7 Frugal Groceries Black Families Buy When Money's Tight

And go back to number three for a minute — the pot likker. There's a reason greens are the one thing on this list that never really got cheap, no matter how many people were growing them. It has to do with what got planted in the yard instead of the field. Next time, I'm getting into the six things Black families grew in twelve feet of dirt that the store still can't sell you right — and the first one is the reason your grandmother's tomatoes tasted like that