Thank you so much for these recipes. Many of them remind me of meals I had growing up. My parents divorced when I was little, and my Mom had to stretch a dollar as far as she could so we had a lot of these type of meals, and I still love many of them. To stretch a pound of burger and feed her growing girls, my Mom would make something she called porcupine meatballs. She would make little meatballs and roll them in white rice, and then brown them in a pan with salt and pepper. Then she would open a can of Campbell's tomato soup, add half a can of water, and pour that into the meatballs, topping with a lid and allowing to simmer until the rice was cooked and tender. We would eat that on top of noodles or maybe mashed potatoes, and it was humble, good food. I feel like those tuna patties would be delicious on a toasted bun with a little homemade Big Mac sauce and some lettuce and tomato from the garden!
@@astridexplorer5096 I made porcupine meatballs.! Only I put them in pressure cooker with Campbell tomato soup. I mixed the rice into the meat. They looked great and so delicious on mashed potatoes. I didn't know this was poor food! My kids loved it and so did I. Single mom. Think I will make this tomorrow.
Dutch noodles? I never heard this name, and I am Dutch. Funny! We never use these for cooking here in Holland. But the Chinese restaurants/take outs do. And actually our Chinese restaurant don't make real Chinese food, but Indonesian. In the end the noodles are Indonesian. But I am not sure if they use them in Indonesia. Hahaha. Great video. Thanks
We didn't have syrup most times.. Once in a great while, we'd have Karo... but normally it was white sugar water syrup. That was it. Plaino plain. But, beggers can't be choosers. I loved French toast and that didn't require syrup. We were a beans and potatos family. I still love pinto beans, cornbreada and fried potatos. Slumgullion was a common dish too.
This sounds yummy. Some shaker or shredded cheese would really elevate it, too and still make a very affordable meal. Thank you for the suggestion, I think I'm going to try it.
When my kids were small, I made what I call po man's stew and my kids loved it! It was a lb of ground beef, scrambled and drained a diced onion, 1 can creamed corn, a can whole kernel corn, maters, a can of sweet peas, a can of diced carrots and lots of ketchup and jiffy cornbread on the side with honey and butter on top. My kids ate it up and it lasted several meals! Ya do whatever ya got to when you're on a tight budget!
Anyone that grew up in the Appalachian Mountains were dirt poor at times, people that lived up in there many times wondered where the next meal was coming from. Jobs were few and in economical lean times in the rest of the country meant ever leaner times up in those mountains. If you didn't grow up in that area, there is no real way to describe it. Most kids knew how to get out and identify the many wild plants that were edible, we were sent to find them . And I'm not talking about 50 years ago either, this was more recent than that. This gal does a good job showing her subs how to make Mr Lincoln scream, it might not be meat and potatoes every day, but her boys look healthy so do your homework.
I'm a Cold Miner's daughter here. We were poor too. One thing is we had a huge garden that Daddy worked with all year and we had chickens for meat and eggs. We ate beans on the regular and we had a lot of biscuits.
, I love bean cakes/burgers, I use black beans to make mine with, and tater cakes are so good, we eat like we are poor sometimes just because it was good food.@@corrinnacorrinna5572
Poverty isn’t shameful in any way. Life happens. Hugs to all of you, my friends if you’re up for it. We are not responsible for the circumstances of our birth.
I grew up in West Virginia. And yes we were poor. I had to wash my hair with tide powder that I mixed in a cup since we did not have shampoo. We ate squirrels and deer. No drinks no desserts no extras. I am by proud c of whom I became. I was the first to go to college in my family. Thank you for all the memories!
Thank you so much for keeping it real and taking away the stigma of being low income. I was injured in a work accident three years ago. I have two beautiful children, a disabled elderly sister and my wonderful fiancé. Right now I’m waiting for ss disability to be approved. My fiancé works two jobs to support our family. Even so the rising cost of living has us struggling at times. I go to the food pantry every week. I make simple nourishing meals with what the pantry blesses me with. I don’t let anything go to waste. I love how humble and down to earth you are.
Raising 5 kids as a single parent as a preschool teacher we were poor. Raising 7 grandkids as a single parent we are poor. You are a beautiful woman with an enormous heart. Thank you for sharing. Your channel has helped me so much. Our food budget went down to $450 for 6 people and I am able to do it because of you. I cant have a garden in my area in the summer,low desert 115°. But I will try in the fall. Bless you Brooke❤❤❤
You can have a garden in the desert I do it successfully and have quite a few tips on my channel about gardening in the desert. I am not trying to hijack Brooke’s channel I just want to help people understand that it isn’t impossible to grow food in the desert(I live in Central AZ and we have been 117/118 this summer at our homestead).
@@desertfamilyhomestead3127 Thank you I will take a look. The problem is I am in a bottom floor apt. I tried once and was overrun by tiny white mites. I spayed daily but it spread.
@@lynnchristensen4439 the mites were during cotton growing season I would guess. Sticky traps are the best way to treat them sadly. You can still grow things on an apartment patio, you just need to get a little more creative with it.
I grew up so incredibly poor and I RARELY talk about the struggle. Thank God our family left those days over 30 years ago but it's still hard to talk about. Thank you for helping people have ideas of how to stretch their dollars. My momma did the best she could but I think a channel like yours could have made her feel better about our situation. Your vulnerability is endearing. ❤❤❤
For all those that think they know everything, or have everything.. you just never know how a situation will arise. Be thankful for all that you have! Thank you and i truly appreciate your videos🤗😇❤💯
You're doing just FINE. You have no idea just how much videos like this mean to people like me, who, after I pay my rent, have very little money for food. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and may God bless you and yours, AND that kitchen of yours!!
Don't ever be ashamed of being poor. We all struggle in life at some point. Your recipes have helped folks stretch their food budget. I grew up the youngest of six kids and my dad made "Whuthavya Stew". It was basically whatever you had in the house thrown into a pot. It wasn't always the best tasting but we were blessed to have it. I found out later in life some folks called it "Hunters Stew" because you hunt around the house for things to put in it. LOL
After dad died, we had nothing but potatoes. I was 13 and my little sister was 9. I remember that the only thing in the house was pickle juice. I got it out, and a teaspoon, one for me, and one for her. I kept doing that until it was gone. Potatoes, french fries, homemade. Mom worked, amd we were alone a lot. I think i was 98 lbs soaking wet. Sometimes when we were so hungry, it'd been a couple of days with hardly anything. You just dont feel hungry after awhile. Thank God things changed. I loved it when mom made fried cornmeal mush.
