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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My mom would make chipped beef gravy on toast - (SOS) but she’d also put other stuff in a white gravy too. Chicken, ham, Hard cooked eggs is one I remember. Bologna sandwiches, don’t ask for more than one slice! We had a big garden and canned and froze everything. Somebody mentioned Silver Queen corn- we had that! Some home delivery service like Schwanns gave us a sample of their frozen corn- the guy was so proud of it. It didn’t hold a candle to ours. He was shocked. Lol. We couldn’t afford his stuff anyway. We’d pick all kinds of fruit from our trees or neighbors trees who didn’t care about it and freeze or can it. My mom made homemade applesauce and froze it. We’d eat it frozen in the hot summer. Leftover vegetables went into a little freezer container layer by layer until there was enough for vegetable soup. Leftover chicken bones got stewed and I mean EVERY sliver of meat picked off. The new bone broth craze cracks me up. We picked up black walnuts and hickory nuts and took painstaking hours to crack and shell them. Pheasant, quail, squirrel, rabbit and later deer (weren’t many in our area until late 70’s early 80’s) helped feed us many times. Mom stretched meat the same way I see in a lot of comments; goulash, Spanish rice, stuffed peppers, etc. Good memories. My mom just turned 78 and she has spent the past month canning stuff from her garden. Wonder how many times those canning jars have been used. Recycling at its best.