22 FORGOTTEN Soul Food Meals Black Families Ate To Survive Hard Times
27K views · Jun 14, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments · 78
@SonyaLeverett-j7z · 3 months ago
I still cook all of this soul food will never be forgotten ❤❤❤
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@theroyalwhisper1 · 3 months ago
😂 Grandma really said, “Give me one onion, two beans, and a prayer… I’ll feed the whole neighborhood." 🍲❤
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@roderickbreakfield3119 · 3 months ago
Pinto beans and cornbread, fried chicken, peach cobbler, pie macaroni and cheese, potato salad
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@SonyaLeverett-j7z · 3 months ago
I still cook all of this greens macaroni &cheese fried corn bread peach cobbler
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@TheLostNonnaKitchen · 3 months ago
At that time, families ate simple food, and they were happy with that!
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@NonnasTable · 3 months ago
Crazy times thinking about the amount of food we now throw away! in the past they did so much better than us today
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@joanbrown6161 · 3 months ago
Prepared a meal for your family come with a lots of Love.❤
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@KimWalker-u2u4z · 3 months ago
That's good cooking down south cooking I still eat the food
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@DorothyCromer-p3t · 2 months ago
We still eat these foods today. Listening from South Carolina.
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@KimWalker-u2u4z · 3 months ago
Soul food is 🔥🔥
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@etphonehome131 · 3 months ago
1I still eat these meals I love fried chicken greens Mac and cheese with potato salad and cornbread <br>2 smothered pork chops w rice string beans and tomatoes and onions and cornbread <br>3 chicken and rice<br>4 fried or baked thighs with pinto or great northern beans with cornbread tomatoes and onions
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@demetriajones1416 · 2 weeks ago
every meal on here, my mommy taught me how to make all from scratch no short cuts. Now my 3 teenaged daughters are being taught.
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