This is a recipe for Hard Times Gravy that costs a nickel. I remember an old lady saying years ago that she and her family were able to survive the Great Depression from mainly three food items; pancakes, dumplings, and gravy. This makes sense as wheat flour is probably the least expensive food item and is perfect for making pancakes and dumplings. I remember as a kid when we were very poor we knew when there was no money as our mom would make pancakes with homemade syrup for supper. Dumplings are great for adding to soups and stews and are very filling and if there is any meat any fat or drippings leftover are best used up as a gravy or sauce so nothing goes to waste. This gravy will not taste as rich and flavorful as gravy made from roasted meat or fowl. This is gravy for when you have no meat or fowl and for when you have very little money. if you are stony broke and just have potatoes or rice or vegetables this sauce or gravy will be welcome addition to make the plain food during hard times taste better. I made my gravy in a very simple way using Orrington farms powdered beef broth. You can make the gravy as thin or thick as you like by adding or subtracting your oil and flour roux. There is a lot of sodium in Orrington Farms powdered broth but no MSG and very few if any Frankenstein ingredients often found in other powdered gravy mixes. I normally add a lot of spices to my gravy and items that darken it. Orrington Farms Beef Flavored Broth Base & Seasoning, 12 Ounce https://amzn.to/3jrEe8E My Cooking videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67EA7FD1A269D211 If you visit Amazon via my amazon store link and anything you buy on Amazon Jeff Bezos send me a few pennies. https://www.amazon.com/shop/robbshomemadelife Always check on eBay and other sites to see if items are cheaper than amazon. I want to thank you guys again for showing up and watching me trying to have a little fun or show you something that might help you out. I made YouTube videos for fun years before they paid a penny and I will continue to do so as long as it is fun and you guys keep showing up. see ya out there. Robb Moffett Robb's Homemade life https://www.youtube.com/user/mrhulot101 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilo64l_Hqtk

This is another in my series of reviews of food from the frozen food section of the Dollar Tree dollar store. The riblets turned out pretty decent. I used some EVERYDAY Brand dollar store barbecue sauce and cooked the ribs for 3 hours. During the last hour, I added some sweet potatoes. This was a very simple and low cost and a surprisingly tasty meal. In the future, I recommend cooking the ribs for less time as they were less juicy than they should have been. The next few dollar store items on the schedule are the Camillos Pizza crusts, the little White Castle burgers, some vegetarian meatballs, the ribeye steak and a 50 cent Walmart pizza crust and the 25 cent walmart ice cream sandwiches. Please check out my playlists, I have started a playlist just for my review videos. I think they are going to be fun and I plan on doing a lot more review videos. Please let me know if there is some item, even if it is not food related you would like me to review. A few people have saved the Amazon link I will provide below and use the link to enter Amazon and buy the stuff they normally buy on Amazon. This is my link to my Amazon store where you can see stuff I have bought and liked a lot over the years. You do not have to buy anything from the store, just by using my link to enter Amazon anything you buy on Amazon will help me out at no cost to you. Didn't you want to buy an island or jet aircraft on Amazon today? https://www.amazon.com/shop/robbshomemadelife I want to thank you guys again for showing up and watching me trying to have a little fun or show you something that might help you out. I made YouTube videos for fun years before they paid a penny and I will continue to do so as long as it is fun. Don't forget to check out my playlists and cool people I feature on my channel and over 700 videos I have on a huge variety of subjects. see ya out there. Robb Moffett Robb's Homemade life https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpb14PLslOJg2AhOceHi4Qw Music by the amazing Kevin Macleod. Incompetech.com tune- Bushwick Tarrantella ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpnIGzEG6Cs