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Learn to cook Depression era meals

Clara is here to cast some perspective on that ramen noodle and Mountain Dew diet you “invented” in college, at 2am. She’s 91 years old, and she’s here to show us all how to cook on a budget.

In this video, she makes what she calls a “Poor Man’s Meal,” with some potatoes and a hot dog. And whether or not you’re going to cook all of her meals, it’s worth a watch for her stories. Having grown up during the Depression herself, her frugality was born in experience. [via]

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