 Oh, and welcome to another Dollar Tree What I Eat in a Day. I had a lot of fun picking out all of the snacks and the meals for today. We did have a couple of mishaps to be completely honest and transparent. I purchased the items for today's video several weeks ago. I just haven't been able to actually film today's video. So a few of the items were used, a few of the items packaging was misplaced. But nonetheless, I'm going to be sharing with you how you can eat truly on a budget a full day of meals with leftovers for two people from the Dollar Tree. So if you're excited, give this video a big huge thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I would love to have you here, hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. I do a lot of budget type of videos on my channel as well. In fact, I have an entire Dollar Tree playlist. I'll go ahead and link that down below for you. You'll also find all three of my recipe ebooks. I have breakfast, lunch, and my newest ebook, which is dinner. I will be coming out with the fourth and final ebook snacks and desserts relatively shortly. So make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss the announcement. You can purchase the ebooks on my website. I'll link it down below along with nutrition coaching. I have personalized two U macros and calories as well as one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links discounts to all my favorite things. And of course, my Facebook group are also down in that description box. I'm going to sip on my second cup of water for the day and let's jump back into this what I eat in a day Dollar Tree edition. I am starting my day off as usual with my coffee, but I did find this little miniature Italian sweet cream coffee mate creamer at the Dollar Tree. That's a pretty good deal. This is quite a few servings. It says 16 one tablespoon servings per container for a dollar. So I went ahead and added some of that to my coffee. So my morning coffee is a total of one point for breakfast today. I am making an egg and sausage scramble. So we've had a few issues. My husband actually used the eggs that I bought from the Dollar Tree. They came in one of those little six pack cartons. So I'm just going to use my happy egg, but I did buy a six pack of eggs from the Dollar Tree. I also picked up this can of a chunked pineapple. It is in light syrup, but I'm just going to drain and rinse the pineapple. That way it would continue to be zero points. And then the turkey sausage. This is the type of turkey sausage that I picked up. I don't know again what my husband did with the outside packaging. That was on the sausage, but this is what I bought from the Dollar Tree. It's just the Jimmy Dean turkey sausage. I'm going to take two of those patties, chop them up and mix them in with my eggs and then have some pineapple. So here is my little sausage and egg scramble. This actually looks really delicious. And the only thing that has points are the two sausage patties that I added to the scramble. And then I have about half of that can of drained and rinsed pineapple. So that is my breakfast. Pretty good. If I do say so myself all coming from the Dollar Tree, of course I will put points and calories here on the screen for you. I forgot to give my typical Dollar Tree what I eat in a day disclaimer. So here is the disclaimer for today's video. All of the food that I picked up for this, what I eat in a day came from my local Dollar Tree. A lot of it isn't the cleanest ingredients. It isn't necessarily the healthiest food, but it's food on a budget. And sometimes we're on a budget and we need to feed ourselves or feed our family. So we may do with whatever we can get our hands on. And sometimes that means making the less healthy ingredient choice, but something that stays within our points and calories and most importantly within our budget. So I'm not going to be eating the healthiest, cleanest foods today, but I'm going to be eating some good food on a budget from the Dollar Tree. Let's jump back into the video. He's hanging out with me today in my office. Palmer, are you going to hang out with me today? Yeah, I see you kind of side eyeing me, mister. He loves this dog bed in here. That way the dogs have a comfy place to lay when they're hanging out with me. Diesel and Lola are in bed per the usual. For my morning snack, I'm having one of these Sun Best Fiber Boost Lemon Bar. So these are basically a spin off of the fiber one bars. They are 90 calories a piece. Compared to the fiber one bars before they reformulated, I'm going to show you guys the size of these. We'll taste it. We'll see how they are, but it sounds really, really delicious and we'll see if they compare to the fiber one. These are really good. They're really good. They're a lot less dry than the fiber one and they do have like little chips in there. I don't know if they're lemon chips or white chocolate chips, but these I gotta say are better than fiber one. So here's what I picked up at the Dollar Tree for lunch today. I wanted to pick up a convenient meal because sometimes we are on the go or we need to eat lunch rather quickly and we can't always make something. Maybe our schedule doesn't permit. So I wanted to find a somewhat lower calorie lower point option that is a frozen meal. So I ended up going with this creamy rigatoni with chicken and broccoli. It's 260 calories. So I figured the points wouldn't be too bad. I don't know how good this is going to be, but we're going to warm it up and this is going to be my Dollar Tree lunch. It actually doesn't look too bad. So we're going to go ahead and pop it into the microwave and we will see how good it is. And if it's good, you can't beat a frozen meal for a dollar. All right. So here it is. It actually doesn't look too bad. It doesn't smell too bad. Again, this is the creamy rigatoni with chicken and broccoli. It's from the Main Street Kitchen brand. I will tell you I don't see chicken. Okay. Uh, no. Interesting. Okay. Well, I'll tell you that I just looked through this entire frozen meal and there is zero chicken. All that's in here is a rigatoni and broccoli. So that's a little bit disappointing because it clearly says chicken on the package. Oh, that is such a bummer. This isn't going to be a very high protein at all lunch or very filling, which is unfortunate because I am about to head out the door to go show some houses. I'll take you guys with me. And so I am having to eat a quick