Subj : Grocery Getters
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Mon Jan 27 2025 14:21:14

Hi Sean,


 RH> That's why I don't like peanut butter to this day.

 SD> My mom tells me her mother would top everything she could with
 SD> Velveeta.  To this day, my mother cannot stand any cheese at all
 SD> except string cheese.  I can't blame her.

I like cheese, velveeta is not a cheese (our name for it is plastic
cheese). The year before Steve went in the Army, we qualified for food
stamps (after our church closed) and the government commodity give away.
The one and only time the give away was in our area (coastal NC), I got
it--15 pounds of imitation velveeta cheezoid! Couldn't freeze it, girls
were small enough they didn't eat much so Steve and I had the not so fun
job of consuming most of it. I've not bought any since then, but hve
bought hundreds, maybe thousands of pounds of real cheese.


 SD> When I was in school, I usually qualified for the free lunch school
 SD> program. For a while there, I also was getting to school early enough
 SD> to get free breakfast also.  The food wasn't always the greatest but I
 SD> was happy to have food to eat period.

We probably qualified when I was growing up (before my mom started
working) but my parents never signed up for it. (This was in the pre
breakfast days.) When Steve was junior enlisted, our girls qualified for
both breakfast and lunch but I made both of them at home, much better
than what the school served. After a few promotions (with the increase
in pay), we let the girls buy lunch once a week as a "treat". The high
school cafeteria in Sierra Vista had a number of name brand food carts
in addition to the "hot food line" so they had choices while we were in
AZ.

 DD> That's a lit6tle ...  no a lot ... overly ch... frugal. There were
 DD> times, given some of the horrid things the school cooks did to the
 DD> food that I wished I could be like mt dad and bring my lunch.

 SD> I never had horrible food.  It was mostly just bland.

 SD> Even now, as a single divorcee, I am thankful my mom taught me how to
 SD> cook. Some men I know, who are my age, can barely manage using a
 SD> microwave.

Or boil water, without burning it. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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