I am not quite 60. We lived in town so no animals other than chickens. We always had chickens. We were lucky to live in a farming community where everyone shared. When they would finish with the fields they would ‘release’ them and all the locals would swarm them to get whatever was left. All the neighbors shared. We would leave the house and would come home to a yard full of watermelons, green beans, etc. where a neighbor had dropped off part of their scavenge. Then the work would begin to put it all up. Grandma made her own lye soap and peanut brittle at Christmas. What a treat!!!! Hamburger was 3 lbs for a dollar and boy did we eat alot of hamburger. Lol. Bologna by the chunk and I couldn’t tell you how many times we had fried bologna for dinner. Leftover beans or fried potato sandwiches for lunch. If none of that was left we had mustard or mayonnaise sandwiches.
We lived in a hard but good time. The kids were run out of the house after breakfast and not allowed back in til lunch. Then out we would go til dusk. Noone worried. We would be fine.
I tell my grand kids stuff and they look at me like I’m nuts!!!
Did you ever have jam sandwiches?
Two pieces of bread jammed together?
My kids considered it cruel when I said I didn’t have to provide an after school snack - they had lunch and they would have dinner. I said if you’re hungry in the afternoon, we’ll pack bigger lunches. They retorted that the afterschool program had snacks, everyone snacks.
I said there are places in the world where people would be delighted to eat a full meal once a day, and you get three. Snacks are a luxury.
If you’re hungry, pack a bigger lunch or plan your own snack, but I’m not sending bags of finger foods for my kids and everyone else’s.
“If none of that was left we had mustard or mayonnaise sandwiches.”
The EBT leeches would never even consider that.