I Tried a Week of 1950s Breakfast Foods (there's less cooking than you think)

[@WithLoveKristina]

PS please forgive the inconsistencies in color editing, I am using my husband’s camera because mine completely died and I am NOT used to his color settings! 😅

[@jenniferpeterson6617]

No worries! I love your content 💖💖💖

[@sfviris5582]

I didn’t notice! ❤

[@Kate42]

Hi Kristina, I was raised in the 1950s and just to let you know as far as what drinks they had set up for breakfast it was usually coffee, of course, for the adults, but, as far as drinks for everyone it was always a large glass of milk with a small glass of orange juice with every breakfast. It was an American tradition. Also, the grapefruit was always served in a bowl usually the size of the grapefruit itself, and scored before serving. Thought you would enjoy a little more trivia, lol. Great video!🍊🍞🍵❤❤

[@WithLoveKristina]

Oh man i forgot orange juice! I did score the grapefruit, I remember my grandpa doing that for my grandma - but totally forgot till I tried eating it at the table 😂

[@Kate42]

@@WithLoveKristina You did great!

[@YT4Me57]

Exactly. I remember those days well. Breakfasts were most often a hot meal, even if included cereal.

[@carlabrown6849]

My mom would put a stemless maraschino cherry in the middle of the half grapefruit. 😊 however, this was in the 70s.

[@tammyellison735]

@@carlabrown6849@carlabrown6849 In the 60s, my mom would score the grapefruit the night before and put a little sugar on it; the next morning, it was ready to go.

[@terryruiz7417]

I was born in 1947, the oldest of 5 children. During the week, we usually had cereal, hot in the winter, cold in the summer. Sometimes, scrambled eggs, and usually a glass of orange juice. Rarely prunes. Sundays, big breakfast day. Pancakes or waffles, bacon or sausage, juice. Hot cocoa was a winter treat. Adults had coffee. A glass of milk was served with dinner. This was a fun video!

[@elizabethlauricella7176]

I was born in 1947 also!! This is fun to see! I always wanted cake for breakfast!!

[@mia_seym]

I was born in the 1990s, youngest of 5 children. We grew up on the same breakfasts, except my parents like to make egg-in-a-basket (egg in grilled toast) on an arbitrary interval. If the milk wasn't in cereal, it was in a glass next to the orange juice. I figured you may find it interesting too.

[@kaythegardener]

I remember breakfasts from the late 1950s & early 1960s. We saved meat for the weekend breakfasts or brunches. We normally used eggs for protein 2-3x/ weekdays. On days with hot cereal, we got peanut butter AND homemade jam/jelly on toast; otherwise, just jam on the toast. We usually had 1/2 an orange apiece, since my mother believed in fiber & we lived in the Bay Area in California.

[@acglover7349]

I loved eating hot Zoom cereal as a kid in the 80s & 90s. I haven't found anything like it where I live now. Such a hearty and filling breakfast.

[@thegeminishome8438]

I'm still keeping this alive for my kids!!

[@courtsclips9095]

When I got married in 2001, I was 18 and my mothers friend hosted me a “Recipe Shower”. Everyone brought their favorite recipe on a card along with all the ingredients and items such as pots, pans, casserole dishes, whatever needed to prepare the recipe. That’s when my mother gave me my grandmothers Betty Crocker cookbook. I display it on an easel. Really enjoyed this video. ❤

[@shrimpgeisha]

A recipe shower is a great idea!

[@margaretlouise6200]

Brilliant idea for a party.

[@jandurham6231]

@@courtsclips9095 That was a great idea!

[@annbrookens945]

My mom was given the 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook for a wedding gift. I grew up with that book, read it cover to cover, and used it all during my teenage years! Mom bought an updated copy in the 90's and gave me her original. Battered, spattered, and tattered, it is still my prized possession.

[@amyhamaker7803]

My mom gave me the updated ‘90s version when I got married, and that thing is the best!

[@tinadelarosa8922]

The cookbook you used was a wedding gift to my grandma in 1952. She gave it to me when I got married. It’s one of my favorite possessions. The Russian tea cake cookie recipe is my favorite cookie.

[@annbrookens945]

Similar to me! My folks married in October1950, I was born in January '53, and mom eventually passed the cookbook on to me!

[@anonomas6126]

I appreciate how accessible your recipes were. No fancy ingredients no crazy expensive equipment. Just normal Walmart brand stuff.

[@WithLoveKristina]

I’m so glad; I try my best to use what I have, and sometimes it feels boring. But I want these videos to be practical!

