I was 94 on Jan. 8, 2009. My son took 11 of our family to a local restaurant for lunch.

I told him what

that lunch cost would have bought seven or eight months of groceries in the 1930s. Food was a serious
item. Plain and filling.

White navy soup beans were a favorite. We had a neighbor that liked to hunt, but he couldn’t afford the
shells for his gun. My mother paid for his shells and he gave her the rabbits and squirrels he got –
sometimes a raccoon. There were no deer or wild turkeys then. Everyone planted a garden. Some public
land was made into garden plots – the Victory gardens were born.

Along the road were elderberry, black and red raspberries and walnut – paw-paw – chestnut trees. We
gathered greens – dandelion, Polk, water crest. We had a cookbook ‘100 Ways to Stretch One Pound of
Hamburger.’

Depression Cake – flour – sugar – cocoa – baking powder – water – 9 x 12 pan – a heavy chocolate cake.
When you ate a piece, it stayed with you. Home-made root beer – It was all very hard work and time
consuming. But not too many were overweight. Mostly very healthy.

Very short and mostly about the foods back then 😊