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In reply to the discussion: Why A Snow Day Brings Tears To Some American Children [View all]Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)My family always had something to eat but sometimes the choices were pretty minimal. Canned vegetables with macaroni or homemade soups were common. The school breakfast program didn't exist in our area. There were subsidized milk "snacks" served but no one got the milk for free -- if you didn't have the few cents to buy it you had to sit there quietly through snack period. I did that everyday for years --the subsidized school milk cost more than the powdered milk we drank at home.
I don't worry about buying food anymore but I still can't stand to see it go to waste. I save the tiniest portions of leftovers and eat them for lunch or throw them into the soup pot. We grow about 70% of the vegetables and about 40% of the fruit that we eat and STILL I need to see a stockpile of goods in the pantry. All this and I haven't lived on food assistance in decades.