[@joaquimrodriguez8961]

Yup, I agree but then again it's the fifties, although I grew up in the late seventies, an half of the eighties. but interesting none the less.

[@tammyellison735]

I was born in the late 1950s and grew up in the 1960s, so I am excited to see what you come up with. My lunches consisted of bologna, grilled cheese, and canned soup.

[@deborahdonovan7892]

American cheese and Wonder bread!

[@bobbieschendel3144]

I ate alot of spaghetti'os. Lol Mom was home to make lunch, I walked home and back from school

[@davidthedeaf]

My poor gramma went to school in the 1930s with a paper wrapped sandwich of homemade bread and butter with white sugar. That was it.

[@margaretlouise6200]

"Soup and sandwich, soup and sandwich" sung to the tune of "Love and Marriage"....it was a song in commercials for canned soups who heavily promoted that lunch idea. Those lunches usually hit the spot, especially on a cold day. My fave was grilled cheese and tomato soup.

[@karinjcollstrup7360]

The 50s diet was very grain heavy. I am digging in to a danish 1950 housekeeping book. It is VERY scientific on noutrision and how to keep the family healthy on a budget. And the point of it really is that grains (and potatos) give enough kalories at a low cost, and then you ad just enough vitamins from a litle fruit and vegetables, meat and coodliveroil. And a lot of the fat and protein would come from milk. You have to remember that in the 50s people still remember when starving and malnutrition (for some) not was uncommen. And after the wars there was a lot of research going into nutrition.

[@hiddenhand6973]

How often and what amount of cod liver oil was consumed?

[@karinjcollstrup7360]

@@hiddenhand6973 codd liver oil was given to make sure pregnent af breastgiving women and children up to age 6 would get enough vitamin D. 5grams pr day - could be substitutet by 10grams of codd liver og 50 grams of herring. It doesn't say if it was to be consumed every day, but in general all vitaminheavy foods are incourieged to be consumed in smaler amounts often rather then a big amout more seldom.

[@tateshevchenko6584]

We still follow this type of diet today in Russia, lots of grains and cheap veggies (potatoes, carrots, onion, beetroot, pumpkin, cabbages and so on).

[@karinjcollstrup7360]

@@tateshevchenko6584 in the 50s book it is surprizingly little vegetables. 300g potatos, 50g of carrots (the cheapest vegetable) 50g of other vegetables and 50g of fruits pr day. Today the official danish recomendations are 600g of greens and fruit pr day (excludig potatos). That is 4x as much.

[@gusalexandrakis5151]

@@hiddenhand6973 I only know about it from my wife. As a kid, she was asthmatic and underweight, so her mom decided to give her cod liver oil, something that was popular when she was a kid back in the 1920s/30s for prevention of rickets (a bone disease). The dose was usually a teaspoon a day, but it was so horrible-tasting, my wife wouldn't swallow it, so her mom mixed it with orange juice and told her to 'hold her nose and chug it' lol. The health benefits were dubious at best, since vitamin deficiencies weren't as common in the 1960s as they had been 30 years earlier. And anyway, Flintstones vitamins came out in 1968

[@HelennaRose]

That incredible beautiful dish set. My parents only used it for special occasions, it was an expensive set they bought back during the times of department stores and good economy. I love that you have this beautiful set, my mother adored hers ❤. We had silver ware we used too. (The silver had to be polished). Edit: We had oatmeal with raisins as kids before school. The whole oats cook in 5 minutes. ❤

[@WithLoveKristina]

I have wanted this dish set for YEARS and have thrifted most of it, alongside what a friend of mine gave me ❤️❤️❤️ it is beautiful!

[@spencerpetunia8268]

It sorta reminds me of all the nice dishware my parents keep on display in their own cabinet, mostly either wedding gifts or inherited from their parents and other relatives. It also only comes out for special occasions. I'm definitely glad that you and other younger people are so fond of a good expensive dish set, because I honestly couldn't be assed to put any effort into getting dishware that nice myself, being as unfond of both cooking/baking and hosting people at my house as I am.

[@margaretlouise6200]

Yes, my memory of the taste of holiday meals includes a bit of the taste of silver polish! We didn't want to do it, but that was always the job of the kids.

[@katiel3457]

Your breakfasts look beautiful! Your videos really brighten my day and inspire me. I was one of your viewers who requested this video, so thank you so much for all that you do! ❤

[@WithLoveKristina]

Oh thank you Katie! I can’t wait to put together more recipe videos 💖 they are so fun to make!

