Large Family Low Income Cooking | recession | inflation meals
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Feeding our people can be done on a budget. It just takes some creativity and learning of new skills! In this episode I show you how I make a large meal for my family of 6 for about $6.50. We even had leftovers!
If you’d like the recipes, check out my page on Facebook where I love to share recipes my family loves. ♥️
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With the things that are happening in our world today, these skills may become crucial to our survival. Thank you.
When you read this please know, I developed these theories when we were one step from financial collapse. It was adjust and eek out every 1/2 penny (1/2 Pennie’s were available in the 40s and 50s 😊). Every day, week and month, I had to figure out ways to continue to spend less. The alternative was not acceptable. Watching family after family fall was very motivational. Cut to the end, we made it, thank the good Lord! We lived well below the poverty line.
Meat was a requirement of every meal for my husband. After getting my groceries as low as I could, I looked at how to cut the cost of energy used to prepare meals could be more efficient. I would look at the calendar and cook with my stove top and oven on cold days and a crockpot on other days. And in summer, outside on the deck in the crockpot. I experimented with one pot meals, less cleanup hot water, soap and stovetop burners. On cold days I could turn the heat down early 4:30 to 60-62F and the oven or stove made the difference between 4:30-10pm. To hard for me to imagine keeping a perpetual stock on low on the stove 7 days/24 hours. If we had a wood stove it would have worked, just not my kitchen electric stove.
Wish I had experimented more with cooking dry beans. But I bought can beans in bulk on a deep sale a few times a year because I could get 3-4 cans for the price of beans and they were already ready to use. I also wish I had incorporated the pasta water into meals. I did make a simple hummus when my son and husband became obsessed with it. Chickpeas+olive oil+flavoring (onion, garlic, paprika, chives, lemon juice, etc.). My son was a bottomless pit teen and my husband work a high calorie job. My husband was 6ft, muscular and our son was athletic & grew to 6’1”. They could eat an 8oz container each with homemade crackers or croutons.
My family liked chili. Every 3 or 4 weeks, we had chili week. Monday chili with cornbread bread, Wednesday was Chili Macaroni and Friday with Chili and Cheese on hot dogs with buns and French fries.
I did take the flyers and coupon route. I kept 1+ years of food, personal goods, household items and clothing in case of emergency or unexpected event. It definitely came in handy. It allowed me to stock up at the lowest price.
Thank you so much for all of this information! I had never heard of 1/2 Pennie’s. Meat is a requirement for my husband and children too, they don’t do well on vegetarian style meals. So I’ve got to make sure that that is available. It sounds like your husband and son has a great lady to care for them ♥️
@@TheProductiveHomemaker worked both ways, husband worked hard.
Chili is a weekly staple here in my home and to save $, I buy and use the frozen ground turkey from Walmart. It’s like $2.50 for a pound instead of $6 for beef. With a family of 6, it lasts 2 days dinner and lunch!
Thank you Kenyonbissett, my mother lived in tenement housing in the 40s in Dublin,Ireland. All children, parents in one room. My father was a stevedore, on the docks. Very difficult finding food, buying, keeping, cooking and eking it out between so many. Her skills were passed on to us, her children. Whether she realized it or not. People, friends and neighbours shared and fed each others children when times were hard, births were happening or sickness. Everyone muddied together. As an adult I still continue with the values in ‘housekeeping’, and became a nurse having, starting with her visiting with births and deaths. The half penny we pronounced ‘hay penny’. My parents worked hard.
I love this idea of the broth pot. I had a friend that was a chef in a high end restaurant when he was younger. He told me about such a pot. He said never let veg scraps such as onions skins, carrot skins bits and pieces go to waste.