Nope, all she did was make a batch of cornmeal and water and put it in the fridge overnight. She'd slice it up the next morning and fry it in butter. Then maple syrup, Log cabin, or just brown sugar and Vanilla
My husband comes from 14 kids in his family! He’s from Europe and grew up super poor! He says he loves that he experienced hard times because it made him the person he is today. There’s no shame in that! I love a good bowl of Roman with an egg on it!
Girl, for me to get those noodles, I would have to pay $6 a bag. I am so glad you can get them for $3. LOL I also want your people to know to keep some molasses in your pantry as a staple and you will be able to make your own brown sugar with regular sugar as dark as you want. I make my own brown sugar. I absolutely love your channel!
We do homemade spaetzle and then fry them up in a little bacon grease or butter and garlic. Way cheaper than store bought Polish kluski. I usually have to make double or triple batches of them because my family will eat them for days. Don't get fooled by the recipes saying you need a spaetzle maker or to use a colander. Flat cheese grater and a rubber spatula is just as easy.
@@jenniferespey5072 Unopened molasses can be stored at room temperature for 12 months. After opening, store at room temperature for 6 months for best quality. That is the official response. I on the other hand have stored it for over a year and I am good.
You should make this a series! I know most of your videos are budget meals but this seems different and extra resourceful if that makes sense, for when we’re broke broke.
We were poor growing up, but we had love. We ate a lot of beans and cornbread, to this day that is my favorite meal with a glass of butter milk. There is NOTHING wrong with having a large family if you take care of them. It is your business. God bless you all. Thank you for the memories and the food ideas.
I just found your channel and I'm only halfway through this video but I have to tell you that I love your friendly nature and your appreciation for good, honest, affordable meals. Thank you for sharing. I just subscribed!
Hey Brooke! So when I was growing up my Bubbe (means Grandma in Yiddish) would often make what she called Tuna Croquettes. They were DELISH just like EVERYTHING she made me. I don't think she ever had corn meal in her pantry... I'm pretty sure she either used Matzo Meal or flour when she made hers. She'd add a tiny bit of eensy weensy diced onion OR used dried onion I think - not sure what other spices she put in other than salt and pepper but.. oh my gosh... SO GOOD. So while you relive your childhood joy having your version, I relived MY childhood memories thinking about my Bubbe's version which I now REALLY want to recreate... oh and I also think she might have added an egg... in any case, thank you soooo much for your content - you on the reg bring me happiness and joy with your videos. Thank you! Jenny
I just found you today, and I want to thank you for saying what you did about the food bank. I am 71, living on Social Security, and got my first box of food from the food bank last month. I felt so guilty about having to do that, but I am 40 lbs underweight from skipping so many meals. We grew up poor too, and were not allowed to eat anything without permission. I thought every family was like that. So when my own kids were young, I made sure they got 3 home made meals plus 2 home made snacks every day. I am now disabled, and can't cook like that anymore, but I always have beans and rice that I can throw in the crock pot. I love watching your family enjoy your efforts!
I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it! This is the kinda food I grew up eating. Coming from a family of 10 siblings, my mama got creative! My grown kids grew up spoiled and still are lol. We all need to go back to the basics of eating imo. It would save me a fortune in the grocery store.
Me too! I thought everybody made their own pancake syrup! 😂. We were poor, but I didn’t know it. My dad always raised a huge garden in the summer so we had veggies all winter.
Brooke, you're the best! And I can vouch for your food because I've tried most of it in another context. I grew up in wartime and post-war Europe, not in Germany, thank God - but I have friends who did. I think about people in the current war zones, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Haiti, it goes on and on. I know that there are people who'd sell their souls for one of your meals. I have a tip for you: if you don't have any brown sugar, you can melt white sugar very carefully in your iron skillet and watch until it turns brown around the edge of the pile as it starts to caramelize. You then "cut" it by adding a small amount of butter or marge, stirring like mad, and you can then add water to make syrup the thickness you want. Doesn't taste like maple syrup, but it's sweet and tastes like caramel. Maybe that was what your mother was trying to make for you? It takes a bit of practice, and how can you practice if you don't always have sugar, butter or even margarine! I give her points for trying- and everyone else who is poor but trying to get through it, anyone who drums up hope when you really can't see it.
My mom made what we called "mackerel balls" and it was one of my favorites!! Obviously she used mackerel instead of tuna but I have used canned mackerel, canned salmon and have THOUGHT about using canned tuna but not tried it yet. Tuna would definitely be easier though as you wouldn't have to debone it. Mama used an egg and flour for creating the patties and then turned them in cornmeal before frying. You don't need much flour..... just enough to where you can make the fish ball hold it's patty shape. The egg definitely helps. Oh ... and Mama also included a couple of TBSP of the juice the fish was canned in for extra flavor and moisture. Whenever we had our birthday Mama would let us pick anything we wanted for supper. Mackerel balls and her chicken and dumplings were always at the top of my list. My siblings would moan and groan asking for pizza or fried chicken but I stood my ground saying "It's my birthday.... MT CHOICE!!!" LOL
Thank you Brooke. I can tell it was a little of a tough topic. I appreciate you sharing with us. I gained some ideas. I have some egg noodles and chicken spines. I think I can make a great dinner with that. One of my broke snacks - buttered saltines. Fancier version - cinnamon graham crackers with cream cheese. Broke desert- baked apple halves stuffed with brown sugar, fried bananas in butter. Broke dinners: can of diced ham (candied) fried rice w/egg and frozen veg. bigger budget: smoked sausage bell pepper canned pineapple stir fry rice bowl w/pineapple sweet and sour.
They may have been cheap meals but all looked filling and tasty. Thank you Brook. Many of us grew up poor but didn’t know it because we ate well. We never went hungry and we had koolaid and Tang!
Papa & mama had themselves and 5 children to feed. No matter what it was, it was always delicious and we were always full. One night it might be New England boiled dinner and the next might be tuna fish sandwiches, chips & kool-aid...IT WAS ALL YUMMY and kept our family going. So thankful we had parents that knew how to feed their family and took the time to do so. So thankful for this channel as well. ❤
It's 4am and I'm watching you while I work and thinking of how much you remind me of my aunt, my sister, my mother, (all of which have gone to heaven). You are adorable, relatable, sincere, and funny, and have brought a smile to my face and heart. Thank you for your hard work. You helped me today. God bless you.
