~SUSTAINABLE LIVING FOR CHALLENGING TIMES

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Depending on how you grew up?
Parents?
Grand Parents?
Where you lived?

It will mean differently to you all but I think if you are old enough you'll relate to much of it and hopefully get you to think about the so called progress as they call it.

When you see me going off on another rant about big pharma, medical community, our government, corporations,etc hopefully this will give you another perspective why I do ...................






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Michelle Eberline-Kirk I still lick the beaters.
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Melanie Rogers
Melanie Rogers Would anyone out there 65 or older concur that our food was not overly processed, that it was more natural and contained less additives. Our mum's cooked from scratch baked goods typically not out of the box. It made for a well rounded childhood. Am not romanticing but more time outdoors was the norm too.
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Jennifer Garton
Jennifer Garton truth
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Liz Delgadillo
Liz Delgadillo Loved my Childhood Days
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Ada Bosisto
Ada Bosisto Totally agree Melanie we grew our vegetables had fruit trees in our yard no takeaway all healthy food not processed with all the additives added - fruit is tasteless as its not fresh by the time we get it plus there was "no use by date" or "best before date" how on earth did we survive - we were healthy!!
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Annie Webster
Annie Webster Our mothers not only cooked/baked from scratch but we also grew a lot of the food we ate...
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Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly I agree with everything you mentioned!!
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Becky Teachey
Becky Teachey All the time
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Evelyn Fisher
Evelyn Fisher Annie Webster Melanie Yes My Mom Baked Bread Often and Canned Everything Our Kitchen was a busy place all Summer Canning Vegetables Fruits Jelly we picked Huckleberries in the woods they grew wild and Mpm made Pies Jelly and we ate them fresh too Everyone in the family cut Tomatoes and squeezed them and Mom cooked them then into canning jars we grew our own vegetables Always!!!!!!!!!
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Vicki Kehr
Vicki Kehr I agree! There were NO preservatives in our food “back in the day”, and we ate homemade food not out of a box! Our food back then was what today we call organic, naturally grown and preserved. Organis Organic is not a new concept, it was the norm. My grandfather farmed 90+acres of his own land, there were no pesticides, no chemicals Not to mention, what he grew was NOT genetically modified (GMO). They say we live longer today, but what is the quality of life when we need a box full of meds because of all the illness from the toxic crap in our food and water and air???
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Linda Shaw Steele
Linda Shaw Steele Melanie Rogers I still do and eat the dough. Yum
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Melanie Rogers
Melanie Rogers Vicki Kehr I am in Canada but have you heard of people getting sick from bacteria on lettuce cucumbers etc. I do not recall anyone getting I'll on vegetables or fruit. Many 65+'s also born during or shortly after WWII when rationing was the norm. Still the food we had was pretty nutritious. My dad remembers drippings on bread were one of my favourites was fried bread done in bacon grease. Lol
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Daryl Kemp
Daryl Kemp yes, I agree, Im 70
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Nancy Abercrombie
Nancy Abercrombie Amen!
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Wanda Ritter
Wanda Ritter Melanie Rogers I'm 59
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George Schmidt
George Schmidt Melanie Rogers , I remember my Mom saving bacon grease, so she could put it in her German potato salad.
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Corrine Gingras
Corrine Gingras Melanie Rogers yes absolutely! I'm scared these days! Merry Christmas!
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Linda Baur-Dyer
Linda Baur-Dyer I grew up on a farm and the short list from the store was: Coffee, sugar and salt. Everything else including our meats were grown at home and fed with what we grew and no pesticides or additives.
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Kallie A Jurgens
Kallie A Jurgens Totally concur, I'm 85.
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Anne Fritz
Anne Fritz So true!
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Sandra Majkowski
Sandra Majkowski Melanie I concur.
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Liliane Mares-Kayrouz
Liliane Mares-Kayrouz Mélanie Rogers, you are absolutely right, l'm French from South of France, we had a farm and everything came from our production, the vegetables had a good smell not like what you buy to day, yes Mélanie we were lucky to grow up with all this good things.