[@jenniferpeterson6617]

I loved watching 😊

[@aussiejubes]

I love prunes so much that I have to force myself to stop at 6. I learned the hard way probably 10 times before I finally gave in to the reality 😂 I can easily eat quarter to half a kilo without batting an eyelid. Delicious! Especially in custard, num nums.

[@WithLoveKristina]

Ok prunes in custard might be better!

[@aussiejubes]

@WithLoveKristina in the 80s it was dessert & mum used heated up custard. I'm lazy & just slop cold custard from a carton on them.

[@57WillysCJ]

Prunes are just dried plums. I eat them like raisons. Stewed they need the water to turn a dark color. Add milk or cream if you want to up them. I have even used evaperated milk which I think is better.

[@ariajam5221]

Same.

[@aussiejubes]

@ariajam5221 I'm glad I'm not alone in this, because I don't know anyone who loves them like I do 😂 I only like the soft ones though. Some brands have hard ones & that wrecks them for me

[@amandasnailtasticnails9657]

The fluffy pancake recipe has always been my favorite. I really liked to have banana pancakes when I was a child.

[@janetsandham7058]

Hi I have only just been making banana pancakes Twice now Hubby has found he likes banana ones more than plain pancakes

[@joegilbody4878]

I grew up in 50s. 8 boys and 2 girls so any idea of a normal breakfast has to go out the window. It might be a Rhode Island thing but we had coffee milk or strawberry milk for breakfast. Chaotic would describe it best. No way to fit 12 around a table. But we ate well and grew up!

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

8 girls and two boys, in our family, we had coffee milk and oatmeal.

[@karrierutherford5490]

I actually love prunes. I might be one of the few but my mom was a breakfast cook when I was a little girl and they had a breakfast buffet where she worked and so she would make these stuffed prunes ...you take cream cheese, a little lemon juice,lemon zest,chopped walnuts and a little powdered sugar mix that up and put it in the prunes and it tastes like you're eating cheesecake or at least some kind of yummy sweet dairy dessert 😁👍👍

[@margaretlouise6200]

I posted above that my mother used to put prunes in cold water in the fridge and they would re-hydrate over a couple of days. Very refreshing cold if you love prunes.

[@ruthlloyd1163]

My grandma used to heat the prunes in hot water. I just eat them out of the bag. We called them stewed prunes.

[@jandurham6231]

My grandmother would cooked them with cinnamon sticks and cloves and cooked them until they were soft and then discard the cinnamon sticks and cloves. They were delicious.

[@FarmFreshIB]

My grandma made stewed prunes. Dried prunes covered with water and simmered with cinnamon. Delicious and far different then dried prunes.

[@marilyn6556]

My mom and aunts made Belgian pie, and the traditional ingredient is prunes. It doesn’t sound good, but they’re delicious. So, I love prunes, even right out of the bag!

[@margaretlouise6200]

For a while my mother would put prunes in a jar filled with water and put them in the fridge where they would re-hydrate and get cold. Actually they were very good that way.

[@peacefulinspirations7312]

@@ruthlloyd1163 I have made stuffed prunes. Stuff prune with a pecan half and dip in chocolate. You can't eat too many of them.😁

[@ybunnygurl]

I loved your video. I used to eat like this when I was in preschool in the late 1980's. We were grapefruit eaters, one half each onsted of cereal with the recommended breakfast menu from my Grandma's handwritten cookbook. My grandma collected all the recipes she liked and copied them in a composition book and gave them to my Mom when her and my Dad got married. It's great because she subbed or did something different than the cookbook and noted her changes. One note a broiled ham slice should be put under the broiler in your oven, cooked in a pan it's fried.

[@Judy0910]

I was raised in the 1950's! My mom wore a scarf on her head like you are wearing! I remember eating so many of the foods on these internet shows. I really am enjoying yours. I still cook a lot of the same foods. I also had to help my mom cook back then. God bless you 🙏 ❤️

[@maureendonlevy9913]

I have that same coffeepot that is on the counter. Mine is from 1948 as it was a wedding gift to my parents. It's on display in my kitchen in my 1940 home.

[@WithLoveKristina]

I think I have the 1940s one as well! The one I tried to use was the C50 model, but there's a second one that's the c30 model and I'm not sure if it'll work. The switch seems stuck.

[@e.urbach7780]

I love your Mission Rose dishes! My grandma had that pattern.

[@kara8274]

Your videos are just wonderful. I appreciate your honesty, creativity, and flair. You're fabulous!

