can I just say I am watching from Australia and there is no way you could do the same challenge here prices are so much more, but I love watching your videos and they are full of great tips .. Cheers Mate :)

That vegetable soup, would go lovely with a nice crusty slice of bread. Don't forget you can make your own home made croutons by baking pieces of cut up cubed sliced bread in the oven!

Given me a few ideas there Deano👍 I remember being down on my luck once . All I had was an oven bake garlic bread and two oxo cubes both went in the microwave 😂😂

lentil soup...Knott Ham stock cubes x4..that's yer stock in a large pot..add mug o RINSED lentils..2 large carrots 1grated n x 1 sliced..and 1x chopped n sliced leek ( really ye would use a heaped fistful pot the freezer right into the pot )....I always keep chopped leeks onions n peppers in the freezer to use n add to soups or pasta sauces

Well done! I often house and dog sit for folk for a week or so. The two things i always take with me are 6 eggs and flour. Then veg, then meats. I expect them to have oil, salt and pepper that i can use!

Alright Deano, cracking video and just shows how far money can go.

I am vegetarian but still enjoyed your video, loved the joy you got from your soup making, and eating the roasted Brussels. You should try a budget shop using one of those Lidl wonky veg boxes for £1.50. I hope you have more of these types of videos

As an expat living in the USA now, I miss my crumpets and British sausages more than all other British foods else combined. A grocery store in the next town over sells Marmite, so I'm good there, and plenty of PG Tips in all the local stores in our town. Atomic Shrimp is our favorite KZfaqr! He's a great inspiration!!! Still miss the cheap UK food prices, but then our petrol here is like half the price it is back home, so it evens out.

Good video and love you mentioned atomic shrimp, love that guy's channel as i grow food and forage to reduce cost

Crumpet pizza add tomato puree bit of grated cheese herbs Or i do it with slice bread my son when little called it pizza toast 😂

Absolutely lovely video, it was just a pure joy to watch, keep it up!

Loved this as a whole video! Keep up the great work!

We wasn't very well off growing up, so my mom used to but a big piece of cheap beef, potatoes and vegetables, on Sunday we would have a roast dinner, on monday she'd slice some more off the beeef and we would have a similar dinner to Sunday, using different vegetables, tuesday she would mince up the rest if the beef and add finely chopped onions to it, so we would have minced beef with onions with potatoes, wednesday, she would small cube some carrots, swede, and add some garden peas, make up some pastry and we would have pastys for dinner, that was 4 dinners of the week. Another alternative is to make a big stew, using a cheap cut of lamb, bulk it out with pulses, red lentils, yellow split peas, pearl barley and butter beans, plenty of vegetables , onions, carrots swede, turnip's and parsnips, to last 2 or 3 day's, one day having it with potatoes another with dumplings or bread.

🎉❤ Great! Spreading the love! Well done! x great ideas.

I have a lid for every pot and pan I own as well as a few from ones that have long since gone to the trash. 9 times out of 10 I still just use a plate for a lid because it's just so much more convenient. I hat having to play match the lid to the pot when I'm rushing to cook dinner.

First time viewing your videos. I'd worry about all those packets of ready meals you've used on videos, awful for weight gain. This was a great challenge. Can't go wrong with a couple of spuds!! Stock cubes are essential too for stock for soup. I've lived my life on a budget even when I didn't have to, it makes sense. I watch TV chefs trying to make budget meals and then they would add fresh herbs or some fancy veg, who the heck has fresh herbs at a moments notice, so dried herbs for me. For homemade burgers I'd probably add a splodge of any sauce I fancy, usually sweet chilli sauce or mango sauce straight into the mixture. Well done!

I love these vids and my mind always tries to make dinners with the persons doing the challenge. I would have made pasta with the mushrooms and the onion and baked some sausages and cut them in pieces for the pasta. It only needs salt and oil for basic version but some garlic doesnt hurt. Please do more of these

The Sainsbury's frozen James's sausages are similarly priced and quite tasty with good seasoning.

Great ingenuity making the burgers from cheap sausages. Good video 👍

New to the channel - just wanted to stop buy and say loved the upload fella. Always enjoy these budget challenges since stumbling onto Atomic Shrimp a year or so back. Oh, by the way, you look like Big Show (the wrestler). Subbed

An hour just went by without me noticing, that's how good this video was, keep it going. 🤩

I enjoyed the video and all the ideas - would like to see more

Be allowing yourself a pantry Domino's by day three 🤣

So many good ideas here!

Great video, can't believe it's a year old, only just seen it Just a thought Deano, to add flavour to the sauce I'd fry the meatballs as you did, then add the mushrooms, cook them down, add the onion, then add the sauce to that pan not add the ingredients to the sauce in a new pan, that way all the flavour from the fried items will be in the sauce. I'm no chef by the way, just a thought 🤔😅 Great videos keep up the good work 👍🏻

Brill vid deano! Being vegan is a little bit of an issue, but would just cost a tad more! Id like some more vids like this 😊

Nope - really enjoyed this - well done 👍

Briiliant video mate just goes to show what can be done 😺

I spend between 20-30 quid a night, I need to rein it on.

