I Tried a 1970s Meal Plan
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2023
- When I found this vintage "After Work Cook Book" at an antique store, I knew I had to try out one of the 1970s meal plans in the back of the book! Come with me on this journey to the past as I explore what dinner in the 1970s might have looked like!
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suddenly my late grandmother's inclusion of random pears on lettuce with a dollop of mayo makes sense.....i mean it doesn't make sense but i get it now LOL
My brother and I were horrified when our grandmother tried to feed that to us
I was born in 1970...In the early 80's my mom took those pears to work sometimes for office pot luck lunches...she used Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise and she also topped with grated cheddar cheese...I made these a few years ago for my husband and I and needless to say we both said NEVER AGAIN!!!😂
I was born in 1960, so I had a decade of meals in the 1970's. My mom was a working mom, a nurse, but every night, after working all day, she made a big meal: meat, potato, gravy, and a vegetable. My mom was a pressure cooker queen! I love my pressure cooker too!
I also love my pressure cooker. In contrast, Mom was always terrified of pressure cookers. She was certain pressure cooking would end with an explosion!
@@sewingintrifocals-alisonde7778 Well, I'm glad you didn't let her fear stop you!
I grew up in the 1970’s and we were very thin back then. We ate when we were really hungry-not for enjoyment. This reminds me why-lol.
I knowww! My Mom, lord love her, was a terrible cook with zero interest in improvement LOL. I ate when I was hungry. I was so nice and skinny, sigh.
HAhahaha. This TOTALLY cracked me up. I was born in the 70's and at a quick glimpse of the open pages I can see that we DID in fact have many books and recipes that we ate such as the one in your video. That pear and Curry Cottage Cheese salad definetly looks like an early 70's recipe washed over from the 60's. And yes, back in the late 60's and early 70's, paprika was used to sprinkle as a "garnish" to add color. The amount used did very little for the actual dish as far as flavor. What a fun channel you have. I"m hooked. The entertainment is fantastic and the nostalgia is also a bit comical. I couldn't help but chuckle at this.
The layout and the print looks very familiar to that time. Bet it was from the same publisher as the cookbook that came with our first microwave.
My late grandma took a lot of ribbing because she seemed to sprinkle paprika on everything! This was a pre-1970s habit of hers, as she was born in 1909. 😇
The salad you made is very close to a diet salad that was really popular in the 60s and 70s. I remember my mother and grandmother making it. On a bed of iceberg lettuce, you put a ring or two of canned pineapple. On top of the pineapple, put a mound of small curd cottage cheese. Top the cottage cheese with a maraschino cherry. It's supposed to look like an ice cream sundae. I guess the thought is that you are treating yourself, but eating something low cal.
Yes, that was the thought, albeit a tasteless thought- grew up in the 60’s & 70’s. Dad was a big pineapple and cottage cheese snacker. I saw them so often that I can’t go anywhere near either to this day-
I remember that too!
How fun I remember
Yes, we ate a lot of cottage cheese and fruit in the 70's. It's so yummy with pineapple... or any fruit!
Oh yes even in restaurants 'the diet plate'
How funny! I was actually a student, housewife, and mother during the '70s! However, I was a vegetarian for most of the decade, so I never would have made any of these recipes, but they seem fairly exotic. I usually cooked from Francis Moore Lappe's "Diet for a Small Planet" or the Moosewood Cookbook. We even ground our own wheat, made our own yogurt, and purchased most of our food from a co-op. I was a big, ole hippie! Good work, sweetie. Keep it up!
My parents were vegetarian in the 70s, too! Macrobiotic was incorporated, too
my mom had the moosewood cookbook. good memories.
I have very fond memories of "Diet for a Small Planet." I still make the Con Queso Rice from it, occasionally.
I used both of those cookbooks myself, but in the 1980s.
My Mom worked and made supper everyday. She did a lot in the crockpot but there was always a full table that included a salad, a green veg and a second veg. I made tea everyday and the salad as well as washed dishes with my brother. I’m the age now that she was then and I now know why she got mad sometimes. It’s very stressful to work 40+ hours AND have to be responsible for everything the whole family is eating. I’m over it!
For some reason water chestnuts were big in the 70's. This menu is perfectly in line with the era. ❤
I have cookbooks all the way back to the Great Depression and war time. I was born in 1963. Now I’m going on to teaching my grands and son my first great grand. These books mostly passed down and so much fun to try. Loving your channel. ❤
Hi, I just found your channel. I am also a total geek for old menus and meal plans. There's a bunch of them on the archives for the USDA, like old "thrifty meal plan" menus. They are challenging to try to follow, so much orange juice for some reason. In any case, keep it up. This is niche content for sure.
For those who are allergic to peanuts, subbing almonds would I'm sure be fine. In particular, Maranatha makes a caramel almond butter which I think would be DELICIOUS in the banana dessert.
