Breakfast for dinner, like pancakes with eggs and fried potatoes, was one of my favorites growing up. My parents had 6 kids to feed and had a tight budget. It was good though.
Grew up in a lower middle-class home, both parents worked full time. Nonetheless, tho Mom worked full time, she ALWAYS made two loaves of bread on Saturdays, and often soup (lentil, vegetable, bean, chili), so homemade bread and soup were unforgettable Saturday afternoon regulars. "Soup is good food." 😇
When I was a small boy, my mother would serve fried potatoes with scrambled eggs quite often for supper during the winter months. It wasn't until I was older that I realized the meal was served the most when my father was laid off from his construction job during those winter months. But, what was served out of necessity then is served today in my own home because scrambled eggs poured into a pan of crispy fried potatoes just tastes so good together. On rare occasions, we would also get a special meat with our meal - bacon. I vividly remember tucking my last piece of bacon in my jaw and savoring it for hours until it had no flavor left because I knew it would be a long time before we would have bacon again.
My grandmother came from such poor stock that they didn’t even know the Great Depression had hit. They had a piece of bread with butter for lunch and soup with more bread for dinner. Everything they ate was from what they grew or hunted. They only bought flour and sugar…and if they saved up…a box of mandarin oranges for Christmas. It was the only time they had oranges…just one each… and they would suck and chew the peel to taste it longer. 9 people in a two room shack.
So my grandmother was a depression kid and she would make..shit on a shingle(chipped beef and gravy on toast).. corned beef and cabbage...peas and rice..she wasted nothing..my mom and dad both worked and we were middle income and she would make things like hamburger..peas..and potatoes..she would saute those crab sticks which were actually made from pollock and put them over pasta..we had breakfast for supper alot but i cant ever remember being hungry even though my parents didnt make alot of money..just being at the table together and talking brings back really good memories ❤
Chicken and dumplings. In the late 80s I was a poor college student and you could buy ten pounds of chicken leg/thigh quarters for ten dollars, so we ate a lot of those, and by "a lot" I mean a roast chicken dinner was a leg for me and a thigh for my guest 😂 My record was the time I got a box of Bisquick biscuits mix from the food bank - I cooked one leg/thigh quarter in a lot of water with a big onion, a big carrot sliced up, a rib or two of celery, two chicken bouillon cubes, thyme, and pepper. I removed the chicken and saved the meat, which I diced in little cubes. I made a double recipe of drop dumpling dough with a cup of milk and the Bisquick, thickened the stew slightly with a little extra milk and Bisquick, cooked the dumplings on top of the boiling stew, and fed ten people. I want to say that it cost just about fifteen cents a person.
We had lots of eggs, butter and milk from my grandparent's farm in the 50s, 60s and 70s. All my relatives grow vegetables and fruit. They shared with each other. We had them frozen, canned and even dried. Everyday my grandma made a big pan of biscuits and cornbread. She always served 2 meats and 3 to 5 vegetables. That was lunch. Supper was leftovers. Sunday nights in the winter we had tomato soup and scrambled eggs cooked on a wood stove. My parents worked in cotton mills and at times were on short time trying to raise 3 kids. We were never hungry and always had a roof over our heads. Those were good times.
I still grow food, raise chickens, and eat frugally. We are eating "nearly free soup" for dinner with ten cent cornbread and a mess of garden grown collard greens. The soup is made with scraps: bits of leftover ham, navy beans, chopped broccoli stems I collected and froze, onion, carrot, celery, jalapeño, potato, and red pepper from the garden, with homemade veggie stock. Some secret ingredients are sea salt, cracked pepper, parsley from the garden, homemade apple cider vinegar from apple peelings, and a tablespoon of unsulphured molasses. Oh my, it's good!
My grandparents had six children. My grandma sometimes made tuna on toast... canned tuna with canned peas in a white sauce using the liquid from the tuna can in the sauce, served over cheap white bread. They ate a lot of soups and stews. She also would save even a bit of leftovers in a freezer container and would make Leftover Soup. She also served hot dogs pan fried as the main meat with mashed potatoes and a vegetable. We all loved grandma's cooking, she could make anything taste good.
I've started eating salted canned mackerel and adding some Worcestershire. With sharp cheddar and yeast bread I make myself. Very tasty and satisfying.
My mother combined tuna with a can of undiluted Cream of Mushroom soup and layered the mixture with crushed potato chips and then baked it. Yummy. She always drained and poured water over canned tuna to flush out the fishy broth because we didn't like the strong fishy taste.
My wife was of Lebanese heritage and sometimes she would make "mujadara" , which is a cheap Middle Eastern dish made with olive oil , onions , lentils , and rice . She would serve this in pita bread .I loved it !
My parents grew up during the Great Depression, and my Mom's family would buy Hams and Turkeys and make alot of soups, stews, and casseroles out of them to stretch their budget. They also made alot of Potato Soup, and Oatmeal. My Dad's family ate alot of Liver, and White Castle Hamburgers. To this day, I keep a Ham and Turkey or 2 in our freezer just in case.
Was I lower, lower class? Beef stroganoff or golash was lower class? What's up with these meals being for "lunch"??? Lunch was bread and peanut butter.
the big meal of the day was often served in the middle of the day because many people would go home for lunch then take a 2 hour nap then go back to workeither at the same job or a second one. some called lunch dinner then the lightmeal like soup and sandwich theyd call that supper. it was thought to be better for digestion to not gotobed with a full stomach.