“One of the ways is by learning from other countries and other people…” 👌👌👌 yes yes yes. I eat so well because of this (I grew up around immigrants and they know how to eat with strict budgets). Thank you for sharing this perspective with others ❤
I’m so glad you enjoyed ♥️
I'm 66 yo widow. My parents were each youngest kids of older parents. They saw the Depression in all its awful glory but were still minors during WWII. Too many stories to tell of how they stretched everything they ate, wore, and owned to make it to the other side (post war prosperity). This page truly captures the spirit of how they lived - positive, blessed, victorious, and sometimes sad but with full tummies. God bless us all!!!!
Wow, I would have love to be able to hear stories like that! Thank you for sharing ♥️
Very nice meal. It is wonderful to see someone your age who is so accomplished and eager to feed healthy meals to their family. Good luck with your channel. I subscribed!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you’re here ♥️
For the broth pot... maybe a slow cooker would be more energy efficient? I used to keep a container in my freezer and dump scraps in it until it was full (I re-used a 3 quart ice cream container from a party) and then I would pour all of the scraps into a crock pot and cover with water, put it on high until thawed and hot and then put on low and let it simmer for as long as it needed.
This just popped in my feed, and I feel like we are friends! 😁👏 I have a family of 5 I try to feed good food for 5$ suppers at home. Love finding other woman do the same. 👏👏 we grow lots of our food to so it helps. 🇨🇦
Yes!! That’s amazing! It’s totally possible with some hard work and creativity. Great job!
Interested in your never-ending pot of stock. My grandmother did that. She also had never ending yeast in her flour jar as well. I'm older so we were raised with buttermilk as a byproduct of our homemade butter (which resulted in biscuits being a staple). It was definitely a no waste household with everything being used. From every bird came stock. Some form of lard, smaltz or tallow came from every animal's fat and there was absolutely zero food waste. Even the scraps were used for either stock or feeding animals. I love the thoughtfulness of your channel. I wish you and yours a Happy and Healthy New Year!
@aliciaemerson2413 never ending yeast? How do you get that ?☺😅
Beans. The healthiest, least expensive, most filling protein in the world. Delicious and versatile, too.
So true! They’re delicious!
If you can eat them! I was horrified to discover that beans are a powerful trigger of excruciating migraines. Even a few beans can set one off. I used to cook a lot of beans, now we keep canned beans for the times that my husband wants them. Every now and then he makes a version of hummus with whatever beans we have on hand.
Nope, eggs
@@isabellejaubert-fried1622 Eggs are expensive for MOST people, high in cholesterol and the product of a cruel industry. Beans are cheap, super healthy, delicious and they keep for years.
I lived in France in the 70s for a year in the housewife of the home always had a pot on the stove they called Pot Au Feu or put on the fire. All this craps and leftovers went in there and it’s simmer happily away and they couple days they drank it off and made a delicious soup for dinner.
Loved this one ! I’m Nigerian and we love some Jollof rice 😅 this looked so good!
It was so delicious! I was taught by a sweet friend from Ghana ♥️
I think you’re spot on when you say we should learn from other countries. Using different spice blends totally changes the food profile and keeps simple meals from getting boring. I know this definitely isn’t for everyone but I started in 2023 ordering my spices in whole form and grinding them with a mortar and pestle. The aroma therapy while grinding them is amazing. I am making spice blends from recipes online and the flavor bomb they give compared to store bought blends is amazing. Tim Ferris has a book out called The Four Hour Chef (you can borrow it from the library) and he has a table that shows what spices you need for many countries flavor profile. The Spice Way is where I buy my spices online. Thanks for encouraging others to cook from scratch.
The broth sounds so intriguing! Your knowledge is just amazing and I’m so impressed with the homemaking skills you have at such a young age. I am so glad I found your channel
You’re so wise !! I’m so impressed by you !! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us !!
Love how you think about things...intentional. My late father used to talk about growing up on cotton farm in Texas as sharecroppers. They had a pot of pinto beans that was perpetual on stove. Thank you.
Pinto beans are delicious. Thank you for being here!
