Re: Being Poor
I can see alot of these from my younger years. My family (my mom, sis and I) had a period of time that if it didn't come from the food pantry then we didn't have it! I can tell you that there were times when we would get only dayold bread and the goverment cheese and 10lbs of pepperoni ends (there was a meat packing plant that donated them) and we would eat that in as many ways as you can think of. Other times we would be asking for whatever veggies they could give us and they would think that we needed more donuts! I can tell you that I loved peperoni before that and hated liver, now I hate pepperoni and love liver (after eating 5lbs of it) so you can say my tastes have been molded from those times. We also had a rule that whatever milk mom could buy would only for cooking, not for drinking. Mom would save $5.00 from her paychecks all month to take us to taco bell once a month and we could get one $0.79 item and a small pop for all of us to share.
Thank you for making me think of this...it lets me know that the hard timse I am having now are nothing compaired to then!
I forgot too, at this same time we had no fridge or stove. we kept what little food we had in a cooler out in the snow and cooked on a pizza maker.
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