Why Everyone is Making $1 Pocket Soups (Mexican Mothers Made Them First)

Описание: #PocketSoup #MealPrep #FrugalLiving

Everybody on the internet discovered the pocket soup this month: a glass jar, the flavor on the bottom, the food in the middle, hot water from a kettle, lunch for about a dollar. My mother sent my father to work with that jar in 1979, wrapped in a dish towel. Here are seven of them the way a Mexican mother builds them, with this week's Walmart prices, the one rule that makes every jar work (the water warms, it does not cook), and the honest part: where the jar is not cheaper than the cup.

📖 My mother's whole way of running a house is written down in one book, The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com

None of this is your fault. Nobody taught you to pack a hot lunch, because the store was happy to sell you one in a foam cup.

The 7 jars:
7. Sopa de fideo, under 50¢ (cook the fideo first, the water will not)
6. Caldo de pollo con arroz, about $1
5. Sopa de frijol, under $1 (mash half the beans, that is the whole trick)
4. Sopa de lentejas, about 60¢ (grate the carrot, never coins)
3. Caldo tlalpeño, a little over $1 (the lime goes in last)
2. Pozole de pollo, about $1.40 (the five-part pattern for any jar)
1. Sopa de tortilla, about $1.25, the jar my father carried, with the bundle

Said plainly: everything in the jar is already cooked or safe to eat cold. Meat jars 2 days, 3 at most. Bean and lentil jars 3 to 4 days. Jar out of the fridge 10 minutes before the hot water so the glass does not crack. Lid loose. One level teaspoon of bouillon per jar, not two. A Maruchan cup is about half a day's salt. This soup is not medicine. Not a doctor, not medical advice.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The jar my mother called la lonchera
0:33 Sold back to us at four times the price
2:29 7 · sopa de fideo
4:53 One book for the whole house
5:10 6 · caldo de pollo con arroz
7:26 5 · sopa de frijol
9:28 4 · sopa de lentejas
10:37 Halfway: the glass, the water, the foam cup
13:08 3 · caldo tlalpeño
14:52 2 · pozole de pollo
16:48 1 · sopa de tortilla, the jar my father carried
18:31 Seven jars, about $7
19:11 The rules: days, tape, not medicine
20:19 El que guarda, siempre tiene
20:35 Who profits
21:19 One jar this week

Tell me which jar you are making first, and what your mother or father carried to work in a jar. Tell me your county too. I read every one.

📖 The Old Mexican Way: https://oldmexicanway.com

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