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Great Depression Poor Mans Meal- (3 ingredients
Fry up some potatoes 🥔
Add meat hotdogs/hamburger meat/vegan/ chicken/Any you got even Spam can work fry it up together
Toss in some onion 🧅,garlic,or carrots if you got it.
Serve after you fry until it’s all softer y browned0 -
CAKE ICINGS (milk what you got) (to soften butter or margarine stick out if freezer into fridge for a day)
Buttercream icing (FOR CAKES 🧁 to cookies)
2-3 cup confectionary sugar (powdered sugar)
2 Tbls milk 🥛 or cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3-1/2 cup unsalted butter 🧈 softened
Mix y place on top of cake 🍰 to cookie 🍪
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Chocolate Icing
1/2-1cup softened butter
1/3 cup Milk 🥛 or cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp sea salt optional
2/3 cup sifted cocoa powder or chocolate protein powder or 2-6 Tbls Hershey syrup
3 cup powder sugar sifted
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Peanut butter frosting 🧁
1 cup peanut 🥜 butter
1/3 cup milk 🥛 or cream
1/4 tsp salt or sea salt 🧂
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup confectioners sugar
5 Tbls softened butter 🧈 or margarine
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Substitutes for vanilla extract -
1. Vanilla milks or vanilla creamer
2. Rum or brandy
3. Almond extract
4. Maple (pancake) syrup
Powdered sugar- how to make it
In blender or food processor or in beat it in a cloth to break regular sugar up. That’s all it is broken sugar. Can add a tablespoon cornstarch to 1 cup sugar if you like some do it that way too.0 -
Chocolate pretzel 🥨 treats (2-3 ingredients)
Pretzel 🥨
Pecan halves (optional) or other nuts 🥜 or fruit if that’s your thing
Roll candies , Hershey chocolate bar type candy, or (skip the cooking put cake frosting) , if rather have peanut butter can also use but heat it.
Bake 350* cook 4-5minutes Allow to cook store in a container to eat a few at a time when ready.
Can be any type white chocolate to almond chocolate to regular chocolate any0 -
Celery treat
Celery peel some strings off
Add peanut butter or Nutella
Raisins or chewy nuts
Simple just spoon 🥄 into the celery top with raisins (can also change it up to make it your own. What’s on hand is what ya can work with0 -
Any jelly beans you hate but gifted for Christmas? Or love it’s sitting there?
Add to your cookies 🍪 then bake
On top of a cupcake 🧁 or in
A Alcoholic beverage- Flavored Vodka, Marachino Liquor 🍸,& Grenadine together plop a jelly bean in the glass with club soda y simple syrup
Blender add to ice cream 🍨
Add to cake mix bake it0 -
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Green bean casserole
can or two or fresh Green beans ,a can of cream of soups ,y top it with browned onions 🧅 or French fries onions or onion rings
350* 45 minutes (precook fresh green beans before adding to baking pan. Onions go on top of want extra crispy add last 5minutes of cooking.0 -
3-4 ingredients tortilla soup
1 can chicken y rice soup (can use chicken soup that’s different or homemade chicken bone broth soup )
1 can tomatoes sauce (can use substitute like spaghetti sauce,rotel tomatoes,fresh tomatoes 🍅,salsa,ketchup,tomato bullion,etc
1 packet taco seasoning (can substitute with chili powder to fajita seasoning if don’t have that)
Optional-Can heat in airfryer or oven tortilla chips crunch up put on top if you can at the end can also use salad tortilla strips in a bag.
Optional- cheese,corn,drained black beans or pinto ,sour cream or Greek yogurt ,chives or browned onions 🧅
Put in sauce pan heat up add can of water if need be. Enjoy 😉0 -
Thick stew little broth good with crackers to breads ... more a Thick family Recipe
Had my Tupperware ready
Made my stew meat in frying pan lid on y pan spray until it was browned with no liquids
Added can corn with the sweet water in it y drained Blk beans tossed in.
Microwave 6-9minutes potatoes cut them up
Pot on stove carrots boiled tossed juicy water y them in.
Fajita seasoning packet
Stirred pit lid on ready for tomorrow 6 small servings.