Really enjoyed watching this video 😅 did a great job, the soup and burgers were fantastic

That was great Deano...I'm a veggie ( I just dont like meat!!) maybe you could try and do this challenge with meat free meals?? I have subscribed on the back of this video as it was so good. Well done mate.

Deadly vid. Loved it. Great food challenge.

I tend to bake my jackets as soon as i get them and freeze them for instant jackets and sometimes i defrost them and cut them into wedges. Makes life easier

Brilliant 👏 first time I've watched you

Yes like watching you 👍you just get on with it always looks good thanks ❤

Even I was fed up of sausages by the end of this video and I wasn’t eating them 😂.

fab video lad..the burgers try adding chilli or smoked paprika n "beef it up" by crumbling in a smashed OXO CUBE !?

Soup is the way to go if you are broke. Well done !

That soup looked amazing - nice one!

Great video. Soups a great healthy budget food one of my favourites, skint or not. Try a home made lentil soup if you have time - cheap, filling and protein source.

Proper impressed with the "burger and chips", and done so cheaply as well. Will have to keep that one in the back pocket just in case.

Liked and subscribed! Great video

I actually found this channel from an Atomic Shrimp video - it was recommended. I love his videos.

I enjoy watching budget food challenges here in the US (including Atomic Shrimp.) From what I'm seeing you've got a serious advantage in your food prices over what we get here. Even adjusted to dollars v. pounds there's no WAY we could even come close. I bought 6 crumpets literally yesterday and it took your entire budget. So, I searched. Cheapest tin of beans was $1.62. Bread on clearance - $1. Individual onions are by each not by weight and cost $1. By weight there's a minimum bag size of about 1.5 kilos for $3. Those mushrooms you got - WOW! 8 ounces (about 1/4 kilo) were $1.62 on sale from 1.99. You got double the amount for what 25% of the cost? Every community is different but take foraging out of the equation and you all still come out way ahead. And those Ramps that Atomic Shrimp gets? (Ramsons/Wild Leeks/Wild Flowering Garlic) HA! ONE store gets them. It's 20 miles away, they're available for only a month and cost about $30 a kilo. And that includes the bulb end which isn't the bit you eat! You want the leaves though you CAN pickle the bulbs. Just a comparison for those in the UK who think a 1-pound budget is tough!

I really enjoyed this deano. Watched till the end I've often used sausages for a few different meals even when not on a budget. Would love to see more videos like this.

What lovely meals, thank you for showing us what can be done. Will definitely try the siup it looked do good

Would love to see more of these please x

One hour of Deano!

That blender reminds me - if you like mushy peas, try mushy baked beans! Just give the beans a quick blitz in the blender, then heat up, nice with chips!

Thanks for the video here in Canada food is sky-high amazing what you did with 5dollars it looked great have a great day

First time watching your content and I love it 👍

Watched the whole vid and was Good, prob best splitbit to 3 vids inho bud👍

Mustard on them sausages

Love to see a Lakers shirt in the UK… :-) great video!

I really enjoyed your video keep up the good work 👍👍

Atomic shrimp is fantastic I love his videos

I enjoyed this challenge thank you from New Zealand 😊😊😊

Homemade soups are always amazing

Add marmite.butter .onions pepper salt .to beans nom nom

I enjoyed it as it was

I always put butter in my baked beans....and i always put Encona Hot Pepper sauce in them too...spice them up...highly recommend it 🙂

Bold Foodie Guy meets AtomicShrimp!

"I'm not an expert in making stock from old bones and that" 😂... it's quite easy. The most basic form is boiling bones in water.

Great job!

I liked the longer video!

Great video 😊

hurting my soul using the metal spat in that non-stick pan.

great meals deano i buy loads of ready meals for the week love watching keep going mate

That sausage fat is solid gold... use for bread 'n dripping with a sprinkling of salt, or for folks with no gravy in the pantry, use it to make your own ... yuuuum! To be honest I could hardly tell you were doing a budget challenge, those meals looked so good! The bangers and mash didn't look bland at all, I would have wolfed that, and the sausage patty burgers, down. You aced it with the soup! I would have added a little mustard to those sausage burger patties to elevate them to the next level. A tip when making a budget tomato sauce like that, add a spoonful of sugar when you cook the tomatoes down, the sweetness counters the acidity of the tomatoes, helps the flavor of the added herbs shine, and adds a huge boost to flavor. A bay leaf would have elevated it even more to restaurant style quality, just remember to pull it out and don't eat it, lol . Definitely consider keeping those in your pantry for when you make sauces like this and soups. Fantastic job through! Subbed and looking forward to your future videos. Please don't worry about not having the knowledge, lots of awesome folks on here who will be happy to share their hints and tips with you!

You could have roasted your veg to put in the soup. It would have made it sweeter.

Well done looks REALY good breakfast 🍳 ❌

Aaaaah Yes A food challenge :)