CHARLOTTE — Sarah Margaret Sandlin considers herself a cuisine connoisseur.
She turned her love of cheap eats into a full-time job by sharing food hacks on her social media pages.
She led Channel 9’s Erika Jackson on a path to cheap meals around the city.
“Sometimes you need something quick, easy,” Sandlin said. “There’s a lot of places you can get cheap, easy, quick food.”
Sandlin gives her 250,000 TikTok followers tips on a silver platter. She says you can get a lot of value out of a value menu, and family meals can feed multiple people or one person several times.
She also loves to dish on kids meals which she says offer a lot of bang for your buck.
“You’re not a kid, but in this economy, you can order a kids meal if you want,” Sandlin said.
It’s not all junk food and restaurants. She says you can get a ready-to-eat meal at Walmart for under $5. Sandlin often orders cheap meals that come with veggies or a salad.
She says she records most of her videos in Charlotte to give families a taste of local bargain bites.
“They’re looking up cheap eats, what to eat because everyone’s trying to save money now,” she said.
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