"This is a pasta bake. It's not a casserole." I'm stealing this line. You are one of the most creative, eloquent, brilliant, clever, and thoughtful content creators out there, Rebecca. Beautifully done.

@freefoodchef7939

7 ай бұрын

I completely agree. That's how you get to more than 100K subscribers!

@yvonnepalmquist8676

7 ай бұрын

I heard that one a few years back. It's a goody!!!

@jodybogdanovich4333

7 ай бұрын

​@@Quib28292ejejNot having a sense of humor is sad. Also, I checked out some of your recent comments on this channel and one word comes to mind: TROLL 👎

@Isabella66Gracen

7 ай бұрын

😅

❤❤❤ I'm a vegetarian, and my kids are carnivores and aside from just warming up the ham, I now can wow them them and dazzle them. Thank you, and Happy Holudays!!! ❤❤

You are one of the sweetest and most genuine content creators I have found. I would want to be friends with you in real life, so I hope you know that being a good person definitely comes across in your videos. We appreciate the care and effort you put into creating content to help others ❤

@DollarTreeDinners

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I’m sure we would be great friends!

Hey Rebecca..love your channel and your dedication of going to Dollar stores to bring us delicious meals that doesn't break the budget..you're greatly appreciated 💛

@DollarTreeDinners

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I love this community so much

@cziegle3794

7 ай бұрын

​​@@DollarTreeDinnersfor the potato soup, would it work to replace the ham with roast beef? Or is there something that would make roast beef not turn out?

I love all of your content. I can't believe you would delete all that work. 😳 lol. I bet there are a lot of us watching not only for the meals but for the calming and peaceful vibe you naturally put out. 😊 Thank you so much for all of your hard work. I pray you have the most incredible Holliday season this year!! Much love to you, girlie.. 🤗❤️🥰

Great ideas, Rebecca! I had to laugh at you saying ham was your favorite. My mom always told the story that 'ham' was the first word I spoke!! Not, mom, not dad, but HAM!!

Thank you!! This is perfect. My brother always gets a ham for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but since I host, I am stuck with the leftovers. I don't like ham but I'll eat it when mixed with other things. Thanks for helping me keep the leftover ham from going to waste!!

Grand slam home run!! I end up scaling back your recipes because I live alone, but you haven’t posted one recipe that I haven’t loved. What I tend to do for ham is watch when my grocery store puts their larger ham steaks on sale, and I buy it a few and throw them in my freezer. I can pretty much use that for any of recipe on your channel. It’s not a casserole. It’s a pasta bake!!! I am so stealing that line. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season. ❤️🇨🇦🎄🤶

I made a similar soup recently with frozen cubed potatoes, frozen diced onions, and frozen peas & carrots. I also love thickening soups with potato flakes - great tip.

You completely reminded me to get my ham out of the freezer!!! Something we grew up on is a take of the potato soup. We just called it potato, peas, & ham. All you do is cook your potatos, ham, & peas. Make a bechamel sauce enough to cover more or less however you like say a gravy, salt, pepper. So easy And so so filling. In fact 40 years later we still request it when we get together. I absolutely love your channel and how creative you get!

would LOVE some more leftovers videos! sometimes it's cheaper to buy in bulk but then no one wants what's left after a meal. i really enjoyed this!

My favorite thing to do with left over ham is ham salad for sandwiches. I just put the ham, mayo, sweet pickle relish and onions in a food processor and grind it up) Fun fact, Monte Cristos are usually served with whipped cream and strawberry jam. I grew up in the frozen north east and soup was wonderful during the winter. My mom would make potato soup adding in some bay leaves, and split pea. I love split pea soup with sweet corn bread . My daughter got a free ham from her work. So these recipes will be great for the leftovers. 🥰🎄❄☃🍴🎁💝✝Merry Christmas Rebecca!🥰🎄❄☃🍴🎁💝✝

I'd love to see a "bloopers" kinda video bc its real life. We all have fails here & there and maybe a "fixed it" kind of video, like the Christmas crack. Your honesty is fantastic! And beleive us... you are appreciated!

