i tried a £25 budget for a week and this is what happened..

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[nask]

Put the lettuce in a cup of water at least 1 hour before using them. They get nice and crispy and it’s a great way to keep them crispy in your fridge

[tubeWyrme]

Hey Taz, I've been following your cooking journey for years and I have to say you've really made great progress - you're basically there now. If you can throw together a tasty meal from a bunch of ingredients that's all you need to be a decent home cook and I would have eaten every single one of the meals you made. Well done!

[gothtottie]

Better help is full of unqualified “therapists” they also got had HIPPA which means they aren’t regulated to protect private info and soul data it’s not a company to promote at all

[princejohnofprincejohn]

This journey from knowing nothing about cooking to making meals on your own in your own kitchen is absolutely wonderful. You're smashing this, Taz!!!

[xJentaa]

Since you've been documenting shopping on a budget for a few years now, it would be cool to recreate a video of last year and see how much the pricing has changed??

[morningstar]

UK’s cost of living crisis prices are still cheaper than my country’s regular prices. 🤣

[JeSSiMKah]

I think you should stick to £25 but try other supermarkets to see how they compare with the same budget. So proud of how far your cooking and eating has come.

[sufyanbaba]

14:14 the idea about the series sounds good! You should have one fixed budget say £20 for example and go into different supermarkets on the high street and compare the variety of things you could get to see how it differs store to store! You got this Taz 🧡

[YouTube]

making adulting look easy ! loved this vid Taz 🥰

[AnyKeyLady]

- Big tip with lettuces and a lot of salad stuff with the core attached. As soon as you get home stick them in really cold water (you can add ice cubes if you are in a warm country) and if you have space in the fridge you can stick it in there for a few hours before using.

I like using left over plastic Chinese takeaway tubs as they are low and wide and can support any floppy leaves. If it has a decent core, you can also try re rooting it in water on the counter. Once rooted you can stick it in a plant pot or drain-able container, with a water capture, like a saucer and use it for "cut and come again" lettuce. As the main stem root has been cut from the core, you will mainly have smaller leaves coming back from the centre but if you can wait longer or have grow lights, they will get bigger.

Don't forget to change the water often during the week. You can re grow spring onions, leeks, like this no problem. With the bigger ones i would suggest removing some off the outer layers, before putting in soil as bad soil can get into the folds and make it soggy. They don't like have saggy old skin or flaps.

- I think what Taz is saying is that oily fish has a lot of Omega 3 (and depending on the fish also Omega 6 and 9). These are good for your brain, eyes and motor function. No you don't get to drive better, it's about your joints, well not those ones but great for us old people anyway or those that get stiff when still for a long time. Well at this point i give up on this topic! lol

- Apples are clean and healthy! These look like Granny Smiths, which are wholesome eating apples. Pectin that Taz mentioned, is what is used to make jam set and be like jammy rather than runny liquid.

Apple skins and cores can also be used in other ways. The seeds aren't a problem but i like to throw them out in the food bin, unless you want to try and plant a tree (good luck). Whilst they do contain some cyonade (sp), i have more worries about kids swallowing small penny shaped plastic toys than this and it doesn't add to what you can make.

You can pop apple peels and cores in a jar, fill with water and add sugar. Cover the jar with a cloth an elastic band so it can breathe and leave on the counter out of sunlight and in about 30 days you have unfiltered apple cider vinegar. This is great for cleaning windows, for the skin or making fly traps for your plants indoors. White layer is ok and means the ferment is working. You would need to filter this properly to be used in cooking, so not recommended.

You can also bake the skins, use those bread ends and left over bread at the end of the week, with things like cinnamon, nutmeg, etc, milk and butter to make bread and butter pudding. It is nice with raisins or other left over fruit or peels. I would stick you bread ends in a paper bag before freezing. It's the plastic bag that makes it mouldy. in a paper bag or a proper wood bread bin, they tend to go hard but can be made into croutons, bread crumbs and yes bread pudding to name a few.

You can freeze peeled, cored chopped apples, with a bit of lemon juice to stop the browning.

Keep the fruit and veg peelings and maybe source some red worms from a garden and create a mini desktop compost maker from and old salad spinner! They love banana peels and so do the plants! #Zerowaste

[danlyle]

As a student, that sort of chickpea veg curry you made is one of my go-to meals to cook. You can buy the ingredients for about £2, it only takes a few minutes to cook, it'll last for a few days or you can freeze it, and it's actually healthy

Not me in Chile, spending £25 on like four things, because the living cost over here is crazy high. I am forever shocked while watching your budget videos

[ichieyamato]

YES. MORE OF THIS. And Taz you're glowing, sis! Absolutely gorgeous!

[jxtfr]

I, as a uni student actually do my weekly shop on £25 a week and it's more than enough!! Love this video 😁

[mayasone]

"Please know you matter"! I love that phrase at the end 😢. it brings me so much emotion and motivation whenever you say it!

[DarkMercy]

Stewed apples are good with cinnamon as well. Cinnamon is also known to help with gut health, as well as have anti-inflammatory properties

[loveyourselfplease]

Can I suggest watching Budget Eats on Delish. June's series doing budget eats was seriously the only reason I watched their channel, she is by far one of the most unique thinkers when it comes to food & cooking that I've ever seen. I think half the adventure is getting as much variety as you can in your set budget, finding places that allow you to stretch that budget even more. She'd find dollar bone bags & make her own beef bone broth & there's still meat in the bones so she always pulled all of it off once cooked & it was like a 2 in 1 for only $1. She'd find dollar produce vendors, buy dried beans & lentils to make her own flower using anything she could to stretch that budget beyond anything I could do & she was doing this in New York one of the most expensive cities in the US. Just some food for thought

[japangrl]

Taz- i'm crazy proud of you for how much more you're willing to eat and try now than you used to. it's like watching my own kiddo grow and try new things. incredible!

[manitoberoi]

Taz, i can see the confidence in you and your cooking now. The progress has come a long way. Was honestly surprised! you go girllll

[MsFunsummer]

I love how even with your account growth, you haven’t changed your roots. I love it! It brings me so much comfort!