Too Tired to Cook? 25 Forgotten 5-Minute Suppers Appalachian Grandmas Made for One

After Aunt Della passed, her neighbors found notes taped inside her pantry door. Twenty-five meals, all in five minutes, none from a box. Here's twenty-five more of them, counted down the way her notes had them — the banana and mayonnaise sandwich nobody believes till they eat it, the tin of sardines that closes up and goes right back in the cold, the pot of beans that turns into four different suppers before it's done, egg in a hole that the heart doctors have gone quiet and soft on these past years, and #1, the supper she fixed herself the night the funeral company finally left her house. Where a claim rests on real food science, it's named on screen. Where it's just how Aunt Della did it, I say so. Now pick just ONE of these to try this week, by feel, not by measuring cup. Tell me down in the comments which one you picked, what your people called it, and which county they cooked it in. I read every one. Now it's written down. This video is historical and educational, not medical or nutritional advice — talk to a doctor or dietitian before making changes based on anything said here. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro — the notes taped inside the pantry door 0:27 #25 Peanut butter and sorghum, fried 1:25 #24 Hoop cheese and crackers 2:03 #23 The tomato sandwich 2:53 #22 Egg in a hole 3:47 #21 Cheese grits in a cup 4:39 #20 Fried bologna with mustard bread 5:37 #19 Hot slaw 6:18 #18 Sardines on crackers 7:11 #17 Fried corn dodgers 8:01 #16 Buttermilk pancakes for one 8:41 #15 The banana and mayonnaise sandwich 9:20 #14 Potato soup for one 9:57 #13 White gravy on toast 10:42 #12 The cold supper plate 11:42 #11 The fried sweet potato 12:23 #10 Egg ribbons in pot likker 13:15 #9 Bean cakes from Sunday's pot 14:04 #8 Popcorn for supper 14:57 #7 Fried hand pies from dried apples 15:55 #6 Tomato rarebit on toast 16:43 #5 Biscuit pudding in a mug 17:28 #4 The scrambled-egg sandwich with what the garden left 18:26 #3 Doctor'd beans from a can 19:13 #2 Mountain fried rice from the cold bowl 20:12 #1 The good plate #Appalachia #GrandmaNeverWroteDown #AppalachianCooking #OldFashionedRecipes #DepressionEraMeals #CookingForOne #MountainCooking #SoutherComfortFood #FrugalCooking #FiveMinuteMeals #WidowSuppers #PantryMeals #NoWasteCooking #ComfortFoodRecipes