[@loriace9841]

My sons were born in the late 1990’s. I got divorced then hired a nanny who was in her late 60’s. She didn’t “approve” of cold cereal, except for Cheerios. In a small bowl, as a side dish? I didn’t know breakfast HAD side dishes! LOL!! The first grocery list she gave me reminded me of my childhood. Rolled oats, cream of wheat, whole wheat flour, tomato and orange juice, fresh berries or fruit (she made pies in the Autumn/Winter) for breakfast’s!! Needless to say, I was jealous of my own kids while driving to work in the mornings!!

[@lynneeie5226]

The BEST way to eat dried prunes is chopped fine and baked into a chocolate cake. They really are amazing there. ❤️ (& love your videos!) Best, Lynne

[@ruthjohnson6369]

I was married in 1977 and your strawberry pots and skillet set was among my first pots and pans along with my revere ware which I am still using! Glad to see all the vintage things.

[@cmkaminski]

On the weekends when my kids want waffles or pancakes, i make a double batch and freeze the leftovers. Makes weekdays easy.

[@WithLoveKristina]

I’ve been meaning to do this! Homemade toaster waffles!

[@magdlynstrouble2036]

My mom used to do this. She'd put waxed paper between each pancake and wrap the stack in tin foil. We didn't have zip lock baggies yet.

[@spencerpetunia8268]

My mom does this whenever she makes pancakes, too! Waffles are much more time-consuming for her since she makes deep Belgian waffles using a big waffle iron, but since she can crank out pancakes super-quickly she's able to make and freeze several meals' worth extra. :)

[@deborahdonovan7892]

I could listen to you all day! I usually listen while showering and take occasional peeks to see what you’re doing. Thank you for this peek into your vintage lifestyle ❤️

[@kalka1l]

I love your stove so much. The offset burners can fit larger pots and the bisected oven. For the heart waffle, bunch up foil and shape the outline. Keep the outer layer smooth and greased so you can clean and reuse it. The prunes in my experience always improve with a little spiced stewing.

[@tasia2174]

For cords that I know I might forget what they are for in future but still need, I take one of the wired twisty things from bread bags (sorry not sure what they are actually called) and a post-it note, stick the wire through the top corner of the post-it note after I've written what the cord is for and then use it to twist the cord together. It's saved me several times from throwing away a cord I would have actually needed albeit not often. 😄

[@lyannecb8499]

I've got a sticky label on my rechargeable torch that tells me where the charger is, as well as a label on the charger to tell me what it charges.

[@margaretlouise6200]

I do the same. In fact I've got cords safely preserved of various devices that I threw away long ago.

[@Fg4e]

I was wondering what kind of apple sauce you used. If you make homemade, it's very different from store bought. Homemade has a completely different texture and consistency. My recipe calls for peeled and cored apple chunks, fresh cider, white and dark brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and a dot of real butter. When it's cooked down, the apples aren't completely crushed. There's some chunks. It's severed hot off the stove. Very different in taste so this may make the difference. I normally make this in the fall, so we can locally source are apples and cider. Four sweet apples like Honey Crisp to one tart apple like Granny Smith. If you ever try it, you'll never go back to store bought. 😊

[@spencerpetunia8268]

Homemade/Not-store-bought applesauce is leagues ahead of store-bought! I grew up being absolutely disgusted by applesauce and thought I hated it in general, despite all my siblings and especially my older brother loving it, because my mom only ever kept store-bought in the house and I'm just grossed out by the texture of store-bought applesauce. Imagine my immensely pleasant surprise to learn that I really enjoyed the fresh applesauce my 3rd grade class made from scratch in class one day! Nice, chunky, rounded out by the real butter in it, and very much benefiting from the addition of Red Hots cinnamon candy we had in our particular recipe. :)

[@beeblebomb]

Heya Kristina, just wanted to shout out to you for this channel. I absolutely love the cleaning routines as I follow along while I clean my house almost every time. I'll just leave your channel on in the background and clean up. Só thank you for motivating me to tidy up my home, and thank you for your authenticity as you try out all these cool vintage lifestyle hacks!

[@tammyr2966]

All of these breakfast meals looked delicious! Growing up in the late 60’s and early 70’s, weekends we had pancakes and waffles and sometimes cereal early morning while we watched cartoons, then late morning was the pancakes or waffles with sausage or bacon. Weekdays it might be oatmeal and toast, egg and toast or cereal and toast. We always had fresh milk from the dairy close by and orange juice!

[@lizadams7662]

I love your bumper music! Very cheerful fifties vibe.

