14 MEALS FOR $100 or LESS: FREEZER MEALS: ALDI MEALS: SAVING ON MEALS

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel, today I am going to share with you how you can cook 14

meals

for $100 or

less

, so not only will I share with you some of my favorite

meals

, but I will also share with you how you can create your own food reserve in the

freezer

. I know what you're thinking. I don't have time on the weekend to cook for hours to prepare

freezer

meals for the week, that's not what this video is about. I am NOT going to show you how to set aside time, how to cook a bunch of meals in advance, no one has time for that or at least I don't have time for that.

I'm going to show you how you can cook meals that you can. double the food cook it at the same time separate it eat one meal and then freeze the other for the future now the reason why this has changed eating and cooking in my life is because it is very convenient if you are a mom and you have a family that is always busy on the move then this is the video for you this will save you time in the kitchen it will save you money because you are not going out to eat you will already have a meal ready any day Do you need one?

So all of these meals are kid-friendly meals. My children love them. They eat them all. They're easy to make, easy to clean, and they're a one-dish, kind of casserole-style meal. all pretty healthy, I mean, you're not eating ramen, are you? These are meals, yes they have carbs, but they are not horrible for you, they are substantially healthy meals and they are very filling, this makes a lot of food and the best part is. They're all affordable, so I've made a list of seven of my family's favorite meals, our go-to staples whenever I can't think of what to eat, we actually rotate these mules monthly. to show them how they can use frozen meals without having to set aside time to prepare them well.

I'm going to show you all today's first meal: shepherd's pie and if you haven't had shepherd's pie, where have you been right? I mean, it's the easiest comfort food, I peeled three potatoes and cut them into big cubes. Now I'm going to put them in the Instant Pot with a cup of water and put it on manual high heat for four minutes. People prefer ketchup there, so I bought the small cans, these were 25 cents each, the chips were $89 for 5 pounds. I bought 2 pounds of ground beef from Aldi and in this one for 7.14 cents and they are leftover mashed potatoes from two days ago I'm going to use them so I don't waste them and the last thing is mixed vegetables so you can make them frozen.

I usually make frozen but they were out of stock so I bought the cans and these were 49 cents each. My meals are ready, I'll put them in the oven at 400 and bake them for about 15 to 20 minutes. Everything is already cooked except the vegetables, so I'll just reheat it to cook it all together. They're both ready now this one we're going to eat the other one, you want to make sure it's completely cold, cover it with aluminum foil and then put it in the freezer so that the ingredients that you need for this meal are good. obviously rice, I have jasmine rice, you can use white rice, brown rice, it doesn't matter.

I actually bought this another time, so I don't remember the price. Hey, you need to raise a new suit mix. This is not up. Brand. This is Audi. This is 55 cents for kids a cream of mushroom soup or two large cans of cream of mushroom soup are 49 cents each and you need chicken so it doesn't matter what type of chicken just buy the chicken that's on sale it doesn't matter if it's frozen or fresh I bought the chicken tenders this week it was 527 for two pounds okay so every time I cook rice I like to make 1 cup of water for every cup of rice so I'm going to put two cups of rice in Each casserole from this is to make two meals, there are more than four cups of rice, which is four cups of water and a little olive.

Alright, today I'm going to show you the third food in this video and it's Tater Tot Casserole, one of my all. time favorites I love potatoes on top, it's one of the meals I have to prepare myself so I don't get a second or third helping, so all you need for this recipe are mixed vegetables, raw mushrooms, meat, tater tots and cheese, so I actually forgot to take it. I took my meat out this morning to defrost all day, so I'll have to thaw it in the microwave. Now many people don't even know that their microwave can defrost me.

It really can and it works, so all you have to do is press to defrost. and you put how many pounds of meat you have in half. I like to flip my meat on any meat that is already thawed. I like to remove it with a spoon so it doesn't continue to cook and become rubbery and gross, so this is my meat anyway. I bought it at Aldi for two pounds for 686 and it's $1 off. I actually got two quid for 586, so if you get the half off tag it's a big deal. I bought some meat there the other day, it was two pounds for three dollars and fifty cents. because it was half price so I'm going to defrost my steak in the microwave and then I'm going to cook it on the stove so like I said my steak was 586 for two pounds you need cream of mushroom soup these are 49 cents each. and one love, I need four of them for this recipe two cans of mixed vegetables these cost 49 cents each and Aldi and then we need two shots and bags of potatoes the puff pastries or tater tots and these cost a dollar 65 a bag ally well eaten The Number four that I'm going to show you is a chicken pot pie casserole.

Now it's not the same as chicken pot pie, but it's pretty similar, so what you'll need are four crescent rolls, these cost forty-nine cents each. four cans of cream of chicken soup forty-nine cents each, two cans and make vegetables, these are forty-nine cents each, or you can use frozen and that's it, so you need to preheat the oven to what the buns will say crescent shaped 375 this was five dollars in eight cents I like to split the strips because they cook much faster than chicken breast and the next one I'm going to share with you is baked ziti so baked ziti is really simple , there aren't many ingredients all you need is mozzarella I'm going to use one bag two cans of spaghetti sauce two pounds of pasta this is the one I'm using and my meat was two pounds for 686 okay guys food number six, I think it's called Chicken Tetrazzini, so it was like a combination between chicken spaghetti and chicken alfredo, well maybe it's not a combination, but it's between the two, so you can make either meal for one of these frozen meals, you can make chicken spaghetti or you can make chicken alfredo, but I'm making this meal.

I've only done it one other time, but it turned out really good, so gosh, this is a huge dive, but a regular bag is usually around two dollars an hour, two of them I think were a dollar. 19 of these butters. Lenalee had me pasta on hand, you could use any, you could use regular spaghetti pasta if you wanted, these were 99 cents of cheese, it has a cream of chicken soup, 49 cents each, two cans, I already had chicken broth, but you can usually cancel like 99. cents chicken so my 2 pounds of chicken are strips 5:14 I already said it in the video but I'll say it again I buy chicken strips because they cook so much faster okay everyone this is the last one food and I have saved the best for last lasagna, a lot of people are probably afraid to cook lasagna but it is actually very easy and it is a family favorite so you need two pounds of ground beef, this was 689 that I got at a discount of $1 because it's about to expire, I mean two. cans of ricotta are a dollar 69 each two packages of oven ready lasagna 15 pieces one egg parmesan four cans of spaghetti sauce are 85 cents each and mozzarella now my suggestion is to buy just one large bag of mozzarella to use in the ziti baking and lasagna and the price of the meal will actually be around 1496, I think $15 for two meals, it's still so bad because in the restaurant you are going to pay $15 for probably one person, almost a box full of pieces of lasagna.

I could have done another layer. It was getting quite filling with cheese so you might have been able to make this recipe with one box but anyway, box one here says 375 for about 45 minutes and that's what I'm going to do, just follow the instructions on your box.