25 Forgotten Poor Man's Meals That Fed Families Through Hard Times

🔗 Nobody wrote down the old diner recipes and secrets we used for 35 years — so I finally did. Get em before they're gone: https://www.nancysdiner.com/ My mother came up in the Great Depression, raising six of us when there was next to nothing, and she carried those lessons her whole life — how to feed a family on pennies, how to make a little go a long, long way, how to put a hot, honest supper on the table when the cupboard was near bare. Today I'm sharing 25 forgotten poor man's meals that fed families through hard times, and exactly how each was made — because heaven knows a body could use them again. From beans and cornbread and the classic "poor man's meal" to milk toast, egg gravy, Hoover stew, water pie, and wacky cake — these are the cheap, humble, waste-nothing suppers that kept millions fed through the hardest times this country ever saw. Every one of them is worth knowing. IN THIS VIDEO: 🫘 Beans & cornbread and the classic "poor man's meal" 🍳 Egg gravy, tomato gravy & creamed everything on toast 🥣 Hoover stew, potato soup & Depression goulash 🥧 Water pie & wacky cake — sweets from almost nothing ❤️ The nickel bean soup my mother made from a saved ham bone 📖 Every recipe, written down at last → https://www.nancysdiner.com/ 🔔 Subscribe and pull up a chair — a new forgotten recipe every week. 💬 Tell me in the comments: what did your mother or grandmother make when money was tight? ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 0:00 The nickel supper my mother made 1:44 #25 Beans & Cornbread 3:04 #24 The Poor Man's Meal 3:49 #23 Milk Toast 4:36 #22 Fried Potatoes & Onions 5:23 #21 Egg Gravy on Biscuits 6:09 #20 Tomato Gravy 6:51 #19 Hoover Stew 7:39 #18 Water Pie 8:25 #17 Creamed Peas on Toast 9:11 #16 Cornmeal Mush 9:56 #15 Depression / Stone Soup 10:42 #14 Potato Soup 11:28 #13 Bread & Milk, Bread & Gravy 12:22 #12 Fried Baloney & Spam 13:07 #11 Chipped Beef on Toast 13:51 #10 Depression Goulash 14:34 #9 Dandelion Greens & Wild Food 15:20 #8 Johnny Cakes & Hoe Cakes 16:02 #7 Ketchup Soup 16:48 #6 Boiled Cabbage & Potatoes 17:32 #5 Rice & Beans 18:17 #4 Depression / Wacky Cake 19:03 #3 Vinegar & Sugar Cream Pie 19:53 #2 Bean Soup from a saved ham bone 21:16 #1 What the hard-times cooks knew