Cooking Challenge - Buy The Cheap-ish Things (in Waitrose)

[@AtomicShrimp]

*Errata* - I have a feeling the nutritional analyses are riddled with all sorts of errors

[@Ch1pp007]

Not sure if "riddles" was a joke...

[@AtomicShrimp]

@@Ch1pp007 Oops typo

[@jackeea_]

An errata errata, that's rare!

[@AtomicShrimp]

@@jackeea_ er-er ra-ra ta-ta

[@SailorYen89]

I'd love to see you do one of these where instead of cheap stuff, you pick whatever is "the most interesting" whatever that means. Most "interesting" meat, veg, etc. and then see what you can create with it.

[@raraavis7782]

Yes. Maybe one 'exotic' or unfamiliar main ingredient and a set of 'standard' ingredients, most people will have at home (flour, milk etc). I always struggle coming up with ideas for stuff, that isn't part of my usual repertoire of dishes.

[@Bobbin_Hoode]

Yes! Or perhaps a staple ingredient like bread actually being 'all the ingredients for...' so there's a bit of flex and movement through having, say, flour available. Could limit it with the amount needed for a single loaf or something.

[@morgie39]

I like this idea

[@dragonbrat]

I love this concept. Maybe incorporate one "Weird Thing in a Can".

[@JonnieFarrow]

Could be interesting if it’s Waitrose. I saw an ostrich egg in there once!

[@AjiNoPanda]

Me sitting here thinking Atomic Shrimp's heart must be breaking from having to use pale store tomatoes when there's probably an abundance of nicer ones in his tomato jungle

[@beany1920]

Chuckled at tomato jungle haha

[@kathydodge8028]

Tomato jungle 😂 I have never grown food before, and decided to get 2 cayenne pepper plants and one singular tomato plant to try this year in May. The tomato plant was around 6 inches tall when we got it from the nursery, and my boyfriend (who has a lot of gardening experience) put it in a 6 by 4 foot plot by itself. I balked at him for 'wasting space' and he just looked at me flatly and said, 'Just wait.' In 3 months that plant grew to be a foot taller than I am - it's basically a vine tree. It's like the plant itself is looking down at me, tutting that I didn't believe in it.

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

​@@kathydodge8028My mother kept her tomato plants short but they look like bonsais bursting at the seems with fruit. Each branch is super thick to support the weight of all of these tomatoes it's kind of amazing.

[@heather2493]

@@DieAlteistwiederdabonsai tomatoes? That is brilliant ❤️😊

[@heather2493]

My dad usually grows tomatoes and cayenne peppers every year, but his health hasn’t allowed him to do it this year 😢 this breaks my heart. He’s 87, and his RA and other ailments keeps him from what he loves. 😢

[@julesrippmann1523]

I`m verry happy that the microwave is committed to keeping tradition alive :)

[@aveekbh]

Even if it didn't actually flicker, the text is still obligatory. 😛

[@GIBBO4182]

I used to work with a guy who went through a spell of buying all of his food from Waitrose. He’d go in every couple of days (he lived very close) and he’d only buy what was on the reduced table. He’d have some weird and wonderful food for his lunches at work that he said he ordinarily would never try!

[@Ryusola]

This is actually how I live, I luckily live next to a great trifecta of a large morrisons, a small tesco, a sainsbury (further out but will walk if they have the cheapest eggs and rice that week) and a waitrose, and waitrose is where I go fishing for second discounts and I love trying wacky things from there I get some truly fantastic things when going around 5:30-6pm. And suppliment my cheaper staple foods to whoevers got the best offer that week.

[@GIBBO4182]

​@@Ryusolait's very good if you're local. He'd go in roughly half hour before they closed and get loads of things. Soups were a big thing I always remember. They used to be around £3-4 and he'd get them for £1 and some nice bread for 50p and that'd be his lunch. Loads of different cheeses and meats, really clever idea

[@jhonbus]

When I was in my second year of University a massive Waitrose (full supermarket size) opened just down the road from me. I lived like a king that year on a student budget because I went in at 21:50 every day and bought all the reduced stuff. Eventually they got the hang of ordering the right amount of perishable stuff and the amount of reductions every night dwindled.