[@Miss_Kisa94]

This is so interesting to watch because all the women in my family had jobs so pancakes and waffles weren't common. It was mostly food that could be made really quickly. Biscuits and other treats would be made on holidays and days off. But it's interesting to see what stay at home mom's and wives would make.

[@WiseWomanLola]

You could probably return the cord. I'm in my 60s and always had a variety for breakfast. Sometimes, french toast, eggs and English muffins, bagels and cream cheese, pancakes, waffles, occasionally cereal. I remember eating these as a kid, made these for my kids, and now just for myself. I never did like potatoes for breakfast or sausage.

[@celestialfox9282]

Watching this makes me realize I’ve been cooking 1950’s breakfast all my life lol

[@teressebirkett3387]

Being vintage myself, I love my 50 yr old cookbooks, they're the best.

[@spencerpetunia8268]

I don't consider myself a cook by any definition of the word-in fact I'll much sooner buy a bunch of premade "protein packs" of cheese and cut veggies/fruit from the store to eat for meals than make anything more complex than just-add-microwave/toaster foods or an uncooked cheese-and-mayo sandwich with some uncooked fruit/veggies on the side, but one of my prized possessions is a 50-year-old Sesame Street cookbook (I think my specific copy has a publication date of 1974) that's aimed at younger kids to use with their parents. My dad and his sisters were the original owners of this particular cookbook, and for decades I would devote at least an hour to reading it over and over and over again every time I visited my grandma's house before my grandma ultimately gave it to me a few years ago. It's definitely a fun book, even independently of it being classic Sesame Street merch, because both the recipes themselves and the way the book is written/presented with its artwork, etc. are very clear windows into the 1970s push for healthy eating, especially as it intersected with what was considered high-quality children's educational/edutainment media in 1974.

[@mariapeterson2345]

Yes I love the older cookbooks!

[@hyacinth4368]

My mom used to sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on grapefruit half, and place it in oven under broiler for a few minutes. Delicious! This was in the 1960s, though, I don't really remember the '50s.

[@mollymarking8234]

Take my advise and buy an electric percolator. Amazon has many to choose from. Some look very retro. I had a drip coffee maker for years until I discovered while camping that I liked the flavor of percolator coffee better.

[@leresis729]

Oooooh Dessert Rose!! How beautiful!!!

[@SewRena]

This is such a lovely video very relaxing ❤

[@StefanyAlvarez]

I love your kitchen, and the kitchen accessories. Your table. All of it, its amazing ❤

[@stephanieb1196]

Hello, My mother had that exact red and white cookbook so I grew up using it. We ate all those foods during the 1960’s and 70’s in our Southern California home. I really like prunes and usually ate them right out of the bag. But I recall my Grandmother made stewed prunes and prune whip for my Grandfather. I enjoyed your video and it brought back lots of good memories. Thank you

[@JudithMcPheron-pb9lv]

That was fun Kristina. My first cookbook was a Betty Crocker. Not sure what edition but In 1979 and into the 80's I cooked and baked from it. Unfortunately it was damaged when in storage the basement took on water. 😢 I've been watching for it at used stores. P.s. I never like prunes, yuk! 😊

[@lidiane6994]

I still have that cookbook-my favorite recipe is “sauce pan brownies”. During the 50s my mom would get up at 6:00 during the week, turn on the radio and start the coffee. We had eggs every morning with a pastry from the home delivery baker who came a couple of times a week. My younger brother would only eat Rice Krispies and coffee flavored milk. We usually had orange juice except for Dad-he always had grape juice. This was our family meal because my parents ate dinner at 9pm. This was a fairly typical breakfast during the week but on Sunday we’d have something special-waffles, pancakes or a surprise. Weekday breakfasts were generally simple-no cookbook needed.

[@amblyommaamericanum6590]

Great video! Lol, I like prunes! I like just about any dried fruit, tho. Random, but if you like raisins, put them in the pot and boil them with the oatmeal - it is tasty! The raisins get soft and plump and naturally sweeten the oats a bit. Anyway, your kitchen is so friggin cute and these videos really make my day a little happier. Hope you have a good and peaceful weekend!

[@marysuzyperla6740]

I like to cook bacon in the oven also. But, I place the bacon on parchment paper, which helps to absorb the grease and makes clean up a little easier. 🥓🥓🥓

[@kimberlycherrine-bell5371]

Stewed prunes are so much better than just dried..They can be done ahead and stored for a month of more in fridge..Take your dried prunes ..place in container and pour boiling water to cover..cool..cover..fridge..eat as wanted..and the juice made can be drunk...

