I take being called a redneck a compliment! I grew up in a trailer and we were very poor. I'll always remember the food my Mom made. She grew up during the depression and knew how to stretch the food dollar!
I know how it is, I grew up dirt floor poor in an old farm house in the middle of nowhere , I thought beenie weenies and ramen noodles is what rich folks ate! Lol, we milked goats rarely had milk from the store, doing much better now thank God! 😂😂😂
My mom too. My grandma made.some scratch receipes that were out of this world, my mom learned from her. The processed food was few and far between in my house growing up. Mom could take anything and turn it into something awesome. We rarely had soda too. It was always milk. Juice was even a rarer treat. Grateful for it all😊
Ill only eat Hormel chili...its my favorite! It costs a little extra, but not by much and its worth it. I like to put fries in my chili. Thanks for sharing!
Honestly that sounds much better than this. I have nothing against this. It's like a lot of things I've eaten. It just doesn't appeal to me. I wonder if a plant based chili would be any good. I'd prefer normal meat chili but I was given a plant based chili pack. Well except I left it with my friend so he'd have 2. Bills are currently tighter for him than me. So I tend to leave extra food from my food bank haul. We go together because first we enjoy it & second he's visually impaired. But without him I'd never get the energy to get there much.
Bush’s Baked Beans…I have bragging rights! A few years ago, I sent an email to them about how much I loved their BBQ baked beans and my fav commercial from the early 90s. I received an autographed photo of Jay and Duke, coupons and a thank you letter. Yep, so I guess you can say I’m a pretty important gal💅🏽 😂😂
I would fry up the franks, then toss the beans in the pot until it’s hot. Then add… BARBAHQUE sauce😀put in the pot. Take the tots and chopped them up. Mix with cheese then add to the top of the franks n’ beans. Some more cheese on top before popping into the oven.
☝ SUGGESTION: Before adding the beans, fry up the hot dog bits to render out some of the fat. It will add more flavor to the beans. It's what I do when making my simple chili and rice meal (2 ballpark all beef franks diced and fried, 1 can of Hormel chili with beans, and 1 bag of Success boil-in-bag rice) that makes about 3 meals for me.
@@Joe_Goofball Yeah, Wolf's pretty good too, and often cheaper than Hormel. I typically make double-batches (4 Ballpark beef franks, 2 bags of Success rice, and 2 cans of chili) and rotate 4 versions. One uses 2 cans Hormel, one uses 2 cans Wolf, the third uses 1 Can Hormel with 1 Can Wolf, and for the 4th version instead of chili I use Bush's BBQ flavored Baked Beans. That's 24 filling meals during the month for about $30 ($1.25/meal) on average. It's less if I hunt for the "bulk" (multi-can/multi-package) deals that cost less than buying individual ones. I used to just separate and freeze the franks into ziplocks (4 in each sandwich bag and folded in half to keep from freezing all 4 together) and just pull out 2 or 4 the day before to thaw out so I can cut and cook them the next night. I was mainly doing it so I had the option to just throw them on some bread to make basic hotdogs with ketchup, relish, and a side of chips instead of cooking them as part of the chili & rice meal. Then finally I kinda got the bright idea to dice up half the beef franks first before portioning, bagging, and freezing. That way I can just toss them straight in to the pot to fry them up for the chili & rice without wasting a day to thaw first.
For our last family reunion, I made a big pot of beans with hamburger, hotdogs, bacon, onions, peppers and seasoning. It was a big hit! Everyone loves this kind of stuff!
I LOVE that you do these videos. Keep up the good work! Too many people didn't grow up poor, or never had to learn how to make do so they look down on things without trying it. Hotdogs, smoked sausage, lunch meat, or left over meat all have the potential to make amazing casseroles.
I grew up poor, but US poor food is super processed and unhealthy man. You guys need more access to cheap wholesome meats, fish and veg, but I get that the US doesn't have a market system for the poor where it basically has it's own economy scale. Something ain't right when the poor is forced on processed salt/fat bombs in cans, where I live people in a rough patch just eat less meats/fish, and load up on carbs n veg. Not saying this stuff is bad or anything, I would chow down on that easy, but you need a balance.
My parents entered a Toyota Challenge in our town for charity. They won. Everyone was invited back to some guys house for a BBQ- they ALL had steaks. We brought our Tube Steaks! 😁
Love these eating on a budget meals and doller tree meals. I, for the first time am living in one of the poorest counties in Kansas. Hunger and homelessness is real. Recently I was walking my dog and an older woman skinny as a rail asked me if I had anything to eat or drink. Heart breaking. (Yes I fed her). You are serving a higher purpose with these videos. Keep them coming. I just watcher you video "Dollar Tree top 10 videos" for the second time. Wish we had the opportunity to "re-like" videos. Another Excellent video!👍✌😊
Thank you for feeding her. Maybe look up food pantries in your area and also give her the information. I find a lot of people in need don't know about pantries/food banks.
