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Raise your hand if you can't see a Hot Pocket without hearing Jim Gaffigans voice! EVERY TIME haha!

@SeeMindyMom

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🙋‍♀️

@carmelwright

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh yes!

@allisonwalker191

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🎶 Lava Pockets 🎶

@Vicariouslythroughme

Жыл бұрын

Yes 😂

@thepickyeatersclub

Жыл бұрын

DIARRHEA POCKET!

Cottage cheese on sweet potatoes is a clutch way to put a spin on baked potatoes. My grandma ate this at least once a week and it took me until adulthood to appreciate how good it is!

@jillgott6567

Жыл бұрын

I love both so I will have to try them together

Your youth is showing! I'm so old, when I was in college, there weren't microwave ovens yet, lol. Our refrigerator was a bag we hung out of the dorm window.

@SeeMindyMom

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Haha! That's really ingenious!

This was so fun! My roommate and I used to watch Friends on Thursdays while eating our favorite dinner of Totino's cheese party pizza and a bag of Caesar salad (from a kit). We would split the pizza and salad and have no leftovers and the whole meal cost about $3. Fun times!

I have to admit, I laughed through this whole video! 😂 I'm a little older, let's just say my generation was still creating computers in the garage. Lol I grew up in Iowa went to college in Omaha. One of my roommates, her family grew popcorn. That was our staple! Air poppers had just come out. Green beans, popcorn and ice tea! PS to this day I still put cottage cheese on my baked potatoes! Delicious 😋

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

haha! I forgot to mention popcorn! That was a staple for us, too.

“I’m not THAT old!” I had to laugh at that because I AM that old. We didn’t have Internet OR cell phones. In my undergraduate years, we didn’t even have computers. I was one of the few in my dorm with a portable electric typewriter. We had one microwave for the whole dorm. I did have a few illegal appliances-a hot plate, electric skillet, and crockpot. My friends next door had an electric griddle. Our university was a “suitcase campus” where many of us would go home on the weekends, but occasionally, my friends and I would plan weekends where we would all stay, play Spades all day, and pool our resources to cook (what we thought were) elaborate meals. I rarely ate in the cafeteria because I didn’t have a meal plan. We didn’t have many options as far as fast food and I could rarely afford it anyway. My mom would send me back with leftovers, produce from Dad’s garden, and home canned goods. My roommate would also bring back leftovers sometimes. Two weekday/night go-to items I remember we made a lot were tuna salad and rice-a-roni from the box (remember that illegal electric skillet).

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Spades! We played a lot of that in college, too! 😊 We had internet, but barely. I typed all my college applications on an electric typewriter!

Mindy, I love cottage cheese. One of my roommates introduced me to adding grape jelly and a couple years later that popped up on Weight Watchers, sugar free jam and cottage cheese on toast, put it in the toaster oven for a cheese danish! You brought back some memories today. Also making your soup!

@SeeMindyMom

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I hope you enjoy the soup!

@briannehill7583

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That sounds so good Jerrie

@patgarcia2010

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BEST topping for cottage cheese is salsa. Your choice of red or green!

@jerrieanderson2245

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@@patgarcia2010 I’ll have to try that! My mom loved to dice up onion and green pepper on hers.

I rewatched Everwood about a year ago. It was on either IMDBtv or Freeve

I frequently made a Knorr sidekick and added frozen vegetables to it as my dinner in University.

I’ve been thinking about starting to compile inexpensive recipes to give to my kids when they move out, so thanks for these! My aunt taught me to put ranch powder mix in my cottage cheese, it’s so good as a dip with veggies, or chips and I think it would be great on the baked potato.

@SeeMindyMom

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Great tip!

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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That sounds quite tasty!

Sharing these with a newlywed couple who are trying to find inexpensive meals.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

I hope they find something helpful here. :)

@MrsAlmaTrumble

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@@SeeMindyMom thank you Mindy. So glad I found your channel.

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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Stuffing flour tortillas with almost anything makes great inexpensive meals, especially individual pizzas. Share with them an assortment of rice recipes with varying flavor profiles.