Great to see that you are using real ingredients and everything homemade with love😊
Thanks for sharing the jollaf recipe with us! Always wanted to try a perpetual pot!
That looks delicious! I would love to see your Kimchi recipe- thank you for sharing your frugal knowledge you create such great content😊
I've just discovered your channel and love it! A tip: you should cook the rice a little bit along with the onion, before adding the tomato and water. You stir until the rice gets transparent and then you add the rest. In this way, the rice gets "sealed". This is how Italians cook risotto. 😊 Greetings for an Italian descendant living in Argentina.
Oh I’ll try that! Thank you for the tip!!
@@TheProductiveHomemaker Its how we Greeks also make rice ....browning it abit to get that nutty flavor!
It's also how a lot of the latin peeps do it as well! @mariafentis
I just discovered your channel, I love it!
Yes, I'd like to see a broth video!
I’ve added it to my list!
So would I, thanks.
Your channel is so refreshing ,your ways are really forth coming for us Americans struggling with groceries . I just love your channel.
I’m so glad you’re here! Thank you for watching ♥️
My cooking skilled absolutely increased when i started making bone broths! I truely enjoy doing it too, and cooking with it is so satisfying and joyful!
That is so awesome to hear! ♥️
I love the way your cooker is wide enough to hold some jars of ingredients you need
My husband has been obsessed with the idea of a "perpetual stew" I've never thought to tweak it to be broth! Would love more information on how you started/daily use/maintenance etc
It’s a wonderful thing to have! I plan on elaborating in a future video about it 😁
We call perpetual stew hunter's pot!
I would love an explanation on the perpetual broth pot as well. I love your videos. Simple and beautiful
I really enjoy your meal ideas and your zero waste kitchen
That looked delicious!
You made a dish from my country… I just hit that subscribe button 🇧🇫❤️🇬🇳I love traditional homemade cooking I was raised on that and continue to do it in my own home
It was taught to me by a dear friend from Ghana. We love Jollof rice!
Yes! I would love to hear more about the Never ending broth pot. I put ingredients in a freezer bag and when I have enough veggie scraps and bones I make a pot of broth but not ongoing.
In the '90's, writer Amy Dacyczyn wrote about having a soup container in the freezer for scraps of anything veggie, meaty, or saucey. She put it in her soup pot with the next meat, veggies etc. to make wonderful soup.
I want to hear more about the never ending broth pot also! That is such a good idea. I normally freeze all of my scraps and bones to do big batches at once. But this is so interesting! I want to know more.
Me too! I typically eat meat, and save whole chicken carcass, or beef bones for broth, but I like this idea of the perpetual broth!
Hi Laramie. The meal looked delicious.
Thank you 😋
I bought my fist ever canning jars. What a easy beginner canning vegetable
Perpetual pot recipe video please. Love your videos. Best wishes from Devon uk
In Italy, you would call this a Risotto dish with tomatoes, I do this often too, so yummy! 😋❤️ There's also 'Risi-Bisi' with green peas which is very tasty.
Hi and happy holidays everyone! We've been eating a lot of Finnish rice porridge lately. It is simply short grain rice (Japanese/sushi rice works well) cooked in milk (the more fat the better taste!). A small pinch of salt at the end of cooking, served with cinnamon and sugar. 😊 Kids usually love it!
That meal looked delicious!! Wonderful rice dish! I'm Cajun & we tend to eat lots of rice because so much is grown in my area.
So good! I grew up down south an love some good Cajun and creole cooking 🦐
I really love this video but there is a word of caution for keeping your stove top on 24/7 this can cause electric problems and possibly a fire hazard! There is cause for concern for bacteria and botulism which is even more scary since it's odorless and tasteless, to be in the soup if the simmer is too low etc.
Also it's not safe to leave a stove top on, oven on, crock pot on, instant pot on, or anything else that can burn and left on over night while you are sleeping, or while one is out of the house, or in a different room with the door closed.
