Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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I don't recall my mother ever serving powdered milk. We did try
powdered eggs...once.


When a gallon of whole milk climbed up to about 80 cents a gallon, my
mother tried to save by using the powdered junk. With three kids in
the house, we went through quite a bit of milk.

Eisboch


I was the only kid in the house and not much of a milk drinker, so a
quart lasted a week at home. Besides, in those days, in grammar school,
a container of milk was served each day, along with two graham crackers,
to every kid in public school. Whether they liked it or not. We kids who
could pay a few pennies a day for the milk did so, and it was free of
charge to kids who couldn't pay. I seem to recall a significant number
of foods supplied at cost to the public schools back then through
various farm subsidy programs. A complete hot lunch at junior high was
only 20 or 25 cents. That included an appetizer of soup, salad or jello,
a hot meal with some sort of beef, chicken or fish, two veggies and a
dessert. The fish was always served on Fridays, naturally, and typically
was fish sticks. Not bad, though. Still, a lot of kids brought their
lunch to school.

I wouldn't trade growing up then for growing up now. The world I grew up
in was much better than the one we have today. Well, except for "Duck
and Cover."