Creamed Chipped Beef on toast... yay or nay?

[Christine]

My mom would make it with a basic white sauce that you just add the cheap .99 cent shaved beef lunch meat too (or is it shaved corned beef?). The kind that comes in the pouches. I like it, dh loves it. I bet my kids wouldn't eat it .

I use Carson's Air Dried Beef. There is one other brand in the store (in our area) that is my next choice. It's not really lunch meat and you wouldn't do anything else with it besides make creamed chipped beef. It is kind of like shaved corned beef though. I think it is around $2.50 or more for the package. You can also get it in little jars (my friend uses this) but I find it a tad saltier than the package.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

Oh my goodness.... YES I love it! But haven't had it in probably twenty years. WOW.

I, too, like creamed tuna on toast.

This is being added to my "make this sometime soon" list. Although it's funny that someone mentioned this as being a easy-on-the-budget staple because I remember my mom complaining about how expensive the beef was.

Easy on the budget? I don't know.... In a way it is I guess. I was at a farmer's market this past weekend, and the beef was $14 a pound! ( They listed it as $3.45 per 1/4 pound )

But a pound, with toast and gravy - which is cheap - can easily feed 4 people... For a home cooked breakfast, "I" wouldn't call that inexpensive, but I am sure some would.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

My mom would make it with a basic white sauce that you just add the cheap .99 cent shaved beef lunch meat too (or is it shaved corned beef?). The kind that comes in the pouches. I like it, dh loves it. I bet my kids wouldn't eat it .

Those little packs are $4 where I live.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I like it on biscuits better than toast.

 

[wdwmom2]

I love creamed chipped beef over toast!!

DH and I are hunters, so we usually have a deer hindquarter dried and chipped. It is wonderful, I can't taste any difference between deer and beef.

 

[doxdogy]

I use Carson's Air Dried Beef. There is one other brand in the store (in our area) that is my next choice. It's not really lunch meat and you wouldn't do anything else with it besides make creamed chipped beef. It is kind of like shaved corned beef though. I think it is around $2.50 or more for the package. You can also get it in little jars (my friend uses this) but I find it a tad saltier than the package.

If you use the little jars rinse it off first to remove some of the excess salt. DH hates it. Growing up a Navy brat it hit our table at least once a month.

 

[bookgirl]

Not a fan but ate it as a child and even made it a few times as an adult when money was tight.


We actually prefered sausage and gravy on toast or biscuits which was also know as SOS.

 

[sunnyday123]

I can't say "Nay" enough. Gravy should not be white, ever. DD loves it, and I'll make it for her every once in a while. It's big around here too-as is scrapple.

I would eat bark off a tree before either passed my lips.

 

[mickeyplanner08]

I can't say "Nay" enough. Gravy should not be white, ever. DD loves it, and I'll make it for her every once in a while. It's big around here too-as is scrapple.

I would eat bark off a tree before either passed my lips.

Ok, had to go look that one up, but I LOVE SOS-I'll have to put that on the menu rotation again

 

[RunningGirl]

One of the comfort foods from my childhood! (DM was an army brat.) DH thinks it's okay, but both of my kids love it. Our version is also the cheap one - white sauce with the 99¢ pack of Budding beef. I make it when DH is out of town.

 

[Tina]

People actually eat this stuff intentionally? I always thought it was one of those Depression Era foods that people ate when they couldn't afford much else. My grandma used to make it occasionally and she always called it sh*t on a shingle. I'd say the name is pretty true to form.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

So this must be an American thing, I've never heard of it! I can't even picture what it might be - what is chipped beef?!

 

[Tina]

So this must be an American thing, I've never heard of it! I can't even picture what it might be - what is chipped beef?!

Mmmmmm.... not!

 

[dhcoffey]

Love, love, love it. Military brat here, too, and we had it a lot growing up. I make it for my family some.

Heather

 

[bookgirl]

People actually eat this stuff intentionally? I always thought it was one of those Depression Era foods that people ate when they couldn't afford much else. My grandma used to make it occasionally and she always called it sh*t on a shingle. I'd say the name is pretty true to form.

I grew up in the 60's and 70's and working class families sometimes had to fill in the gaps with cheap dinners at the end of the month. Mostly my mom would make SOS (sausage in white gravy), but sometimes to break it up she'd do the little disks of dried beef chopped up.


I also remember getting boil in bags. Just what it sounds like frozen bags of meat and sauce that you put in a pan of boiling water then you cut the corner off and poured it over bread. Chipped beef and turkey w/brown gravy were the favorites.

 

[bookgirl]

Gravy should not be white, ever.

Shut your mouth, in the midwest gravy is white always, unless you make beef and then it's brown.

I never understood when all the shows with Italians starting showing up and talking about "gravy" but they always showed spagetti sauce.


I think 'gravy' and it's many forms is a very regional thing.

 

[GeorgeG]

Looks (and sometimes smells) like somethig somebody else already ate and didn't like...

 

[labdogs42]

Love it! I like mine on white toast.

 

[moon]

Oh, this reminds me of Scotty Baldwing from General Hospital. I miss him

 

[C.Ann]

Never tried it.. My thing is cream of mushroom soup over buttered toast.. Yum!