lunch, something, which is kind of why I wanted to pick one of these frozen ones up was for times like this where there just isn't time to prepare anything, but I'm pretty disappointed that there is no chicken in here. Hopefully this tastes good. It's okay. I would purchase it again if it had chicken in it, or I would add chicken to it for some protein. I mean, it's not terrible. It's on par with Weight Watchers Meals or Lean Cuisine Meals. All right. We're on our way to show houses. I wanted to show you that I brought this little pack of a butterball peppered turkey jerky that I bought at the Dollar Tree so that I could munch on this while I'm showing houses. I have a really fun snack planned for when I get home and a really kind of fun dinner as well. But I brought this along. I will put here on the screen if I end up eating it or not. It is 90 calories for the packet. I'm guessing maybe a couple of points. I brought along my water so I can finish my gallon of water today. And we're off to see one of two houses. Do they find one that they like today? A cute little pocket neighborhood, and this is the house right here that we are going to tour first. All right. We looked at the two houses. I didn't get any footage of the second house because there were some other people there that were just leaving. They didn't care for the second house, but we are putting an offer in on that first house. I'm going home right now to write it up. So wish us luck. But I picked up for an afternoon snack. I thought, how fun would this be? So I bought some of the frozen soft pretzel bites from a super pretzel. And then my dollar store had this little pack of Alvita cheese sauce. This would be really good for nachos or tacos, but I'm going to use it to actually dip my pretzels into. So I'm going to pop a few of these into the air fryer. And then I'll be back to share how many pretzels I'm having, points and calories is well, of course, is how much cheese sauce and the points and calories for that. I'm going to go ahead and cook up the whole pack. And then I'll just put the leftovers aside for Troy, a serving has six pretzel bites. So that's what I'm going to have. And it even came with the fun little pretzel salt packages, lots of salt for this little amount of pretzels, but we will go ahead and salt it and warm up our cheese sauce. So here is my snack. I have six of the pretzel bites that I popped in my air fryer. So they are perfectly crispy like you would get them at a baseball game and they are four points. This is the entire packet of cheese sauce I wanted to show you guys. It's not very much. I'm going to measure out about an eighth of a cup or a couple tablespoons for three points. So my snack is going to be a total of seven points. I came out of my office to this. What did you do? What did you do to your baby? Huh? Look at all this fuzz everywhere. Palmer, Clayton, hey. That's your baby. You ruined it. You ruined it. Let mommy have it. You're all done with it. Look at the mess you made. So here is what I picked up at the Dollar Tree for a dinner for Troy and I. So I did pick up two of these little bags of the Tyson and any Tizer's chicken fries. It's one serving in the package, it's 280 calories. You can pop this in your microwave oven. I'm going to throw these into the air fryer. So I did pick up a bag for each of us. And then they have these little individual packs of orida fries and the orida crispy crowns. This is one serving. So it kind of makes it nice. It's 170 calories for the entire box. Again, you can throw them in your microwave oven, air fryer. And then I picked up the little crispy crowns for Troy. He prefers these and I prefer just regular fries. And then I picked up a can of the green giant vegetable blend. This is basically just lima beans, green beans, peas, carrots. I'm going to warm this up for our vegetable. So let's make some dinner. So here are the chicken fingers. That's a pretty good amount. And that's a pretty good amount of fries. I do like that they have these pre-portioned out. It just makes it really easy. Same with the little chicken fingers. So I'm putting this into my air fryer. I have the Joy Ous air fryer. I really, really like this one. And I'm going to air fry these up until crispy. So here's my dinner. I have to say, for a dollar-trade dinner, this is actually looking pretty good. So here are my little chicken fingers, my fries. That's a good amount of fries, my vegetables. So I'm going to dip my fries into the Primal Kitchen organic unsweetened ketchup. This is zero point. So I'm just going to add a little bit of that to my plate for my fries. And then I think I'm actually going to drizzle some of this sweet baby rays buffalo wing sauce over my chicken tenders and make like a buffalo chicken tender. Doesn't that sound really good? And then of course I'm going to add some salt and pepper to my vegetables. I will go ahead and put points and calories here on the screen. This is a pretty high point dinner. It is not a high calorie dinner, I might add, but it's a pretty high point dinner, but I can't wait to dig in. And then I found this cute little package of Fun Fetty Sugar Cookie Mix with Candy Bits. This makes a dozen cookies for one dollar. I thought that was a great deal. You could probably make cupcakes with these, but I'm going to make these for us for dessert and then whatever's left over can go into Troy's lunch. They are 110 calories unprepared, 130 per cookie prepared, so not bad at all. So for the cookies, I put the mix into a bowl along with two tablespoons of light butter. That's actually going to make the cookies less calories than the package because the package is actual real butter and I went ahead and used light butter. And then I'm going to add a tablespoon of water, mix this up, get this onto a cookie sheet. I have my oven preheating to 375 and sorry for the background noise, but the air fryer is cruising right along. So Troy decided he wanted a one big Fun Fetty Cookie, so I just went ahead and spread that out on an ungraced baking sheet. I'm going to cook it and cut it into 12 little pieces. He thought we could cut it into wedges, so I'm going to do what he requested, but I think this is going to be such a perfect dessert. Alrighty, there's our big, ginormous, fun, Fetty Cookie. This looks so good. Again, we're going to allow this to cool, cut it into 12 slices. The recipe again makes 12 cookies and that one cookie is going to be my dessert.