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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skatalite" data-source="post: 1935332" data-attributes="member: 6808">I grew up in an area of southern California that wasn't the best of neighborhoods, and what I'm about to write is from personal experience.My family was never on welfare or anything like it, but I had a lot of friends who were. While some things might be different now, back then, at the first of the month, the parents would make one large trip to the grocery store to buy groceries for the entire month. They limited driving because gas costs money and they didn't have enough money to spare sometimes.The food they would buy would be non-perishables: canned goods, frozen dinners, mostly. Fresh food didn't last long, and was considered a luxury to many of my friends' families. They'd buy fresh items, make a big dinner and freeze/stretch it out as long as they could, but, sure enough, it'd get eaten and the family would have to resort to TV dinners and canned spaghetti.So, these kids grow up with poor nutrition/eating habits, and it followed them into teenage and adult years. I have a friend, Brad, who hates authentic Italian, or even fresh, homemade Italian, because it doesn't taste like Ralph's brand canned spaghetti. He doesn't blame his parents for this, and makes a good point in that, back then, nutritional information and education wasn't as readily available.While some people are completely dumb when it comes to their/our money, some simply do everything they can with what they have.</blockquote>

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