"HK" wrote in message
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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."




I recall costs of school lunches as being about the same. 25 cents for a
full meal and 3 cents for an extra milk.

Go to a modern high school cafeteria now. It would blow you away. Several
choices of hot meals or sandwiches, pizza, salad bars, and, in some towns, a
McDonald's.

Eisboch