@@happycook6737 Hi Happy Cook. Sadly this lady had a fall and passed away. She was so frail and had no transportation. I wanted to tell you that there are many food pantries and homeless shelters in this are but not enough to accommodate the need but you have inspired me to see if there is a service like Meals on Wheels. If there is it is probably on line - there in lies a problem. Thank you for the idea✌
@@audreycasassa1683 Sorry to hear that. In my area we have schools that run monthly food pantries. Many people don't know about food stamps, WIC, and other programs. These programs can be applied for in my state by a phone call. The amount of money a single person can make and still qualify is around $1200/month and increases based on family size. I find many people in need don't know where the resources are or how to navigate the systems. For example our county food pantries are separate from private so people can use school pantry, county pantry, and private church pantries.
With today's food prices, this casserole falls in my budget nicely. Looks delicious. Definitely going to try this. Love your logical wisdom. Blessings to you.
We don't really have tater tots over here in the UK, but I imagine we could use hash browns instead? Actually that gives me an idea, perhaps I'm going to make a cottage pie and use hash browns and cheese instead of mashed potato. I reckon that will be awesome.
Fried bologna sandwiches were a treat when I was a kid. The few times my Dad had to cook, he would dice up a couple of hot dogs, fry them and add eggs and scramble then cheese on top. Yum!
I grew up on bologna sandwhiches and still love to have them as a snack.❤👍The other crazy thing was tuna casserole made with a bag of potato chips and a can of mushroom soup. My comfort food. My daughter thinks I'm crazy.
I remember we would put Lay's potato chips in our bologna sandwiches! Lol My mom made her own sauce for tuna casserole, chop up bread cubes and top with potato chips.
I grew up financially less stable as well but In the city, it's amazing how many childhood inexpensive foods we have in common. I love your videos and recipes keep it up.
We grew up mostly not having buns for hot dogs and hamburgers too. The bread would just turn to pink dough when you added ketchup! LOL The same thing would happen when I had fried bologna sandwiches too! Don't let any naysayers try to bring you down. You just keep putting out the content YOU want! Lot's of us love it!
If we had buns for our burgers my mother would use half a bun, put a burger on it and bake/broil it and call it an open faced burger. She would also buy cheese ends the market would sell from the deli, could be swiss, american, gouda or anything else to make mac and cheese w/ hot dogs or hamburger meat. I don't think I ever had a chicken breast until I moved out at 19 it was always leg quarters. So many recipes I remember that I haven't had since I moved out. Family of 6 w/ 2 working parents. Lots of PJs, powdered milk and generic white/black boxes of cereal/food. I'm 60 and she fed us every night on about $5.00. McDonalds or Burger King once a month and a bill of less than $12.00.
Dang, American baked beans look very different from British ones! Our dirt cheap standard (some might say CLASSIC) baked beans come in a tomatoey sauce, and are a very distinctive orange! We have Green Giant here, but I don't think they've ever done baked beans. I'm sorry they weren't very good. This looks amazing, and I would definitely love to attempt a version of this!
Actually Pork n Beans are pretty similar to Heinz Baked Beans. I’m American, but I will put American Baked Beans on Toast because although sweet, there are hints of tomato sauce and we use “streaky bacon” in the beans as well
Baked beans in the US are typically a lot different to what we have in the UK, theirs are often a lot sweeter (more sugar in the sauces) and of course have more flavour varieties, versus the typical beans in tomato sauce as sold here under pretty much every brand name there is... :) (not that it matters, personally I can't stand beans!!!)
I love fried bologna. It's delicious with scrambled eggs, it makes a grilled cheese sandwich special, and a fried bologna sandwich on a bun with lettuce and tomato is great anytime of the year.
When you do the chill its great to swap the tots for either tortilla chips or best is "Frito Corn Chips", I think I like it this way even better then my kids...lol
Frank and beans are a classic dish that my family use to make. About 30 years ago (freshman year in college), I made a big pot of frank and beans with several BBQ sauces mixed in to a party with a bunch of Pacific Islanders. That pot disappeared in no time flat 😮
@@trippNfallN2 - I didn't. Rice is always a default dish that will be at party with a bunch of Pacific Islanders. They most definitely ate the frank and beans with the rice though.
