I'm a 10-99 employee. I dislocated my shoulder 3 months ago. Between the medical bills, not being able to work for two months and inflation, I'm flat broke. I've been pretty much living out of the Crockpot for 3 months. I can fill up the Crockpot and it'll feed me for 3-4 days. Sometimes it starts off as one thing on Monday. As the week goes on l may add ingredients. It morphs into a totally different dish by Wednesday. Lol. Lots of Black Bean Soup. Navy Beans Soups and Rice. Macaroni or Rice and Diced Tomatoes. Hoover Stew with a little meat if I'm lucky. Cornbread and homemade Corn Tortillas. I've Lost 57lbs and honestly feel healthier than l have in 20 years! We The People really appreciate what you do Mr. & Mrs. WolfePit!
Did a 5-year stint in a soup kitchen. Can't tell you how many times I made a soup/stew/chili based Solely upon donated, canned foods. Often 40 gallons at a time. You learn to improvise quickly.
Soups/Stews are literally the world's superfood - there are an infinite variety of types, they're very filling and healthy, and literally the most cost-effective way to feed a family or group of people. They freeze great, reheat well, etc. Soups FOR THE WIN!
When I was growing up we sometimes didn't have any meat and my grandma would make a few different meals. One was brown flour gravy and boiled potatoes. Its just what it sounds like. She would put flour in a frying pan and cook it untill it was browned then add water to make gravy, we would then pour it over boiled potatoes. I was very young then and I didn't realize at the time that we were eating that because we didn't have money to buy meat. We were very poor and this was in the 60s and 70s, not the 30s.
A bag of 15-bean soup mix and some kind of meat makes a lot of food. Even cut up hot dogs. It works. Add rice. For like 5 bucks I can make enough of this to last every meal for a week.
My grandfather grew up ion a farm in northern Texas. Said he never knew the great depression happened because before during and after they were poor and it didn't change much for them. He ate many thing like this. He was the oldest kid so for breakfast there was rarely any milk left for him so he usually had buttermilk he poured over crumble dup stale corn bread for breakfast. One meal he made for me all the time was ham and noodles. Basically just a ham bone and maybe a ham hock boiled to make a stock, the tiny bits of meat left picked off then some home made egg noodles boiled in the broth. Then take a bit of the broth, thicken with corn starch and add lots of pepper and some butter if you have it to make a sauce to go on the noodles
There are a lot of people living off the food bank here in Canada. I was until a couple years ago, thank goodness for family 🙏 These recipes are great and remind me of some of the meals my Irish grandmother used to cook. Thanks for making videos like these.
I'm in NB and lived off the foodbank from 2019-2020 and I've been back living off it since June but videos like this help me stretch what I get from the foodbank with my small $20 a month food budget.
I love the cheap stews and meals, Larry. I always make big batches and we have 3 families that we share with. My husband will call and tell them "the wife's making soup today, bring your containers around at...." works out great for everyone! 😊❤
That's really nice that you share with other families. I hope they return the favor with some bread or a basket of veggies from their garden or something. Used to do something similar with my work mates. We were all single, but reasonable cooks. Once a week we'd get together at someone's place to have dinner and watch Friends or X Files. Host was responsible for the main and everyone else brought sides and dessert. It was fun and we got a decent meal and some leftovers out of it.
I've made Larry's version of Hoover Stew and it's amazingly delicious. Also, my mom was a child during the depression era and learned from my grandmother how to make soups and stews with whatever they had hanging around. Fresh foods, canned foods, sometimes with meat, sometimes without, into my mom's adulthood she continued making those soups and stews and, in turn, I learned them as well. Sometimes the best meals are created with ingredients (including leftovers) that need to be used up.
I share your feelings about peas vs split pea soup. I probably would skip thickening the soup altogether. It looked fine before that. And for those of us who don't have peas on hand, because we don't like them, some chunked up cabbage put in towards the end would add more veg and go nicely with the kielbasa. This soup is almost like the soup that happens after St. Paddy's day with leftover corned beef. Another great recipe for using what you have. Thank you!
My mom would make “rice and gravy” once a week. It was just cheap ground meat, corn and peas thickened into a gravy with flour over white rice. It was delicious
Things ALWAYS look better when you're not cold and hungry.A big hearty bowl of soup is just the ticket.This time of year my mom would always have a big pot of chicken soup or vegetable beet soup made.It'd sure take the chill off in a hurry!
Thanks Larry and Wolfe family! I honestly love Hoover stew! Cheap eating, and a batch can last me a week!!❤ I honestly hope it doesn't get to this point again, but most of us don't have a crystal ball. God bless us all!
Larry, I have tears running down my face as I write this comment. I'm about to move into my first apartment on 500 a month of SSI with my service dog, relying on food banks, fresh divorced because the government doesn't think disabled people should be married and be able to financially live. Thank you for these recipes for we, the people.
My brother and I started making Hoover Stew after you first aired it. We love it. BTW, you can add whatever you think of, such as leftover veggies to it. Soups/stews are a great way to feed many with little.
@TheRealEvvonne oddly enough hotdog prices seem to have risen faster than smoked sausage. I can get a decent amount of real sausage for the same price.
