$5/bird is the way to go for me... With the price of chicken so high, I usually 1nce a month just take $20, pickup 4 rotisseries from Sam's Club; process and vacuum seal them for the freezer. Leave 1 whole, 1 shredded, and two quartered, saving the bones to make stock with for the next month's recipes. Best part: the cooking is already done! 🎉
Don’t forget to add apple cider vinegar to that chicken and Turkey stock you’re making!! It pulls out extra calcium from those bones that is soooo healthy!!❤
Yes,yes definitely make ur own food! Soooooooo healthy ! Soooooooo easy with a crock pot as it is for braising anyway for hours or days at a time! TFS! 🇨🇦❤️
Every house needs a basic cook book. Whether it is Betty Crocker, Better Homes and Garden or Taste of Home or Americas Test Kitchen. A basic cook book is a must.
The best cook book I own is “Dining on a Dime “basic recipes simple ingredients I own the Betty Crocker and used it for years, but this is better and I have been cooking and baking for over 55 years😋
I was born in 1951, rural Western Kentucky, poor as the proverbial church mouse, but mama and daddy, numerous aunt and uncles, my grandparents and even a couple of great grandparents knew their stuff. Girls in my family were taught stuff. At the time I would have dearly loved to have had electricity. I really wished I could have 'real' soap like they had at school, you get the idea. Now, with what's going on in the world, I couldn't be more happy with my raisin'.
3.14!!! here in SoCal it was almost 6 dollars a pound for chicken breast a couple months ago. It’s finally going down. They are about four bucks and some change right now.
Speaking of leftovers... My husband loves to take leftovers for his lunch the next day so I have started making 1 portion for him then taking what ever is left and putting it right in our freezer as a freezer meal. This is an easy way to add to my meal prep inventory without a full day cooking day.
My mother always saved her store bought bread bags. We would wash them and let them air dry by putting them over a glass or something to keep them open. Recycle all you can.
Love these!! 2 other things I do with dying grapes: 1. Grape Jam: 1-2 parts mashed up grapes to 1 part sugar in saucepan, with a little lemon juice (I've also experimented with adding minced ginger or balsamic). Simmer on LOW for 1-2 hours. Only stir once in a blue moon to make sure nothing is sticking (or don't stir at all). (I also do this method with other dying fruits and dying tomatoes). Transfer to glass jar to cool, then put in fridge. 2. Roasted grapes: toss with olive oil. Roast in 450 degree oven about 30 minutes. Let cool. Can use within a week (great with sausage or on toasts spread with ricotta/ cottage cheese) or package up and freeze.
Great tips Kimmy! I am 62 years old, a wife, mother, grandmother and have our first great grand baby that is 16 months old. I remember as a child going to my grandparent's home and admiring all of the jars of home canned fruits and vegetables that my Mamaw put up every year. I thought she was so smart and could do anything. I loved walking through the gardens, chicken yard, and pastures full of cattle and pigs with my Papaw. I love cooking from scratch. I keep a fully stocked pantry and also turned an unused guest bedroom into a huge walk in grocery store with 12 month food supply. I water bath jams, pickles, tomatoes, relish, etc. I pressure can beef tips, beef stew, chicken, potatoes, carrots, beef/chicken bone broth and stock. I have a grain mill and bake all of our breads. I cook almost every meal here at home. It brings so much joy to me and my family. People had better start learning to do all these things. As bad as things are right now, I assure you we have not seen the worst yet. We are so close to another Great Depression and it is very scary how many people are unprepared. Even scarier is what desperate people are going to do to survive. Not only do we have to keep preparing and educating ourselves on how to survive what's happening, we have to be prepared to stay safe and keep our supplies safe. Our world is about to change.
So true. I turned my dining room into a full pantry ( hubby and son put up barn doors to give privacy) and doing this has saved me so much $ that I don’t have to spend elsewhere. I’m 50 and leaned to can fruits, vegetables,meats and bake breads of all kinds and garden within the last 3 years. I didn’t have any Great Depression relatives that could share their stories with me., but I can read and learn. The pandemic was a true eye opener. You tube has so much helpful info to learn how to do anything. People just have to be willing to learn.
I'm right there with you in age. I've canned for several years and now working on raising enough meat also. I bought 10 acres in the country for my 60th birthday and going back to what Grandma taught me. You're correct, it will be worse.
