This is my favorite of your emergency meals so far… as a Historian I’m obsessed with war and depression era cooking here in the US and across the pond. I have my grandmothers last ration book with a few stamps left which I treasure. She also always had what we called the “war pantry” where we might fetch a 20 year old can of beans for whatever meal she was preparing. She also fed EVERYONE. If you were around a meal time she was feeding you.
Thank you, Jara. BTW, it was fantastic to meet you and Mr. Wicked Prepared. I recommend to everyone here to go to a Thrive Life Event, especially when Jara will be in attendance. The event was outstanding, and I learned a lot about Freeze Dried Foods, and all of the food was outstanding. But the best part was the people I met and the cherry on top was meeting Jara and her husband.
@@wickedprepared ♥ This is why the steamers are not the best, the water is under the basket, all the nutrients go into the H20. Unless we drink that water, we are not getting full health benefits! When I saw you adding the liquid, I was like YESSSS 🤗 great job girl ✌ 😁 More Culinary stuff, fresh is not best, unless you know a local farmer! As soon as the veg is cut from the plant, rapid deterioration of nutrients begins. Time (from plant until it gets to the store, usually weeks) temperature it's stored, light, moisture, all play a huge part in nutritional content. Best nutritional value? Frozen! IQF is Individually Quick Frozen. Veg is cut, immediately washed and Individually Frozen right in the field. While cooking in liquid, its best to consume that liquid ♥ Boiling veg in a pot...worst nutritional value, again, unless we drink all that water. I use Frozen and canned because I don't have local farmers near me nor a plot of land 😂 I understand canned can carry health risks, moderation is key, but for survival, I will eat it on the daily 😁 Thank you for your videos ♥ I learn a lot from you!
@@Shell-s4d And hey, I just learned a bit from YOU! Thanks for your comments, especially on IQF. I view frozen food as vulnerable tho. A power outage and OUCH. I keep a variety of food stored in various forms. Canned green beans? Yuk, but yet, there’s nutrition there. I’m all for sneaking canned veg into as many meals & soups as possible.
For people so inclined, I make homemade dried beef. I catch bottom round roast reduced for a quick sale. Morton's tender quick curing salt. Very easy to make. It can be smoked but not necessary. Less salty than commercial made dried beef. I slice thin, vacuum seal it in the size that I need and freeze it. Delicious.
Hey-ya J and R, Have used depression era cooking my life.. STRETCH everything , yes sa wicked pissah.. Herbs , spices , boulion seasonings , flavor / taste..Stretch , taste REPEAT..Arn't you grateful of where we live ? I AM.. We have our crap but , nothing like south east.. Nor"Easters can be terrifying but, coast and hurricane alley is deadly.. The SACO river has washed out bad wicked at times, took out roads butnot that bad..Was listening on the ham radio during Helene and the person talking had his window shatter in another room during his transmission ..Thats deadly.. Take care you 2 ..Ready for winta yes -sa..
If you go to my website: sites.google.com/wickedprepared.com/wickedprepared/meal-in-a-jar-recipes?authuser=0 Then find the recipe you'd like, click/tap on it. It will show you one version with color and pictures, and one without. Whichever you choose .. save the image to your device and then you can print it just as you would any other image. We don't have a fancy website with a "Print Recipe" button yet, but it's coming soon!
Once in awhile I will make the creamed chipped beef on toast. I will use Budding beef lunchmeat in plastic pouches. The meat has to be refrigerated so can't be a meal in a bag but for price they are less than a dollar.
This was fascinating, thanks for the video. You mixed history and family stories (that’s a bit of a recipe right there🤣). My parents were teenagers thru the Depression and NEVER spoke of those times. The effects carried forward tho - we ate out once a month, never had pizza or any form of take-out, and no fast food. I begged to try Chinese food and was rewarded with LaChoy chow mein (which my parents put into regular rotation). TV dinners were a cool change when I was a kid. I love your Meals in a Bag videos👍🏻
Love these ideas. My Mom made a meal with Spam. She made mashed potatoes. Cut up Spam into cubes and it to some boiling water and heated it up. Then she served i, using the broth, over the potatoes.