[@GIBBO4182]

@@jhonbus he was exactly the same mate. He’d go in late, do his shopping for the next couple of days, go home make his lunch for work and go to bed! Always used to get different breads because he didn’t have any choice, he’d just get what was there!

[@az55544]

YES! I do this and it is always a wonderful adventure. I love Waitrose. They change over even jarred things throughout the seasons. The brand really does provide adventure in food.

[@feralnonbinaryautistic]

Sliced cauliflower and broccoli stalks regularly appear in my stir fries.When my kids were small, they were convinced that these slices were from some special, exotic vegetables. I did nothing to disabuse them of that idea.

[@bethenecampbell6463]

That's a great way to use the less pretty bits. The flavor is there and a little crunch is welcome.

[@tonyascarlett2413]

Broccoli 🥦 stalks are my favorite part.

[@bxmachine]

Poundbury walk round. Yes please.

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

Seconded. Please tell me that there's a Poundland in Poundbury. 😅

[@Terrelli9]

“If you can fit more cheese, why wouldn’t you?” One of the maxims I live by. This needs to be a tshirt with a pizza on it or something.

[@rolfs2165]

I'd put it with a 🧀 or maybe even a few of them (one like that, one blue cheese, one camembert, …). That way it's left up to the reader _what_ you fit more cheese on.

[@robbob1436]

Great idea - although i'd suggest 'pizza' is too obvious a choice for Mr Shrimp Re: cheese.... Maybe as in this video - a bowl of noodles..... or...... a bowl of ice cream.....!!!! ;) Cream.... + Cheese..... - seems obvious now ive made the connection!!

[@looksirdroids9134]

Because there is such a thing as too much cheese. Because some people, while they would like to add more cheese, shouldn't because they will suffer greatly thanks to medical conditions. Because some people like their food to taste of more than cheese. There are reasons. It doesn't need to be made into a tshirt.

[@robbob1436]

@@looksirdroids9134 lol

[@monochromegreyson]

​@@looksirdroids9134May I introduce you to a fun saying? "If it doesn't apply, let it fly." If it doesn't actively harm *anyone* or apply to you, perhaps you are not the audience for the thing in question. I, for one, even with my lactose intolerance, think it would be a fun shirt!

[@mainlyfine]

I'd love to see one of these cooking challenges where ingredients are sourced at an asian supermarket. 😀

[@pattheplanter]

Randomly, roll dice to choose which shelf and again for position on shelf.

[@IamAlmostRealWitch]

that would be so cool! Every time when I go to Asian supermarket I will see so many interesting ingredient but I never know what to do with them.

[@cliffordbradford8910]

Or any ethnic store. England would have Halal (mostly south Asian/middle eastern), Chinese, eastern European, African, Caribbean

[@FishyBoi1337]

The microwave clock flickers!!! We have a return!

[@charylliss3741]

This old Nana from Montana isn't very tech savy, so I don't get into those videos the same way I do your shopping challenges. After 50 years of budgeting groceries for a family, these videos are much more in my"wheel house". And having foraged in the fields and mountains of Montana, those trips are also lovely and sentimental ❤

[@ColleenMarble]

One herb, one spice, one sauce ... one love. Honestly I watch every second of your videos instead of skipping past because of stuff like that. I don't want to miss anything!

[@tduncan4875]

I extend my mince with grated carrot, it is unidentifiable once it is well cooked but it increases the volume and adds sweetness, its brilliant. I love cauliflower too, I'm going to try this

[@bern84]

Yes! I like to add minced mushrooms and lentils to extend my mince. It works well

[@bernadettemccarthyflahive5357]

I think it’s good to brown the mince before adding anything watery like vegetables to get the maximum flavour and texture.

[@DIYTAO]

I think some crushed noodles would have worked on Breakfast patties, but have not tested idea myself. It's not so far from breadcrumbs or similar paddings.

