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.
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We had extended family dinners weekly and all the women of the family would cook. In a tiny kitchen with a wood stove and oven. Bread was always handmade and delicious. All fat was kept in a metal container above the stove and when it was full grandma would show us kids how to render it down, she would cool it in the icebox and we would get to make biscuits. Grandma taught us all to can and preserve food. Grandpa had an old bus and would fill it up with produce and fruit and we would drive up and down selling the goods.. us kids would each get an apple and orange and they were they best. Everything was homemade. Chickens provided meat and eggs. Had pigs too and would help grandpa butcher them and learned how to use almost every part of the hog. We would salt the hams and hang them in the cellar. I miss those days and those people… they could survive anything
Sounds great. I would love to know someone who could teach me all that stuff.