When I was in school my cheap dinner was half a can of corned beef hash over toast. Easy to fry up and a can use to be $1, plus an Aldi loaf of bread was .75$. Raw baby carrots were pretty much the only veggie at .50$ a bag 😀

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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My cheap "go to" produce was cucumbers and bananas, with the occasional carrots or apples.

@pancakespandemonium

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Ha! I still LOVE canned corned beef on toast-add a fried egg and HEAVEN!!

@sarak6401

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@@yvonnepalmquist8676 yes bananas use to be so cheap!

Hey college students, don't forget to place pre-cooked pasta (shells, elbows) in the fridge. They're a great quick meal. Throwing some into the soup when served could maybe even stretch your soup to another meal...

For the soup, you can use ground turkey. It's less than $2.50 at Aldi. Love this video!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and I have done that before. It turns out okay, I just think it's a little better with beef. :)

Thanks for walking down memory lane and sharing your college and pageant stories with us…love that… and as far as food, to this day I always have cottage cheese on hand…such a quick and easy snack plus I use it in place of ricotta in recipes…

This brought back memories! Putting some of these blasts from the past items on my list. Thanks Mindy ❤️

@SeeMindyMom

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You are so welcome!

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is my favorite lol. So good

@SeeMindyMom

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It's been a while since I've made it, I may need to relive my college days soon and make one!

When my husband and I moved out of our parents as teenagers, we started a tradition of eating burgers every Thursday night while we watched According to Jim and a few other shows. All we had was an antenna so sometimes the picture was trash. We never bought burger buns, always just used sandwich bread and we never had "the fixings," just mayo, mustard, and ketchup. Good times. We loved it! -Kryste

Awesome! Thanks my husband is a perpetual college student, lol, when it comes to food that is. He’s gonna love these!

Thank you for your content. I really enjoy watching.

My daughter is in her first year of college and I will definitely share some of these ideas with her! Mindy, she is also a vocal performance major 😉

I was cruising old videos when your hair was shorter. Didn’t realize this is new. Nice cut, very flattering 👏👏👏

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

😊 thank you

Thanks for the college memories, brought mine back! My roomie and I did baked potatoes with butter and a Greek style seasoning with beets and thousand island dressing at least once or twice a week!

I love your hair cut! I worked a lot of hours to pay for my college, so my meals were simple and "not so health". My roommate and I would eat Raman Noodles with a can of veggies in it, or the packet of chicken soup with homemade dumplings. My roommate's mom was from Kentucky so she has some great frugal southern recipes. I also eat french fries and gravy as a Sunday meal. Sometimes I added green beans. It was good and filled the belly. :) Great video.

Same! For me a grilled cheese and ham off the college cafe griddle top was the best! With Lay's potato chips. My husband says it was his favorite at the military base. 😋

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, for sure! Sometimes we sprang for the fries. Especially the seasoned ones. 😊

I taught my daughter to take one package of ramen soup and leftover veggies and meat or a protein to make a one pot meal. She made it in home economics. She went to the other groups in her class asking if she could have what they weren’t going to use. A teacher came in and tried the soup and asked her where was she when he was in college. A few years later her best friend called her and asked her how to make that soup. My daughter asked her friend what she had in the fridge and told her what to put in the pot with the ramen. It was a big hit with her roommates.

I'm 39, and I totally watched Everwood. I loved that show.

I babysat my neighbor (when she was little) and am still friends with Ashley Ehrart who is this year's Miss Oklahoma! Thanks for sharing that little tid bit and for another great video!

👍👍❤️ good staples that still working, coming in for the wins🎉

Everwood, Gilmore Girls were both favorites in our home. One Tree Hill also. Love cottage cheese. Will have to try it on my potatoes. Already add it to pasta and dips.

I worked in the restaurant industry in college, would pay half off a bowl of soup, side salad, or shepherd's pie and that's what I ate every day, and nothing more. I had a $5 a day spending limit for food and gas. Sadly today running errands and paying bills is $10 in gas with a 30 mpg car in my rural area. Stay strong college students. I knew college kids that had those mega packs of ramen they put on top of the fridge and took up the whole top of their fridge, and that's what they ate.

