Why Everyone is Making $1 Pocket Soups (Mexican Mothers Made Them First)

#PocketSoup #MealPrep #FrugalLiving Everybody on the internet discovered the pocket soup this month: a glass jar, the flavor on the bottom, the food in the middle, hot water from a kettle, lunch for about a dollar. My mother sent my father to work with that jar in 1979, wrapped in a dish towel. Here are seven of them the way a Mexican mother builds them, with this week's Walmart prices, the one rule that makes every jar work (the water warms, it does not cook), and the honest part: where the jar is not cheaper than the cup. 📖 My mother's whole way of running a house is written down in one book, The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com None of this is your fault. Nobody taught you to pack a hot lunch, because the store was happy to sell you one in a foam cup. The 7 jars: 7. Sopa de fideo, under 50¢ (cook the fideo first, the water will not) 6. Caldo de pollo con arroz, about $1 5. Sopa de frijol, under $1 (mash half the beans, that is the whole trick) 4. Sopa de lentejas, about 60¢ (grate the carrot, never coins) 3. Caldo tlalpeño, a little over $1 (the lime goes in last) 2. Pozole de pollo, about $1.40 (the five-part pattern for any jar) 1. Sopa de tortilla, about $1.25, the jar my father carried, with the bundle Said plainly: everything in the jar is already cooked or safe to eat cold. Meat jars 2 days, 3 at most. Bean and lentil jars 3 to 4 days. Jar out of the fridge 10 minutes before the hot water so the glass does not crack. Lid loose. One level teaspoon of bouillon per jar, not two. A Maruchan cup is about half a day's salt. This soup is not medicine. Not a doctor, not medical advice. CHAPTERS 0:00 The jar my mother called la lonchera 0:33 Sold back to us at four times the price 2:29 7 · sopa de fideo 4:53 One book for the whole house 5:10 6 · caldo de pollo con arroz 7:26 5 · sopa de frijol 9:28 4 · sopa de lentejas 10:37 Halfway: the glass, the water, the foam cup 13:08 3 · caldo tlalpeño 14:52 2 · pozole de pollo 16:48 1 · sopa de tortilla, the jar my father carried 18:31 Seven jars, about $7 19:11 The rules: days, tape, not medicine 20:19 El que guarda, siempre tiene 20:35 Who profits 21:19 One jar this week Tell me which jar you are making first, and what your mother or father carried to work in a jar. Tell me your county too. I read every one. 📖 The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com #SoupInAJar #CheapLunch #MexicanMom