Cheapest Budget Meal Ever? - Feed Your Family for .34¢ Per Serving - The Wolfe Pit

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[donlockhart]

Okay so let me say this there was a point where this channel helped my family after both me and my wife had just lost our jobs and our home to a fire. I was able to get a part time job to make it buy but this channel helped my family make it. Fast forward a few years to 2 amazing careers making alot more money a much bigger house, ill never forget how these recipes helped feed my family through our struggle so to Mr. And Mrs. Wolfepit I can only say thank you!

[SohanDsouza]

Taking out some of the boiled beans to mash or blend, and stirring them back in, is a great way to additionally thicken a bean-based soup or stew.

[anamewithnoface]

I volunteer at a food pantry and often refer people to your budget meal videos to help them stretch things out. thanks for providing a good service to those struggling.

[charliebrenton]

Brother, I love you. It’s hard being poor in this country of wealth and you have helped keep my family fed and happy through these hard times. Man, I’m just too dumb to really express how much you helped us. Thank you, Sir. Thank you.

[Katie-fdnp]

Tip: You can save your vegetable scraps (onion peels, carrot ends, celery roots, etc.) and make stock with them 👍🏼

[sandylee]

This is hardly a poor man's meal, we ate it growing up, and as far as I am concerned it's a meal fit for a King. I can still smell moms cooking, how in the world she was able to feed 6 people on their budget amazes me to this day, we had no idea we were poor even though we lived in a tiny 2 bed apt. She was a genius in the kitchen and we never went to bed hungry. She saved every bit of bacon grease, chicken skin, and pieces of beef fat to season meals. She foraged berries from parks and asked strangers for the apples that were laying on the ground in their yards, she carried a paper grocery sack everywhere she went just in case there was an opportunity to bring something home. I am almost 60 and only now really realizing what she did for us, there was no place too far for her to walk to get something for us, I am blessed.

[infoscholar]

One of the first things I did when I got to college was bought a crock pot. Students in my apartment complex were always coming by to "see what I was cooking." I about lived on Pinto beans, Chili, Beef Stew, and home made corn bread. Good information, Mr. Wolfe.

[Pwnification]

I don't care how much this recipe costs, I want to eat it. It just looks like good food to me.

[jbelle]

Sometimes I never even had a half a cup of food and would have been so happy with that half a cup. Some people don't understand the reality of some in our country. One summer I ate nothing but fried onions and potatoes. Bless you for these great recipes and a reminder of how lucky I am right now in my life.

[Rodville]

My mom used to make a variation on this. She'd soak the beans for a day or so, put it in a crock pot with huge chunks of potatoes and the ham hock and go to work. At dinner time she would give us a bowl and some cornbread to scoop it up with. Man that takes me back. I have not had it since she passed in 06.

[gayle.catgrim]

I grew up below poverty in the 60s even though my dad worked three jobs a day. My mother made our clothes so we always had at least a new dress every month for church and a dollar each in the collection basket. We were blessed to live across a two lane street across from crops that yielded cabbage, and onions and in the summer we would go to the close farms where we would pick fruits and vegetables. One of my dad's job had a huge pecan trees they allowed us to harvest. My mom always made our meals from scratch and made the most amazing egg noodles with tomato soup. Looking back now I understood how difficult it must have been for her to make sure we had three meals each day at the kitchen table. My dad near worked himself to death but not one word ever came out oh his mouth how hard it was on him and when I was old enough I often worked right beside him. These nutritious meals you are teaching us we can provide for cheap are a blessing indeed to those who have very little. God bless you and your wife for the blessings you share. ❤🕎🔯🕎❤

[dimex]

Beans and rice, mixed with ground beef and some bell pepper, was one of my favorite dishes as a kid. It wasn’t till I grew up that I realized it was “poor people food” and I still eat it to this day, even though I can afford steak and whatever other protein I want. Cheap food doesn’t have to be without flavor or non filling. Beans are a GREAT food and calorie hack, and healthy too.

But if you want some REALLY CHEAP depression era recipes, my grandmothers family survived off of dandelion soup. Ye, seriously.

[JoshDay]

A good way to thicken the soup without adding any other ingredients, (they cost money) is to mash up about half a cup of already cooked beans and mix it back in. The starchy mash will thicken the soup. So that way, you don't lose water, which is volume, which can make the soup go further.

[drasiella]

This recipe reminds me of a traditional meal we eat here in the Balkans, simply called beans. There are a few variations from the recipe in this video. We dont add celery, but do add carrots, parsnip root, potato chunks too. And to finish it off and thicken the broth we make a garlic roux with oil, flour and minced garlic, fried for a minute or two. At the end, a few teaspoons of paprika is added to the roux, roux is added to the whold soup, cooked for a minute et voila. Its usually eaten with the bread on the side. Its a cheap, long lasting and hearty meal.

[gazerockerzavii]

I know, not everybody can afford it, but a pressure cooker is the thing that saved my mum so much time... She have inherited it back in the day, and making this soup would only take 40 minutes, without the need of soaking the beans.... Making meals that would take hours just in 30-40 minutes and reducing the time in thr kitchen allowed her to spend more time with us, helping out with homework etc.
Btw: this is an extremely common meal in eastern europe, and you can add some fresh red onions to it when serving. (Romanians would eat sour cabbage on the side) or a small spoon of soured cream.

[dutchweeks]

I was a poor kid with a big family. I'm 35 now, and my family eats fine, but theres still poor kids out there today. Some of their parents are watchin your channel, and those poor kids arent goin to bed hungry tonight. You have my most sincere thanks for what you're doing

[idontwantachannel]

Pay the knuckleheads no mind. They're just trolls, trying to get a rise out of you. The vast majority of us love and appreciate you and your videos.

[Faliat]

If you're in an even more dire financial situation, instant mashed potato and a packet of mug soup mix or a sprinkle of seasoning or curry powder.
Combine in a container, stir in water. Saved my life when I was homeless and had to live off £2 a week sometimes.

Still go back to it when I'm camping or traveling since it's quick and filling and can be made in basically anything.
The ingredients are easy to find don't need heat and keep a long time, too. I should make an emergency bag with them in.

[TruckingShooter]

These meals become more and more relevant every day

[justingomez]

As a Mexican American there was ALWAYS a pot of beans on the stove and some leftover rice from dinner, throw in an egg and throw all that in a tortilla … best basically free breakfast ever