Actually, I don't think it's odd that you like split pea soup, yet dislike fresh peas! Truth is, I absolutely detest fresh lima beans, but LOVE anything made with dried lima beans! There's something about the drying process that changes the texture (and to some extent, the flavor) of the peas and beans. So I'm right there with you, Larry!
Ooh, I'm the opposite. I can't stand them canned, but I love them fresh off the vine. Peas, that is. Lima beans..... hard freaking left turn and I'm outa here! lol
Take the meat (cut up hot dogs, sausage, whatever) and brown it till it gets toasty, scrape up the bits from the bottom of the pot, then put in the veg as shown. You get more flavor out of it for the soup. Schlurp!!!! 😍
I was born in 1954. Pay phone: 5 cents, loaf of bread 19 cents, Coca-Cola 10 cents, gas (my dad owned an ESSO station) 27-32 cents per gallon. My allowance $1.00, with which I usually bought a lg hamburger 27 cents, a nickel cherry coke from the fountain, a 3 ft long soft licorice whip 5 cents and a 12 cent comic book. I still had plenty left for candy, during the week. I used to ride around on my mini-bike, picking up deposit bottles (3cents,each). 3 or 4 bottles return would fill the gas tank on my mini-bike.
@@SarafinaSummers Totally agree. The “social progress” you speak of IS a GOD SEND: it had to happen, as it did, for our nation to truly come together. But I think we should have stopped short of our permissiveness on current border situations. There have been missteps along the way, but who knows; there may be a “silver lining” to this latest problem. Time will tell
I’ll swap you out the peas in that soup for some cabbage 🥬! Smoked kielbasa always cozies up beautifully with cabbage (and with my half-Polish palate 🇵🇱💜😋).
Larry, Great job on producing these inexpensive meals for we the people! I appreciate your efforts and hope others do also. God bless you sir, and please keep up the good work.
My family can afford to weather any crisis because we thrift daily like it's 1932. My grandparents got through it by continuing to grow food, raise chickens, forage, and cook from scratch. They saved their farm, fed the town, and taught us to be self-sufficient. So I don't spend more than $1 a day per person in my household to eat quite well. That money buys a few items we don't produce ourselves, plus lots of shelf-stable basics for bad times. A friend gets commodities boxes and trades what she doesn't like for eggs and produce. The things she doesn't like are welcome to me. My motto is "like what you eat, don't eat whhat you like." On Sunday I rotated some of those shelf-stable pantry basics into 24 servings of hearty beef stew. A large can of chopped beef with fat, three cans sliced potatoes, two cans green beans, plus onions, carrots, celery, garlic, parsley, and thyme from the garden.
We love soups and now that it's getting cooler up north here we are primed for 'soup season'. This depression soup looks great and very hearty. Am betting it would be good as well with some browned spam diced up in it! Thx Wolfpit! (BTW the inflation stew looks killer too)
My grandpa was born in 1898 and saw tough times. He was the most frugal man I've ever known. During the depression he milked 40 cows twice a day seven days a week three six five days a year while he and my grandma raised six youngins on forty bucks a month. Grandma made butter to sell and had eggs each day to take to the little country store and trade them for goods for the house as there was no money to be had. Here in western North Carolina the barter system was alive and well. I used to listen to all the accounts of living back then as i could get them to tell. Grandpa was 88 when he passed and grandma was 96, i guess the hard work finally killed them.
I've got many depression recipes from growing up on my grandparents farm. My family were lucky to live on a farm, because they traded butter, eggs cheese, meat, poultry & veggies, for White flour, sugar shoe, and wool ration stamps. My grandma made the clothes my mom & her siblings wore, and I remember as I grew, being taught to churn butter, make cheese, and can meat and veggies. With this coming depression, I've stored exactly what I know will need keep us well fed, and last forever. For all those Preppers out there, buy hard Red & White Wheat Berries. They last forever, and it's easy to store. Learn to make sour dough bread, and cook over a open fire. We had a huge fireplace in the kitchen with bead ovens. Wrought iron arms swung out and Grandma ALWAYS had a pot hanging on it. Usually it was a stew with beans and whatever else she had leftover from the last meal. After school and chores, THAT soup & bread was delicious! She would slap cheese in it, or on our bread, and that lasted us till supper. Our pigs didn't get much from the table in our house! But the dogs always had bones!
My Grandmother used to make something like this. She called it "Scrap Soup". It's basically any damn thing you still had left over for a week or so. She was born 1914. It's not to bad for slop. It was always good. But it is indeed farmers gruel. She has been dead for years now but I still remember the "Scrap Soup".
Sometimes cheap eating, can be the best eating. One of my favorite dishes is scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, and hotdogs all mixed together in one skillet.
Agreed, a favourite struggle meal of mine is scrambled eggs in a warm tortilla with a little ketchup/hot sauce (I melt some cheese in there too if I can afford it)
My grandpa passed 2 months ago. He was 102. He told me about his dad hitting a deer, calling his neighbors, butchering it and divvying it out. I believe him lol.
I did 10 years in the military, with 2 combat deployments under my belt as a 8404, "Greenside" corpsman. I picked up PTSD, despression, and severe anxiety for my time in, and VA's fighting me on a lot of stuff, it's sadly no longer uncommon for the VA to make a "mistake" and "overpay" me, and it's incredibly difficult for me to hold down a steady job. While I haven't done all these recipes, they do help, I'm trying to save money to buy a house somewhere away from Chicago, which is where I ended up after I got my DD214. Now Im looking down the barrel of another termination because I can make patients uncomfortable(I have a pair of nasty looking scars, one I picked up from my second deployment, one that I picked up in C school). So here I am again. These genuinely are a life saver.