[@simonlongley6387]

Lovely to see that, although you have a new kitchen, something still flickers on camera 😄

[@belisarius6949]

"That will add sugar to the whole deal which helps it to brown" Its stuff like this why I love the cooking vids. Theres so much stuff, so many small things that are really important to cooking that I have no idea how else I would know them. Unless I had years of experience myself or something. I was born a guy, my Mum never taught me any cooking. Told me to get a wife to cook for me instead and reprimanded me anytime I was trying to make meals for myself in the kitchen. Its only now I've gotten to learn cooking and your channel has been a huge inspiration to start with that, and in the spirit of the channel I try to do alot of experimenting, often unsucessfully, but thats okay because failure is the best teacher. Thank you so much for inspiring me in that sense, I couldnt be more grateful.

[@ttttt44]

Exactly why I love these videos too. The only reason I've ever attempted anything with dough or pastry is because of being inspired by his videos

[@marsf6080]

It's always astonishing to me that this sort of attitude still exists nowadays, yeah. I know a couple families where if the mother or daughter of the family went off in vacation or had an accident, the father would starve because they just never learned to cook because it's the woman's job. Absurd. Sexism aside, it's just outright helplessness- surely the "manly" thing is to know how to survive and thus to cook? Glad to know you're doing better with all of it nowadays.

[@belisarius6949]

@@marsf6080 I just cant imagine that affecting someone positively. Like...We all make fun of rich people for how helpless and out of touch they are. How they dont know how to pay at a gas station, how they have someone else do everything for them, even things we would consider basic tasks or rudimentary knowledge. But theres an entire generation of people like that in the lower and middle class too, a whole generation of men that cant feed themselves because cooking was "a womans job". And those who tried cooking anyway were ridiculed and harassed. Its an embarassing footnote in human history to be frank.

[@Maria_Erias]

@@belisarius6949 It's funny, because most of the people I know who actually know how to cook are guys. They learned it from their moms and dads both. Whereas almost every woman I know doesn't know how to cook and never bothered to learn because they didn't want to fit into a "sexist stereotype".

[@joshuagraham1800]

You have a cute pfp :3

[@Josh-bd3mt]

“Prince Charles before he got the power up” LMAO

[@rachelmatthews3070]

Before he got his magic hat... 😂

[@rosemarymee]

@@rachelmatthews3070 sitting on the Wee Magic Stane.😊

[@xingcat]

Just a moment of appreciation for…your kitchen tile! In a world of white subway tiles, it’s great to see all those colors together.

[@stevesays1]

Thank you for another awesome video. Sorry if it's already been said but the fact waitrose consider artichoke hearts to be essential enough for the essential range, that really cracked me up!

[@Audrey-el8qj]

The idea about how failure can be because we forget to repeat past successes is food for thought! Also, love these challenges.

[@azurehanyo]

Coincidentally, I had realized just a few days ago the KZbin algorithm was not showing me Babatunde’s videos and just rewatched most of the collabs and wondered when the next one would be. Off to watch him taste the noodles!

[@carolmartin1298]

I kept thinking... What in the world is he making with corn juice, blackberries, cheese, and noodles all mixed together?? I'm continually entertained and learn so much from all your videos Mike!

[@chezmoi42]

It looked to me as if he was making a parody version of the mince. "Wait, what's this? It's sweet!"

[@Scott3387]

I love the way that even Waitrose prices are still way cheaper than most American prices that are quoted on their videos. Outside of alcohol (damn you VAT/duties!) we live in a fairly good paradise of full world selection of goods all year but it's also proportionally very cheap. Also love the way you basically created high fructose corn syrup.

[@oz_jones]

Food is subsidized. What you save on food, you make up in heating, petrol etc. I live in Finland and am jealous too. 🤷‍♂️

[@mmmmmmolly]

I'm glad you exist Mr. Shrimp

[@SEEvans1236]

excellent video made even better by those expertly installed tiles in the kitchen, fine workmanship!

[@philtrauferson]

I don't know why but I burst out laughing at "I'm just going to have another rummage through the cauliflower and see what else I can find that looks nice". What a sentence.

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

I'd hate for Mr. Shrimp to be in LA and have to challenge himself to the cheapest stuff at Erewhon.

[@menacherie]

😂

[@LAactor]

Erewhon is just nohwerE spelled backwards -LA local.

