You are not lazy. You cooked meals for your family instead of eating out. Great job momma!👏

@BrowneyedGirlmjd

Жыл бұрын

This!!! Dear KZread we should be able to give more than 1 thumbs up when its a great comment!

@mjoverocker6072

Жыл бұрын

I agree so much

@j.khuster2024

Жыл бұрын

Right!!!✌️💯👋👋👋👋 We love you and your family obviously loves you and your cooking.👍

@debbiechaney6607

Жыл бұрын

I agree!👍👍💞

@DebbieandEddieBFF

7 ай бұрын

100%

If that's a bad week, please come cook for me. You brightened my day, even feeling bad, Brooke! You are a light on a hill for sure. Be blessed always! xoxo

@heathershideler9641

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's what I was thinking! If I'm sick the family is definitely not getting homemade taquitos!

@aimee2234

Жыл бұрын

@@heathershideler9641 no homemade taquitos here. I need a Brooke! Have a great day, Heather!

You know your a good example of a person making sure your family has good meals and showing you don't have to spend a fortune, good for you. You have a lovely family.

I love the idea about packing a lunch when you have to be out and about all day. It costs us at least 25 bucks to hit a drive thru anymore. It's ridiculous. Thanks for the tip!!!

@Dee-bl7qv

Жыл бұрын

I hate spending money eating out, always think “I could make this at home for a fraction of the price”! I love the idea of packing a lunch like that is great! We do that whenever we go on a road trip!

@esteeb42

Жыл бұрын

@@Dee-bl7qv I agree and these days it seems like it tastes a lot better when you pack your own.

@bridgetbuer150

Жыл бұрын

My son and I went to a chicken place last week for 2 meals and a extra fry was 30.00 buck's, that's outrageous.

@esteeb42

Жыл бұрын

@@bridgetbuer150 Wow!🤪

@omaralvarez3136

Жыл бұрын

Shoot 25 buck girl my fam is 50 for a fam of 5 maybe more depending on where we go but i like living out of my crockpot its THE BEST

Brooke I have chronic fatigue so watching you make “lazy” recipes is great. It gives me ideas of food I can make on the days I can barely get off the couch! Thank you ❤️

@Shellbell75x

Жыл бұрын

I have fibro and several other autoimmune disorders. On days when I feel well I brown up ground beef. I usually make 10lbs at a time. 5lbs of seasoned beef and 5lbs of taco meat. I then separate and freeze. That way on my rough days I don't have to stand over the stove and can whip together a quick meal. I also freeze individual serving sizes of taco meat. I usually always have rice premade in the fridge. My teenagers can throw together a burrito bowl or just throw some Parmesan cheese on the rice. It's been a life saver for me.

@Emme333

Жыл бұрын

I get a roast around 11 to 12 $. usually lean so I use the crock pot for 12 to 24 hours. While it cooks I keep the pot full of water. I use soy sauce and worcestershire to season it. Some times I add more seasonings, depending on how I feel. After the 12 to 24 hours I pull out the meat. I break off a small piece to chop fine and add back in the pot. I cool the rest to use in sandwiches, tortillas or with rice, on potatoes, it spreads that 12 $ out. Now I have a big pot of meat flavored hot liquid. If I feel bad I add canned drained corn, carrots, pre-chopped frozen celery or celery salt, garlic and onion fresh or frozen or powdered. I add mostly potatoes. If I feel bad I add canned. It takes up to 6 hours on high for the juice to soak through the veg. When i add the veggies i remove about 6 cups of broth and save it. I file the veggies to the top. The family gets hot stew. At this point the crock pot is on low or warm. Before bed I turn the crock pot to low and add those 6 cups of broth back in with all new veggies and it cooks over night. This usually lasts our all adult family of 4 around 3 to 5 days. If any is left over I put it in the fridge or freezer but I try to separate half of any liquid first. This I use as a hot cup of broth on a cold day or when someone is sick for sore throats to sooth and get something on sensitive stomachs. The 11 to 12 roast make week to 2 weeks of possible lunch and dinner meals. With cheap beard, tortillas, corn bread, noodles, rice and potatoes you can make filling meals and still feel like your not deprived. I you have medical conditions it helps cut down on the work. Plus kids 6 to 7 up can make at lot of those side meals with supervision. You don't have to feed them snack food or microwave instant food which can add up $. Plus for several days a hot meal is always waiting.