This is how I grew up. Soup didn't need broth. All we had was tap water. Both of my parents grew up during the depression. This is the good old fashioned soup that people need now. Times are hard. Thank you for this recipe.
My dear granny taught me a lot about the great depression and recipes of that period, she was born in 1920. Her family was luckier than most, her dad was a mine forman and when it shut down ,the owner gave them 2 mules. He cursed those mules everyday for years, as they had lived their lives underground pulling coal out and training them to pull plows in dayl8ght was fun.
That’s wonderful Larry, I like your recipes like these. I heard that back then people used to sometimes thicken up their soup with crackers or stale bread mixed into the broth. It made me think of undissolved gross soggy pieces of bread, but I tried it and it actually worked really well
A nice recipe. It is so refreshing to see, what i consider, a normal soup, rather than something extremely expensive to make. Struggling or not people these days do not appreciate food, they just want experiences...
Growing up we used to have rivel soup occasionally . Closest recipe I could find on the web was grandma's rivels. Basically flour ,eggs ,salt,beef or chicken stock . My mom was a master at feeding a big family on the cheap but was always good.
Honestly, if you want a lot of food on a budget as much mirepoix as you can stomach is the way to go - carrots onion and celery as the basis of dozens if not hundreds of good stews and soups and go a long way for pennies. I've just made polish dill pickle soup - absolutely gorgeous and most of the ingredients by weight was the mirepoix. Through in some chicken wings for the basis of the stock and half a jar of pickles and you've got an incredibly rich, nutritious and tasty stew.
My dad is from this era, a lot of the things we eat now and growing were this type of dinners. We don't eat like this to save money but instead because it's really good.
If you're blessed with a pressure cooker, creating a flavourful broth out of just water is easy and doesn't waste any nutrients. I recently found a larger pork roast for less than $2 per pound and now have a decent tender meat base for multiple meals Remember to use your pressure cooker to buy cheaper tougher cuts of meat to melt connective tissue into broth and save money!
Great idea about cooking a pot of inflation stew and giving it to a needy family. Additionally, get an inexpensive (or cheap) pot to cook it in, and give them the pot as well. You have a good heart.
Thank you Larry, I made this soup with, my own spin. But I went with the spirit, if you have it ,use it helped this meal! I used two smoked spicy ( hot dog shaped & sized) sausages. The rest of the veg( onion, celery, carrots) I added and a extremely generous amount of roasted thyme. From my garden two small yellow tomatoes and two spicy peppers(Holy Moley). Of course the potatoes. This came out taste bud tingling marvelous.
My grandmother was born in the tail end of the Great Depression and she told me stories of how she was bullied at school because her family couldn’t afford to buy her shoes to go to school. I imagine her family probably ate a lot of meals like this
My grandmother made a soup with pork hocks . Back in the day they were cheap and gave a lot of flavor. Our family called it cabbage soup but now days they call it New England boiled dinner. The trick to it was to only eat the vegetables grandmother would replenish the vegetables and if necessary add water. Grandmother did a lot of foraging during the depression odd jobs and got paid in produce or other food stuffs.
I gotta try out your inflation stew. Looks delicious! For those who love looking up recipes for tight financial times, look up Wartime recipes as well. Folks had to make do with what they could get on ration cards, provided they had the money. A garden was essential, but not everyone has access to one or can have one.
My family and I have been going through a rough financial stretch, and inflation stew has kept my belly full while I make the meat-based meals for the rest of the family. It's really tasty stuff, and the rice makes it especially filling.
Do you have a food storage Larry? I live in Australia and I remember COVID and the chaos. Everything cheap was gone and people even got in fights over taking to much. Love your videos
My father was born in 1925. My grandmother couldn't support him so she put him in an orphanage. He lived there until he was 7. Always thought that was crazy! But I grew to understand why. Appreciate these videos for the nostalgia of eating the things my father had a taste for while growing up!
My great-aunt had to do that with her children, too. She was lucky enough to get a cleaning job at the orphanage so she could be with her children and she wasn’t the only parent they employed. The orphanage provided housing for the staff and the work was very hard with very long hours, but that was how some families managed to stay together during the Depression.
Life IS boring if you don't take chances!! Good on ya, Larry!!! ALWAYS use what you have. I've had no milk and used yogurt, sour cream, heavy cream mixed with water, half and half... you make do with what you've got, and you eat what it makes, because your belly is full now!
I recently made a very cheap but very good fried cabbage, noodles, and venison kielbasa dish for supper. I love cheap meals. My pitbull does too. That particular meal is one of her favorites but the only drawback is itll turn a 44 lb pitbull into a walking fire hazard lol
Food prices in the states compared to my home country is crazy, tho inflation is bad there too… 3 corps own ALL US food production, manufacture and sale, so they charge what they want - they put up prices and cut size down during covid in emergency measures and sneakily have never ended these measures… SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS!!