The potato soup looks delicious and so much faster than using fresh potatoes. One shortcut I have done is used the diced frozen potatoes (southern style hash browns/ home fries/whatever the label calls them lol) so I wouldn't have to peel and dice potatoes, but your way is even faster lol

Hi Rebecca. I just wanted to let you know that I am very grateful for you and your channel that you have created with Dollar Tree/Dollar General ingredients. I don't go to Dollar General but do frequently shop at Dollar Tree and since watching your channel have gotten some amazing recipes that I have yet to try to make but I'm glad that I caught on to your channel so I can. But just wanted to again say thank you, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and God bless you and Michael.

@lisasprite3322

7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas 🎄

You are my favorite KZread cook. Down to earth, common ingredients and honest about hit and miss. My husband is a picky eater but he’ll eat just about anything you share. Love the saving money aspect, too. Thanks for the videos.

That egg wash hint is brilliant! Looked like you touched the rack when you put the pasta dish in - hope your fingers didn't get burned. :) Also hope you have a lovely holiday off of the Tubez. I've been inspired by some of your videos for this year's holiday meal (it's scaled down as I'm not traveling this year). I'm planning to do the ham rosettes for my Xmas eve dinner and then Xmas day I'm going to roast a chicken (I think? I have both pesto and salsa to use up in the fridge, so I'm not 100% sure where I'm going with this). Hopefully it'll turn out okay because my kids are bringing a friend. Actually, now that I've written it out, maybe I should do those rosettes for Xmas day - they did look nice and fancy. Guess I'd better go google how much ham one person will eat...

the brocolli cheese base would also be great over a baked potato.

@eathomelive

7 ай бұрын

Ooooh! Yummy!!!

I love your channel. I grew up very poor and often basicaly nothing but cans and packets of stuff. I would have absolutely loved all these ideas.

Thanks for always bringing your calm presence and creativity! I'll humbly suggest a video idea: soft and smooth foods for people who have trouble chewing! I recently had dental surgery. Even some soft things like pasta can be uncomfortable to eat. It has made me even more aware of how frustrating it must be for someone who has to eat like this all the time! I'm recovering, but maybe it'd be helpful for others in the future. Just an idea! I'm sure it would be very challenging. I hope your holidays are wonderful. ❄️

@barbwall3678

7 ай бұрын

Good idea, I’d like a video on that too. My BIL has cancer & has lost his appetite. He’s primarily eating only soft foods or liquids. Need to keep him from losing more weight.

@Aelffwynn

7 ай бұрын

​@barbwall3678, it's sweet of you to look out for your BIL 💕 happy holidays, and i wish your family as smooth a journey as possible!

My childhood best friend’s family would make ham fried rice after Christmas and Easter. It was always delicious, and all you need is rice, a bag of mixed frozen veggies, a couple of eggs, and soy sauce and whatever spices you want.

Mashed potato soup is such a simple idea it makes me mad I didn't think of it before!

Love how your channel grows by thousands every week! Hope we get to see your KZread 100k button in a video: no one is more deserving of that than you, Rebecca! Merry Christmas to both you and Michael. 🎄🎅🦌🎉🎁

I never thought about using gravy mix for soup but that's a great idea. I've used brown gravy mix with stews (so good) so I'm going to have to try that with the white gravy mix.

Great hint for the egg wash!

Great ideas! I'm thinking that broccoli, ham sauce would be good in a quiche. Thanks for sharing.

I like to use the ham to make hash with cabbage, potato, carrots. And I like to make it extra spicy.

Love this video! I love all of your videos but this one is especially helpful. I'm a vegetarian with a meat-lover brother that I care for full time and it's hard to think up meat recipes when I have zero interest in them and can't taste as I'm cooking. My brother and husband both love ham but I never think of anything other than just serving it with some potatoes so this is genius! I'm definitely going to try these out, thank you for such great ideas.

Yes it is ham for Christmas this year. I always freeze a lot of ham cut differently depending on what I want to use it for later. I love having ham in the freezer.❤

that hey honey, was so wholesome! you guys are adorable!

(130) You should try making ham salad. Finely minced ham, mayo or Miracle Whip (whichever is your thing) pickle relish to taste (the mustard-based ones are a good cheat) and that's about it. Butter (or margarine) two slices of bread, slather on the ham then add pretty much whatever else you like (lettuce, tomato, cheese etc.).

Ham salad was probably the best thing I made with leftover ham.