We love fried macaroni. Cook till Alden te, drain well, fry in a small amount of oil , till you get a light crisp. Add what ever seasonings you enjoy while it’s cooking. My mother made this for us quite a bit when we were kids. My step father use to make us biscuits buttered real well and put creamed corn over the top. It was delicious. These were some of our pour meals.
Both of my parents lived during the Great Depression, reaching young adulthood as it ended. (Both were born in the early 1920s) My dad was a farm boy & my mom was a city girl. While life was hard for both, it seems that my mom had only bad memories about that time in her life. She brought NO Depression meals/recipes to the family. My dad, on the other hand, had lots of recipes that were influenced by that time period. I found out that my mom's dad would poach wild game animals to put meat on the table. My mom, for the remainder of her life, refused to eat any kind of wild game meat. She had a couple of 'horror' stories about being forced to eat bear meat & possum meat because that was all they had... She was a meat lover, but only domesticated meat animals. So, she only cooked beef, pork, chicken, turkey, catfish, canned tuna & canned salmon. (And sometimes, rarely, a leg of lamb) We also were never served certain veggies like collard & turnip greens. What mama didn't like, mama didn't make or serve...
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your story. It's so interesting how some people have experiences that they embrace, no matter how difficult the time were. And others do everything possible to forget those experiences as a way to move forward. And you have the opportunity to see both sides. I'm so glad you shared the story of your mom and dad. Thank you! ❤️
Amazing how that experience lasted for decades in her memory….and influenced the next generation as well. That said, the guy down the street likes to eat squirrel….ew.
After doing some research, I personally felt comfortable using butane indoors. I do recommend everyone use a carbon monoxide detector whenever they use any kind of alternative appliance or fuel. We keep an extra one with our emergency gear.
One of the walmarts i was in had 9 jars of chipped beef marked 1.00 left , i bought all the rest !!!! I would scramble some powdered eggs on potatoes and bacon spam!!!!
@@wickedpreparedin the bulk area Walmart has in a white bag( 3# ? 3.00 to 4.00 a bag)of pepper white gravy that is just add water for the chip beef i think i would try also. Its very good, For even quicker prep. And on potatoes n spam. For a change up. Sometimes in the auguson can area or in bulk hot chocolate and #10 canned veggies most of the time and ive seen the red feather canned butter there (auguson area) too lately 9.88!!!!!
I was a single mom teaching in a rural district (the cows outnumbered us by a lot). A couple of things I made a lot of were tuna mac (1 box of mac-n-cheese plus 1 can of tuna in water using the tuna water as part of the mix for the cheese powder). Husband's Delight (1 can ranch beans or bakedbeans, 2 cut up hot dogs, 2 cups macaroni, 1 can diced tomatoes, 1 can chicken broth). Use the broth to rinse out the cans. Mix and bake or cook on the stove top until the pasta is cooked. The last is really weird and couldn't really be used as a meal-in-a-bag, but I would put out snippets of any leftovers like chicken nuggets, meat, cubed cheese, veggies etc. in bowls. Each child got a plate of mashed potatoes (from a mix) and added any leftovers they wanted into their potatoes. And the best part? No utensils! They had to keep their hands behind their backs and snuffle like pigs. Sounds gross, I know, but I could guarantee ALL leftovers would disappear. 0 waste! Neighborhood kids joined us on the regular and had a ball. I enjoyed a good laugh and watched all the veggies they shunned disappear like magic.
8:51 - DEFINITELY do not discard that. For one its nutritional value is high and for two it makes a good thickening agent. Sift out the big chunks and use that in your next jar but the powder you can use in just about anything. A scrambled egg breakfast skillet for instance.
While my kids were small, they loved "clam" chowder. 1 can clam chowder, 1 can creamed corn, 1 can tuna, 1 can evap milk,1 can potatos. Mix and heat. Of vourse you could use a can of potato soup instead of the clam chowder or add in potato soup. 2 cans of tuna if you want. Dont drain. Its pretty good, and just needs heating to warm it up. Crackers or bread on the side. Can of mixed veggies, or peas, if kids will eat them. This makes a lot of bowls, so great for sharing. However if you dont want leftovers, you would cut a can or two out.