@@chrystalroberts7945It still is considered healthier not to overload our stomachs too close to sleeping. In trying to digest the food, the body is not resting, as it needs to. Traditional Chinese Medicine pays particular attention to diurnal rhythms and cycles of the body's energies.
Potatoes and onions. Heat some sort of oil in a cast iron pan. You want enough to cover the whole bottom. Bacon drippings are best followed by lard but you can make something good even with vegetable oil. Cast Iron gives the best texture. Put in a double layer of sliced potatoes, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then top with a layer of sliced onion. Cook with a lid on loosely until the onion is starting to get translucent and the bottom of the potatoes is getting brown. Flip. You don't have to be too neat and do it in one piece and things can mix up a little now. You just want to make sure that the bottom of the potatoes ends up mostly on the top and doesn't scorch. The potato slices will break up a little at this stage. When the potatoes are cooked through it's done. You aren't trying to get them that crisp. I really like a mix of soft centers and crispier outer edges but it's up to personal taste. Serve from the pan by itself or with bacon, sausage, or eggs. I like it with a lot more black pepper than my mother did so I always ended up adding more.
Things my mom ate from a family of 11 , mayonnaise sandwiches ,gravy bread, potato soup,bean soup with a ham knuckle. Had a home made dress made from printed flour sacks. Oh and cabbage rolls, can make a lb of ground beef go a LOOOOOG way.
Thanks, great video! I grew up in a middle class home in the 1950s and 60s , but my late beloved mom always served Campbell's soups though she made many homemade recipes from scatch as well. I love making homemade soups and just did today, homemade tomato vegetable soup which is so easy to make and saves money! I also love making different quick breads and am starting to make my own boules as well. I love cabbage and make a cabbage, onion and noodle dish that is Ukrainian, "Haluski', also Eastern European, very easy to make and inexpensive. This is also similar to an Irish dish or German because those are other countries that love cabbage, noodles and potatoes. Those of us who are German or Irish ancestry love cabbages and potatoes! My husband is of Russian/Ukranian ancestry so that's also why I make "Haluski"! Bon Appetit!
I was from an actual low income family... we didn't have most of that. We did eat a lot of beans and cornbread, biscuits and gravy, chili and soup. The only rice made in our house was rice pudding for dessert and that was rare.
@@robertagabor9128 I agree. I had never even heard of eating rice with beans until I was almost 30. People that was vegan did it most for a complete protein. Besides a good ole pan of fried tators with beans is just good!
Spam can be prepared many ways, and is still very popular in Hawai'i. There are also several recipes using Spam in Korean cuisine. It has a long shelf life, and high protein content.
Thank you for that wonderful video! There are so many dishes I’ve been missing since my childhood in the 70’s and others my Grandma made for dinner. With times as they are, it’s time to bring these delicious tried and true recipes back to the table.
Tuna fish casserole (lots of noodles, a can of peas and carrots, a can of tuna and homemade white sauce), chili vegan and meat, fish fresh caught, rice and beads, stir fried rice ( rice leftover meats and veggies, soy sauce).
As a kid in the 1960's , we would sometimes have "SOGGY TOAST" . "SOGGY TOAST" is made by putting an excessive amount of butter on bread and putting it into a broiler oven for a few minutes . We would then put jelly , jam , preserves , or honey on it ! YUM !!! Today I make "SOGGY TOAST" by putting an excessive amount of butter on bread and put it in a microwave oven for twenty seconds per slice . When done , spread the melted butter around on the bread and put it in a toaster for two or more minutes . YUM !!!
I often ate " coffee soup" ,bread with a very thick layer of sugar and milked coffee poured over on a plate...To this day I cannot drink coffee..We went hungry a good bit and I made sure my own children did not ...
My mother and her sister ( my aunt ) used to make some of the most delicious stuffed bell peppers ever ! When I make my own stuffed bell peppers , I use a variety of herbs & spices and I cook them in either an oven or a slow cooker crock pot . They always taste great ! YUM !
Poor student version of Stroganoff -- ground beef browned with onions, dash of Worchestershire sauce, ketchup, served over noodles & using plain yogurt instead of sour cream, etc...
I STILL hate throwing away food! Love casseroles! Also creamed chipped beef on toast! SOS! I hated lentils as a child! Got 5 bags on my 5th birthday from my clown family! Love them now!
Beef stroganoff is my lifetime favorite, it was love at first bite! Thank you for the list, some I'd rather do without, but others look promising. I'm not into lentils, but I love split pea soup! And meatloaf, oh my gosh, don't get me started!
