THE holidays are here and one TikToker is sharing how she makes huge meals on a budget.
Eboni shares her favorite affordable recipes on her TikTok, EboniEboeb.
She and her husband often make huge meals as part of employee appreciation celebrations at their business.
For their most recent event, Eboni whipped up a delicious baked pasta dish to feed 15 people that cost $51.45.
She even included some garlic bread and corn on the cob as sided.
In the TikTok, she took viewers through Walmart with her as she shopped and gave step-by-step instructions on how to prepare the meal.
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The shopping list
While Eboni found everything she needed at Walmart, it's important to remember price and availability vary from store to store.
She needed quite a few things to complete this meal, so doing it all for just over $51 is pretty impressive.
Most of what she bought was Walmart's own Great Value brand, with the exception of the Texas Toast garlic bread.
Here's everything she picked up:
- Texas Toast, $5.84
- Two boxes of thin spaghetti, 92 cents each
- Smoked sausages, $5.77
- Shredded cheddar cheese, $7.48
- Three pounds of ground beef, $11.46
- Two jars of Prego pasta sauce, $4.98 each
- Two packets of Great Value brand taco seasoning, 42 cents each
- Two cans of Great Value brand tomato paste, $1.22 each
- One bag of Great Value brand frozen corn, $6.48
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Ebonie used some seasoning, mushrooms, peppers and onions she had at home to complete her meal.
She seasoned and cooked the ground beef and the sausage, then added the chopped peppers, mushrooms and onions.
Even though she bought pasta sauce, she added to it to make it her own.
Taco seasoning is her secret ingredient to making the dish extra flavorful, she said.
She transferred the sauce with the ground beef to a large baking dish then layered in pasta and cheese before adding more sauce with the sausages and topping it off with shredded cheese.
The whole thing went in the oven for a bit before she stirred it, added more cheese on top and baked it for a bit longer to melt the cheese.
She made the texas toast and seasoned butter for the corn on the cob.
Eboni even boxed everything up in styrofoam to-go containers and delivered it to her employees as an extra gesture of appreciation.
Eboni's affordable chicken dinner
During an earlier employee appreciation event, Eboni made a delicious chicken dinner.
The meal consisted of chicken wings, dirty rice, green beans and cornbread.
She had a budget of $60 for all the ingredients but she ended up spending even less.
She ended up spending $51.34, meaning each of the 15 servings cost about $3.42.
She said it was enough to eat for two days, and everyone loved it.
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