Eat for $27 this Week Like The Japanese (You NEED To Try This!)

Get My New Book: 'The Art of Japanese Cooking' from me and my grandma. 👉 https://frugaljapan.shop/ Easy to make Japanese recipes that your family will enjoy :) -------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Frugal Japan channel. -------------------------------------------------------------- I turned one $27 Walmart grocery trip into 21 satisfying Japanese-style meals—with meat, fish, or egg in every meal. In this video, I share the practical home-cooking methods I learned from my mother for stretching simple ingredients without making food feel like a sacrifice. I’ll show you how I prepare the week’s essentials, build simple breakfasts and no-plan lunchboxes, and cook comforting dishes like nikujaga, chicken and egg bowls, cabbage pancakes, dumplings, and leftover stew croquettes. I’ll also break down the true weekly cost and explain how the Japanese idea of mottainai helps me waste less, use every ingredient, and make a small grocery budget go further. 0:00 - A week of Japanese meals 2:26 - Sunday meal prep essentials 9:30 - Simple Japanese breakfasts 11:35- The no-plan lunchbox formula 14:24- Nikujaga potato and chicken stew 17:34 - Quick chicken and egg bowl 18:50 - Sutin dumplings from hard times 20:40 - Empty-fridge cabbage pancakes 22:30 - Leftover stew croquettes 24:12 - The true weekly cost 27:26 - Cooking with mottainai 29:23 - Start with one change