@marthalouise701

Жыл бұрын

@@Shellbell75x those are great ideas! I may have to try freezing my ground beef in large batches.

@tenthousanddaysofgratitude

Жыл бұрын

I batch cook on good days so all I have to do is pull out a homemade ready meal from the freezer when I’m out of energy spoons. 💖

@stacylgh

9 ай бұрын

I have started cooking 2-3 dinners at a time when I have a good day then we usually have a leftover day on day 4. I try to make the meals quite different from each other. It helps when 2 of them use rice or something like that but have very different flavor profiles.

I love seeing your son cook with you and come up with meals. A beautiful experience and learning and memories.

Lazy is when you are perfectly healthy but have no interest. You were just a sick mama doing her best. And your "lazy" meals looked delicious!

Girl, your "lazy" meals are my meals on a daily almost 🤣 I cook yes, but there are just days I'm not feeling it so we have sandwiches, or a do for yourself night which means my kids eat pbjs w chips, ramen noodles, pizza rolls, nuggets, whatever we have honestly that we can quickly make. They're happy & fed regardless of how much effort is put into the meal. You're doing a fantastic job! I love watching you make the meals you make! ♥️ super cheap, easy and simple.. my favorite way to go!

I’m gonna have to say that I’m on team Dusty when it comes to American cheese. Nothing melts like American cheese!

Comfort food growing up was my mom's version of a Mexican Rice: Brown up 1 lb. ground beef, take out of the pan, and leave some of the grease. Toast 1 cup rice in the pan with the oil. Add 8 oz. tomato sauce, 2 cups water, salt, pepper, 1 tsp onion powder, 1/2 tsp garlic powder. Add the ground beef back in, stir, cover, and cook for 25 min. on low. So YUM! Love your videos Brooke! ♥

I watch your channel EVERY single night before I go to bed, and I posted to you about 2wks ago and said " Watching you cook and spending time with your family,makes me feel like home".You have a very inviting personality and it makes me remember my childhood memories with my grandma,who cooked for EVERYONE in the family, breakfast,lunch, and dinner.I miss her so much and all of our family meals together.Take care and God bless you and your family family

I don’t think it’s laziness to cook comfort meals. Each meal was a hit and whether it took you 20 minutes or two hours to complete it was obvious your family enjoyed it. Good video!

Thanks for sharing. After seeing the smile on your son's face when he tried the Spam & rice, I have a feeling you will make it again. ☺️

@rn2163

Жыл бұрын

The smile on his face was the best, I think he impressed himself as well as momma too 😊

Am I the only one who watches for the screwdriver in the cup on the windowsill behind Brooke? When it’s not there, I always wonder where it is. 😂

@andreafleenor8914

Жыл бұрын

How did I miss that?

When I heard your boys wanting rice & spam I was thinking fried rice. In my opinion its my favorite way to make it. Simple too with a bag of frozen peas & carrots , soy sauce , sesame oil . Add an egg, green onions or more whatever your budget allows.

@vickigrice4663

Жыл бұрын

We make spam fried rice. Yum

Gosh ,you don't have a lazy bone in your body Brook ! When I don't feel like making dinner, we've done cereal bowls,leftovers,or whatever...❤❤❤❤❤

Yes we eat musubi in Hawaii. It is a Japanese dish but not with spam. In Hawaii it’s made with spam. It’s a staple over here! I just make mine with soy sauce, spam and rice and wrap in the nori. I have a mold to make making them easier.

A little tip! You can lay your corn tortillas on your oven rack and they will bake up crispy! Save on your oil and you can bake them all at once!

@kathyguy8674

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I never would have thought of this!!

You have changed my approach to cooking. I am more creative and forgiving with myself. I figure buying things that make cooking a whole meal easier keeps my family from eating out 🫶 It makes my day when you post a new cooking/budgeting video. Thanks, Brooke!

