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5 Easiest "Poor" Foods That Will Make You RICHER

Grocery Dad

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Stop wasting thousands on overpriced shortcuts and lab-engineered "health" foods. For centuries, people around the world have survived and thrived on simple, nutrient-dense ingredients that cost pennies a plate.

In this video, Grocery Dad breaks down 5 incredible, budget-friendly traditional dishes- from Egyptian Ful Medames to Italian Pasta e Fagioli - that deliver massive protein and fiber while keeping your wallet fat and your cart clean.

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⏱️Timestamps
0:00 - The Big Food Trap
2:06 - Ful Medames (Egyptian Fava Beans)
3:06 - Molokhia (Jute Leaf Stew)
4:50 - Dal Tadka (Indian Yellow Split Lentils)
6:59 - Pasta e Fagioli (Italian Peasant Soup)
8:52 - Canned Sardines on Toast (The Ultimate Health Cheat)
10:23 - Your Favorite "Cucina Povera"

20 Comments

@grocerydad Creator 6 days ago Pinned

Boy oh boy, are these some tasty dishes or what??? And super, super cheap... so what's your favorite poor man's food you enjoy week after week?

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@StudioHoekhuis 5 days ago (edited)

My favourite 'poor' food: Lentil soup, super easy: wash green lentils. Chop up onions, carrots, celery and garlic. Fry it gently for 5 min. Add chopped tomatoes, vegetable stock and add the lentils. Add a pinch of black pepper and a bay leaf. Let it simmer for 20 minutes and its done. 🍲 Can easily feed a family for 2 days.

@Karie419 5 days ago

Poor man’s food is how my husband and I eat. I absolutely love fried cabbage and noodles. We often make meals for the week from 1 chicken.

@melissasueferrin3409 3 days ago

If people don't like sardines, try this. Strain the oil from the can into a frying pan, add chopped onions garlic and celery then once that is cooked at the sardines and diced tomatoes, smash it all up, then add an rosemary and oregano and half of a package of cream cheese. You have a delish spread for sourdough bread.

@Kirbygal55 5 days ago

I was brought up on sardines. My mum would mash them up, add finely chopped onion, vinegar to taste and salt and pepper. I am now 71 and still eat them like this on sourdough bread. Yum

@DennisHough-t5f 5 days ago

There is a million things that you can do with eggs. Cheap, easy, healthy.

@Retiredcatlady-e5g 4 days ago

Lentils... I don't know WHAT it is about lentils but they give me more energy than ANY OTHER FOOD!

@helgaioannidis9365 3 days ago

I'm from Bavaria and grew up on Eintopf. It means "one pot" and it's basically a stew with whatever you have at home in it. The base is onions, leek, carrots, parsley and celery. To that is added whatever you have in terms of vegetables or meat. It's nice with and without meat. And of course we usually throw potatoes in there, because potates are cheap and healthy. It's a versatile dish because one day you make it with beans, another you throw in some pork, another the last two sausages, another you add peas,.. every time it's a new dish and has a different taste.

@gitmoholliday5764 5 days ago

many of these recipes with rice pasta bread potatoes lentils get more nutritious if you let it cool down and keep it in the fridge until the next day.. the starch will turn in a "slow" form and keeps you going full of energy for a long time with less food

@LukeFabis 5 days ago

You know what's funny, European peasantry used to forage loads of mallow back before the World Wars. And the dishes they'd make were quite in line with molokhia. They were different recipes to be sure, but they wouldn't be at all alien to someone from the Levant.

It feels like more and more food culture is lost with every passing generation.

@Red__Law 3 days ago

Jacket potato is the GOAT of cheap food. So versatile and filling, especially great during cold winter months, perfect. 👌

@sarah.j.777 4 days ago

my rule is I can't spend more than $4/lb on beef or chicken so when I find it on sale I freeze it in sections. same with shredded cheese, butter, onions, veg, tomato sauce, almonds, coffee.. when I find them on major sale I freeze them. pasta, rice, beans, eggs, bananas, roma tomatoes, oatmeal, $1 sliced italian loaf. I cook at home, make iced coffee at home. I workout at home or outside, sleep well, practice excellent hygiene. it's still possible to be really healthy on a strict budget.

@GeorgiaGraceMarshall-jr5mm 5 days ago

I grew up eating Greek food as with my heritage being Greek, we are lentil soup, chicken and spaghetti, meat and spaghetti, moussaka, roast chicken, lamb or beef or pork. Most people consider it basic but it's really delicious and simple to make. Kebabs or shishkebabs as my dad called it, tzatziki or taramasalata and Greek salads. The stuff of life and yum too. I bought your book thankyou for that. 🙂☺️

@BonnieBookworm 5 days ago

5:52 for headphones users - loud noise incoming from pan and smoke alarm

@queenshelaine5539 5 days ago

One of my fav breakfast is an asian inspired meal I saw on Simply Mama Cooks. It's shredded cabbage, shredded carrot, chopped onion, 2 eggs. She put all on a mixing bowl, thoroughly mixed, and then pan fried until the eggs are done. I add chili crisp on top of mine. Quick,easy and delicious!

@zehralort 4 days ago (edited)

My whole family is from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. I remember visiting as a child and in the summer the women would sit on the Verandas and pick the Molahia leaves off the really really long stems in order to dry them and pack them ready for the winter. Then during the winter my mother would soak the leaves and squeeze them and then make a tomato and garlic base with some fatty lamb like neck of lamb or ribs and cook the Molahia in this garlicky goodness it's one of my favorite foods.

@angeladawn805 5 days ago

Healthy cereal bars are the worst, you see pack lunches containing fruit rolls, cereal bars, fruit yogurt, and it's touted as healthy, but it's sugar and chemicals

@GeckoHiker 4 days ago (edited)

Masoor dal (split red lentils) are a mainstay of our budget pantry. I use them in homemade spaghetti sauce, soups, curries, and more. I also use green and brown lentils regularly. I put cooked lima beans in my latest coconut-pumpkin curry, which is thickened with a big dollup of peanut butter.

@tanyakeen466 5 days ago

Can I add my favourite Spanish dish. It translates as poor man's stew. Frozen baby broad beans cooked.(I think this is what you call fava beans). In a pan onion, garlic, maybe a bit of bacon or lardons, fry in olive oil then add your beans. Then to top it off cook an egg place on top of the bean mix and puncture the yolk so it runs thru the dish, eat with bread to soak up the juice. So even if you only have a bit of bacon, or anything really, and one egg, you can feed a family. Plus it's delicious.

@rosieobi9260 3 days ago (edited)

Thankfully now I live on my own I can utilise these foods but people please beware of fava beans. My son was an adult when we discovered he had G6PD a blood disorder which finally explained the issues we had when he was a baby and lethargic and then finding out he was dangerously anaemic. Foods such as fava beans would cause his red blood cells to crash and is a life threatening food for him. So if you notice certain lentils, beans and even green peas affect your male family members avoid, and or investigate.