Do you guys want to see a high protein loaded baked potato video? I've made a few more since filming this video...

Also we put together a companion guide for this video in the Cook Well app: https://www.cookwell.com/download (note this is a paid app).

Inside it has all of the recipes + frameworks from this video as well a bunch of other content!

This is the video where everyone finds out that Austin Texas somehow has cheaper food than most of the viewership across the world :D

If money is tight nothing beats rice, beans, eggs, frozen fruit and veg, with whatever part of the chicken you can get for under $2/lb.

Aw sweet, my daily dose of Recession Indicators!

41:05 "I dont want you to look at this video like a 5-day week plan that you should follow"

That's exactly what I'm looking for.

Today I learned that where I live has 'cheap' cost of groceries according to the comments. Those items would cost me roughly the same as him. Yall are making me feel grateful

Ethan, your video reminded me not of how high the grocery prices are but how much higher it is to eat out. A couple weeks ago I didn’t have any lunch at work so I went to a Tropical Smoothie. A chicken wrap and a smoothie cost me $27! That’s insane. I knew better.  So here I am on Sunday afternoon prepping a week’s worth of lunches.  Sanity restored. Thanks for all your content!

I live in NY.  Those grocery prices are crazy good.

That dog thought he was gonna get a serving of oregano chicken.

i still can't wrap my head around how $300 / mo for food for one person is considered very cheap

People who are complaining about how this video doesn't apply to such-and-such situation, there are so many other YouTubers who do similar things in different parts of the country, including breakfasts and lunches to eat at work or school, buying for families, on a cheaper budget etc. See Mindy Mom does a video where she cooks with only appliances you would have available in an emergency hotel stay situation. Ethan's food is definitely the most appealing out of all of the videos that I've seen in this category though. It's definitely the foodie version of an emergency budget cooking video. And I think it's the highest protein version I've seen

42:39 "some of you have kids to feed" as you try to stop Hopper from eating your food haha

I like how this video basically is a forum for everyone to compare food prices where they are; in New Zealand, despite our agricultural roots, we pay exorbitant prices due to essentially paying export prices for our premium grade meat and produce. I cried internally when you copped a bell pepper for less than 1 USD, here one bell pepper can set you back 5 NZD lol

I decided to price out the Day 1 grocery trip from my local (MN) grocery store, using the cheapest options they had available, and it came out to $49.58 in total (MN doesn't tax food items), compared to your $28.78.
HEB must be really aggressive on their pricing because that's an insane difference.
Breakdown:
1 head iceberg lettuce: $2.79
1 bunch cilantro: $1.29
2 limes: $1.98
1 lemon: $0.89
3 Roma tomatoes: $1.32
2 jalapenos: $0.64
1 green bell pepper: $1.29
1 red onion: $1.67
1 head of garlic: $1.05
1 russet potato: $1.49
1 bread roll: $1.15
1lb white rice: $1.19
1lb dried black beans: $2.99
16oz white vinegar: $1.49
3lb boneless skinless chicken thighs: $17.07 (!!!)
1lb 93/7 ground beef: $8.99
16oz light sour cream: $2.29

17:43 Oh man, the dog’s reaction to the food! 🤣🤣

Roasting chickpeas are a great cheap alternative as well to either substitute as a side or even use as main protein source in a meal.  Find myself doing that quite often and can roast them up with different flavors pretty easily based on combo of spices used.

I think it was Consumer Reports who did a study earlier this year that found H-E-B is the cheapest "normal" grocery store in the US?  You can beat it with more specialty places like Aldi's or Winco, or clubs like CostCo, but if you just want a regular grocery store, H-E-B beats Wal-Mart, Kroger, and Albertsons on price.

I did the calculations on how much just the first grocery trip would cost where I live in the US. For him is was $28.78, for me it would be $57.60. I don’t even want to know how much the whole thing would cost for me tbh. (Below are my calculations for each item)

1lb 93/7 ground beef - 10$
~3lb chicken - 18$

Sour cream - 2.99
Iceberg lettuce - 4
Lemon - $0.89
Green Bell pepper - $1.49
Russet potato -$2
Cilantro - 1.89
3 Roma tomatoes - $2.42
1 red onion - 2.79
2 lime - $1
2 jalepeños - $0.56
1 garlic -  $0.99
Black beans (dry) - $2.69
2 Bread roll - $0.99
1lb rice - $1.25
Vinegar - $3.35

≈$57.60

As a college student who will need to cook meals every day for as cheap as possible pretty soon, this is both a very inspiring and very useful experiment!

3:56 you should have added some minced cilantro stems to those onions! Adding herb stems to my quick pickles has changed my pickle game considerably, and I pickle eeeeeverything.