How to Meal Prep for Grandparents | Making 100 Russian Kotleti

This is my granddad. Hi guys, I thought I will do a vlog since so many of you wanted the vlogs and I thought I'll do my first one in Latvia. So I've just arrived at my granddad's flat. I'm waiting for him to come down. He was just over there. We are going shopping. Now, I usually help my granddad a lot and I really encourage you all to help your grandparents or your parents if they're a bit older. granddad is 82 now he's still capable of doing everything but every time i come here to Latvia i like to go shopping for him i get him loads of food and i get him food that can stay for longer like stuff in cans like you know tuna beans pasta rice um i also get these like ready-made meals like soup meals um they're quite good actually here which is amazing but also today i am going to make him his favorite dish which is beef kotlety, kotletki, which is cutlets there here is this he's coming over oh i need to move my bag yeah so um i make this in advance see this is why i usually go shopping alone because they are old and they don't want to uh spend a lot of money even though it's it's a lot of money here it's expensive but you know like i really want to help him this is why i work um so he's already made a list of what he needs or doesn't need which i'm not gonna listen to him but um yeah so i'm making him uh beef kotlety uh later i'm gonna make a whole batch uh so that he can eat uh for you know several months and they freeze really well so if you have older parents and grandparents you can make this dish for them as well which is awesome He's telling me he will take a few bits. We'll take soup, only kharcho and pilaf. A couple of jars. I still have borscht and salt. Yes. We'll take a couple of canned fish. Very basic things. So in Latvia, you know, it's actually quite a sad story. All the old people, their pension is around 200 euros, which is around, I would say, $250 a month. uh and usually the rent here or even if you have a flat you have to pay for a lot of things it's around half of that pension so it's around 100 pounds or 100 euros to pay for that so they really left on 100 euros to live on a month now i try and help my granddad as much as i can me and my sister we send him a little bit of money every month and of course every time i come over i go shopping for him with my sister she helps obviously to contribute towards the food um he's like looking like what she's talking about um and you know i've recently realized that this this is what i want to do um you know with my business and my blog and while i'm going to help other people reach their potential in cooking and learning how to make cakes i decided that i want to give a certain amount of all my profits towards all the people that live in latvia because i just feel that they are not treated same way they don't have enough money and they're lonely you know so um i will talk more about that later we're off to the shopping but yeah okay guys we're on our way we just arrived in Maxima i don't know how much i will be able to film there uh but i will show you the shopping uh the shopping basket which granddad doesn't want to get a lot but you know i need to get more normal so we're just granddad's always complaining about everything you know driving not parking in the right spot i've noticed that with all the old people but the best thing the best strategy here is to just agree you know and just do your own way i found that that is the best way we're just in the fruit and vegetable section and he's refusing to get more than you know two peaches or whatever so i'm trying to get more stuff but it's so difficult to shop i finally did the shopping that was a nightmare that was a nightmare honestly he kept telling me not to get stuff hey shopping is done oh my god uh we got a whole trolley so we're gonna take it to the car it's quite heavy so it's hard to film and walk uh but yeah the bill came to 200 euros uh which is a lot of money for them like they would never be able to they would never spend that much and i didn't even buy everything that i thought i should buy um but i'm splitting this with my sister so 100 euros each and that will last him a couple of months i hope uh plus me making all this food now today some cutlets but yeah anyway crazy this is 200 euro worth of stuff you see it's not even that much so i'm just gonna put my water car keys and i'm gonna take this upstairs Grandpa, I'm on my own. Well, grandpa? What's wrong with my leg? I didn't think I'd get it again. So this is the kitchen. I think I showed this kitchen before. This is where my granny used to cook. It's a tiny, tiny kitchen. But I used to always sit here as a child and watch my granny make loads of dishes here. She would make syrniki, pancakes, pirozhki, everything. Everything stayed the same since she died. Yeah, just reminds me of her. I feel her energy and spirit here. So yeah, exciting we're going to cook just going to show you what we got and what you can get potentially for your older grandparents and we're just going to show you what i got so we got different types of pasta different types of grains you know from buckwheat to porridge to oats to um mannakasha which is uh semolina uh there is pasta there i he really likes chocolate so i got him this cacao hazelnut spread i also got him peanut butter uh he's never tried it before but it's nice and some seeds which are healthy for old people so this is a mix of sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds i also told him to eat linseeds uh really good for older people even for younger people um prunes and apricots and then this section here which really saves him during tough times when he can't cook much so these are already made meals uh like plov pilaf like rice with meat and they stay for very long time so there's different types of soups that he likes so we got a selection of different things here borscht uh salmon