A grand supper in my parents' home when I was a kid was Spam, Lima Beans and boiled potatoes with the only seasoning being salt. Disgusting !! I remember being forced by my mother to sit late into the night, sitting in a dark kitchen at the table until I had eaten all of that disgusting food. At around 10 p.m. each night, my dad, feeling sorry for my predicament, would quietly, secretly let the dog and cat in so they could run under the table and gobble up that nasty, disgusting food. My little pets and my daddy were my heros. Yes, I was the shape of a skeleton, I grew up hungry and under nourished, but I did not care. The food and my mother's cooking always ended with me puking my guts out when I did force her food down. For breakfast, we ate torn pieces of stale bread with rehydrated powdered milk. Also, extremely disgusting. It sucked to be poor. My parents were too proud to line up for food stamps and they insisted to me that we were rich and upper middle class. Yet, our house had no carpet on the floor, the cement floors were all cracked with chunks of concrete missing and weeds growing up through the cracks inside the house. Also, my mother's Nash Rambler has no floor in the front passenger's side because the floor had rusted completely away and me being such a short and small child, i stood on the bech seat and held on to my mother's right shoulder to steady myself as she drove. That was before headrests, seatbelts and bucket seats. My mother would sew my clothes and make the 4 sizes larger than me so that I could grow into them. Talk about being laughed at at school !! I was dressed as a clown. I wore the same clothes from Kindergarten to the 6th grade, from 5 years old to over 12 years old. Fortunately, I was extremely gentle on not only my clothing, but everything I was ever given by my parents. At Christmas, my parents would wrap in newspaper some old thing they had given me years before as a new Christmas gift so I would have a "present" to open. Then after I had opened the newspaper wrapping they would shriek and howl with laughter and clap their hands as if it was the most wonderful gift ever given !! Thankfully, I was an only child or I doubt if I would even had this much "luxury" as a child. They insisted I thank them profusely, and hug and kiss them. What a joke ! A joke on me ! But, hey, that was our Christmas every year until I left home. My parents didn't exchange gifts with each other - ever. Not at Christmas, anniversaries, or birthdays or Mother's Day or Father's Day or Easter. We were dirt poor, but my dad and mom each owned their own businesses, but never was able to eek out a fair living. They both were in the lower end of the IQ range, which explained a lot. Study hard in school, people, and fo every homework assignment so you can achieve more than the bare minimum in life. My dad was ½ Swiss, ½ English and my mother was ½ Irish and ½ English, so race had nothing to do with our poverty. Dad was an inly child born to a father if 52 years old and a mother, past her prime, at 43, so he came from an old egg. He lived to be 89, though. Mom was first born, conceived by a girl of barely 18 and a boy of 17 and the girl, my grandmother was in a large Irish family of all boys who considered females less than human, so my grandmother and my great grandmother got extremely little to eat as they were deemed unworthy of hard earned food. Therefore, while my mother's brain was being formed in the womb, there was very little nutrition, thus, low intelligence was the result for my mother. Fortunately, for me, I somehow ended up with an IQ, of 135 and excelled at everything I touched, went to college, got a job and bought my parents everything they needed to rise in their quality of living, though they disosed me and hated me for my success in life and stole everything from me to pawn, when I wasn't looking - even stole my husband's belongings to pawn. They're both dead now and gone to their "reward." It took a few years for me to forgive them, but forgive them , I have. Bon Appétit !!
A very interesting story. I enjoyed reading it. Heck girls needed just as much food as boys so it's terrible your ancestors barely got anything. The only thing I laughed at was your rides in the nash rambler. Your mum had some brain power to drive. You did amazingly in life that was great to read. Some stories from the past have me riveted. So darn sorry for your school torment with the 'clothes'. I had life hard too. Your parents sounded strange stealing from you and your husband. Doesn't sound as if they had a conscience. It's great you forgave them. I hope life is great for you these days.
My mom would make hamburger soup a lot. That consisted of 1 lb hamburger for all 6 or 7 of us, and a lg can of veg-all with a lot of broth and several slices of bread to help fill us up.
My grandma would make potato soup with milk, potato, and little finger pinched dough balls called "rivels". The rivels got dropped into the boiling soup to cook.
Aha! Rivels! I never heard anyone else mention them before except for when we lived in Germany! Grandma pinched off pieces of leftover noodle dough, and tossed them into hot homemade chicken broth, yum!
My father in law is Hungarian and eggs and flour mixed with some water to make a sticky dough and dropped into boiling water they call spaetzels..you then put chicken paprikash over them..one of first things I learned to make my husband that reminded him of home❤
Onions stuffed with Grapenuts? No! Just no! In the early 80's chicken was very cheap and so were potatoes. We ate A LOT of fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and corn. Never got tired of it. Even now, it's my favorite home made dinner
Cornflakes or oatmeal for breakfast, chicken rice casserole or hamburger noodle casserole. Meatloaf, stuffed peppers, mashed potatoes. Soda was a rare treat. College was much more frugal. Hot dogs with fried cabbage for dinner. Cheapest granola, bananas to fill up.
My college days were filled with a little hamburger meat (a pound would last 5 days) and a can of vegetable soup cooked in with it. We had bread and butter with it.
Mom would make white rice and after it cooked, she would stir in some tuna. Tapatio sauce wss sprinkled and it was sooooo good. Cooked in 15 minutes and had happy kiddos.
Middle class childhood in Ohio. Very little red meat, desserts were fresh or canned fruit. Seldom had cake, pie, donuts, etc. Chicken, tuna, waffles, eggs for supper. Lunch was sandwiches and fruit or vegetables and milk. Breakfast was oatmeal or other cereal with milk. My dad loved cottage cheese. Tina, Al's wife
SPAM is great…we still take it camping and even eat it occasionally at home. With all the new flavors, like bacon, turkey, maple etc it’s the ideal camping food, or survival food!
I like to cube potatoes and add onions and green bell peppers. I season with steak or lemon pepper seasonings. For breakfast I just scramble with eggs or use as a side dish with meat through the week. I also use it for flautas after smashing the already cooked potatoes.
We fried slices of balogna in bacon fat ungil they curled i to a cup then filled with lettuce and wilted the lettuce with a little of the hot fat. OMG!
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Spaghetti with ketchup. White bread with margarine and jam. Not very tasty. This is for really REALLY hard times. A little more expensive, and infinitely better food: Cabbage and potatoes. Langos. Stew from dried pulses.
