Cinnamon sugar on buttered toast. Yep. I also distinctly remember elbow macaroni and plain tomato sauce. Not pasta sauce, mind you. Just tomato sauce from a can

My Polish great grandma made us spaghetti with tomato juice (definitely not sauce) from her gardened tomatoes. We still loved it

Oh yeah, my poverty pasta memory is about the experience of eating it, and the family members I ate with, not anything about the taste or even embarrassment. Totally loved it

First time I had "real" spaghetti at a restaurant I didn't know what I was looking at. Such good memories Thanks

Pigs in Blankets. For Dinner. Canned vienna sausage rolled into canned biscuits.

I made white bread with butter and sugar. I still can't get those pounds off 😫

I put peanut butter on one side and butter on the other for my sugar sammiches... After I tried to stir the peanut butter...

I love cinnamon toast.

I rediscovered cinnamon toast recently and I make it every other day!!

I still eat cinnamon toast as a snack.

Yes, had both. Also saltines broken up in a bowl with milk.

Did we live in the same house, lol?

I still love butter on saltines. Reminds me of my childhood.

Yep! my house also.

Cinnamon toast is an elite snack.

I used to make mayonnaise sandwiches...

My uncles ate ketchup sandwiches when they were kids

Same, but also bananas, sugar and milk for breakfast. And we had all kinds of creative ways to eat baloney.

I still love butter on saltines!

My Grandma and Grandpa were Southerners. Sounds like snack time at their house. Also YUM.. They were not “poor” during my lifetime with them, but they both grew up often going to sleep with empty bellies:(..

Mine, too, grew up during the depression. I have a photo of my papaw when he was about 4 with his siblings, and they are rail thin. My memaw hoarded toilet paper and soap because of that experience when she was young.

They were AWFUL times for SO many:(.. Grandpa’s Ma had to ask him to find his own way at 12 years old because she had no money nor hope and no way to feed or care for him.. I’m here today partly because of the great Man he was, even ALONE at 12 years old in the swamps of Louisiana🩷.

That wasn't uncommon. My grandmother's aunt had three kids and no husband, so she put them in an orphanage until she eventually remarried. Then she died giving birth to her 4th child, which my great-grandmother raised as her own.

I stayed at home to go to college and spent many an evening studying or writing papers for class, snacking on low-salt crackers thinly spread with butter and strong hot English breakfast tea.

We mixed Karo syrup with margarine on a saucer and then spread it on "loaf bread."

Yep.

We had cinnamon toast too! Still good. Beats whatever junk food is out there today, frankly.

Biscuits and gravy is good even when not necessary!

The Four Yorkshiremen enter the chat.

my sister and I would sneak into the kitchen and have sugar, water, and stir it up. that's what we called it. there were no children snacks. Sometimes we sucked on the unpopped popcorn kernels my Dad left behind...

Yes! I remember those!

Many a rainy day memory of my brother, sister, and me playing Boggle and eating cinnamon toast!

Cinnamon toast is the best!!!

Almost had that for breakfast today

Had some last night, it's not poverty food, yet.

And molasses

thank you for the reminder, had forgotten about cinnamon toast!

I still eat butter on saltines during late night snacking. My Great Depression era grandfather taught me that.

Same! My grandma made bacon gravy tho, not sausage gravy. I like it so much better but no one makes it the same. Snacks also included pie dough baked with cinnamon and sugar.

Yes. The pie dough with cinnamon and sugar. They were rolled and in Quebec were called Nun’s Farts.

Da fuq is wrong with butter on toast? Or cinnamon for that matter?

Potato chip sandwich...an Irish staple...butter on white bread with you favourite potato chips...

We often ate half peeled potatoes with salt as a snack. Or sugar, cinnamon, and butter on Wonderbread.

In my house there was butter for my dad and margarine for everyone else

White bread, butter and sugar sandwiches.

I had butter on saltines the other night! Delish! 😋

All of THE best snacks.

OMG, yes, the bread with butter & sugar. Even better toasted so sugar caramelized. Daughter of depression parents.

Everyone ate cinnamon toast. It’s delicious.

Cinnamon toast was a favorite. Adding chips to a baloney sandwich also popular.

Banana/ Mayo sandwich on wonderbread

Never left my menu,,,, but I do miss commodity cheese

Mine, too. Extra special was graham crackers with butter

Omg. That’s what my father ate as dessert regularly. He grew up postwar in a rural area in NW mainland Europe. Sometimes he’d replace the the left-over pan grease from frying eggs. Another favorite: bread with smashed strawberries and sugar.

Homemade bread heels with milk, sugar and cinnamon.😋

My grandfather would eat leftover corn bread in buttermilk!

Cinnamon toast! My mom’s family ate a lot of poverty food, as did we. I never liked cornmeal mush or meat loaf.

Butter on Saltines is awesome! (not very nutritious, but still delicious)

Cinnamon toast! It was always a good day if my mom made cinnamon toast for breakfast.