13 {Simple} Depression-Era Food Rescue Tips from Grandma!

Grandma's Depression-Era frugal food-rescuing tips to stretch a strained food budget! #simpleliving #homemakertips #basicskills Leave your best food rescuing tips in the comments below! ⬇ 📌 LINKS IN THIS VIDEO 📌 ➡ Plan 3 Months of Meals in ONE day!: bit.ly/3whA1x3

I have a brown sugar hack. If you store your brown sugar in a tightly sealed container at room temperature with a marshmallow, the sugar doesn't get hard. I've used this trick for a couple of years, and it works really well.

Hi Angela. In some (very) old cookbooks, there is a sections of substitutes. It will show things like how to make buttermilk from milk and vinegar, what to use in place of an egg, what to use in place of shortening. Newer cookbooks don't usually have this section. Back in the day, ladies knew how to make do with what they had and passed that information on. Like we are doing with you now. We, with you, are forming a new generation of Make Do Ladies

Use your butter paper wrappers to grease cookie sheets instead of spray when baking

Any meat juices from a roast or frying pan I cool and place in a plastic bag which is sealable in the freezer after it is cold. Any juices. Combine them all and add to a casserole or stew. Amazing rich tasting meal every single time. Just not fish. NEVER EVER FISH. My grandma did it all the time and never added stock of water to her casseroles.

store sour cream, yougurt, cottage cheese etc, upside down in the fridge. An extra seal is created and products can be kept fresh long past their best before dates

I’m here for this! Our great grandparents would be absolutely shocked to know how much food gets thrown out nowadays. My tip: if you’re out of brown sugar, add molasses to your white sugar and voila! You’ve got the perfect brown sugar 😊

Always keep your Parmesan rinds and freeze. Toss one in a soup or stew- YUM

Yes the basics have been forgotten! We've had it too good for too long, to quote my grandpa ;)

My Spanish neighbour has a big jar of brown sugar. She had a little terracotta piece of a plant pot in it. I asked why. She said it's traditional to get a new terracotta pot a little one.break it I to a few large.pieces. share with other moms that need one or store in. A clean paper bag til you need a new piece. They wet it in a dish of water take out and give a good shake then pop in the brown sugar. Guess whose got a chunky of terracotta in her brown sugar now.... She also taught me to run old baguettes under the tap til nice and wet then rebake for crispy fresh bread

If your french bread goes hard get a very damp, but not dripping paper towel, and wrap it around the loaf before microwaving for 30 seconds at a time until the desired softness. Brown sugar can be made with white sugar and molasses. Stir it together then massage with your hands to break up the clumps. You can also get a brown sugar saver disk to pop into the brown sugar jar. You use it over and over. Powdered sugar can be made by pulsing 1 cup of granulated white sugar and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch in the food processor.

I use a big marshmallow in with my brown sugar. Works great! Another tip, you can substitute plain applesauce for oil 1:1 in baking recipes. It helps keep cakes and muffins super moist!

Highly recommend doing a pantry challenge month sometime. When the kids were little I had a bunch of health issues and didnt have the energy to grocery shop most of the time. This was back before delivery options. Shopping once a month taught me so much about substitutions and how long things keep. Any frozen cheese crumbles pretty well, so keepinf cheese in the freezer can let you have cheese for the entire month.

Maybe this tip has been shared already, but here goes: place a slice of bread into a baggie with stale cookies overnight and you have cookies that taste like they are fresh from the oven!! Warm them in the micro and set out a cookie tray and your family will think you are baking cookies!! 😅 ❤ Barb D

I love to couple meals... so when I make a beef roast and mashed potatoes the next day is beef enchiladas with the leftover beef and the next day after that is Shepards pie with the leftover potatoes. (I do make extra potatoes sometimes to intentionally have leftovers for this but that means a super easy Shepard pie in the coming days.)

If you have fresh baked cookies put a slice of bread in the bottom of the cookie jar and then stack the cookies on top. The bread will dry up but the cookies stay soft/fresher longer.

I'd love your Mac n Cheese recipe, if you're willing to share.

I NEED your Mac and cheese recipe!

My grandma always kept the bread ends out, once they were hard and dry, she would blend it and use it when she was breading and frying something. Like a schnitzel. Her bread crumbs were always the best for breading probably because it had many types of bread blended giving it the great flavor.

You should check out the Haley's Hints books. They are chock-full of tips like these.