21 FORGOTTEN Homemade Snacks Every 1970s Kid Came Home To

Three o'clock, the school bus pulls away, the screen door slaps shut, and there it is on the kitchen counter, under a sheet of wax paper. These are 21 homemade snacks American moms (and grandmas, and big sisters) left out for kids in the 1970s: cream cheese and olive spread, cheese straws, gorp, sugared pecans, party rye pizzas, California onion dip, fruit leather, potato candy, homemade beef jerky, the cheese and pineapple hedgehog, s'mores bars, snow ice cream, rocky road, frozen chocolate banana pops, homemade pizza rolls, soft pretzels, homemade cream-filled snack cakes, and at number one, a frothy drink people lined up for. For every snack you get the memory, what it cost in the 1970s and today, and the full recipe right on your screen. CHAPTERS 0:00 Three o'clock, the screen door 1:06 No. 21 Cream Cheese and Olive Spread 2:43 No. 20 Toasted Cheese and Apple Slices 4:18 No. 19 Cheese Straws 5:52 No. 18 Gorp Trail Mix 7:27 No. 17 Sugared Pecans 9:06 No. 16 Party Rye Pizzas 10:43 No. 15 California Onion Dip 12:17 No. 14 Fruit Leather 14:00 No. 13 Banana Oat Cookies 15:38 No. 12 Cream Cheese Mints 17:13 No. 11 Potato Candy 18:50 Halfway through the cookie jar 19:46 No. 10 Homemade Beef Jerky 21:26 No. 9 Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehog 23:02 No. 8 Graham Cracker S'mores Bars 24:41 No. 7 Snow Ice Cream 26:20 No. 6 Rocky Road 28:01 No. 5 Frozen Chocolate Banana Pops 29:38 No. 4 Homemade Pizza Rolls 31:23 No. 3 Homemade Soft Pretzels 33:05 No. 2 Homemade Twinkies 34:50 No. 1 Homemade Orange Julius 36:45 The counter, wiped clean Prices: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Handbook of Labor Statistics 1976, CPI-U); Morris County Library historic newspaper prices (1971-77). Today's values converted with the CPI. Batch totals are estimates. Footage: public-domain films (Someone's in the Kitchen (1960)) via the Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; licensed stock from Pexels, Pixabay and Mixkit Which of these did your house make? Tell us in the comments. #CheapMeals #PoorManMeals #ForgottenRecipes #VintageRecipes #DepressionEraRecipes #GrandmasCooking #RetroFood #1970sFood