And thank you, because you brought back a lost memory...my mother made that creamed turkey on English muffins dinner. I had totally forgotten. I did like it, and I'm sure I still would!
I paused watching the video to look up the cookbook and fell across a first edition, first printing and compulsively purchased it as it was a first edition in excellent condition. Probably unused because they all ordered KFC. :)) Cute video!
I was born in 1971 so I remember 1970’s meals well. I have to say, cottage cheese with raisins sounds ghastly! But maybe the pears and lettuce improved the mouth feel.
You already know how much I admire you and this is yet another EXCELLENT video! As a child of the 70s, AND a B.H.A.G. cookbook owner (from my mom’s library, I use the ‘Breads’ one to this day!) I can vouch for the authenticity of these recipes. Great job! And you made me laugh with the lost peanuts. I had to pull over and check my trunk when something was rolling around back there. Found my can of tuna from the previous week’s grocery run when I’d forgotten to bring my reusable bags). Have a lovely day, dear. Enjoy our 1970s recipes featuring zero ingredients of any colour! 😆😆😆
Aw, thank you, friend! That’s good to know that it’s authentic! Yeah, I’ve lost something to the back of the car before. Should have known! 😅
Being born in the late 50s, dinner in the 60s I remember, let alone the 70s. I have my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook from the early 50s and I use it. It's fascinating to look at the amount of spices they (didn't) use- I always double, if not triple, the amount called for. BTW, 1/2 and 1/2 works as "light cream".
through my pre teen an teenage years.in the 70's I can honestly say we ate no different than we do now. Except fast food was only a treat maybe once a yr if lucky. Cause mom said why when we have food at home. Burgers, fries, fried chicken, homemade pudding, never even knew they had pizza places until i was 18 an my brother brought one home.
I have to say, the pear salad is really calling me.... I must try it!
I had that same hair you're sportin' there, back in 1974.
You must have been one cool chick
I actually really like pear salad. I think that my grandma used to make it but she used paprika instead of curry. There were no raisins in her version but there was a sprinkle of grated sharp cheddar over the top. I'll get a craving for this salad once in awhile and make a batch.
When Mom made pear salad she added cinnamon to the top of the cottage cheese nothing else, and it was our desert. My family didn't even know curry existed.
I was 10 in 1970 .mom started work n had to cook n do everything. I followed the Betty crocker cookbook.
I grew up in the 70's this so reminds me of my mom. Good memories! Thank you.
I like using jicama instead of canned water chestnuts. Water chestnuts always taste metallic to me.
I graduated high school in 1971 and was married with two children by 1975. The most common cookbooks of the period were Betty
Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens. This one was bit less popular. I encourage you to find the more general cookbooks to really get closer to 70s cooking. You will love them. Great video!
This was Better Homes and Gardens?
@@goeticfolklore the one with a red check tablecloth cover was extremely popular.
Instead of the waterchessenuts you could use Celery. The waterchessenuts is just for the crunch.
That was my thought, too, as I was watching the video -- either celery or sliced fennel bulb. I'd probably lightly saute them first, though. Either of those would add some good flavor, whereas water chestnuts seem pretty flavorless to me.
Growing up in the '70s... and having a Depression Baby mom from whom I learned how to cook... I suspect I still prepare meals that correspond to meals from the '70s all the way down to the '40s!
What's your favourite dish to make?
Oh your little vest and blouse was spot on for the 70’s 👍🏻
This is such an improvement from the 50s recipes :-D
Better Homes & Gardens had many, many book series - including this one that would be part of their cooking series. You'd get one about every month or two, and there were quite often 12 books in each series. I'm guessing there are still a lot of them in used book stores, or kitchens of older cooks.
Dinner was whatever the hell my mom felt she could cope with after a day at work. Banquet fried chicken and chips and dip was my favorite. Mostly it was hamburgers, hamburgers, sloppy joes, hamburgers, hot dogs, mac n cheese and hamburgers.
It's funny, I was born in the 1970s and we didn't have a dishwasher until probably the 2000s bc my parents couldn't afford it. So, we would have been doing those dishes by hand, in a double sink. Nice video.
In 2024 our dishwasher is me.never had one
In 2024, my mother's dishwasher is broken and we've been washing her dishes by hand. It's a trial to wash by hand, I understand. At least we know the dishes are clean, right?
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LOL I have that cookbook! I collect vintage cookbooks.
For that Turkey Special, instead of those water chestinuts cooked in, adding celery would be a good crunch. Or even adding small pieces or a red apply on top (rathed than cooking it in) might be better too. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the shag haircut and the glasses! Straight out of my junior high school years. I'm not familiar with those particular recipes, as my mom didn't use a cookbook much and I doubt if our school cooks did either, but I've really been enjoying your food videos!
