5 MINUTE LUNCH IDEA! Recreating My Favorite Restaurant Lunch on a Budget! Easy Money Saving Meals!

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[Music]
hey hey what’s up welcome back welcome
to a new video today we’re going to make
a really quick 5 minute lunch and it’s
going to kind of mock the lunch that I
have been absolutely loving from a local
Greek restaurant the difference is as
I’m not going out to eat I do treat
myself every so often probably like once
a week to take myself out to eat the
lunch at the Greek restaurant usually is
$16 plus tip and today I’m able to make
four of those four of those lunches for
the same price yes I know going out to
eat is more expensive a lot of people
don’t do it I personally love to do it
because it’s fun it’s like taking myself
for a date I don’t know if you don’t
want to do it don’t do it I have the
money to do it so I don’t mind doing it
but I thought you know what today
instead of taking myself to lunch I’m
going to show you my favorite current
lunch and we’re going to make it on a
budget here are all my ingredients I
want to make one quick comment I am
swapping Falafel for tofu just because I
wanted something a little bit higher
protein I know this doesn’t really go on
Greek bowls but I also want to make this
really really quick and if I was going
to make homemade flawles they would take
forever if you don’t want to use this
you can also use something like
chickpeas I’m just not into chickpeas at
the moment but anyways here’s all my
ingredients I have the tofu the light
Italian vinegarette some ready rice you
can save a lot of money if you just do
your own rice but I wanted to have
something with some extra flavor and I’m
trying to make this in under 5 minutes
olives this totally makes the dish some
red onion lettuce tomato feta cheese I
grabbed this because I do remember
liking this taziki sauce so I grabbed
this instead of like a dairy taziki
sauce plus it was way cheaper this is
made with cauliflower so I do remember
liking this we used to buy it all the
time we also really like the spicy
buffalo on so if you find that at your
local Kroger company it’s simple truth
brand highly recommend it also always
comes with a PE the only thing I did not
include because I’m not super into at
the moment is cucumber this dish usually
comes with cucumber but I didn’t want it
so I didn’t include it me and baby are
ready for
lunch we have a little bit of chopping
to do so I’m going to first buy drain
and Chop My Tofu and then I’m just going
to put this over a medium heat on the
stove I don’t press My Tofu I usually
just get extra firm that’s how I like it
do it however you like your tofu or like
I said you could do falafal which is
what it originally comes with or you
could do chickpeas
since I am making four lunches this week
I’m going to divide this into four and
then four again so then I know each
portion is just four little chops of
tofu and I believe this should be about
12 GS of
protein I’m going to put the tofu over
like a medium high heat cook it up real
fast again I know tofu is not really a
Greek cuisine option but I’m
substituting for for it today all we
have to do is chop a little of the
veggies I did get four of the Roma
tomatoes one for each day I’m just going
to chop one today and I’ll chop the
others when I eat this because it’ll
take 5 minutes to make the tofu will
already be made so easy peasy comment
down below and let me know what like
your favorite Cuisine is of all time I
love Greek food I could eat it every day
right now which is why I’m making it for
lunch I’d love to hear from me down
below what do you guys do for lunches do
you work from home so you just make a
lunch every day do you meal prep like
what which is what I try to do every
single week on Sundays and Wednesdays to
make the week really easy or do you go
out to lunch I’d really love to hear I’m
always looking for great lunch ideas for
myself personally but also to share so
if you have a go-to lunch that you can
take on the go that’s really easy that’s
like a restaurant quality I’d love to
hear from you guys down below so you
guys you know can share your ideas and
people can see me in the comments and
there’s a really great recipe I’m might
like to try it personally right now like
I said I try to meal prep on Sundays and
Wednesdays so I can have some lunches
ready to take and go so it always has to
be something that’s like really easy for
this type of dish you might look at it
and think the elements aren’t easy to
take with you but they are I usually
just bring the salad on the side the
dressing on the side and then I just mix
it all together and it’s really good but
like I said I typically go out to eat
once a week by myself it just kind of
like a fun little date for myself I
understand that that is not in
everybody’s budget if I didn’t have the
the money to do it I wouldn’t do it
personally I worked in the service
industry my entire college life so I
still like to go out to eat because I
feel like I’m giving back in a way so
it’s just something I like to do so as
you see the tofu was cooked on like
medium high heat super easy to cook I
just made it so it was like super
crunchy on the outside it did add a
little bit of avocado oil to My Pan and
then the rice is just 90c rice if you
don’t like this kind of rice use
whatever rice you’d like again I’m just
looking for convenience here that’s why
we go out to eat right it’s convenient
it’s easy
it’s fun the dish was so easy to put
together I used about a third of the
rice I also did quick estimates on the
calories because I’ve been getting some
questions on that recently in my videos
this was roughly about 500 calories for
the bowl give or take you could add more
feta you could add more dressing you
could add more taziki you could add more
rice etc etc but just for the bowl that
I was making it was roughly about 500
calories which I think is a really good
lunch personally right now I’m eating
smaller meals just because my stomach
isn’t that big I’m about 30 weeks
pregnant and you know meals just have to
be smaller for me but I do eat more
frequently throughout the day so this is
not like I have lunch and then I go all
the way to dinner I have more meals more
snacks throughout the day but this was
really fun to put together I was really
really happy with how it turned out no
it did not taste the same no it was not
the same uh like the the bowl I get at
the Greek place is just so good and it’s
all like super made fresh and homemade
so no this didn’t like compare but in
the realm of things I feel like making
four lunches for the price of one is a
great way to save money and I love I
just love saving money in any way that I
can I love to do it I love to be
creative in my kitchen I did want to
also note that you can warm your PE if
you want to I didn’t warm it up I didn’t
didn’t really care either way but the PE
that they serve at the restaurant is
always so good cuz again it’s homemade
it’s not like bought off the grocery
store shelf it’s just so much better and
I feel like that’s one of the things
you’re paying for when you go out to eat
you’re paying for the experience of the
food but overall this was amazing you
can take this with you on the you can
make it really quick from home if you
have some rice made ahead then you could
do that the tofu I made ahead and I’ll
just reheat it or eat it cold um
depending on the day and had a ton of
extra veggies which I was really happy
with so I kind of overbought a little
bit but that’s okay I can make some
bowls bigger or smaller just depending
all right here is the finished lunch
took me like 6 minutes because I was
filming it looks so incredibly good I
used about a third of the packet of the
rice because I personally just don’t
have a huge stomach right now since I’m
doing pea with it it’s just a lot of
food for me but I love that there’s lots
of veggies lots of seasoning like just
so much freshness my mouth is literally
watering looking at this and look at
that tofu nice and crispy on the outside
and then like nice and chewy in the
inside I did end up not using all the
Tomato I have extra things cut up so I
can use that for either dinner later or
lunch tomorrow and I have plenty of
ingredients to make four bowls maybe
even six
so just a super quick 5 minute lunch for
you guys today let me know down below
below what is one of your favorite
Cuisines that you go out to eat for and
if you want me to remake it at home on a
budget I’d love to hear from you down on
a comment below make sure you give this
video a huge thumbs up and make sure
you’re subscribed and I’ll see you
Sunday in a brand new video
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