Testing My Subscribers' Struggle Meal Recipes

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:28 Pizzas
2:54 Instant Food
6:16 Rice
8:17 Final Segment
11:01 Thoughts on Takis

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[FutureCanoe]

So Ovaltine is Swiss and Milo is Australian?

[omerkhan]

The most important part of a struggle meal is to eat it with a heart of hope - Future canoe
Bro stole my heart with that

[natedole]

I love that he substituted ingredients in the struggle meals. That feels very appropriate

[ve]

He has grown immune to mold. He is evolving.

[Dis_Dis]

I look at all the ingredients used in these dishes and I realise that when most people say struggle. They mean struggling to cook not struggling with buying food.

[TheMTOne]

Cheapest meal I ever had was from an Indian college student, and it was awesome. Parippu Podi which is just spicy dal powder, on rice with melted butter. He said he ate it all the time when he was in school in India, as it was one of the cheapest things to make at home. Still, it was delicious.

[a_random_confused_person]

The vermicelli noodles + milk and sugar one, I believe they were trying to tell you the recipe for something like savaiya.
It's an Indian desert (Pakistan probably has it too) and it tastes great when made properly. You're supposed to use vermicelli only though, add some saffron and dried fruits too and it tastes amazing.

[foodieasf]

The way I AUDIBLY GASPED at the fact that you really substituted vermicelli noodles for EFFING RAMEN NOODLES

[deadworld]

4:20 literally just describing what it's like to eat normal oatmeal. Including "tasted better than I expected but I don't want another bite".

[CatmanWaGozen]

"The most important part of a struggle meal is to eat it with a heart full of hope"

As someone that went from everyday struggle meals to being able to take care of myself, I genuinely felt that line so hard
Love you canoe, you're the GOAT of the youtube cooking game

[weebrahim]

Honestly that last quote made me cry, going through struggle rn, gotta keep that heart full of hope

[AM-zing]

I was an international student barely making through about 20yrs ago. My struggle guilty pleasure was rice cooker biriyani. I would buy the cheapest chicken cut available and marinade it with yoghurt, salt, cayenne and garam masala powder I would buy at the Indian grocery store. I fried some onions n the marinated chicken.
Would then put the chicken n rice together in the cooker till cooked.
Finally eat it with the fried onions on top.

It probably didn’t taste anything like the original but I remember it giving me comfort and reminded me of home. Also i felt rich when having this meal so gave me a general feeling of accomplishment as well.

Now I have a comfortable life and can afford to order n cook as I please but I still cook it at times when I am alone to bring back the nostalgia.

[angelvu]

My mom came from poverty in Vietnam and then was poor in America, so our struggle meal has been passed down through generations. My favorites are toasted bread and bananas (banana sandwich), toasted baguette and condensed milk+hot water (u dip the bread in the milk), sticky rice and sugar, bread coconut milk cake, or just rice and fried egg. Too poor to afford meat lol. We out the trenches now but the meals bring me nostalgia

[e_da_g]

As long as the cheese is a “hard” and aged cheese, mold is fine as long as you cut it off. It’s actually pretty much like you said, it’s already aged, so more mold won’t hurt it. Just don’t do that for shredded cheese/young cheeses like fresh mozzarella

[BillWiltfong]

Good Slop
Put all this into a pressure cooker for about an hour:
2 cups dried beans (kidney, black, and pinto are my faves) soaked and rinsed
1 cup dry quinoa (I found quinoa for the price of rice, but high-protein brown rice works)
1 or more lbs mixed frozen veg
1-2 onions and a pound of the cheapest meat you can find, with added fat if it's too lean, cooked together in a pan to give it some brown & flavor
More stuff as you like (garlic, hominy, peppers, squash, tomatoes, etc.)
generous seasoning
2 cups of water or broth per cup of dry beans and quinoa (so, 6 cups) - If you buy a chicken for your meat, turn the bones into broth for this step

If you need to stretch it further, boil and cube a medium potato and mix it into this slop for a meal. Really good, high protein, high fiber, makes you feel like the struggle isn't that bad. Even I can make it.

[kaenban]

I don't know why but futurecanoe's videos helps me get through tough times by making me smile. Thanks man.

[Midnightstar]

I first tried savory oatmeal when I was coming off of a medical liquid diet. I was already drinking a lot of broth for protein so I figured what the heck? Might as well have fiber and protein at the same time, my flavor pallet was already all messed up anyway so I wasn’t worried about it being weird. It was so delicious and satisfying I made it every day! I’ve iterated on it and now it’s my favorite breakfast. Mine looks like this:

- 2ish cups of water (I like extra water for extra creaminess, so I fill my 2 cup measuring cup all the way)
- 1 packet of chicken bone broth powder
- 1 cup of oats
- Thyme (powdered or fresh)
- Garlic powder
- Onion powder
- Salt & pepper

From there it’s the usual, just boil the water and as it’s boiling add and mix all of the ingredients except the oats. I never measure how much of the spices I use, I just shake it in until it smells good. Once it boils, add the oats and reduce to a simmer. I like the texture of thoroughly cooked oatmeal so I cook it until it’s thick and holds together well which is probably around 15-20 minutes, I just eyeball it and call it good when it doesn’t look runny. I sprinkle a bit of salt on top and enjoy!

I have noticed that trying this with chicken broth can make it kind of unpleasantly spongey and goopy, and it isn’t as flavorful imo. I love the deeper richer flavor of bone broth and it keeps the creamy oatmeal texture better in my experience, but that’s probably just preference

[alanaragon]

My go to is goop. Protein powder, peanut butter, cinnamon, chocolate chips, and tiny bit of milk and mix until it somewhat resembles cookie dough. Tasty!

[redtsun]

Scrap Soup
-Ramen pack (optional)
-any kinds of peels (carrot peels, potato peels, etc.)
wash the peels well and throw them into a pan with some salt water. Simmer for 5 minutes. Throw in the ramen noodles and simmer until tender. Add seasoning packet.
You can throw in any kind of vegetable if you have some left over. Last time I made scrap soup, I threw in some freezer burnt frozen corn, carrot peels, potato peels, and some old wilted lettuce. It won't taste amazing but it will give you some nutrients. The ramen packs really help with flavor, specifically the seasoning packets.

Another thing I like to do with my vegetable peels is to pickle them. I just put some vinegar (or salt water) in a jar along with the leftover peels of carrots and potatoes, and some garlic I had. Then I just pulled all the peels out later and ate them with some rice. You can honestly pickle any vegetable scrap you have. Just throw it all into the jar with some vinegar. Just make sure if you're using potatoes, you don't use any skins that are green or have sprouts on them, since you can die. lol

I always have a ton of peels left over because I use carrots/potatoes a lot. I like hearty stews and soups. May as well use those peels for something, especially later in the month when money is getting tight. I've been through worse though. There was a time when I was a kid, that we would literally pick up the discarded fruits and vegetables from behind the grocery store up the street from my house, and that was dinner. Glad those days are behind me.

[redeoghan]

Love your videos, keep up the fantastic work! Food is life!