Kid Friendly Poor Man Meals | Great Depression Cooking | What to eat when money is TIGHT


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  1. Micah Miller
    Micah Miller says:

    My grandmother used to make beef stroganoff with leftover roast and she used her homemade egg noodles to turn it into an alfredo-like dish. Now, when I do a round roast for Sunday, I follow up the entire week with French Dips, then Cheesesteaks, then beef & pepper stroganoff. I can stretch a 2 lb roast to the end of the week for my family of 3 and no one says "Beef again!?!"

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  2. Violet Villard
    Violet Villard says:

    OK I'll be repeating that I grew up calling this SOS, but there were a variety of ways to make it: sausage, hamburger, leftover shredded up roast beef/pork, etc. Then we'd have it over toast, biscuits, rice, mashed potatoes, heck we even had it over leftover stuffing before. Sooo many ways to make this.

    Vegetarian is mainly uses vegetable but does have animal byproducts like eggs, cheese, milk, etc. Vegan means absolutely no animal meat or byproducts are used. My Aunt Cathy is Pescatarian which means she's a vegetarian who only eats fish & seafood.

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  3. Gayle Morris
    Gayle Morris says:

    I made it as a young wife, hubby told me it was called sos casserole hamburger flour grease roux mix milk cook to thicken. Soupy pour over canned biscuits. Back then canned biscuits were around 10 cents no soup lots of pepper brings back yummy memories enjoyed your video, first time viewer

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  4. Cristina R
    Cristina R says:

    Just wanted to let you know you inspired me to start making my homemade Bread ❤❤❤ Best thing I ever did 😊😊😊 I use honey instead of sugar 😊😊😊😊

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  5. Sally Gordin
    Sally Gordin says:

    You gave the ingredients list for bread but no directions. Do you have a video for it? I didn't see it in the play list. I'm still searching for the best bread recipes. Yours may be the one. Blessings to you and your family ❤

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  6. AJ
    AJ says:

    We like to smash up some of the beans to thicken the "juice" into a thicker sauce. A can of rotel makes the beans amazing too.

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  7. AJ
    AJ says:

    Would love to see a video of what you use the flavored syrups for. Any recipes or blends you like would be helpful. Trying to see if they are worth the money?

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  8. Donna Divis
    Donna Divis says:

    Hi. Great recipes. In your recipe for the beans you didn’t mention in the description box the amount of beans you used for the recipe and what kind of beans? Thx

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  9. Gloria Peel
    Gloria Peel says:

    Great ideas! My mom used to make cream of chicken soup with half the can of water! Then she put it on buttered toast ! She made it for breakfast ! It’s still my favorite breakfast !

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  10. Patricia Lee
    Patricia Lee says:

    These look great nutritionally. I am a semi-vegetarian who has studied nutrition for 45 yrs. plos. You are doing a great job! I make the Cottage pie by adding a can of rinsed and drained lentils, plus I put the cheese between the veg and the potatoes. The cheese flavors the veg that way.

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  11. Tina Short
    Tina Short says:

    Little dude still has the price sticker on the front of his shirt😂😂. I love kids!!! You’ve got a whole beautiful bunch of taste testers!! I miss my kids and grandkids being little!! Although they were a bit harder to please with food back then. Now that they’ve gotten older they’ll eat pretty much anything 😂

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  12. Just Winging It
    Just Winging It says:

    I didn't know these recipes were considered poor food. I guess my parents were hard up. I totally forgot about the mixed veggies, tomato, and mashed taters on top!! Childhood trauma, I guess 😉
    For real, though, these are great ideas we should all have in our back pocket

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  13. Lorrie White
    Lorrie White says:

    The first thing I learned to cook as a young bride of 17, over 40 years ago, was Poor Man’s stroganoff but I used hamburger. The early 80’s was such a difficult time financially speaking in the Pacific Northwest. Money was tight and these poor man meals certainly helped!

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