You would fit right into our family! I grew up really poor too. I never had clothes bought for me, they were all hand-me-downs. Lots of pinto beans with chow chow to give variety. I’m a Nurse Practitioner now and financially comfortable but I still love all these recipes! I’m going to try them all! Thank you!
We were so poor we didn't have a bath tub. We had to bathe in a wash tub. Mom found a bath tub in someone's yard and offered $5 for it. She brought it home home, cleaned it up and that was our new tub. We had to run new copper pipes to an old closet and put it in there because there was no bathroom. The toilet was in a different room's closet. I grew up in the 1980s. 😮 Old houses, in the middle of no where-midwest, didn't have bathrooms.
The tuna cakes got me. I’ve never had those but my mother used to make what we called called tuna gravy but it’s basically just creamed tuna over toast. It was so very simple but I loved it. I still make it consistently every Sunday at my mom’s house for my family after church for lunch. I grew up with little money but let me tell ya, I was so rich in love and I have the best memories growing up. My mother could make a meal out of anything. My kitchen is the place in my home where we spend the most time together, as a family and I’m so grateful for that! Thank you for your videos. They make me smile!!
Oh my goodness Brooke my mom did the same thing! She would put sugar, maple flavoring and a little water. It was so thin. We knew we were broke or mom forgot to buy syrup. 😂 Now that I’m older I know she did the best that she could.
So very backwards in my family. I started out riches with my mommas life style. She was a nurse and my dad had a well to do job. So growing up I always had what I needed sometimes more than I needed. She passed in 04. I hate to say that I had to teach myself how to budget after she was gone. Ive definitely learned a lot. I hate that my mom is gone but at least I’ve come far and lord I love this Chanel! Wonderful it’s helped a lot with my little family big three now. Thanks Brook for putting this together
My dad's family was from the Amish area of PA and my great aunt made the best Amish noodles. We made them pretty much the same way you did except take the butter first and melt and lightly brown the butter in the pot (the whole stick of butter) then add the rest and cook like you did. The browned butter gives it a very nice taste. And sometime we would add a can of cream of chicken soup to it.
I showed my sis your videos today, she loved them ! We have memories like this too . Thanks for sharing ❤️ we remember those days to but like you said, it taught us .
Thank you for your videos. You have a way with talking and providing instructions that I think is wonderful. I come from a background similar to yours and your recipes bring back a lot of ways to prepare food I forgot how good meals were. 😋
I’ve never seen this exact recipe but I have seen it with an egg, flour and onions. I enjoy watching your spin on things and you’re very entertaining. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
I make salmon or tuna patties with Italian bread crumbs and an egg. Also make potato, zucchini or cabbage (shredded) patties. With the veggie ones we use onion and shredded cheese too. I bake mine instead of frying. Make them often. 💕
I've made tuna patties (my grandmother referred to them as croquettes) but never with cornmeal, so I am definitely going to try your recipe. With a side of Kraft Dinner, of course. Thanks for doing this series.
I love your down to earth, honest attitude you share with us! You could be my next door neighbor! In these very hard times, days I thought I’d never see, your videos are so appreciated! And I appreciate YOU! And the kids, too cute! Especially your youngest! 😂 Bless you all! ❤
Many of these were reminiscent of my childhood meals. My single mom of 4 was a fantastic cook even on a budget. One of my favorite meals was egg noodles with ground beef and gravy and of course we'd have some buttered bread. Thank you for sharing!!❤
Thanks for the video. I grew up poor also but it wasn't so bad really. I lived mainly with my dad's parents and granny always had something on the stove or at least something ready to eat. Pork and beans and weines and cornbread was always good. Tuna patties with ketchup is the best. Tuna patties and pork and beans, spaghetti noodles with cheese, toasted bread with a little bacon grease, home grown tomatoes and light bread, all good even today.
Be proud darlin. I love the way you say it made the person you are. I'm from that kind of life and I always tell people the same thing. And it helped me grow to be a frugal person. And a person who will eat almost anything 😊.
I just came upon your channel … we already love ya !!! Thank you for teachin’ people how to get by in style 💪🏻. Your awesome !!! Big up’ s 👍🏻👍🏻 from Idaho
At the rate these boys are growing, poor Brooke is gonna be having them try stuff and all 3 are gonna be absolutely towering over her. I randomly did tuna cakes one time cause I didn’t have canned salmon, it was awesome cause I don’t think I’d ever heard of them before that day and thought to look them up.
I can imagine how many nights your mama cried herself to sleep worrying about how to feed her babies tomorrow, and how stressed your dad much have been. I found myself in a similar situation. I won’t go into my long drawn out story, but I was homeless with my 2 babies, and God always put someone in my path to get me thru to the next day. What my children gleaned from those times is exactly what you have as well, resilience and an amazing sense of self reliance. Your imagination for the possibilities is truly a gift, one many people will never receive because they didn’t struggle as a child. Love really is all that matters, none of us need a meal with the food pyramid (that turned out to be a scam anyway to keep all the farmers making money that the government could pilfer from) every single meal, we can eat meals designed to fill our bellies as we share a meal made from love.
There’s no shame in having grown up poor. A lot of people today are struggling with food insecurity so you’re using your experiences to help others. God bless.
There's nothing better than a "struggle meal!" My grown kids are always requesting something I made when they were little and we were po (not poor-po). I am proud to know how to season a big ol' pot of water until it's a yummy stew...❤
Watching UA-cam videos and seeing how much you like to cook for your family is so sweet.and your husband would look like one of the zztop singer if he had on sunglasses Love your videos keep doing them for all of us God bless you and your family,
You remind me of the actress Sally Field and my wife n I friend Annette. She's a wonderful mom n now a grandma. Such a sweetheart. Hard wondering n a darn great cook for her family. I'm kinda surprised you don't show how easy making noodles or slickers as our family calls them. Love your videos!
1) i just bought the same earrings from your butter noodles video! Haven't worn them yet cuz I wasn't sure how they'd look but they look good on you so now I know! 2) i love how the boys kept trying to grab more tuna cakes but hesitated cause they wanted to not interrupt lol 3) ❤ 4) I do fancy ramen too. Another fancy ramen I do is frying the noodles and veg in the pan with a little soy sauce and a touch of brown sugar to make a stir fry
Maybe not a “blessing” but it does prepare you for job loses, hurricanes, being snowed in. Anything that helps one be able to think on their feet is good! I could have done without some of those memories of being poor😕
We made English muffin pizzas with a teaspoon tomato soup, one slice of American cheese, and sometimes we got two or three slices of pepperoni, baked in the oven, yummy! We also did creamed tuna on toast, which was a can of cream of mushroom soup, half can of water, and a can of tuna, heated and poured on toast! Tasty! Macaroni and government cheese was a big staple! We all survived, poor!! Love your family and your cooking, you're so fun and uplifting! 🐢🐢💚💚💕💕
OMG! I grew up poor in Florida, but my family is from NC. We've had all these, including YOUR simple syrup! Our tuna cakes always had onions. The stories we could share, I'm sure!