💖 Those were the recipes I cooked. They were delicious. Thanks for cooking 70's style. Was just missing all the Jello I would make daily! 🙂 ❇❇❇
If you don’t want water chestnuts you could add sliced celery instead
I’d say for most part, I cook the same as I did in the 70’s! Green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, Watergate salad, and jello dishes were popular among my family. We did eat a lot of cottage cheese but in jello or with pineapple. Bisquick recipes were also popular- remember impossible pie, quiches, and lord of pizza! Fancy dishes were enchiladas and lasagne. Spaghetti was also a quick meal with canned sauce!
My mom used to make the pear recipe in the 70s. It was a more simple one though. Iceberg lettuce leaf with a pear on top and cottage cheese on top of that.
Where is your white flowy shirt from in this video? It is beautiful
I remember the 70s well. Mom relied mostly on Hamburger Helper for dinner.
Watched a couple of your videos now. They are going to do a "I Tried a 2020's Meal Plan" and make fun of us for being so obsessed with protein. People from the time periods you feature were a lot thinner than folks these days and ate less protein. I feel like we can learn from that (also the from scratch or almost from scratch meals don't hurt).
That cottage cheese salad sounds great, judt not a menu that I am familiar with from the 70's. Graduated in 73.
We used to have a lot of parties
Add onion, and especially celery, to the turkey! Some chopped red pimento would be nice in it, too.
So interesting. Thank you!!
That is so interesting - love your approach!
This is amazing haha
Great job of this vid!
Everything looks great!
I was surprised by how good it all was!
Just found your channel and I’m obsessed with these videos! Please do more. Oh but we really only need to see you take one bite for a taste test. 😊
I think the salad would be better with just the pears and plain cottage cheese. I doubt I would have served the entree to guests. The dessert looked yummy.
That KFC commercial killed me. $5.50 I'd be all over that, in 24 that's got to be around 20bucks. Only in the 70s would you put peanuts and cottage cheese together.
I grew up in the 70’s so I probably would have eaten some of those meals.
These nostalgic recipes are fun to watch you prepare more pleas these are fun. Hum but probably not for you lol😊❤
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Actually, I probably would have enjoyed that meal. I was a kid in the 70s. My mom only understood salt, pepper and cinnamon. I think that's how most people understood.
Nice vid. Not gonna lie I laughed way too hard at the peanuts situation.
I mean, you could've taken the scissors and cut off just a corner of the biscuit gravy mix pouch, or just cut it open horizontally above the instructions, so it's on you.
I cut mine straight across on the bottom so I have the instructions. I don't use them often and always forget.
I was born in the 70s. I grew up on soul food.
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Haha i was there in the 70s
I was 10 yrs old.cooked from scratch after school.made me a better person n hard worker
Where is the alfalfa sprouts and tofu?
That wasn’t my 70s childhood cuisine.
I want to make that salad.
Its hysterical how much you look like my Mom from back then 😂 Curry powder with pears & cottage cheese...pass! Water chestnuts....why do people think those are "especial"
I don't eat meat, so I'd be interested in what vegetarian cookbooks were like back in the day
can someone please explain cool whip to me a european? what is it? it looks like whipped cream but you need to thaw it, not whip it? what is the flavor difference and why and when do you use cool whip (vs regular whipped cream)?
Cool whip is a brand name for whipped cream. In the US it can be found in the freezer section of a grocery shop. You can make whipping cream from heavy cream by using a mixing tool.
Cool Whip is NOT whipped cream, it’s whipped topping. Cream is nowhere near Cool Whip. It has a similar consistency to whipped cream but the flavor is very artificial and similar to a marshmallow.
The creamed turkey on English muffins looks really good, and easy. I think I can use a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. I'm definitely going to try the pear recipe 😋
Would be nice if you could copy the recipes in the description.
I was born in 1958. My mother couldn't cook to save her ass. She was too lazy to even try. My father was a lawyer, so my brother, sister and I lived on pizza and McDonald's . In fact mother was even too lazy to pick up the food.
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So much processed food!
I must say that you are vividly channelling the '70s every time you say "decent," as in "that's pretty decent." That particular descriptive adjective was very much in vogue during the decade in question. It was used to describe things that were superlative, rather than merely "okay" or (the original meaning) "proper." It was a word, like many others through time, that a generation re-defined, morphing the language to put their stamp upon the common discourse. "Excellent" was interchangeable with "decent" for a decade or so.
KFC for $5.49 you can not even get a small sandwich from there for that much in today's world
So much video jumping. 🤢
1970s whit people food was often so much creamy based. Ugh
who cares.... I once ate a snickers mini in my jacket that was 2yrs old. I didn't feel the need to record a video
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Imagine judging someone for shopping at the store they have available. Eww.
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