That's Kroger. And that's Vedant, and I'm Maria.
We're here to tell you a cheap way to have a meal for under $20. Do you think we can do it? I think we can.
I think we can too. It's pretty easy. Cincinnati is relatively cheap and inexpensive
so I think that it's very easy for you to
have a meal for two people for way under $20.
We're making paninis.
Turkey, tomato, cheese and what else
do you want to add?
I think pesto. Oh yeah. Pesto is always a
good condiment to put on in a pinch.
That is a green wall.
You want to pose? Pose in
front of it.
Yes, get inside that wall. Yes! Work!
The wonderful world of Kroger.
Very near to campus, has everything you might need.
We're vlogging in Kroger and we are
those annoying people
Here at Kroger, and at pretty much every
grocery store in America
you can either buy deli meat at the deli
counter or they do these little fresh
sliced packets but they will put out
every day. So they've got got like ham
and cheese and turkey and bologna you
like bologna...not into it.
All of them will weigh something a
little bit different, so this one's 5 dollars
maybe it's 5.26, so
you kind of just got a select based on
how much you really think you need. I
don't think we need that much so maybe
we're just gonna go over to the
pre-sliced wall over here because
usually you can find something for like
a little bit cheaper or maybe they have
some deals like 2 for 7 dollars
and if you do have a Kroger card you can
get even more deals. So if we get
provolone along with our turkey both
from the Private Selection Kroger brand,
then we should be good on that being
just 7 dollars. Cool.
7 dollars!
Tomatoes.
I think 2.
Yeah, we're getting the Roma
tomatoes. We have a lot of tomatoes here.
Tomatoes and avocados.
A few too many to select from.
I think Vedant likes this one, and I'm going with him.
Yep, I like this one.
So while we're looking for spinach,
this is something that I typically do
buy whenever I come to the grocery store
I just kind of look for the best price
and this one's 1.59 for a whole bag of
the Kroger brand spinach. I'm not really
sure why, maybe it's just getting old.
I mean it looks pretty perfectly fine to
me
What do you think? It's fine. Yeah it looks
great.
I don't think we really need that much spinach though
so we're gonna go
over and look at like the bulk.
The bulk one. So that we can compare the price.
And it's also a fresher version of it.
Let's check it out. I think that this is
probably a better option for us just
making like one or two sandwiches on the
fly, we don't really want a whole bag of it.
Open that bag.
Do we want the smallest?
Uh, yeah. Because it's
weighed 1.49 per pound. So yeah, actually
that's, that's a lot, dude.
It's actually um, a little bit old. Yeah,
we're gonna use the fresh ones.
I'm cool with it. It's smaller and maybe less fresh but
you know, I'm not that picky.
There he is! The man with the plan.
I found the pesto!
It's here by all of the pasta sauces.
So there are actually on sale, which is kind of nice.
You've got a little bit of a different
option the ones that I've tried are this
Private Selection one which is pretty
good, the Classico is pretty good. But this
one's on sale.
Yeah, I had this one.
I think let's go for this one. Okay. 2.49.
Look! Avocados are on sale.
59 cents.
Do you want to put avocados on it?
Give it a good little squeeze. If it has some give then it's ready to go.
This one's pretty ready to go I think that honesty might be a little bit too soft.
Yeah, this one's good.
Maybe just one?
Get a whiff of that!
It's really good. I think we're
going for the three cheese Seminola loaf.
So, fresh bread. I think you can get a little twist tie
somewhere. I think we're fine we don't
need it. So that's gonna be 3.49. Not bad
for a whole loaf of bread.
There they go...our groceries for the day.
This is, Ramone? Ramone!
Let's hope to stay under $20, Ramone, that is our goal for the day.
I think we did it. I think we did it.
UC International. Ok..that's easy to remember.
Yeah, easy to remember...and fun to watch!
Here we go, one more time, me and Vedant are feeling fine.
Here we go now.
We're gonna go back to his
apartment to cook it so that we can show
you his University Park Apartments.
Off-campus housing? On-campus housing.