[@FennecTheRabbit]

This was so fun! Made for very fun viewing while eating my own breakfast (sourdough pancakes because my sister had a bunch of discard from her starter that she didn’t want to go to waste).

[@nickchambers3142]

That sounds so good, I'd love to try that! Do you have the recipe?

[@ps0195]

I was a kid in the 1970s and we had milk at every single meal. We went through 7 gallons a week because there was four of us kids in the house. The only drinks we ever had was milk, unsweetened tea because I’m from the north, and coffee. I did not have a Coca-Cola or anything like that until I was a teenager. We were very poor.

[@theloveyourfacegal2773]

Same here 😊

[@anonymous78546]

I'm so here for this. Thank you Kristina. ❤

[@pamnozari9254]

You are using my favorite everyday china Desert Rose! I love my set and finding different ways to dress a table with it.

[@winwinmyfriend4727]

This is my morning good feelings here. I love ❤your stove so jealous. Your dresses are so sweet I finally got one for myself.

[@magdlynstrouble2036]

My parents used to host cocktail parties on Friday or Saturday nights pretty often, so early Saturday or Sunday mornings my sister and i would graze on the bowls of potato chips and nuts, and even eat the soused marascino cherries out of the bottoms of the cocktail glssses (Manhattans). We wouldn't tell our parents about that.

[@dadyarusski4594]

It’s so nourishing to take time an eat a good breakfast, I must admit. We think we don’t have time, but when I became a Mom I made my daughter eat breakfast and I ate with her, and you know, I used those Betty Crocker cookbooks, I even bought Betty goes Vegan, for Lent, but honestly, people in the 50’s new how to live. P.S. I am dying ❤ You have my Mom’s dishes! Where did you find them😻 My God💕😻 So beautiful, your kitchen is so awesome ☕️💕

[@ktrayan1]

Your dress at the first breakfast is sooo cute

[@Leah20048]

Thank you! I am going to have to try the pancake recipe! They look amazing.

[@tanyajohnson2315]

I love your table clothes they remind me of eating at my dads aunt Elizabeth’s house back in the day . Great memories

[@DvorahDavida5778]

I have the bottom part of that Sunbeam *with a new cord too* . I use it every day make tea. It boils water SUPER fast! I love it.

[@BlueCanaryTX]

Those gorgeous desert rose plates, though!!! I’m starting my meadow rose collection…

[@katwitanruna]

I prefer bacon in the oven. I like to lay mine on a short wire rack in the baking dish.

[@awilson8521]

Wow, my formula is Betty Crocker's formula 😮 I'm so proud. I don't do cereal everyday though. Cereal days are for Sunday (no time to cook with church).

[@amber7253]

So fun thanks for sharing .( one of my favorite cookbooks to use at home regularly when we want to try something new)

[@frogfernforest]

I enjoyed you esting prunes probably much more than you did, I like that you really committed to this. I really felt transported!

[@madisontaylor8368]

Love the Franciscan DR plates. We collect them. My hubbs started with his great grandmother's set and we have added over the last 4years.

[@BrianKennedy-m1d]

Love your videos. Please wear your slippers when using old electrical items. The rubber soles will earth you. Bonus you will be super comfy homemaker.

[@margaretlouise6200]

Those menu suggestions do look over-elaborate for today's tastes! But my mother (who used her Betty Crocker recipes for many years) did things simpler even then. I grew up in the 50's South and here's what we ate for breakfast (always with milk). We didn't really have orange juice until they came up with the frozen stuff. These are grouped into meals: eggs, fried, poached, or scrambled, with toast and maybe some bacon.....oatmeal with toast.....waffles....pancakes.....grits with butter and toast..... French toast... My mother didn't go in for boxed cereal. Actually, her breakfasts were much more like the way a lot of us eat today rather than Betty. I was stopping the video to read some of the meal plans and they are way to much food and trouble for today. But at least they're not as outrageous as those from the early 1900's where there were several meats and many courses. We just don't have time for all that these days and most people are watching their weight. It would be interesting to know the daily calorie counts for Betty's meal plans, but people didn't worry about that much then. I can tell you they would be HIGH. It was past the era when most people put in farm work and their lives and jobs were like those we have today in terms of physical activity. Yet they weren't fat. Go figger. I ate the school lunches and when I came home I had to eat fruit if I wanted a snack. Fruit was always in the refrigerator. There were also usually cheese and crackers around. My mother didn't buy too much junk for sure. Almost never had cokes and drinks like that in the house. We could make lemonade with actual lemons which were always in the fridge. And she didn't go in for TV dinners and all the processed foods that increasingly came on the market. All of our food was made from scratch. She was ahead of her time. We did have dessert with every meal, because people weren't so sugar averse in those days. But they were simple and small....usually jello with whipped cream, or pudding, or bread pudding, maybe a slice of (homemade )cake. She used those desert dishes that held about a half cup. We did have corn bread often, never made with sugar. It was a salty, buttery thing in the south. We had a lot of casseroles as everybody did in the 50's. Being Catholic we had tuna casserole every Friday. Ouch.