The inflation stew looks great, I make something like it and it's cheap, filling, nutritious, and can be delicious if you spice it up right (hint: add peanut butter and/or peanuts for some more protein and texture)
I love these low cost meals, I've made a lot myself in the past out of necessity and still do from time to time. Good that you more or less followed the recipe but having stock/bouillon cubes or powder in the cupboard is something I always do and opens up a world of possibilities for making soups or stews from what is on hand. Also improvising and not following recipes is always good, it makes for variety. Like with your cabbage soup, that would go with so many other ingredients to bulk it out and add carbs or protein. A bit of minced beef (ground beef) or pork, even corned beef, or some kind of Frankfurter/Kielbasa would work very well in that. And/or any kind of beans, kidney beans for example. And/or potatoes or some kind of pasta.
My Grandpa was a boy in the depression - his family (of 2 parents and 8 kids) lived on a farm but there was a candy store nearby that sold super cheap sugar stuff - not just candy but bread products. Sometimes that was all they could afford as the day old stuff was dirt cheap (so to speak.) He regretted that diet but said it couldn't be helped. Yeah, he died of diabetes complications.
I’m recently divorced after 18 years of marriage. I’m rewatching these recipes for ideas for meals. Thankfully, I’m easy to please and will eat anything! Thank you for sharing with us❤❤
I've read a few early editions (1930s & 1940s) of The Joy of Cooking, and the author was big on using canned condensed soups (such as Campbell's). Your "struggle soups" look a lot tastier, though!
Both my mom & dad grew to young adulthood during the Great Depression. Dad was a farm boy & mom was a city girl. One meal that I remember was what my mom called Broiled Supper. It was made in a large 9x13 baking pan. Basically, you cleaned out the pantry & fridge with this meal... You opened up & drained several cans of veggies, whatever you had in the pantry. The only veggie you wouldn't drain would be whole or diced tomatoes. You wanted the tomato juice included. Put the drained veggies in the pan in strips, alternating light & dark veggies. Some suggestions: cut green beans, hominy, whole kernel corn, lima beans, peas, spinach, diced potatoes, mixed veggies, whole or diced tomatoes, squash, leftover cooked beans like pinto beans or navy beans, carrots, turnips, celery, onion, etc. Season with salt, pepper & garlic powder, or whatever you like. If you were 'flush' that week, add slices of raw bacon on top of the veggies, one slice per person to be served. If you were really 'flush', add slices of canned pineapple on top of it all. Put in a preheated 350-degree oven for about 20 to 30 minutes to make sure the bacon was fully cooked. Then turn on the broiler for about 5 minutes to brown the bacon & pineapple before serving piping hot. (It was kind of yucky when cold.) Each serving included some of all the veggies, plus 1 slice of bacon & 1 slice of pineapple. It was never the same because you had different veggies available at different times. Serve with cornbread or buttered toast & milk or water. It filled empty bellies. What more can you ask?
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I'm a 10-99 employee. I dislocated my shoulder 3 months ago. Between the medical bills, not being able to work for two months and inflation, I'm flat broke. I've been pretty much living out of the Crockpot for 3 months. I can fill up the Crockpot and it'll feed me for 3-4 days. Sometimes it starts off as one thing on Monday. As the week goes on l may add ingredients. It morphs into a totally different dish by Wednesday. Lol. Lots of Black Bean Soup. Navy Beans Soups and Rice. Macaroni or Rice and Diced Tomatoes. Hoover Stew with a little meat if I'm lucky. Cornbread and homemade Corn Tortillas. I've Lost 57lbs and honestly feel healthier than l have in 20 years!
We The People really appreciate what you do Mr. & Mrs. WolfePit!
A modern Pot o fu!
Did a 5-year stint in a soup kitchen. Can't tell you how many times I made a soup/stew/chili based Solely upon donated, canned foods. Often 40 gallons at a time. You learn to improvise quickly.
Soups/Stews are literally the world's superfood - there are an infinite variety of types, they're very filling and healthy, and literally the most cost-effective way to feed a family or group of people. They freeze great, reheat well, etc. Soups FOR THE WIN!
A N D This is a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. My wife speaks of cleaning out the fridge of leftovers.
Bless your soul and the work you did for your community.
When I was growing up we sometimes didn't have any meat and my grandma would make a few different meals. One was brown flour gravy and boiled potatoes. Its just what it sounds like. She would put flour in a frying pan and cook it untill it was browned then add water to make gravy, we would then pour it over boiled potatoes. I was very young then and I didn't realize at the time that we were eating that because we didn't have money to buy meat. We were very poor and this was in the 60s and 70s, not the 30s.
My grandma made that and called it juicy potatoes, so good!!!!
Damn right
Those low cost meals prove that you don't need a lot of money to still have a filling delicious home cooked meal
I like that cabbage stew...looks like cabbage rolls deconstructed. Now there's something tasty.
Short on money but big on time makes a delicious meal
@@cathylemay2215check out kapusniak, it’s a Ukrainian national dish
A bag of 15-bean soup mix and some kind of meat makes a lot of food. Even cut up hot dogs. It works. Add rice. For like 5 bucks I can make enough of this to last every meal for a week.
Around here there is a steep increase of people depending on food banks to get by. Recipes like these are incredibly helpful.
