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Shefali O'Hara

Shefali O'Hara

Cancer survivor, Christian, writer, engineer. BSEE from MIT, MSEE, and MA in history. Love nature, animals, books, art, and interesting discussions.

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Poor Man’s Dinner

How most people ate — with a recipe I made recently

4 min readSep 28, 2024

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The other day I made something that many people might consider “poor people’s food”.

I took part of chicken that is considered scrap and turned it into a part of a lovely chicken soup.

It as the wings, of course. What I didn’t detail in my original story — I made not just a collagen rich broth, but I actually took all the meat off the bones as well, except for the knobby bits, and added this to the soup.

Since I’d kept everything in the crockpot for about 4 hours, the meat just fell off the bones.

That story is here:

Now, this probably resulted in a higher fat content than if I’d just used “boneless, skinless chicken breast”, but for those living in poverty — they need fat.

The way many poor people might consume this — they would separate the fat and use it to fry potatoes, say, or grease a pan or use it to top their bread. In India, they’d use it to moisten their chapatis.

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Shefali O'Hara
Shefali O'Hara

Written by Shefali O'Hara

Cancer survivor, Christian, writer, engineer. BSEE from MIT, MSEE, and MA in history. Love nature, animals, books, art, and interesting discussions.