Can older recipes help you save money?

Submitted by georgiana on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 06:00.

Here's an interesting post from Uncle Phaedrus who is responding to a request for depression era recipes. He points out that times change and ingredients that were cheap become inexpensive and vise versa. (Remember how much salt was at one point? Now you can get it for practically nothing.) http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m1226F08.htm#1

One thing I've noticed about depression era recipes is how many of them call for meat. I find that cooking modern vegetarian meals is often more frugal. Even if you haven't planned on eating meatless meals you might be surprised when you sit down and think about what you've eaten recently. For instance did you have peanut butter and jelly? A bean burrito? Mac and cheese? Adding a couple of meatless days a week is not that difficult and pays off pretty quickly.

(There are links to depression era recipes on the link above.)