Vedant, what do you call a crosswalk?
Zebra crossing! Why do you call it that?
I don't know cause maybe the Brits call it. That's what India calls it...that's what I call it.
That's so funny here in America we call it a crosswalk.
Ok, now we know! A cultural learning moment. Yep!
You got your own apartment.
Yep. Pretty cool.
Is that typical or is that not? No, generally there are 4 people in one apartment and 2 people in one bedroom
but this is...special.
No, it's basically just coincidence.
Well, they know he's special. Look at his little turtle!
Welcome home, Vedant!
Cool this is spacious.
We're in UPA, we're gonna start
prepping, so let's get these groceries out.
We've got our turkey (pepper
turkey), provolone cheese, oh wait.
Artisan bread. Yes and tomatoes.
Hold on wait till I reveal!
Okay. Tomatoes. And then?
I'm sorry I'm slow. Yep, yep. Okay...
And then pesto. My favorite!
And then...spinach! Yes!
And....finally....
Avocados!
Wait...can we lower this thing?
I haven't seen Justice League. Oh, it's not that great.
But the soundtrack makes the difference.
Slice-yed. Ready to go on.
I'll cut the tomatoes and wash them.
I'm gonna cut it directly down the
middle so we have like the best, largest
piece for this sandwich because I'm just...
crazy.
Finish cutting spinach.
Cutting spinach, cutting bread.
wow this spinach is so green, looks good.
I'm gonna probably dress my bread with a little bit of
pesto on it on the inside and then of
course we're gonna put some butter on
the outside so that when we heat up the
bread it cooks nicely. You want a really
hot pan and then you want to put some
some butter on the bread so that it'll
toast.
Turkey ones. Turkey sandwiches.
The vegetarian ones. Cheese and all that.
So the pesto's underneath yeah I showed you
that already so it was pesto, provolone,
which we've only used about half of the
bag which is cool. We're gonna make two
sandwiches each.
They're really little sandwiches
but they're definitely gonna be like a
lot a lot of food. Yeah, a lot of food.
The cheese is so thick. Yeah, lots of
cheese, some turkey and we definitely
didn't use all of that so probably only
a third of the packet which it'll go a
lot lot lot further.
We're making like a fresh sandwich by the way. Fresh fresh!
And look how much bread is left. Okay, so we're gonna use this as
the tops so this is all spoken for today,
but in the future like look how much
more bread you have for different
sandwiches you can at least make like
three or four more and you still got a
lot of meat and cheese and probably some
avocado and a lot of pesto left over so
this $15 meal is definitely gonna last.
As it's melting, we got a vegetarian one
here got a turkey one here, and actually
Vedant doesn't have a spatula so we're
just gonna use this thing which is
alright...but I need to buy you a spatula
I guess.
Yeah double it up! Oh...you could
do that too. Oh yeah! Flippy flip flip, be
careful cause you don't have a spatula.
It's gonna lose its tomatoes! Okay good.
Panini! Check it out. Ooh yeah.
Okay, so we still have two more things to put on. We didn't put
avocado and spinach on because we didn't
want it to wilt, yeah, that'd be kind of
gross. So we're gonna do that now so I'm
just gonna like, open the sandwich.
Wait, mine is like really tough.
Yeah, probably because that cheese melted on everything.
Oooo, that cheese pull!
So what I do I'll take a spoon but I think it's
okay with a knife um once I've cut it
and I just kind of have it separated a
little bit I'll just go around the
perimeter, loosen it and then you can
just kind of pop them out and then lay
them. Yeah, it's not too... it's like not
really a science.
I mean like, look at the cheese though.
it's like, delish. That's that provolone.
Cheers! Paninis.
But it tastes just like a good like
Panera sandwich. It's exactly like a Panera sandwich.
So good!
High five!
If you want more videos, you should come back to our YouTube
channel cooking with Vedant and Maria.
Well I'm leavin he's gonna keep eating
thanks for watching it was really really
fun he's getting to cook with you and
showing you a little bit more about our
life in Cincinnati.
Bye!