@@Nisa-gm5wg We recently turned one of our kids bedrooms (all of them are grown and out on their own) into a pantry. I've learned more in the past 2 years than I ever thought I would about prepping, canning and gardening. I'm 61, and proof its never too late to learn something new.
@@Nisa-gm5wg Same here and 51. Teaching my son 14 cooking, canning, prepping. We started on wild edibles a couple years ago and we do medicinal herbs and tinctures. I'm looking forward to this summer to teach him how to make soap. He learned bread making yesterday with a five minute peasant bread. We have chickens so butchering will be coming soon. I love having a huge pantry and doing limited shopping with just items that are on sale.
I use crackers in my meatloaf. Any kind will do. Most of the time I use Saltines. But, I’ve used snack crackers too. My mom was born in the ‘30’s and dad in the ‘40’s. So they showed me alot of ways to stretch my food. I love your channel. ❤️👍🏻
I just put a chicken carcass in the freezer for later! :) I use my homemade broth all the time. I freeze it in cups and 1/2 cups to use in recipes. I love freezer breakfast meals and so does my husband. For my husband I put the breakfast sandwich in parchment paper so he can heat it at work. Great video! Super frugal tip- baggies are washable. I wash baggies if it isn't too gross. I don't reuse baggies with raw meat.
My grandma, born in 1915, hoed cotton for .25 a day….8 hours of work and was proud to earn it during the depression as a teenager. She paid the Highway patrolman 10 cents for her first driver’s license. She grew up on a farm so that’s how her family survived the Great Depression.
I love, love, love this channel!!!! When I was growing up my mom taught me a lot about food prep. Both my parents were born in the 20's. Things like making gravies out of drippings, which might be overstated now days but I was surprised when I realized that there were only 2 of us that really knew how to cook and use leftover s for other meals. If it didn't come in a box or through a drive through window they had no clue. She also taught me how to can fruits & veggies. I loved it. Her sister lived way out in the boonies on a self contained ranch. I was in heaven. They had a large garden so she was canning year round. Cows for milk which also gave them cream and butter made in an old wooden churn. She gave us a recipe for mince meat. I loved going there to visit. Now that things have changed so much I find myself going back and wanting to do things "the old fashion way". Thank you for your incite and knowledge.
Buying in bulk is so worthwhile. It’s just my fiancé and I right now, but we still buy in bulk from Sam’s club when we can. We try to only go to the store once a month and cook out of our pantry+freezer until the calendar flips
Senior, fixed income, rent has increased over $450 in just 2 years along with all other increases. This inflation is killing us!! About the only thing I could cut back was grocery costs and amazingly, I"m eating better/healthier than I ever have! I did stock up significantly starting a year ago when I saw prices increasing. That helps. I also do what you said - meal plan/shop ads exclusively. My meal plan isn't a day-by-day thing but every Tuesday AM I take a few minutes to list out the meals available for the week...spaghetti, pork chops, chicken nuggets, loaded potato, etc. I also list a few of the freezer foods I have - mainly soups and chili. I'm fortunate that I really like all sorts of dried beans so they're on the menu at least once a week...sometimes leftovers. I save even dibby-dabs of things...a serving of rice can turn into fried rice with my nuggets. Once a month I treat myself to a grilled steak but otherwise, most of my meat is in the form of casseroles. Also, I don't mind leftovers a day or two apart...change the veggie, add a different salad. But like tonight I'm just having some leftover cornbread with cheese and maple syrup, small salad, and my leftover beets since I had a big late breakfast of eggs, bacon, fried potatoes. My grocery bill averages about $150/month (that is JUST edible foods - nothing else). I used to spend almost double that on lots of meat and restaurant meals. Your tips are my tips! Thanks!! PS: I'm gluten-free so I have to watch that, too. Gluten-free bread is awful! The only time I miss bread is with my summer BLT's. 😭
About freezing dough and/or baked or unbaked goods: I worked in a neighborhood bakery. We froze bread dough all the time. Also froze prebaked cakes and cookies, among other things. Our walk-in freezer was our "friend". Everything also came out well.
Back during WW2 we also had rationing. Not everything was available back then so you learned to stretch some of those foods that were scarce. On the chicken...don't forget the loss leader in the big box stores "Rotisserie Chicken" $5.00. Perfect for me, a one person house hold. Cut the breast off and slow cook the rest for broth, soup. chicken & dumplings. Thanks for sharing all your ideas for the make ahead or using up leftovers. Have a Blessed day.
