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A Weekend On 50p Per Day - Limited Budget Food Challenge - Day 2

2025-03-27 · 6 min

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  1. So day number 2,

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  2. poverty cooking. I've got chips, onions,

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  3. red peppers, cheese,

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  4. butter, and frozen carrots. I don't really

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  5. feel like having the same meal that I had

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  6. yesterday, but I've got ramen.

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  7. So one packet of Chicken

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  8. ramen. Hmm,

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  9. could put some cheese on it.

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  10. Cheese on the ramen and

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  11. carrots. Carrots with the ramen's

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  12. a bit weird, isn't it? Or peppers.

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  13. Or pasta. With cheese and peppers.

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  14. That sounds better actually. So we've got

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  15. the chopped onions and chopped peppers

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  16. that I chopped ages ago. I remember

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  17. chopping all my onions all at once. It was

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  18. like 2 weeks ago, wasn't it? I still got

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  19. them and they're still good to eat. So

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  20. you're gonna fry those up and then maybe

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  21. I'll use the butter to create like a

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  22. buttery cheese sauce for the pasta.

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  23. Hmm, could be good.

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  24. Okay, so we get some onions.

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  25. Not too many onions.

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  26. That should be enough. Save some for next

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  27. time, I guess. Don't know what to make

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  28. next time.

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  29. Look, there's a cat. Mr. Meow Meow.

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  30. Oh my God, it's burning,

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  31. burning. Turn down the heat.

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  32. And I got some chicken stock for flavoring

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  33. and then put in the peppers.

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  34. Oh my God.

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  35. And then what you do is Put some water to

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  36. dissolve the chicken stock into a paste.

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  37. Otherwise it doesn't really dissolve if

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  38. you just put it straight in. And then you

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  39. get the butter. How much? This much.

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  40. That's really hot.

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  41. Oh yeah, there we go. Here we go, butter

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  42. is in, onions are burning.

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  43. Then you got to kind of mash the— oh my

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  44. God, you got to mash the chicken stock

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  45. into a paste.

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  46. Really hard to film and cook at the same

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  47. time, I realized. Okay, we got the chicken

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  48. stock mixture, put that into the butter,

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  49. and then you want to put the cheese in as

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  50. well and then make like a sauce

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  51. and then mix it around. I don't know if

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  52. you want to put milk in it because it's

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  53. going to be a bit thick. I think then just

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  54. put the pasta straight in and then the

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  55. water can help loosen up

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  56. the sauce a bit. Oh, steam everywhere.

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  57. Oh, I nearly forgot the secret ingredient—

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  58. garlic powder.

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  59. It's not garlic

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  60. powder. Actually, it looks pretty good.

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  61. It's kind of like carbonara but without

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  62. eggs. Let's give it a taste test, see if

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  63. it's any good. I'm wondering if it's going

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  64. to be too salty with the cheese and the

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  65. chicken stock. I've also made too much

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  66. pasta.

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  67. Oh my God, it's actually

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  68. good. Mm, mm.

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  69. Oh my God, maybe a bit too salty, so add a

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  70. bit more pasta to make it less

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  71. salty. Damn, that's actually better than

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  72. the carbonara I was making. You don't even

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  73. need eggs for carbonara. The chicken

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  74. stock, the flavor is amazing. The garlic

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  75. powder. Wow, it's kind of funny. This is

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  76. unironically probably the best pasta dish

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  77. I've ever made. Better than all those

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  78. carbonaras I was making, and that was when

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  79. I was trying really hard. And this time I

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  80. didn't put an egg in it, I put chicken

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  81. stock and some butter,

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  82. and it tastes way better, and it looks

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  83. good as well. I'll give it one more taste

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  84. before I just ate it.

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  85. Okay, so I've used chicken stock

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  86. before in dishes like fried rice, and the

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  87. problem is it doesn't mix well into it,

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  88. so you get these really, really salty

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  89. parts. So what I've done now is I just

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  90. boil the chicken stock into like a paste,

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  91. and then that disperses better.

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  92. Oh my God.

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  93. This is actually really good. You don't

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  94. actually need an egg to make carbonara.

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  95. This is basically the same. Oh my God,

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  96. it's like the combination of the garlic

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  97. powder and the chicken stock— killer

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  98. combo. Oh wow, if only there was some

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  99. bacon in it.

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