A 78-Year-Old Farm Cook Shares 25 Dinners for One Under $1 Nobody Told Seniors

Ten suppers for one person. Each one about a dollar or less. I'm Verna, seventy-eight, raised in the Arkansas Ozarks. My mother Ada fed six of us on almost nothing, and I've cooked for one since my husband passed. Here's how it's done. 👇 What's in this one: 1️⃣ Pinto beans & cornbread ~ 35¢ 2️⃣ Potato soup, thickened with the potato itself ~ 70¢ 3️⃣ Fried cabbage & noodles ~ 50¢ 4️⃣ Eggs in a nest of fried potatoes ~ 45¢ 5️⃣ Tomato rice ~ 40¢ 6️⃣ Chicken leg quarter & rice ~ 90¢ 7️⃣ Fried cornmeal mush ~ 25¢ 8️⃣ Mackerel patties ~ 60¢ 9️⃣ Biscuits & milk gravy ~ 35¢ 🔟 Ada's winter of '36 supper ~ 40¢ 📝 Full recipes with amounts are written out below. Nothing to scribble down. 🥄 Three rules my mother kept: Buy it whole, cut it yourself. Cook once, eat twice. Nothing goes in the trash that can go in the pot. 💬 Tell me which one you'll make first, whose kitchen you first ate it in, her name, and what part of the country. Whatever comes up most is the one I make next. #frugalliving #budgetmeals #cookingforone