For grapes that are wrinkly pop them in water and leave them, they harden up. I've started storing mine in water and they keep perfectly in it. I used to end up throwing so many out, not any more!!
I made fried potatoes, bacon, eggs and tortillas this morning. We don't eat like that everyday but it was soooooo good. We will skip lunch and have an early dinner.
I love making chicken stock. I get Costco chickens since they are only $5. I save the bones and throw my celery onion peels and carrot peels in bags in my freezer and I will grab those out and throw in a pot. Or in my instant pot or crock pot depending on time or what I have going on that day.
@@theirishcailin333is that all you added? I would also add celery, garlic, bay leaves, pepper corn, onion skin (for colour), a splash of cider vinegar & a bit of Better than Bouillon chicken flavour after it has been simmering for at least 12-13 hours, preferably 24 hours. You can use a “stuffing bag” to hold the veggies, pepper corn, etc. making it easier to remove it all. The longer you simmer, the more intense the flavour. I keep the lid on the first few hours, though do end up taking it off so that there will be some evaporation that leaves behind great flavour. At the end, you will discard everything but the broth. By that point, all the veggies will be spent. (Some people do pulverize them and add them back in. I never do.)
Great video hon ! Snap benifits stopped the maximum benefits ( not just the Covid pay ) so you are gonna see way more people at food banks . I make my own bread , my own English muffins , made bagels for the first time ! I love making my own tortillas !
I enjoy watching Great Depressing themed videos because my parents lived through it and talked about it when I was growing up, and also because the tips are still useful today.
Save the ends of celery, the peels of carrots and the skin and end of onions to make your bone broth. ITs all utilizing your leftover vegetable scraps. I bet you could use leftover oatmeal in a smoothie. I always see oats in smoothies you buy. I also like using leftover vegetables (think mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, celery etc.) and leftover rice to make Asian fried rice. Also if you have chickens they can eat leftovers too, to help combat food waste while still getting something from it.
I been working on meal planning a LOT lately...and it has helped TREMENDOUSLY. Our mornings have gone smoother, and the MOST i have had to do so far is make the frosting/glaze fresh from scratch for some scones i made the night before.❤ They were DELICIOUS!❤
My Dad loved turkey soup and he'd make it Sunday after the bones were picked clean. It took up a lot of room in the fridge. One year I brought cut up onions, carrots and celery and got my BIL to strip the entire bird. We started stock and it cooked for hours. My Dad made sure that it became a new family tradition.
Lol…a few things you said make me cringe but you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! Getting back to the basics will save time and a lot of 💰. Thanks so much and you just gained a follower ❤️
Hi Kimmy. I thought I was the only one who asked for the bones after family meals. My family has gotten use to me asking. It’s almost a given that I have dibs on the carcass or bones. I make a delicious homemade pea soup with the Easter ham bone, turkey or roast chicken soup after Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. I learned all my recipes from my depression fugal Nana. She was my heart. Love your vlog.
I have done all the tips except canning. It has been on my list to do for ages and I have added the canner to my Christmas list. When we bought our first home, all my family chipped in and bought the full sized freezer for my basement. We still use it today and I couldn’t live without it. My favorite household thing.
Excellent video. We live rural, so eating out is not convenient. Yes, we eat dinner out maybe once every 2 weeks. But it has gotten sooooo expensive. For just my hubby and I to eat out is at least $60+ tax and tip. (Thank goodness our 4 kids are adults)I don't know how people afford to eat out numerous times a week.
As far as leftovers, I worked for a major food company that made food service items for restaurants and I’m here to say that most food that is served in casual type restaurants is simply heated and plated, they’re not back there cooking up say soup, meats, side dishes etc., a lot of them don’t even crack eggs. I’m saying this because we need to think of so called leftovers as prepped food and use it as an ingredient and never apologize that we do that. I know you look at it that way too. The company I worked for had three levels of quality and one was basically for fast food outlets, dorm food, prisons (🤷🏻♀️) basically industrial users, second level was for fast casual (and used in our company’s lunchroom 🙆🏻♀️) and the top tier was for finer restaurants. So I never apologize for leftovers because I know that’s what’s being served when we eat out.