[@carinknopfer4434]

Prunes are one of my favorites! If you steam them, they are even better! I put them in my oatmeal sometimes. I want to make a prune pie sometime. My daughters ❤️ prunes too. I love plums as well.

[@robinmaynard1640]

I love the steamed prunes. I add a sprinkling of cinnamon and water and heatvthem to boiling. I ket them stew a bit. Sometimes over ice cream. Yummy, yum yum!

[@wendywarren5756]

If I'm feeling healthy I love applesauce and plain yogurt on high protein pancakes (or waffles) with just a drizzle of maple syrup over it. Yum yum! No butter for this one. (If I'm in a hurry, just butter and syrup.)

[@LeeLeeCRN]

I wouldn't be able to function if i ate like this in the morning. I'd go straight back to bed! Lol. Very cool video. Love stuff like this!

[@SurprisedBrownBear-ns2ic]

Your presentation for every breakfast was so nice. To take a moment to take care of yourself before your busy day commences would be great for everyone! As far prunes yuk but the grapefruit is definitely a no! Keep up the great work! I’m truly enjoying your videos

[@sheilawlliams5263]

Your dishes are beautiful! It's nice to see a nice table setting.

[@jennbidwelledwardson2885]

Thanks for the fun video! I mix together the dry ingredients for pancakes -2 recipes at a time - and then all i have to do is add in the liquid, and I have pancakes in no time.

[@WithLoveKristina]

So smart!

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

Plus if you store the 2 servings in a Ziploc bag and mix in the liquid in the bag, you can clip off one corner and squeeze one pancake out at a time for cooking. Zero mess pancakes.

[@jennbidwelledwardson2885]

@athenathegreatandpowerful6365 good thinking! I usually do store them in ziplocks and then in a glass jar. I use the zip locks on repeat, but using them to pipe out the batter would really control thr mess.

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

@@jennbidwelledwardson2885 just looked it up, used as pencil cases in 1951. Robert Lejeune demonstrated their use as food storage in 1957. Not on the market until the late 60s as food storage BUT Alligator bags were readily available all through the 50s and would have worked quite nicely. I REALLY miss alligator bags.

[@madalynreed333]

I’m actually surprised at how much protein and fiber is involved in these breakfasts! Great way to start the day.

[@tanyajohnson2315]

You have inspired me to try some different breakfast ideas for the morning

[@bellablue5285]

Love to see the franciscanware, I have the apple version. I use my grandmother's copy of Ann Pilsbury's Baking Book rather often, but I think her copy of The Good Housekeeping Cook Book has similar plans as what you've used here, I'll need to pull that one back out and look. I've found I don't tend to stick to meal plans I lay out (outside of use stuff up before expiry) might be fun to try following one

[@lennybuttz2162]

Prunes are nature's candy, I think they're delicious and they're very good for you but what you ate was not stewed prunes. Stewed prunes take what like 45 to 60 minutes and the prunes get broken down creating a thick sweet syrup, they're good on their own but really good on oatmeal, toast and delicious on vanilla ice cream. If you're feeling naughty you can add raisins and or crasins, currants and a good splash of brandy or rum. mmm mmm

[@MadelynFenu]

I love your Franciscan ware desert rose. Reminds me of my aunt's, when I was a child.

[@lauriesue2244]

You could mix the dry pancake ingredients together and keep it for when you’re ready. Or make several batches and freeze.

[@planetpompom]

I love your strawberry pots and pans, I think I have a couple items from the same set/collection that I found at a thrift store!

[@WithLoveKristina]

I thrifted these as well!

[@myhauntingromance]

That first red cookbook is my family's cookbook. My mom has her grandmothers copy and I use it as recipe reference all the time

[@heatherloffelmann3547]

We grew up in the 50's and rarely had such fancy meals. We ate only the basics one egg one toast jam and milk or a bowel if cereal and a toast and jam and milk. Sometimes we got oranges or juice but never prunes. Lunches were a sandwich and soup. Dinner was just a slice of beef or chicken mashed potatoes and some cooked veggies. Desserts were for special occasions but apples were always available.

