Cooking Challenge: Just Get the CheapISH Things (Part 1)

Video Description

Time for a shopping and cooking challenge, but this time based on just trying to buy cheap things; not necessarily the cheapEST item, but a cheapISH item, in each of 8 categories. Part 2 of this two-part mini series is here: https://youtu.be/dP3AWKB3xbc What this is: The reason I do this is as an exercise to try to provoke myself to respond creatively; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability; to think more about what it means to 'try'; to embed a habit of thinking about and focusing upon solutions, not problems and also to experience personal failure in a safe setting. This type of exercise - in this, and in other contexts - has served me very well in life. Those skills, such as they are, have always been the driving force of what I do, on this channel, and everywhere else. What this is NOT: This is NOT a tutorial for cooking or budgeting. No guarantee is made that anyone else will be able to replicate any part of this video (supposing you even wanted to). This is NOT an attempt to 'play at being poor', although it always does make me appreciate things that I normally take for granted. This is NOT an attempt to 'prove that people on benefits or low income could get by with less' - if anything, it proves the complete opposite - because this was a difficult thing to do - that's why it's called a 'challenge'. This is NOT a diet - it would not be a good idea to cook or eat exactly this food every day - or budget like this every day. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:18 Parameters 02:31 Shopping 08:55 The haul 11:43 Breakfast 15:01 Toast Tax 15:17 Some preparation 24:31 Pre-Lunch dessert 25:25 More preparation 32:02 Lunch 32:58 More preparation 36:29 Dinner 38:14 Conclusions & scoring