25 Forgotten Poor Man Meals From the 1960s No One Cooks Anymore

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• RO

  @rosetravis8633 · 1 month ago

  1956. I remember some of these.

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• JE

  @jebstewart5285 · 1 month ago

  I was born in 1982, but i still go out and get a fresh tomato for a sandwich when they are still on the vine.

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• MI

  @michaelregalado7774 · 1 month ago

  1953. great video for this time as  affordability is a real issue, especially for the younger generations. keep these up.

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• SU

  @Sunflowergirl-e2d · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  I was born in the older than dirt year. You can substitute the chipped beef with chicken, turkey, leftover pork, browned hamburger. My &nbsp;mom used to mix in peas, tuna, and chopped hard boiled eggs and serve them over waffles when money was tight. You can use rice, mashed potatoes, noodles, biscuits for the base. I save my bread butts and make bread pudding with more custard that bread. It&apos;s dirt cheap, very nutritious and it does not last long with one person. My dad liked to slice potatoes and add polish sausage then a few grains of salt. <br>I used to work in a restaurant as a cook, and I can make omelets, so when the money&apos;s tight at the end of the month, I make a ham and cheese omelet or whatever leftover needs to be used up, and then 3 pancakes so I have a restaurant meal at the fraction of the price. If I don&apos;t feel like cooking, then it&apos;s PBJs with a glass of milk or cottage cheese on the side. It&apos;s amazing what I can conjour up or cobble up that makes enough to last me a week.

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• SU

  @sumty688 · 1 month ago

  My dad usually has his bacon oil in a can next to the stove, to fry his eggs and make his refried beans.

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• LI

  @libertylady1952 · 2 weeks ago

  1952. &nbsp; We ate a few of those meals even though we weren&apos;t poor.

• PJ

  @pjerxleben1251 · 1 month ago

  Hi, I loved your video I am 66 years old and I do remember all of those except for the chocolate on the biscuits that&apos;s the one thing that we didn&apos;t eat. Maybe we couldn&apos;t afford the chocolate back then I don&apos;t know. It brought home memories of my grandma cooking collards greens with corn dumplings on the top, a pan of biscuits and a pot of beans and most of all my grandfather sitting at the table putting blackstrap molasses on his biscuits. What I wouldn&apos;t give for one more dinner with my mom. Kudos to you!

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• CY

  @cynthiaphelps385 · 1 month ago

  We regularly ate 19/25 of these meals.

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• PR

  @probablyfineparents · 1 month ago

  nice!

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• SU

  @SusanAdler-c7z · 1 month ago

  Im from Australia born 1958...breakfast was broken up bread with warm milk and sugar...weekends eggs fried with baloney which we called Devon dinner was crumbed lamb brains or pasta or a goulash which was left on the stove to eat for 3 days..never complained because we were fed pay days we got cornflakes and baked chicken..

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• JA

  @jamestryon4738 · 1 month ago

  1943. &nbsp;Grew up on all of them. &nbsp;I was lucky and lived on a farm. &nbsp;I did not know we were poor.

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• FR

  @franbreedlove9392 · 1 month ago (edited)

  lol I still eat these things, not because I can&apos;t afford other, but because I love these older meals. Nothing like them. Edited to add: We never knew we were poor either.❣💞💕💝

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