Hello Wolf Pit - - I have not seen all your videos but may I add a recipe for you to try? - - Take cooked noodles (Like elbows, shell or spirals, something 3D - - Just not flat) grease your casserole dish and pour in the noodles ... Cut your hot dogs like you did in this video and add to the noodles, sprinkle chopped up Velveta cheese over everything, and finally pour a tomato/pizza/your choice of sauce all over and then heat up in the oven at 350F ... quick and fast and tastes pretty good too ... Have a nice day and thanks for the recipes ...
"We eat with our eyes first." Absolutely! There's no denying it. And, it looks like your casserole is going to be a hit. Thanks for sharing and enlightening!
This is fascinating to me because of how different US struggle meals are to the ones I grew up on in Germany. Meat in general is probably the most expensive food over here so we had lots of salads, roasted veggies or stews and occasionally "fancy" stuff like oven pizzas or spaghetti with tomato sauce. If there was meat it was mostly trout or pork chops. And it all depended on what was in season. I think the amount of sodium in a redneck casserole could have straight up killed me as a kid but I probably would have taken that risk after weeks of having nothing but vegetables.
I don’t like to really harp on the American stereotype of being fat. But the cheapness of meat and sugar is one of the reasons why you see poor people at such heavy weight.
We ate a lot of veggies when I grew up from moms very tiny garden. I lived on an island and so we fished and and seined for shrimp. Potted meat sandwiches and bologna were lunches for school. Greens from her garden probably saved us, really. I didn't kniw we were poor.😂❤
My parents were union workers & I was an only child. I had my own bedroom & bathroom & never went without until my dad died of cancer when I was 23. That was a few decades ago, so I've learned a lot. 😅😅
Raised in a working class family and still being working class, I love your channel. You're doing folks who don't have a lot a service with these recipe's.
Australian here, and this is the same thing we eat. We had hotdogs twice this week, with beans and white bread. Last night we cooked a kg of mixed veg from a bag, beef mince, and potatoes.
My Dad was from Germany and came from a poor family. He did something similar to what you just did. He used four cans of Camps Pork and Beans and chicken thighs. He would get a casserole dish and pour the beans into the dish and lay the chicken thighs on top cook in the oven at 350 for an hour. the chicken came out crispy and the meat fell off the bone. The thighs had the flat bone still on them unlike today. It was a hardy meal and very cheap. And as you said you can add anything you want to the pot. My father was all about using up whatever was left in the pantry. Chicken soup was another dish he would do and anything that had to be used was thrown into the pot to make the soup. Every vegetable you could think of was in the soup pot, so it wouldn't go to waste.
As a fellow working class white person who's parents were also working class I very much appreciate and enjoy these videos. My mother still makes tater-tot casserole to this day.
I always knew this is hot dog hot dish. I'm not for Minnesota I'm from Virginia. I've also heard it called tater tot casserole. Either way it's good but it's got to be bushes baked beans.
Actually just made this for dinner myself recently, and Walmart has these mini corn dogs you find in the freezer isle that work excellent for this dish! Those, beans and cheese, you won't regret it; super recommend you give it a try!
Every person that I know that has been called a "redneck" was actually very smart. Especially when it comes to living on a budget. That casserole looks amazing. And you were right. Some onions would have added some more nutrition to the dish. Sauteing them would make them blend in with the beans, I think. And some sauteed peppers would look great on top.
Edit: LOL i had almost forgotten the legendary blade, the mighty Plastisu! I also wanna say I appreciate you trying different brands. Maybe someone watching only has a limited selection or live in another part of the world? Learning how to substitute certain foods with others or a different form of the same food, is one of the best skills when it comes to cooking your own food. Knowing that you can substitute a can of baked beans with a can of pinto beans and some spices, or different kinds of cheese etc
The highlight of my week was going with my great uncle to the automate. There I would get a crock with franks and beans. It doesn’t matter if your a red neck, what matters is invisible to the eye. Thanks 💚✌🏽
I so agree with pre-baking the tater tots. This looks so good. When I was a kid, we just ate the beans and franks (and enjoyed them), so this is a fancy version that looks good.
Didn’t have a lot of money growing up and I can remember my grandmother adding dumplings to a pot of green beans and a pot of boiled potatoes. I didn’t realize she was stretching the food when company showed up. I still miss that food.
This looks great, and I can definitely see some ways to vary it. If you get some pork on sale, or have some leftover from a roast, that would be a good substitute/addition to the hot dogs. I might also mix in a can of corn. No matter how you fix it, that combination of beans, tater tots and cheese is going to make this a seriously filling dish!
One of the best RU-vid recommendations I've had in a while. This speaks to me growing up. Simple, honest, and from the heart. Might not be gourmet but it'll get ya where you need to get.
