91-year old Claire shows how she cooked meals during the Great Depression. Nothing special – potatoes and hot dogs – but her commentary does make today’s problems seem less intense.
"I had to quit high school because we couldn’t afford socks…we couldn’t afford anything to wear."
– via consumerist
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There are five videos with this lady. The other four can be accessed at this link:
http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Episodes.html
peterman921
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
mother hub
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.
Quasi_Mojo
Seems the traffic killed the Grandma’s website.
You can find her on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DepressionCooking
Ali S.
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! 
hobomike
“and when there was no crawdad…we ate sand.”
“You ate WHAT?”
“We ate sand…”
JJ
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
KMR
I have fixed this for years with SPAM very very good.
Everyone likes it.
Jenny
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.
Kathy
Cutest thing I’ve ever seen. As an unemployed college student barely hanging on in this recession, this might come in handy.
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