Big families could be fed with soups from leftover meats, beans, and home-grown vegetables. Although the plight of the desperately poor and hungry made lasting impressions on all Americans, 70 to 75 percent of families still had income and concentrated on "making do." During the Depression years of the 1930s, women worked hard to meet their families' basic food needs. Eggs provided an important source of protein for Depression families and were an important item when "making do." Eggs from the hen house were always plentiful. In Depression homes soup was served warm and was often thick and nutritious. Bread was frequently served with toppings, including honey, corn syrup, or fruit syrups. Lemon tea also served as a common remedy for a cough and the congestion of a cold. Tea also maintained its popularity. By 1932 a bag of flour sold for 16¢, down almost 40 percent in the three years since the stock market crash of 1929. A loaf of bread sold for 5 to 10¢, compared to its pre-Depression price of 7¢. Bread was a vital part of keeping a family fed.

Everyone tried to keep flour and cornmeal in the pantry. Ashcake was mixture of cornmeal and water, formed into cakes, and baked in the cinders of prairie camp fires. Midwestern and southwestern cornbread, slightly less rich than Johnny cake, was a direct descendent of Indian ashcake. According to Patricia R. Wagner in Depression Era Recipes, Johnny cake, a descendent of recipes from England, got its name from the eastern United States. Aunt Sammy's money saving recipes were so popular that they were bound into a cookbook that sold over one million copies during the Depression. Biscuits would be used for breakfast with honey or syrup, as sandwich bread for lunch, or with gravy poured over them for dinner. Women used it for everything from breakfast pancakes to breads and biscuits to buttermilk soup to simply drinking it. In baking, buttermilk made everything lighter, moister, and added a delicious flavor. Buttermilk was considered to be a staple food during the Depression. Although recipes appeared in cookbooks as early as the late nineteenth century, food historians point to the Depression as the point in time where the popularization of macaroni and cheese casserole occurred. Beans-navy, pinto, white, black-eyed-were a good substitute for meat during the Depression and were even an actual lifesaver in the 1930s. Highly nutritious, beans of all varieties were baked, used as fillers for sandwiches, made into bean cakes, and included as chief ingredients in hardy soups.

The FSRC's chief legacy was that it began a pattern of federal food distribution. Agricultural and relief officials arranged to continue the food distribution program by creating the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC). Federal Surplus Relief Corporation In September 1933 President Roosevelt channeled $75 million to FERA to purchase surplus food. The blue stamps could only be used to buy agricultural goods declared as surplus by the Secretary of Agriculture. The FSCC would continue the effort of purchasing surplus food from farmers to distribute to the hungry and needy. To participate in the plan, individuals had to be enrolled in relief programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers, or other needy people specifically identified by relief agencies. Presidential support of existing local relief programs would sustain ongoing food relief projects and the works program would put money in the hands of the unemployed to purchase food. Ritz Crackers While soda crackers were handed out in breadlines and soup kitchens, and unemployed Wall Street bankers sold apples on the streets of New York City, Nabisco Company introduced a round, richly buttery cracker called the Ritz in 1934. Nabisco hoped people would associate Ritz crackers with the grand Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan and feel lavish as they ate it.

Faced with the necessity of making a living, the cheery, witty, and congenial Rombauer set out to gather recipes from family and friends to include in a cookbook. Nothing edible was ever thrown out or wasted. Many purchased between $1.00 and $1.50 worth of "orange stamps" for each family member for each week. A handful of this, plus some leftovers of that, and a family could be fed a nourishing and filling meal. For some families, soup was the evening meal every night. Homemakers made many varieties of soup from available foods. It was hoped the increased demand for foods would raise the incomes of farmers. Dogs love the deep flavor and like it so much that it’s often used to make other foods (such as prescription food for special health issues) become more palatable. I like Whole Foods to some extent, but would never feed their dog drank coffee food. There appears to be short hair on her body, which she claims to be more of her "lumps." When she punches herself (saying she can be "smooth"), she looks like a ball with arms. Care Bears on Fire appears in "True Concert" as themselves.