(This also goes for a dryer left on, not changing the dryer lint every time you use the dryer can cause a fire as well. My grandma had the dryer on while she was sleeping and the dryer caught on fire. Also she didn't change the lint every time she used her dryer so the fire spread quickly and she lost her house! Thankfully she got out in the nick of time!)
I am all about saving money and I see why you want to keep the soup post going. Back in the day when people would have a soup pot going on all the time it was over an open fire outside, or a wood burning stove, or fire place. These things are meant for a fire to go on for days. But not on an electric or gas stove, and there was the possibility of the people getting sick due to the problems I mentioned already.
Without electricity/refrigeration people mostly had to can their food to preserve it or dry out their meats, fruits, and vegetables or they would feed their leftovers to their animals and or put it towards the compost for gardening this way nothing was wasted. During the winter months they would often bury their meat in the snow.
In fact I watch videos on RUclips of people still living like this today in China, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Russia etc. These channels have helped me learn how to make bread from scratch by hand and how to preserve food without electricity and refrigeration.
Please understand I say all these things out of love! I really like your way of life it is very similar to my own life. I am praying for your family's safety and God's direction in your life. God bless you sister in Christ!
Edit: For clarification
i have a job. can't leave the stove going all day
Looks very yummy!
It was! Thank you!
Ohhhh that rice looked delicious!!
It was!
Plus, the fact is your food is so much cleaner. God knows what's in a bag of microwave rice. Food is our fuel it helps us thrive and live better. You go, girlie. Even if you help a few mothers, it makes a great difference in the world.
Yum!!! Glad I found your site!!
Thanks for being here ♥️♥️
Our local grocery store has 5 meat for $25 love that so it gives us a variety. I also shop at our military commissary they have marked down frozen meats so we purchase stuff for soups and stews. It is getting so hard to find quality food on a budget. I have learned to make pasta and bean meals and not have meat everyday. It really stretches our budget.
Yes please I’d love to learn about the never ending broth.
Yum! Jollof rice is a favorite mine. I like to add a couple of habaneros to mine because I really like spicy. I spent a semester of university in Ghana and was lucky enough to have lots of Jollof Rice. It seemed like every family had their own secret recipe and they were all delicious. I haven’t made it in a while and this video has definitely inspired me to make it this week.
It’s so good! I have a sweet friend from Ghana who showed me her ways. Mine doesn’t even compare to hers though! The habaneros sound delish!
When my husband was student we were very poor and have a kid so most our food was rice cooked with one kind of beans and would make a bucket home made yogurt, we had that and milk for our kid .and when ever there was veggies and fruit on sale we would indulge our self for couple days 😊
Hi Laramie, Did you know you can use the bones for your house plants or garden after you make the broth, you can grind them down and make bone meal!!! Thanks for sharing this recipe!!! Looks delicious!!!!❤❤❤
I’ve heard of doing that!
@@TheProductiveHomemaker here is a link for you explaining how to make your own bone meal. I hope this helps you! I live alone so I freeze all my bones and make a batch every time I get enough for the process. But it’s free food for tomatoes and bell peppers and flowers That I plant at my little apartment.
ruclips.net/video/UGyT-Cw04QM/видео.htmlsi=bgFI_Ky9eeOJ_fRk
Would love to see more of perpetual broth and also Day in the life videos! ❤
I'm impressed! Your videos are so charming and inspirational.
Hey, Laramie! I’m loving binging on your videos!
Question for you. The perpetual broth pot on the back of the stove was from when the stove had to be constantly on because it was a heat source as well as a cooking medium. I see you’re not utilizing a wood stove for the pot. My question is, how does this affect your electric bill with the burner constantly being on for the stock pot? Also, how often do you take out the old scraps? Sorry. That’s two questions. Math has never been my strong suit. I would love to see your stock pot routine/method.
