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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Grew up middle class, but as the family was from Louisiana to Texas, originally, we loved pinto beans, cornbread and fried potatoes. Our mom usually made them on rainy days. But I grew up in Cali, so it was a treat! Chili beans and cornbread, too. My wife follows a channel on youtube called Hillbilly Kitchen and a few others. I think that woman is from Appalachia and she has a lot of good ideas from the old days to stretch the budget. She recently made koolaid pie and it was great. Neither one of us ever had it before. There's another woman who showed cooking from the depression era. She passed well into her 90's a number of years ago. But her name was Clara. You can still see her channel on youtube thanks to her Grandson who was the one who filmed her. Looked it up. It's called Great Depression Cooking. The stories are great that go along with it, plus there are plenty of money saving ideas.