the Youtube Generation

As part of my research into food and money, I was looking for documentaries on the topic. Youtube was a surprisingly interesting source for newsclips, and low tech homemade videos as well as infomercial-like videos and other random things.

I knew that there were cooking "shows" and I was specifically looking for things like that which might concentrate on inexpensive food preparation.

I liked this video by Bethenny Frankel which has a very flexible and easy recipe for a brown rice breakfast dish. Although I generally eat oatmeal, if one is on a fixed budget, there may be times when it isn't possible to buy both oatmeal and rice and most of us are probably not going to want to eat oatmeal as a grain for lunch or dinner. So, for those times when you might have to pick one or the other, having a variety of flexible recipes is really useful.




Another nice easy rice dish is the salad in the video below (please ignore the ads, I am in no way related to the optifast company). They list this as a side dish but it could be a main course as well. The recipe has a lot of ingredients and I haven't worked out how much it would end up costing but it uses only a small amount of any one ingredient and makes several servings. The big flaw? She recommends making it 24-48 hours ahead of serving. Yikes, I'm a bit too much into instant gratification for that!



Since I seem to be in a rice recipe kick, here is a great video from the New York Time. Yet another very flexible recipe. Much to my surprise, The New York Times has a number of videos which are entertaining and are for recipes that end up being quite cheap to make.



Here is a basic fried rice recipe.