[Angie O'Plasty, RN]

Oh, I recall another one-- peas and shells. This was a very economical dish that was made with spaghetti sauce, canned peas, and macaroni (small sea shells).

[Spidey's mom]

Originally Posted by Angie O'Plasty, RN

Oh, I recall another one-- peas and shells. This was a very economical dish that was made with spaghetti sauce, canned peas, and macaroni (small sea shells).

Oh, I loved sea shell soup . . . . made with tomato sauce, it was very economical.


steph

[psychonurse]

When I was in college and broke it was Top Ramen and Mac and cheese...sometimes when I had a little extra money I would buy some hotdogs and put in. Didn't like tuna so I never used that. Have just acquired a taste for that. So glad that I don't have to scrimp on food anymore but I have found out that you can eat for under a buck at Wendys and Taco Bell LOL.

[pickledpepperRN]

Originally Posted by stevielynn

Spacenurse - My grandparents kept a can of bacon grease on the stove - used it to season veggies and such. I'm eating fresh grapes from my in-law's garden right now - so much better than storebought.

Bread and butter at dinner - yep, filler indeed.

Our diets were so bad - why were we not seeing as many obese children as we do now? Maybe because I was always outside playing - the neighborhood was safe and all the moms watched out for us and we built forts and played baseball and didn't come in until dark. It was rare for us to watch tv.

Ah, the olden days . . . .

Yes. We played in fields, vacant lots, and the street.
We could go anywhere within the sound of mothers LOUD voice.
Hopscotch, jump rope, "Mother May I?", "Simon Says", "statues", baseball, and "touch football" with light or dark socks in our pocket we played "cowboys & Indians and fought WWII my whole childhood.

[Spidey's mom]

Originally Posted by spacenurse

Yes. We played in fields, vacant lots, and the street.
We could go anywhere within the sound of mothers LOUD voice.
Hopscotch, jump rope, "Mother May I?", "Simon Says", "statues", baseball, and "touch football" with light or dark socks in our pocket we played "cowboys & Indians and fought WWII my whole childhood.

That was my childhood too . . . .


steph

[Angie O'Plasty, RN]

Originally Posted by spacenurse

Yes. We played in fields, vacant lots, and the street.
We could go anywhere within the sound of mothers LOUD voice.
Hopscotch, jump rope, "Mother May I?", "Simon Says", "statues", baseball, and "touch football" with light or dark socks in our pocket we played "cowboys & Indians and fought WWII my whole childhood.

Yep, I remember them too. My mom used a bell to call us home. I think she still has it on the back porch.

We'd play a lot of hide-n-seek, tag, cops and robbers....and we could always go refresh ourselves at the corner store. Didn't need money; they gave store credit then. I'd usually get a fudgsicle, which cost about 5 cents.

[Medic2RN]

I was also one of those stubborn early 20 somethings. Moved out of my house after college, flew with the airlines and made barely enough to live on in the beginning. I ate mostly tuna, mac n cheese, ramen noodles and spaghetti. I would volunteer to fly anything on my days off because that meant I would get a crew meal for each leg of the trip. Boy, now THAT was living!!

[ktwlpn]

Originally Posted by mercyteapot

Sometimes at night my Mom would make us fried Cheerios for a snack.

Pray tell------is there a recipe for fried Cheerios? I have never heard of such a thing.....When I was married to my ex-husband (he snorted most of the grocery money up his schnoz) I would buy meat from the "scrap" bin and cheese and lunch meat "ends" from the deli....I could make a nice pot of beans with pig ankles (ham hocks) or real mac and cheese.Also-pickled eggs by the dozen (got them free from am Amish farmer)

[mercyteapot]

Originally Posted by ktwlpn

Pray tell------is there a recipe for fried Cheerios? I have never heard of such a thing.....When I was married to my ex-husband (he snorted most of the grocery money up his schnoz) I would by meat from the "scrap" bin and cheese and lunch meat "ends" from the deli....I could make a nice pot of beans with pig ankles (ham hocks) or real mac and cheese.Also-pickled eggs by the dozen (got them free from am Amish farmer)

I had never looked the recipe up, and actually hadn't thought about this snack for years, but there are a couple recipes posted for them on the web! This one is from recipezaar:

3/4 cup butter 4 cups Cheerios toasted oat cereal
salt (We use a lot)

1. melt butter in a frying pan.
2. add cheerios and brown stirring to coat cheerios.
3. then salt as you would when making popcorn

I don't remember them being salty... I'll have to ask my Mom if she used salt on our's.

I remember when the delis used to combine all their odds and ends into a kind of antipasto salad that you could buy pretty cheap. I also remember those five pound blocks of bologna. My husband has no idea what I'm talking about when I start in on this stuff. He ''thinks'' he grew up poor, but in reality, they had a lovely home in San Francisco and all 5 kids went to private high schools- my husband and his brothers to Riordan. I just looked it up and tuition is now $11,000 plus a year. He just doesn't get that poor people don't send their kids such places!

[GooeyRN]

We are currently living on a lot of spaghetti, mac-n-cheese, and rice and beans so that we can afford for me to stay home with our baby. Ramen noodles with beans thrown in really isn't that bad!!! DH is such a good sport about it.