To put things into perspective, in the 1950's, eating out at a diner, my dad sent me out to the lobby with a quarter to buy him a pack of cigarettes from the vending machine. When I brought it to him, he opened the pack and made a big fuss about giving me the two pennies that were enclosed in the cellophane that covered the pack. So a whole pack of cigarettes in the 1950's was only 23 cents. Must have been even cheaper in earlier years.
Smoking kills your appetite. The nicotine causes glycogen to be released from your liver (? I think), so you can go longer without food. So I smoked my way through college with only one meal a day, because I had to work from 11 - 7 pm, taking classes before and after work. Yeah, I was skinny.
@@marypeterson1053I was born in '65 always a can in my house growing up. I remember putting the key in the metal strip & rolling it around the can & it broke off at least 2x! 😂
And now we have protein shakes and energy drinks and gluten free, lactose free, sugar free, fat free, vegan, cultured meat, lab grown meat and sewage scientists attempting to extract protein to feed the world with. 😮
@@Smooshes786 nah, every time a democrat in office we have bad economy, millions of illegals, multiple proxy wars, all raise the prices. You need to wake up
@@Smooshes786 That's odd you have such a foggy memory. I vividly recall paying $12 for a chuck roast during the Trump administration. Tonight, I paid $22 for the same size Bidenomics chuck roast. I also paid half the price for a dozen of eggs, 20% less in auto insurance, lower electricity rates, lower price at the gas pump, lower water bills, and on and on. You're the one who needs to catch up.
@@ScottALanter sigh- you enjoy playing g politics over full facts of a situation Scott. This is concerning to me. Are you always a myopic thinker or did you just want to be correct somehow?
What was your go-to meal when times were tough?
Breakfast for dinner, like pancakes with eggs and fried potatoes, was one of my favorites growing up. My parents had 6 kids to feed and had a tight budget. It was good though.
Cream gravy on bread-no meat, no potatoes.
Cottage pie, stuffed peppers or tomatoes, bread pudding, oxtail soup, rhubarb pie.
Pinto beans, cornbread and fried potatoes. One of my favorites til this day
Noodle soup with cheese
Grew up in a lower middle-class home, both parents worked full time. Nonetheless, tho Mom worked full time, she ALWAYS made two loaves of bread on Saturdays, and often soup (lentil, vegetable, bean, chili), so homemade bread and soup were unforgettable Saturday afternoon regulars. "Soup is good food." 😇
Oh yeah!!
I love soup, even in summer !
When I was a small boy, my mother would serve fried potatoes with scrambled eggs quite often for supper during the winter months. It wasn't until I was older that I realized the meal was served the most when my father was laid off from his construction job during those winter months. But, what was served out of necessity then is served today in my own home because scrambled eggs poured into a pan of crispy fried potatoes just tastes so good together. On rare occasions, we would also get a special meat with our meal - bacon. I vividly remember tucking my last piece of bacon in my jaw and savoring it for hours until it had no flavor left because I knew it would be a long time before we would have bacon again.
And for some reason, still good memories! Right!
Well I love both eggs and potatoes, so that's actually doable! And bacon? That's a given! 😊 ☕️
Add onions, it's a Spanish omelet
Our mom would make us eggs over potatoes too, and we never knew it was because we didn’t have much else. It’s one of my favorite comfort foods now.
My grandmother came from such poor stock that they didn’t even know the Great Depression had hit. They had a piece of bread with butter for lunch and soup with more bread for dinner. Everything they ate was from what they grew or hunted. They only bought flour and sugar…and if they saved up…a box of mandarin oranges for Christmas. It was the only time they had oranges…just one each… and they would suck and chew the peel to taste it longer. 9 people in a two room shack.
Was your grandmother Loretta Lynn? Just kidding. I have a lot of respect for people who are self sufficient like that, as I know how hard it can be.
So my grandmother was a depression kid and she would make..shit on a shingle(chipped beef and gravy on toast).. corned beef and cabbage...peas and rice..she wasted nothing..my mom and dad both worked and we were middle income and she would make things like hamburger..peas..and potatoes..she would saute those crab sticks which were actually made from pollock and put them over pasta..we had breakfast for supper alot but i cant ever remember being hungry even though my parents didnt make alot of money..just being at the table together and talking brings back really good memories ❤
Chicken and dumplings. In the late 80s I was a poor college student and you could buy ten pounds of chicken leg/thigh quarters for ten dollars, so we ate a lot of those, and by "a lot" I mean a roast chicken dinner was a leg for me and a thigh for my guest 😂 My record was the time I got a box of Bisquick biscuits mix from the food bank - I cooked one leg/thigh quarter in a lot of water with a big onion, a big carrot sliced up, a rib or two of celery, two chicken bouillon cubes, thyme, and pepper. I removed the chicken and saved the meat, which I diced in little cubes. I made a double recipe of drop dumpling dough with a cup of milk and the Bisquick, thickened the stew slightly with a little extra milk and Bisquick, cooked the dumplings on top of the boiling stew, and fed ten people. I want to say that it cost just about fifteen cents a person.
You did good! I still love chicken and dumplings! I ate a lot of chicken like you did when I was single between my failed marriages! Lol.
We had lots of eggs, butter and milk from my grandparent's farm in the 50s, 60s and 70s. All my relatives grow vegetables and fruit. They shared with each other. We had them frozen, canned and even dried.
Everyday my grandma made a big pan of biscuits and cornbread. She always served 2 meats and 3 to 5 vegetables. That was lunch. Supper was leftovers.
Sunday nights in the winter
we had tomato soup and scrambled eggs cooked on a wood stove. My parents worked in cotton mills and at times were on short time trying to raise 3 kids.
