The Great Depression Menu Week - Day 1
I have been fascinated by The Great Depression for several years and recently discovered a menu online that featured recipes for a week. I decided that since I was on the Weight Watchers program, I would give depression era food a try. Afterall, the were all thin right? Not by choice but by default. They also burned calories and probably didn’t sit around an air conditioned cubicle eight hours a day. I tried it anyway and ended up losing 1.6 pounds at the weekly meeting. One big thing that I made sure of was portion control, which I’m sure people in the 30s did by default.
The first dish we prepared was the pork stew. It was extremely easy to make and was exceptionally delicious. I had grown up with a variation of this stew that had steak instead of pork, probably my grandma’s recipe from that era. I asked her once when I was in elementary school about the depression, but she had no idea what I was talking about. “We always struggled with being poor and never had a lot to eat” she told me in Spanish.
Here is a photo of the finished pork stew. You can find the recipe here.
Day 2 - Mock Filet Mignon…