[@isabellerininger6249]

😍I love prunes.. aka dried plums😁 Fun video!

[@jkc5587]

Omg I have this book! I love using it for reference. Like why you should use certain things together.

[@elizabethlauricella7176]

So happy to see you!! Thanks. Hugs.

[@stillwaters7730]

I've just found your channel and I must say how refreshing you are, how calling this video is and I am thoroughly invested and interested. 😊❤

[@heatherjohnson2511]

I love V8 i drink it often! Im so happy to see your rose china, i take care of an 86 year old woman and she has the same china, ......all of it, from glasses too trays and everything, they are originally from England, although they are now made in California.....hers are the English ones though. Figure yours are as well. Binge watching your videos. ❤

[@kimschacht4284]

My grandma would make creamed eggs over toast with hash-browns when we visited. I love that dish so much. You should buy a Corning ware percolator. The coffee is so good.

[@smeenasiddiqui7464]

Awesome.....An a 1950s kitchen. Outstanding cooking.

[@CherylWells-zf5ts]

I love your videos.... vintage has a special place in my heart. Your house is adorable. I think i was born in the wrong era.

[@sharonwest1602]

Kristina I love your videos I like the 1950’s cooking 🍓🍓🍓

[@wisewomanhealing]

I love your collection of book themed cookbooks.

[@sherryhicks4156]

I was a child in the 50s. My mother was big on cereals. Before school we ate cold cereals, when it was cold outside we ate oatmeal. Both cereals we had toast and ALWAYS orange juice. We had eggs or pancakes on the weekends.

[@SincerelyLASMR]

I really love these types of videos 🥰

[@robbieanderson5902]

My grandma used to take the dried prunes that you get in a bag… and then she would put them in a small sauce pan and cooked them over very low heat for them to absorb water and puff a bit. I love them that way, as well as straight out of the bag, or canned prunes.

[@gailvaldez1130]

Thank you for loving that era

[@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x]

I was born in 1952. We kids usually had cereal (non sugared) for breakfast or oatmeal or cream of wheat. On Saturdays we might have bacon and eggs and toast or occasionally pancakes, but never strawberries too. My parents were very frugal and didn’t overdo meals. Never never ate prunes. I would have died since I have IBS. Sundays were rushed because we always went to church. We always had a glass of orange juice for breakfast and my mother made us eat a tablespoon of cod liver oil before anything because it’s good for you. WE HAD MILK AT EVERY MEAL.We didn’t have red fridges and my mother never wore a scarf like that on her head either. That’s more of a 1940s look.

[@ruthlloyd1163]

I was born in 1958 and my mom wore a scarf over curlers on Saturday- she’d go for a comb-out on Saturday at the beauty salon. She saved money doing the wash & set Friday night. Otherwise she had the sprayed and teased 60’s look.

[@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x]

@@ruthlloyd1163 my mother didn’t do 5he bouffant look. Neither did I. I stopped wearing curlers to bed at 16 and I’ve never worn them since. I just let. It grow long.

[@marilyn6556]

@@AnastasiaRomanov-w9xI absolutely hate rollers. I couldn’t sleep in them, and I also had long, straight hair. My sisters used rollers, as well as my mom. One sister used huge rollers, and I think she was trying to straighten her hair. My sisters were 9, and 11 years older than me, so they were in a different era as far as I’m concerned.

[@margaretlouise6200]

Egad, I remember the cod liver oil!! Lucky, my mother tired of trying to force it down us. I do take Omega fish oil capsules now. The oil is good for you, but the taste is awful.

[@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x]

@@margaretlouise6200 yes I had the same experience, but I’m glad looking back that my mother made me take that stuff. I was pretty sick as a little kid.

[@kikihammond5326]

60's kid here. The grapefruit was always the super sour white grapefruit. I hated it and refused to eat it. My parents loved it, "It's delicious! It's good for you!" >< Yuck! It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out, they were supposed to top it with sugar, white or brown and and broil it to melt the sugar, thus making the sugar caramelize, and the grapefruit palatable. Red grapefruit is a huge improvement.

[@csjkscs]

Can you do a “safe and loved” merch line!?!? It’s literally my favorite sign off on KZbin!

[@RadianceRush]

This was fun! Looking forward to the lunches and dinners!