I Lived On A $5 A Day Budget For A Week In New York City

Test kitchen manager, June, shows you how to eat on $35 a week (aka $5 a day) in New York City.

#BUDGETCHALLENGE

HOST: June Xie
VIDEO DIRECTOR + PRODUCER: Julia Smith
EDITOR: Zach Lennon-Simon
ART: Allie Folino
ANIMATION: Vineet Sawant
POST-PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Philip Swift


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[Solistastyle]

This woman needs her own entire channel. I'd like to see her every week ❤️

[jragonsong]

Loving the extreme "whatever" energy in this video. Sis just straight up didn't explain one recipe and stopped rating her meals like three quarters of the way thru, I live

[romeokimss]

I’m a wasteful cook but seeing examples of how to repurpose food makes me want to change. Extremely well done video.

[saramoore]

Why does this woman not have her own chanel we need more of her more than ever with so many people having to cut their budgets down to to basically nothing with covid effecting so many families

[grumpyoldlady]

June is a culinary genius and a treasure, and should be paid as such.

[godisgood]

You’re doing this in one of the most expensive cities in the US. OK, that’s amazing.

[EmilyroseSnell]

It shows how much of a kitchen genius that June is that she bought two bags of oats and didn't make oatmeal

[ms.chuckfu]

I never thought to donate oil, ketchup, vinegar, soya sauce, pepper, and hot sauce to food banks, but maybe it would help.

[normahobbs]

Loved the graphic artwork of how much food you had left. Made it seem easy to understand what was left to use.

[aznshoang]

Wasn't planning on watching the whole thing, but then I watched the whole thing.
Loved the balance of spontaneous creativity, the occasional successes from just moderately winging-it, but also throwing in the towel and eating 2 trays of tortilla chips for dinner.

[dakotaszumilas]

Please give this girl a solid raise!!! Hard to watch such talented and hard working woman cook in cheap ikea pots ! It’s like making a formula one driver race in Toyota Corolla. Please please pay her according to her contributions! She brings all the people to this channel.

[TheBrassGeologist]

For anyone who's interested in cutting out meat or simply eating less of it and are worried about anemia, here are some suggestions for good vegetable/non-meat sources of iron:
Oats - 100g has 38% your daily recommended intake (and it's cheap)
Chickpeas - 100g has 22% of your daily recommended intake (also very cheap if you buy dried)
Lentils - 100g has 25% of your daily recommended intake (again, cheap)
Black beans - 100g has 16% daily intake

You can use fortified nutritional yeast as a source of vitamin B12, or you can eat eggs if you're not going vegan. There are a lot of options out there.

This is a non-exhaustive list, but these ingredients are easy to find and inexpensive. Indian food has great examples of nutritiously complete vegetarian food as well.

[emilydurkee]

Her being honest Tuesday about how the pancakes from Monday sucked, we stan an honest queen

[JulieBaek]

I love she thinks about the next meal when she’s eating, and that’s totally me. I’m eating lunch and thinking about what to eat for dinner 😂

[delilahraja]

what we really need from June is a skincare routine.

[Pozoe]

It was so hard to watch her eat those pancakes with no syrup...YOU SHOULD’VE JUST PUT IT ON, I would’ve forgiven you!! 😂

[Julietsg]

This video makes me realize how wasteful and lazy I am with food.

[kd]

mix together water + cinnamon + sugar and heat them up and you have a cheaper pancake topper than maple syrup

[courtneyknapek]

Just the fact that she left the kitchen with the whole ass pan of fried rice....it's definitely a mood. I love her. She is a beautiful human being.

[miapacific_]

24:35: "i hate this angle" *pans it down a bit* "better??" ... "maybe i just hate myself" LMAO mood