Discover how I created a delicious dairy, soy, and gluten free meal using affordable ingredients from Dollar General.
Creating Allergy-Friendly Meals on a Budget: A Dollar General Recipe
This week, I decided to challenge myself by creating a dairy, soy, and gluten free recipe using ingredients from Dollar General. This is especially helpful for individuals living in food deserts, where access to good grocery stores is limited. For some people, Dollar General may be their only option for shopping, so I hope this recipe can be a useful resource for them.
My name is Maddie, and I am on a weight loss journey while also trying to conceive. On my channel, I share videos related to diet, exercise, food, and all things weight loss and body related. I provide weekly content, so make sure to subscribe for more! In this video, I share my favorite chili recipe and document my weight loss progress, goals, and current diet.
Throughout the video, I take viewers through the process of shopping at Dollar General, preparing the meal, and tasting the final product. Music by Kevin MacLeod and Lukrembo adds a fun touch to the video, while fonts like Amatic SC and Lobster Two enhance the visual experience. Overall, this video serves as a helpful resource for creating affordable and healthy meals using ingredients from Dollar General.
Dollar General Delights: Crafting a Healthy and Allergen-Free Feast
Hi my name is mie and I’m on a journey to lose weight and to have a baby I have lived in a wide variety of cities some teeny tiny and some massive giggy immediate derailment immediate despite the fact that I’ve lived in Fairly large cities at least in my opinion I’ve never lived anywhere.
That has had a Whole Foods a Trader Joe’s not even a Costco but do you know what’s been in every single place I’ve ever lived Dollar General I could be on an Uncharted Island full of scratches dirt mosquito bites and I could peel back the bushes and there would be a Dollar General in.
The middle of that Island I’m convinced of it I don’t know how I don’t know where I don’t know why but I’m convinced of it in fact I once lived next door to a Dollar General true story the point is Dollar General is not some place that I would associate with health if I thought to myself I’m going to make a healthy dinner I would not think let me run to.
Dollar General in fact I rarely go to Dollar General but obviously 2024 has been the year of me trying to get my health in check and I’ve read a fair amount of books and listened to a lot of healthy people who actually know what they’re talking about and a lot of healthy people say that people with PCOS should avoid gluten dairy and soy I.
Currently don’t avoid any of those however somewhere down the line whenever me and Henry are actively trying for a baby once I’m no longer on medication that inhibits trying for a baby I may have to cut some of those things for my diet to increase the quality of my eggs and so I want to see just how easy or difficult that might be at a place like.
Dollar General so I’ve decided to challenge myself to make a dairyfree gluten-free soyf free meal with ingredients from Dollar General those are the rules the only caveat I guess I would give is that I am going to use the seasoning I have at home we have seasoning at home we don’t need that dollar general seasoning but seriously I.
There’s just no point in spending the extra money in my humble opinion and that will include olive oil I will use my own olive oil and Seasonings but everything else will have to come from Dollar General I don’t have a plan I’m just going to go in there and see what speaks to me and I’m going to bring you guys along and then we’ll cook something.
Together and try it out and see how good or bad it is so uh wish me luck because uh I don’t know what I’m doing all right let’s go okay so this is not the aisle I want to film in because uh there’s somebody in the produce aisle but we are going to start with produce because I’m going to start with that see if I can find.
Anything and build from that this might end up being like a vegetarian type of thing mhm all right let’s thank you the frozen food section was slim pickings with a lot of processed stuffs like hot dogs lunch meat and pizza I did find some frozen vegetables that I ended up not using but it was good to have a healthy option I also.
Found some of those one lb rolls of ground beff and now I too will smell like beef I smell like I smell like be so I guess I’m making chili okay they actually had a really solid Bean selection so I felt like making chili was a no-brainer I like kidney beans in my chili but the kidney beans at Dollar General straight up had corn.
Syrup in them and while that was fine for this challenge it’s not the best in general I don’t know if yeast extract is glutenfree or not oh it says gluten-free right here perfect it could be lying though can I see your phone okay so this says glutenfree but it has yeast extract in it but so we Googled it and the top.
