Darki........I think that back in *grandma's* day and in my early yrs, what they ate and I ate was alot healthier than what we eat today.

Food was simple back then and made from scratch and from what I remember there wasnt the obesetity that is around today and people were alot healthier.

There wasnt junk food, if you ate between meals it was only fruit.

So, mlaybe we should all go back to bread and dripping.:-)

Darki........I think that back in *grandma's* day and in my early yrs, what they ate and I ate was alot healthier than what we eat today. Food was simple back then and made from scratch and from what I remember there wasnt the obesetity that is around today and people were alot healthier. There wasnt junk food, if you ate between meals it was only fruit. So, mlaybe we should all go back to bread and dripping.:-)

I think you are right purple and of course so much of our food now is 'processed' to stop it spoiling in the shops.  Really the only safe food to eat is home grown vegetables and fruit, other than that it is hard to find a healthy way to eat.

I suspect that in many cases the junk food is all anyone eats... there seems to be a serious lack of knowing how to cook proper food any longer and now that both parents need to work to keep their heads above water there isn't the time for the afternoon cooking to prepare for the nighttime meals.

I keep my food pretty simple, but even so I know it isn't the same as when we were youngsters. 😞

When you come to think of it, cooking back then was a real skill and one that is slowly vanishing.

Huxley's Brave New World is here and now.  Do you ever remember reading it and thinking how awful it would be to live that way?

:-x  thanks darki

Hello everyone 🙂

Got lots to do today, so just popping in to say hi.

🙂

The thing to remember about bread and dripping is that it was back in the days when people actually did a lot of physical work. And they needed as much energy as possible. Bread and dripping was something they started eating out of desperation to get some extra calories when food was scarce. So it didn't affect their waistline because they worked it off.

Unfortunately in this day and age of machines doing all the work for us, we must now have low fat cereal with skim milk for breakfast !!!

:-x  thanks darki Hello everyone 🙂 Got lots to do today, so just popping in to say hi. 🙂

Hi ya beani love, how's your mum?  xxxx

Blerk low fat milk and cereal for breakfast.  I have meusli, kiwi fruit and low fat yoghurt, which still feels like the real thing 🙂

Well a lot of people worked their butts off beach, but not everyone.  My Grandfather was doctor and so he didn't really do any labouring work.  My Grandmother sewed for her four daughters, including their school uniforms and blazers, they were hard working, but not in the way you mean.

I think most of it has to do with processed food that has to have preservatives in it to keep it from rotting... OMG, what a terrible thought 😮

I tell you one thing, our parents and grandparents were not too worried about technology, even cars were mechanical and not computerised...

We dialled a phone number and if it sounded busy we hung up, we didn't think the line might have been out or order.

Mind you, do any of you remember the rolling blackouts back in the late 40s early 50s?  Where they actually turned the power on so women could cook dinner?

Now that was a worry.

We didn't have power.  We had an ice box at first then a kerosene fridge.  Shellite lamps, shellite iron (previously a flat iron on top of the stove), wood stove and open fire place.  No washing machine - just a copper and cement troughs.  I was 20 when power came to our town.  We did have a generator for lights just prior to power and to run the milking machines.  A lot more manual work than now.  I can remember my mum chopping wood for the fires.

Thinking of another trick song ... anyone remember it? I think it's more from my mum's or her mum's time as she used to sing it to us

2 little girls in blue lad, 2 little girls in blue

They were sisters we were brothers and learned to love them true,

But one little girl in blue lad, she won my father's heart,

Became my mother I married the other

But now we've drifted apart.  .

Thinking of another trick song ... anyone remember it? I think it's more from my mum's or her mum's time as she used to sing it to us

2 little girls in blue lad, 2 little girls in blue

They were sisters we were brothers and learned to love them true,

But one little girl in blue lad, she won my father's heart,

Became my mother I married the other

But now we've drifted apart. 

So who married who?.

o drat ...... sorry for the double post