My grandfather grew up ion a farm in northern Texas. Said he never knew the great depression happened because before during and after they were poor and it didn't change much for them. He ate many thing like this. He was the oldest kid so for breakfast there was rarely any milk left for him so he usually had buttermilk he poured over crumble dup stale corn bread for breakfast.
One meal he made for me all the time was ham and noodles. Basically just a ham bone and maybe a ham hock boiled to make a stock, the tiny bits of meat left picked off then some home made egg noodles boiled in the broth. Then take a bit of the broth, thicken with corn starch and add lots of pepper and some butter if you have it to make a sauce to go on the noodles
There are a lot of people living off the food bank here in Canada. I was until a couple years ago, thank goodness for family 🙏 These recipes are great and remind me of some of the meals my Irish grandmother used to cook. Thanks for making videos like these.
I'm lucky enough to be extremely wealthy through inherited wealth. How I laugh at peasant food it's very entertaining.
I'm in NB and lived off the foodbank from 2019-2020 and I've been back living off it since June but videos like this help me stretch what I get from the foodbank with my small $20 a month food budget.
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A lot of Southern cooks, my late Dad included, used to used sliced okra to help thicken soups. Adds to the flavor too. Milk these days is expensive! 😊
I love the cheap stews and meals, Larry. I always make big batches and we have 3 families that we share with. My husband will call and tell them "the wife's making soup today, bring your containers around at...." works out great for everyone! 😊❤
That's really nice that you share with other families. I hope they return the favor with some bread or a basket of veggies from their garden or something. Used to do something similar with my work mates. We were all single, but reasonable cooks. Once a week we'd get together at someone's place to have dinner and watch Friends or X Files. Host was responsible for the main and everyone else brought sides and dessert. It was fun and we got a decent meal and some leftovers out of it.
I often cook simple meals like this to use up left over ingredients, always end up great
I loved watching "great depression cooking" She passed away but i still love her recipes.
I've made Larry's version of Hoover Stew and it's amazingly delicious. Also, my mom was a child during the depression era and learned from my grandmother how to make soups and stews with whatever they had hanging around. Fresh foods, canned foods, sometimes with meat, sometimes without, into my mom's adulthood she continued making those soups and stews and, in turn, I learned them as well. Sometimes the best meals are created with ingredients (including leftovers) that need to be used up.
I share your feelings about peas vs split pea soup. I probably would skip thickening the soup altogether. It looked fine before that. And for those of us who don't have peas on hand, because we don't like them, some chunked up cabbage put in towards the end would add more veg and go nicely with the kielbasa. This soup is almost like the soup that happens after St. Paddy's day with leftover corned beef. Another great recipe for using what you have. Thank you!
My mom would make “rice and gravy” once a week. It was just cheap ground meat, corn and peas thickened into a gravy with flour over white rice. It was delicious
Things ALWAYS look better when you're not cold and hungry.A big hearty bowl of soup is just the ticket.This time of year my mom would always have a big pot of chicken soup or vegetable beet soup made.It'd sure take the chill off in a hurry!
Thanks Larry and Wolfe family! I honestly love Hoover stew! Cheap eating, and a batch can last me a week!!❤ I honestly hope it doesn't get to this point again, but most of us don't have a crystal ball. God bless us all!
Larry, I have tears running down my face as I write this comment. I'm about to move into my first apartment on 500 a month of SSI with my service dog, relying on food banks, fresh divorced because the government doesn't think disabled people should be married and be able to financially live. Thank you for these recipes for we, the people.
Should have chosen better.
My brother and I started making Hoover Stew after you first aired it. We love it. BTW, you can add whatever you think of, such as leftover veggies to it. Soups/stews are a great way to feed many with little.
Nothing was worse than 2008 there would be days i would lick up my own semen just so i could taste something….
Yeah. I replaced the water and hotdogs with beef and beef broth on the hoover stew. Tastes way better. The hotdogs were the worst part of the recipe.
@@Tariousgamingbut when on a budget and hungry, Hot Dogs are cheaper than beef. That’s why they used Hot Dogs back then and today.
@TheRealEvvonne oddly enough hotdog prices seem to have risen faster than smoked sausage. I can get a decent amount of real sausage for the same price.
Actually, I don't think it's odd that you like split pea soup, yet dislike fresh peas! Truth is, I absolutely detest fresh lima beans, but LOVE anything made with dried lima beans! There's something about the drying process that changes the texture (and to some extent, the flavor) of the peas and beans. So I'm right there with you, Larry!
Ooh, I'm the opposite. I can't stand them canned, but I love them fresh off the vine. Peas, that is. Lima beans..... hard freaking left turn and I'm outa here! lol
Take the meat (cut up hot dogs, sausage, whatever) and brown it till it gets toasty, scrape up the bits from the bottom of the pot, then put in the veg as shown. You get more flavor out of it for the soup. Schlurp!!!! 😍
I love the depression videos you make. I always take the recipes and spice them up to be more tasty.
Me too!
I love these depression and eating on a budget series. Valuable info. Hope you continue. Thank you!
Sincerely,
One of the people😊
I was born in 1954. Pay phone: 5 cents, loaf of bread 19 cents, Coca-Cola 10 cents, gas (my dad owned an ESSO station) 27-32 cents per gallon. My allowance $1.00, with which I usually bought a lg hamburger 27 cents, a nickel cherry coke from the fountain, a 3 ft long soft licorice whip 5 cents and a 12 cent comic book. I still had plenty left for candy, during the week. I used to ride around on my mini-bike, picking up deposit bottles (3cents,each). 3 or 4 bottles return would fill the gas tank on my mini-bike.