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Homemade toothpaste
Small amount of water
1 tsp baking soda
A small container store in fridge grab use as needed until it gone then repeat
Whitening do 1x a week or less can wear away enamel - add 1/2tsp peroxide to the above recipe
Sage mouthwash- (helps with mouth ulcers y gingervitis folks say)
3oz boiling water
Sage leaves
Teaspoon salt 🧂
Let cool then gargle
Salt water mouthwash for sore throats
1 Tsp salt 🧂
3oz boiling water
Let cool then gargle
Another mouth wash oldest fashion
On the trail hard liquor 🥃 small amount was swished in the mouth y throat spit out or swallowed depending on the guy lol 😆.
Did it work? Don’t know but sure they loved it. Usually was Vodka even myth busters proved it works. Can also swish it around to numb mouth pain. Swish whiskey for a sore throat. (I’m allergic to alcohol since birth so can’t tell you if it’s super strong or not if worried it’s too strong ask someone you trust cause hard alcohol the name makes me suspect it’s strong)
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Homemade Facial Masks (can substitute to change amounts)
Acne one-
1 Tbls Honey 🍯
1 tsp cinnamon
Blackheads-
1 egg white
1 tsp lemon juice
Skin care-
2 Tbls yogurt
2 tsp lemon juice
Skin care-
1/4 turmeric
1 Tbls coconut oil
For oily skin care-
2 Tbls aloe Vera
1 tsp turmeric
Skin care-
1 Tbls tomatoe juice (can use inside seedy watery area of a tomato 🍅 )
2 Tbls milk
Clear skin-
2 tsp honey 🍯
1 tsp lemon juice
Tight firm skin rejuvenating-
2 tsp honey 🍯
2 tsp ground coffee
Can make your own Sugar Scrub for exfoliating
use salt ,sugar,or coffee ground up in 1/2 cup olive oil (can add essential oils like peppermint ect ) place in a jar use as you go2 -
Homemade/substitute Shaving creams
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1) Soap 🧼 or Shampoo- lather y shave 🪒
2) body lotion 🧴 or Shea Butter
3) hair conditioner
4) coconut oil or Almond paste or Mango butter
5) Castile soap
6) oils - Olive oil to grape seed oils
7) lard (rinse y wash face well after there’s a reason men don’t use it anymore)
Perfume y colognes
1) essential oils in a glass container dab on
2) or fresh mint leaves to other garden herbs 🌿 boil add 3oz boiled water in a glass container use as needed store in fridge
3) essential oils add to water in spray bottle spray on hair y body
4) piece of cedar from a tree add to jar add 3oz-4oz boiling water store in fridge use as needed
5) mint leaves or certain garden ones rub onto skin
For skin -
If you have an aloe plant
Peel in half use spoon 🥄 to scoop out inside
Can freeze in ice cube tray use as needed for burns,sun burn,etc
Can mix with olive oil rub into hair as a conditioner
use food processor or mix vigorously the. Use a paper towel cut nose hole y eye holes dip in ring it out then apply to face for sun burns to as a facial mask
Use it as shaving cream apply it straight to armpit,leg,face y start shaving 🪒
Add it to lotion y apply for some types of dermatological rashes. (Ask Doctor if you have certain skin issues won’t work to get rid of fungus more for dry skin)0 -
Homemade popsicles
Ice cube tray or popsicle tray or metal cupcake pan
1) Add Any flavor pudding mix even Sugarfree with your choice milk for fudge pops
2) Add Juice y can add fruit y creams
3) Add flavored or regular teas (also good as ice in your regular tea glass or pitcher)
3) Flavored milks can also add flavored creamer to regular milk .Can use fruit to caramel y nuts in blender poor in
4) water y fruit can add little squeezed juice or honey or sugar water
5) ice cream put in with melted chocolate
6) banana or fruit dip in melted chocolate freeze in freezer get out y eat
7) Melted chocolate y fruit or milks can create many recipes even nuts y honey
8) jello or sugarfree jello mix put in (doesn’t melt so mess free for kids!!
A change for chocolate 🍫 Candy -
A pan can melt chocolate or different flavor chocolates can also add nuts,fruit,honey ,etc ingredients your choice of what you like . Place in pan put in freezer to let cool (wax paper if you have it makes it come off easier)
Place in Tupperware container put in fridge. Tadaaa yummy treats0 -
Baked peppers 🌶
Take a jalapeño stuff with cream cheese wrap with bacon 🥓 425* 25minutes
Half bell peppers add cooked hamburger meat or beef substitutes crumbles or chicken Ect on choices with a few flashes of Blk pepper . Top with cheese bake 375* 30-40minutes0 -
Baby Stuff
Homemade wipes 🧻 for baby-
cut paper towels into 1/2 put baby oil y Johnson y Johnson soap in it with boiled 1-2cups let let cool of water. Use good paper towels strong sturdy ones. Can use substitutes like witch hazel a tablespoon with 2 Tbls olive oil (no perfumes baby is delicate no need to smell like flowers or oranges etc)
Baby food can freeze it!