Hugs loves n many blessings from wheeling West Virginia..love you and your family we grew up poor as well and being in my 40*s it taught us a VALUE OF A BUCK now that being said it too taught my girls how to stretch a dollar..So growing up poor we aren't ashamed of cause it's teaching the future generations as well...
My mom used to make salmon patties as a special treat-- omg, I LOVED when she'd make them. But it wasn't often, because you had to pick all the pieces of bone out of the canned salmon. She'd use cracker crumbs, egg, s & p, and i think maybe some paprika? Fry just like you did the tuna patties. SO GOOD. Thanks for the memories!! Your boys remind me of a bunch of golden labs, being good boys and gettin treats. LOL Such handsome, lovable boys! (I have a 13 yo myself!)
But the bones in canned salmon are so soft, you just crush them up as you mix the meat and bread crumbs! You can't find them when I'm done kneading the dough!
Subscribed to the channel. A lot of these meals I grew up on to and I lived in the Midwest. We were what you would call House poor. We lived in a nice house that looked nice from the outside but on the inside there was no curtains no carpet hardly any furniture and I mean I’m talking one TV one couch no dining room table bare boned house. Because there wasn’t money for anything except a house payment. I know this now as an adult where as a child I was always confused. I didn’t understand when I went to my friends homes that they had all that food because I knew at home we didn’t. But like you said it turns us into the people that we are today. Love this video and I think I’m gonna really love your channel. From my Wisconsin farm to you ❤️
My Momma would make these so no shame here. They were good and filled us kids tummies... Gosh, I was like you as I had forgotten how my Mother made these until you. Thank you for my memory....
Tight now is a good time to watch what we eat and try to make it as healthy as possible to, I am glad that you are sharing with us, so thank you very much, from me to you and your family.
Hey , I really enjoy watching your videos. You and your family are so down to earth and kind. From what I see, you and your husband are doing an excellent job as parents. Your kids are respectful, friendly, happy, handsome guys. Please keep bringing us videos and delicious recipes. Can you please tell me where I can purchase the off-white bowl with roses you used in this video to make tuna melt and tater cakes? Thank you❤
It just occurred to me that we were poor. I guess most of the people around us were too. We always had enough to eat and armor over our heads even if my sister and I had to share a fold down Davenport bed in a one bedroom house living room. No running water and an outdoor toilet until I was about twelve years old. Both our parents worked at whatever jobs were available during the times when my dad was laid off from his job during the winters.
I loved this video!! I remember being a single Mom with 5 kids..in the country..on food stamps (and trying to create a music career..haha) .Daily I make stuff I made up when all we had was raimen and an egg,,and some celery..the best one I made up was curried and fried corn flakes..The kid's loved it!!
I am so grateful for your channel. My husband just retired and our budget was cut down quite a bit. Learning to live with less and be grateful for what I have tried your rice and chicken legs last night and everybody loved it. Thank you so much for sharing your videos. God bless.
Part 2 Hard Times ~ Meals To Eat When You’re Broke || From Someone Who ACTUALLY Grew Up Poor
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Thank you so much for these recipes. Many of them remind me of meals I had growing up. My parents divorced when I was little, and my Mom had to stretch a dollar as far as she could so we had a lot of these type of meals, and I still love many of them. To stretch a pound of burger and feed her growing girls, my Mom would make something she called porcupine meatballs. She would make little meatballs and roll them in white rice, and then brown them in a pan with salt and pepper. Then she would open a can of Campbell's tomato soup, add half a can of water, and pour that into the meatballs, topping with a lid and allowing to simmer until the rice was cooked and tender. We would eat that on top of noodles or maybe mashed potatoes, and it was humble, good food.
I feel like those tuna patties would be delicious on a toasted bun with a little homemade Big Mac sauce and some lettuce and tomato from the garden!
@@astridexplorer5096 I made porcupine meatballs.! Only I put them in pressure cooker with Campbell tomato soup.
I mixed the rice into the meat. They looked great and so delicious on mashed potatoes. I didn't know this was poor food! My kids loved it and so did I. Single mom. Think I will make this tomorrow.
I hope you did make them. I love thinking that someone else out there also enjoys porcupine meatballs. ❤️
Dutch noodles? I never heard this name, and I am Dutch. Funny! We never use these for cooking here in Holland. But the Chinese restaurants/take outs do.
And actually our Chinese restaurant don't make real Chinese food, but Indonesian.
In the end the noodles are Indonesian. But I am not sure if they use them in Indonesia. Hahaha.
Great video. Thanks
We didn't have syrup most times.. Once in a great while, we'd have Karo... but normally it was white sugar water syrup. That was it. Plaino plain. But, beggers can't be choosers. I loved French toast and that didn't require syrup. We were a beans and potatos family. I still love pinto beans, cornbreada and fried potatos. Slumgullion was a common dish too.
Some of the poorest people in the world are the happiest ❤
Well said❤
There is nothing to be ashamed of growing up poor, it's wut makes us wiser, and save our $$, love what you say, you go girllll!!!
I grew up eating noodles, with butter, with ketchup, with gravy, noodles!
And now I luv noodles, with butter, with ketchup, and with gravy!
Here's a quick and filling cheap meal to make. Cook spaghetti in French onion soup, drain, add nob of butter. Delicious!🇦🇺
This sounds yummy. Some shaker or shredded cheese would really elevate it, too and still make a very affordable meal. Thank you for the suggestion, I think I'm going to try it.
THANK💓YOU FOR THE SUGGESTION! DEFINITELY GONNA TRY IT SINCE I GOT ALOT OF REGULAR SPAGHETTI NOODLES ON HAND.👍🏻😉🫶
When my kids were small, I made what I call po man's stew and my kids loved it! It was a lb of ground beef, scrambled and drained a diced onion, 1 can creamed corn, a can whole kernel corn, maters, a can of sweet peas, a can of diced carrots and lots of ketchup and jiffy cornbread on the side with honey and butter on top. My kids ate it up and it lasted several meals! Ya do whatever ya got to when you're on a tight budget!