Result says it’s not gluten-free yeast extract and then the second one says it is so we’re going to get it and we might not use it but all of them have yeast extract I’m pretty sure all right so my total came out to 1748 here she is honestly in this economy that’s not bad I mean that.
Includes the ground meat I got so it’s not horrible um this chili is you know I’m going to have to black out the freaking address at the very top this chili that I’m going to make is begging for onions but uh we did not there were no onions to be had I’m shot they didn’t at least have some frozen onions but alas no onions it’ll it’ll be a decent.
Enough chili it won’t be the best chili I’ve ever made the next day hello all right it is time to cook this chili I’ve put the ingredients here although you also saw me buy them I’m going be real this chili is begging for some diced onion and some diced bell pepper I do put bell pepper in my chili in fact I’ll link my favorite chili.
Recipe down below because it is so good I I also don’t consume very much red meat um my cholesterol thanks me but um yeah I just I don’t so this will be my red meat maybe I consume it about once a week maybe if that so we’re doing red meat and stuff we’re working with what we have but I’m a fan of a turkey chili no one asked Dollar General does sell.
Minced onions so I will be taking advantage and putting a fair amount in there um but other than that this is going to be a very basic be bones chili I’m curious as to how it’s going to compare I don’t think it’s going to be amazing but I don’t think it’s going to be bad either so let’s let’s see and I’ll be honest.
With you guys if I don’t like it you know the experiment is if I can make something that’s like edible not the best dish I’ve ever made all right let’s do this all right she is simmering so give her another stir make sure nothing’s like sticking on the.
Bottom or anything do a little that and then I am going to turn her on low and I think I’ll do like part ially covered if that’s wrong I don’t want to be right I’m just kidding if that’s wrong I’m literally freestyling this and I don’t know I don’t really want it to cook down I just want the flavors to.
Other those Dollar General flavors just really need to get to know each other all right I’ll let you guys know how it tastes here she is in all her glory I did space and add some avocado on top and uh you know didn’t think about the fact that like May that’s not from Dollar Tree so we’ll try some with without it first let’s give it a.
Go that’s good it’s prettyy it’s kind of weird oh it’s spicy yeah you have to say what you add to it I did add some cayenne but not that much I wonder if those beans and mild chili sauce were a lie and it was spicy I don’t ate it I don’t hate it either it’s like it’s got like a weird like thick texture mhm thick with two.
Seed that’s probably that’s a artifact of the chili sauce I actually drained some of it without thinking cuz I’m so used to like regular beans where you drain and rinse and so I did that I don’t know what I was thinking that’s okay so I drained some of it it’s good though yeah it’s solid it’s not my favorite um definitely prefer the turkey.
I do prefer I love the turkey all right but yeah if uh I’m stck having to buy my Grocers at Dollar General I can get away with this yeah yeah what would you rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 I’d say this is a 7 and a half maybe a 7.7 he’s very generous I would say that this is like a 6.5 to a seven I’ve eaten a lot of average chili in my time this has got.
More it’s got more spice to it got more flavor I seasoned the hell out of it and I also um added a shitload of like those dried minced onions to try to make up for the fact that I didn’t have actual onion mhm also kind of was lamenting not having jalapeno either and I guess I shouldn’t lament that so there you have.
It it’s it’s good will I make this recipe again no cuz your girl is not a fan of the red meat but you know what I’m going to eat it which is really what you want from a meal so I realized that by making the this video I have inadvertently weighed in on the whole do beans belong in chili thing cuz in Texas they say that they.
Don’t but I’m going to let you guys in on a little secret here chili without beans is just a weird meat sauce it’s not chili you heard it here first okay so if you like that video smash that dislike button I’m just kidding um like comment subscribe it really helps out the growth of my.
Channel don’t hate me for putting beans in my chili I think it’s delicious and um hope you guys have a great day bye
