25 Forgotten Ground Beef Recipes Our Grandparents Ate To Survive!
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Ground beef was once the heart of every frugal family meal — cheap, filling, and full of memories.
In this nostalgic trip through the past, we’ll rediscover 25 forgotten ground beef recipes our grandparents ate to survive, when every scrap of meat counted and creativity was the only luxury.
These Depression-era meals and cheap vintage recipes helped families survive hard times with nothing more than flour, potatoes, and a pound of beef.
From meatloaf and cabbage rolls to skillet hash, hamburger gravy, and ground beef casseroles, every bite tells the story of old-fashioned home cooking that built generations of strength.
These forgotten ground beef recipes aren’t just meals — they’re lessons in resourcefulness, love, and survival.
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Date: October 22, 2025
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I think many people are missing the point. Hamburgers price has gone up, but is still less expensive than cuts of meat. Hamburger also can be disbursed in lower cost ingredients so that the over all cost of each serving is lower, but still has some meat flavor.
Too much talking just presents the recipe
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No. There was no freezer
We made the best beef vegetable soup at our resturant it had barley in it. It was so good!!❤❤❤❤❤
[ just bought 10lbs of ground beef for 60.00 from a butcher. i'd like to find your prices. i make most of those meals.
Its just ground beef, onions, rice and beef broth with butter, but its a favorite from my childhood. I brown my meat and onions,and then add a cup of long grain rice, butter,and use beef broth for the rice water. I use a cast iron skillet so i can transfer to the oven. Some broccoli, greeen beens are good with it, but my go to is canned drained spinch with butter and S&P. If i have it, i really prefer creamed spinach from fresh. ❤
This is really an old appetizer but we love it so fix it whenever the craving hits. You can make homestyle meatballs (not Italian) or buy frozen, but throughin a crock pot or IP on low saute or slow cook setting, and add one can of cranberry sauce, the smooth one, not the chutney, although eith might work, one bottle of Heinz Chili sauce found next to ketchup, you can add a little brown sugar if you like and season to taste, i would recommend doing ao after. Then serve on Hawaiian rolls or rolls of choice with Muenster or swiss cheese. Awesomeness.
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And, even better chop meat is too much grease after browning it..soo much for me, don't eat burgers either, wkly as a kid…not in yrs!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
I recently tried Hamburger Helper, used to love that too…sorry it to tasted terrible, nothing like i remembered!!😂😂😂😢