With rising grocery prices, many Americans are struggling to provide healthy, complete meals for their families.

NewsHour digital anchor Dima Zane has the story of one chef who teaches his TikTok followers how to eat well on a budget, one $5 meal at a time.

You should not feel ashamed because you can't afford to make a meal.

There's no shame in that.

Everybody goes through struggles.

Chef Maurice Levine, or Chef Mo, as he's known on TikTok, isn't your typical culinary creator.

High energy and boiling over with positivity, he specializes in creating delicious recipes on a tiny budget.

How to feed your family with $5. And no, we aren't talking about a PBNJ.

Chef Mo teaches followers how to plan, shop, and prepare meals like,

sausage, biscuits, and gravy, veggie alfredo, and even Shepherd's Pie.

Well, he dubs it Chef Mo's Pie, but Chef Mo didn't start out as a penny-pinching chef.

He launched his account last year to share cooking tips, but he soon learned some of his followers were struggling to afford basic necessities.

There was one message in particular of someone expressing how they thought the dish was amazing.

They couldn't wait to try it, but they had to wait till next month to buy the ingredients

to make the dish.

So I had reached back and I asked what exactly do they need, are they missing to make that

dish? Levine learned that the commenter's life circumstances had changed in a blink of an eye.

They didn't have certain spices, something that I take for granted, you take for granted,

and we wouldn't think how somebody couldn't have salt and pepper or someone couldn't have paprika. And that really, that was my

eye-opening moment that people need help. And just like that, the Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania-based

chef launched a new budget-conscious series on his channel, How to Feed a Family with just five or

$10. And I said, I'm going to make meals for $5.

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