Awww Pageants!! So much dedication and it’s awesome it helped you to start your career!! Definitely going to make your soup (I thought I created it when living in my apartment) and fancy ground beef!! I love vegetables that way! My mom would eat a plain hamburger on a bed of lettuce with a scoop of cottage cheese and pears when she was in her 20’s. Comfort food!❤that trip down memory lane!

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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One of the best salads I ever had was a "Greek style" salad with a hamburger patty and feta cheese.

Great Video!

@SeeMindyMom

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Glad you enjoyed it

I LOVED Everwood! Bright was my favorite ❤

I worked at a Little Caesars in High School-we loved Italian cheese cheese bread and adding extra garlic! LOL after little Caesar’s I worked at Taco Bell for a couple of years and we would make all of our food by individual items so a tortilla +beans +cheese +red sauce for example. It would be like 15¢ instead of 79¢ I don’t think they let you do that anymore but it let me eat sooooooo cheap in my late teens and 20’s!!!

@SeeMindyMom

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Oh that is so interesting! I hadn't heard that ordering hack before. Yeah, I bet they don't do that anymore! :)

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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I'd often just order the side of beans or the side of rice. I believe they both came with cheese and red sauce and they were filling and delicious.

@pancakespandemonium

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@@yvonnepalmquist8676 I still do that! It’s not as cheap as it once was-but I love their black beans and rice with Some red sauce and a little onion, then I’ll get an order of chips and cheese-add nacho cheese-mix then eat it with chips! Lol the nacho cheese and chips probably keeps it from being healthy but delicious and relatively inexpensive!

It is amazing how the price of meat has gone up here in Australia also. Lamb chops are now about three times the price there were only a few years ago. Ground beef has also zoomed up. I can afford it, but people who are less than well off cannot. Thank you for the video!

We don't eat white bread. We eat German rye bread and I make grilled cheese with it. My youngest grandson says I make the best grilled cheese - which is his favorite. He is a bit fussy but he never complains that I make his grilled cheese with rye bread. My son's fav lunch when he was young was grilled cheese and cream of tomato soup. We have made grilled cheese with ham or bacon over the years.

I make a sausage soup similar, breakfast sausage, 2 cans of mixed veggies and 2 cans of navy beans, I can chicken stock...we still make it...and add other things

This is a fun video. I used to eat this Fried Chicken breast with Tomatoes and mayo on a Kaiser Roll for lunch when I was in my first yrs of college. I was thinking of how good that sandwich was yesterday. When I moved out and got my first apartment ,with roommates, cheesy Ramen was a regular meal for us; as well as Cheddarwurst from Aldi. Eggs were also a go to for breakfast. I had cereal, honey bunches of oats after I got home from night classes was a regular. Eating healthy in college is definitely hard, as well as learning how to prepare meals. I had a very basic meal repertoire when I first moved out.

Boy this made me feel OLD! Hot Pockets and Cinnamon Toast Crunch didn’t exist when I was in college. Fortunately our cafeteria was great and we always managed two meals a day there. The only dorm food I remember are tuna with cottage cheese instead of mayo, cereal & snacks. Microwaves we’re relatively new and we didn’t have one 😮 We had a ‘hot pot’, like an electric tea kettle My pastor went to ORU and met his wife there

@SeeMindyMom

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It probably would have been better for me to drop by the cafeteria and eat a salad, I just never made the time! LOL

So cool! I’m a middle school orchestra director in Texas. Was also a music education major 😊

Oh my gosh... yes! Everwood! ❤

A great addition to a cottage cheese topped potato is salsa or some freshly diced tomatoes. Yum!!!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Oh great idea!

Oh my goodness! I loved that show 😂

Mindy and family have a great day have fun thanks from Oklahoma

Any chance you can do a diabetic budget eats? I was just diagnosed with gestational diabetes and am looking for meal ideas!

Everwood is available streaming on HBO Max!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I have that! I need to look for it. Thanks!

