7 "Poor" Foods the Amish Swear By That Will Make You Richer

These are the bottom-shelf foods that fed every Amish family I ever knew, through good years and bad. Seven cheap staples, the same kind of cooking that carried families through the Depression, each with an easy Pennsylvania Dutch recipe and what it saves you in a year. Add up all seven swaps and it comes to about $1,700 a year for a typical family. In this video: 0:00 Why boxed food costs you so much 0:49 Where I learned to cook this way 2:15 #7 Cabbage: Amish fried cabbage 4:21 #6 Cornmeal: fried cornmeal mush 6:20 #5 Dried beans: ham and bean soup 8:36 #4 The whole chicken: 3 meals from 1 bird 11:00 #3 Potatoes: Pennsylvania Dutch potato filling 13:29 #2 Rolled oats: Amish baked oatmeal 15:33 #1 Rivel soup: the soup from nothing 18:46 How much these 7 swaps save in a year 19:55 Final words The 7 recipes in this video: - Fried cabbage with bacon and onion - Fried cornmeal mush - Ham and bean soup - Pennsylvania Dutch chicken pot pie (square noodles, no crust) - Potato filling - Amish baked oatmeal - Rivel soup (and chicken corn soup with rivels) Prices vary by store and season, so check the numbers against your own receipts. Tell me in the comments which of the seven you'll try first, and how your mother or grandmother made them. I read every comment. 🔔 Subscribe for more old-ways wisdom for home and family: https://www.youtube.com/@Mihai-Popescu-DIY #frugalliving #amishrecipes #cheapmeals #depressionera #budgetcooking