[@alexcarter8807]

Or the cheapest stuff anywhere in the US. Brit food prices seem to be 1/2 or less of US prices.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

I love these videos, because they're usually fun to watch and I enjoy your enthusiasm, creativity, and positivity about the ingredients you get and the dishes you make with those ingredients. My wife and I both thank you for your work, as we usually come together with dinner and enjoy it as a bit of a "date night" in for us. I hope everyone is doing well and having a great day. ❤

[@beardlessodin945]

I derive so much pleasure from these videos. I also love your garden, foraging, scam baiting and Slow TV videos, but your budget challenges are my favourite. It might be that as a Maritime Canadian, we have similar tastes and item choices, as nearly everyone here in New Scotland (Nova Scotia) until relatively recently was of Scotch, Irish, English or Welsh descent (Beans on Toast, Sunday Roast, Fish and Chips because spuds don’t come in ships...?) or because our food prices are quite high here and it would be a triumph to get a single staple like a bag of flour on sale for $5 CAD (£2.82 GBP) and tax isn’t calculated in before sale like your VAT. I understand exchange rate and the cost of housing and whatnot and how generally it all evens out, but I just love how you and your great nation does food (and _did_ food during the decade plus of rationing that the UK had to go through during wartime and in postwar times) and it brings me back to the halcyon days of my childhood in the late 80s and early 90s when I could look at a store shelf and still see things for sale in cents. Seeing you buy something for 39 pence is satisfying and since cents are so inconsequential here that we did away with pennies over a decade ago and round to the nearest nickel, it’s a throwback to times gone by. I thank you for your very niche yet very enjoyable and calming KZbin content and the fact that so many of the little things in life brings you so much pleasure and joy as you’ve said many times before in your Comment Positivity sections makes the same thing happen to me. I now find myself watching bees pollinate, watching dragonflies lay eggs, learning more about foraging (just for fun) and other simple leisurely activities that I may have bypassed in my younger days. You’ve improved my life, Mr. Shrimp, and I wish you and Jenny and Eva all the best now and in the future! Yours Very Sincerely and Respectfully, -Wotan with Peach Fuzz

[@soggicooki]

You are always so detailed and rich in talking about the history of things, even down to the history of buildings or a toasting fork. I hope you know this is so impactfull and one day someone will live in this very house you own now. They'll walk into the beautiful kitchen, talk about the funky colour choices and they'll head over to the other end... They'll start talking about the rich history of the place... And how the last owner couldn't own a single digital clock without it flickering on camera. Ah, what a conversation starter for a party.

[@kermitthepog7063]

I've been more specific about why I love this series, and your channel in general, in plenty of other comments, but let just again say cheers and please keep them coming. There's something especially pleasant and familliar about the supermarket footage combined with that music, and those parts always make me smile. Like a cup of tea after a long day.

[@Mounhas]

During Covid Waitrose was the easiest store to get deliveries from & by judicious selecting of the Essential range & reduced items I never found anything to complain about. Their full price produce like Normandy butter was equivalent to Tesco/Sainsbury. Still use them now but never been in the Truro store though for the free coffee/paper, 2 hour trip!

[@heather2493]

That new oven… makes me happy every time you use it Mr. Shrimp… that pocket door (for lack of a better, or maybe more accurate, term) is absolute genius ❤ Your updated kitchen is just lovely

[@joandarc1609]

i love going on a binge of atomic shrimp videos every few months. The topics are so diverse but his personality makes them all interesting.

[@oliverg6864]

You didn't buy baked beans, but you made them instead! The baked beans lives!

[@sayhello5377]

Meanwhile, over here in the United States, I went to the grocery store earlier this week, and purchased 1 gallon of milk, a bunch of bananas, a pack of chicken thighs, one box of dry pasta, a jar of sun-dried, tomatoes, and a bag of spinach, and it cost me $56. 😢

[@bubblegumplastic]

That's insane :( how are you managing to feed yourself all month

[@alexcarter8807]

@@bubblegumplastic A lot of Americans get "food stamps" called EBT these days, an old 1930s program by the US Dept. of Agriculture, set up to help the farmers, that incidentally help the poor but in the US no one helps the poor on purpose. There are food banks. There are people getting by on packaged ramen. Plus, @sayhello5377 might be making a high salary and not need any of those resources, however many of us do.