📉 Great ideas! I think I might try some of these without telling the family what they actually are. I am getting better now at making flavor and ingredient changes to mix things up. Thanks so much for all you share.
📉 As a kid we did have macaroni, milk, butter (we had milk cows, mom made butter out of the cream). Macaroni and tomatoes (we canned our own vegetables), no meat. Leftover fried potatoes with scrambled eggs. Fried potatoes and hamburger gravy. Gravy over biscuits. No wonder I’m a carb addict 😂😂
I think that depends on how closely you follow the "rules" of canning. Each dish contains something that "shouldn't" be canned, but there are definitely people who would can a few of them. I will say they are not recipes that are approved for canning.
📉📉 Jara, my hubby is a peanut butter fanatic so I’m going to spring the bread on him and see what he thinks! Thank you for another great series Meals In A Bag.
My great grandmother and grandmother cooked what they grew and bartered.They only bought what they had to. My great grandmother would "announce" at the heginning of meager meals for everyone to only go back for seconds after "Papa" had helped himself. She said that about the only time he did that was when she made fried chicken, mashed potates and green beans, his favorite meal. 📉
That first one, the Hoover Stew , is something my grandmother made and called American Chop Suey, and it was also served as such at the school cafeteria in upstate Mass. To bulk up the potato soup, you could add a can of cream of chicken soup in lieu of the broth, and supplement with some water. I'm off to (rebel) can butter, because it was $2.99 per pound for the LoL brand, which is normally $6-7 per pound down here. Fellow Floridians, y'all stay safe, and holler if you're near Citrus County and need help. ❤📉
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This is my favorite of your emergency meals so far… as a Historian I’m obsessed with war and depression era cooking here in the US and across the pond. I have my grandmothers last ration book with a few stamps left which I treasure. She also always had what we called the “war pantry” where we might fetch a 20 year old can of beans for whatever meal she was preparing. She also fed EVERYONE. If you were around a meal time she was feeding you.
Aww that is so awesome, I love that! ❤️ Your grandmother sounds like an incredible woman! Such good memories to hold onto and treasure! ❤️❤️❤️
There were a lot of loaves and fish stories during the depression. Do what you can with what you’ve got.
Your grandmother - what a wholesome inspiration! ❤
My grams was the same, she even drive off to bring people only she knew to dinner
…I really miss her💔
Thank you, Jara. BTW, it was fantastic to meet you and Mr. Wicked Prepared. I recommend to everyone here to go to a Thrive Life Event, especially when Jara will be in attendance. The event was outstanding, and I learned a lot about Freeze Dried Foods, and all of the food was outstanding. But the best part was the people I met and the cherry on top was meeting Jara and her husband.
Aww we feel the same way!! We're so glad you made it! ❤️ Thank you so much and thank you for watching 😊😊😊😊
I REALLY love that you cook these recipes for us to see how good they are 😍tyvm
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We grew up on tuna gravy on toast. I really liked it. If you couldn't get chipped beef, tuna works too. These were all great ideas. Thank you.
My husband’s mom would make a pot of spaghetti noodles, drain and then add two raw eggs (which would cook up in the hot noodles). Surprisingly good!
I've been putting an egg in my ramen. It's pretty good. They are becoming an expensive protein now in new England though
Great advice, don't drain liquid from cans! Pro chef here ✌ Culinary degree, all the vitamins and minerals are in the liquid❤
Good point! Thank you! 😊❤️
@@wickedprepared ♥ This is why the steamers are not the best, the water is under the basket, all the nutrients go into the H20. Unless we drink that water, we are not getting full health benefits! When I saw you adding the liquid, I was like YESSSS 🤗 great job girl ✌ 😁
More Culinary stuff, fresh is not best, unless you know a local farmer! As soon as the veg is cut from the plant, rapid deterioration of nutrients begins. Time (from plant until it gets to the store, usually weeks) temperature it's stored, light, moisture, all play a huge part in nutritional content. Best nutritional value? Frozen! IQF is Individually Quick Frozen. Veg is cut, immediately washed and Individually Frozen right in the field. While cooking in liquid, its best to consume that liquid ♥ Boiling veg in a pot...worst nutritional value, again, unless we drink all that water. I use Frozen and canned because I don't have local farmers near me nor a plot of land 😂 I understand canned can carry health risks, moderation is key, but for survival, I will eat it on the daily 😁 Thank you for your videos ♥ I learn a lot from you!
