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Diamond wrote

Hi Grandma Donna,
I wanted to ask you about healthy eating and stretching meals during hard times. This post and on of your older ones inspired me to ask. I asked my grandma about this (she’s one of 7 from the 40s in MS) and she told me how they would eat things like tomato sandwiches, sugar sandwiches, biscuits and honey, and beans and rice to get by. By today’s standards you’d think they’d all have grown up sick or unhealthy but they weren’t!

As food gets more expensive, I’m worried I won’t be able to keep eating the ultra healthy meals I’m used to. I guess I’m just not sure how to stretch my dollars without eating so many carbs and maybe becoming unhealthy. I don’t know how they did it back then - my grandma said they walked everywhere so I’m sure that helped. What are your thoughts on this? Some food is better than no food absolutely and bread made at home is so cheap. I think I just have these worries stuck in my head and I’m trying to hang on to my comforts even with evidence of problems on the horizon! Thank you as always

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Grandma Donna wrote

Hi Diamond, your grandma is right on it about what they ate. Adding to what your grandma said, there were onion sandwiches and Syrup, butter and biscuits. Biscuits crumbled in a coffee cup or bowl in some milk or buttermilk or even water.
The real meals were often vegetable soup and cornbread and if there was money for meat then meat would be added. During that time they would keep a garden and we still can even if it is in a bucket on a porch or patio. What I will do is in this weeks blog post I will talk about this because I can add to what we should cook. A very qood question you have, thank you. Grandma Donna

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