Thank you for all you do❤
The never ending broth pot sounds amazing, thk u for sharing.
Wise comments and your food looks scrumptious
I’d love to see a video about never ending broth and how to make your own lard please. Love your channel.
Thank you.
I love soup by boiling 3 or 4 chicken legs with celery, onions, garlic at least 45 minutes to get a good flavor then add whatever carrots, cabbage, potatoes or corn or some kind of carb and a can of tomato sauce and some spice cumin. The leg bones really give a good flavor.
Yum! That’s a great way to make soup!
That's so healthy
I have used my slow cooker to make a Continuous Bone Broth Pot ...I keep topping it up with water... veggies....scraps....meat and chicken bones..... totally delicious..regards from Sunny South Africa
I found Jollof Rice seasoning in a local bodega, so I researched how to make it from scratch. You are so right bought learning from other cultures! There are so many tasty and nutritious meals we can make on a budget! I’m firing up my crockpot to make some bone broth. Your never ending broth intrigues me! I just bag up bones and veggie trimmings and simmer them with herbs. I’d love to see a video of your method! Have a blessed day! ❤
Yes please show us how to make the never ending broth pot! We're on low sodium diet and no salt store bought is sometimes hard to find and expensive. Homemade tastes sooooo much better. Yum❤
You can do a little search about Greek kitchen which is based on vegetables and legumes and is healthy and tasty!!
I see you growing to the level of Acre Homestead- keep going- you are doing great ♥️
Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your videos and the content/useful information you provide.
I just wanted to note that the music for this video was a little on the louder side even after turning my volume down quite low. I know its not a huge deal, but I thought that I might let you know. I am excited to see all of your upcoming videos!
I appreciate the feedback! Thank you for taking the time to let me know ☺️
I could taste that from here. In my opinion, the very best food comes from not having everything you might think you need. I do consider myself an excellent cook, chef, etc. I grew up poor and started a family very young. I am obsessed with good food and just know how to do it. I am certainly interested in the perpetual stock pot. I just started pressure canning stock about two years ago. So this is something I would love to learn. ❤
The other night I watched a video you made of making overnight porridge with yoghurt. I had some leftover yoghurt naturel, from a curry I made yesterday. I have no time eating breakfast before leaving for work at 7am, so I just bring a jar of overnight oats, (made with milk), and eat when I get to work. I put some homemade apple jam at the bottom, then the oat/yoghurt mix and sprinkled some honey on top. Ready for tomorrow.😊 That dinner looks delicious.
That sounds delicious! Great job 🤩
You are so awesome. I'm raising my daughter to achieve higher education but that doesn't mean sacrificing learning how to take care of your family and living beyond your means. I hope she can marry the two together and I pray that the one that God has for her, that they can come together and make a decision to live debt free as well! Thank you for sharing your journey, I have learned a lot.
Thank you for watching!
Great dinner. The secret is that to cook well in a less expensive way, you have to invest a little more time in cooking and in looking for recipes that your family would lime. I review videos in RUclips. I am so happy you are teaching young mothers to cook well, healthy and for less money, some people cannot even make a basic white rice. A big hug from a 79 year old,d grandmother from far away Chile!!!!❤
The meal you prepared made my mouth water!! That chicken looked so yummy and I am going to make some jollof rice…never made it before. And please do a video about the perpetual broth pot. Very interesting!
I would love to learn how to make the neverending bone broth. Also, the recipe for this meal!
That looks delicious!
So good! Thanks for watching!
Just found your channel, I’m really enjoying watching your videos, watching from England, would be interested in learning the bone broth. Thankyou for your videos ❤
This is the first video of yours I've seen, and this is not meant to be a complaint, just an fyi...I listen with earbuds while in bed, and your music is so much louder than your speaking voice that I had to turn captions on to keep my ears intact. Enjoyed the Joffa recipe, I'm a big rice fan and will give it a try.
