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BOHICA12

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8. Poverty it is ....

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 18, 2012, 05:05 PM

Feb 2012

... perhaps its the inability to access food sources sufficient to plan and prepare. But the ability to stretch a food budget was always a topic and source of a strange sort of pride amongst my parents and their parents - all products of the Great Depression. So, is this a lost skill?

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More public schools dish up 3 meals a day [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2012 OP

I'm not complaining about this since my brothers and I were in a similar cstanleytech Feb 2012 #1

I know, at least in our district here, a lot of these programs ScreamingMeemie Feb 2012 #2

Is the loss of home-economic skills partially to blame? BOHICA12 Feb 2012 #3

No. tabasco Feb 2012 #4

No. proud2BlibKansan Feb 2012 #5

Poverty it is .... BOHICA12 Feb 2012 #8

Soon to be banned by the GOP proud2BlibKansan Feb 2012 #6

Waiting for this. elleng Feb 2012 #7

i think this sends a deeply comforting message to kids. mopinko Feb 2012 #9

Locking. Not LBN Tx4obama Feb 2012 #10