@@Shell-s4d And hey, I just learned a bit from YOU! Thanks for your comments, especially on IQF. I view frozen food as vulnerable tho. A power outage and OUCH. I keep a variety of food stored in various forms. Canned green beans? Yuk, but yet, there’s nutrition there. I’m all for sneaking canned veg into as many meals & soups as possible.
Great meals and memories! Thanks.
For people so inclined, I make homemade dried beef. I catch bottom round roast reduced for a quick sale. Morton's tender quick curing salt. Very easy to make. It can be smoked but not necessary. Less salty than commercial made dried beef. I slice thin, vacuum seal it in the size that I need and freeze it. Delicious.
Do you have links for all these recipes? I remember some of these from my childhood.
Great new assortment of meals in bags! Thanks Jara! Many Blessings to you!
Your meal kits videos are my favourite :)
I bet many subscribers are making peanut butter bread today! Thank you for all the meal ideas. 😊
Thank you so very much. Blessings to you and yours always ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much! Blessings to you as well, my friend! ❤️
Thank you Jara.
You're welcome! 🥰 Thank you for watching!
Great video. Thank you. 📉
Love these recipes! 📉
Thanks Jara!! Great recipes to try!!
Great recipes. Thank you❤📉
You are so welcome! Thank you for being here!
Hey-ya J and R, Have used depression era cooking my life.. STRETCH everything , yes sa wicked pissah.. Herbs , spices , boulion seasonings , flavor / taste..Stretch , taste REPEAT..Arn't you grateful of where we live ? I AM.. We have our crap but , nothing like south east.. Nor"Easters can be terrifying but, coast and hurricane alley is deadly.. The SACO river has washed out bad wicked at times, took out roads butnot that bad..Was listening on the ham radio during Helene and the person talking had his window shatter in another room during his transmission ..Thats deadly.. Take care you 2 ..Ready for winta yes -sa..
Great job! 📉
Good morning, I'm sure I would love all of these recipes. Thx.
We were pleasantly surprised! 😊😊😊
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Great info! Really appreciate the time and effort this takes. Appreciate you sharing your wisdom!
Great ideas! 📉
Love this video.
Great video and meal ideas. Thank you
You are so welcome!
I didn't know potato soup could be so easy to make I would add a little celery seeds for flavor
Great idea, I bet that would be yummy! ❤️
Also garlic and herb or cheesy instant potatoes would add extra flavor.
I got a lot of good ideas 💡! Thank you.
📉great meals. Thank you ❤
Great video as always JARA!! Thank you so much from Mississippi❤❤❤
Thank you so much for watching! 🥰
@@wickedpreparedyou are very welcome😊😊
I.would add some Tabasco and dried carrot slices in the poorman meal...yum
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You said that directions were in the description below, I’m unable to see the directions, please what am I missing. I so enjoy your videos.
If you go to my website: sites.google.com/wickedprepared.com/wickedprepared/meal-in-a-jar-recipes?authuser=0
Then find the recipe you'd like, click/tap on it. It will show you one version with color and pictures, and one without. Whichever you choose .. save the image to your device and then you can print it just as you would any other image. We don't have a fancy website with a "Print Recipe" button yet, but it's coming soon!
Once in awhile I will make the creamed chipped beef on toast. I will use Budding beef lunchmeat in plastic pouches. The meat has to be refrigerated so can't be a meal in a bag but for price they are less than a dollar.
This was fascinating, thanks for the video. You mixed history and family stories (that’s a bit of a recipe right there🤣). My parents were teenagers thru the Depression and NEVER spoke of those times. The effects carried forward tho - we ate out once a month, never had pizza or any form of take-out, and no fast food. I begged to try Chinese food and was rewarded with LaChoy chow mein (which my parents put into regular rotation). TV dinners were a cool change when I was a kid. I love your Meals in a Bag videos👍🏻
Love these ideas.
