Eating on $12 a Week | Easy, Healthy & Cheap Recipes for an Emergency Budget

Summary by Krater

A home cook challenges herself to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a week on a $12 grocery budget, successfully preparing nutrient-rich meals like lentil-carrot-rice skillet, pinto bean-potato burritos, and instant oatmeal.

From the video

Answers: How can I eat for a week on $12?

• extreme grocery budget challenge
• budget meal planning
• making homemade flour tortillas
• cooking dry beans and lentils in slow cooker
• high-protein vegetarian budget meals

Ingredients

• 10 packets Great Value Apples & Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal
• null Great Value Self-Rising Flour
• 2 lb Great Value All-Purpose Flour
• 1 lb Great Value Dry Lentils
• 1 lb Great Value Dry Pinto Beans
• 1 lb Great Value Long Grain Enriched Rice
• 5 lb bag Idaho Russet Potatoes
• 3 Bananas
• 2 Apples
• 1 Yellow onion
• 2 Jalapeño peppers
• null Bolthouse Farms Carrots
• 1 Roma tomato
• null Salt
• null Sugar
• null Baking powder
• null Water
• null Italian seasoning
• null Garlic powder
• null Onion powder
• null Pepper
• null Olive oil
• null Chili powder
• null Basil
• null Paprika
• null Oregano
• null Cumin
• null Curry powder

What it concludes

• Soaking beans makes them pillowy soft, significantly reduces cooking time, and aids with digestion and gas.
• Lentils and pinto beans are great meat substitutes because they are affordable and high in protein.
• Making homemade tortillas on a budget is easy, affordable, and requires only pantry-staple ingredients without long rising times.
• Cooking pinto beans in a slow cooker yields perfectly cooked beans every time.
• The extreme grocery budget challenge proved successful in providing nutrient-rich, high-protein meals without feeling hungry between meals.