$10 Dollar Tree Easter Dinner 🐰
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Hey friends! I made a ham, potato, and green bean casserole from Dollar Tree ingredients as an idea for Easter dinner.
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The jalapeño crisps from DT are so good. I add them to salads and soups for a bit of crunch and heat. I live 4 hours from family so I just stayed home. I made lentil loaf ( so good leftover in a sammy like traditional meat loaf, IMO)
I like shopping at Dollar Tree although where I live in Guelph Ontario Canada we don’t have frozen foods or shelf stable milk. Thank you for your recipes
Hi! Cake mix and pop is how I make all our cakes. Being vegan we never use the egg and oil method. It always turns out good. Happy Easter 💛
Sugar, salt😳😱 preservatives! Fresh is best and often cheaper. Eggs and good fats are a top priority on my shopping list. I eat very little meat, but if I do I eat only a very small portion and good quality. I rarely eat cake, but if I do I often make from scratch and use little sugar. Fiber is key…..I also grind my own grains and punch it up with extra eggs, nuts, fruit and protein powder, butter, butter milk yogurt. I freeze individual portions. I make a very light frosting with butter, yogurt, and only 1/4 of the sugar. It’s very thin. Or I make a fresh or frozen berry sauce in blender and pour over individual serving. So good!
Canned potatoes really 😳look at canned cheese , bouillon, meat ……🙃 canned frosting……omg.
I’m an old lady that’s had a lot of kids and a very small budget for many years. I learned to cook from scratch with very little meat. When 25 years ago, my food budget was more than a fancy house payment I started batch cooking and freezing meals. One dinner for family and 2-3 for the freezer. I often feed a lot more people than my family of six. I started teaching large batch meal prep, and eating healthy classes, with an emphasis on cooking from scratch and fresh food.
Creating meals from the dollar store once in awhile is ok. During my classes I showed that by buying fresh foods, often can be cheaper and safe your health from heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney damage, diabetes……. I see where you are going with your videos, but I believe your talents in inspiring people to try new recipes with a tight budget ….could incorporate fresher healthier foods and still be budget friendly. 🌸❤️
WTH eats SPAM lunch meat for Easter ???
We had turkey because (like you) we had a turkey in the freezer. It was yummy and I am exhausted. Thinking about turkey chili and/or turkey meatballs this week.
Happy Easter girl friend I've always enjoyed your videos and Andrew was right with the egg noodles in there
Happy Easter my friend🐰
I think I may try this…. Easter is always ham, mac and cheese, green beans and potatoes and carrots. Sometimes salad. And carrot.cake for dessert
Pretty bowls
I love liners
I wish I didn't like soda lol
I love the milk as well
Hello Happy Easter
Happy Easter! We did the same this year, and just had whatever for dinner. I had a very small beef roast, so made that, and then my son prefers chicken, so made hot chicken with honey. We just had noodles and salad on the side. My grandkids were all with other family, but got lots of pictures!
Yum Scrapple wish it was sold here.
I'd add some sour cream.
Love the milk too! I keep powdered milk in my pantry though for emergency cooking because my child keeps drinking my dollar tree milk! I took advantage of a BIG spiral ham sale (22.00) so we had ham, green beans, baked potato and home made hot cross buns for dessert. I have enough ham to stock my freezer for the next 6 months. I will slice half of it, seal it and then chop into two types of chunks, small and medium and seal those. I love having chunks of ham to munch on or make into ham salad for crackers or sandwiches. If beef prices keep going up it will be nice to have it around.
I never knew you could use Sprite in cake mix 😊.
Love cupcake liners too! Going to look tomorrow if there are holiday cupcake liners on sale!
It’s so kind of you to invite your friends who are alone at Easter. I live in a different Country than my whole family and I’m alone for all the holidays. Travelling to be with family is too expensive for me. And as much as I know some nice people and have some friends, where I live people don’t tend to invite others and they spend their holidays with their families only. It gets lonely to be alone all the time. What you do for others is priceless.
I come from a time when you could get a REAL canned ham from Denmark, not a composite of various pieces or ground up loaf for 99 cents, eve sold in some five and dimes. Those cans you open with a key are SHARP, my cousin almost amputated his thumb with one, maybe warn people. I love to see what you can cook up with so little $$$… I am frugal too, always looking for a good buy, but luckily where I live I have access to Amish stores that stock low cost close to expiration food.
Scrapple is a gift from the Pennsylvania Dutch and tastes great with apple butter( or honey mustard, jam, jelly, etc. etc.!) I can believe you made cupcakes using Sprite i/o eggs and oil! You never cease to amaze me Lisa Dawn! Love your videos you are awesome!
I enjoyed watching your cooking video. You made a perfect meal on a budget.
Any high sodium, just rinse the veggies with water. That gravy mix could be subbed for low sodium broth or your stashed broth in the freezer.
Im not brave enough to try luncheon loaf from DT, I'd love to know the ingredients.
I am always so impressed. Are you a trained chef or just a practical cook? What you do is so topical and needed!
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I have used the Luncheon loaf LOTS. It is great for just 2-3 people. Every time I go to Dollar Tree I pick up the shelf stable milk. I too love scrapple. I have not made it yet but I do have the recipe. We have a meat market near us that sells scrapple.
Also, I can't stand palmer chocolate but I'm glad in the cake it was not bad.
Old school boxed yellow cake and choclate frosting is one my all time favorites as well. so yummo.
My parents moved away and my son is with his dad so I decided to put together a pantry meal for myself. I didn't have to spend extra because I had everything. I'm having ham from my freezer, roasted potatoes, corn. I made an apple dump cake for dessert. My heart hurts but I'm being kind to myself. I even have a little wine. God bless ya'll. Let's celebrate Resurrection Day.
You are an angel. I am surprised you don't have more followers.
Happy Easter Lisa, Andrew and Mom! 🐤🐑🌷🌱🌱🌷🌷🌱🌱
I just love you girl. We have 10 grandchildren 3 kid's with their spouses… We are having taco's this year. Not gonna stand over the stove all day for them to pick at the food. This way everyone is happy 😅
Quick mention.Everytime you the cans boxes and bags you are contaminating the food when you touch the food.Also you should have your hair tied back whenever you cook.
me too! store bought yellow cake and chocolate icing has always been my favorite, i have a sweet tooth so it's one of those things if i make I want a piece after every meal lol Loved the video happy Easter
Bravo LD, really creative! Apologies if repetitive, I use canned potatoes often and if not putting into a soup I find throwing them into a colander and giving them a quick rinse and drain makes for a better finished dish, less salty. That shelf stable milk is so great, just purchased the almond this week. Thank you for another great video and Hope you are enjoying a blessed Easter! 💞🌸🌺🙏
Thanks Lisa! I grew up with spam and there are so many things you can do with it! Maybe get rid of the saltiness with more cream?? Thanks for sharin'!
I love it! Such clever ideas for limited resources.
My dollar tree freezer/fridge section is more sparse these days too. One new thing I found tho is frozen bacon. You get 4 slices in the pack. I live alone so it's the perfect amount for me (and my dog lol)