thanks for the memory trip ! I remember I worked in the kitchen at school to earn my meals. Government must have given the schools rice either cheap or free cause we had 'spanish rice' at least twice a week. I hated it and here I was working for it! mother would made enough food for their noon meal so my sister and I could then make supper as we were farmers and mother and dad milked 12- to 15 cows by hand and appreciated the evening meal ready when they finished.
We also raised hogs, sheep, and LOTS of chickens. the cracked eggs we kept for ourselves. now days are they thrown away? Mother also was a great cook and baked lots of bread.