I say if we had the economics of back then and the social progressiveness of now, we'd have it made.
@@SarafinaSummers Totally agree. The “social progress” you speak of IS a GOD SEND: it had to happen, as it did, for our nation to truly come together. But I think we should have stopped short of our permissiveness on current border situations. There have been missteps along the way, but who knows; there may be a “silver lining” to this latest problem. Time will tell
I’ll swap you out the peas in that soup for some cabbage 🥬! Smoked kielbasa always cozies up beautifully with cabbage (and with my half-Polish palate 🇵🇱💜😋).
Larry, Great job on producing these inexpensive meals for we the people! I appreciate your efforts and hope others do also. God bless you sir, and please keep up the good work.
My family can afford to weather any crisis because we thrift daily like it's 1932. My grandparents got through it by continuing to grow food, raise chickens, forage, and cook from scratch. They saved their farm, fed the town, and taught us to be self-sufficient. So I don't spend more than $1 a day per person in my household to eat quite well. That money buys a few items we don't produce ourselves, plus lots of shelf-stable basics for bad times. A friend gets commodities boxes and trades what she doesn't like for eggs and produce. The things she doesn't like are welcome to me. My motto is "like what you eat, don't eat whhat you like."
On Sunday I rotated some of those shelf-stable pantry basics into 24 servings of hearty beef stew. A large can of chopped beef with fat, three cans sliced potatoes, two cans green beans, plus onions, carrots, celery, garlic, parsley, and thyme from the garden.
We love soups and now that it's getting cooler up north here we are primed for 'soup season'. This depression soup looks great and very hearty. Am betting it would be good as well with some browned spam diced up in it! Thx Wolfpit! (BTW the inflation stew looks killer too)
My grandpa was born in 1898 and saw tough times. He was the most frugal man I've ever known. During the depression he milked 40 cows twice a day seven days a week three six five days a year while he and my grandma raised six youngins on forty bucks a month. Grandma made butter to sell and had eggs each day to take to the little country store and trade them for goods for the house as there was no money to be had. Here in western North Carolina the barter system was alive and well. I used to listen to all the accounts of living back then as i could get them to tell. Grandpa was 88 when he passed and grandma was 96, i guess the hard work finally killed them.
I've got many depression recipes from growing up on my grandparents farm. My family were lucky to live on a farm, because they traded butter, eggs cheese, meat, poultry & veggies, for White flour, sugar shoe, and wool ration stamps. My grandma made the clothes my mom & her siblings wore, and I remember as I grew, being taught to churn butter, make cheese, and can meat and veggies. With this coming depression, I've stored exactly what I know will need keep us well fed, and last forever. For all those Preppers out there, buy hard Red & White Wheat Berries. They last forever, and it's easy to store. Learn to make sour dough bread, and cook over a open fire. We had a huge fireplace in the kitchen with bead ovens. Wrought iron arms swung out and Grandma ALWAYS had a pot hanging on it. Usually it was a stew with beans and whatever else she had leftover from the last meal. After school and chores, THAT soup & bread was delicious! She would slap cheese in it, or on our bread, and that lasted us till supper. Our pigs didn't get much from the table in our house! But the dogs always had bones!
My Grandmother used to make something like this. She called it "Scrap Soup". It's basically any damn thing you still had left over for a week or so. She was born 1914. It's not to bad for slop. It was always good. But it is indeed farmers gruel. She has been dead for years now but I still remember the "Scrap Soup".
We call it "dragon ass soup" because your dragon your ass to the store by the time you're generally making something like this. Or someone is. /hj
Sometimes cheap eating, can be the best eating. One of my favorite dishes is scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, and hotdogs all mixed together in one skillet.
Agreed, a favourite struggle meal of mine is scrambled eggs in a warm tortilla with a little ketchup/hot sauce (I melt some cheese in there too if I can afford it)
Mr,Wolfe pit. I love the cheap depression meals. Sometimes we can't afford something's. Anyway, your videos are outstanding!! Keep up the great work 👍
This channel is a big help to everybody.
My grandpa passed 2 months ago. He was 102. He told me about his dad hitting a deer, calling his neighbors, butchering it and divvying it out. I believe him lol.
Totally, does bring back memories.
I like how you stuck to the philosophy behind the soup. The smoked sausage is a good choice though. I’ll be checking this one out tomorrow
I did 10 years in the military, with 2 combat deployments under my belt as a 8404, "Greenside" corpsman. I picked up PTSD, despression, and severe anxiety for my time in, and VA's fighting me on a lot of stuff, it's sadly no longer uncommon for the VA to make a "mistake" and "overpay" me, and it's incredibly difficult for me to hold down a steady job.
While I haven't done all these recipes, they do help, I'm trying to save money to buy a house somewhere away from Chicago, which is where I ended up after I got my DD214. Now Im looking down the barrel of another termination because I can make patients uncomfortable(I have a pair of nasty looking scars, one I picked up from my second deployment, one that I picked up in C school). So here I am again. These genuinely are a life saver.
