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I didn't know until I was an adult that mom's special dinner of buttered toast and hot chocolate was a struggle meal. Or her tomato mac. I have this vivid memory of eating cinnamon sugar popcorn and drinking Kool aid while watching The Last Unicorn on VHS. I recalled it to mom, and she was telling me how broke and worried she was at that time. I never knew my fond memories were part of a struggle. I'm telling y'all, my mama is magic.

I love this couple and their sons! May God continue to pour blessings on you all!

My Dad raised us 3 girls on his own for around 3 years and he couldn't cook anything unless it was just to heat up. So we had condiment sandwiches many times. Mayo and bread, ketchup and bread, mustard and bread, etc. Thankfully he met and married our new Mom and she could/can cook!

The couple who laugh together stay together! You two are so happy!

We need story time on how you 2 got together!!! Y'all are so stinking cute!!!

Ya'll want a treat for lunch then do the cream cheese with strawberry jam on bread like a grilled cheese!

🤣 Dusty saying he would go out and eat grass before ketchup sandwiches. You two give me so much hope for finding true love

My grandma raised me. She was born in 1919 and came up through the depression. Potted meat and mayo on white bread and pb, cheese and mayo on white bread. I actually had a craving for that a few weeks ago and teared up when I took a bite. Neck bones and dumplings were also popular with her and she never threw away a butter bowl or a bread bag or twist tie. Good times being raised by this awesome 5ft , 98 pound woman who could make anything happen and worked her fingers to the bone from sun up to 11pm everyday. I miss her so much

I love love love you and Dusty together!!! You had me in stitches😂😂

My sister and I would make the cinnamon/sugar/ butter toast all the time. It wasn’t a struggle meal. It was a treat to us. Tasted so good!

Hey there, I know I'm late to the party on this one and maybe it's more suited to be a dinner recipe but..... I grew up eating this fast and cheap potato soup and still make it all the time when short on funds. It's a traditional Finnish soup my Nana used to make all the time: Boil 1 or 2 potatoes per person with the skins on. When done, peel the skins off and put the potatoes into individual serving bowls, breaking up the potato and maybe smashing some of it up. Dice 1 regular onion and sprinkle some into each bowl (1 onion does about 4 or 5 bowls) Add a few dollops of butter, and salt (not pepper, it is best with only salt) Then pour on some hot milk to make it a soup! And that's it! It's warm and nourishing, buttery and creamy, and the raw onion that's only heated through with the hot milk really adds flavor!

The after school struggle meal for me and my sisters was "pizza." A slice of white bread spread with a thin layer of spaghetti sauce, covered with shredded mozzarella and microwaved until the cheese melted.

OMW....I'm crying 😂🤣 Dusty please do more videos with Brooke ♥️♥️♥️

When I was a little girl we lived in Egypt, my whole family was always sick and I had trouble eating local food. One of my friends introduced me to mayo on saltines and I thought it was the most delicious thing in the world!

My afternoon snack/struggle meal was can sliced pineapple on bread with mayo and Ketchup and bread sandwiches. Peanut butter, mayo and banana sandwiches. Breakfast sometimes was leftover rice with milk and sugar and small pinch cinnamon, and I ate for a snack too. Peanut butter, jelly sandwich with a sprinkle of sugar. I would eat bread broken up in pieces with milk and sugar. So many memories. It was just me and my Grannie, she raised me til she passed away when I was 14. Thanks so much for sharing.

My dad used to butter bread and put it on a cookie sheet for us kids and then sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon before toasting them up in the morning. They were so good! :)

The cream cheese and jam sounds so yummy! What a fun video! Everyone is happy at your house! Such a wonderful family!

My entire family does pickles and peanut butter but it’s gotta be bread and butter. A local pizza joint does a dill pickle pizza and I’m angry about how good it is 😂

Ya'll gotta try Pork and Bean sandwich with mayo 🤗 Cucumber tomato mayo salt and pepper sandwich is my go to summer sand.

We used to do hotdogs in a flour tortilla with ketchup the catch was the hot dog had to be toasted on the open flame of the stove to get charred the tortilla too , they are so good! Then there is the Mexican corn dog.. we would roll warm corn tortilla around a hot dog put a toothpick thru it and then fry them in oil… very addicting serve with ketchup or whatever else you like 🥰

Hi Brooke, luv your struggle video.. im Mexican and i remember when I was a child and my mom didnt have any food in Mexico as she was struggling, she would feed us warm tortilla with salt rolled it like a rolled tight taco and scrunch it then cut into pieces and added to cup of warm milk. Weird but it does taste good. We also used to eat tortillas with salsa only if there wasnt anything else in the house to eat. Also hot corn with mayo was good. Just a canned corn heated up and we would add mayo and hot sauce if available. Also we would eat white small french baguette (bolillo) and add fresh cheese (queso fresco) and thats it with a can of pepsi and jalapeño the ones you get for nachos. If we didnt had bread then we would use flour or corn tortilla.

