We've most always cooked with very basic ingredients from scratch. It's only been the last year or so that we've started to keep a few frozen convenience foods on hand, and that is coming to an end now that our grocery prices are climbing so rapidly. I use to buy a big bag of taquitos every month or two for $8, and now they are $18 for the same bag- forget it!
I've been fortunate enough to be given a number of older cookbooks, as well as some of those group cookbooks that often contain old family recipes that are tried and true- it's times like these that I look through those again.
I was just thinking the other day about growing up in a remote area of CA during the 1970s. Mom was very frugal with food- everything was made from scratch and budgeted in money and quantity. Though I've kept up with those frugal ways, I am also looking back and seeing it being a tougher time inflation-wise, and there's a lot to be gleaned from those days.
After hearing about all the hoarding lately, I'm a little worried about getting my sale items at the super-sale I'm going to this afternoon. What a waste of time and gas that will be if they don't have the items on hand!
I hope your fridge fix ends up being simple.
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