This is how I grew up. Soup didn't need broth. All we had was tap water. Both of my parents grew up during the depression. This is the good old fashioned soup that people need now. Times are hard. Thank you for this recipe.
My dear granny taught me a lot about the great depression and recipes of that period, she was born in 1920. Her family was luckier than most, her dad was a mine forman and when it shut down ,the owner gave them 2 mules. He cursed those mules everyday for years, as they had lived their lives underground pulling coal out and training them to pull plows in dayl8ght was fun.
That’s wonderful Larry, I like your recipes like these. I heard that back then people used to sometimes thicken up their soup with crackers or stale bread mixed into the broth. It made me think of undissolved gross soggy pieces of bread, but I tried it and it actually worked really well
A nice recipe. It is so refreshing to see, what i consider, a normal soup, rather than something extremely expensive to make. Struggling or not people these days do not appreciate food, they just want experiences...
What you mean "was" real, it still IS 💯 we appreciate you bro !!!!!
Growing up we used to have rivel soup occasionally . Closest recipe I could find on the web was grandma's rivels. Basically flour ,eggs ,salt,beef or chicken stock . My mom was a master at feeding a big family on the cheap but was always good.
Honestly, if you want a lot of food on a budget as much mirepoix as you can stomach is the way to go - carrots onion and celery as the basis of dozens if not hundreds of good stews and soups and go a long way for pennies. I've just made polish dill pickle soup - absolutely gorgeous and most of the ingredients by weight was the mirepoix. Through in some chicken wings for the basis of the stock and half a jar of pickles and you've got an incredibly rich, nutritious and tasty stew.
The inflation stew looks delicious. Thanks for the extra recipe, Larry.❤
My dad is from this era, a lot of the things we eat now and growing were this type of dinners.
We don't eat like this to save money but instead because it's really good.
If you're blessed with a pressure cooker, creating a flavourful broth out of just water is easy and doesn't waste any nutrients. I recently found a larger pork roast for less than $2 per pound and now have a decent tender meat base for multiple meals Remember to use your pressure cooker to buy cheaper tougher cuts of meat to melt connective tissue into broth and save money!
Yum; soup and learning about the Great Depression’s soup!
This looks an awfully lot like my grandmother's potato soup. Great job! I now know where she got the recipe. Thanks again.
Thank you for the reminder!
love this video. I can't have Dairy milk either.... and i absolute adore when people include substitutes or leave it out completely
respect!
It’s sad that 100 years later the struggle is still real
Great idea about cooking a pot of inflation stew and giving it to a needy family. Additionally, get an inexpensive (or cheap) pot to cook it in, and give them the pot as well. You have a good heart.
Thanks for the video! Love what you do! More depression era recipes would be nice!
Thanks for these videos, I think they are helping a lot of people.
Your Inflation Stew was delicious when I made it, seeing it again makes me want a bowl!
I really love the meaning about this recipe. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
The best thing with soup is that you can always dilute it as required to make it serve more people!
That soup looks absolutely delicious. It's great for everyone .
Just love these videos
If you are starving and have nothing else to eat this will be the best soup you have ever eaten
I like to add split peas instead of frozen. You can use green or yellow
The new logo in the intro is sick Mr/Mrs Wolfe Pit! I love it.
Hope y’all are well!
Thank you Larry, I made this soup with, my own spin. But I went with the spirit, if you have it ,use it helped this meal!
I used two smoked spicy ( hot dog shaped & sized) sausages. The rest of the veg( onion, celery, carrots) I added and a extremely generous amount of roasted thyme. From my garden two small yellow tomatoes and two spicy peppers(Holy Moley). Of course the potatoes. This came out taste bud tingling marvelous.
Both are great recipies. Thanks.
Certified Gold!!!!!
My grandmother was born in the tail end of the Great Depression and she told me stories of how she was bullied at school because her family couldn’t afford to buy her shoes to go to school. I imagine her family probably ate a lot of meals like this
I love using cabbage in my soups alot!! I always grab clearance meat at krogers or of course HEB😊,throw in carrots,green bean's, potatoes😮
My grandmother made a soup with pork hocks . Back in the day they were cheap and gave a lot of flavor. Our family called it cabbage soup but now days they call it New England boiled dinner. The trick to it was to only eat the vegetables grandmother would replenish the vegetables and if necessary add water. Grandmother did a lot of foraging during the depression odd jobs and got paid in produce or other food stuffs.
The food always looks wholesome and filling though a lot of the time.
Doesn’t look bad! Wouldn’t mind trying it out, seeing as how everything is getting so dang expensive lately
I gotta try out your inflation stew. Looks delicious! For those who love looking up recipes for tight financial times, look up Wartime recipes as well. Folks had to make do with what they could get on ration cards, provided they had the money. A garden was essential, but not everyone has access to one or can have one.
My family and I have been going through a rough financial stretch, and inflation stew has kept my belly full while I make the meat-based meals for the rest of the family. It's really tasty stuff, and the rice makes it especially filling.
You also got to think about what rations they had back during WWII. Not everything was readily available either.
By the way, that soup looks amazing!
Both of those look delicious, especially that 2nd one. Reminded me of a stuffed pepper soup I saw one time.
Love your low cost meal series!
