How to Eat for $10 a Week | Dollar Tree Budget Meal Plan | Emergency Grocery Haul


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Here’s how I would survive for a week off of only $10 of groceries from the Dollar Tree! This meal plan provides 3 meals – breakfast …

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  1. Laima Z
    Laima Z says:

    You are not only fun to watch, but I’m constantly amazed at how you use everything up so wisely !! Your family is definitely reaping the benefits of your clever, and healthy cooking !! Great Job Lisa, keep it up 🥰

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  2. Miss Jarvis
    Miss Jarvis says:

    Basis of this logic is right. Most food from dollar tree lacks any real nutrition. Some of it is barely considered acceptable for human consumption. Do you boo!

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  3. Kevin Neese
    Kevin Neese says:

    Very ingenious. I think you did an excellent job. Also nice to see there are younger women out there who still have great cooking skills. You kind of had me mesmerized as I was watching how you went about cooking. Doesn't take a lot to entertain me I guess lol. Also I noticed your Dollar Tree carries some things ours doesn't have. I've never seen a carton of a dozen eggs at ours. There were a couple of other things I've never seen at ours either, though cant think right now what they were. Anyway, very helpful and entertaining video. Keep up the good work.

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  4. SisterSunshineTV
    SisterSunshineTV says:

    You can make inexpensive meat pies with ground meat, potato salt and pepper. Make a basic fry bread (flour oil salt milk powder and water) make little hand pies and fry em up.

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  5. SisterSunshineTV
    SisterSunshineTV says:

    I grew up very poor in my early life. We saved our bacon grease and cooking oil. We did not drain meat like the sausage. That little bit of fat added flavor and helps with vitamin absorption. It also adds precious calories (my people were poor when poor people were thin with stunted growth so every bit of fat was eaten or reused.)

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  6. SisterSunshineTV
    SisterSunshineTV says:

    Learn how to make tortillas, fry bread and gububu bread. Saves huge $$. I make a lot of bean soups usually with navy or great northern, if you use bacon save the oil! Use it in the gabubu. Save 5 gallon buckets you can regrow celery, onions, garlic and potatoes.

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  7. Bob Montoya
    Bob Montoya says:

    Bravo! That was excellent. Adding Beans to your Stir fry was just exactly right, it’s suppose to be add your leftovers and that’s what you did. Extra protein and any dish containing rice & beans has all the Aminos you need and is a Complete Meal. Little tip on making your tortillas more pliable to roll, Nuc them for 30 seconds in a moistened paper towel. They bend w/o breaking. Liked all your choices and that was especially nice menu for a Bachelor or Bachelorette! Keep making your Video’s and I’ll keep watching…. SanJoséBob

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  8. flower
    flower says:

    I buy fresh vegetables when they are cheaper than frozen vegetables. And then chop and freeze a large amount of these these fresh vegetables. So that they last longer, and are already chopped ready to cook.

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  9. John Doe
    John Doe says:

    I get 73 dollars food stamps 790 soc security 90ssi n to keep head above water I have to go to pawn shop ev mo but this is going to help me tremendously my biggest outky is electric bill total electric fema trailer so I'm getting woodburner stove for heat n cook on it'll take moisture out when raining so good for my arthrity n it'll keep electric. Bills down thank u you aren't just pretty but smart and I have a cat too my cats saved my life twice n you're ok too I wouldn't have thot of any of this but I have 72 in food stamps left so w your ideas I'll be able to make it thru. Month to add extra calories how bout peanut. Butter sandwich also I'm going to show this video to a friend he his dad n bro live on pizza tv dinners n coca cola chili dogs at sheetzs since their mom died this'll help them nutritionally

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  10. John Doe
    John Doe says:

    Thank u I eat too much red meat don't know much bout cooking I'm bachelor not much social security or SSI or food stamps you've tight me a lot and nutritional bent trying to get out of debt this is the best video I've seen on this lentils r great for u but didn't know how to cook em I'll rewatch this a lot n take notes omve again God bless u. N all u hold dear n life thanks

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  11. Little Squirrel
    Little Squirrel says:

    These remind me a lot of how I ate when I was just starting out. Simple meals, repeated ingredients , but all tasty. As the weeks went on and on my pantry wad greatly expanded because of food carryover because at that time I was just feeding myself so I didn't go through an entire bag of beans for example.

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  12. L Navarro
    L Navarro says:

    Love the video. Shows you can eat on a budget well add another 10 dollars and you can get more calories for big eater but also get fresh fruits and or veggies.

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  13. Lisa Warsh-Chartier
    Lisa Warsh-Chartier says:

    I loved what you did here. Bravo in $10 us dollars. The same basket of food woukd be about $70 here in Vancouver Canada.
    You were talking about things you missed. You failed to mention nutrition. While "eating enough food" and "liking what you made" are a fantastic outcome here, the Canada nutrition guide ans what you made are vastly different. The USA nutrition guide is pretty much the same as ours.
    Fiber and protein are essential. While you got the protein mostly covered by the lentils and beans, and the low quality meat by products you chose, you had almost no servings of veggies and fruit.

    I do not want people to think they can reproduce this menu and consider it healthy.

    It

    Looked like a fun challenge and I loved how you stuck to your flavor profiles.

    I am only a beginner when it comes to this stuff, but you did a
    Great job!

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