Love your channel, and all the great tips and inspo you give us! I stopped going out to eat about give years ago, and now I don't go out to eat at all - with the exception of special occasions, which is max 3x/yr, and that's it. No drive-thru fast food, no Starbucks drinks, no sodas from 7-11, no DD - not at all, and I don't miss it one bit. I prefer knowing exactly what I'm eating - and the savings, of course. There's nothing worse than paying triple for a meal you could have made better at home.
Hi Lindsey! It’s so nice to see you back 💗 I homeschool and I think you are completely made to be a homeschool mom. I so hope it will work out for you to be able to do it. My suggestion is to maybe focus on the cons of sending them to public school so that he can realize that it’s not what he may think it is and they’re much better off home, learning with you and also research local activities homeschool or otherwise that you can get the girls involved in to be with other kids and to be exposed to lots of different things. Many people immediately assume homeschooled kids sit in the house all day and never spend time around other children but that’s so not the case! So if you share that as a part of the plan he might see that you can really check all of the boxes and fulfill all of their needs without sending them into school 💗 good luck! Keep up posted!
Ur best video of all times! Ur a natural on the camera, silly jokes, showcased your other videos, and highlighted ur years of perfection! And the best part, ur plug for merc! I'm getting that grocery price book!
I throw ALL chicken bones (what's left after my family eats the meat off them) into a big freezer bag. When the bag is full, I throw it into a pressure-cooker with the freezer bags of veggie scraps and peelings, some water, some peppecorns and a bay leaf. Then I pressure cook it, cool it, strain it, and freeze or can it. Then I take the bones (which by now are completely soft and crumbly) out and feed them to my dogs. The chickens get the veggie scraps. NO waste.
Oh my gosh thank you. Thank you. I will be rereading this often. I get lost in the bad habits. This for me is a great message for us. You have a very lucky family. Bless you and I'm sending you a very big hug!!!!!!!
It's been a few months I guess since your videos popped up in my feed. I didn't realize you were so ill until I saw it today. I hope that you feel better soon and you and your family will be in our prayers. I'm sure with recovery, you'll start to look like yourself again. I know for my uncle, he went back to his normal self a few months after his surgery.
At the beginning of the pandemic and obediently trying to not enter the grocery store, the Easter ham bone was made into split pea soup. Food storage split peas and veggies, etc. That's how we found out one of my boys is allergic to peas, not just aversion to it but severe reaction when peas become the main dish. 😮 Not fun at the time you want to avoid the hospitals! So good we had benadryl on hand and neighbors offered an epi pen. My advice is, use your odd food storage items sometimes to not get surprises like that!
Tips when depending on freezers: electricity goes out, plan ahead! Have freezer alarms & stock up on canning supplies. Learn to preserve freezer items before you need to do it.
Our local Hy-Vee recently sold 2.5 bags of individually frozen chicken breast for 3.99, limit 2. Yep, 2 bags of chicken in my freezer! LOL. As a single old lady, the individual pieces are perfect. I did separate and froze in Seal-a-Meal bags so I'm set for ages!
@@shesinherapron just throw dry dill into your bread dough when you make it. Probably in with the flour before you add it Super easy. We also would brush the bread with butter when it came out so it stayed soft. You should always make a smaller batch to see if you like it.
OMG!!! I cracked up when you started talking about the carcasses. This past Thanksgiving I brought two Turkey carcasses home from my MIL. I got two quarts of meat off of them, 🤦🏻♀️the waste, and the rest has been made into broth. 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼 It may be a southern thing asking for the carcasses. 😆😆😆😆💗💗💗
I'm from the UK and love seeing all of your different recipes. Also you look amazing, would be really interested in a video about your weight loss journey xx
I wish I had learned to can food from my grandparents. They would have a garden all the time and can and preserve their own food all the time. I miss them
I'm so thankful my family is ok with leftover for lunch the next day (and possibly dinner too). I have no problem putting some meat and veggies in the crockpot and eating that for lunch and dinner for 4-5 days. So cost effective and yummy. Our kids are pretty picky and 1 is gluten free, so unless it is tacos and rice, I'm usually making 2-3 different meals. So not having to cook every night is a must for me!
You can store fresh strawberries in a large mason jar and put in fridge and they will last 3 weeks and still come out fresh as long as you do not wash them before you put them in the jar.
