My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (160)
sorted by:
Everything was homemade. August was canning month. Every house had a fruit room and most had a root cellar. We had no fresh vegetables and except for apples, no fresh fresh fruit in the winter. I longed for Wonder Bread and Campbell soup. We picked asparagus that grew wild on ditch banks and my parents took the horses and went deer hunting for a week. My mother bottled the meat for gravy and stews and soups. During pheasant season, my dad would go out daily before chores to get his daily limit. No rabbit because all we had were Jack Rabbits and there was some disease they carried.
Oh, and we had homemade root beer and ice cream for special occasions. Churned butter and chicken. Didn't have pizza or spaghetti until college and never had a "store bought" dress until I was 20. I was well dressed though because my mother was a master seamstress. Tailored coats and made my brothers' button down collar shirts.
And I grew up knowing we weren't rich but had no idea we were poor. A different world and glad I experienced it.