We were never hungry and always had a roof over our heads. Those were good times.
Oh that's awesome that your family collectively had so much sustainable food!
I still grow food, raise chickens, and eat frugally. We are eating "nearly free soup" for dinner with ten cent cornbread and a mess of garden grown collard greens. The soup is made with scraps: bits of leftover ham, navy beans, chopped broccoli stems I collected and froze, onion, carrot, celery, jalapeño, potato, and red pepper from the garden, with homemade veggie stock. Some secret ingredients are sea salt, cracked pepper, parsley from the garden, homemade apple cider vinegar from apple peelings, and a tablespoon of unsulphured molasses. Oh my, it's good!
My grandparents had six children. My grandma sometimes made tuna on toast... canned tuna with canned peas in a white sauce using the liquid from the tuna can in the sauce, served over cheap white bread. They ate a lot of soups and stews. She also would save even a bit of leftovers in a freezer container and would make Leftover Soup. She also served hot dogs pan fried as the main meat with mashed potatoes and a vegetable. We all loved grandma's cooking, she could make anything taste good.
I've started eating salted canned mackerel and adding some Worcestershire. With sharp cheddar and yeast bread I make myself. Very tasty and satisfying.
@@ambercrombie789 I'm always looking for ways to eat more fish. Thanks
We still have creamed tuna on toast at least once a month!
Yum! We used to eat tuna on toast when I was growing up too!
And I love fried hot dogs.
My mother combined tuna with a can of undiluted Cream of Mushroom soup and layered the mixture with crushed potato chips and then baked it. Yummy.
She always drained and poured water over canned tuna to flush out the fishy broth because we didn't like the strong fishy taste.
I would love to have any of these classic dishes on my menu.
Hard times in USA still meant having food. Many in other countries during economic depression would consider having these foods to be luxury items.
My wife was of Lebanese heritage and sometimes she would make "mujadara" , which
is a cheap Middle Eastern dish made with olive oil , onions , lentils , and rice . She would
serve this in pita bread .I loved it !
Sounds great!
It is goooood!!
I make it frequently. It's delicious and filling.
I LOVE mujadera!!!
Mujadara is delicious any time! It's enjoyed from Northern Africa all across to India, with varying names. And it's very healthy!
Watching it from Brazil, we eat rice and beans everyday.
Me too and I live in the USA.
I love what I love.
My parents grew up during the Great Depression, and my Mom's family would buy Hams and Turkeys and make alot of soups, stews, and casseroles out of them to stretch their budget. They also made alot of Potato Soup, and Oatmeal. My Dad's family ate alot of Liver, and White Castle Hamburgers. To this day, I keep a Ham and Turkey or 2 in our freezer just in case.
Was I lower, lower class? Beef stroganoff or golash was lower class? What's up with these meals being for "lunch"??? Lunch was bread and peanut butter.
the big meal of the day was often served in the middle of the day because many people would go home for lunch then take a 2 hour nap then go back to workeither at the same job or a second one. some called lunch dinner then the lightmeal like soup and sandwich theyd call that supper. it was thought to be better for digestion to not gotobed with a full stomach.
My mom would eat mayonnaise sandwichs .
If they,9 kids,were still hungry after dinner they had gravy bread.
@@chrystalroberts7945It still is considered healthier not to overload our stomachs too close to sleeping. In trying to digest the food, the body is not resting, as it needs to. Traditional Chinese Medicine pays particular attention to diurnal rhythms and cycles of the body's energies.
Potatoes and onions. Heat some sort of oil in a cast iron pan. You want enough to cover the whole bottom. Bacon drippings are best followed by lard but you can make something good even with vegetable oil. Cast Iron gives the best texture. Put in a double layer of sliced potatoes, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then top with a layer of sliced onion. Cook with a lid on loosely until the onion is starting to get translucent and the bottom of the potatoes is getting brown. Flip. You don't have to be too neat and do it in one piece and things can mix up a little now. You just want to make sure that the bottom of the potatoes ends up mostly on the top and doesn't scorch. The potato slices will break up a little at this stage. When the potatoes are cooked through it's done. You aren't trying to get them that crisp. I really like a mix of soft centers and crispier outer edges but it's up to personal taste. Serve from the pan by itself or with bacon, sausage, or eggs. I like it with a lot more black pepper than my mother did so I always ended up adding more.
My parents had a bacon fat jar! 😊 Fried potatoes $ onions were weekend morning staples
Things my mom ate from a family of 11 , mayonnaise sandwiches ,gravy bread, potato soup,bean soup with a ham knuckle.
Had a home made dress made from printed flour sacks.
Oh and cabbage rolls, can make a lb of ground beef go a LOOOOOG way.
I love gravy bread. My kids think I'm crazy.
@@lizajoymorales248 Gravy on French fries is also yummy.
This is not lower income food. This was very mainstream food, for the most part. I grew up lower income and this was not it. 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks, great video! I grew up in a middle class home in the 1950s and 60s , but my late beloved mom always served Campbell's soups though she made many homemade recipes from scatch as well. I love making homemade soups and just did today, homemade tomato vegetable soup which is so easy to make and saves money! I also love making different quick breads and am starting to make my own boules as well. I love cabbage and make a cabbage, onion and noodle dish that is Ukrainian, "Haluski', also Eastern European, very easy to make and inexpensive. This is also similar to an Irish dish or German because those are other countries that love cabbage, noodles and potatoes. Those of us who are German or Irish ancestry love cabbages and potatoes! My husband is of Russian/Ukranian ancestry so that's also why I make "Haluski"! Bon Appetit!