Everything looks so yummy. It's great to have recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner 🙂

You can really tell that you care about your content on your channel, and I appreciate that! I made a breakfast scramble using my leftover ham...so good 🙂 Wishing a blessed and Merry Christmas!!

I agree with you, this was a very good food day! I want to try all the recipes, and will hopefully have some leftover ham to use. We love beans so I always make them with the ham bone, but after you mentioned split peas, it made me think I will make them instead of beans. Now I just need to decide what to make first--I think the breakfast biscuits. Merry Christmas, and I will be looking forward to seeing more videos in 2024.

Lol My youngest son also hates casserole so I do what you did: call it a bake. He eats them just fine most times that way. It's just the word casserole that throws him off. I'm totally going to make your casserole later this week. It looks really good. Thanks for all of your hard work! -Kryste

@hannakinn

7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of how people won't even taste grits if you call them grits but call them white southern style polenta and they not only try them but like them. Add some whipped cream cheese to your grits after cooking, that's so good!

I'm ashamed to admit I never knew what a Monte crisco sandwich was until this video. And now I will try one. That soup looks amazing!!! Merry Christmas and thank you so much for all your inspiration!!!

@DollarTreeDinners

7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and it’s my new obsession sandwich 😂😂 I didn’t know what it was either until this week

I always make ham salad but I use dill pickle relish instead of sweet, it goes really well with the smokey ham flavor. We put it on some good Italian bread rolls with a slice of cheese, lettuce & thin sliced tomato with a side of kettle chips & a pickle spear. One of my favorite lunches! Super easy to make and a nice quick lunch for the days after Christmas where everyone is burnt out 😂 even my kids love it. I’ll definitely be trying some of these recipes too since we always have tons of leftover ham after the holidays. Merry Christmas to you and your family! ❤️🎁🎄

@eathomelive

7 ай бұрын

I am the only eater of ham salad in my house. I love it! I will be making a small batch this year, and freezing some ham for a small batch later. I also like dill relish! I hate sweet relish. Plus, we have a Honey Baked ham this year. It's sweet enough.

@BrowneyedGirlmjd

7 ай бұрын

@@eathomelive I live alone, so I don’t need to worry about pleasing anyone that likes or doesn’t like ham salad. Thanks to both of you for this . I want to try adding dill relish to it next time instead of the usual sweet.

I saw a Rachel Ray Monte Cristo recipe that used mustard and orange jam. It was really good. I used apricot once too. It was all I had because I make a salad dressing with German mustard and apricot jam. Amazing

Oh wow Rebecca you just gave me a great idea!! I have several pouches of mashed potatoes, and love potato soup; but never thought to put them together. Its also perfect for someone like me who only cooks for 1. I did try your country gravy mix broccoli soup, and that totally blew my mind. It was so simple & delicious!! So I'm gonna try this new version as well. Thank You!! Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎅

this was so sweet and I loved it. I also use canned potatoes in my soups. The ending of this video was so heart-felt. thank you 🖤

Thank you for all the great recipes and ideas, Rebecca! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas, filled with love and laughter!

Hey Rebecca!!! Thank you so much for all your ideas! Thank you for thinking about ALL people, but just a few. I'm disabled and on a budget, but I'm able to go to more than 1 store or Dollar Tree. All your ideas help give me ideas of what to make. I shop sales for the most part. But usually I make the same things over and over again. I'm really picky when it comes to food. So seeing things to make that's not in my mind is great. You letting us know we can use something or not and it'll still work helps alot! I won't eat mayo, mustard, tartar sauce, sour cream, any salad dressings, or even ranch just to say a few. So you letting us know we can still make something without those things and it still being good, helps so much!! I hope you have a Merry Christmas, and a safe New Year!! Sending love from Louisville Kentucky 🥰 💙 ❤️ 😍 💕

Wow- that potato soup recipe is genius. I use the diced and canned potatoes in my black bean soup, but never thought about making just plain potato soup with them! Also, you can dice up leftover ham and use it to add to things like canned split pea soup - with needs a bit more in it. Or just add the diced pieces to a can of butter beans, hominy or - as I'm going to do for New Years - black eye peas (a traditional NY day dinner from my childhood).

