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?