[@terranceparsons5185]

I know, it's disgraceful isn't it! I was thinking his ingredients would cost $40 where I live, about twice as much! And all the supermarkets crying poor! Profits are down! BS

[@logansomething]

@AtomicShrimp I've been following you for the better part of a decade and your channel has gotten me through some absolutely heinous times. You're a comforting place in a sometimes chaotic world. Thank you for sharing your world with us.

[@Demonbane775]

I used to fall asleep to your scambaiting videos, then started actually watching these while doing hobby crafting. I've worked food service for many years, and while I enjoy the work and work for a non-corporate entity, it's beaten the love of home cooking out of me. Your cooking content has brought some of that love back. Just wanted thank you for doing what you do and (at least it seems) enjoying every minute of it.

[@bern84]

26:20 Shrimp: “Eva will you be quiet!?” Me: “You have to pay the cheese tax first!”

[@trovey02]

Eva is a little bit bigger version of my dog, I have to pay cheese taxes all the time if it was her choice.😂

[@Maria_Erias]

"Is that enough cheese?" In my experience, the answer is always: "Of course not."

[@rosemaxwell36]

Saying "Well Cheesecake is a thing" while tearing a Camembert into a bowl of noodles, sweetcorn and blackberries is peak Atomic Shrimp and I am HERE for it.

[@ClovissenpaiDotR]

I've been binging the soul out of your cooking channel videos lately, this was a really nice surprise to see pop up! My favourite videos from you

[@Maria_Erias]

His budget cooking series really has been a big help for me for planning my own meals. I tend to do my grocery shopping planned out for a two-week stretch (due to how my paydays work out), so I'll buy quite a load of groceries in one go. The way that Shrimp approaches meals with creativity and inventiveness makes it a lot easier for me to come up with meals of my own. The ones that work, I write out in a notebook. The ones that don't, I write in a different notebook, along with what I did and didn't like about it.

[@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874]

It's great to see the creativity. I like how you don't let the challenge beat your ability to think outside the box.

[@wotcpunk103]

Mr Atomic Shrimp, your creativity and innovation in these videos is inspiring. I look forward to all of your uploads, but your cooking challenges are some of my favorites!

[@lwoods507]

So interesting to see how far ahead your blackberries are, compared to ours up in Scotland, the ones on the local canal path won't be ripe for another couple weeks yet.

[@pixie706]

Ours in kelso area are just starting so the season is traveling your way😊

[@drunkenhobo8020]

Was about to say exactly the same thing. Tried one of the ones at work yesterday and it was most certainly not ripe!

[@raraavis7782]

In Germany, the season is already over, despite the cool, rainy early summer. There was maybe a week of abundance and then boom, that was that. Couldn't find even a single edible one anymore, last week 🫤

[@nat3007]

Ours are still very much green here still think another 3 weeks possibly.

[@emilyg1539]

@@raraavis7782 I think we're coming to the end of the season here in Texas- because they are getting more expensive. I've never seen them growing wild around here. (Too hot, probably.)

[@huwadamson]

Waitrose is a tough one for this kind of budget challenge. But back when I was in the UK, I made my own little food challenge of sorts. I'd take my camp kitchen, go to a supermarket, and buy all the ingredients for a meal, which I'd cook and eat in the park. Crucially, I needed to have nearly nothing left over - the idea was to make something exciting and delicious, but only to buy exactly as much as I needed, because if I were hiking, anything I didn't eat I'd have to carry. Waitrose worked very well for me in that regard. Lots of vegetables sold by weight, lots of meats sliced to order, and individual portions of bread. You could even get a small portion of milk from the coffee machine with a My Waitrose card, and that worked well to make a creamy soup.

[@phronsiekeys]

PLEASE do your take on Poundbury. I would love to see the place and hear your point of view

[@SeraphimKnight]

These might be my favorite video series of yours. You can especially see that in this video the series is starting to mature and you're finding your footing and especially with your sauce and spice allowance at the beginning of this video you've really figured out how to maximize the potential. The creativity in using ingredients at hand to make a variety of dishes is commendable.

[@SkepticalHedgehog]

That noodle bowl was 10/10 in presentation even if it was only a 5/10. It looked really appetizing! You eat with your eyes first!