I totally ate crazy bread all the time in college too 😂. I sometimes still crave it.

@SeeMindyMom

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It's so good! We still get a few bags every time we order pizza from there. :)

@FrugalLifeThriftyWife

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@@SeeMindyMom I haven’t gotten it in years, but I just might get some this week now 😉.

Brings back memories of my college days!!!!

I LOVE Everwood too!

I remember EverWood tv show it was one of my favorite shows. I am older than you. I love your story about your life.

Oh my goshhhh I miss Little Caesar's!!! Our one and only Little Caesar's closed down when K-Mart closed on our island. I miss that place sooooo much!

I love sweet potatoes with cottage cheese! Add some chopped green onions and yum😋 Great video!

Loved Everwood. ❤️❤️❤️

I like browning my ham in the pan first and then making my grilled ham and cheese.

I'm going to try the sauce less cheese pizza hack soon, my family would love that. Cottage cheese has been my go to fast meal of choice lately. I've been buying the Double Cream Good Culture at Sprouts. WalMart used to sell a brand called Nordica that I loved, wish I could find it again in the Tulsa area.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

The good culture cottage cheese is THE BEST!

A baked potato and cottage cheese ks one of my favourite meals!!!

Hi, Mindy! I thought Rice-a-Roni introduced those cups very recently, no? ~ When I was young (one of nine kids), we NEVER had "real butter." And we called margarine "oleo." Wow, I'm old!

@SeeMindyMom

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I thought I had them at least as early as 2005 I think, because I remember eating them in my first couple years of teaching/student teaching. I could be mistaken though.

@patgarcia2010

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Did you ever get to squeeze the "bag" of white oleo to mix the orange dot of food coloring into the rest of the margarine to make it yellow?? (Yes, I am OLD!)

Wow, i love cottage cheese but haven't tried it on a baked potato. I will have to try that now. I am a little older so my roommates and I would watch friends (Thursday night TV was the best!) and we would make mac and cheese or hamburger helper which were a big staple in our pantry.

Yellow cake with chocolate icing is my preference for cake!

I love cottage cheese and yogurt. But I'll give it a try with a baked potato. Also I like to add vinegar to my heated canned green beans to give it a tangy-ness.

My roommate and I would share a salad kit and a pack of Knorr creamy garlic shells for dinner. Our other favorite was cheesesticks with ranch from the pizza place.

Girl, I'm right here in OK with you. I remember those Nokia phones and still have one with KU on it. I remember when canned biscuits were .10 a can and on sale you could get 20 of them. I could spend $50 and feed me, boyfriend and oldest daughter at Always Save all month. I so miss those days!

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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I kept a brick phone until 2019. LOL!

hair looks so cute!!

@SeeMindyMom

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Thanks!

I feel triggered. Back in my day, we really didn't have internet! 😂

@SeeMindyMom

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We didn’t get it in our house until I was in HS, so I definitely grew up without it!

@yvonnepalmquist8676

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@@SeeMindyMom I remember being jealous of the kids who had the word processors and could correct their typos without starting the whole page over.

Fun video!

@SeeMindyMom

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Thank you!

Lol 😂I remember the Nokia clunker and dial up oh that sound I don't miss

I had no idea! I am the director of one of the Miss Oklahoma prelims. We are looking for more board members! 😅

Loved Everwood! We watched Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, and Charmed back when it was still the WB channel!

My dietician told me to mix cottage cheese in with me scrambled eggs. I thought that was weird but I tried it and I love it.

@HeyNowMal

Жыл бұрын

My scrambled eggs *^ 😂

I often made a quick work lunch from the frozen chicken flavored rice, veggies and some shredded cheese.

I'm just a bit younger than you, I started high school 20 years ago, & I remember ground beef being the cheap meat! I still can't believe how that's changed! And I didn't watch Everwood but remember it!

Your soup recipe is similar to my Chilli recipe, cooked beef, or chicken or turkey and one or more cans of beans and or, corn,and or tomato products literallyany canned tomato thing. Chili powder garlic powder onion powder (or fresh onion and garlic) some kind of salt, optional cumin and curry cook for a while. I usually use a crock pot but pot on stove works great too. Feeding more people just add more cans.

