Can a Dietitian Make Cheap Healthy Meals for Less Than $3 (Grocery Prices are INSANE?!)
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Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to Abbey’s Kitchen. In todays video, we will be making super budget-friendly, quick back-to-school meals!
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Already taking notes ✍🏽 As a medical student fast and cheap is EXACTLY what I need.
yes!! so important for students
I really enjoy this style where we get to see more of your personality and it’s less scripted!
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This was awesome, thank you so much!! Would LOVE to see more videos like this one😊
for sure!!
Gosh, I want to try everything! I didn’t realize you had a cookbook too. Definitely added to my amazon wishlist. I’d love to see more content like this 🥰
I hope you love it!
Absolutely loved this video. I would definitely watch more content like this from you. Thanks for the great ideas !
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I just wanted to let you know that you have helped this 55 year old who was on her first diet at age 3 change her life. You, along with my therapist, have helped me break terrible food habits. Probably TMI but from the bottom of my heart thank you. Add more instead of restrict has been life changing.😊
So so happy for you!!❤
Such wonderful news, I’m so happy for you 🥰
The two cheapest fresh vegetables I can always find are cabbage and carrots. You can learn to use them in a lot of different ways.
Onions are also usually cheap and totally count as vegetables – they’re great roasted, or made into onion soup. Cabbage is also great roasted actually, as are the leafy/stem parts of cauliflowers. Those are delicious!
I love buying a head of broccoli (I don’t have a family to support) and chopping it up, freezing it, and using it randomly in everything. I also do it with peppers, onions. It makes it so much easier to just throw things together as well as be spontaneous with what I make. I am a recovered anorexic and pre-planning meals isn’t something I stick to, I have to eat whatever I am hyper focused on at that moment or I either don’t eat, or eat everything in sight because I’m not fulfilling my craving. It makes it so much easier to buy things on sale when I chop them up and freeze them for later.
Green raw cabbage makes a good wrap too. like throw in some tuna or chicken salad or some kind of salad sandwich mix like that.
We all need this so thank you. I look forward to more balanced breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas.
Love these ideas! You are so right that some of the fresh veggies are so cheap. We love to cook greens (of various types) for a cheap side dish. So good and good for you.
Thank you so much for making this video. Food insecurity has been such a large part of my struggle with anorexia. This really helps motivate me to stick to my recovery goals by making it more attainable 💗
The OCD girl in me was seriously concerned about the pan situation (I pick the wrong one all the time. When I see you break out the cheese I’m like: Abbey’s my girl. Cheese 🧀 is life!!! 7:14
When I was going through the worst time in my life during the pandemic, I lived on canned beans 🫘 carrots and any veg on sale and any cheese I could afford. I wish you’d do another video like this for people without stoves and stuff… my puppy and I were living in motels.😢
That’s rough 🙁 I hope you two are better now <3
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Another channel I watch is Dollar Tree Dinners, and she has awesome videos that help a lot. She has an awesome understanding on these types of situations that I wish I would have seen when I was homeless. I got through it exceptionally well, but it would have made it a little easier for sure!
I made a really yummy soup the other night that was super cheap! Roasted sweet potatoes, bell pepper, and onion, then puréed it with veggie stock, a drained and rinsed can of white beans, garlic, chili powder, smoked paprika, and some chipotle chile powder. It was sweet and spicy and savory and so good! And pretty cheap too! I’ve been getting into veggie/bean soups lately because they’re cozy for fall, cheap, and nutritious.
This one went straight on my Favorites List before I watched it, and then your attitude, the whole video, was too darling and so funny to boot! 🧡🔥🍳🥗🍝
A 30 minute meal that actually looks like it will take 30 minutes. Thank you Abbey! Love these meal ideas and moments your kids interrupt you – so endearing and real!
Go girl getting a skims deal! This video feels like OG Abby days! Your review what I eat in a day videos got me out of my eating disorder, love you!!
What I like to make on a tight budget is carrot-potato-soup! Same amount of carrots and potatoes into a pot, cook til falling apart, then mash a little (With the cooking water) to get a chunky soup, or puree if you like it smooth, season with whatever you like! I mostly just leave it at salt, pepper, nutmeg and a little dill (the dried stuff works like a charm!). For a little extra creamyness I like to put a little milk, cream or even cream cheese into it. Add sausages, chicken or whatever meat you like, done. Absolutely filling, easy to make and tastes even better the day after!
Love this video idea, Abby. Sometimes cooking feels you have to compromise on either the price, the time you spend on the meal or on the “healthiness” of the meal. But it doesn’t need to be like that. Could you make a series out of this? You really do save us students 😂❤
I’d love a video on cooking while living alone! How not to waste food even with limited freezer space, how to prep so it’s easy to throw together meals for one etc
Tip for others: If you don’t get bored with it, it’s okay to eat the same thing a few days in a row, or have the same thing for lunch and dinner – you can still get variety!
I’m happy eating the same thing over and over (could be the autism) but used to waste a lot of food thinking ‘I can’t have this 2 days in a row, a healthy diet needs variety!’, but having no room in the freezer it would just go bad.
Cooking in bulk is still an option in this sitch!! Obviously not making multiple huge batches that I can’t get through during the week, but making family sized meals like pasta and soup is great
To make sure I get a variety of nutrients, I just add more to each recipe. E.g. using 5 different vegetables in a soup instead of 3, adding legumes (love Abbey’s trick of blending beans into soups or sauces), or switching up what frozen fruits I buy to use in smoothies
I stick to a lot of the same staple ingredients, then each time I shop I’ll try to get a few different kinds of produce (whatever’s on sale)
All of this to say, you can still get variety week by week even if it seems like you’re eating the same thing over and over
Pasta with garbanzo beans, butter, and creole seasoning is my go to affordable and cheap meal 🥰 I usually make in large batches then put it in the fridge to reheat throughout the week!
I also love a whole block of tofu cut into cubes and sauteed with butter, canned roasted garlic, and herbs. Wow it is so good and so filling! Especially with a side of a cheap grain like rice to make it a hunger crushing combo.