Budget Challenge Revisited: How Far Will £1 go in 2025?

Atomic Shrimp April 26, 2025
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Atomic Shrimp is about ideas. Ideas that lead to crafts, inventions and recipes, investigations, new skills, and the general appreciation of being alive. It's also about looking at the world with curiosity and wonder, appreciating the small things, loving the underdog and embracing new things at the same time as cherishing older traditions, or sometimes turning them upside down. Join us on Discord for sneak previews of upcoming content and projects, and discussion of stuff both related to the channel or not! If you are a viewer/subscriber and want to contact me, please visit my website and use the contact form there Please DO NOT contact me about sponsorship, channel management, paid/free product reviews, commercial collaboration, product placement, advertisement, channel SEO or any other kind of business offer. I DO NOT MAKE COMMERCIAL VIDEOS . I DON'T WANT BUSINESSES CONTACTING ME. Also (really sorry) I can't accept donations/gifts/food from viewers and subscribers.

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It's been more than 5 years since this series began, with challenges such as £1 for 1 day's meals. But how far will £1 get me in 2025? The reason I do this is as an exercise to try to provoke myself to respond creatively; to nurture or develop transferrable skills of creativity and adaptability; to think more about what it means to 'try'; to embed a habit of thinking about and focusing upon solutions, not problems and also to experience personal failure in a safe setting. This type of exercise - in this, and in other contexts - has served me very well in life. Those skills, such as they are, have always been the driving force of what I do, on this channel, and everywhere else. It's important to note what this video is NOT: This is NOT a tutorial for cooking or budgeting or foraging. No guarantee is made that anyone else will be able to replicate any part of this video (supposing you even wanted to). This is NOT an attempt to 'play at being poor', although it always does make me appreciate things that I normally take for granted. This is NOT an attempt to 'prove that people on benefits could get by with less' - if anything, it proves the complete opposite - because this was a difficult thing to do - that's why it's called a 'challenge'. This is NOT a diet - it would not be a good idea to cook or eat exactly this food every day - or budget like this every day. Timestamps: 0:00 intro 0:45 Parameters 1:33 Shopping 5:50 The haul 7:12 Difficulty waffle 9:33 Foraging 12:08 Spices etc 12:34 Cooking 18:30 Serving 20:45 Score 21:18 Lessons 22:05 Nutrition 22:19 Shopping around 22:45 tRy hArDeR

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