Thanks for posting!
My parents were depression kids, born in the early '30s. My dad's father was born in 1897, so I learned a lot from the way he lived; in the 1980s he still lived like the rural 1920's - outdoor toilet (outhouse), the bath tube was a metal tube in the kitchen, canning vegetables, gardening, hand-wash clothes, syrup-making, etc.
I grew up on food similar to that. And my wife and I still eat similar meals from time to time. Fried cabbage and weenies are good too.
But, my daily summer lunch as a kid was: purple-hull peas, cornbread, corn on the cob, fresh tomatoes and onions, fried okra, and maybe chow-chow (southern hot-sweet relish; like a salsa) on the side...all products from my dad's garden. He has worked in a garden every year now from over 70 years...and has a huge patch of turnip and mustard greens right now. My parent still can and freeze lots of food every year.
My wife and I make our own sour dough bread every week - been doing that for about a year now; one loaf a week. We make our own sauerkraut; which is great stuff! Our cabinet is full of jams, jellies, and preserves from our garden. Good Stuff!