[@FriendlyKitten]

It really is amazing what you do with so little Ser Shrimp. Appreciate the inspiration, been having troubles with feeling an appetite, and looking at you putting these challenges in place, tickles a sensibility. One can only hope to think outside what is conventional, and start living life that just vibes. Thank you for doing all you do

[@JamiecatOG]

Hey Mike, I think your hand blender needs a personality since it appears so often in your videos, may I suggest a pair of googly eyes and the name of 'Sir-Mix-a-Lot' as an idea 😂 Absolutely adore all of your content and I especially enjoy any appearance of Eva ❤ Thank you!

[@tonyascarlett2413]

Brilliant idea 💡 😊

[@dudemulligan]

Your new kitchen is amazing! I don't know if you changed anything else, but I feel that the sound quality is noticeably better in there. Love to the three of you from Chicago, where we also believe that if you're adding cheese to something you should probably add some more ❤

[@harrymetsally86]

This is hands down my favourite KZbin series from my favourite channel. Thank you for putting the time and effort into making such educational (and highly entertaining) content.

[@dylantrinder1571]

I’m so glad that the clock on your new microwave flickers on camera, the new kitchen is keeping ’The Shrimp’ thing.

[@Polarised_perplexed]

So pleased to see this. Love this series

[@shaynecarter-murray3127]

"Before he got the powerup" is my favorite line from any of your vids

[@steviegallagher1801]

those tiles in the kitchen are lovely

[@deweydyer0411]

As Eva's lawyer, you owe her restitution for failing to pay the cheese tax.

[@SWIMMINGDOWN]

Yes, arriving at the sum of 1 regular cheese portion per count of emotional stress. Sadly, there is no world of cheese to properly recompense Eva for the world of hurt she feels when her human fails to obey Fundamental Dog Law. He'll have to buy all of the Camembert from Waitrose to make up for this heinous transgression.

[@bcostin]

The leaves and cores from cauliflower are my favorite parts. They are perfect for ramen.

[@romer_cze8771]

You have done probably the most experimentation with food and recipes than any other channel on youtube. Love your videos

[@explosivelybrilliant]

Loving the look of the new kitchen! I dont know how exactly to describe it, but it just perfectly matches your general "vibe", which when thinking about it makes a lot of sense, as you were very directly involved in the whole project... Anyhow, I digress! Kitchen is great and makes me smile 😅

[@evelinabiolan8785]

YAYYY another cooking challange!! I live for these 🎉

[@kathyweddle8400]

Mike, I love the new kitchen…worth the wait.

[@AIBullsheeeet]

Only seen the thumbnail and know this is Poundbury Waitrose. Such a beautiful village that so many locals hate lol

[@phildxyz]

It's weird, but I really like it :)

[@kayew5492]

It's known locally as Toy Town. I've been through there a few times, and there's a strange vibe to the place, a surreal new/oldness that is just odd. It's so different to all the other villages and towns nearby, it looks and feels more like a stage set than a real place.

[@emilyg1539]

@@kayew5492 There's a town called Helen in Georgie (the US Georgia) that is similar- it's designed to look like a Bavarian village. It LOOKS German, there are a lot of German restaurants and shops, but no Germans... cute, but weird.

[@bigbazzus]

Oh don't worry, I'm not local and I hate it

[@raraavis7782]

​@@emilyg1539 It's such an amusing thought for me, that other countries would build a pretend German village as tourist attraction. I feel, I need to go there and troll unsuspecting Americans by loudly and abruptly addressing them in German 😅

[@dimitriimanbaew621]

Congratulations on the new kitchen. Looks nice.

[@redacculous]

"If you can fit more cheese, why wouldn't you?" will be my epitaph

[@jonathanfinan722]

Epitaph.

[@peterprime2140]

Redacculous was later found dead from Cheesitis.

[@boshowa0840]

I mean it be true! (For me anyway, as I love cheese.)

[@Ixarus6713]

​@@jonathanfinan722 Epitaph.