I’m sorry about that! Thank you for letting me know 😄
I look forward to seeing a future video on the perpetual pot of broth. I’ve never heard of this before and I already make my own broth. Very excited about this.
I just noticed you’re a lefty! ❤❤
Have you tried growing your own vegetables? Canning? Tomatoes, celery, potatoes for example are easy to grow. I've done in pots and bins that I drilled holes in the bottom. I'm a family of 1 now, and I give to my neighbours, but that would also help you feed a family of 6.
Yes, we had a garden this last year for the first time. Still very new at learning how to garden but it’s fun!
I see that you used a coffee filter to strain your broth. Have you considered purchasing a piece of organic cotton muslin (1/2 a yard would do) to use for kitchen straining? I found out that most coffee filters and tea bags that look like paper are actually a poly plastic that does not disintegrate and could leech chemicals. So, I purchased chemex paper filters for my coffee and use muslin to strain food stuffs. I recently got a permanent metal (stainless steel) coffee filter so I don't buy filters any more. The muslin can be rinsed in the sink and then hung up to dry.
I have started making my own bone broth; I would love to hear how and what all you put into yours. Thanks, Christine
Love the broth idea. Do you leave it on overnight? Are you not concerned something will happen? How much does it cost to keep the stove on. Constantly?
Looks delicious!!
I notice you use store bought thyme and other herbs. May I suggest a herb garden close to your kitchen door, planted with the herbs that you use most. I have one and there's nothing nicer than stepping outside and picking a variety of fragrant fresh herbs and adding them to your cooking.
I would be interested in how you made you chicken, too! 😊
When I was in my twenties I only had work for 2 hours and money from the "benefits" I remember only being able to cook rice to eat, one day with ketchup, next day with Soya sauce and if I got lucky I could by bacon to eat with the rice. This was only 20 or 25 years ago. Thankfully things have changed.
Yes, I would like to hear about the broth
Perpetual pot of broth! That sounds like a great idea!
Beautiful !! how did you make the chicken ?
Where did u get those metal bowls I want some those are very wholesome
holy cow you are beautiful!!! This is the first video I’ve seen when you’ve showed ur face. You are stunning
I'd love to learn more about your broth and sourdough
Noted! Thanks for being here 💕
Yum! Delicious-looking meal!
Thank you 😋 it was great!
Yes would love to see the never ending broth video
Please, please turn the music in between the voice over parts way down in future videos. I had to constantly turn up to hear your explanations and turn down to not damage my ears with the music parts.
I would have loved this video otherwise. It’s recorded and explained well enough and it certainly would have it’s value for me to be able to watch these and enjoy them. The food looked delicious so props to hou and your friend ❤
Looks delicious. I make my own chicken stock and we have homemade chicken soup once a month.
Hello, I really enjoy your videos. May I please have your recipe for your bread makings? Thank you 😊
Can you post the chicken recipe too or a video on how to make it? IT all looked delicious!
Coming soon!
So awesome. I love your content-it's both inspiring and educational.
Thanks so much!
I know someone already made a comment that they would like to see the bone broth. But I would need it step-by-step! Lol I would love to learn how to do that what actually happens to the bones? Do they dissolve down to a liquid? Is the burner left on 24 seven? I have so many questions! Lol❤
Hello, I'm new to your channel I've been bench watching if I'm honest I just can't stop watching. I want to know more about the broth and how can I do this if I'm gone for most of my day ?
The broth can be left unattended if you used a crockpot or felt comfortable leaving it on your stove ☺️
I absolutely would love to hear more about that never ending… bone broth on the stove.
Would love to see your hair out of the way😊
I can appreciate the interest of the never-ending broth pot when it was placed on a wood-fired stove, but nowadays, I wonder about the astronomical cost of electricity or gas to keep it simmering. In Europe, energy prices have gone through the roof, and it is just the beginning, so financially, I think it is impossible for the majority of Europeans using conventional cookers.