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Florence Kane
Florence Kane cooking always from scratch. played outside in all kinds of weather and happy about it!
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Maxine Vanderburg
Maxine Vanderburg I still cook from scratch it tastes better
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Joyce Poland
Joyce Poland I think the fruits were better tasting in the old days. Especially watermelon.
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Joan Asbury
Joan Asbury I agree with you...
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Carol Samson
Carol Samson Absolutely. Best time to be around. Miss those days so much.
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Sandie n'Phantom Hansen
Sandie n'Phantom Hansen You are correct
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Gale Deneka
Gale Deneka Absolutely right. GOD HELP US ALL.
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Melanie Rogers
Melanie Rogers To everyone who responded am so amazed that so many of us agree with one another. Next question...how do we get back to these times? Do we convince current and upcoming generations to get back to when food was "real" and not "scary"....or can more of us get back to growing our own patch and co-ordinating with neighbour's to trade our different varieties? Can it be done???
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Rick Jones
Rick Jones My Mom must of missed the memo. TV dinners were a regular. Salisbury Steak was my fav.... Mom was a hard worker thou. not complaining just a kid from the 50's
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Melanie Rogers
Melanie Rogers Rick Jones it's ok Rick. Mom's did whatever was necessary to make sure kids were ok. My mum was lucky enough to be a stay at home mum but when my turn came I worked 3 jobs to raise my 3 children as a single parent. Just like my mum I was very adept at stretching my weekly food budget.
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Nancy K. Stephens Daugherty
Nancy K. Stephens Daugherty Our gardens were not treated with anything but rain water. Fresh was organic before that became such a faddish buzz word.
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Nancy Starcher
Nancy Starcher I am 74 years and yes my mother made everything from scratch. She was a wonderful cook. I fix somethings from scratch anymore( now that my children are grown) not so much anymore.
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Rena Korte
Rena Korte Melanie Rogers that made all the difference!
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Judy DeYoung Betz
Judy DeYoung Betz I remember eating the chocolate chip batter raw all the time. Liked it better than the baked cookies. I'm still going strong at 78.
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Marilyn Schneider
Marilyn Schneider Are you kidding? My Mom used to make us eggnog from raw eggs, milk, nutmeg, sugar and vanilla. It was delicious! She whipped it with an eggbeater. I don't think anyone owns one anymore. That was before electric mixers.
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Evelyn Fisher
Evelyn Fisher Marilyn Schneider I still have my Hand Mixer as back up and old hand grinder that I make my Cranberry Relish with it !!!!!!!!!!!
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Dwayne Reese
Dwayne Reese USE AN ELECTRIC HAND HELD BEATER ALL THE TIME, MAINLY USE IT FOR MASHED POTATOES.
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Sherry Jakey
Sherry Jakey I still have mine.
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Heather Luker
Heather Luker Marilyn Schneider mine too she made me one in the morning before school .
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Debbie Starkey
Debbie Starkey Marilyn Schneider thanks for that memory...my Mom made the same thing and it was do delicious!
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Virginia Lingard
Virginia Lingard Me too
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Gai Lewis
Gai Lewis YES
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Phyllis Goss
Phyllis Goss Still have my egg beater
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Sharyn Moorehead
Sharyn Moorehead yes, we made home made egg nog, my little brother loved beating the eggs with the hand held non electric beater.
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Peggy Janson Meyers
Peggy Janson Meyers Marilyn Schneider yes we had homemade eggnog with raw eggs also and we are here to tell about it 3 generations later. Still lick the beaters also after making cake batter or cookie dough. We don’t use cake mixes, but make our cakes from scratch. Yummy when licking the beaters or spatula. ????
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Patricia Schrimpe
Patricia Schrimpe Still have mine, plus an old sifter and potatoe masher, plus lots of cooking and baking utensils from my Grandmother !! We still lick the beaters and eat the raw cookie dough!!