Everything looked great! I love your videos it’s nice to see normal cooking. I am not a fancy cook I cook normal meals too on a tight budget whatever keeps us fed is best🙂

Visited family in Hawaii 3 times. Yes the misubi is Hawaiian. We actually picked it up at convenience stores.

You crack me up girl!!😂😂 As always you have been able to make great meals for your family and save scads of $$$!! YOU GO GIRL!!🥰👍👍

Caitlyn should definitely start her own channel! I’m a single disabled woman alone & am limited on how long I can stand in the kitchen, so I appreciate simple quick meals. If I was as pretty as you ladies I would make videos. I used to have 3 young in’s at home so I relate to both of you.

You are such a good Mama!!! I love ❤️ you helping Ryder cook 👨‍🍳 what he wanted even though it’s not a cuisine you prefer. Y’all are just adorable!!!

You kept your budget to $50 while sick. That's a huge success~ eating one meal out with 5 people is easily $50. Pat yourself on the back! On that taquitos meal, if you are too tired to fry them, bake them. I make up about 40 at a time and keep them in the freezer. Oh, and I love the blank look on your face while you are deciding what to make for dinner! We've all been there!

Your kids are so fun! I love to see them cook with you. You are so blessed with a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing!

I LOLd at the head nod just before 10 minutes in. My son drove by me one day and gave me the head nod. I said "You do not head nod to your mother. You wave to your mother. Head nods are for your buddies." LOL

Love you sweet girl. You are so darn cute and your sons are adorable. 👍💕

I wouldn't called these meals "lazy meals". They looked great and you did take a good amount of time to put everything together. Great job!

I love this week's meals. You made things that looked like they tasted amazing. The boys reactions don't lie. You done amazing cold or not.

Girl if that's considered lazy dinners, then my life consists of them!🤣I'm 55 years old, been cooking since I was 15, and I'm tired of trying to figure out what's for dinner every night, then cooking it.🙄Koudos to you for cooking anything at all while you were feeling bad. I've packed lunches before when I knew I was going to be gone most of the day. And I always keep a snack in my purse, just in case I leave the house and don't eat first, then get hungry before I get back home. Once again, another great video!

Use to, people did the "picnic" lunch all the time! I remember someone laughing about how my husband's grandmother always had a cooler in her car... I know she did the picnic thing!! And now I proudly do the same thing because it's just too expensive to get fast food!

You inspire me with these “frugal” meals.

From Hawaii🌴 Yep, we love our spam here! Spam Musubi’s are popular in the go food/snack. Musubi is pronounced, “Moo-Sue-Bee”.

You did it! I get spam musubi at Hawaiian restaurants. They are amazing with a good teriyaki sauce for dipping!! Now I’ve gotta try making these at home!

Spam is universal. Seems like each country has a variation of our Spam recipes that seem good.

No way are you lazy! You are extremely busy and energetic! Blessings to you and your family 💗

You’re so creative-love your channel-your family is precious.💚

I loved the youtube tik tok look ups to create dinner Thanks Ryder ❤❤❤❤❤

Brooke I am having a lazy week too. It is dark ,gray and cold in Pennsylvania. Great for hibernation. Your meals look good to me . Homemade pizza will be for dinner on Friday. Hope you feel better soon. Thank you Ryder for helping your mom with dinner. What a good son.

You can add fresh or frozen spinach to your Alfredo before spreading on your pizza. Adds a veg and is yummy....spinach and mushroom white pizza is my favorite.

Yeah you’re not lazy. Thanks for the real life adventure. I love you guys. ❤

You are not lazy, you meal plan, can, use up everything and make delicious meals for your family. I love my canned chicken, we make chicken and cheese quesadillas, hot chicken salad, chef salad. Etc love your videos

I LOVE your rainbow striped shirt...takes me back to the 80s

My husband loved sliced spam fried with brown sugar a few drops of water...and served with Mac and cheese...I bet the kids would love it

LOL...sounds like my family. "What y'all want for dinner"?....."whatever"...geesh thanks for the help guys! Great video, I love the ideas.

That little one of yours is so cute when he "passes out" After saying it's good. You are a GOOD mama.

