Hard Times Food
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Not always the healthiest food, but her channel does a pretty good job with frugal struggle food ideas.
Pure East Tennessee accent, though.
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Absolutely.
Her channel focuses on plain old country cooking, but she's been doing a lot of "struggle meals" here lately. And they've been popular.
If people just had more sense about shopping...I went by a grocery store yesterday and bought five USDA Select chuck roasts for $2.99/lb. I cut them up into stew meat, so grade didn't matter much. Into the freezer they go and the scraps will be used to make a dog gravy.
Checking out in front of me, was a little old lady. She had three of the roasts, but she had bought two big packages (probably 2-3 pounds each) of stew meat. She didn't look like she was made out of money and I just shook my head...I see stuff like that all the time. People buying thighs for $1.39/lb, when leg quarters are 49 cents/lb. It doesn't take five minutes to cut up 10 pounds of leg quarters.
The other day, strawberries were in season and I bought five quarts for $10. Those came home, got thrown in the food processor and made into jam, better than anything Smuckers ever put in a jar.
I could go on, but a freezer, a canner, a small garden and a little bit of knowledge or want-to, can save a ton of money, and still allow one to eat pretty well.
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I'm a sucker for an Irish Stew. Love it. Will also use a pack in the crockpot and make a gravy for one night when we don't have time to cook.
Alternatively...The cajuns love to make a pork gravy to eat over rice, using pork stew meat.
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I'm a sucker for an Irish Stew. Love it. Will also use a pack in the crockpot and make a gravy for one night when we don't have time to cook.
Alternatively...The cajuns love to make a pork gravy to eat over rice, using pork stew meat.
@Jolly said in Hard Times Food:
I'm a sucker for an Irish Stew. Love it. Will also use a pack in the crockpot and make a gravy for one night when we don't have time to cook.
Alternatively...The cajuns love to make a pork gravy to eat over rice, using pork stew meat.
- Floured cubes of meat into very high heat with butter or olive oil. Sear them cubes! Set aside.
- 1/2 beer (can be cheap stuff), 1/2 broth in a pot with cut up onions, celery, peppers and carrots. Add the meat back in about halfway through with some pepper and maybe paprika if you're fancy. Simmer awhile.
That's how I do mine. I could eat the crap out of that almost every day.
