Feeding A Family of Four on $50 A Week (Week 1)
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We’re feeding our family of four with $50 a week! Welcome to the February Grocery Challenge, where you’ll learn how to spend …
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Larry:
Your are handsome as your wife is beautiful, so toss the hairpiece I love your channel
Great job! Poor Larry sacrificing for the Beet Burger🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have made your carrot dogs and they are delicious!😋 Thanks for Sharing!
I like your idea using the large collard leaves. Thank you for sharing your recipes
We enjoyed your beet burgers for dinner today. They were very nice with thumbs up from everyone in the family. I have another batch in the oven for tomorrow. These are not only delicious they are cost effective. I saw packet of two vegetable burgers for $5 (AUD) at the supermarket and would have needed four to feed the family. The home made version cost a fraction of that and made far more. Feeling good. Thank you so much for the recipe link on your blog.
For February, I am filling in some holes in my food storage as well as stocking up on laundry detergents, soaps, and filling in some holes in cleaning product storage.
I'm cutting back on keto processed treats like protein bars, pork crackle. More home baking is required lol!
those oranges look so yummy.
Hope when u post the recipes for ur muffins. ? Thank u in advance
Our grocery stores look really bad. The sales have been bad too because I don’t think they want people stocking up.
You are amazing. I did not get into no spend January, and will probably continue to keep stocking up in February. I do save many parts of fresh veggies to make an awesome veggie soup I am not vegan but very much limit meat intake, mostly to season the vegetables. I have become very interested in something called fast beans where they pressure then dehydrate beans. This would be great for electric outages , as supposedly they cook up in no time. The very best way I save on groceries is eating almost any kind of vegetable, so that I can shop in season, sales, and stir fry over rice. Garden helps.
Yay, Aldi saltines. Even at the new higher price, it's the best price by FAR of all markets.
We are also trying to spend less this month on groceries we are trying to spend $100 less this month than average. Not off to a good start but we have a well stocked pantry 😃
I feel everyone needs a stock pile. Just to prepare for anything that might happen. I honestly feel that if anybody has extra money now invest in putting aside
Yes, love the Aldi’s Saltines.
Supply chain issues plus floods means our supermarkets have been pretty empty of vegetables, meat and lots of other foods for the past few weeks. I have been so grateful for my veg garden, freezer and store of lentils and beans.
My goal this month is to eat my freezer and pantry and spend about $40 a week only.
I cant wait to try your carrot dogs! I LOVE your BBQ lentil recipe and it is in my regular rotation. It is insane how much the cost of food has gone up. We now buy only enough produce to last just a week, and we will treat the kids to a bag of chips that they have to make last a week and a box of cereal they can eat on weekends. we eat one meat dish per week, and eggs once a week only, and the cost of food is still so high for us now. Looks like we are going to have to go down the whole foods plant based road full time now.
Hi new to your channel ,, I am a bit of a food hoarder and proud of it ,, my goal is to use up 80% of my pantry food before I start to restock ,, so far so good ,, it very hard to pass on a good deal ,,, but I keep saying you have good deals at home 😂😂😂. A lot of what you do I do ,,but always room for improvement I say ,,, I live in 🇨🇦 Canada BC actually
Celery should also be organic but you can't get it at Aldi's.
Yes the Social Security increase did not cover inflation
Thank you for so many great ideas, and as always, interesting, calming, and awesome!:)
“Being a Mom…” oh yeah I know that emotion…we’ll walk on hot coals for our kiddos.
Hi Larry & Hope! A few of my subscribers suggested I pop over to your channel and check out your videos. LOVED this one! I did a pantry challenge at the end of last year, but am gearing up for another one in March. So I'm sure I'll get lots of tips. In England (at least my area of England) I haven't seen empty shelves, but price increases are DEFINITELY happening! The carrot dogs sound interesting, I'm off to read the post.
I really want to try the beet burgers! Do you think it possible to leave out the grapes or replace with something more economical when grapes aren't in season? Or to use canned beets?
We dont often get snow to speak of and about 10 years ago I knew someone working a closing shift on a platue when 8" plus was on the ground, the surrounding roads were being shut down, people were calling fir the hignt and next day….Next thing that happened was that there were about 5 announcing they were sleeping over in the break room. The next day, tons of customers braved slippery street and walked to thier local stores atop the platue; "no one" left the hill. While they closed the night before, the 5 were offered clock-in hours starting at 5AM as long as they woild float wherever needed. And, that store was better stocked than the others until supplies started to sell out.
I bet that there will be more reductions when the stores restock as there too much stock as people have over brought and there is no need for it. Also, you can grow the green onions by placing them in a glass of water and in the fridge.
-find best prices on organics, buying more & presderving fresh produce in season.
My budget was $50 for a family of 5. My total was 49.95!! This is the first time I have shaved my budget down that far. Thank you Hope and Larry!
Am widow and have used up pantry and freezer food. Want to keep monthly groceries to 100.00…including some stock up.
My homemade vege stock never tastes flavourful. What am
I doing wrong?
I knew Hope would be able to stick to her budget even though inflation is through the roof it seems. Great video and thanks for showing us those amazing meals. I bought a three pound bag of very small naval oranges for $4.99 on sale. There were 7 in the bag.
My February grocery goal is $400. Living in Hawai'i we don't really have discount food stores so I have to do my best to shop sales.
Do you have a list of perishable staples, including frozen items? I love your list of pantry staples!
I’m trying to keep my grocery budget to $600 this month for a family of 3 adults. I will have an extra person for 8 days this month so it might be a little more challenging
I have to admit, eating on a budget has somehow turned into a hobby of mine LOL 😀
Ok you guys are amazing. I feel good if I spend less than $200 week for my family of two adults and two teens. This week I spent $140. So 8 felt good.
Hope and Larry, thanks for setting this challenge up. Y'all are such an inspiration!
I still have a lot of squash and pumpkin that were grown in our garden this summer. My goal is to incorporate those into our meals as much as possible. Pumpkin is a great way to stretch out meals like chilli and pasta dishes, without adding rice or carbs.
For February I am spending 50$ a week instead of 100 hundred
You guys seem so nice! This month, I'm aiming at spending 15€ ($17) each week on groceries for myself and I want to use up a lot of food in my pantry.
Love this video! We usually spend 150.00 a week and we are doing 100.00 a week in February. Here is to a successful month!
These are very interesting and creative dishes, however I would like to know the calorie content of a lot of these. My family has a high metabolism and we need to eat more. We also are not vegan- although we are dairy and gluten free. I just used 3 cups of rice for my six kids and myself for lunch with no leftovers (and I served beans with it), for example. Just some observations!
Hi ! I’m new. What would you use for a protein with the carrot meal ?
Hi, do you keep all your spices in the refrigerator?
I don't seem to go through them very quickly and maybe I should re-home them from the cupboard???
I love your mug/stein. Where’d you get it?
With the new year I decided I would try to set a budget for 100 dollars a week on food. One week I went over by 8 dollars but have been doing just around 100. I hit the clearance and mark down sections of the stores. I also go to multiple stores in order to find what I need with the food chain mess we all are in. Thank you for your tips