Everything looked fabulous especially the breakfast I love ham I have to be really careful how much I eat because of the salt I have trouble with my blood pressure it can be high for a couple of days then be low it's aggravating for sure. I also want to thank you for all you do on here it's amazing how much care you put into all the meals. some I've seen on here doesn't put much effort into it because of I think it's things from dollar tree and that's a shame . Some really look down on someone having to get groceries at dollar tree or anything for that matter. In this economy they are more having trouble being able to not be hungry anywhere I can find food cheap I love it . I want to Wish You a 🎄Merry Christmas 🎄 i hope you all have a Wonderful Blessed day and everything you want the day to be it is and so much more 💖🙏🕊️🎄🎁💖 P.S. Yes please do a video on doing cheddar broccoli soup and a bread bowl. That would be awesome.💕

Rebecca you have out done yourself with these ham recipes, especially the soupie one ! That looked s-o-o good before you put it in the pasta, (not that I didn't like the pasta but lately, I'm all about the soup and that soup, looked delicious )It is something I am definitely going to have to make soon. Thank you for all the care and thought you put into your content your share on your channel it is much appreciated. Happy Holidays to you and Michael and have Happy New Year ! 🎅🎁🎀🎀🎁✨✨🥂See ya next year!

Yes, please have a safe and fun holiday. We are going to see our great granddaughter and great grandson. Pearl just turned two and Hank was born in August. Two little treasures.❤❤❤

@DollarTreeDinners

7 ай бұрын

Congratulations and enjoy your holiday! We are going to visit Michael’s family in Washington state

Love love love these videos where you test drive the recipes found on the backs of everyday products.

I love Monte Cristo sandwiches. Your recipe looks so easy. I plan to try it soon. We have a lot of allergies, so I have to cook a great deal from scratch. What I appreciate about your recipes is that they are easily adaptable for scratch cooking without breaking the bank or adding a lot of extra time. I hope you and Michael have a very Merry Christmas!

Everything looked so good! That ham pasta is on my list, as are the breakfast bombs. I love your videos! I would LOVE to see the broccoli cheese soup and bread bowl video idea. Merry Christmas.

your dedication to creating variety on a budget is so appreciated

This video comes at the perfect time! Just cooked a ham for dinner the other night, and was needing ideas to use it for before it goes bad, so thank you!! ❤

What a smart video, and I appreciate your take on the stuffed breakfast sandwich which I find easier to fill, unlike me I roll the same dough out and fill mine which is not easy. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

You're just in time, Ma'am-going to be cooking a big ham tomorrow. I love every one of these and plan on trying them. Very creative. Have a nice holiday and Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

Love this channel. For my Leftover ham, I made a bunch of ham, egg, and cheese biscuits (freezer); ham, and cheese egg bites (freezer); and bean soup (canned). I love that we utilize leftovers to create something a bit different so we are not necessarily eating the same thing over and over again, and eventually discard.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Michael ❤

Happy holidays to you and yours, Rebecca! I got such a chuckle out of your declaration of love for ham. I feel the same way about turkey 🤣

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I am now inspired to make a veggie version of the pockets. Thank you.

Merry Christmas ! Thank you for the great ideas. I will be trying all of them as we are having ham for Christmas.

after holidays when I was a kid ham salad sandwiches and the ham bone was used to make pea soup. Okay as a kid I didn't like either lol but we had a big family so it fed many of us for the week. Thank you for sharing!

Awww, have a safe and happy Christmas and New Year to you, too. We love you!

I love all of these. I'm making the stuffed biscuits now for dinner. Hope you had a very Merry Christmas and have a wonderful New year

Everything looks DELICIOUS!! Merry Christmas!

Have enjoyed your videos and got some great ideas from them. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

That broccoli cheddar would be SO good as a baked potato topper.

