Forgotten Poor Man Meals Your Grandparents Ate To Survive!

Forgotten Poor Man Meals Your Grandparents Ate To Survive!

You’ve been eating rich and missing the genius of eating poor—meals born from empty pockets and pure creativity! Long before drive-thrus and delivery apps, these forgotten poor man meals kept families full when money was nowhere to be found.

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0:00 Intro
00:24 Potato And Hot Water Soup
01:27 Depression-era Coffee Soup
02:37 Corn Dodgers
03:55 Wilted Lettuce Salad
05:16 Boiled Flour Dumplings
06:33 Cracker And Milk Soup
07:47 Tomato Gravy Over Rice
08:59 Bread And Drippings
10:10 Green Tomato Pie
11:23 Corncob Jelly
12:43 Slump Or Grunt
14:06 Bread Pudding With Water Sauce
15:21 Peanut Butter Soup
16:39 Hoover Stew
17:53 Onion And Ketchup Sandwiches
19:10 Molasses Milk
20:25 Bologna Cake
21:46 Dandelion Greens And Bacon Fat
22:53 Potato Peels Fried In Fat
24:08 . Bologna And Cornbread Dumplings
25:23 Grits And Water
26:33 Apple Peel Jelly
27:45 Cabbage And Dough Soup
29:02 Spam And Noodles
30:19 Sugar And Butter Sandwiches
31:28 Prune Pudding
32:53 Cheesy Scalloped Casserole
33:59 Hogs Head Cheese
34:39 Rice Pudding
36:28 Cherry Cola Pulled Pork
37:37 Dandelion Salad
38:27 Green Bean Casserole
39:27 Sheep's Head Stew
40:06 Porcupine Meatball In Tangy Sauce
41:16 Vinegar Pie
42:06 Turkey Noodle Casserole
42:58 Elk Roast
44:00 Johnny Cake
46:21 Pork Cassoulet
47:38 Bean Soup
48:25 Squash Casserole
49:18 Braised Ox Tail
50:23 Split Pea Soup With Ham
51:23 Candied Carrot
52:43 Potato Pancake
53:36 Easy Shepherd Pie
54:33 Roast Goose
55:31 Vegetable Pot Pie
57:23 Pea And Ham Soup
58:29 Boiled Carrot Sandwich
59:21 Baked Ziti
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[VintageLifestyleUSA]

What’s your go-to cheap meal when money’s tight today?

[lynnrobinson]

Another Boomer here. In the early fifties, my grandmother, born in 1898, was still using the skins from freshly washed potatoes to fry up the next day, in a bit of lard, or tallow, or vegetable oil, until golden. I, and my seven siblings loved them. She didn’t live far from the elementary school we all went to, so we would go to her place for our lunches. She also used to make a treat for us using slices of slightly stale bread (cheaper than fresh), and would spread margarine, Crisco, or bits of butter, on the bread, then sprinkle some sugar all over the slice, a wisp of cinnamon, and shake off any excess for the next slice !! I still make those for myself once in a while today - loved them !! My mother was born in 1930, depression era, and we grew up eating “sugar” sandwiches too, only hers were spread with lard, and no sugar. We ate “game” - rabbit, squirrel and catfish — my brothers would snare the rabbits, trap squirrels and fish for the catfish. Either rabbit or squirrel could be cooked til lightly browned, bay leaf added to either one, and some water added to a roasting pan in the oven, with potatoes and carrots !! I didn’t know we were poor when I and my siblings grew up. We had all the things we needed, and nothing we didn’t, and my siblings and I, and my parents, grew up in the Midwest, on the Mississippi River. Our house had medium bedrooms, and one very small room, and we thought all families had children share bedrooms. I and my two sisters shared a double bed when we were in school, and two of my brothers in bunk beds were in the same bedroom as we girls, and always a baby in a crib. My grandmother sewed many of the shirts and skirts for us girls. My mother was the youngest of ten children, so we had many cousins, and we kids all shared clothes back and forth. I am still full of happy memories from those years ! Take care ! 😘

[ctwatcher]

I used to eat mayonnaise and iceberg lettuce on white bread sandwiches and catsup sandwiches when we didn't have meat. I could eat the lettuce sandwich today, not the catsup. My mom said a raisin was a treat during the Depression, she wasted nothing throughout her life of 92 years. I believe people of that age got part of life with cleaner foods, water and air, better life.

[fatherofchickens]

Gen x here. My grandparents made a few of these for me and my family when we were kids….and I miss them now 😞

[pastorkristoffer]

A lot of these were treats that my grandparents made that I still live to these days. My favorite dish is a pot of beans with pork fat and a pan of fried potatoes. I love it! Wilted cabbage and onions? I love it. My kids do too. It’s amazing that our ancestors knew what they were doing and passed on very inexpensive meals to us.

[Thomas-yrln]

My mom made a lot of meals like this. She was a excellent cook.

[Beltzland]

OMG, now I understand my mother and grandmother.

[epicmage]

Always be greatful for what you have ❤️

[random_thoughts]

My mother was a widow with 7 kids. All she needed was the basics...flour, baking powder, salt and ect. We ate alot of hamburger vegetable soup with cornbread and beans and taters with homemade biscuits. I crave her meals now 😢 i have her recipes but it's not the same.

[AliChaps]

Bean soup is still my favorite soup. Always found in my fall/winter kitchen.

[jesusiseverythingjc]

I grew up poor and we didn’t pick and choose either you ate what was cooked or you didn’t eat.

[floraldays]

I remember as a child, my mother serving Wilted Lettuce Salad, Pea Soup, Fried Bologna sandwiches, Johnny Cake served with molasses, Cinnamon Sugar Toast and Prune Pudding or Rice Pudding on occasion. She wasn't from a poor family, but we had many Depression Era foods growing up. I still make some of these food items today.

[sharibasse]

My mom raised 3 children and I remember these days. The amazing thing was mom never let on that she was struggling to keep us fed. We felt rich 😢 God Bless You Mom🙏

[Chocolazulu]

We better learn those old ways because we may have to rely on them

[mmd]

My Great Oma born 1910, taught me everything I know about Great Depression food and survival. God rest her beautiful soul.

[dennyj]

Boomer here, we always loved both bread pudding and rice pudding. Also cornmeal mush that was refrigerated after cooking, then sliced and fried. Delicious with butter and syrup. Often I made hamburger, onion, and egg frittata. And potato pancakes, delicious with applesauce.

[CraftyGirl]

I grew up eating most of these. I didn’t grow up during the depression but my parents did and we didn’t have much growing up. One thing we did have though is plenty of fresh vegetables. My dad used to always grow a huge garden.

[denisross]

This is survival cooking that is forgotten by many in the affluent society until it becomes an effluent society

[docbrown]

When we were coming up in the 60s and 70s, we sometimes only had rice and butter as a meal, my mom use to pick with us, one night we would have rice and butter, then she would say tomorrow night it will be something different, we're having butter and rice tomorrow, we never got flustered at her, we were thankful to be able to fill our stomachs.

[sandraskalnik]

I am 74 years old now and I can remember eating so many of these things cooked by my mom in our southern kitchen. Wilted salad in our house was made with mustard greens instead of lettuce. We absolutely loved our foods that we ate all of the time.