Golubke (cabbage rolls) are my favs
My mom made Campbell's tomato soup with milk instead of water and we crumbled Saltines on top of it. Yum!
@@happydays1336 The way we ate it too!
I was raised by people that lived thru the depression. We had money but it wasnt to be wasted. We did many, many things at low or no cost.
I was from an actual low income family... we didn't have most of that. We did eat a lot of beans and cornbread, biscuits and gravy, chili and soup. The only rice made in our house was rice pudding for dessert and that was rare.
in the south they may eat beans and potatoes more often then beans and rice.
@@robertagabor9128 I agree. I had never even heard of eating rice with beans until I was almost 30. People that was vegan did it most for a complete protein. Besides a good ole pan of fried tators with beans is just good!
@@justmefolks1863 I agree wholeheartedly.
@@robertagabor9128Red beans & rice are the best in Louisiana!!😋
@@justmefolks1863 I agree!
Spam can be prepared many ways, and is still very popular in Hawai'i. There are also several recipes using Spam in Korean cuisine. It has a long shelf life, and high protein content.
What is this "leftover" bacon you speak of?
Hahahaha
@@margarettickle9659 ,omg...i said the same thing in my head.
LOL, true.
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Thank you for that wonderful video! There are so many dishes I’ve been missing since my childhood in the 70’s and others my Grandma made for dinner. With times as they are, it’s time to bring these delicious tried and true recipes back to the table.
There were quite a few of these that brought back lots of memories and made my mouth water.
I eat this stuff all the time. Almost everything you had on this list is something that’s in my rotation throughout the month.😂
I thought the same thing. In fact I have leftover meatloaf in my fridge right now. I am thinking of having a meatloaf sandwich.
Grape Nuts are not tasteless. Barley flower is one of the main ingredients and they taste a little bit pleasantly malty. They have a great crunch.
I am surprised butter noodles didn't make this list.
Tuna fish casserole (lots of noodles, a can of peas and carrots, a can of tuna and homemade white sauce), chili vegan and meat, fish fresh caught, rice and beads, stir fried rice ( rice leftover meats and veggies, soy sauce).
or made with mushroom soup.
@@robertagabor9128 expensive
Memories of what my family ate during these times especially here in Oklahoma my home state thanks for the memories.🍞🥓🥔🍎🥛🇺🇲
My home state too but I don’t live there anymore, but Oklahoma will always be home ❤
As a kid in the 1960's , we would sometimes have "SOGGY TOAST" . "SOGGY TOAST" is
made by putting an excessive amount of butter on bread and putting it into a broiler oven
for a few minutes . We would then put jelly , jam , preserves , or honey on it ! YUM !!!
Today I make "SOGGY TOAST" by putting an excessive amount of butter on bread and
put it in a microwave oven for twenty seconds per slice . When done , spread the melted
butter around on the bread and put it in a toaster for two or more minutes . YUM !!!
I often ate " coffee soup" ,bread with a very thick layer of sugar and milked coffee poured over on a plate...To this day I cannot drink coffee..We went hungry a good bit and I made sure my own children did not ...
In the All Creatures Great and Small books, they talk about haveing bubble& squeek for meals.😊
My mother and her sister ( my aunt ) used to make some of the most delicious stuffed
bell peppers ever ! When I make my own stuffed bell peppers , I use a variety of herbs &
spices and I cook them in either an oven or a slow cooker crock pot . They always taste
great ! YUM !
A great comfort food. I make them all the time.
Poor student version of Stroganoff -- ground beef browned with onions, dash of Worchestershire sauce, ketchup, served over noodles & using plain yogurt instead of sour cream, etc...
I STILL hate throwing away food! Love casseroles! Also creamed chipped beef on toast! SOS!
I hated lentils as a child! Got 5 bags on my 5th birthday from my clown family! Love them now!
The family or the lentils?
@@dorawedlock3969 My family were a bunch of clowns! Hilarious! Does that answer your question? I'm not sure what you were asking?
@@RosemaryEdwards-g7k you love lentils or your clown family? I wouldn’t have loved my family very much if they had done that to me at 5.
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* pasta and sauce,
* homemade soup,
* mashed potatos and gravy.
Beef stroganoff is my lifetime favorite, it was love at first bite! Thank you for the list, some I'd rather do without, but others look promising. I'm not into lentils, but I love split pea soup! And meatloaf, oh my gosh, don't get me started!
Bubble and Squeak is British.
Irish
@@Miss_Kisa94 colcannon
Delicious! I ate it in England and Ireland with slight differences.
It's called that because your tummy will bubble and your bu++ will squeak.
LOL
So? Who cares where it originally came from?
A grand supper in my parents' home when I was a kid was Spam, Lima Beans and boiled potatoes with the only seasoning being salt.
Disgusting !!
I remember being forced by my mother to sit late into the night, sitting in a dark kitchen at the table until I had eaten all of that disgusting food. At around 10 p.m. each night, my dad, feeling sorry for my predicament, would quietly, secretly let the dog and cat in so they could run under the table and gobble up that nasty, disgusting food.
My little pets and my daddy were my heros.
Yes, I was the shape of a skeleton, I grew up hungry and under nourished, but I did not care. The food and my mother's cooking always ended with me puking my guts out when I did force her food down.
For breakfast, we ate torn pieces of stale bread with rehydrated powdered milk. Also, extremely disgusting.