[@Hotrod6045]

Atomic Shrimp: one love Me: ONE HEART

[@Rouverius]

Oh, Marley! I thought he meant Bono! Anyway, no matter if it's "One Heart" or "One Blood" 🎵We got one life we ought to do what you should. 🎵Sayin' give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right.

[@koupenchan886]

Shrimp, these cooking challenges are my favorite videos of yours. I’m always happy to see a new upload because you’re a source of comfort for me during tough times. Thank you for being a friend I’ve never met. ❤

[@dajosh42069]

The new kitchen is looking beautiful, my man!! Well worth the wait!

[@karenrichardson2801]

You are a font of useful techniques and ideas. Your noodles and blackberry/apple baked pudding reminded me of Roald Dahl/Quentin Blake illustrated children's stories. Good fun as usual. Love to Eva.

[@Veilamia]

you have no idea how much joy this series brings to me, thanks so much for doing it again.

[@lifecyclesartanddesign2696]

Beautiful tile work Jenny!

[@selkiewife]

I've been trying to work on my attention span lately and these videos are a tremendous help. I turn off my other screen, sit with a nice coffee in the morning, and watch this uninteruppted for a full 40 minutes. Your way of thinking around the limitations you have and also explaining them, and exploring the mistakes, are incredibly soothing to watch and frankly riveting. Thank you Mr Shrimp!

[@2learn4ever]

Courageous, audacious, ludicrous, inspirational, all in one video. If I'd had your apple, blackberry and corn coulis I'd just have added it to ice cream and that would be that! Great challenge.

[@Mysticalzelda]

Loved seeing the new kitchen in action! Did you know in the Netherlands traditionally we often use that de-glaze water after you bake meat. We just call it jus (gravy), of course it isn't really that, but the traditional meal of cooked potato, meat and veggies uses the gravy for the potato's. Not something I recommend, I haven't eaten the "traditional" AVG (Aardappels vlees groente, potato's meat veggie) since I was a kid. Even adding traditional gravy makes it so much better. Also when you started using noodles for dessert, I almost thought you'd make a fruit pasta salad. Pasta salads are pretty popular in Germany/the Netherlands. I also have an idea for a challenge, not sure if it's already mentioned before, but maybe an interesting restriction would be a food allergy. It would be interesting to compare, what things might have secretly hidden certain foods that you wouldn't be able to eat. Also the price differences. I know celiac disease is a bit of an extreme example, but even things like peanuts are often processed in similar factories.

[@ryanklosak7902]

I think an interesting side quest idea would be to possibly make a treat for Eva with your chosen ingredients. Assuming the ingredients would make a healthy snack for her, of course.

[@raraavis7782]

That's a fun idea. Dogs can eat quite a variety of things, I think...as long as there's no salt and spices involved. I've seen people make very creative birthday cakes for horses. Of course the horses didn't care, but it's fun for the humans 😅

[@eloquentsarcasm]

I am always amazed at the architecture there, utterly beautiful old buildings, everything here in American big cities/suburbs is drab, dull, grey boxes. Luckily I live in a smallish town that still has elements from the late 1800's downtown, but all the new buildings being put up are ugly modern/post modern drek. That said, another cooking video from Mr. Mike, always a good day! I cruise the markdown sections every time I go shopping, much like you've discovered, you can create some fun and actually tasty food from odds and ends.

[@Stikkelsbær]

Thanks. I always enjoy these shopping/cooking challenges. I particularly like it when one of the ingredients you end up with is a flour of some kind because you tend to be quite creative with that as one of your core ingredients. When I lived in the UK, I was introduced to the world of English shopping chains. The two closest to my dorm were an on-campus Costcutter and a somewhat nearby Tesco. I often had to make due with a run to Costcutter, despite their extremely annoying in-store advertising and limited stock. Half the store was devoted to alcohol sales and office supplies. But it was possible to cobble together meals from what was there.

[@morgie39]

You should just hide the "this clock flickers on camera" in every video but in random places 😂

[@damienomen68]

I want a splurge buy....with some very , very crippling & strange restrictions. Big fan for years Mike.

[@cardiffst]

‘The microwave clock flickers on camera’ *chef’s kiss gif*

[@bethenecampbell6463]

Love to watch all your creativity bloom with these challenges. I aways learn something that helps me figure out a plan B when plan A for Sunday lunch goes.off the rails.