There is NO better combo than yellow cake and chocolate frosting.

Everwood 😍🥰!!! I haven’t thought about that show in forever!! I stopped watching it once I graduated high school, same thing with Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Girls. I just finished Gilmore Girls in my 30’s 😂

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think I gave up on Dawson's creek when I was in college! LOL

I ate cottage cheese with baked potatoes all the time growing up and even as an adult,

My daughter was offered a 100,000 scholarship. The first semester she lived in a dorm but didn’t care for the “dorm life” so selected to move into an apartment a few miles away from campus. Big savings! The university didn’t cost much so after the expense of classes, fees, etc whatever was left was hers to be applied toward living expenses. It worked beautifully.

Loved Everwood it’s on HBOmax.

That flannel is sooo cute! Do you remember where you got it?

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

It came from Amazon. 😊

I'm not surprised at all. You are really lovely inside and out.

lol as someone who survived music school as well it was a lot of eating random things I could find during recitals and in practice rooms haha

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

The practice room snacks were a must!

I watched Dawson's Creek , Everwood, Gilmore Girls , Party of Five, Seventh Heaven, What I like About You , Smallville , One Tree Hill , Felicity.

I have all but season 7 of GG on DVD and would be up at 3am nursing my first born daughter...she was born about 10am on a Thursday and family channel had GG at 11am and 5pm she got her first ep at 5pm...I loved Everwood! Like everything college was a failure for me.

Hen I first was married I made home made rice a roni and I still do this even 47 yrs later my husband tryed the box and he threw it away he told he like mine better I also do this with onion soup mix to

Love this vid, thanks! Just curious - had you heard of / considered meal prepping when you had the college apartment? Just asking because for some reason, (no YT!!) when I was in my 20s/30s working FT, with littles at home, it never dawned on me to 'meal prep' ahead, never mind freezer meals. I literally didn't hear of 'freezer meals' until I started watching YT a few years ago. Why oh why did it not dawn on me back then????

@SeeMindyMom

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Nope, it did not occur to me then! I was definitely just living in the moment. 😂

I also like the baked potato and cottage cheese.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

It's so yummy!

In college I would eat baked potatoes with ranch dressing on it. If I was being fancy I could buy a can of bean and meat chili and eat that on top. I could get about 3 potatoes out of one can.

I feel fortunate that where I live ground beef can still be found regularly for under $4 a pound.

I have never eaten a hot pocket. But I love baked potatoes with cottage cheese.

Everwood!!

I love baked potatoes with cottage cheese.

Also from rural Oklahoma... All of my recipes call for ground beef simply because when we were young(I'm 50) it was less than $1.50 a pound. Sometimes less than $1 on sale... Crazy now it's over $5.

@SeeMindyMom

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If I buy A LOT of it and divide it up, I can get it cheaper. Or we have thought about buying a side of beef and getting 20 or so pounds of ground beef. My kids really like ground beef dishes and if I'm being honest, so do I!

@MisJaxon

Жыл бұрын

@@SeeMindyMom we buy half or a whole cow at a time and always request 60 to 150 pounds of ground beef depending on the weight of the cow. Ends up being between 2 and 3.50 per pound for ALL the cuts. Even a quarter cow is less than 6 per pound for everything... You can't beat those prices if you can afford the upfront cost!

Mindy, your new haircut is cute! Thanks for the content :)

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I've put cottage cheese on my baked potato forever, and I'm from KY

We are about the same age, I loved Everwood😊

My all time favorite cottage cheese is the Braum’s dairy. I think you have Braum’s in OK.

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Yep! It started here. Braums dairy is Tuttle. :)

1) Mindy, your hair looks great! :) 2) Yellow cake with chocolate icing is the BEST! 3) I found my Nokia phone when we moved in 2016. HA!

@SeeMindyMom

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I seriously miss those phones at times!

Everwood! ❤ I knew you were my people.

❤️ Everwood ❤️