How to Eat Well for $4 a Day in Australia
Simple Meal Plan & Prep with Emmy
15,853 views
Can you still eat well on a tiny budget? With the cost of living rising in Australia, I wanted to see if I could nourish myself for just $4 a day. In this video, I’m sharing how to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for a whole week on an extreme Aldi budget.
The key to keeping costs this low was cooking from scratch—including homemade bread and tortillas. I’ve included price comparisons for Coles and Woolworths too, so you can make this work no matter where you shop.
If you're looking for simple, budget-friendly meal inspiration to help manage the cost of living, I hope this video gives you some practical ideas!
Resources:
Recreate one of my previous $5/day budget meal challenges: https://simple-essentials.com.au/extr...
Download my free meal planning & grocery budget template here: https://simple-essentials.com.au/meal...
Playlist of all my budget challenges: Extreme budget challenges
My gardening video: Is Growing Your Own Food Actually Cheaper?...
ALDI, Woolies & Coles price comparison video: ALDI vs Coles & Woolies: Surprising Price ...
Recipes in this video:
Homemade Crusty Bread: https://frugalfitmom.net/recipes-1/20...
Simple Flour Tortillas (I halved this recipe): https://www.inspiredtaste.net/48394/f...
2-Ingredient Banana Pancakes (I doubled this recipe, but only used 3 eggs in total): https://www.simplyrecipes.com/two-ing...
Hummus recipe: https://www.thewholesomedish.com/simp...
Peanut Butter Rice Bowl (I doubled this recipe + added about 300g of chicken mince, did not use mushroom, used lemon juice instead of lime juice, used brown onion instead of green onion and replaced noodles with 2 cups of cooked rice): https://www.dontgobaconmyheart.co.uk/...
Freezer Black Bean Breakfast Burritos: https://thetoastykitchen.com/freezer-...
Chicken Burgers (I halved this recipe + used chickpea juice instead of egg): https://www.recipetineats.com/avocado...
Spinach and Potato Soup: https://theclevermeal.com/spinach-pot...
In this video:
0:00 How to eat for $4 a day
2:35 The Grocery haul
7:03 Price comparison: Aldi vs Coles vs Woolworths
9:35 The meal plan for the week
11:58 Tortillas
12:20 Bread
13: 29 Hummus
14:25 Banana pancakes
16:27 Baking tortillas
20:10 Baking the bread
22:50 Rice bowl / stir fry + spinach & potato soup
28:50 Breakfast (lunch) burritos
31:10 Overnight oats
33:29 Chicken burgers with veggies
38:51 Final summary & getting ready for week 2
Free Resources:
Recreate one of my previous $5/day budget meal challenges: https://simple-essentials.com.au/extr...
Download my free meal planning & grocery budget template here: https://simple-essentials.com.au/meal...
Playlist of all my budget challenges: Extreme budget challenges
My gardening video: Is Growing Your Own Food Actually Cheaper?...
My favourite tools and products: https://simple-essentials.com.au/shop/
Note: Amazon & SkillShare links are affiliate links, which support my channel at no additional cost to you. I use and love all of these things personally.
Want more minimalist organisation tips? Check out my minimalist organisation and cleaning channel over here: @simpleessentials
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Also, another nice budget dip is made with any white beams (butter, cannellini etc) blended with oil, lemon and garlic. You can add herbs or jalepeno peppers, or anchovies, or roasted tomato or cumin & chilli. It's a great neutral base to add flavours to.
I enjoy watching your show , thanks .
I have watched another channel here on YouTube called “Simple food simple life” . She shared her recipe for tahini free hummus. She instead used a toasted sesame seed oil. It makes a wonderful hummus and it adds that flavor you’re missing in the one you made . I encourage you to try it I think you’ll be very happy with it and the recipe is very simple
I love your videos, but cannot watch some of them because of the background music.
Cooking skills make all the difference to budgeting .
So much can be done if you know how !!