Anyone that grew up in the Appalachian Mountains were dirt poor at times, people that lived up in there many times wondered where the next meal was coming from. Jobs were few and in economical lean times in the rest of the country meant ever leaner times up in those mountains. If you didn't grow up in that area, there is no real way to describe it. Most kids knew how to get out and identify the many wild plants that were edible, we were sent to find them . And I'm not talking about 50 years ago either, this was more recent than that. This gal does a good job showing her subs how to make Mr Lincoln scream, it might not be meat and potatoes every day, but her boys look healthy so do your homework.
I'm a Cold Miner's daughter here. We were poor too. One thing is we had a huge garden that Daddy worked with all year and we had chickens for meat and eggs. We ate beans on the regular and we had a lot of biscuits.
I'm from WV. We had bean cakes from leftover brown beans. Absolutely delicious.
, I love bean cakes/burgers, I use black beans to make mine with, and tater cakes are so good, we eat like we are poor sometimes just because it was good food.@@corrinnacorrinna5572
Poverty isn’t shameful in any way. Life happens. Hugs to all of you, my friends if you’re up for it. We are not responsible for the circumstances of our birth.
I grew up in West Virginia. And yes we were poor. I had to wash my hair with tide powder that I mixed in a cup since we did not have shampoo. We ate squirrels and deer. No drinks no desserts no extras. I am by proud c of whom I became. I was the first to go to college in my family. Thank you for all the memories!
My mother used tide as bubble bath. I had no idea this was strange until years later.
Wow God bless u
I'm also from WV. My kids & I love deer meat & jerky!😛
I was born and raised in West Virginia, too, and I am still here! Glad to see you on here.🙂
Dang is this a WV channel? Lots of WV peeps
Thank you so much for keeping it real and taking away the stigma of being low income. I was injured in a work accident three years ago. I have two beautiful children, a disabled elderly sister and my wonderful fiancé. Right now I’m waiting for ss disability to be approved. My fiancé works two jobs to support our family. Even so the rising cost of living has us struggling at times. I go to the food pantry every week. I make simple nourishing meals with what the pantry blesses me with. I don’t let anything go to waste. I love how humble and down to earth you are.
Yes me too!
I'd love to compare some notes with you. I may have some things that will add to your list of cheap meals!
Bless you and your fiancé!
@@AlbredaWelde that would be awesome! I have my own channel here under the same name.
@@lizh1988 aww, thank you. ❤️
Raising 5 kids as a single parent as a preschool teacher we were poor. Raising 7 grandkids as a single parent we are poor. You are a beautiful woman with an enormous heart. Thank you for sharing. Your channel has helped me so much. Our food budget went down to $450 for 6 people and I am able to do it because of you. I cant have a garden in my area in the summer,low desert 115°. But I will try in the fall. Bless you Brooke❤❤❤
Raising all those grandchildren I hope the parents are helping out
What about food stamps or food pantry
You can have a garden in the desert I do it successfully and have quite a few tips on my channel about gardening in the desert. I am not trying to hijack Brooke’s channel I just want to help people understand that it isn’t impossible to grow food in the desert(I live in Central AZ and we have been 117/118 this summer at our homestead).
@@desertfamilyhomestead3127 Thank you I will take a look. The problem is I am in a bottom floor apt. I tried once and was overrun by tiny white mites. I spayed daily but it spread.
@@lynnchristensen4439 the mites were during cotton growing season I would guess. Sticky traps are the best way to treat them sadly. You can still grow things on an apartment patio, you just need to get a little more creative with it.
@@lynnchristensen4439 We bought an aerogarden and we can grow veg there and we sprout seeds to eat
I grew up so incredibly poor and I RARELY talk about the struggle. Thank God our family left those days over 30 years ago but it's still hard to talk about. Thank you for helping people have ideas of how to stretch their dollars. My momma did the best she could but I think a channel like yours could have made her feel better about our situation. Your vulnerability is endearing. ❤❤❤
I hope you read lots of the comments. You weren’t alone. I’m glad you survived those times and God bless your momma. 💖
I also hope you read the comments, and embrace your history. It's what made you who you are. Heritage.
For all those that think they know everything, or have everything.. you just never know how a situation will arise. Be thankful for all that you have! Thank you and i truly appreciate your videos🤗😇❤💯
You're doing just FINE. You have no idea just how much videos like this mean to people like me, who, after I pay my rent, have very little money for food. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and may God bless you and yours, AND that kitchen of yours!!
Don't ever be ashamed of being poor. We all struggle in life at some point. Your recipes have helped folks stretch their food budget. I grew up the youngest of six kids and my dad made "Whuthavya Stew". It was basically whatever you had in the house thrown into a pot. It wasn't always the best tasting but we were blessed to have it. I found out later in life some folks called it "Hunters Stew" because you hunt around the house for things to put in it. LOL
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After dad died, we had nothing but potatoes. I was 13 and my little sister was 9. I remember that the only thing in the house was pickle juice. I got it out, and a teaspoon, one for me, and one for her. I kept doing that until it was gone.
Potatoes, french fries, homemade. Mom worked, amd we were alone a lot. I think i was 98 lbs soaking wet. Sometimes when we were so hungry, it'd been a couple of days with hardly anything. You just dont feel hungry after awhile. Thank God things changed. I loved it when mom made fried cornmeal mush.
Oh my gosh, my mom made that too and I loved it. I can't get mine to turn out as good as her's was. I thought it was just something that only we ate.
Nope, all she did was make a batch of cornmeal and water and put it in the fridge overnight. She'd slice it up the next morning and fry it in butter. Then maple syrup, Log cabin, or just brown sugar and Vanilla
@@kathyholcomb724 Oh, she cooked it like polenta. Very smart.
I love fried mush!!
@@cathylongstreth5405 Me too. That's more like what we had. We ate it with milk and sugar.
My husband comes from 14 kids in his family! He’s from Europe and grew up super poor! He says he loves that he experienced hard times because it made him the person he is today. There’s no shame in that! I love a good bowl of Roman with an egg on it!
Girl, for me to get those noodles, I would have to pay $6 a bag. I am so glad you can get them for $3. LOL I also want your people to know to keep some molasses in your pantry as a staple and you will be able to make your own brown sugar with regular sugar as dark as you want. I make my own brown sugar. I absolutely love your channel!
