 Well hello friends welcome back to my channel. It's dinner time so I am going to be putting together one of my go-to dinners. I use these noodles. I just really like them. I already decanted them into a different container obviously but this is the brand it is. It's the Rosini Healthy Harvest 100% whole grain. Typically a box of this is about two dollars. This is going to be kind of like on a budget obviously. I do have my Aldi receipt which is where I got all the rest of my stuff from. So I got two containers of mushrooms. Those were $1.59 a piece. I also got two containers of their zucchini and these were 99 cents a piece like per container. I also got these vine on cherry tomatoes which are three dollars and 69 cents for one. I don't know if this is a pint no I don't know whatever this is the container. So anyway this is what I put. I am going to be showing you actually or showing you showing me actually cooking it too but I'm going to wash everything up and start cutting prep everything and then everything is going to go in a saute pan and then at the end I am going to boil up my noodles. I've done this with rice, quinoa, all different types of things too but this basically turns into my sauce even though it has like lots of chunks and yummy veggies. Obviously if you like other vegetables you can use that too. The reason for me it becomes into a sauce is because it seems like the cherry tomatoes gives off enough juice and I don't really need like a sauce to congeal the pasta together. So anyway that's it but let me get to chopping and I'll explain more when I feel the need to explain more. It's a free thing and I'm gonna switch camera angles and show you guys my cooking so I will be back. Okay so this is the weirdest camera angle and I hope everything stays consistent and yes I'm wearing pajama pants because you know retired life. Anyway I'm gonna turn my oven on here and I am going to put in this is my saute pan I have actually some water over here already for my pasta noodles when I'm ready for them. I'm going to take a little bit of this extra virgin Mediterranean olive oil. I did get this from Uldi maybe about a year ago. I think when I moved in here so it's been a little less than a year but I don't know how much this was but most people have olive oil on hand. I like to put a little bit of this down just so things don't like stick right away and then I like to put my veggies in order of how long it takes to cook them so my zucchini is a little bit harder and that's going to take a little bit longer to cook down and then after that I'll do my mushrooms and then at the very end I throw in all of my tomatoes so let's get the zucchini going in here. I will let this sit and steam with the cover on for just a little while. This stuff honestly the zucchini takes a little bit longer to cook down but I'm going to keep checking in on this about every five minutes just to see where it's at and then I'll start adding more ingredients a little bit later and once I start adding more ingredients then I'm going to turn this water on and get that going as well so I'm going to turn the camera off for now because nobody wants to sit and watch this cook down so I'll be back in just a few minutes. All right so this is starting to cook a little bit it is definitely sizzling and the olive oil is pretty well coated on here already so what I'm going to do now is put in all of my mushrooms. I normally don't make this big of a batch but the veggies and the produce looked so good at Aldi when I went the other day that I just couldn't resist so this definitely will last me quite a while in leftovers so I don't want to cook this down too far because when I reheat this later on it will get really mushy and I don't really mind the mush um I just don't want it to be like super mush the first day because then like on day five it's going to be like really really mush so let me go grab my mushrooms so these will cook down pretty well very very quickly put my cover on so they steam up a little bit better and then I'll put my tomatoes in at the very very end but right now you can't really see it it's off camera this pot of water whoop I can't show you very well this pot of water I'm gonna start get this thing going so I can put in my pasta in just a few moments all right so now that this has had a few minutes to cook down like I said the mushrooms cook down fairly fast just because they're an easy veggie to cook and this needs a little bit more moisture now so tomato time so I'm gonna dump all these bad boys in and this will give the concoction a little bit more moisture and the tomatoes honestly I probably should have bought more but it's fine the tomatoes add a lot of juice to this and they will cook down and they will not look like this anymore they'll be pretty deflated almost is what they look like but I don't mind it's kind of like when you just cook down tomatoes anyways they kind of just look deflated they don't keep their the bounce I guess so I'm just kind of kind of fold those in a little bit put this little guy back on and then let them steam for a little while I'm gonna put this now on like low like I don't know my my thing over here says like low is one and then like up to 10 or sorry up to nine I guess and it's on like a one and a half right now so I'm gonna let it just sit on like a one and a half and um let this kind of simmer for a little while and then I'm gonna drop my pasta as soon as the water starts boiling which it hasn't yet these noodles I can't remember if I said it earlier um but a box of these noodles the rosini noodles I think I yeah I did show a box of the brand but a box of these noodles is typically around two dollars sometimes I can find them for like a dollar fifty um at the grocery store so um I will be using probably about half of this today because the rest of this uh well not the rest of it but anything I don't use I'm gonna be putting in a glass container and I'll heat up you know later on in the week and whatever so anyway I'll put about half this in there and then if I need more noodles which I probably will need more noodles later on in the week I can just make fresh noodles and that's just totally fine by me all right so let's drop some pasta kids and this pasta takes about eight minutes or so to get al dente so I'm just gonna let it go all right time for another stir oh this is looking so good yum yum yum all right so I've drained my pasta it is done so I'm just gonna take out as much as I want and put it on my plate and then I'm gonna put a little bit of olive oil in here and then put the rest of this in a container and then I'll show you the leftovers in just a moment so here is the pasta I just did basically a thin layer of the plate and then I'm gonna put this stuff on and I'm gonna be grubbing and here are the leftover noodles and it's in one of my Ikea containers I will leave the link below for my Ikea glass containers if you want a link so I'm gonna pop this in the fridge for leftovers for tomorrow all right let's turn this bad boy off oh it looks so good all right so here is what I do I just basically put as many or as little veggies as I want on there there's really no rhyme or reason and see how like juicy it is now that's all that liquid I'm gonna toss some of the liquid out while I am making up leftovers like little things for leftovers but my rule of thumb is you can never have too many vegetables so I like to basically cover all of the pasta with veggies so this looks just about perfect love it also something I like to do is put a little bit of shredded mozzarella on there so I will put that on here as well but this is this is it guys this is exactly what I eat it's amazing and I love it this is obviously a vegetarian option if you wanted to you can make some grilled chicken and top it with some chicken or some other kind of protein but I love it just like this but if I do have chicken breast on hand I will usually cook that up as well but I don't today and I just love this it's so delicious and here's it with my cheese on top I'm gonna put a little bit of cracked pepper on here and then I'm good to go all right but last but not least we need to put all of this into containers all right so this is it took the camera off the tripod but here is all of my leftover containers basically it's four dinners um for sure maybe even well actually it's five because I have this and then here's just my extra noodles which probably lasts me like a day day and a half um yeah probably probably two servings in there maybe a serving and a half but I can always make more noodles if I want to but pro tip I do like to put a little bit of olive oil in there so the noodles stay a little bit separated and they're easier to take out so they don't just all like congeal together but yeah this is it love all of this stuff it's absolutely amazing and delicious and if you guys decide to recreate this on your own please tag me on facebook or instagram and let me know if you guys have any more cooking ideas in the kitchen especially on a budget I will leave down below all of the prices and then what it breaks down to for five meals so I hope you all enjoyed today's video if you have any questions feel free to post them down below I will leave any links or anything that I talked about down below as well for you guys and I will see y'all in the next video bye guys and see I've already put the crack pepper on there I am gonna dig into this right now are you excited about dinner you don't like any of these things besides the noodles do you want a noodle okay you can have a noodle go ahead go ahead oh good job buddy good job