Way back in the day when I worked at a daycare, we would mix grape jelly and cream cheese (regular), mix it up, and give the kiddos some saltines to dip into it! Sounds strange but is really good 👍

Making dinner just got even simpler!🤣🤣🤣 You guys are FUN!!! No surprise why we subscribers LOVE your videos and appreciate you so much.

Y'all are too funny together, first time I've seen him sit with you for a meal! Love your channel!

Hi Brooke! You and Dusty are so funny together. 😂 Miracle Whip... imagine mayonaise but ruined. 🤣 I'm a mayo person too.

When I was a kid, financially we were way below the poverty level. I remember one time, we only had half a loaf of bread, a jar of mustard, some salt, pepper and a quarter of onion. Cutting a slice of bread in half, we had a mustard onion sandwich. I remember thinking how great it tasted because we were so hungry.

You two are funny. Your ability to control the look on your face when he did the macho thing with the excess mayo on the knife and the mayo jar is priceless.

Thank-You for trying my cream cheese and jam sandwich! Struggle is real, but still tasty!

Ok here’s mine 😂🍞🥜🍫 As kids, we would make a sandwich that we called. “ Reese Cup Sandwich” We would spread PB on both slices of white bread.. Then we would sprinkle with old school Nestle NesQuick Chocolate Powder.. Smash together .. Yummy 😂❤😂

Your whole family is such a JOY!! And you two are so funny!! Thanks for sharing this, Brooke! It made my day!! 😂😂😂

Brooke and Dusty You are brave for eating all of these combinations. Good job. Looks like you had a good time making this video.

I laughed so hard at you being completely unimpressed by bread and butter. That was basically served along side every meal i had growing up. And anytime I said I was hungry between meals, my dad would tell me "go get you some bread and butter" (it became a favorite of mine since it was filling/made meals fill us up more.) I know this video is older and you probably dont go back and look at comments this far out, but my favorite childhood struggle meals pb and saltine crackers or sliced cheese and saltines with a bit of mustard on each --these were basically lunchables for me and i still eat them to this day. The first time I had actual french toast I was shocked, because growing up, french toast at my house was toast with butter, cinnamon, and sugar sprinkled on it and a drizzle of syrup if available.

Love it!! I used to love leftover white rice, warmed up, milk and brown sugar. So good. My dad always ate saltiness with butter. Great video.

Wow, this takes us back! Still do alot of this today. It's a part of alot of folks upbringing. Just because you are struggling or poor you can still eat good.. You are taught how to work with what ya got and make it better!

Lots of beans, fried potatoes and cornbread at my house growing up. Still eat it after 50 years. Was thankful to have it then and now.

Yessss! I am with Dusty on the saltines with mayo. I ate this as a kid with my grandma. She is in heaven now, and I eat it sometimes just to remember her.

I like Miracle Whip and mayo. Two totally different tastes. Miracle Whip tastes more vinegar-y. And I love vinegar. My great aunt used to put honey on white bread. If you let it sit for a while, it makes the bread kind of crunchy. Honey is the taste of my early childhood.

❤❤❤Wonderful collaboration with Dusty. Enjoyed both yours and Dusty’s channel. Awesome subjects. I used to do the potato and chips sandwich. Thank you.❤❤❤

My Aunt use to make me “pizza”. It was a slice of bread, pizza sauce and a piece of plastic cheese. Broil until cheese is melts. So good!

Hi here it goes I also grew up poor Irish catholic my mother made for five kids is Slice random 🥔 alot Fry up sauageswith diced onion and get tomato jus combine the Un Cooked potatoes and add your sausage mix in large pot and add the jus simmer til potatoes are cooked enjoy❤

Struggle meals! Girrrl those were treats!😁😅🤣

My dad had visitation with me & my sister every Sunday, sometimes he was really broke but would make us cereal from saltines, milk & sugar. I still love it for a snack.

We were not a struggling family but one meal my Mom made was ketchup noodles. I’m chuckling to myself because whenever she made this, my five brothers and I always thought it was HER time of the month😂 it is now our comfort food as adults. We age from 56 to 70 in age now.