Wholesome. Good cooking. Positive energy. Keep tackling life how you approach this channel with love, laughs, and respect. Props on cracking the 100k can’t wait till we hit 500k next

Buying the larger mayonnaise jar is cheaper and more cost effective than buying the smaller squeeze bottle. Handy to have on hand for tuna fish sandwiches, macaroni and potatoes salad. Also great for outer coating for baked boneless, skinless chicken breasts, same as you would use a honey mustard or dijon mustard. Just fyi.😊

@laurafisher6531

6 ай бұрын

In many videos she does mention how buying in bulk is cheaper but not always manageable for people on a tight budget. In one video she did reference a USA website advising on weekly and monthly budget. It was eye opening, on there it mentions the price difference between buying for 1,2,3 or 10 people and the percentage of savings when buying in bulk 😊

@carolynturk-hu7je

6 ай бұрын

​@@laurafisher6531I was not talking about buying in bulk(that would be more than one, right?!). I can get on sale the large Hellmann's mayo for $2.99(including $1 off ecoupon) vs the tiny(may not be Hellmann's mayo at $tree for $1.25). Just making an observation but also from experience being widowed when our son was 4 years old. I am still that person on a tight budget, 25 years later and on a fixed income. I shop the store sales, ecoupons, flyer coupons, use coupons from manufacturers(so many send coupons by mail). We no longer have a $tree in our town, $general, yes and so many things $tree carries they do too and for $1. We even use mayo for grilled cheese, cause if I have it, but no butter(which is super expensive), hey it works!

Excellent. It all looks wonderful. This is the first year I didn't have a ham for Christmas. Now I wish I did. Happy New Year!

Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 😊

That pasta bake really does look good! Thanks for the content

The recipes look good. Merry Christmas girl

The soup, breakfast sandwiches look amazing

I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas 🎄 I hope you have someone to enjoy the holidays with

I really enjoy your channel. I hope you and yours had a very Merry Christmas.

I watched your last video on the egg biscuits, which I decided to make for our Christmas morning breakfast. My family will love them. This last fall I canned my own potatoes and I’ll be making that potato soup real soon. I love quick easy meals and your videos are great for that. Going to try the ham, broccoli noodle bake too. Thanks for sharing these great recipes with us! Merry Christmas to you and Michael 🎄

That was wonderful!!!! Can’t wait to try these recipes!!!! I’ll make sure we have leftover ham!!!😊 Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas Rebecca, thank you for all you give us.

girrrrl!!! you are sooo smart! these are genius!! love them! Merry Christmas to you and your family

Rebecca, my mom and I made the pasta bake tonight with some leftover Christmas ham. I cannot have gluten, so we used gluten free rotini instead of egg noodles and gluten free condensed cream of mushroom soup in place of the country gravy packet. Wow, this was really amazing! We both loved it and almost couldn't stop eating it! Thank you for your videos, especially this one, to help us creatively use the tons of ham leftovers!!

Thank you! 💜 And Merry Christmas! This video looks like another little treasure trove of fine cooking ideas.

I made two batches of the ham and cheese biscuits and a monte-cristo sandwich. The biscuits will come in handy in the morning before I go to work. Thank you for bringing these useful recipes to people. Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas y’all!🎄🎁

You are an inspiration and do an awesome job. Just had the 1st of our Christmas ham so your content was sooo timely. Thanks sooo much

Merry Christmas ! I really enjoy your channel a lot .

Great ideas for our ham this weekend! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 to you !

Merry Christmas! Thanks for sharing your recipes. 🎄💚💚

Ham is one of my favorites too. That's why I buy an extra one when they are on sale so I can try your recipes!

Merry Christmas to you and yours from Canada. :)

Have a wonderful & very Merry Christmas!!

Happy Christmas Eve and Have a Wonderful Christmas !

I am using 2 of these this year and freezing breakfast sandwiches for the future. Thanks!

Love your channel!!! Thanks for sharing your ideas with us!! Merry Christmas!!!

All of your recipes go in my menu. Even the breakfast sandwich recipes. All of them have been awesome

I love all the delicious meals you cook! Merry Christmas Rebecca

your videos are always so relaxing to watch, been looking forward to new ones! thanks for sharing your life w us 💕

Merry Christmas Rebecca thanks for the videos on saving money and eating great

Merry Christmas to you all🤶 🎄

Merry Christmas, & thank you for all the great ideas. I'm having a blast trying easy & new things on a budget. ♥♥♥

I didn’t even know they made Hawaiian bread loaves! I have only seen the Hawaiian rolls. I will have to look for the bread. And I LOVE soup!! Our whole family does! Thank you for the recipes! Merry Christmas!!

@stacyrussell460

7 ай бұрын

Me neither. I've seen the slider rolls & slightly bigger rolls but not the bread. I'm going to have to look for that soon.

Just found your channel! These recipes look so delicious!