This week I’m trying a few 1970s Budget Recipes from Good Food on a Budget.
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CHILI BEEF POTATO SOUP (pg 26)
1/2lb ground beef
1/2c chopped onion
1/2c chopped celery
1 – 16oz can of tomatoes, cut up (I used a 14.5oz can)
2c diced peeled potatoes
1 – 10.5oz can of beef broth
1 soup can of water
1tsp chili powder
1/2tsp salt
1/2tsp Worcestershire sauce
1c cooked peas or green beans
brown meat in large saucepan. Drain off fat. Add onion and celery; cook until vegetables are crisp-tender. Stir in tomatoes, potatoes, beef broth, water, chili powder, salt, and Worcestershire sauce. Cover and cook until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes. Stir in peas or beans; heat through. Makes 6 servings, $1.10 per serving.
SALMON MACARONI SALAD (pg 67)
3/4c elbow macaroni
7 3/4oz can pink salmon, bones and skin removed and flaked
1c finely shredded cabbage
2 hard cooked eggs, chopped
3/4c mayonnaise
2Tbsp prepared mustard
1Tbsp lemon juice
1/4tsp salt
Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain. Combine makaroni, salmon, cabbage, and eggs. Blend mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, and salt; toss lightly with salmon mixture. Chill. Makes 4 servings, $1.50 per serving.
HAM VEGETABLE CASSEROLE (pg 20)
1/2c chopped onion
1/4c margarine or butter
1/3c all purpose flour
1/2tsp salt
dash pepper
1Tbsp prepared mustard
1 1/2tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 – 16oz can tomatoes cut up (I used a 14.5oz can)
14.5oz evaporated milk
4c cubed fully cooked ham
30oz mixed vegetables ( I used frozen), cooked
1 1/2c bread crumbs
2Tbsp margarine or butter
In saucepan cook onion in 1/4c butter until tender but not brown. Blend in flour, salt, pepper, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce. Add tomatoes and milk. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat; stir in ham and vegetables. Turn into a 9 x 13 baking dish. Combine bread ctums and melted butter, sprinkle atop casserole. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Makes 12 servings, $1.14 per serving.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:57 Chili Beef Potato Soup
7:57 Salmon Macaroni Salad
13:33 Ham Vegetable Casserole
19:29 Cookbook Chat – Good Food on a Budget (1971)
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“1970s BUDGET RECIPES – Good Food on a Budget!” üzerine 47 yorum
Hi all – I made a mistake in the 3rd recipe. I used 14.5oz of tomatoes rather than 8oz. It still turned out to be delicious, but wanted to let you know. 😂
I love budget goods especially if they taste good! Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for sharing I appreciate what you've shown love you ❤
You chose a very interesting group of recipes with some unexpected ingredients in each. All of them I would make because they are budget friendly and still flavorful. Great job on this video. Thank you!
My friend swears by a dish his mom made called "company chicken " All he remembers is that it had green and black olives. I'd be so interested in that if you could find it.
Can you sub tuna instead of salmon?
My favorite pasta to use in cold noodle salads with fish (tuna, salmon, kippers) was rainbow farfalle — multi-color stripey bowties. I say "was", because a few years ago my friendly neighborhood Tuesday Morning store, where I used to buy such things, closed on me — for the second time in the same shopping center. 😦
Cereal, bread,
vegetable, fruit,
meat, and milk,
And rooty-toot-toot
😂 does anyone else remember that from elementary school?
The hamburger soup looked so good. My husband would love the salmon macaroni salad. This is a very good video. I really enjoyed it.
My first husband’s family ate the tall, canned salmon style of salmon. They never removed the bones or skin.
I like this apron on you. The bright yellow complements you reallys well. It's nice.
Not wearing my glasses and just realized that those are flowers and not fried eggs on your apron. 😜
How about a series on 60’s and 70’s diet fads.
It has been especially cold everywhere recently
The three recipes you made are a good chose, very good like most of the things I see on here. all 3 amazing . KEEP GOIN I love it!!!!!
Well, there's many bad habits that are considerably worse than accumulating too many coffee mugs!
Very cool cook book recipes today
I make a beef curry from mom recipe from the 60s 70s… it must be Campbell Soup broth, beef consume …beef box will stock will not work. (Cubed leftover roast beef diced green pepper …diced onion curry thicken flour slurry. Served over minute rice. Still make it to this day if i make a roast. I've even made a roast just so I can make this
Love this video! I'm awlays looking for a good variation on macaroni salad.
I named my cat back in 78 Smokey. He was the best. Also, I have the pattern on the last plate you used on some of my plates.
Another great trio of recipes. You and BH&G never disappoint!