I love a toasted BLT. Thick cut Bologna, lettuce and tomato on toasted white bread. Soooo tasty!!!!!!!! (thin slices of onion horsey sauce dill pickle for good measure... dang You have me craving. Love Your channel
I grew up in a single parent home. Mom worked 2 jobs to put a roof over our heads and food on the table. So I know exactly what you mean. We made due with what we had. I still make meals like this because it's the food I grew up with and I still love it. Tks for sharing this. Eat up and enjoy. 🤜
Hell yeah! I still remember finding you because of your first redneck casserole recipe. I make that dish every couple months or so, and it is one of my go-to cheap eats. Delicious, and real stick to your ribs food! Personally, being from western New York, home of the Garbage Plate, we have what we call white hots. Hot dogs that are unsalted and uncured and appear sort of white in color. I typically Iike adding a little diced onion and/or bacon in mine, and maybe toss the bean and hot dog mixture in BBQ sauce, if I'm feel fancy. No microwave for me though, all done on the stove top giving the hot dogs a nice sear.
I was going to say my hubby doesn't like baked beans, but I could use chili. Thanks I need these recipes right now. It's a no spend eat out of the pantry couple of months.
Doing a pantry, fridge and freezer challenge myself. Trying to do as little shopping as possible. Problem is you can't help but restock certain foods like milk so that's where the temptation of "let's see if they got anything new here" always hits and you wind up going home with a full trunk instead of a half bag.
Don't know if you own a George Foreman Grill, but there's a ton of stuff you can make on them. Literally completely cooks a grilled cheese or any sliced meat and cheese in under a minute, 90 seconds at most. Quesadillas are my daughter's favorite, also around a minute. Saves money, time on dishes, and no added grease or butter unless you want to. Been doing it for 10+ years. BONUS: Its the same amount of food, but because its flatter, you can trick picky kids into eating more😂😂😂
@@octoscorpion2506 I've got 2 thrift store spares under the sink lol. May I also just as highly (if not higher) recommend the Pizzazz Pizza Oven. You can literally make almost anything on it. Fries, nuggets, etc. BEST feature is that since it's not in an actual oven, you can simply remove your food as it gets to your liking. For instance, my daughter likes soft garlic bread while my son likes crunchy. No oven door or worries about letting heat out. Just Google a picture and you'll get the idea. And while the pan does get hot, it's nothing close to a burner. Used them for almost 20 years. My 14 & 19 year old kids have never been hurt.
Absolutely love it! This is the kind of food I used to eat when I was low on income, even cheaper stuff. For some strange reason, I still like to make it today. Liked and subscribed!
Now do this exact recipe but substitute chili for the baked beans and your life will be forever changed by the deliciousness that you stuff down your gullet
Merry Christmas Wolfepit gang. When Covid19 reared its ugly head, I turned to RU-vid, Twitch, and my Willie Nelson collection. Having over 35 years as a television master control operator, I have no use for TV or commercials. I totally enjoy everything you do here. This is my 1st comment, and maybe my last. Good luck in the coming year and know for sure that you are making at least one person happy! Peace, bro.
I was raised by my grandpa and grandma they were not dirt poor, but not rich either and she would cook these things some times and I loved it, what I would give to have her here now cooking those dishes for me and grandma and Grandpa there to eat with me, breaks my heart I can't go back and relive that time of my life, amen to everyone
I really enjoy your channel. I grew up eating similar food. We ate a lot of onions potatoes and cheap ground beef. When my Dad worked steady it was hamburger helper every night.
Hello just scrolled across your channel and your my kinda guy .Im 60 and we use to do the same thing back in the day .but We still do eat like that sometimes. Someone who knows about life.❤
I have been doing this recipe for ages but I take the "red neck" out of it which I guess means I take the hotdogs and canned chilli out. I make my own home made chilli with beans and bround beef. The rest of the recipe is the same thing except i top it off with sour cream green onions and a little bit of hot sauce. Either way you go its delicious!
Oooh yum! I grew up poor too. We had lots of toss in the pot dishes like a hamburger rice casserole. Lots of seasonings. My mom never thought of this one.
You could turn this up with Bush baked beans and smoked sausage Cook sausage first and tots. Then assemble and bake. I had this as a kid and it is good.
I have 5 recipe cards with quick and easy favorites on them so there is never a reason to eat out or use pricey foods. Many of my 5 recipes are from this channel.
Thanks for sharing this family recipe! I was born and raised in the northeast but I think we should all appreciate this artistry. Just you wait: today they might call it cheap and trashy but one day soon some version of this meal is going to be going viral and championed as the perfect budget meal beloved by college students the world over.