My roommate in college was French Canadian and she shared her grandmother's saltine cookie hack with me. She mixed room temp butter or margarine with a tsp or two of maple syrup, and then spread it on the saltine. I really liked it. Butter was significantly better of course. But not as cost effective. The ultimate treat as kids for us was Graham cracker squares and butter or frosting (cream cheese frosting being the best).

Our struggle meal was cottage cheese and baked beans. Put an equal amount of each in a bowl and mix it up and eat it. And don’t warm the beans.

We had popcorn for supper every Sunday. Dad's way to give mom night off. Popcorn and Disney before bed. Next day he woukd eat leftover popcorn with milk on it like cereal...that was his struggle food as a kid he said!

I so love watching you guys together. Pls don’t let a rude commenter ever change you or what you do. You two are so delightful.

I can see an age/generational difference, and I'm in the older group. Crackers and butter were on the table at many restaurants when I was young, so butter and crackers at home felt like "a restaurant" lol. Also, microwaves weren't around until I was an older kid, so many of my snacks weren't in the microwave. I remember chips and salsa only being at Mexican restaurants, so we would eat saltines with the red taco sauce on them.

Needs to be hamburger pickles and peanut butter. Corn chips dipped in potted meat, fried bologna and strawberry jam sandwiches, ketchup and ruffles chip sandwiches, peanut butter banana slices on saltine crackers, and bread balls dipped in pickle juice. Fun video 😊

Hurray! I’m so glad you tried and liked the peanut butter and pickle sandwich. My fave. 😂❤

Your show is so friendly. Y'all make me feel like I'm there

Y’all are so fun together:)

Watching this video made me think of a few other things we ate, like crackers, mayo, and cheese. My grandson eats the mayo and crackers, I thought that was strange. Did not realize other people liked it. I still eat most of this stuff today, like white bread, mayo, cheese, and pickles. Now, this one you may think is really weird, mustard with celery. One of my sister's did mayo and celery and my other sister did peanut butter and celery. My dad was born in 1937 and his family was sharecroppers. They ate popcorn with milk over it as breakfast. Thanks again for the memories.

Our struggle meal was leftover spanish rice with a slice of american cheese on top and microwaved :) Another was spanish rice with 2 over easy eggs on top and chopped up mixed in with the rice SOOO good and eat with tortillas :) Last one was sliced 🍌 in a cup of extra cold Milk 🥰🥰🥰

I love these struggle meals! I lived on butter and saltines and butter sugar white bread sammiches. Awesome Dusty glad you are here!

I'm over 80 and I can remember all of them with the exception of pickles on saltines. The sugar bread we had in the morning for breakfast if you ran out of cereal. The more sugar the better it is.

I cannot wait to try the pickle and peanut butter! I'll be serving it to my hubby as well. Miracle Whip and mayo are so different, it doesn't have to be either or. There are certain recipes that use MW. But for sandwiches and creamy dressings, always mayonnaise.

Look at Dusty coming up with new recipes😉 good job!

We have had saltine crackers and butter with and without peanut butter forever. pretty sure my grandma is the one who started it at my house. You and your hubs are adorable. On another note I watched one of your week of budget meals where you showed how you do your budget planner. I got one on amazon and cant wait to get started on it.

Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches were my go-to in college when the cafeteria didn’t have anything that looked good. I love those Grillo’s pickles! The sliced once’s are especially addictive!

So fun to watch! Love the Brooke and Dusty collaboration! We used to eat tortillas with butter and sugar in the microwave. SO doughy and good. Also ego waffles with butter, peanut butter AND syrup 😋 love you guys!

This was super fun watching the two of you together!!

My fav struggle meal is stove top stuffing with plastic cheese on top. As a kid it was cinnamon sugar on whole wheat toast, with bluebonnet usually. We kept the cinnamon sugar in a tupperware salt shaker by the toaster. When I worked McDs by UT Knox I saw the homeless guys get a coffee cup out of the trash, ask for a refill of coffee and some saltines, stack the crackers with ketsup and load the coffee with cream and sugar. They would get a couple ciggy butts out of the ashtray to smoke for desert. THAT'S a struggle meal.

My uncle would make onion and peanut butter sandwiches on white bread. My dad was a huge pimento cheese on white bread fan. We made sandwiches of white bread smeared in homemade butter and sprinkled with sugar. Ah, the memories!!😌

A local restaurant serves whipped butter and captain wafers as an appetizer while you wait for your food. So good with Cole slaw.

