Absolutely true - a great list. Add some shortening and oil, some popcorn and some baking soda. You can have cornbread or biscuits to go with the beans and rice.
I’ve read that the pioneers used pop corn as a ready breakfast cereal, and that grinding the popcorn makes a good cornmeal. Add some seeds for veggies, and potato eyes and you can make my favorite meal.
My favorite meal is beans, fried taters, maters, a slice of onion and a big slice of cornbread with butter.
“My favorite meal is beans, fried taters, maters, a slice of onion and a big slice of cornbread with butter.”
I grew up on that and pork from two slaughtered pigs a year. Dad had a smoke house where the bacon and hams hung.
About cornbread, we had it at every meal except breakfast. I remember going to eat lunch with a girlfriend after Sunday church one time, and they had light bread (that’s what we called regular sliced bread from the grocery) with lunch and I was stunned - why would anyone want that stuff for lunch and where was the cornbread? Took a while for me to reaize other people didn’t have cornbread for every meal.
Pop corn is a great idea, but it must be vacuum packed immediatly as the moisture ratio is critical for pop corn to pop. But, now that you mention it, I might just pick up a 50 pound sack. Thats a great idea. (equals two five gallon buckets aprox)
-grin-