Hard Times Meals 12 Dishes That Kept Pioneers Alive

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• CO

  @collinsoluoch5520 · 8 months ago

  We haven't gotten rid of world hunger yet but we're living the best times in human race

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• BR

  @brucedauzat7342 · 8 months ago

  Grits was food we were raised on here in Louisiana.  I ate it as a child for breakfast and as an adult I now consider it delicious with a pinch of salt and a little cream and butter.

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• AM

  @americafrontier · 9 months ago

  When the Teamsters went on strike, our table told the story—pinto beans and cornbread for days. Hard times, simple meals. Funny thing is, I still love pinto beans.

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• JU

  @JudyShrouds · 9 months ago

  My Dad was unemployed &nbsp;every winter from construction.<br>Mom made soups, stews, soup beans, . and fried potaoes, plus homemade &nbsp;bread/buns.<br>Good time meals, were pork chops, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and veg.<br>More meat in good times. Blessings

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• MA

  @MaryBain-x6u · 8 months ago

  Many &nbsp;years ago &nbsp;my husband &nbsp;went to &nbsp;a store, they perchesed &nbsp;their &nbsp;bags of grains &nbsp;(bean)it had been &nbsp;bought to make &nbsp;cow feed(ground) 3...dollars &nbsp;per bg. 100lbs. In &nbsp;one buy he bought &nbsp;pinto, &nbsp;navy, blackeyed peas,popcorn ...with 4 children &nbsp;in &nbsp;our &nbsp;family &nbsp;popcorn &nbsp;went fast...it was stuff bought from &nbsp;a railroad &nbsp;warehouse &nbsp;the spillage &nbsp;swept &nbsp;up bagged up dust and all ...shaking &nbsp;it thru a colander &nbsp;...looked for non food &nbsp;contents...washed then cooked &nbsp;this was early 70s tenn

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• CJ

  @CJ-im2uu · 8 months ago

  Janet Spaeth (?) wrote articles about the myth of living on the prairie: the malnutrition, isolation, fear a crop would fail, wild animals; if your husband went hunting, would he return? &nbsp;<br><br>The Little House On The Priairie Cookbook also discusses cookinng and meals during Laura Ingalls life. on the Great Plains. In the book FARMER BOY, the meals discussed were rare.

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• HA

  @HaleBarbara-h9x5d · 7 months ago

  My dad was born in 1910 and was basically raised on pinto beans and we would have to have pinto beans and average 4 to 5 times a week lol the man loved his beans

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• CY

  @CynthiaRockroth · 9 months ago

  GRITS IS FROM HOMINEY ( the shell is boiled in lye and rubbed off then rinced repeatedly, &nbsp;then dried and ground into grits) <br>Cornmeal is ground rubbing it off the cob and ground with shell intact.

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• KA

  @kathyscrazylife · 9 months ago

  My mother’s family were sharecroppers. She said they would have starved to death if not for biscuits and gravy.

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• SA

  @sarahstrong7174 · 9 months ago

  Much of the time these travellers did not just eat what what they carried but also would forage what they could along the way. They foraged greens, roots, birds eggs, fruit, fish and animals.

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• JI

  @jimhitchcock2383 · 9 months ago

  Every 7th/8th grade student in the US should have to watch this video. &nbsp;Plus one on homemade soap.

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• SA

  @SamHarper-r3x · 9 months ago

  Growing up as a son of a long haul truck driver, I could always tell when the Teamster&apos;s Union was on strike, because we&apos;d have pinto beans &amp; corn bread for several days .... <br>It&apos;s unbelievable but I still love pinto beans .... 😊

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