I googled Aussie cheap food on a budget and found you! I am looking forward to getting back into cooking, it was once a love of mine. Thank you for taking the time and care to help out anyone needing a budget, or to eat a lot better xx
I tried another one and took the skins off and put 2 ice cubes and oil no butter beans
And that was nice
So get those skins off and makes yummy hummus
How to Eat Well for $4 a Day in Australia
Simple Meal Plan & Prep with Emmy
15,853 views
Can you still eat well on a tiny budget? With the cost of living rising in Australia, I wanted to see if I could nourish myself for just $4 a day. In this video, I’m sharing how to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for a whole week on an extreme Aldi budget.
The key to keeping costs this low was cooking from scratch—including homemade bread and tortillas. I’ve included price comparisons for Coles and Woolworths too, so you can make this work no matter where you shop.
If you're looking for simple, budget-friendly meal inspiration to help manage the cost of living, I hope this video gives you some practical ideas!
Resources:
Recreate one of my previous $5/day budget meal challenges: https://simple-essentials.com.au/extr...
Download my free meal planning & grocery budget template here: https://simple-essentials.com.au/meal...
Playlist of all my budget challenges: Extreme budget challenges
My gardening video: Is Growing Your Own Food Actually Cheaper?...
ALDI, Woolies & Coles price comparison video: ALDI vs Coles & Woolies: Surprising Price ...
Recipes in this video:
Homemade Crusty Bread: https://frugalfitmom.net/recipes-1/20...
Simple Flour Tortillas (I halved this recipe): https://www.inspiredtaste.net/48394/f...
2-Ingredient Banana Pancakes (I doubled this recipe, but only used 3 eggs in total): https://www.simplyrecipes.com/two-ing...
Hummus recipe: https://www.thewholesomedish.com/simp...
Peanut Butter Rice Bowl (I doubled this recipe + added about 300g of chicken mince, did not use mushroom, used lemon juice instead of lime juice, used brown onion instead of green onion and replaced noodles with 2 cups of cooked rice): https://www.dontgobaconmyheart.co.uk/...
Freezer Black Bean Breakfast Burritos: https://thetoastykitchen.com/freezer-...
Chicken Burgers (I halved this recipe + used chickpea juice instead of egg): https://www.recipetineats.com/avocado...
Spinach and Potato Soup: https://theclevermeal.com/spinach-pot...
In this video:
0:00 How to eat for $4 a day
2:35 The Grocery haul
7:03 Price comparison: Aldi vs Coles vs Woolworths
9:35 The meal plan for the week
11:58 Tortillas
12:20 Bread
13: 29 Hummus
14:25 Banana pancakes
16:27 Baking tortillas
20:10 Baking the bread
22:50 Rice bowl / stir fry + spinach & potato soup
28:50 Breakfast (lunch) burritos
31:10 Overnight oats
33:29 Chicken burgers with veggies
38:51 Final summary & getting ready for week 2
Free Resources:
Recreate one of my previous $5/day budget meal challenges: https://simple-essentials.com.au/extr...
Download my free meal planning & grocery budget template here: https://simple-essentials.com.au/meal...
Playlist of all my budget challenges: Extreme budget challenges
My gardening video: Is Growing Your Own Food Actually Cheaper?...
My favourite tools and products: https://simple-essentials.com.au/shop/
Note: Amazon & SkillShare links are affiliate links, which support my channel at no additional cost to you. I use and love all of these things personally.
Want more minimalist organisation tips? Check out my minimalist organisation and cleaning channel over here: @simpleessentials
* Recreate one of my previous $5/day budget meal challenges: https://simple-essentials.com.au/extreme-budget-grocery-challenge-australia/
* Playlist of all my budget challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmj3g333Ga9VoLmINrdw6fvuyg8iyQpxK
* My gardening video: https://youtu.be/GZpfgNZDZPA?si=5GnzrtZSjPbWzyih
* ALDI, Woolies & Coles price comparison video: https://youtu.be/lMSvBvWyRlE?si=aIG00Nhd5CK5Jyhw