Pickles and PB, no bread…so good. My mom said it was a pregnancy craving she had but continued to eat it afterwards and then so did I lol.

My go to when my parents weren't home was a piece of toast with peanut butter sprinkled with sugar then put back in the toaster oven itll the sugar burned just a little bit. Mmm good!

Since my mom, sister & I were born in Japan we had white rice with butter & raw egg mixed up. I’m 46 & I still eat this from time to time. We did white rice, butter & soy sauce too. My hubby is from Mexico City & he does potato chips( original flavored) with ketchup & hot sauce.

Try the cream cheese and jelly on saltines instead of bread, yum! I have also done it with butter and jelly. I love pickles and peanut butter but I have never tried them together. Based on Dusty’s reaction to that one, I think I need to try it.

Watching this made me think of a few things my mom made for us when I was little. Strawberry cream cheese on toast We made hot cocoa & buttered toast. Cut the toast in 3-4 strips and dip it in the cocoa for a second before eating it

When I was a kid and we had nothing to eat at home but a pack of flour tortillas and some sour cream I would heat up my tortilla then spread some sour cream on it then roll it up and eat it. I still eat that to this day when I just want a snack or if I have leftover corn tortillas (I make em fresh each meal) I'll just warm one up spread some butter on it a lil salt roll it up and eat it. Simple but wonderful 😊

My five year old grandson loves what we call his “condiment“ sandwich. With the crust removed from two slices of bread, we make a sandwich out of mustard, mayonnaise, and sweet pickle relish. He loves it! My seven year old grandson eats the same thing, only without the mayonnaise. I like a peanut butter and banana sandwich, but I can’t get my grandsons to even try it.

Another one to try, macaroni noodles cooked with some home canned diced tomatoes and tons of pepper and a little salt. Crumbled cornbread on top if you have it.

Hi Brook!! I grew up in the 80's and my mom was a Single Mother who worked 2 jobs to pay the bills. So I was a part of what was called "Latchkey Kids" but I didn't wear my house key on a necklace. I wore mine on a hoop earring like Janet Jackson... only a smaller hoop. LOL Anyways I was taught so many tips & tricks for my after school snacks, and I was surprised to see you didn't have them. Also we'd make our own bread as we needed it. It was just Mom & Me so it was cheaper to make then to buy. We made everything from Sandwich bread to Hamburger Buns. So to this day I call store bread "Mushy Bread". Generally Saturdays was our Baking Day. 1. Toast w/ Ketchup & cheese. {This would be the plastic cheese you refer to. Goes for all of these.) 2. Peanut Butter Toast lightly sprinkled with white sugar. (reg or powdered) 3. Saltines/Ritz type Crackers with cheese - Nuke in microwave til cheese melts. (I know mentioned this, but sometimes we'd have broken Taco Shells from the school lunches cos Grandma worked as a Lunch Lady & could bring home different things. I called it Latchkey Kid Nachos lol) 4. Flavored Oyster Crackers - Oyster Crackers brushed with melted butter, sprinkled with Italian Dressing & Parmesan Cheese. Nuke in microwave for 30 sec. To Dusty: Mom used Miracle Whip ONLY for salads like Egg Salad, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, etc. For everything else its Hellman's Mayo. I do this today so I do have a small jar of Miracle Whip in my fridge for these salads. lol

Spread butter on white bread and then sprinkle sugar on it, it’s really good! If we wanted something sweet and didn’t anything this hit the spot!

I loved this. You two make me smile. One of my favorite sandwiches is white bread, mayonnaise, thin sliced dill pickles and garlic salt.

I was fortunate to not have "struggle" meals growing up but my mom and I did enjoy (and I still do even though my hubby thinks it's weird 😂) cracker cereal, crushed saltines in a bowl with cinnamon and sugar and covered in milk. Melted butter on a tortilla with cinnamon and sugar on it and rolled up. Put milk in a cup with some brown sugar and vanilla, tastes like a caramel milk.

This video was so fun! I've never seen Dusty that much, other than a quick taste test that you've given to him. It absolutely cracked me up when he said that Miracle Whip was Mayonnaise, but ruined (TRUTH! lol). I have also always heard of a pb&pickle sandwich, and it sounds awful to me, still. Maybe I will have to try it. (I don't want to, lol). We had Saltines with butter/margarine, but it was softened (not melted), but if you can get a spreadable margarine (meaning, when it's cold), that plus the Saltine is so much better! My husband also puts the margarine/butter on a Saltine with peanut butter (not like a sandwich, just a single one). That bread with sugar was pretty close to my mom's growing up, just a plain untoasted pc of white bread, spread with margarine, then sprinkled (liberally, lol) with white sugar.

