33 Old-Fashioned Recipes Just Like Grandma Used to Make (2024)

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From frozen foods to Jell-O molds, the 1930s and 40s saw a huge upsurge in convenience foods. Building on the popularity of brands like Wonder Bread, Kool-Aid, Velveeta Cheese, and Hostess Cakes, American supermarkets stocked up on mass-produced items.

Homemakers made many varieties of soup from available foods. The results included split pea, chicken-rice, potato-onion, bean, hamburger, and all vegetable. Dumplings were a filling addition to complement the soup. For some families, soup was the evening meal every night.

On Whole30, you can eat meat, vegetables, fruit, tree nuts and seeds, and healthy fats. However, you must avoid sugar, grains, legumes, dairy, alcohol, and processed food additives. Although it would be difficult and very restrictive to maintain long term, the Whole30 is designed to be done only for 30 days.

When we think of American classics our minds jump to the comforting standbys we grew up with: burgers, fried chicken, meatloaf, chocolate chip cookies, and potato salad. Here are some of our all-time favorites that will never get old no matter how often we eat them.

The foods served varied, changing with the customs of each region, but in the North some common foods were chowder, beef, clam soup, baked beans, roasted pork, custards, oxen, turtles, mutton and salmon.

Gen Zers spend most of their disposable income on dining out, according to a report by Morning Consult.

While exploring millennial top food trends, one cannot overlook the resurgence of comfort food, but with a gourmet or artisanal twist. Millennials relish the nostalgia of classic dishes but with a premium on quality and creativity. Think truffle mac and cheese, artisanal pizza, or gourmet burgers.

Findings indicate half of Gen Zers surveyed said they'd like to have more meals with unique flavors or different cuisines, and 32% said they love trying new types of cuisines and foods. Yet, more than a third (39%) of Gen Zers said they prefer to eat the foods they're familiar with.

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Casual Dinner

Most main courses were casseroles, other foods consisted of meats such as ham, chicken, seafood, and turkey. For dinner that had a meat, with a potato, and vegetable normally with black coffee.

Beech-Nut Baby Foods, Bisquick (General Mills), Ballard Biscuits (cardboard tube packed refrigerator dough), Wyler's Bouillon Cubs, Tootsie Pops. Frito Corn Chips, Skippy Peanut Butter, 3 Musketeers and Heath candy bars.

Many people turned to farming, and grew the food themselves, like fruits, vegetables, cattle, chickens, sheep, and hogs. Many people would can their food so that it would last longer. Some people chose to hunt for their food. Some people harvested their own bees to make honey.