How to feed a large family. What did the Nikitin family eat: menu for every day and the usual set of products Good intra-family relations

Like the whole life of these passionate people, their food was simple - and at the same time, according to the children, it allowed them to grow up healthy, without chronic diseases or dental problems. An approximate menu for a large family, grocery purchases and supplies were reconstructed from household records and the memories of the Nikitin children.

Let's cook together: at this age, kids are happy to help adults with everything. 1961

Sample family menu for every day

Breakfast. Any liquid porridge, in the most difficult times - half and half water with milk + margarine instead of butter. Milk soup (with rice or noodles, usually half and half milk and water, but an egg was added to it). Milk with fresh bread. If you have an egg, then a soft-boiled one, one per person. Bread with butter and cheese.

Dinner. The first was almost always the case. Mom cooked excellent borscht or cabbage soup with marrow bones. A huge saucepan was enough for two or three days.

Also kulesh, pea soup, chicken noodles. Mom made the noodles herself. One chicken was boiled per pan and then divided among everyone: some got a wing, some got a leg. Dad, putting the chicken into bowls, told a fairy tale about how a man divided a goose.

There were also soups from bags and canned fish. In difficult times - “dumpling soup”.

The second is usually without meat. For example, macaroni and cheese. Or buckwheat porridge with butter (a separate dish).

Dinner. Mashed potatoes, pasta, rice, buckwheat porridge. Or a thin layer of minced meat in a potato casserole.

Here, for example, is a regular dinner: macaroni and cheese + tea with sugar, bagels, gingerbread.

Meat was rarely eaten, usually in the form of cutlets and as an addition to the main dish. Never cooked fried meat or with hot sauces. If fried potatoes, then without meat, but with salad. More often - stewed potatoes with meat, cooked in a pressure cooker.

There were a lot of salads. Cabbage - green canned peas - greens. Or tomatoes - cucumbers - onions. Or homemade sauerkraut.

All salads were always dressed with sunflower oil; my mother never used mayonnaise.

But they ate fish more often than meat. My favorite is cod stewed with onions and carrots. Hake, pollock, iced. My mother loved fish all her life. Dad absolutely loved everything. There was often canned fish (you can eat it with bones): sprat in tomato sauce, sprats, mackerel, saury.

Vinaigrette - with sauerkraut or herring. The vegetables were steamed in a pressure cooker (we bought it specially).

To this day, we really love my mother’s potato salad: the potatoes are steamed in their skins, quickly peeled and while still hot, mixed with thinly sliced ​​onions (preferably red) in half rings, seasoned with delicious sunflower oil and salt. It's best with herring, but you can do this too.

Pancakes, pancakes - with butter, sour cream, jam. Cottage cheese was rare; usually cottage cheese was eaten like this, with sour cream and sugar.

Casseroles - cottage cheese, potato, pasta, etc.

The growing girls baked a lot themselves, started a book of home recipes and dreamed up fantastic dishes. From the age of 12, it was mainly Olya and Anya who were busy in the kitchen.

We ate fruits and vegetables according to the season and as much as possible: grapes - a box, apples - a box, etc.

They bought a cartload of watermelons - they were 5-8 kopecks/kg. And if the watermelon or melon is just them, no more food with them.

In winter, literally every day - grated carrots. In the summer, every day they brought bunches of greenery from the garden, and in the spring they cooked sorrel and nettle soups.

For dessert - dried fruits: raisins, dates. And also marshmallows and jam. Halva - sunflower, tahini - was loved by everyone and was bought in boxes of 10-16 kg.

Two-year-old Alyosha fills his watering can himself. 1961

The usual set of products in the Nikitin family (60-80s), prices are approximate

Milk, 1 liter (on tap) - 28 kopecks. We bought it almost every day - a 4 liter can. They drank it unboiled.

Sour cream, 1 kg - 1 rub. 70 kopecks We bought it in a special plastic can for 1.5 kg.

Cottage cheese, 1 kg - low-fat 85 kopecks, regular 1 rub.

Eggs, 1 des. - 90 kopecks. and 1 rub. 30 kopecks

Butter, 1 kg - 3 rubles. 50 kopecks

Cheese “Poshekhonsky”, “Dutch”, 1 kg - 2 rubles. 70 kopecks, “Russian” - 3 rubles. We bought regularly.

• rye, 1 loaf - 12 kopecks;
• wheat (gray), 1 loaf 0.8 kg - 15 kopecks;
• white wheat, 1 loaf (brick) 0.8 kg - 22 kopecks.

Bagel - 6 kopecks. (occasionally brought from Moscow, everyone got a quarter or a half).

Gingerbread cookies, 1 kg - 1 rub. Loved it very much and bought it often.

Granulated sugar, 1 kg - 90 kopecks. It took a lot.

Potatoes, 1 kg - 10-12 kopecks. Carrots, beets - 15-20 kopecks.

Buckwheat, 1 kg - 55 kopecks. (but there was almost none in stores), round rice - 88 kopecks. Pasta, I think, 33 kopecks. per kilogram.

Jonathan apples 1 kg - 1 rub. 50 kopecks

In the garden there were gooseberries, raspberries, some strawberries, dill and parsley, carrots, sorrel, radishes, apples, cherries, and plums. In the area under the pine trees there are strawberries and blueberries. But everything grew poorly in the garden and vegetable garden, since the pine and spruce trees blocked the sun. At one time we planted potatoes ourselves.

We ate normally.
But about bone meal, this is overkill, a cost of maximalism. It's bad when good things are taken to the point of absurdity. Most likely, what was this flour made from? Not a delicacy at all.

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And the kitchen is our island. An island of trust, secrets, conversations, decision making. I love it and we never get bored.

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And the very first one was adopted simple principle: Children should eat the same things as adults, and adults should prepare food so that children can eat it too.

Cooking food every day, in small portions, and I spend no more than an hour and a half a day in the kitchen. Almost everything I make is prepared quickly, very fast or by itself. My main helpers in the kitchen are oven and multicooker.

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