Where are the green and blue bowls you used for the macaroni salad from? Love all of your videos, I look forward to watching every Sunday! ❤
My father has the same set of measuring cups that you have. I was a kid in the 70s and he had them way back then.
Cornbread is great with this type of soup.
I always like peas in tuna pasta salad.
We had that soup often when we were kids…but usually with corn instead. It was, and still is, a favorite.
Hi Anna, I like your apron.
Hi everyone from New Zealand ❤
Soup season, nice recipe. The salmon and mac salad serving is not a meal, it's a side. Think the casserole would serve 4. Still good budget meals. Love the cookbook has menus. I can get beef tongue, it's very expensive now. It's over in frozen section with duck and similar items.
I’ve been soothing my soul lately by sewing aprons and I zoned right in on yours initially. It’s so great! The beef soup looks wonderful. Now, back to the video…
I have this book. I love the Better homes and gardens books. I collect these and the Betty Crocker books. Love the vintage pictures and illustrations
The mac and salmon salad looks intriguing. I love salmon, too, so I'll try it.
Love the photos in the book. These recipes look like they would be some of my favorites sans cooked salmon, I'd do tuna.
1970's is vintage now? Ack so my life is vintage now! We ate a lot of foods we grew, or from gardens, nuts from pecan trees, some foods that grew naturally and we foraged for. Nothing was wasted, and we saved bacon drippings and used it for most skillet fried foods, which was not a choice my mom did not like to fry foods. We ate ham and beans just about weekly…back then ham was real, not like the spam-like ham they sell now. But a bone in real ham was an inexpensive food we had often for holidays, then saved for sandwiches, casseroles, and then the bone with meat went into the dutch oven with soaked and well cleaned beans. Spaghetti as often on the menu, and many hamburger recipes… I do not remember crock pots existing in the 1970's…maybe the first one we got that was a two part system…a heating element with a pot. Not that much different than just cooking on the stovetop in the dutch oven. We also ate much foods hunted like duck, pheasant, quail, deer, and fish that was saved up from all my dad's outings. The quality of meat was soooo much better than the junk we have now at the stores. And we shopped at a privately owned and operated family store. The butcher would often cut us whatever mom asked for. We had the tuna casserole with green peas and added extra Velveeta…I know, fake cheese, but it was so creamy and good! I can't eat most of these foods now. I miss much of the old foods! Had meatloaf tonight, but since I can't eat grains, can't make it with oats like mom's…and her secret sauce was to dye for. Best meatloaf ever made with her homemade sweet pickle juice, Worcestershire sauce, and ketchup. basted on as it baked. My Gramp's favorite meal with peas and mom's instant creamed potatoes…she couldn't figure out how to make mashed potatoes…??? Mother never missed The French Chef and thought the world of Julia Child. And we had family recipes passed down…most I don't make anymore since I no longer eat grains, flour included, sugars, and no nightshades like tomatoes, potatoes, or eggplant, etc… I have a boring menu…but then I don't eat much anymore anyways, but still fat for the first time in my whole life! Insane. I'm a 60's child, so I'm old!
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I love the cost and the💕🥣 simplicity of the recipes!!! Perfect for wintertime.👍♥️☃️
I love your spring-looking apron! Cold and snowy here in Michigan but you're bringing the sunshine and I appreciate that!
I'd try chili seasoning
I love a great hamburger/veg soup. This one looks amazing! All 3 sound great. I had that exact soup thermos pictured in the book. It didn't work very well at keeping the soup warm though.
Mm veg soup sounds good. I want to try your recipe. Haven’t put chili powder in my veg soup and I think it would be good. Love the budget meals
Curious on the name of the Indoor Garden book on the shelf above you!
Nice video ❤
I remember the days when spaghetti & elbows were cheaper than other pasta shapes. Glad that changed, but I'm perplexed why bow tie pasta comes in 12 oz boxes when other shapes in the same line are 16 oz for the same price. What is it about bow ties that makes them cost more?
I actually had that cookbook in my hands yesterday at Goodwill but the line was very long and my friends were waiting on me…..I'm going back today and getting it!!
Well now you HAVE to get 2 kittens! I get so many ideas from you when cooking for my 93 yr old mom! We love trying something new but also familiar.
My grandma DETESTED celery. She would substitute sweet pickle in macaroni and potato salad for it.
The family gatherings for dinner on Sundays in the 60s thru 80s, I remember having a platter center table of main dish, like whole roasted chicken, whole baked ham or a beef roast (my Mom called it "rump roast" 😂😂) and then for several days that week the leftovers were the meals such as your ham casserole here and a pot of soup.
I have that book used it a lot when I was first married. Trying the chili beef potato soup this week.