by Estelle High

Created on: August 13, 2008

Learning to eat healthy should start when we are children.
However most of us who grew up in a distant past with mothers that showed their love by making us lots of home cooked goodies.Every time we had a little bobo or got our feeling hurt we were furnished with some delightful treat ranging from home made apple pie to cookies of all description We start early by sticking something in a baby's mouth every time it cries. . We learned early to relate food to love. The more affluent we became the more fat, sugar and salt was added to our diets. Non of that low-fat milk , diet margarine, fake eggs for us. We got real milk and cream from Elsie the well known cow, whole eggs from fat little hens and we stirred or melted butter in every thing we ate.

By the time we had our own children things were changing. There was Adele Davis teaching us a little something about nutrition and preventive vitamins. I rolled fish in mayonnaise and wheat germ and baked it in the oven. Even served my family fried liver with a coating of wheat germ.
Hard to believe there was a time when we thought liver was healthy. Must have been before we learned the role the liver played in the body and the use of pesticides that ended up there. I found that cod liver oil gave my kids shiny hair.

My father had made me take a spoonful every morning in the winter. Followed down by half an orange which got the awful taste out of my mouth. Rice is a stable of millions of people. Guess because it is so versatile and relatively cheap. When times were lean which they were most of the time when my children were young we ate a lot of rice. Some times I would cook several pounds of rice , serve it for breakfast with sugar, cinnamon and milk. What was left would be made into Spanish rice for supper. Lucky they got school lunches to round their food intake out. Made lots of cabbage soup with potatoes, and green beans, which was a very healthy dish even by today's standards.

I guess my kids were mostly grown before I discovered eating out. Mc Donald was a real but rare treat when you have a big family. Any time I got to a real restaurant, which was sometimes once or twice a year, I always ordered fried shrimp. The shrimp was very large in those days and served fried crisp with tarter sauce. But the meal I liked to eat out most was breakfast. Always made me feel rich to eat breakfast out and not have to clean up the mess. I still like to eat out
by now my tastes have been exposed to many different types of food. Most

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