Boil carrots until soft place in Tupperware mash mash mash (potatoe masher you food processor even fork but mash until zero lumps!) can freeze it on ice cube trays or even Tupperware containers or popsicle molds.
Boil veggies same way mash away!
Meats boil place in blender or food processor pick out chunks same thing can freeze it until ready to use.
Fruits can boil mash up like apples into applesauce add a dash of cinnamon-or nutmeg barely any for flavor.
Watermelon 🍉 pick out seeds mash away!
Rice cook until soft mash (can add broth to it healthier fresher the better )
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Quick S’mores on the oven (can make it smaller if your a single person wanting a snack this is for a large family recipe amount 24 servings) 281 cal per serving
24 whole Grahm Crackers (can substitute with cookies 🍪)
2 chocolate bars (any flavor ir type)
24 marshmallows (any flavor you got)
350* for 4-6 minutes
Break crackers in half (put top on after it’s melted),add 2 chocolate pieces each y 1 marshmallow bake .
For one person do same just 1 of each y 2 pieces chocolate 🍫 same instructions0 -
Easier face masks -
https://youtu.be/tPx1yqvJgf4
Do exactly how the military guy shows to fold sew 🧵 around it to make a rectangle then cross X to keep from unfolding. Add string like the pictures show . Tie on .Toss on washer with bleach y soap even. It’s about protection not looks so who cares what it looks like. Can add a layer in it if like of cloth to add a piece of your A/C filter /furnace filter or anything you think would help even more just add a button inside facing inward to remove when you wash spray the filter with Lysol or bleach water lightly let sit0 -
During this CV19 lockdown, I've been watching vids on a youtube channel, "Il Refugio Perfetto" ("The Perfect Refuge"). She has a lot of simple, basic recipe ideas. Italian. Usually not with voiceover, but translated subtitles for ingredients and methods. Interesting. I don't have all the fresh ingredients on hand that she uses, but she stimulates ideas anyway. FYI.1
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Turkey meatloaf. 1.5 lb ground turkey, 1/2 cup chopped spinach, 1/2 bell pepper, 1/2 onion, 1/2 cup oats, 1 egg, red pepper flakes. Cook for an hour. Done.1
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Same here I miss lettuce y spinach leaves but what’s available that trip in the store or by mail is what I got. I miss fresh veggies big time to tortillas being so easy to come by.
Found her ice cream 🍨 3 ingredients only need a spoon or hand mixer to make.
1.cocoa powder (can use protein powder flavored) or melted chocolate I bet
2. Whipping cream
3. Condensed milk
4. Cover put in freezer in a baking pan 4hours then servehttps://youtu.be/RYC0Nzs7hEw
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The Perfect Refuge for more recipes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6rWB83cxqfb72-HEagGv2Q0 -
Edible so safe nontoxic
HomeMade finger paint for kids -
Cool whip y food coloring (few drops will do it)
Homemade play doh - can also use for crafts-(250* 2hours to bake it as a keepsake then gloss or paint it so it won’t mold since it is food can do baby handprint even adjust as needed amount of salt to flour)
Optional food coloring
Optional ginger or cinnamon powder for smells (use food only)
1 cup flour (adjust as needed)
1/4cup salt (can put more)
Water 3/4cup
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Kids chocolate pops. 2ingredients only
Spoons 🥄
Melt stuff me chocolate 🍫
Dip spoons 🥄 place in freezer an hour on a pan or plate.
Take out eat gives the kids a handle to hold can dip it multiple chocolate flavors
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Luby’s Restaurant type stuffing (can change it up but will be making it your own)
1 box stuffing mix place in a Tupperware
2 add chicken broth hot drained from your baked chicken in a pan (or can add broth from other meats if vegan can use vegan veggie broth)
3 add boiled hot 🥵 water
Stir close lid finish preparing everyone a plate spoon 🥄 it out,0
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