Do you have a food storage Larry? I live in Australia and I remember COVID and the chaos. Everything cheap was gone and people even got in fights over taking to much. Love your videos
My father was born in 1925. My grandmother couldn't support him so she put him in an orphanage. He lived there until he was 7. Always thought that was crazy! But I grew to understand why. Appreciate these videos for the nostalgia of eating the things my father had a taste for while growing up!
My great-aunt had to do that with her children, too. She was lucky enough to get a cleaning job at the orphanage so she could be with her children and she wasn’t the only parent they employed. The orphanage provided housing for the staff and the work was very hard with very long hours, but that was how some families managed to stay together during the Depression.
momma called it gotago soup
everything that's gotta go throw week is in it😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow, that was really neat new logo.
Also, could happen. Seems like we are living in dire times.
Life IS boring if you don't take chances!! Good on ya, Larry!!! ALWAYS use what you have. I've had no milk and used yogurt, sour cream, heavy cream mixed with water, half and half... you make do with what you've got, and you eat what it makes, because your belly is full now!
I recently made a very cheap but very good fried cabbage, noodles, and venison kielbasa dish for supper. I love cheap meals. My pitbull does too. That particular meal is one of her favorites but the only drawback is itll turn a 44 lb pitbull into a walking fire hazard lol
Food prices in the states compared to my home country is crazy, tho inflation is bad there too… 3 corps own ALL US food production, manufacture and sale, so they charge what they want - they put up prices and cut size down during covid in emergency measures and sneakily have never ended these measures… SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS!!
Wow. I had no idea. What are the names of the 3 corporations??? Thanks!
I think, the biggest problem is, the people mostly can not cook.
The inflation stew looks great, I make something like it and it's cheap, filling, nutritious, and can be delicious if you spice it up right (hint: add peanut butter and/or peanuts for some more protein and texture)
Peanut butter is a great idea to add extra nutrition to soups. The flavor of the peanuts disappears into the soup and seems to become umami.
I'd like to see a recipe for HOOVER CAKE my Grandma use to make it, delish
I hate peas as well but love split pea soup, so you are not alone there, Wolfe
Very nice. Thank you.
I love these low cost meals, I've made a lot myself in the past out of necessity and still do from time to time.
Good that you more or less followed the recipe but having stock/bouillon cubes or powder in the cupboard is something I always do and opens up a world of possibilities for making soups or stews from what is on hand.
Also improvising and not following recipes is always good, it makes for variety. Like with your cabbage soup, that would go with so many other ingredients to bulk it out and add carbs or protein. A bit of minced beef (ground beef) or pork, even corned beef, or some kind of Frankfurter/Kielbasa would work very well in that. And/or any kind of beans, kidney beans for example. And/or potatoes or some kind of pasta.
barley would be good and would thicken and whatever veggies are in the garden. This could be a good basic soup to put those foraged greens in too.
My Grandpa was a boy in the depression - his family (of 2 parents and 8 kids) lived on a farm but there was a candy store nearby that sold super cheap sugar stuff - not just candy but bread products. Sometimes that was all they could afford as the day old stuff was dirt cheap (so to speak.) He regretted that diet but said it couldn't be helped. Yeah, he died of diabetes complications.
I’m recently divorced after 18 years of marriage. I’m rewatching these recipes for ideas for meals. Thankfully, I’m easy to please and will eat anything! Thank you for sharing with us❤❤
I've read a few early editions (1930s & 1940s) of The Joy of Cooking, and the author was big on using canned condensed soups (such as Campbell's). Your "struggle soups" look a lot tastier, though!
Both my mom & dad grew to young adulthood during the Great Depression. Dad was a farm boy & mom was a city girl. One meal that I remember was what my mom called Broiled Supper. It was made in a large 9x13 baking pan. Basically, you cleaned out the pantry & fridge with this meal... You opened up & drained several cans of veggies, whatever you had in the pantry. The only veggie you wouldn't drain would be whole or diced tomatoes. You wanted the tomato juice included. Put the drained veggies in the pan in strips, alternating light & dark veggies. Some suggestions: cut green beans, hominy, whole kernel corn, lima beans, peas, spinach, diced potatoes, mixed veggies, whole or diced tomatoes, squash, leftover cooked beans like pinto beans or navy beans, carrots, turnips, celery, onion, etc. Season with salt, pepper & garlic powder, or whatever you like. If you were 'flush' that week, add slices of raw bacon on top of the veggies, one slice per person to be served. If you were really 'flush', add slices of canned pineapple on top of it all. Put in a preheated 350-degree oven for about 20 to 30 minutes to make sure the bacon was fully cooked. Then turn on the broiler for about 5 minutes to brown the bacon & pineapple before serving piping hot. (It was kind of yucky when cold.) Each serving included some of all the veggies, plus 1 slice of bacon & 1 slice of pineapple. It was never the same because you had different veggies available at different times. Serve with cornbread or buttered toast & milk or water. It filled empty bellies. What more can you ask?
I would enjoy more depression recipes. Thank you..
Remember 5cents was a lot of money then! Wages were really low. Dollar a day was a good wage!
I like to see a depression era series…
We the people, me at least, thank your helper/hand model for the video help.
Looks good, thanks for sharing, God bless !
Damn that looks awesome !
I had some last night and it was delicious!