aKathy's What's for Dinner 3/27
Mar 27, 2025 23:25:17 GMT
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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 27, 2025 23:25:17 GMT
I wanted to share how my week went. I just summarized my food experiment on Facebook. But you guys are my dinner peeps so I thought I'd share here.
My Facebook post:
I randomly followed Jenn Eats Goood on Instagram a while ago but then promptly forgot about her. (I'm not on Instagram a lot) But she randomly popped up this week and I thought, well it'll be an interesting experiment to follow one of her budget friendly food videos so let's see what happens.
The premise is that she has 5 dinner meals to eat within a week and she's shooting for around a $50 total for the ingredients and zero waste. I am lucky enough that I don't pay a huge amount of attention to price however, who doesn't like to save money? Waste is a huge issue for me. I don't like wasting anything.
So I chose her May 2024 video and began on Sunday.
m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZMzAVB8OpyGBEN6jYnYNip4_00iczzz_
She assumes you have pantry staples like olive oil, dry spices, maple syrup, that's kind of thing. She does not include them in her total as a well stocked kitchen should already have these kinds of things on hand. But for the weekly meal items in this video, she paid just under $55.
I happened to have the pantry ingredients so I didn't have to buy them. And then of her weekly ingredients I had rice (I buy 10lb bags) and a package of tofu. But I had to buy everything else. Jeremy shopped for everything at Meijer and my total was $48.06.
With that said, I also added a loaf of French bread and some Parmesan cheese. I also used regular pasta and soy sauce instead of coconut aminos (Jenn is gluten and dairy free). But otherwise I stuck right close to her recipes. Well, I did go a little rogue with red pepper flakes.
All the food was tasty. I ended up with 4 tortillas and about 1/2c of cilantro left at the end of the week. A couple of the meals there is no way they'd serve 4 people. But I'm only cooking for two. I did scrape some lunch leftovers a couple of nights.
All in all, this was a fun challenge. After months of depression this kick started my cooking mojo again. I'll be doing another one of her videos this coming week.
My Facebook post:
I randomly followed Jenn Eats Goood on Instagram a while ago but then promptly forgot about her. (I'm not on Instagram a lot) But she randomly popped up this week and I thought, well it'll be an interesting experiment to follow one of her budget friendly food videos so let's see what happens.
The premise is that she has 5 dinner meals to eat within a week and she's shooting for around a $50 total for the ingredients and zero waste. I am lucky enough that I don't pay a huge amount of attention to price however, who doesn't like to save money? Waste is a huge issue for me. I don't like wasting anything.
So I chose her May 2024 video and began on Sunday.
m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZMzAVB8OpyGBEN6jYnYNip4_00iczzz_
She assumes you have pantry staples like olive oil, dry spices, maple syrup, that's kind of thing. She does not include them in her total as a well stocked kitchen should already have these kinds of things on hand. But for the weekly meal items in this video, she paid just under $55.
I happened to have the pantry ingredients so I didn't have to buy them. And then of her weekly ingredients I had rice (I buy 10lb bags) and a package of tofu. But I had to buy everything else. Jeremy shopped for everything at Meijer and my total was $48.06.
With that said, I also added a loaf of French bread and some Parmesan cheese. I also used regular pasta and soy sauce instead of coconut aminos (Jenn is gluten and dairy free). But otherwise I stuck right close to her recipes. Well, I did go a little rogue with red pepper flakes.
All the food was tasty. I ended up with 4 tortillas and about 1/2c of cilantro left at the end of the week. A couple of the meals there is no way they'd serve 4 people. But I'm only cooking for two. I did scrape some lunch leftovers a couple of nights.
All in all, this was a fun challenge. After months of depression this kick started my cooking mojo again. I'll be doing another one of her videos this coming week.
