Living off 45p Per day - Limited Budget Food Challenge - Day 1

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So today we're making another low-budget

meal, and I'm filming the video on my new

phone, the Nothing Phone 3A. So let me

know if it's better than the iPhone. So

basically, I've discovered a new

vegetable. It goes by the name of the

turnip. And what I found with the turnip

is that it's extremely cheap. It cost

about 50p for a whole turnip, and it

tastes like a daikon, like a Japanese

daikon, which is like a big long radish

thing. So it looks like this.

I can't open it one-handedly. Oh my god.

Okay, so it's open. For some reason it was

Like an air vacuum sealed. So this is

called a turnip, and it's kind of like a

Japanese daikon, but instead of being

long, it's like a ball, like a round ball.

But it tastes pretty much the same as a

daikon, and it's, um, it's quite good

actually. So I thought I'd make a turnip

soup with some rice soup.

Wow, 2x lens, I've got a 1x lens, and a

wide-angle lens. So I kind of have a

problem with my new phone. I can't use my

tripod with it because the phone is so

big, they've put all of the buttons like

the volume button, the lock button in the

middle of the phone instead of at the top

of the phone. So when I put my tripod on,

it accidentally presses all the buttons

and messes everything up. And if I put the

tripod lower down on the phone, then the

phone just flops over because it's too

heavy on the other side. So So yeah, it's

kind of annoying when you get a new phone

with all these new problems that you

didn't have before. So now I can't use any

of my tripods because it keeps pressing

the buttons. Great. So anyway, back to the

turnip. I think it costs about 60p, so I'm

going to use half of it. That's like 30p.

And some rice, and I'm gonna use a chicken

stock for flavoring.

So we've got our tie nip, as you can see.

Um, I guess you can't see anything. Yeah,

so as you can see, the turnip is very

porous, which means it's going to absorb

flavor and liquids very easily. Look at

that, very porous.

So what you do is you get a small bit of

cabbage like that. And you just put it

into a mixing bowl. Also, the thing I

noticed about making this cabbage thing is

you don't want to make it too soon because

the longer it sits in the oil, it soaks up

all the oil, then the cabbage leaves

become all floppy and they're not as

crispy anymore. So you want to make them

at the end, I guess. Basically all you

need is a bit of salt and garlic powder

and some sesame oil, and you just

mix it and it tastes really good. Okay,

for the soup we're gonna use half a

chicken stock like that,

and then also just gonna chuck in the

turnip,

and that should be quite flavorful.

And just let that boil,

and then we can mash up chicken stock.

Okay, so it doesn't actually taste like

chicken stock at all. Maybe because I

didn't use enough chicken stock, but I'm

not going to use a whole block just for

that, so I'm going to add ponzu instead.

So that should be a lot stronger

flavoring. It is weird how the turnip

tastes almost exactly the same as a

daikon. I never had a turnip before, I

didn't know they tasted like that. Okay,

so to make the cabbage, you add salt— I've

already added it— and then you put some

garlic powder like

that, and then you put some sesame oil,

not too much.

Just enough to coat everything, and then

you got to roll your sleeves up and

then you just mix it. One of my favorite

dishes when you go to Japanese yakiniku or

izakaya, they always give you a little

bowl of sesame oil, salt, and garlic

cabbage, and it tastes so good. Actually,

sometimes I feel like it's tastes better

than the meat. And that's all you have to

do. I might have put a bit too much oil.

The best bits are the crunchy bits,

although this is very leafy. Okay,

there's a bit of crunchy bit, so yeah.

Mmm, tastes so good.

You end up just snacking on it.

Mmm, how can

cabbage taste so good? It tastes meaty.

It's got like a meaty, savoury flavour.

Mmm, I think the turnip's nearly done.

And that is how you make the best poverty

meal ever. Look at that. It actually

tastes really good, the turnip. I put

some, some more honshuyu into it, and I've

got a beeru.

Oh my God, that is

a meal! Look at that delicious turnip

soup. Give the turnip a try,

although I've already tried it. Look at

Let me zoom in.

Yeah, it's just like a daikon.

You can't really see it very well.

How's that? Yeah, it's exactly like a

daikon. Really weird. I'm gonna give it a

try. Having an egg as well, an egg with

this would be pretty good. Can't be

bothered. Mmm, oh my God,

it's got all those Japanese flavors of

umami. I think I've got some cabbage.

Mmm, and then

you got rice.

Mmm, I can't believe how hard

I found it to make the rice when I first

got the rice cooker. Now I can make

perfect rice every time. Look at that,

perfect.

I think I found my new favorite beer,

Peroni.

Some Spam would be pretty good too.

Some Spam or,

hmm, an egg.

Mm, mm, pretty good.

The low light on this camera is pretty

good, isn't it? Although it keeps doing

that weird autofocus flicker.

Yeah, I don't know why it keeps

autofocusing. A bit annoying, isn't it?