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20 Forgotten Aluminum Foil Dinners Every 1960s Mom Made (No Cleanup)

The 5 Minute Senior Kitchen

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In the 1960s American mothers discovered something that changed weeknight cooking forever. A sheet of aluminum foil. A handful of ingredients. A hot oven. And absolutely no dishes to wash afterward.

Today we are bringing all 20 of them back. From the original Hobo Hamburger that started everything to two warm desserts that the children always asked for first. Every single one wrapped in one sheet of foil. Every single one requiring zero pots and zero pans.

RECIPES IN THIS VIDEO:
Hobo Hamburger and Potato
Foil Pack Chicken and Vegetable
Foil Pack Sausage and Cabbage
Foil Pack Pork Chop and Apple
Foil Pack Salmon and Lemon Butter
Foil Pack Chicken and Cream of Mushroom
Foil Pack Beef and Onion with Worcestershire
Foil Pack Tuna Noodle Casserole
Foil Pack Chicken and Rice
Foil Pack Sausage and Potato
Foil Pack Meatloaf and Vegetables
Foil Pack Pork and Sweet Potato
Foil Pack BBQ Chicken and Corn
Foil Pack Shrimp and Butter
Foil Pack Cod and Vegetables
Foil Pack Beef Stew
Foil Pack Ham and Green Beans
Foil Pack Chicken and Stuffing
Foil Pack Cinnamon Apple Dessert
Foil Pack Banana and Brown Sugar Dessert

One sheet of foil. Zero dishes. Twenty dinners your grandmother made when she was tired and brilliant and feeding everyone she loved. Drop a comment if your mother made any of these.

20 Comments

@Abbynormal-g2e 9 hours ago

Look delicious. When I was a Brownie (not the chocolate kind) we made these outside of our scout house. Unfortunately they came out basically uncooked! We were only 8!

@joycedigiovanni9719 19 hours ago

Can probably line the foil with parchment to stop contact with foil directly?

@teodorakazhdailene7894 2 days ago

Aluminum touching the food is a poisonous solution. 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

@Dottie-o5e 2 days ago

My mom did not use foil. It’s called a casserole dish!

@karenbartlett1307 3 days ago

Mine neither
Everyone's mother cooked in pots and pans
This video imo was made by someone who doesn't know what the 60's was like (too young), for people who also don't know the same thing

@Cora-g6u 3 days ago

A woman taught me how to make hamburgers in the oven using aluminum foil. I didn't like it because it left a metallic taste on the burger.

@cindythompson1805 4 days ago

The pork chop and apple one- I make a dish from a Little House on the Prairie cookbook called Apples and onions. I know it sounds weird but it includes apples, bacon, and onions baked with butter and other things. Wow is it great! I was thinking it could work very nicely in this dish as well. Just add some sliced onion to the other ingredients. Bacon and pork chops are from the same meat family.

@joycehilkey7238 4 days ago

Ham, sweet potato and green beans, brown sugar & butter….my kids loved what I called their Hobo night meal. For some reason because their meal was individually wrapped they considered it special. We even went on to have a “ do your own hobo meal”. It was fun and my son and daughter learned to eat a variety of good for them veggies and meats. We only ate out on very rare occasions.
It’s too bad more do not do this. To help our frugal budget, we had a garden and strawberries and raspberries, apples, and a wonderful asparagus bed.. I canned, made all jams, jellies and sauces. Soo yummy.

@beckykent6674 5 days ago

I wanted to try all of these until I saw the remarks about aluminum foil. I think I will stick to my crock pot!! Not to mention, heavy duty foil is expensive and I would need to make 4 packets for my family. This would get costly!

@Ken-r8f1t 7 days ago

Great crockpot recipes too ! And even smaller sizes crockpots to make portion size,and cleaning easier. Thanks !

@JamesMasters-ly2ex 8 days ago (edited)

The way I always do this and it's cheaper, because a good quality heavy duty foil, is no longer cheap, use a bread loaf pan, or 8 by 8, 9 by 13 , put mixture in pan, then crimp foil around edges, or use Corning Ware with lid, place ingredients in, then cover with foil, place the lid on top, the foil with lid forms a seal. I find this cheaper, quicker and easier ! These tips will give you the same results.

@AmericanaXx 8 days ago

Memories...

@SK-S-x3l 9 days ago

So far 2 failures! #1- pork chops on sweet potatoes. Pork tough, sweet potatoes not cooked in time given. My stove isn’t even a year old.
#2- chicken on stuffing. Skin was white, chicken not fully cooked. Needed another half hour cooking time with foil opened for browning.
Doubt I’ll even try making any other of these recipes.

@loishiggins6138 10 days ago

Watching from Dallas TX USA Looks Fabulous 🎉

@jeffj7831 12 days ago

I do cabbage like this on the grill. I also do potatoes, onions, and peppers like this on the grill too. Always good.

@kimberleymckay5949 12 days ago

Why don't you show us some of those fancy foil folding techniques. If there's not enough time in the video ,we'll we could figure out how to put it together easier than we could just magic that fold so it would not leak , talking for myself
Good luck with that.

@johnpoplawski9053 12 days ago

I do the chicken one on my grill but I do two things different I don't put no time in it because I don't like time but after it's cooked I'll open it up while it's still on the grill take the chicken out put the chicken on the grill to get it charged and then put it back in the aluminum package and bring it in the house and eat it