soup and so forth so he usually just puts the whole thing into a pot and eats it for two three days uh i also got him different types of fishes sprats uh um in tomato sauce and just general ones so that will last him a while and then here we've got some biscuits cheese you know basic stuff lots of fruit butter eggs sour cream i also like to get him yogurts now these are really big packages and it's nice to have it as a as a dessert uh strawberry and raspberry milk cottage cheese kefir and yeah that's pretty much it and then over here i'm gonna show you um i got a lot of meat and fish uh oh pears so um oh and prunes go in there so now i'm gonna actually show you what you can do for your grandparents um or parents now this is um this is um pork carbonate i'm gonna i'm gonna chop it up into like thin pieces and freeze it separately so he can fry that or make a stew and then here i've got two kilos of minced pork uh fatty pork and then two kilos of beef so we're gonna make cutlets from this onions and bread and i'll show you the the recipe as well uh i also got him two chickens now it's really good to have a whole chicken he can put the whole thing into the soup or i can cut it up and chop it up into smaller pieces for him and lastly i got him well there's oh yeah there's salmon steaks which are also really healthy and a whole fish it's called carp so again I'm gonna chop that up and then we're gonna freeze everything in smaller pieces so that's it for the shopping and more meat I will give you roughly what we need so I've added white bread here he did get the wrong white bread you need like larger pieces but this is fine what we're going to do now we're going to add milk okay and you want to add enough milk to cover the bread but not too much okay so i'm going to add this i have already washed my hands um and i'm just going to squeeze you see like this still i can't see any uh bread is not fully soaked so i'm going to add more we're going to leave this to soak for about half an hour while we make the rest of the ingredients i'm just going to add more water more water more milk we'll go look at that you see the bread is gonna soak up all the milk and that's his favorite way this is how my granny used to make so you don't have to add the bread for my granddad you know he's had this for years and he wants to have it the same way so i'm just gonna leave now the bread to soak make sure you soak every little bit okay now i've got my eggs my meat and we're gonna need two onions and probably a whole head of garlic, salt, pepper and sour cream. So here we've got one large onion. I'm putting it right into a blender. I'm trying to do this really fast because I don't have much time. So here I've put all the meat. So this is four kilos of meat. I've added three tablespoons large of sour cream. I'm probably going to add around six. So you need about two eggs per kilo so i'm gonna add eight eggs in here two large onions and a whole head of garlic granddad's doing it now okay so i have added salt spices you can add anything um and eggs and i'm just gonna mix everything together and then i'm gonna add the bread uh now into the hand blender you don't have to do this is like a quick way i've added milk and a bit of water and i'm gonna blitz everything into a puree together with garlic hey guys i have blitzed the milk with onions in here i've added the bread and i'm adding garlic as you can see it's a lot of garlic grandad loves garlic you can add less and i'm just gonna blitz everything again you can't add more milk if you need to as you blitz okay so it's a giant giant so we're gonna have two giant pots i'm gonna try and mix everything together i do it with my hands it's a bit bit disgusting but it's just mixing all the ingredients together spices you really have to go in there and like i said this is a huge meal prep this is going to be enough for a long time and once i kind of mix it initially i'm going to transfer it to the second uh bowl just so it's a bit easier to mix also when i was adding the beef and pork together i added it in stages mix so i'm gonna divide it now actually it's just too big to mix and it's pretty cold because the meat is cold and the cutlets are cold so transferring the eggs as well i'm crying from the onion now she's gonna mix it all can't show you inside i will once i mix this through so i've added eight eggs four kilos of mixed meat pork and beef two large onions about 10 cloves of garlic four tablespoons of sour cream about half um half or let's say four to five slices of white bread soaked in in milk i would say one to two cups of milk now the mixture is done look at that beautiful i'm just gonna wash my hands and here it is guys it's massive like it's really big um so i would say it's about five to six kilos of cutlet in mass and um over here i've mixed bread crumbs together with flour and salt you can add anything else you want here but this is a traditional mix okay and here it is i've dipped them into flour mixture put them in here i'm gonna fry them at a time i also have a bowl for my hands so you dip your hands form the cutlet dip them in here and then put them here so we're gonna start frying them of course three pans going straight away because we don't have time i'm done i have to run to my gym session i'm done look at that we made a lot these are cooking frying i will tell you how many but we have to go this literally was like a workout i think we made i don't know we made a lot of cutlets um so it's a really good meal prep for your grandparents i feel like i already had a workout before i'm going to the workout so he's gonna fry the rest of them but i've done them all for him so yeah good day i hope you enjoy this vlog guys um i am i can do more if you want uh i know that some of you wanted to see what i do in a day uh today is obviously a different type of day but i am happy to show you more so just let me know in the comments down below and happy friday bye