Oh lord! It’s $2.24 total here at Wally World.
They sell them frozen at some walmarts. Good thick noodles you can use for dumplings if you want.
We do homemade spaetzle and then fry them up in a little bacon grease or butter and garlic. Way cheaper than store bought Polish kluski. I usually have to make double or triple batches of them because my family will eat them for days. Don't get fooled by the recipes saying you need a spaetzle maker or to use a colander. Flat cheese grater and a rubber spatula is just as easy.
Does anyone know the shelf life of molasses? I love that idea, but I know I wouldn't use the molasses very often
@@jenniferespey5072 Unopened molasses can be stored at room temperature for 12 months. After opening, store at room temperature for 6 months for best quality. That is the official response. I on the other hand have stored it for over a year and I am good.
You should make this a series! I know most of your videos are budget meals but this seems different and extra resourceful if that makes sense, for when we’re broke broke.
We were poor growing up, but we had love. We ate a lot of beans and cornbread, to this day that is my favorite meal with a glass of butter milk. There is NOTHING wrong with having a large family if you take care of them. It is your business. God bless you all. Thank you for the memories and the food ideas.
With the price of food now we all broke. Thanks for your videos.
I just found your channel and I'm only halfway through this video but I have to tell you that I love your friendly nature and your appreciation for good, honest, affordable meals. Thank you for sharing.
I just subscribed!
Hey Brooke! So when I was growing up my Bubbe (means Grandma in Yiddish) would often make what she called Tuna Croquettes. They were DELISH just like EVERYTHING she made me. I don't think she ever had corn meal in her pantry... I'm pretty sure she either used Matzo Meal or flour when she made hers. She'd add a tiny bit of eensy weensy diced onion OR used dried onion I think - not sure what other spices she put in other than salt and pepper but.. oh my gosh... SO GOOD. So while you relive your childhood joy having your version, I relived MY childhood memories thinking about my Bubbe's version which I now REALLY want to recreate... oh and I also think she might have added an egg... in any case, thank you soooo much for your content - you on the reg bring me happiness and joy with your videos. Thank you! Jenny
I just found you today, and I want to thank you for saying what you did about the food bank. I am 71, living on Social Security, and got my first box of food from the food bank last month. I felt so guilty about having to do that, but I am 40 lbs underweight from skipping so many meals. We grew up poor too, and were not allowed to eat anything without permission. I thought every family was like that. So when my own kids were young, I made sure they got 3 home made meals plus 2 home made snacks every day. I am now disabled, and can't cook like that anymore, but I always have beans and rice that I can throw in the crock pot. I love watching your family enjoy your efforts!
I just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it! This is the kinda food I grew up eating. Coming from a family of 10 siblings, my mama got creative! My grown kids grew up spoiled and still are lol. We all need to go back to the basics of eating imo. It would save me a fortune in the grocery store.
Until I was old enough to go and visit my friends, I didn't know syrup could be bought in a bottle.
Me too! I thought everybody made their own pancake syrup! 😂. We were poor, but I didn’t know it. My dad always raised a huge garden in the summer so we had veggies all winter.
Thank you so much for demonstrating how to cook inexpensive meals. Not only are people food insecure but they also don’t know how to cook.
The secret ingredient to any meal is love...❤️and a lil butter too!
Brooke, you're the best! And I can vouch for your food because I've tried most of it in another context. I grew up in wartime and post-war Europe, not in Germany, thank God - but I have friends who did. I think about people in the current war zones, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Haiti, it goes on and on. I know that there are people who'd sell their souls for one of your meals. I have a tip for you: if you don't have any brown sugar, you can melt white sugar very carefully in your iron skillet and watch until it turns brown around the edge of the pile as it starts to caramelize. You then "cut" it by adding a small amount of butter or marge, stirring like mad, and you can then add water to make syrup the thickness you want. Doesn't taste like maple syrup, but it's sweet and tastes like caramel. Maybe that was what your mother was trying to make for you? It takes a bit of practice, and how can you practice if you don't always have sugar, butter or even margarine! I give her points for trying- and everyone else who is poor but trying to get through it, anyone who drums up hope when you really can't see it.
My mom made what we called "mackerel balls" and it was one of my favorites!! Obviously she used mackerel instead of tuna but I have used canned mackerel, canned salmon and have THOUGHT about using canned tuna but not tried it yet. Tuna would definitely be easier though as you wouldn't have to debone it.
Mama used an egg and flour for creating the patties and then turned them in cornmeal before frying. You don't need much flour..... just enough to where you can make the fish ball hold it's patty shape. The egg definitely helps. Oh ... and Mama also included a couple of TBSP of the juice the fish was canned in for extra flavor and moisture.
Whenever we had our birthday Mama would let us pick anything we wanted for supper. Mackerel balls and her chicken and dumplings were always at the top of my list. My siblings would moan and groan asking for pizza or fried chicken but I stood my ground saying "It's my birthday.... MT CHOICE!!!" LOL
Thank you Brooke. I can tell it was a little of a tough topic. I appreciate you sharing with us. I gained some ideas. I have some egg noodles and chicken spines. I think I can make a great dinner with that. One of my broke snacks - buttered saltines. Fancier version - cinnamon graham crackers with cream cheese. Broke desert- baked apple halves stuffed with brown sugar, fried bananas in butter. Broke dinners: can of diced ham (candied) fried rice w/egg and frozen veg. bigger budget: smoked sausage bell pepper canned pineapple stir fry rice bowl w/pineapple sweet and sour.
They may have been cheap meals but all looked filling and tasty. Thank you Brook. Many of us grew up poor but didn’t know it because we ate well. We never went hungry and we had koolaid and Tang!
Papa & mama had themselves and 5 children to feed. No matter what it was, it was always delicious and we were always full. One night it might be New England boiled dinner and the next might be tuna fish sandwiches, chips & kool-aid...IT WAS ALL YUMMY and kept our family going. So thankful we had parents that knew how to feed their family and took the time to do so. So thankful for this channel as well. ❤
Thank you so much! Not just for sharing these recipes but being so real and vulnerable.
It's 4am and I'm watching you while I work and thinking of how much you remind me of my aunt, my sister, my mother, (all of which have gone to heaven). You are adorable, relatable, sincere, and funny, and have brought a smile to my face and heart. Thank you for your hard work. You helped me today. God bless you.
You would fit right into our family!
