I was raised on a farm and we ate the chickens and steer we raised every year. We also ate the eggs some of the chickens laid. We had a huge vegetable garden and my mom put up quart jars of green beans and other vegetables she grew. My father had a job that paid him very little money. My mom started working by picking berries in the fields around Snohomish and Monroe and when the kids got older, she started working at the dime store. But we had a family of 10. So feeding us was a challenge. Eventually both dad and mom started hunting deer, elk, and moose in season. And my father fished almost daily in the Skykomish river to catch rainbow trout or steelhead. He did this after work and if he was lucky he would catch a fish big enough to feed all of us. But I can tell you, most of the kids hated fish. It was really hard to eat fish with the horrible fried potatoes my mom made and she did not know how to cook vegetables so they were pretty awful.
Nevertheless, there were really no recipes in my childhood except for cakes and cookies. It was always just, get a jar of green beans out of the cellar and heat them up along with a huge pot of boiled potatoes and whatever meat hit the plate that night.
I still eat like that most of the time, but as I have grown up, canned and frozen entrees have become available, to the point that there's very little prep involved to make a three-course meal. I did recently post my recipe for quiche. I think that is a pretty good choice. But if you have to feed a family, you have my condolences. It is really hard to get everybody to eat the same thing.