Can't see anything about refried beans without thinking "free ride beans" and honestly it's my favorite. 🤣

I would LOVE to see a video of you cooking with your mamaw

Sometimes when we're being lazy we do "snack night" which is basically what it sounds like. We just stick whatever is easy in the air fryer or chips and dip....cheese and crackers, fruit etc. It's not the healthiest of meals but it gets people fed and its better than ordering food....

As I’m watching your “lazy” meals I’m cooking ramen. Lol

Cheese burger melts is like a sloppy cheeseburger. Looks so yummy and a great way to change up burger night. You have so many awesome ideas

100% NOT lazy! You're so fun, sick or not! Musubi's are definitely something here in Hawaii. My daughter makes them all the time and we use teriyaki sauce instead of making up the sauce. Add some rice wine vinegar to your rice to hold it together a bit better and it'll be delicious!

Oh, Brooke!!! I have loved you and your channel for a few months or so now but now I know how amazing you really are!!! *NSYNC forever!!!❤❤

Any meal that gets cooked is a winner in my book. I see we have a potential new chef on our hands... way to go Ryder!!

A little bit of milk and butter added to the beans with the spices is amazing if you wanna try something other than water. I love your videos. I've been binge watching for the past 2 days 😂 I have a family of 6 and running out of ideas for my budget!!! I love you probably and family. God bless you all. I'm from Massachusetts and our money def can't go as far here at the market but I'm trying!

Cheeseburger melts looked yummy

Loved the videos! So tasty and delicious looking! You motivate me to do more in the kitchen even after 45 years of marriage!❤

My middle son thought about something different. So, I made us a beefy rice combo topped with salsa, and cheddar cheese. Yummy and VERY filling! I ran with his idea because he normally just says, "Whatever."

You said lazy meals and I am thinking throw a frozen pizza in the oven.....lol I have days I am so exhausted we ate an apple, bag of chips, and a cheese stick...so your doing amazing.

Omgosh that slow shot of Brayden was soooooo funny 🤣🤣🤣 (forgive me if I spelled his name wrong)

We call them chulupas, refried beans, cheese, shredded lettuce tomato salsa.And we fry our own shells and we also cut up and fry our corn tortillas for Nachos too.

I make a filling similar to the filling for your cheeseburger melts. I add diced dill pickles, abt 3 tablespoons of the pickle juice, I sprinkle in some minced onion and a couple good quirts of ketchup. Then I make a yeast dough , make balls (like making rolls) roll them out and fill them with the filling, bake 350 for about 25 minutes or so. I call them cheeseburger bombs. We love them.

Love this video. You’re a really good mom who has a great knack of putting meals together that come out so great. Keep doing videos you’re great.

Diced spam & fried potatoes is something that we would eat to stretch our food. Growing up there are 7 kids. Also Hamburger meat with rice and mushrooms and a can of cream of Mushroom soup....

Holy cow! If that's lazy, Brooke, then I'm a bum! I am ALWAYS cooking one pot meals because, as much as I love to cook, covid really took it out of me and I don't have the energy to do more than dump and go. I'm thinking right now what dump and go dinner I can make. So great job, momma!

I love your videos so much!!! Such a cute family and I love how positive you are. It was always a special occasion when my parents actually cooked for me, let alone brought the food to me. I grew up on TV dinners and started feeding myself at 3, was doing it all myself so young I’m not even sure now. The fact that you cook for your family most nights is a blessing to those kids. There’s no love like mama bringing you food.

You are an amazing Boy Mom... these girls are gonna be coming around breaking down your door lol

I used those black bean refries last night mixed with some plain rice and salsa and made burritoes I missed the cheese 🧀

A day of canning chicken is one of the Best investments you can make...Best...most useful Canned good ever...so many uses

I love that you are supporting your son's interest in different foods. My son has been asking for this dish. When your son noticed the rice should be on top, I died laughing at your mom moment. "It dont matter." Flip it around. You made my night!!!

Lazy is ordering food in. I have ‘easy dinners’ or ‘comfort dinners’. I am also a mum of three (mine are 7 and under) and last week I had a week of ‘I don’t want to do this’ and felt so washed out. So we did ‘easy dinners’. Was there a lot of fries or pasta? Oh yeah! But they ate and they were happy.