[@alexcarter8807]

Coming back to watch some more .... astonishing how much cheaper food is in the UK. Those are the prices of 40 years ago in the US.

[@WillSpencer0417]

Mr. Shrimp, your cooking videos are my most favorite kind on this channel. Please keep doing them! Your content is so therapeutic.

[@andrewheavey4813]

I'd be excited to see you take on the challenge of creating fancy dishes like beef Wellington on a budget, or, on the flip side, elevate a simple dish like fish and chips into something gourmet.

[@bettygraham818]

I remember when Poundbury was being built and it reminded me a of a child's building of wooden blocks. Having left Dorset in 2004, I have no idea how it looks now but it was a strange settlement in the early days

[@pimmspimms5462]

It still is. We spent the last year in Poundbury and it was one of the worst of our life. Dorchester is a dying town and it is becoming very down at heel. Poundbury, itself, feels almost artificial - there’s something unnatural and jarring about it, as though you are living on a film set. The build quality of the property isn’t good. We had problems with mould, sewage, leaks etc. We were desperate to escape and felt complete relief when we did.

[@bettygraham818]

@@pimmspimms5462 The comparison to a film set is very accurate .You have identified what I wasn't able to describe. How sad that Dorchester is going the same way as my town of birth ,Bournemouth. It sounds unfaithful to Dorset , the one I remember, but I am much happier in Wales.

[@AlanDoherty-v5e]

Love the videos Mr Shrimp, and the new kitchen looks great, a well deserved present to your self and Mrs Shrimp. Cant wait to see more cooking videos

[@Jhud69]

Egg noodles are supposed to be cut into short strands, that what we use in some soups in Poland. It's not exactly pasta after all so I think you're fine there! I liked this episode a lot since I have never heard of Waitrose before.

[@arandomsquirrel6433]

You're so inventive, its really rather inspirational. I've definitely taken more risks in the kitchen after watching these challenges.

[@zerocasualteas]

This was simply delightful & inspires me to try more experiments in the kitchen! Thank you! 🎉

[@Moewenfels]

The new kitchen looks so nice. Especially those colorful tiles.

[@paulacnote]

Love the integrity the work but also that you always make me laugh❤

[@jaegrant6441]

I should be braver with my brassica leaves!! What a great idea!!! I love the stems!

[@Jade-fu7oy]

I love these types of cooking vids since they show examples of meals you can make with little money. I hope you feel better too.

[@beaubrent]

I really appreciate the work you put into these. Not a lot of it looks very appetising to me, but then I am a picky eater. Thanks for doing this.

[@JEANNEHUNTER-q5t]

I love the cauliflower used 4 ways. That's frugal and creative thinking!

[@SierraNovemberKilo]

Like you, I initially thought what on earth are you going to do there. Then, as you started cooking the breakfast dish I had a culinary flashback to my student days. I literally used to scour the local libraries for cook books with recipes suited to extreme budgeting and kept a little notebook. So there I found 5 recipes the first being Mock Duck which would easily accommodate your ingredients. It was the taste of this that came to mind as you cooked. Weird eh?

[@EggBastion]

I make pretty good mock duck with chicken thighs and liberal amounts of soy sauce If I can get really big udon-ish noodles too I can get pretty close to my local takeaway's 'signature' dish

[@gregh378]

When I lived in Harborne as a student people thought I was mad for going to Waitrose. I reckon being hawkish (in 2005), you could really pick up top food for a low price

[@kitticampbell3522]

The sausage thing is a fab idea. I'm going to make them for a classic sausage and mash. Just love your challenges. I always come up with some weird and wonderful ideas myself and love watching you make something very different.

[@brancheternal]

Broccoli stalk is also another good vegetable (with the stringy bits removed). Much like kohlrabi. Also, I would like to say that your new kitchen back wall reminds me so much of a collection of satellite image thumbnails; I was just staring at it much of the time. Even the red tiles are not out of place - they are like false-color NIR images.

[@LukaSauperl]

After many years of observing, I believe it would be fair to conclude that the answer to the question: "Eva will you be quiet?", is most commonly "Bark bark bark!!".