My Mom made a meal with Spam. She made mashed potatoes. Cut up Spam into cubes and it to some boiling water and heated it up. Then she served i, using the broth, over the potatoes.
We love fried macaroni. Cook till Alden te, drain well, fry in a small amount of oil
, till you get a light crisp. Add what ever seasonings you enjoy while it’s cooking. My mother made this for us quite a bit when we were kids. My step father use to make us biscuits buttered real well and put creamed corn over the top. It was delicious. These were some of our pour meals.
@@tracyhardwick2695 wow, love these! Thanks for sharing!
Both of my parents lived during the Great Depression, reaching young adulthood as it ended. (Both were born in the early 1920s) My dad was a farm boy & my mom was a city girl. While life was hard for both, it seems that my mom had only bad memories about that time in her life. She brought NO Depression meals/recipes to the family. My dad, on the other hand, had lots of recipes that were influenced by that time period. I found out that my mom's dad would poach wild game animals to put meat on the table. My mom, for the remainder of her life, refused to eat any kind of wild game meat. She had a couple of 'horror' stories about being forced to eat bear meat & possum meat because that was all they had... She was a meat lover, but only domesticated meat animals. So, she only cooked beef, pork, chicken, turkey, catfish, canned tuna & canned salmon. (And sometimes, rarely, a leg of lamb) We also were never served certain veggies like collard & turnip greens. What mama didn't like, mama didn't make or serve...
Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your story. It's so interesting how some people have experiences that they embrace, no matter how difficult the time were. And others do everything possible to forget those experiences as a way to move forward. And you have the opportunity to see both sides.
I'm so glad you shared the story of your mom and dad. Thank you! ❤️
Amazing how that experience lasted for decades in her memory….and influenced the next generation as well. That said, the guy down the street likes to eat squirrel….ew.
Loved the meal ideas. I watched to the end but couldn't find the emotion y9u suggested.
I love your videos, thank you! ❤ looked at getting butane stove but they say OUTSIDE USE ONLY...? What kind do you use for inside?
After doing some research, I personally felt comfortable using butane indoors. I do recommend everyone use a carbon monoxide detector whenever they use any kind of alternative appliance or fuel. We keep an extra one with our emergency gear.
One of the walmarts i was in had 9 jars of chipped beef marked 1.00 left , i bought all the rest !!!! I would scramble some powdered eggs on potatoes and bacon spam!!!!
Wow! Great find! I would have grabbed that too 💯
@@wickedpreparedin the bulk area Walmart has in a white bag( 3# ? 3.00 to 4.00 a bag)of pepper white gravy that is just add water for the chip beef i think i would try also. Its very good, For even quicker prep. And on potatoes n spam. For a change up. Sometimes in the auguson can area or in bulk hot chocolate and #10 canned veggies most of the time and ive seen the red feather canned butter there (auguson area) too lately 9.88!!!!!
Hey that “packrat” moniker is appropriate! Nice grab on that beef👍🏻
I was a single mom teaching in a rural district (the cows outnumbered us by a lot). A couple of things I made a lot of were tuna mac (1 box of mac-n-cheese plus 1 can of tuna in water using the tuna water as part of the mix for the cheese powder). Husband's Delight (1 can ranch beans or bakedbeans, 2 cut up hot dogs, 2 cups macaroni, 1 can diced tomatoes, 1 can chicken broth). Use the broth to rinse out the cans. Mix and bake or cook on the stove top until the pasta is cooked. The last is really weird and couldn't really be used as a meal-in-a-bag, but I would put out snippets of any leftovers like chicken nuggets, meat, cubed cheese, veggies etc. in bowls. Each child got a plate of mashed potatoes (from a mix) and added any leftovers they wanted into their potatoes. And the best part? No utensils! They had to keep their hands behind their backs and snuffle like pigs. Sounds gross, I know, but I could guarantee ALL leftovers would disappear. 0 waste! Neighborhood kids joined us on the regular and had a ball. I enjoyed a good laugh and watched all the veggies they shunned disappear like magic.