I have always cooked from scratch, I freeze a lot but don't can as I do everything from a chair, but have also used recipes from my grandparents which we still love. Thanks for sharing these tips it's great 😊
My kids prefer their pb and jelly mixed together so I keep it mixed up and will cut the crusts off an entire loaf of bread for my 1 daughter and since my kids eat their meat and cheese sandwiches without any mayo OR mustard, I just smack em together and put them in the freezer. You have made my life sooo much more efficient! Thank you!
I love your channel. So many great ideas. I especially love that your oven is not picture perfect clean just for show. It's well used and looks like mine on the daily. 💛👏👍😘
I’m the family “bone collector“. Honestly no one else wants the turkey and ham bone but me. So I bring it home, goes in my freezer. One of my family favorite soup is Lima bean soup, I use frozen lima beans.
Learned gardening from my grand. they were 12 kids. no BC back then. How they survived? Mom said there was always something on the table at dinner time. And you ate what you had because that was all they had. Food preserving was big. So was recycling. Humility was the key.
One of my favorites using everyday ingredients is Sausage gravy over baking powder biscuits. I believe it was a depression breakfast, lunch, or dinner food. Inexpensive, delicious, and easy to prepare.
The bags of chicken quarters are the best deal: you get the thigh, the drumstick and part of the back for soup. P.S. I really enjoy these long vlogs. Many thanks! 😊
Thank you for this video, we just moved to the SLC area and don’t know much about the local stores in the area and what they offer. I went to Maceys it was awesome, I love those Green chilies but limit the amount I get because at the other stores they have them around $1+ and they were .77 a can , Thank you I stocked up on can goods from that store. ❤
When you make stock you can actually use your carrot peels, onion skins and celery leaves in place of the actual veggies it saves you money and reduces waste
These are excellent ideas!!! Thank you!!!! My late mom (bornin 1923) grew up on a farm in Vermont during the Depression. She said many Sunday nights her mom made milk toast for supper; it was a huge treat if it had sugar or a drizzle of maple syrup on top.
This was a great video! I am SOOOO excited for the price book. I've been waiting for that to come out since you started talking about it. I just ordered mine and can not wait to get it.
It's not a bad idea to track sale prices, but mark them as such, because many items cycle into sale on a semi-predictable way any you can bulk purchase and plan for the next one IF you know the interval.
So much good information. My mom always made homemade bread, I really want to make some cause it smells so good and tastes like magic. Thank you for taking the time to share all your ideas. Have a lovely weekend! 🌻
Hey Kimmy! Been a long time follower! Love your channel! I have had to recently go gluten free due to thyroid problems. Gluten free food is either hard to find or expensive where I am in South west Ohio. I do love to cook/bake and know cooking from scratch is sooo much cheaper, could you do some more gluten free meals on your channel? Would love to see what you come up with! Much love!
Those USA pans are awesome!! I have the smaller bread pans, muffin tins and pizza pans. So worth the investment and they’re made here in the USA. I’m planning on swapping out my current sheet pans for the USA pan sheet pans. They’re that awesome!!
I grew up with parents who survived the depression and then went on to raise a family of six kids So, I know about cooking from scratch! I'm retired, so on a fixed income. I meal plan and prep. Ride my bike vs driving. Fred Meyer has whole fryers for 99 cents a pound, this week. I can get 5 meals from a $5 chicken plus broth. Thanks!
I freeze leftovers, dehydrate things that can be and soon will be freeze drying to save from wasting food. I've lived on a "Olden days" mentality for years, and it's saved us so much money. Save veggie scraps (will eventually feed to pigs and chickens) and bones for broth.
All great ideas! I always make ham salad from my leftover ham and ham and beans with the ham bone. I also make bologna salad just like the ham salad( my grandma always made that) same thing with leftover roast beef. But sometimes I’m just lazy and don’t feel like cooking and I do pick up take out...but it’s never as good as homemade. Thanks for the great ideas
Thank you for the encouragements. All of this wisdom applies to all of us. Single, family, retired. Always has. Truth is, we got spoiled. You have produced many valuable videos (even your earliests), but this one may be the most valuable for these times. Great job!
I went into your bread recipe list and watched the crockpot bread recipe. I’m going to try it for sure. BTW, I’m not sure how you’re doing it, but girl, you’re getting younger!
Thanks for talking about prices! I almost forgot that my one grocery store has ground beef and chicken thighs on sale and I want to get them while the price is low. We are pretty stocked full because I had just shopped for some other items recently so I can't get a bunch but I want to at least get some to stretch what I have on hand this month. It's has been a while since I saw it at this price.