I grew up really poor too. I never had clothes bought for me, they were all hand-me-downs. Lots of pinto beans with chow chow to give variety. I’m a Nurse Practitioner now and financially comfortable but I still love all these recipes! I’m going to try them all! Thank you!
Lol...I'm an rn too. People are surprised I cañ afford it but still love these foods😮
@@artherlene hello sister nurse!
We were so poor we didn't have a bath tub. We had to bathe in a wash tub. Mom found a bath tub in someone's yard and offered $5 for it. She brought it home home, cleaned it up and that was our new tub. We had to run new copper pipes to an old closet and put it in there because there was no bathroom. The toilet was in a different room's closet. I grew up in the 1980s. 😮 Old houses, in the middle of no where-midwest, didn't have bathrooms.
I lived with my dad in high-school and my most frugal meal was lentils and rice, nothing else, just some spices. It taught me how to be creative.
The tuna cakes got me. I’ve never had those but my mother used to make what we called called tuna gravy but it’s basically just creamed tuna over toast. It was so very simple but I loved it. I still make it consistently every Sunday at my mom’s house for my family after church for lunch. I grew up with little money but let me tell ya, I was so rich in love and I have the best memories growing up. My mother could make a meal out of anything. My kitchen is the place in my home where we spend the most time together, as a family and I’m so grateful for that! Thank you for your videos. They make me smile!!
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I still love tuna gravy!
Oh my goodness Brooke my mom did the same thing! She would put sugar, maple flavoring and a little water. It was so thin. We knew we were broke or mom forgot to buy syrup. 😂 Now that I’m older I know she did the best that she could.
So very backwards in my family. I started out riches with my mommas life style. She was a nurse and my dad had a well to do job. So growing up I always had what I needed sometimes more than I needed. She passed in 04. I hate to say that I had to teach myself how to budget after she was gone. Ive definitely learned a lot. I hate that my mom is gone but at least I’ve come far and lord I love this Chanel! Wonderful it’s helped a lot with my little family big three now. Thanks Brook for putting this together
My dad's family was from the Amish area of PA and my great aunt made the best Amish noodles. We made them pretty much the same way you did except take the butter first and melt and lightly brown the butter in the pot (the whole stick of butter) then add the rest and cook like you did. The browned butter gives it a very nice taste. And sometime we would add a can of cream of chicken soup to it.
Oh yes to browned butter!👍
Browned butter is sooo amazing!! It makes everything taste better and doesn't take long to do.
Oh my the tuna cakes are making me drool😂
I showed my sis your videos today, she loved them ! We have memories like this too . Thanks for sharing ❤️ we remember those days to but like you said, it taught us .
Thank you for your videos. You have a way with talking and providing instructions that I think is wonderful. I come from a background similar to yours and your recipes bring back a lot of ways to prepare food I forgot how good meals were. 😋
I’ve never seen this exact recipe but I have seen it with an egg, flour and onions. I enjoy watching your spin on things and you’re very entertaining. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
I make salmon or tuna patties with Italian bread crumbs and an egg. Also make potato, zucchini or cabbage (shredded) patties. With the veggie ones we use onion and shredded cheese too. I bake mine instead of frying. Make them often. 💕
I've made tuna patties (my grandmother referred to them as croquettes) but never with cornmeal, so I am definitely going to try your recipe. With a side of Kraft Dinner, of course. Thanks for doing this series.
Kluski are Polish! My grandmother made them home made! YUM!!!! thank you!
I love your down to earth, honest attitude you share with us! You could be my next door neighbor!
In these very hard times, days I thought I’d never see, your videos are so appreciated! And I appreciate YOU! And the kids, too cute! Especially your youngest! 😂
Bless you all! ❤
Many of these were reminiscent of my childhood meals. My single mom of 4 was a fantastic cook even on a budget. One of my favorite meals was egg noodles with ground beef and gravy and of course we'd have some buttered bread. Thank you for sharing!!❤
Thanks for the video. I grew up poor also but it wasn't so bad really. I lived mainly with my dad's parents and granny always had something on the stove or at least something ready to eat. Pork and beans and weines and cornbread was always good. Tuna patties with ketchup is the best. Tuna patties and pork and beans, spaghetti noodles with cheese, toasted bread with a little bacon grease, home grown tomatoes and light bread, all good even today.
I'm a First Time Viewer. I enjoyed Your Video.
Thank You and Your Sons for Sharing these delicious Meals...
As many others, my Mom made canned salmon into patties, never tuna. Interesting!
We were poor too. But everyone around us was poor, so we didn't know.
Be proud darlin. I love the way you say it made the person you are. I'm from that kind of life and I always tell people the same thing. And it helped me grow to be a frugal person. And a person who will eat almost anything 😊.
I just came upon your channel … we already love ya !!! Thank you for teachin’ people how to get by in style 💪🏻. Your awesome !!! Big up’ s 👍🏻👍🏻 from Idaho
At the rate these boys are growing, poor Brooke is gonna be having them try stuff and all 3 are gonna be absolutely towering over her.
I randomly did tuna cakes one time cause I didn’t have canned salmon, it was awesome cause I don’t think I’d ever heard of them before that day and thought to look them up.
I can imagine how many nights your mama cried herself to sleep worrying about how to feed her babies tomorrow, and how stressed your dad much have been. I found myself in a similar situation. I won’t go into my long drawn out story, but I was homeless with my 2 babies, and God always put someone in my path to get me thru to the next day.
What my children gleaned from those times is exactly what you have as well, resilience and an amazing sense of self reliance. Your imagination for the possibilities is truly a gift, one many people will never receive because they didn’t struggle as a child. Love really is all that matters, none of us need a meal with the food pyramid (that turned out to be a scam anyway to keep all the farmers making money that the government could pilfer from) every single meal, we can eat meals designed to fill our bellies as we share a meal made from love.
There’s no shame in having grown up poor. A lot of people today are struggling with food insecurity so you’re using your experiences to help others. God bless.
Omg! My Aunt makes tuna patties but calls them salmon patties and uses mackerel instead! So good!
You're so funny and your boys are adorable. I grew up poor too! In rural Oregon. Thanks for the recipes.
Great video! Always inspiring to see people make the most of a dollar and not forget how to do it when their income goes up. God bless you.
There's nothing better than a "struggle meal!" My grown kids are always requesting something I made when they were little and we were po (not poor-po). I am proud to know how to season a big ol' pot of water until it's a yummy stew...❤
I love your practical creativity!! I find your videos inspiring and motivating. Thanks so much for sharing!