Too clever! What a fun way to sneak leftovers and veggies into those kids.
I believe that they would have had a potato masher to mush those tomatoes
Stayed till end
8:51 - DEFINITELY do not discard that. For one its nutritional value is high and for two it makes a good thickening agent. Sift out the big chunks and use that in your next jar but the powder you can use in just about anything. A scrambled egg breakfast skillet for instance.
Please share your recipe for strawberry banana jam
FYI, the olive oil from dollar tree is mixed oils including soybean oil . The gee or coconut oil even veg oil is better.
Yum. 📉
Wondering if you could make a just add water to a hollandaise sauce. Your other sauces are amazing.
Do you have the recipes somewhere so we can print them?
While my kids were small, they loved "clam" chowder. 1 can clam chowder, 1 can creamed corn, 1 can tuna, 1 can evap milk,1 can potatos. Mix and heat. Of vourse you could use a can of potato soup instead of the clam chowder or add in potato soup. 2 cans of tuna if you want. Dont drain. Its pretty good, and just needs heating to warm it up. Crackers or bread on the side. Can of mixed veggies, or peas, if kids will eat them. This makes a lot of bowls, so great for sharing. However if you dont want leftovers, you would cut a can or two out.
📉🎉🎉🎉🎉hot dogs and beans😊
I was looking for your just add water to bread recipes
The one I mentioned in this video is here:
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📉 Great ideas! I think I might try some of these without telling the family what they actually are. I am getting better now at making flavor and ingredient changes to mix things up. Thanks so much for all you share.
I like to make this Hoover stew using a box of mac & cheese for the pasta plus the cheese pack as it is for just me :) Super easy and tastes good!
@@MizAngelWolf great idea. I also buy the cheese powder so maybe I can add that. 💡
I love that idea! Awesome!!
📉 As a kid we did have macaroni, milk, butter (we had milk cows, mom made butter out of the cream). Macaroni and tomatoes (we canned our own vegetables), no meat. Leftover fried potatoes with scrambled eggs. Fried potatoes and hamburger gravy. Gravy over biscuits. No wonder I’m a carb addict 😂😂
Ah, but I venture to guess you’re also quite resourceful based on those childhood experiences! (Carbs are yummy…’nuff said!)
Can these dishes be canned
I think that depends on how closely you follow the "rules" of canning. Each dish contains something that "shouldn't" be canned, but there are definitely people who would can a few of them. I will say they are not recipes that are approved for canning.
📉📉 Jara, my hubby is a peanut butter fanatic so I’m going to spring the bread on him and see what he thinks! Thank you for another great series Meals In A Bag.
Really enjoyed this one! Looking forward to a couple of these....I use the corned beef hash instead of the chipped beef....I think it tastes better!
I also like the corned beef hash. I brown it up in a frying pan and then fry up a couple of eggs (I have hens). Tasty, cheap and VERY quick!
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Beans do go with that first dish. People eat beans and weenies all the time. Kick out the corn....no protein.
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My great grandmother and grandmother cooked what they grew and bartered.They only bought what they had to. My great grandmother would "announce" at the heginning of meager meals for everyone to only go back for seconds after "Papa" had helped himself. She said that about the only time he did that was when she made fried chicken, mashed potates and green beans, his favorite meal. 📉
📉📈 Thank you. You have great ideas and spark a lot of new ones for me.
Thank You. 📉I used to make A Box of Stuffing Mix, A Box of Mac & Cheese, sliced up Hot Dogs and a can of Peas.
That first one, the Hoover Stew , is something my grandmother made and called American Chop Suey, and it was also served as such at the school cafeteria in upstate Mass. To bulk up the potato soup, you could add a can of cream of chicken soup in lieu of the broth, and supplement with some water. I'm off to (rebel) can butter, because it was $2.99 per pound for the LoL brand, which is normally $6-7 per pound down here. Fellow Floridians, y'all stay safe, and holler if you're near Citrus County and need help. ❤📉
Descent inexpensive meals.Definitely going to try peanut butter bread, Hoover Stew and this version of potato soup 📈📈📈
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