"Poor Man's Meal" - a Depression-era recipe

1. Minnesotastan
   February 24th, 2009 at 11:23 am

   There are five videos with this lady. The other four can be accessed at this link:
   http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Episodes.html

2. johzephine
   February 24th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   That's a mighty cute grandma.

   And some mighty cute boys.

3. matt
   February 24th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

   potatoes and hot dogs would probably make me break a mighty wind.

4. SydneyClaire
   February 24th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

   That looks really good!

5. tr
   February 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

   Looks like prime Bachelor Chow to me.

6. Moi
   February 24th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   Damn! I gotta try it now! Looks good and inexpensive.

7. peterman921
   February 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

   WOW I just made this for lunch and sit down to check out neatorama. I made mine with bacon and course ground pepper and last week we made the same thing with onion soup mix to season the potatoes, bacon, and onions.

   This is also great camping food

8. mother hub
   February 24th, 2009 at 6:59 pm

   Back in college (starvation days), I'd buy a 10 lb. bag of red-skinned potatoes each week and a few sticks of butter. Lived off that exclusively for one year. Got a bubble-butt as a result. Took another year to rid myself of "bubble-butt". The taters were cheap and good and kept me alive during that time.

9. Quasi_Mojo
   February 24th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

   Seems the traffic killed the Grandma's website.
   You can find her on Youtube:
   http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking

10. Oomi
    February 24th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    Hot dogs beats spam any day.

11. Ali S.
    February 25th, 2009 at 12:21 am

    Whoa. These looks exactly like the meal I would make back in the dorms! And Nana is right...they are darn good and cheap to make!

12. zav
    February 25th, 2009 at 1:33 am

    Ahhhh, meals for our times. The irony is painful.

13. hobomike
    February 25th, 2009 at 6:26 am

    "and when there was no crawdad...we ate sand."

    "You ate WHAT?"

    "We ate sand..."

14. JJ
    February 25th, 2009 at 8:03 am

    You could save even more money...skip the hot dogs (they aren't that cheap anymore) and drink a glass of milk for protein

    Jack

15. mgoboe
    March 1st, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    Wonderful! Thank-you!!!

16. KMR
    March 1st, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    I have fixed this for years with SPAM very very good.
    Everyone likes it.

17. Emi Smith
    October 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    Did anyone get what kind of sauce she mixed in there?

18. Jenny
    November 7th, 2009 at 10:35 am

    She used a couple tablespoons of tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce I believe. She's so cute. Looks like I'm having me some poor mans dinner for lunch and dinner today!! Yum! I'm going to add some green pepper and lots of garlic and serve it with toasted bread.

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