It sucked to be poor. My parents were too proud to line up for food stamps and they insisted to me that we were rich and upper middle class. Yet, our house had no carpet on the floor, the cement floors were all cracked with chunks of concrete missing and weeds growing up through the cracks inside the house. Also, my mother's Nash Rambler has no floor in the front passenger's side because the floor had rusted completely away and me being such a short and small child, i stood on the bech seat and held on to my mother's right shoulder to steady myself as she drove. That was before headrests, seatbelts and bucket seats.
My mother would sew my clothes and make the 4 sizes larger than me so that I could grow into them. Talk about being laughed at at school !! I was dressed as a clown. I wore the same clothes from Kindergarten to the 6th grade, from 5 years old to over 12 years old. Fortunately, I was extremely gentle on not only my clothing, but everything I was ever given by my parents. At Christmas, my parents would wrap in newspaper some old thing they had given me years before as a new Christmas gift so I would have a "present" to open. Then after I had opened the newspaper wrapping they would shriek and howl with laughter and clap their hands as if it was the most wonderful gift ever given !! Thankfully, I was an only child or I doubt if I would even had this much "luxury" as a child. They insisted I thank them profusely, and hug and kiss them.
What a joke ! A joke on me ! But, hey, that was our Christmas every year until I left home. My parents didn't exchange gifts with each other - ever. Not at Christmas, anniversaries, or birthdays or Mother's Day or Father's Day or Easter. We were dirt poor, but my dad and mom each owned their own businesses, but never was able to eek out a fair living. They both were in the lower end of the IQ range, which explained a lot.
Study hard in school, people, and fo every homework assignment so you can achieve more than the bare minimum in life. My dad was ½ Swiss, ½ English and my mother was ½ Irish and ½ English, so race had nothing to do with our poverty. Dad was an inly child born to a father if 52 years old and a mother, past her prime, at 43, so he came from an old egg. He lived to be 89, though. Mom was first born, conceived by a girl of barely 18 and a boy of 17 and the girl, my grandmother was in a large Irish family of all boys who considered females less than human, so my grandmother and my great grandmother got extremely little to eat as they were deemed unworthy of hard earned food. Therefore, while my mother's brain was being formed in the womb, there was very little nutrition, thus, low intelligence was the result for my mother.
Fortunately, for me, I somehow ended up with an IQ, of 135 and excelled at everything I touched, went to college, got a job and bought my parents everything they needed to rise in their quality of living, though they disosed me and hated me for my success in life and stole everything from me to pawn, when I wasn't looking - even stole my husband's belongings to pawn.
They're both dead now and gone to their "reward." It took a few years for me to forgive them, but forgive them , I have.
Bon Appétit !!
A very interesting story. I enjoyed reading it. Heck girls needed just as much food as boys so it's terrible your ancestors barely got anything. The only thing I laughed at was your rides in the nash rambler. Your mum had some brain power to drive. You did amazingly in life that was great to read. Some stories from the past have me riveted. So darn sorry for your school torment with the 'clothes'.
I had life hard too. Your parents sounded strange stealing from you and your husband. Doesn't sound as if they had a conscience. It's great you forgave them. I hope life is great for you these days.
My mom would make hamburger soup a lot. That consisted of 1 lb hamburger for all 6 or 7 of us, and a lg can of veg-all with a lot of broth and several slices of bread to help fill us up.
My grandma would make potato soup with milk, potato, and little finger pinched dough balls called "rivels". The rivels got dropped into the boiling soup to cook.
Aha! Rivels! I never heard anyone else mention them before except for when we lived in Germany! Grandma pinched off pieces of leftover noodle dough, and tossed them into hot homemade chicken broth, yum!
@@grovermartin6874 my grandma made river soup. I LOVED it. Haven't had it for 50 yrs.
My father in law is Hungarian and eggs and flour mixed with some water to make a sticky dough and dropped into boiling water they call spaetzels..you then put chicken paprikash over them..one of first things I learned to make my husband that reminded him of home❤
@heathergaal7179 Sooo delicious! Not easy to make spætzle, takes real muscle.
Onions stuffed with Grapenuts? No! Just no!
In the early 80's chicken was very cheap and so were potatoes. We ate A LOT of fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and corn. Never got tired of it. Even now, it's my favorite home made dinner
I’ve made potato soup numerous times. I use almond milk instead of regular milk.
We survived. Generally healthy and no obesity.
Most people did not eat meat for years. These stores I have heard from past relatives.
Cornflakes or oatmeal for breakfast, chicken rice casserole or hamburger noodle casserole. Meatloaf, stuffed peppers, mashed potatoes. Soda was a rare treat. College was much more frugal. Hot dogs with fried cabbage for dinner. Cheapest granola, bananas to fill up.
My college days were filled with a little hamburger meat (a pound would last 5 days) and a can of vegetable soup cooked in with it. We had bread and butter with it.
Hot dogs and baked beans.
Amazing video, there is just one problem i have with it... I cant eat onions *cry* good thing potatoes are tasty even without anything XD
Potato soup or mac and cheese!
Loved potato soup the way my mother made it
@@sharonlalli1414My grandma always put "rivlets" in her potato soup. Do you know what I'm referring to?❤❤
I love meatloaf. Delish.
Mom would make white rice and after it cooked, she would stir in some tuna. Tapatio sauce wss sprinkled and it was sooooo good. Cooked in 15 minutes and had happy kiddos.
