17 CHEAP Meals Canadian Grandmas Ate During Hard Times
Canadian grandmas knew how to stretch a dollar better than almost anyone. In this video, we’re counting down 17 cheap meals Canadian grandmothers used during hard times — from Depression-era cornmeal cakes and bone broth to pea soup, salted cod fish cakes, homemade sausages, wild-berry jam, wartime mock recipes, and more. These weren’t just meals. They were survival strategies. Back when food prices were high, rationing was real, and every scrap mattered, families learned how to turn basic ingredients into filling, affordable meals that could feed a household for pennies. You’ll see how old-fashioned Canadian thrift turned leftovers, bones, root vegetables, foraged greens, and pantry staples into meals that saved money, created small income streams, and helped families get through depressions, recessions, and wartime shortages. And with grocery prices rising again, some of these forgotten meals might be more useful today than ever. Watch until the end to see the number one hard-times meal strategy Canadian grandmas used to survive scarcity. Comment below: which of these old-school meals would you actually try?
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