I cook mainly for myself, so I'm not hit too bad with the inflated food prices...yet. But I already make budget friendly meals. I rarely have pre-processed meals. I cook from scratch.Are budget friendly meals going to make a comeback? I wonder because inflation is getting out of hand, old meals like meatloaf, dirty rice, american goulash etc had their roots in poverty style cooking.
Currently food prices and inflation are outpacing wages, and certain foods are getting double hit due to the russia ukraine conflict, russia and ukraine are some of the largest exporters of grain, and russia is the largest exporter of fertilizer. Given how global the food supply is I wonder in America as well as the rest of the world if depression style cooking will make a comeback, or if the very least 1970's style cooking under the last big bout of inflation.
The sad thing is as a kid I remember eating creative meals, spaghetti was a common staple, as was hamburger beans, meatloaf, tips and rice, hamburger and rice etc, all made up of cheaper ingredients at the time, as at the time my father even being an nco in the navy did not make the greatest amount of money for the size of the family, both him and my mom were very good at stretching a budget and making food work no matter how little the money was.
Rice and beans have been a roller coaster of prices as well, I was paying 48 cents at walmart a pound a year ago for store brand, now it is almost 2 bucks a pound. Granted even with those prices rice and beans go very far but they have gone up.A lot of times there's no meat in my meals just because it doesn't need it. Rice and beans, stuffed baked potatoes, baked beans and brown bread, mac and cheese, cheese quesadillas...
You can regrow any onions, it is just the ones you eat the bulbs on can not regrow unless you use seeds as inions regrow by either bulb or seed. Green onions and chives you eat the green parts rather the the bulbs, even though you can eat the bulbs on both, the bulbs go dormant in the winter and split to create multiple bulbs to produce again the next year.Soups can go a long way. I remember "if we get company, add water", lol. I think we are, overall, a bit spoiled. Do we really need the proper ratio of meats, carbs ...every day of our lives. It is ok to skip one or the other, both or most for a few days. Remember the ramen noodle college days?
Perhaps this will help.
I thought about starting a thread on this, but perhaps this is fine here?
We have started growing sprouts. Amazing what you can grow with simple and inexpensive supermarket ingredients.
We are following Marie/fine art of cooking. Very educational.
She explains well, shows the step by step process, has great recipes.
With a little initial investment, we now successfully grow microgreens and sprouts. As a matter of fact, we had stir fried lentil sprouts over rice today.
Did you know that you can regrow green onions? Use the green part, place the rest in water and watch them grow.
We have also tried leeks, it works.You can regrow any onions, it is just the ones you eat the bulbs on can not regrow unless you use seeds as inions regrow by either bulb or seed. Green onions and chives you eat the green parts rather the the bulbs, even though you can eat the bulbs on both, the bulbs go dormant in the winter and split to create multiple bulbs to produce again the next year.
Chives and green onions also produce seeds, but most growers shun them as they are mountains more difficult than simply using bulbs, and in proper winter temps onions will slip and reproduce meaning a single bulb can produce multiple plants year after year.
People eat so well now days. You never see boiled potatoes anymore.Are budget friendly meals going to make a comeback? I wonder because inflation is getting out of hand, old meals like meatloaf, dirty rice, american goulash etc had their roots in poverty style cooking.
Currently food prices and inflation are outpacing wages, and certain foods are getting double hit due to the russia ukraine conflict, russia and ukraine are some of the largest exporters of grain, and russia is the largest exporter of fertilizer. Given how global the food supply is I wonder in America as well as the rest of the world if depression style cooking will make a comeback, or if the very least 1970's style cooking under the last big bout of inflation.
The sad thing is as a kid I remember eating creative meals, spaghetti was a common staple, as was hamburger beans, meatloaf, tips and rice, hamburger and rice etc, all made up of cheaper ingredients at the time, as at the time my father even being an nco in the navy did not make the greatest amount of money for the size of the family, both him and my mom were very good at stretching a budget and making food work no matter how little the money was.
They're not complete meals? Beans when combined with grains are complete proteins. Cheese is a protein itself.Rice and beans have been a roller coaster of prices as well, I was paying 48 cents at walmart a pound a year ago for store brand, now it is almost 2 bucks a pound. Granted even with those prices rice and beans go very far but they have gone up.
I actually other than cajun rice recipes almost never eat rice, but I do eat beans plenty, I bought a crapton and preserved them in vacuum sealing or in sealed totes because the whole 2020 food shortage cause by panick buying prompted me to have a backup just incase it happens again. The way I saw it rice and beans are cheap fillers full of starch and proteins, they are not complete meals but can stretch out more expensive items when budget or supply is limited.
Mac and cheese I love, I will eat the easy mac stuff, but generally that is more a I am hungry and have to eat something rather than I love it thing. Real mac and cheese made with butter milk cheese and flour for the sauce and topped with real cheese, oh man I can never get enough of that!
Mom had her potato patch. After the harvest she would throw potatoes into the fire that was burning garden scraps. Best potatoes ever.People eat so well now days. You never see boiled potatoes anymore.
LOL you haven't been to my house. Smash em with your fork and load em with butter--nothing wrong with that.People eat so well now days. You never see boiled potatoes anymore.
There is more than what is considered complete proteins, truly complete proteins come from animal products, as they contain more than just proteins. The western world uses uses meat for complete animal sources of nutrition, the eastern world eats meat far less and uses the milk and cheese for their sources.They're not complete meals? Beans when combined with grains are complete proteins. Cheese is a protein itself.
My father owns/operates a small ranch. Range fed organic beef. No steroids or hormones, nice and lean, and I buy at cost. Plus eggs, chickens, and trading beef for pork with the neighbor. Monster garden as well.Are budget friendly meals going to make a comeback? I wonder because inflation is getting out of hand, old meals like meatloaf, dirty rice, american goulash etc had their roots in poverty style cooking.