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Joyce Simacek
Joyce Simacek Patricia Schrimpe yes, our family too.
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John Sharpee
John Sharpee Not only the raw eggs, milk straight from the bulk tank in the milk house. Just turn 71, didn't kill me!
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Marilyn Schneider
Marilyn Schneider Sharyn Moorehead
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Margaret Seper
Margaret Seper Marilyn Schneider speaking of raw eggs, my mama used to makes us rice pudding with milk sugar, vanilla and raw eggs, my family loved it.
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Diane Hafemeister
Diane Hafemeister John Sharpee oh yeah. Best tasting milk there is!!
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Debra Culver
Debra Culver Marilyn Schneider i have 2 eggbeaters i use
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Geneva Baisden Gibel
Geneva Baisden Gibel Marilyn Schneider my mom Made that too , it was so good
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Jane Freeman Heyer
Jane Freeman Heyer Marilyn Schneider that’s exactly what my mom did for breakfast!
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Jeanne Thompson
Jeanne Thompson I still have egg beaters!
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Diane Miller Bean
Diane Miller Bean Marilyn Schneider I still have an egg beater!!
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Evelyn Fisher
Evelyn Fisher Patricia Schrimpe I have my Potato Masher too I will not tgrow it out!!!!!!!!!!!
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John Sharpee
John Sharpee Use my masher and beater all the time.
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Betty Franklin
Betty Franklin Marilyn Schneider my mom did too..
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Nancy Jeanne
Nancy Jeanne Marilyn Schneider My mom did that to coax food down a sore throat. I did it with my kids....but now?
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Marlene Adams
Marlene Adams Marilyn Schneider so did my mom..I loved it.
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Evelyn McIlvenna
Evelyn McIlvenna Marilyn Schneider Still have my Mum's eggbeater !
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Carol Westfall
Carol Westfall Marilyn Schneider my mom did that too!
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Barbara Anne Dean
Barbara Anne Dean Marilyn Schneider I've got one right here!! Ah, but alas I do not use it. But it is in our grandchildrens play kitchen. And they know what it's used for ??
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Susan Taylor Benson
Susan Taylor Benson Marilyn Schneider I still have an egg beater!
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Meg Stuart Cummings Quinn
Meg Stuart Cummings Quinn I still make it that way every year. Everyone loves it!!!
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Josephine Jaccodine-Delfs
Josephine Jaccodine-Delfs Marilyn Schneider I did that also
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Evelyn Craig
Evelyn Craig O.M.G. call CPS this child is in danger !! Raw cake batter,standing on a chair unsupervised!! What are they thinking ???
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Fay Broyles
Fay Broyles Evelyn Craig How did we ever survive? Or even our kids. They did the same thing. Never rode in a car seat.
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Kurtis Kinsland
Kurtis Kinsland Remember when she said go outside and play and you didn't come back until the street lights came on with dirt rings around your neck
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Darleen Fust
Darleen Fust We called those dirt rings grandma beads!
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Catherine Allison England
Catherine Allison England Kurtis Kinsland didn’t have street lights. Watched for lightening bugs to rise
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Carolyn Sue Hinrichs
Carolyn Sue Hinrichs Kurtis Kinsland granny rings ?
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Linda Shannon Hunter
Linda Shannon Hunter My mom would wash my face and neck with a warm washcloth. That was the best
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Glema Walker
Glema Walker Darleen Fust , we called 'em "granny beads".
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Maryjane Smith
Maryjane Smith back then we made our own fun all day long if the kids oniy knew how great life was then and so much fun
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Linda Fallon
Linda Fallon No cell phones, no tv during the day. Bare footed, dirt roads, stick swords, Tree forts, cold water from a hose and lots of smiles.
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Joann Millard
Joann Millard My Mom always called the dirt rings "tater rows".
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Barbara Anne Dean
Barbara Anne Dean Kurtis Kinsland and the dirt rings around the neck also left dirt rings around the tub. That was proof of a fun day ??