While watching the video, I immediately made a peanut butter and pickle sandwich, for the first time, when you guys said it was good. It was very good! 👍😊❣️

when my father was growing up, during the depression, he ate mashed potato sandwiches. till the day he passed he loved them My son would eat them with him.

I knew y’all would like the peanut butter and pickle sandwich. We ate those all the time. Everyone thinks it’ll be gross but almost everyone likes it once they try it!

Dusty was totally cracking me up. Never say never, right? We had bread n butter as an addition to basically every meal.

As far as the Miracle Whip ( and there is no generic that comes close ) and Mayo debate......I grew up with both in the fridge. My family keeps both in the fridge too because there are some things we like Miracle Whip with and some things we like mayo on. There are recipes that call for Miracle Whip and if you substitute mayo, it just doesn't taste the same. Same goes with recipes that call for mayo. I bet you have had Miracle Whip and didn't know it because it was mixed in a recipe!

My husband and I struggled at first but had a garden so we did the buttered toast with milk but we would add fresh berries if we had them! After a while we loved it and would call it “berries and cream”. The berries helped! 😂

I turned my nose up at cheese and pineapple, but would have liked pineapple and cream cheese. I don't know if it is still available, but Kraft used to have cheese spread in a jar, and the pineapple was one of my favorites (loved the one with olives.)

We were so poor we ate mayonnaise sandwiches dinner and saltines with mayonnaise on them too …. When we got our food pantry items we were so excited to get that big block of fake cheese and put them in noodles and make up some dry milk… we make it work…. ❤

Brooke and Dusty I’ve eaten the peanut butter and dill pickles together snd they are yummy, I also eat and ate as a child butter on white bread with apple jelly, and white bread with mustard and potato chips , momma always bought our bread at the day old bread store 4 loves for &1.00 and she’d freeze 3 loves , I never had wheat bread until I was grown ! We also ate fried salmon or fried Mackerel Pattie’s on biscuit and poured syrup or honey over it , so yummy ! Thsnks for y’all trying some if our struggle meals , I loved it and was surprised y’all liked si many of them ! God bless ❤️🙏🙋🏻

I have loved watching these series!! You and Dusty are so funny together 😂

I’m a miracle whip girl! I still love ya girl! I think mayo is actually healthier because it doesn’t have sugar. But I still love me a miracle!

Your middle son looks like your husbands twin. Your whole family is so sweet

First, that was the best description of mayo I've ever heard, "imagine mayo only RUINED"!! Second, it's great to see you two interact with each other, you are so cute together! Third, my dad always talks about his favorite sandwich growing up, peanut butter and mayo. 🤢That might be the grossest thing I've ever heard of, and no I've never tried it!

Potato chips (lays or lays equivalent) with buttermilk and pepper! In a bowl, like cereal. Don’t knock it until you try it.

Y’all are seriously the cutest couple! Your husband loves you so much ❤

You two are so freaking cute. What a blessing to have that love.

I’m with Dusty on that ketchup sandwich. But I don’t like ketchup. If you enjoyed the cream cheese and jelly sandwich, butter both sides of the bread and grill it like a grilled cheese. We do this and it’s so good. We also do it with cream cheese and apple butter. I hope you do the cooked ones next, there were so many in that list.

Well Hello Dusty. Nice to see you here today. I love this video of you guys together. So much fun. When we were kids, we didn't have alot of money and we rarely ever ate fast food. We were just kids, we didn't know we were kinda poor, we thought we was just as good as everyone else. We would come in the door after school and explore the fridge to see what was in there. We are very familiar with the peanut butter and pickles. Love it. Also the ketchup sandwiches. Sometimes Mom would bake biscuits and we would dunk them in sweet creamy coffee for breakfast. Did you guys ever try mayo and peanut butter sandwiches? What a nice couple you guys make. TFS

Bananas in milk with a little sugar. Hot chocolate with buttered toast dip the toast. Day old corn bread or old cake with milk poured over it. Chocolate cake is best.

our struggle meals growing up was always pasta. Spaghetti and sauce because it stretched. Cold spaghetti sandwiches are still good next day (especially when there is hamburger in the sauce). We also did the end of the month ketchup and bread sandwiches. I was born in 1977 so bread was a lot cheaper back then a lot of stuff was.

Saltiness spread with Blue Plate mayo is fantastic! Cracked black pepper on top and you have a meal 😋