Currently food prices and inflation are outpacing wages, and certain foods are getting double hit due to the russia ukraine conflict, russia and ukraine are some of the largest exporters of grain, and russia is the largest exporter of fertilizer. Given how global the food supply is I wonder in America as well as the rest of the world if depression style cooking will make a comeback, or if the very least 1970's style cooking under the last big bout of inflation.
The sad thing is as a kid I remember eating creative meals, spaghetti was a common staple, as was hamburger beans, meatloaf, tips and rice, hamburger and rice etc, all made up of cheaper ingredients at the time, as at the time my father even being an nco in the navy did not make the greatest amount of money for the size of the family, both him and my mom were very good at stretching a budget and making food work no matter how little the money was.
Good to know, although I wasn't planning on living solely on them.There is more than what is considered complete proteins, truly complete proteins come from animal products, as they contain more than just proteins. The western world uses uses meat for complete animal sources of nutrition, the eastern world eats meat far less and uses the milk and cheese for their sources.
Either way even considering there is more to animal nutrition than protein, there are more types of things needed than even animals can provide, hence beans and rice can be a cheap filler, but you still need the other nutrients, whether they are from animal or other sources.
For example, just in protein diets, rabbit starvation or protein poisoning is a known thing, going back centuries, where people would survive on rabbits because they bred like well rabbits, problem was they were all protein and no fat, and lacked other nutrients needed beyond meat. The human body can survive a few years on a just meat diet, but it will take it's toll on the body after long enough as the body can only compensate so long without the other nutrients. The rabbit starvation was characterized by people surviving on protein rich rabbits, and after a few years they would look like they were starving to death even though well fed, because the rabbits did not provide everything the body needed.
Even today a rice and beans diet will cause issues like blindness and sickness. The human body needs more, hence the stretch it out thing, Protein and starch are the heftyest demands of the human body but not the only, and the other things it needs are less frequent. So someone eating rice and beans with meat and vegetables could stretch out a budget, while someone eating just rice and beans would suffer malnutrition after long enough.
I planted garlic once. now it's all over my yard. My eyes water when the grass gets cut.You can regrow any onions, it is just the ones you eat the bulbs on can not regrow unless you use seeds as inions regrow by either bulb or seed. Green onions and chives you eat the green parts rather the the bulbs, even though you can eat the bulbs on both, the bulbs go dormant in the winter and split to create multiple bulbs to produce again the next year.
Chives and green onions also produce seeds, but most growers shun them as they are mountains more difficult than simply using bulbs, and in proper winter temps onions will slip and reproduce meaning a single bulb can produce multiple plants year after year.
Are budget friendly meals going to make a comeback? I wonder because inflation is getting out of hand, old meals like meatloaf, dirty rice, american goulash etc had their roots in poverty style cooking.
Currently food prices and inflation are outpacing wages, and certain foods are getting double hit due to the russia ukraine conflict, russia and ukraine are some of the largest exporters of grain, and russia is the largest exporter of fertilizer. Given how global the food supply is I wonder in America as well as the rest of the world if depression style cooking will make a comeback, or if the very least 1970's style cooking under the last big bout of inflation.
The sad thing is as a kid I remember eating creative meals, spaghetti was a common staple, as was hamburger beans, meatloaf, tips and rice, hamburger and rice etc, all made up of cheaper ingredients at the time, as at the time my father even being an nco in the navy did not make the greatest amount of money for the size of the family, both him and my mom were very good at stretching a budget and making food work no matter how little the money was.
Sounds like a good problem to have…I planted garlic once. now it's all over my yard. My eyes water when the grass gets cut.
That is not quite true, outside buckwheat soy and quinoa most protein plant sources are not complete, hence why animal protein is popular.Quote:
The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago.
All nutrients come from the sun or the soil. Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin,” is created when skin is exposed to sunlight. Everything else comes from the ground. Minerals originate from the earth, and vitamins from the plants and micro-organisms that grow from it.
The calcium in a cow’s milk (and her 200-pound skeleton) came from all the plants she ate, which drew it up from the soil. We can cut out the middle-moo, though, and get calcium from the plants directly.
Where do you get your protein? Protein contains essential amino acids, meaning our bodies can’t make them; and so, they are essential to get from our diet. But other animals don’t make them either. All essential amino acids originate from plants (and microbes), and all plant proteins have all essential amino acids. The only truly “incomplete” protein in the food supply is gelatin, which is missing the amino acid tryptophan. So, the only protein source that you couldn’t live on is Jell-O.
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The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago.nutritionfacts.org
Are budget friendly meals going to make a comeback? I wonder because inflation is getting out of hand, old meals like meatloaf, dirty rice, american goulash etc had their roots in poverty style cooking.
Currently food prices and inflation are outpacing wages, and certain foods are getting double hit due to the russia ukraine conflict, russia and ukraine are some of the largest exporters of grain, and russia is the largest exporter of fertilizer. Given how global the food supply is I wonder in America as well as the rest of the world if depression style cooking will make a comeback, or if the very least 1970's style cooking under the last big bout of inflation.
The sad thing is as a kid I remember eating creative meals, spaghetti was a common staple, as was hamburger beans, meatloaf, tips and rice, hamburger and rice etc, all made up of cheaper ingredients at the time, as at the time my father even being an nco in the navy did not make the greatest amount of money for the size of the family, both him and my mom were very good at stretching a budget and making food work no matter how little the money was.
You know that some can't afford more than "garbage"?No, these meals will not make a comeback. People eat much much healthier today. They don't even know how to eat that garbadge.
Had some for dinner tonight.People eat so well now days. You never see boiled potatoes anymore.
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