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

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

meals

for $100 or

less

, so not only am I going to share with you some of my favorite

meals

, but I'm also going to share with you how you can build your own stash of

freezer

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

So all these meals are kid friendly. My kids love them. They eat them all. They're easy to prepare, easy to clean up, and are a one-dish meal. all pretty healthy i mean you're not eating ramen these are meals yes they have carbs but they're not horrible for you these are substantially healthy meals and very filling this makes a lot of food and the best part is they're all affordable , so I made a list of my family's seven favorite meals, our staple meals that I go to every time I can't think of what to eat, we actually rotate these mules on a monthly basis I'm going to show you how you can use frozen meals without having to set aside time to get them all right, I'm going to show you 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 and 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 for about four minutes. people prefer ketchup there so i just got the small cans these were 25 cents each the potatoes were a buck 89 for 5lbs. I got 2 pounds of ground beef from Aldi and this is 7.14 cents and these are leftover mashed potatoes from two days ago that I'm going to use so I don't waste them and the last thing is mixed greens so you can make them frozen I usually make them frozen but I know they ran out so i bought the cans and these were 49 cents each ok my meals are ready i will put them in the oven at 400 and bake them for about 15 to 20 minutes everything is already cooked except the veggies so really I'm reheating it to cook everything right. both are ready, now this one we are going to eat the other one, you have to make sure it cools down completely, cover it with aluminum foil and then put it in the freezer so the ingredients you need for this meal is obviously rice.

I have jasmine rice. You can use white rice. Integral rice. It doesn't matter. In fact, I bought this on another occasion, so I can't remember the price. pennies for the 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 kind 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 they were 527 for two pounds ok so whenever I cook rice I like to make 1 cup of water per cup of rice so I'm going to make two cups of rice in each pan from this is making two meals there are more than four cups of rice which is four cups of water and a little bit of olive ok everyone today I'm going to show you the third meal in this video and it's Tater Tot Casserole one of my all - all time favorites I love potatoes on top it's one of the meals I have to make myself so I don't get a second or third helping so all you need for this recipe is mixed greens mushrooms prima meat tater tots and cheese as well which I actually forgot to take.

I took my meat out this morning to thaw all day, so I'll have to thaw it in the microwave. Now, a lot of people don't even know that their microwave can defrost me. You totally can do it and it works so all you have to do is push the defrost. and you put how many pounds of meat you have in half. I like to flip my meat on any meat that has already thawed. I like to remove the spoon so it doesn't continue to cook and get like yucky rubbery. Anyway, this is my meat. I bought it at Aldi for two pounds for 686 and it's $1 off.

In fact I got two pounds for £586 so if you get the half off tag that's a big deal. I bought some meat the other day. It was two pounds for three dollars and fifty cents. because it was half price so im going to thaw my steak in the microwave then cook it on the stove so like i said my steak was 586 for two quid you need cream of mushroom these are 49 cents each one. and sweetie i need four of them for this recipe two cans of mixed vegetables these are 49 cents each and Aldi and then we need two shots and bags of chips the puff pastry or tater tots and these are a dollar 65 a bag ally all good food the number four 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 is four things that a crescent rolls these are forty nine cents each a four cans of cream of chicken forty nine cents every two cans and it makes vegetables these are forty nine cents each or you can use them frozen and that's it so you need to preheat your oven to what the half rolls will say luna 375 this was five bucks eight cents i like to split the steaks because they cook so much faster than chicken breast and the next me i'm going to share with you is baked ziti so baked ziti is really simple not many ingredients all you need is mozzarella I'm going to use a bag two cans of spaghetti sauce two pounds of pasta this is the one I'm using and I found my meat was two pounds for 686 it's ok guys meal number six i think it's called chicken Tetrazzini so it was a bit of a mix between chicken spaghetti and chicken alfredo well maybe not a mix but it's in between so you could make either meal for one of these frozen meals you could make chicken spaghetti or you can make chicken alfredo but i'm making this meal i've only made it one more time but it turned out really good so monster Allah this is a great dip but a regular bag is usually around two dollars an hour two of them I think these were a dollar 19 of these butter Lenalee already had me pasta on hand you could use any you could use regular spaghetti pasta if you wanted these were 99 cents cheese has a cream chicken, 49 cents each, two cans.

I already had a chicken broth but you can usually get write off like 99 cents chicken so my 2lbs of chicken tenders 5:14 I already said it in the video but I'll say it again. I buy chicken tenders because they cook so much faster, okay y'all, this is the last meal and I've saved the best for Last Lasagna. Many people are probably scared of cooking lasagna, but it's actually so easy and it's a family favorite. family, so you need two pounds of ground beef. cans of ricotta these are a dollar 69 each two packages of oven ready lasagna 15 pieces one egg parmesan four cans of spaghetti sauce these are 85 cents each and mozzarella now my suggestion is to buy just one big bag of mozzarella to use for the baked ziti and lasagna and the price of the meal will actually be around 1496.

I think $15 for two meals is still so bad because at the restaurant you'll pay $15 for one person probably almost a box full of chunks of lasagna. Could have done another layer. it was getting quite filling with cheese so you may 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'll do just follow the directions on your box