My $5 Dinner Meal Prep Week Using Leftovers

I'm showing you how to do budget meals the way my mother taught me, stretching one roast chicken into six full suppers for just five dollars. You'll learn the safe way to store and cool it, the easy dinners I make from the bones and scraps, and the checklist I use every week to keep my costs down. Two dollars a pound for the chicken, and I got six suppers out of one bird. The bird goes into the oven at 350 degrees, supper's done, the plates are scraped, but the real work starts when I open the fridge the next morning. I'm taking you through my whole week of budget meals, showing you exactly how I stretch one roast into Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday suppers, with a checklist at the end that costs nothing but a pencil. In this video: ✓ How I shop and plan for budget meals that feed a whole week ✓ The safe way to cool and store your roast so nothing spoils ✓ Monday and Tuesday suppers from the first leftover cuts ✓ Wednesday morning when I caught a problem in the fridge and fixed it ✓ How I stretched the last of the chicken into two more dinners ✓ The checklist I use every week to keep my costs down Keep chicken safe by cooling it to room temperature within two hours, then refrigerating it right away. Check the food safety sources below for storage times. Chapters 0:00 What happens if you skip the plan 2:24 Sunday: the roast and what it costs 5:45 Cooling and storing it the safe way 9:03 Monday and Tuesday: first leftover suppers 12:28 Wednesday: found a problem in the fridge 14:57 Thursday and Friday: stretching to the last crumb 18:13 The week's checklist in one breath, and a goodbye #BudgetMeals #Grandmahazel #Budgetcooking