Eating This Meant You Were Poor in the 1960s
In the 1960s, many families faced economic hardships and had to get their creative grooves on. These dishes became symbols of poverty and the everyday struggle to make ends meet. The meals on this list captured the era, symbolizing poverty but also showcasing the resourcefulness of those who made them.
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0:00 Intro
00:21 Ketchup Soup
01:32 Chipped Beef On Toast
02:38 Canned Mackerel Patties
04:01 Spam And Eggs
05:19 Slumgullion Poor Man Stew
06:42 Mock Ham Loaf
07:57 Milk And Macaroni
09:17 Tomato Sandwiches
10:32 Beans And Cornbread
11:52 Cabbage Hot Dish
13:13 Peanut Butter And Mayo Sandwich
14:28 Hot Dogs And Beans
15:38 Cereal With Water
16:54 Pinto Beans And Rice
18:14 Liver Spread Sandwiches
19:21 Stuffed Cucumber Boats
20:37 Eggplant Croquettes
21:46 Powdered Milk Soup
23:04 Carrots Dogs
24:22 Ramen Noodle
25:34 Butter And Sugar Sandwiches
26:40 Kool-Aid Pickles
27:51 Saltine Crackers Pizza
29:04 Milk Toast
30:23 Boiled Hot Dog Soup
31:39 Pepperoni Rolls
32:55 Onion Stuffed With Grape
33:37 Hard Tack
34:25 Blini With Canned Fish
35:13 Frogmore Stew
36:32 Bubble And Squeak
37:13 Potted Hough
38:00 Pickled Vegetables
38:52 Divinity Candy
39:56 Mock Fish Fillets
40:38 Fatback
41:32 Baked Beans With Molasses
42:25 Scrapple
43:11 Bread Fortified With Sawdust
44:11 Sorrel Soup
44:59 Ration Stew
45:43 Johnny Marzetti
46:44 Potato Floddies
47:32 Pickled Pigs Feet
48:19 Borscht In A Jar
49:05 Sonker
50:24 Chopped Liver Substitute
51:09 Cicadas
51:57 Evaporated Milk Pudding
52:56 Hotdish
54:06 Cottage Cheese
54:53 Clabber
55:34 Sterlet Soup
56:12 Barbecue Spaghetti
57:25 Mock Brains
58:03 Potted Meat
58:48 Dehydrated Soup Mixes
59:34 Chow -chow
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25 Comments
took away hunger.
mom burnt soup and I being so hungry ate 4 bowls . well she did not throw it away. We ate crackers in bed. we robbed neighbors trees of fruits. or ate Concord grapes.They grew in yards they say sure you can have it less mess for me.
we toast the bread have butter salt yummy, we even had cucumber on bread.
what about Fluff? Peanut butter and fluff on bread.
Chipped beef on toast is 1 of my favorites!!! And not so cheap nowadays . And tomatoe sandwiches are another major favorite!!!! I grew up in the 60s with 4 sisters & always lived frugally but never suffered either.
I was born in 1960. I never remember my parents talking about the 60’s being hard. My mom was very creative in the kitchen and if times were hard, they didn’t tell my brother and me.
When we didn’t have bread, my mom would make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on saltines crackers for our school lunches. For desserts, sometimes she would put frosting in between two graham crackers and that made a nice sweet treat.
There are no poor man's food anymore.
Made a water pie today….so tasty
I ate all of these and loved them
I only had Spam once in my life at Girl Scout Camp..All these recipes make me want to throw up ! YUCH !!
Im eating tomato sandwichs in 2025
I also still eat beans and cornbread
Hotdishes in Minnesota (52:57) weren't just for the poors, every household and the schools made them. Cream of mushroom soup, canned vegetables, canned corned beef, shredded cheese and tater tots all baked to perfection.
We lived chipped beef gravy over toast
That's right. We were doing great in the 1960s financially. My mother ate vegetable soup but without meat or potatoes to lose or keep off weight every day. She lived to 98 years old and weighed 110 in the 1960s and 98 lbs when she passed at 98.
I have only heard of a few of these. Powdered milk cost more than fresh milk. Pickled pigs feet were never cheap.
The common name people had for chipped beef on toast was "Sh*t on a Shingle"!🤣
We had Ketchup Sandwiches and even Mayonaise Sandiches. Other meals were Meatball Soup (hated it); Spaghetti with a can of Tomato soup instead of spaghetti sauce.
As a family with 6 children, the one thing we always had in the middle of the supper table was a whole load of bread (only cost 22 cents) & a stick of margerine. We we're told of we were still hungry after eating the little bit of food we had for supper, to just 'fill up on bread". Needless to say.. we always filled up on bread.
when my kids were young, i fed them cereal with koolaid. they both still eat it to this day and they're in their 40's.
Hey! These creative women kept their families alive. We are all grateful.
My mom fed us some of those dishes — SOS, and hot dogs in baked beans, for sure. My parents wouldn't eat any of that themselves, but they left it for the babysitter to heat up for us. My husband still sometimes makes himself pinto beans & rice, but I won't eat it. Hot dish is just what Minnesotans call casserole.
Huh ketchup soup is from the great depression..and has more involvement than hot tap water…and the 60s was more eccomically stable than now
If you want to make cheap crap on a shingle..you can make your own Chip beef using some of that buddig beef lunch meat..we use it but I also buy some of that 1$ Walmart Italian bread..we get a pretty cheap meal..haha eggs cheap..not as much now if I see eggs for under 4$ i stock up cause sometimes its cheaper than meat..and nice video but your rehashing depression recipes..and yeah we had poverty in the 60s but its not as bad as lately
lol..We all basically eat sawdust now, in a way. People used to eat the grain and throw the husks to the farm animals. NOW with the world's population at what….8 billion? … now they say WHOLE GRAINS are good for you and all foods have the husks in it now. Flours, cereals, breads, etc. I remember when Cheerios tasted good. Now it just tastes like the cardboard box it comes in!
They tell you "fiber is good for you, eat more fiber, it's good for your digestion, etc". Well, before they added all this fiber I was crapping just fine thank you. They are only feeding us more fiber to extend the food supply to an over populated planet. Do you know farmers feed their cows sawdust mixed in with their feed? Lots of it. They do it so the cows will be happy & feel full on less expensive feed. And that is why they are doing it to humans as well.
I guess we can feel lucky they are not feeding us all Soylent Green….yet.