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43. Not fat because people walked.

Mon Apr 22, 2013, 11:28 PM

Apr 2013

Most families had one car and walking was still considered a functional, as opposed to strictly decorative, activity; when dad was at work with THE car, I walked to school, mom walked to the grocery store, we all walked to doctor and dental appointments, friends houses, drug store, shoe maker (all that walking required new soles quite often), etc. etc. etc. But then again, there were mom and pop shops everywhere, within easy access to neighborhoods. No Walmarts and super malls five miles away.

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Reading a cook book from the 60s [View all] spinbaby Apr 2013 OP

Is it "The I Hate to Cook Book" by Peg Bracken? LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #1

Actually.. spinbaby Apr 2013 #5

When you mentioned condensed soup, I guessed! LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #7

I think a tipoff to the recipes being unhealthy could be that the entire book is battered. harmonicon Apr 2013 #47

Here you go HarveyDarkey Apr 2013 #2

Yep. My mom cooked like that in the 60s and 70s. Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #3

What is the cookbook? Many were sponsored/published by Packaged Goods Companies, Auggie Apr 2013 #4

Back in the 60's, fresh fruits and veggies were pretty much locally grown, seasonal items . Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #6

Yep, Our Fresh Veggies Came out of the Garden in Summer dballance Apr 2013 #8

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I just loved that little layer of fat in the edge of the pork chips. Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #41

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Jell-o ... Mmmmm ... Who could resist?! Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #13

Aughhhh!!!! pipi_k Apr 2013 #14

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Aaaaaaah! It has EYES! LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #18

Praise its Gelatinous Glory. Arugula Latte Apr 2013 #24

Shivers me timbers. I had no idea there was celery Jello. snagglepuss Apr 2013 #40

Peanut butter and Fluffernutter sandwiches LancetChick Apr 2013 #10

Tuna noodle casserole spinbaby Apr 2013 #11

The best thing to liven up a tuna-noodle casserole LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #19

By the early 1990s when I got to middle school... Chan790 Apr 2013 #20

There's an online gallery devoted to this kind of food: LeftinOH Apr 2013 #12

That's not food... pipi_k Apr 2013 #16

That is horrifying hifiguy Apr 2013 #33

Julia Childs... AnneD Apr 2013 #15

And fitness guru Jack Lelanne kentauros Apr 2013 #23

Ah yes... AnneD Apr 2013 #36

And the Galloping Gourmet - Graham Kerr! csziggy Apr 2013 #46

I remember the old Galloping Gourmet Art_from_Ark Apr 2013 #49

Some of the funiest reading you can find olddots Apr 2013 #17

My daughter has my mother's old cookbook, circa 1941. Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #42

Blechh! No wonder I was such a bad eater growing up then. The food sucked and I knew it then too Populist_Prole Apr 2013 #21

post-Depression & WWII WolverineDG Apr 2013 #22

In the 80s it turned into hamburger helper. Paulie Apr 2013 #25

We weren't fat back then Sanity Claws Apr 2013 #26

I don't remember eating healthy food spinbaby Apr 2013 #27

And none of that food was GMO or laden with corn syrup. Sanity Claws Apr 2013 #28

Not only all of that, kentauros Apr 2013 #38

EeK! Yer giving me PTSD bad food flashbacks Populist_Prole Apr 2013 #35

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the old recipes that I find amusing are the attempts at ethnic foods. grasswire Apr 2013 #45

Now that is funny! KT2000 Apr 2013 #50