Posted on 11/18/2011 7:47:54 PM PST by blam
This Is What People Ate When They Had No Money During The Depression
Vivian Giang
Nov. 18, 2011, 12:25 PM
Image: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
If you've ever visited anyone's house for dinner and a big, sloppy "secret family recipe" dish is flopped down in front of you, chances are high that the messy goodness could have originated from the Depression era.
Families were taught to creatively stretch out their food budgets and toast, potatoes and flour seem to be the popular, inexpensive ingredients. Expensive meat was typically eaten only once a week.
Some foods were invented during the Depression, such as spam, Ritz crackers, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Kraft macaroni and cheese, according to livinghistoryfarm.org.
We've compiled some simple, easy recipes from 90-something Clara who shares her childhood dining memories during hard times. They may help you save money during our own Recession.
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Some of my family remember eating road kill because they didn’t want to waste the meat. Nearly every culture has food that to others seems disgusting. I imagine that most of that type of food, when traced back, comes from a period of near famine.
During the Obama Depression, you just take you EBT card to the store and load up on junk food,
Another reason to pimp my tagline!
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Do you know what can grow and be eaten without a lot of sunshine? I have big trees on my property and the spots that get sunlight get it only for 5 to 6 hours. I really like them but growing food has been a problem.
but I digress
I'm on a primal/paleo/whatever diet and eat a ton of eggs and apples. I eat a lot of other stuff, too, but eggs and apples work great for me, are healthy, and are dirt cheap. I'm over 40, and carry absolutely zero extra weight.
My wife is Korean and often will make a simple soup like seaweed, kimchi, or radish and will have it with brown rice. Very healthy and super inexpensive.
Excellent! I grew up the youngest of a very large family. It sounds exactly like a dish my mom made us at least a couple times a month. Honesty? I liked it :-). Salt and pepper come in handy and the grease was great on those potatoes. Simple stuff when one doesn’t have much and they are HUN-GRYY! :-). Bless you for giving these families recipes to build strong children and parents.
We still have what is called chipped beef on toast around the kids. The Army version wasn’t near as good.
Clara sure uses a lot of cooking oil. Was it not rationed during the depression? I know sugar and some other things was.
Not the Depression. World War II.
stir-frying potatoes and hot dogs we still do to this day because its cheap;
Dandelions were originally brought to the new world as a food crop.
Ridiculously easy to grow, a perennial that will come back year after year and the bigger it gets, the higher the yield...
Mrs. LaybackLenny looks at me like I'm from another planet. LOL!
Stone Soup
I was trimming up some vegetables for dinner one night as my grandson watched. I pointed out to him that everything I was putting in the mulch container was edible.
My dad used to put big slices of onion between a couple pieces of bread. He’d eat the whole thing.
That brings back an old memory. I remember my grandmother
telling me pretty much the same thing. She used to put some
cinnimon or other spice on it and butter.
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