20 Ways to Stretch Meals to Save Money on Food
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My mum here in Australia , when. She makes spaghetti Bolognese, she grates , carrots, zucchini, celery, onions, garlic , and adds a tin of beans (lentils, black beans etc) add to that other veggies lying around. Serve with pasta, or if like me trying to lose weight by itself. Or zucchini noodles.
I often eat eggs for dinner, tin beans on toast, etc. You forgot to add to your chili tips it would be nice on a steam potato !
I also eat a lot of soup, a great way to increase veggies into the diet, keeps you full. Love your tips !
We put crackers in my meat loaf.
I love this video! I do almost all of these things. I will put anything but ice cream in a tortilla, and either fry it, or bake it. I've even made spaghetti burritos 👍 We also do the same things with chili, and chili mac burritos are also good. Any leftovers can be turned into new, fun treats! Thank you for another fun video 🙂
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Again my Aunt mipickle relish as sandwich spread.sed ground up leftover Roast beef with
My mom assed oatmeal.
my great Aunt (terific cook that learned to cook during Depression. added crushed soda crackers .
Mom put torn bread in the meatloaf. We love topping a baked potato with soup or chili….another starch idea.😍Great frugal tips y'all!
Great, great ideas!
Fried rice and stir fry make good use of Leftovers here.
We also add things to rice bowls or dinner salads to use it up.
Corn on the cob, cowboy caviar and grilled vegetables all work great imo.
I never heard of stretching meatloaf, my mom never made it but I make it and like it, so I need to learn this!
We have stocked up on beans and rice and add to most meals to have ground beef, chicken etc stretch. I love the instapot. Scrubbing and doing whole potatoes in instapot instead of in the oven.
Love it! When we have just enough soup left over for a bowl or two I will heat it and mix it in with some cooked rice to create like a veggie fried rice dish. Might add curry powder or sweet chilli sauce to change up the flavour. If there's still not enough, put the rice and soup combo into a wrap and add a little shredded cabbage or homemade slaw for some added crunch. My kids also like PBJ pancake sandwiches 🙂
My mama use to crush plain crackers into the meatloaf. 🤗🤗
Great ideas. We started saving hundreds of dollars going on a diet. Food can go further if you learn how to properly portion
Hi guys! If I make a "chinese" stir fry I use a lot of super fine sliced cabbage or even iceberg lettuce or any other lettuce, kohlrabi leaves etc as a veg filler besides peppers or whatever you have on hand instead of the pricy bean sprouts, bamboo shoots etc. Then I just add a little chicken or even ground meat of ort and with a little soy sauce a pinch cinnamon and sugar its fantastic! I uee bread crumbs and joghurt to tretch hamburger meat for burgers or meatloaf plus I stic up to 4 hardboiled eggs in the middle of the batter! If I use milk, I water it down, many many tricks to stretch food 🙂 great video!
I would love to try your grain loaf recipe if you would be willing to share! Thanks so much!
What we do is save bits of left over beef, chicken, sausage, pork,etc, and at then the end of the week we dice the left over meat up and ad it to sauce and now the whole family has meat sauce
I love these cost and time saving meal ideas!
When’s the recipe book coming out?
The bloopers really cracked me up! 🤣 I always appreciate how encouraging and informative your videos are – thanks you!
my mom added saltine crackers to her meatloaf. I've had it with oatmeal, too, but I prefer crackers!
Thanks so much again for your videos! Bravo!
BREAD "HACK" / "TIP" I USE: Not sure if this is mentioned in the comments and, ya'll may know this bread trick but if you'd got a baguette or some sort of artison loaf, running the loaf under water for about 10 seconds, then baking at 350F for 10-15 minutes will have it good as new again. Our son volunteered at the food pantry and brought home all kinds of bread. This also works for pre sliced french bread that is sometimes available at the supermarket. I just run a slice under water for a few seconds….not 10 seconds this time….and place it in the toaster oven and BAM I have a crunchy fluffy slice of bread. 🙂
Soup is great for stretching. There is an old German saying "Fünf war´n geladen, zehn sind gekommen, giess Wasser zur Suppe, heiß alle willkommen!" (translates: "Five were invited, but ten have come, add water to the soup, and welcome each one!" 🥣
? Chili over lettuce/greens for taco salad, with topping of dried up tortillas. Great ideas! Creative problem solving- thinking outside the box!
Very interesting video ! My favorite way to strech a meal is to prepare a vegan version of the french "hachis parmentier" wich is actually made from leftovers vegetable, grounded meat and mached potatoes topped with bread crust. I think it's pretty similar to the "sheperd's pie". This meal is very easy to convert in vegan way by replacing meat by lentil, ou soy protein.
I also prepare a lot of soups from organic vegetable scrap (carrot and potatoes peel, califlower leafs and core, mushroom feet…), once it's cooked and mixed, none will notice it's not "actual" vegetable and you have a free satisfying diner.
I also like to prepare a meal, inspired by the Italian gastronomy : the minestrone soup, with tomato sauce, beans, vegetables and pasta. It's a great way to combine leftovers to prepare a delicious meal.
🤣😂🤣 Great ideas and love the bloopers 💐
I’d like the recipe for grain loaf
Mom would grind up the meat mix with mayo and put on a bun. She called it funeral meat!!
My tip is not so much about stretching leftovers, but ZERO waste. Leftovers go immediately into single meal size containers and into the freezer (don't forget to label). Then a few days or weeks later, you have full ready meals for lunch or dinner and no food fatigue from eating the same dish for days. I can't tell you how enjoyable it is to have Thanksgiving dinner on a random day in January. I also freeze individual slices of cake or pie for treats at a later date.
I made butter scotch scones last week had left over scone mix put it in a freezer bag and froze it cooked up fine scones for the next few weeks
My family anoy me thue won't eat stews cassorals or curry's so anoying
I got abig blade beef roast cheap chopped it up and I git 3 nights of steak for the family cooked in butter and garlic
I make a big batch of split pea soup ( vegan, of course) and save some of the leftovers for a sandwich spread. This works best with really thick pea soup. You can mix in some silken tofu, hummus, etc. to make it lighter and go even farther.
As a widowed retired person, it's hard not to have leftovers when I cook. I have plastic divided containers that I use to freeze the leftovers as meals. If I don't have enough leftovers for a full meal, I can add leftovers from future meals to make a full meal. Maybe I have more meatloaf leftover from a meal than veggies. I freeze the meatloaf in a container and add veggies when I have extra in the future. Some containers end up being leftover veggies from different original meals. It keeps me from having to eat the same thing several days in a row.
Hi can u do a frugal home tour? Love your videos
I’m vegan now but Mom always added saltiness to meatloaf.
My mom served meatloaf doused in ketchup and bread crumbs…super ideas…I love soup. Very filling
love the bloopers