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    Grandma's Frugal Meals: Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating
    Grandma's Frugal Meals: Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating
    Grandma's Frugal Meals: Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating
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    Grandma's Frugal Meals: Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating

    By Dueep J. Singh

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    Grandma’s Frugal Meals - Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating

    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    Grandma’s Tips for Food Substitutions
    How to Make Perfect Yogurt
    Meat
    Choosing the right meat To Buy
    Storing Meat
    Baked Meat Patties
    Meat patty Variations
    How to Cure Your Own Hams
    Other Food Found Outdoors
    Rhubarb Jelly
    Sassafras Jelly
    Dandelion Greens
    Luncheon Corn
    Making Traditional Cornpone
    Corn Cakes
    Vegetables
    How to Store Vegetables
    Preparing Vegetables for Cooking
    Steaming Vegetables/Meat
    Cooking Frozen Vegetables
    Cooking Canned Vegetables
    How to Prepare Salads
    Tossed Salads
    Cole Slaw
    Coleslaw Dressing
    What Is Salad Dressing?
    Potato Salad
    Potato Salad Dressing
    Traditional Mayonnaise
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    Knowing what to cook was as important as knowing how to cook, for grandma. She also learned how to make the best of whatever was in front of her, from her grandmother, and so on for centuries. Millenniums ago, her ancestors when gathering in the woods for herbs and vegetables while the menfolk of the family trapped and hunted for meat, game and anything else edible and delicious.
    It was then grandma’s many times great-grandmother’s job to make all these ingredients into something delicious and healthy as well as palatable and nourishing. So she used her instinct and her creativity to make delicacies with the ingredients available at hand.

    Although science-fiction already has stories about scientists making complete little nutritional packages in the shape of pills that are going to take the shape of food in the coming centuries, we are very fortunate that we do not have to face that sort of blandness in our meals today.
    We still have the good fortune of going to the nearest market or the nearest organic garden and collecting fresh greens, as well as herbs. We have plenty of fresh meat at hand. And best of all, we have all the ingredients to make good wholesome food.

    We only hope, judging by the pleasure most of us get from eating, the preparation, cooking and serving of this nutritious food is going to be a human activity which is going to be around for a long time.

    But most of us cannot afford to have some of the more exotic ingredients, of which we dream. Either they are not available to us in our city. Or perhaps they are beyond our budget. Unfortunately, for a large percentage of people all over the world, budget constraints are the reason why they have to make do with makeshift meals instead of eating what nature intended for them – good wholesome, natural ingredients.

    Grandma was a frugal person. She lived in a time when the dollars earned by grandpa had to be stretched in such a manner that the whole family could be fed and fed well. Times changed and times of prosperity came along, and the eating habits of the whole family changed. Instead of two or three healthy meals in a day, there was food aplenty and the whole family could now afford to eat whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, and in large quantities.

    This naturally gave rise to problems including obesity. Also, by not regulating the meal intake as well as the quality of the meals, the quality of the general health of grandma’s children deteriorated as time went by.

    However, the circle of financial constraints has gone and come around again and the time for tightening belts and looking at our budgets has become the top priority. A majority of us all over the world again are looking for ways and means in which we can get the proper nutrition in the form of proteins, vitamins, minerals and energy, which our bodies required to keep functioning in a healthy manner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateJan 4, 2015
    ISBN9781311875396
    Grandma's Frugal Meals: Easy tips, techniques and old-time dishes for healthy eating

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      Grandma's Frugal Meals - Dueep J. Singh

      Introduction

      Knowing what to cook was as important as knowing how to cook, for grandma. She also learned how to make the best of whatever was in front of her, from her grandmother, and so on for centuries. Millenniums ago, her ancestors when gathering in the woods for herbs and vegetables while the menfolk of the family trapped and hunted for meat, game and anything else edible and delicious.

      It was then grandma’s many times great-grandmother’s job to make all these ingredients into something delicious and healthy as well as palatable and nourishing. So she used her instinct and her creativity to make delicacies with the ingredients available at hand.

      Although science-fiction already has stories about scientists making complete little nutritional packages in the shape of pills that are going to take the shape of food in the coming centuries, we are very fortunate that we do not have to face that sort of blandness in our meals today.

      We still have the good fortune of going to the nearest market or the nearest organic garden and collecting fresh greens, as well as herbs. We have plenty of fresh meat at hand. And best of all, we have all the ingredients to make good wholesome food.

      We only hope, judging by the pleasure most of us get from eating, the preparation, cooking and serving of this nutritious food is going to be a human activity which is going to be around for a long time.

      But most of us cannot afford to have some of the more exotic ingredients, of which we dream. Either they are not available to us in our city. Or perhaps they are beyond our budget. Unfortunately, for a large percentage of people all over the world, budget constraints are the reason why they have to make do with makeshift meals instead of eating what nature intended for them – good wholesome, natural

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