Watching UA-cam videos and seeing how much you like to cook for your family is so sweet.and your husband would look like one of the zztop singer if he had on sunglasses
Love your videos keep doing them for all of us
God bless you and your family,
Your energy just lifts me up. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤
love you, thank you. will totally try the tuna cakes on my picky 15-year-old!!
We love these old recipes we grew up with! 💕
We get a real sense of accomplishment, making sure we get by on what we have, and providing all we can.
Thanks for the ideas. With food prices what they are we can all use all the help we can get. Have a blessed day.
Those butter noodles look SOOOO GOOOOD, and looks very simple to make.
You remind me of the actress Sally Field and my wife n I friend Annette. She's a wonderful mom n now a grandma. Such a sweetheart. Hard wondering n a darn great cook for her family. I'm kinda surprised you don't show how easy making noodles or slickers as our family calls them. Love your videos!
Looks like happy cooperative family to me. Must be great mom!!❤
I came across this video and I'm so glad I did. Subscribed right away.
1) i just bought the same earrings from your butter noodles video! Haven't worn them yet cuz I wasn't sure how they'd look but they look good on you so now I know!
2) i love how the boys kept trying to grab more tuna cakes but hesitated cause they wanted to not interrupt lol
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4) I do fancy ramen too. Another fancy ramen I do is frying the noodles and veg in the pan with a little soy sauce and a touch of brown sugar to make a stir fry
Growing up poor to me is a blessing because you know what to do with very little. More people will be wishing they had your experience very soon
Maybe not a “blessing” but it does prepare you for job loses, hurricanes, being snowed in. Anything that helps one be able to think on their feet is good! I could have done without some of those memories of being poor😕
Looks good. Id add some parsley, basil and pepper flakes.
Thanks for sharing😊
Nice recipes! I‘ll try these Thuna burgers… not because they are cheap… because they will be delicious! 🤤Thanks, greetings from Germany 👍
The recipes look delicious!!! Love noodles, I will make them all!!
Thank you. Nooooo never be embarrassed to be without!!! ❤
We made English muffin pizzas with a teaspoon tomato soup, one slice of American cheese, and sometimes we got two or three slices of pepperoni, baked in the oven, yummy! We also did creamed tuna on toast, which was a can of cream of mushroom soup, half can of water, and a can of tuna, heated and poured on toast! Tasty! Macaroni and government cheese was a big staple! We all survived, poor!! Love your family and your cooking, you're so fun and uplifting! 🐢🐢💚💚💕💕
OMG! I grew up poor in Florida, but my family is from NC. We've had all these, including YOUR simple syrup! Our tuna cakes always had onions. The stories we could share, I'm sure!
Hugs loves n many blessings from wheeling West Virginia..love you and your family we grew up poor as well and being in my 40*s it taught us a VALUE OF A BUCK now that being said it too taught my girls how to stretch a dollar..So growing up poor we aren't ashamed of cause it's teaching the future generations as well...
So glad to have run across your channel 😊 New subscriber here!
Thank you for sharing, these meals remind me of my childhood. Poor and I'm ashamed of it either . I don't waste food . 🌹💖🙏
That Ramen looked delicious! Thanks for sharing! God bless! 😊
My mom used to make salmon patties as a special treat-- omg, I LOVED when she'd make them. But it wasn't often, because you had to pick all the pieces of bone out of the canned salmon. She'd use cracker crumbs, egg, s & p, and i think maybe some paprika? Fry just like you did the tuna patties. SO GOOD. Thanks for the memories!! Your boys remind me of a bunch of golden labs, being good boys and gettin treats. LOL Such handsome, lovable boys! (I have a 13 yo myself!)
But the bones in canned salmon are so soft, you just crush them up as you mix the meat and bread crumbs! You can't find them when I'm done kneading the dough!
My mom just had a thing about them. I think she choked once, so she was hyper aware.
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My momma taught us how to make do and it has served me well for many, many years. Be proud of the ingenuity of your family.
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A lot of these meals I grew up on to and I lived in the Midwest. We were what you would call House poor. We lived in a nice house that looked nice from the outside but on the inside there was no curtains no carpet hardly any furniture and I mean I’m talking one TV one couch no dining room table bare boned house. Because there wasn’t money for anything except a house payment. I know this now as an adult where as a child I was always confused. I didn’t understand when I went to my friends homes that they had all that food because I knew at home we didn’t. But like you said it turns us into the people that we are today. Love this video and I think I’m gonna really love your channel. From my Wisconsin farm to you ❤️
My Momma would make these so no shame here. They were good and filled us kids tummies... Gosh, I was like you as I had forgotten how my Mother made these until you. Thank you for my memory....
Thank you for sharing your recipes and family with us ❤
I have to say your boys seem to be some really cool Jents😊Good job on them mom💯
Adding too…. I love your videos!! You are perfect! Thank you!!
Obviously you're doing a great job at parenting, your kids are fab!
Tight now is a good time to watch what we eat and try to make it as healthy as possible to, I am glad that you are sharing with us, so thank you very much, from me to you and your family.
Hey , I really enjoy watching your videos. You and your family are so down to earth and kind. From what I see, you and your husband are doing an excellent job as parents. Your kids are respectful, friendly, happy, handsome guys. Please keep bringing us videos and delicious recipes.
Can you please tell me where I can purchase the off-white bowl with roses you used in this video to make tuna melt and tater cakes? Thank you❤
Brooke you always make me smile! I think I'll def try those butter noodles.
It just occurred to me that we were poor. I guess most of the people around us were too. We always had enough to eat and armor over our heads even if my sister and I had to share a fold down Davenport bed in a one bedroom house living room. No running water and an outdoor toilet until I was about twelve years old. Both our parents worked at whatever jobs were available during the times when my dad was laid off from his job during the winters.
I loved this video!! I remember being a single Mom with 5 kids..in the country..on food stamps (and trying to create a music career..haha) .Daily I make stuff I made up when all we had was raimen and an egg,,and some celery..the best one I made up was curried and fried corn flakes..The kid's loved it!!
This video made me a subscriber and im a teenage boy Mom, they dont hesitate to try anything lol. I love this!
I’ve always thought that food should be a right. So glad to hear a fellow believer.
I am so grateful for your channel. My husband just retired and our budget was cut down quite a bit. Learning to live with less and be grateful for what I have tried your rice and chicken legs last night and everybody loved it. Thank you so much for sharing your videos. God bless.