I know since watching your videos I've started using my local food bank which gives me plenty of food for the month since I'm single. I also live on my boyfriend's parents property so they feed me quite often as well. I share some of my food from the food bank with them to help stretch their budget since they're older. I love coming up with new ways to combine ingredients like you do.

Oooh idea for videos send your kids in the store and do a chopped thing where you don’t know what they are getting but you have to make a meal

We've always taken a cooler with us and packed lunchmeat and drinks. Especially great for long trips!

Cooking dinner at home is not lazy!!!! We all have those days, weeks etc. You did it!!!

Alfredo, bacon,frozen peas is a good one too. I always cook the sauce separate . Because mixed all together,and have leftovers the pasta absorbs all the sauce and it is dry. We add the sauce to the pasta then warm it up.

@teenataylor4546

Жыл бұрын

Also we sometimes substitute mushrooms if we don't have meat.

@marthalouise701

Жыл бұрын

I made this pasta the other day but subbed leftover ham for the bacon! My son loved it!

👍😊❣️Super Villain Oil Fingers 🤣 That makes me think of my boys.😊❣️

We did that Spam and rice with peas and carrots with Teriyaki sauce because the commercial always made it look so good. It was great!!

Sometimes when I don’t know what is for dinner I do fend for yourself. That is where that eat what ever you want to.

Oh my gosh!!! I just made your Cheeseburger Melts!!!! They are amazing! Thank you for sharing, my family LOVED them!❤️❤️

Thank you for making these videos. I didn’t have the best up bringing and never learned how to cook or budget meals for myself. These videos have given me so many ideas and have helped me feel so much more prepared for life. Thank you.

On the Spam, it is both a Hawaiian and Korean thing. It's an american product that became popularized in those areas due to our military being there. Became very popular in Korea after our soldiers brought it in. =) Spam, Kimchi and rice is a popular dish there and it is SO good.

really good video, props to Ryder for making dinner with mamas help 😊

You are not lazy! I have a cold/virus this week and we ate cereal and the family fended for themselves several days. Looking forwarded to making some of these ideas. Black bean tostadas and cheeseburgers for sure

We make musubi bowls - dice spam small and put in frying pan to get a lil brown, then add 2 Tbsp soy sauce, 2 Tbsp sugar, cook until sticky. Serve over rice in bowl, top with cut up seaweed or furikake. Especially good with fried egg on top

I’m 66, and 2 of my favorite dishes came to mind. They are both inexpensive to make. One is creamed eggs on toast and the other is breaded tomatoes (stewed type)

Great job momma! Don't need to be 5 star restaurant food to be good for our families. I love easy comfort food, fills the belly and warms the heart ❤️

Sometimes when I’m out of sour cream I’ll substitute ranch dressing. I think you mentioned Ryder doesn’t like that though 😊

Rider's a good kid for helping you out when you're sick

Bacon and broccoli alfredo sounds amazing!

I love your spirit! Please talk about making planned leftovers so you don’t need to cook every night.😊

Add garlic and chives to that butter and brush on top it’s so goood

Cute mushroom earrings. Real life deciding on supper.

If that's being lazy, then I don't know what lazy is! 😊 Love your videos and save them all.

When out of sour cream, ranch dressing works well. Try adding some butter to the refried black beans & adobo, you’ll thank me.

Those cheeseburger melts look amazing! It gave me the idea of using peppers, onions and mushrooms all scrambled in with the hamburger then making burgers with provolone!

@marlenearocho3680

10 ай бұрын

Tnat sctually sounds yummy. Or with pepper jack cheese 😮

Thank Rider for the lunch idea today! We are excited to make musubi!

You were both correct about the Musubi. It originated in Japan but the filling was whatever they wanted to put in it. It could be fish or other type of meat. Hawaii with their Spam obsession took the Japanese Musubi and made it their own. Everywhere you go in Hawaii you can find Musubi with Spam. Pretty tasty! Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Next time you make a pizza, try a baked potato and bacon with Alfredo sauce pizza ! There’s a pizza place and they make it and I absolutely love it !!!❤