Middle class childhood in Ohio. Very little red meat, desserts were fresh or canned fruit. Seldom had cake, pie, donuts, etc. Chicken, tuna, waffles, eggs for supper. Lunch was sandwiches and fruit or vegetables and milk. Breakfast was oatmeal or other cereal with milk. My dad loved cottage cheese. Tina, Al's wife
SPAM is great…we still take it camping and even eat it occasionally at home. With all the new flavors, like bacon, turkey, maple etc it’s the ideal camping food, or survival food!
I like to cube potatoes and add onions and green bell peppers. I season with steak or lemon pepper seasonings. For breakfast I just scramble with eggs or use as a side dish with meat through the week. I also use it for flautas after smashing the already cooked potatoes.
I found as a child, in my grandmother collection a butterless milkless cake, it was OK, called for tonnage of sugar.😊
I'm from Michigan and if you didn't have Kelloggs you never heard the end of it
and how about fried Cabbage and noodles?
We fried slices of balogna in bacon fat ungil they curled i to a cup then filled with lettuce and wilted the lettuce with a little of the hot fat. OMG!
How about canned salmon cakes?
We Also used salted cod when it was available. It took more prep but the result was superior
Our family ate a lot of spaghetti and soup.
Salisbury steak is delicious.
Love cornbread
Many of these were popular in Australia too
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Mine too!!!!!!!
I love grape nuts but never heard of this dish.
If a pitstie or 2 sprout, regrow them! Easy and so fresh tasting than stire bought!
Spam was cooked in the can. It isn't raw meat hanging around on a grocery shelf.
I have eaten all of these dishes as a child and made them as an adult.
Why are you acting like you’re too good for spam? My husband and kids love it.
They have all kinds of creative ways to eat it in Hawai'i!
Sodium nitrate comes from celery
My parents loved Swiss steak, and Dad loved Salisbury steak and to me those things were torture by food😢
Spaghetti with ketchup. White bread with margarine and jam. Not very tasty. This is for really REALLY hard times. A little more expensive, and infinitely better food: Cabbage and potatoes. Langos. Stew from dried pulses.
Revolting? Spam?! I think not
Agreed!
I tried to like Spam but wasn't able to. I donated the cans I'd bought to a food pantry because I figured someone would like it.
Bubble and Squeak wasn’t an American dish.
No food, yet they all found the money to smoke?
To put things into perspective, in the 1950's, eating out at a diner, my dad sent me out to the lobby with a quarter to buy him a pack of cigarettes from the vending machine. When I brought it to him, he opened the pack and made a big fuss about giving me the two pennies that were enclosed in the cellophane that covered the pack. So a whole pack of cigarettes in the 1950's was only 23 cents. Must have been even cheaper in earlier years.
My Uncle quit smoking when they went to 25 cents a pack.
Smoking kills your appetite. The nicotine causes glycogen to be released from your liver (? I think), so you can go longer without food. So I smoked my way through college with only one meal a day, because I had to work from 11 - 7 pm, taking classes before and after work. Yeah, I was skinny.
We must have been really poor because the only one I recognize is the ground beef casserole.
Need to add some green peppers to the rice and beans.
Mar-ga-rine????
Cheaper than butter for decades ...
Invented during WW2. Popular because it was a cheap substitute for butter during hard times.
Soft plastic
I noticed that mispronunciation, too.
Some of the old poor man's food/ingredients are hardly affordable for people like me these days 🤨
Leftovers ? What’s that?
Its that stuff you've been dreaming of all day.
Spam is now expensive. At my store in Texas it's 3.98. ouch
over 5.00 in n.c
it is also high in sodium, not good for people with high blood pressure.
I love spam.
Almost 5 in KY
@@marypeterson1053I was born in '65 always a can in my house growing up. I remember putting the key in the metal strip & rolling it around the can & it broke off at least 2x! 😂
Margarine.. Mar ger in, not Mar geer een. Anna In Ohio
Mmmm! Goo-lash!
Mac and chesse
I can take or leave mushrooms.
GOOD GROUND BEEF TY
this audio is only on the left side...
Would love to watch, but I can barely hear... mono-channel in the future?
Water pie
non fattening.
Im sure its not low cal due to the amount of sugar and butter @@robertagabor9128
Who wrote the script? It’s terrible.
And now we have protein shakes and energy drinks and gluten free, lactose free, sugar free, fat free, vegan, cultured meat, lab grown meat and sewage scientists attempting to extract protein to feed the world with. 😮
Omg. Sewage scientists? 😮
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Please learn to pronounce the names correctly
RECAL mmmmmm
SPAM SANDWICHES
"The World" does not dispense "favors". / That is loser think.
What did the black people eat and other minorities? I mean, my ancestors ate and I surely don't see them making half of this stuff.
Bidenflation
You need to catch up. His administration has brought it down from the failure the last guy left.
@@Smooshes786 nah, every time a democrat in office we have bad economy, millions of illegals, multiple proxy wars, all raise the prices. You need to wake up
@@Smooshes786 That's odd you have such a foggy memory. I vividly recall paying $12 for a chuck roast during the Trump administration. Tonight, I paid $22 for the same size Bidenomics chuck roast. I also paid half the price for a dozen of eggs, 20% less in auto insurance, lower electricity rates, lower price at the gas pump, lower water bills, and on and on. You're the one who needs to catch up.
@@ScottALanter sigh- you enjoy playing g politics over full facts of a situation Scott. This is concerning to me. Are you always a myopic thinker or did you just want to be correct somehow?
@@Smooshes786 millions of illegals, abusing our system,once again inflation bc liberals, once again multiple proxy wars bc liberals.