Those of us that work from 9 to whenever have the most trouble with this...but I’ve heard that too.
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Let me recite a typical day’s food for a poor farmer in South Carolina who walked behind a plow all day. I lived this way myself until I graduated high school and went straight into the Navy to get out from behind a plow.
Breakfast: two fried eggs, ham, grits with the ham drippings poured on, biscuits made with lard, whole milk, some sorghum molasses over biscuits, butter, coffee.
Dinner: (lunch to you city types) vegetables,(usually field peas, green beans, butterbeans, corn etc. more pork, more biscuits, corn bread, butter, iced tea, maybe some more molasses and or milk, maybe pie and or cake.
Supper: (dinner to you city types) often just some corn bread and milk, maybe some field peas, this was the light meal of the day, you don’t want a full stomach when you go to bed with the chickens and rise with the chickens.
This diet coupled with at least 12 hours of strenous manual labor including at least 25 to 35 miles of walking during the day will keep you as skinny as a broomstick! A lot of people ate this way and lived to be well past eighty and I know whereof I speak.
I know of people who lived the same way, but in my life a big daily breakfast just isn’t gonna happen unless my wife and I get up at 4:45...
Let me recite a typical day’s food for a poor farmer in South Carolina who walked behind a plow all day. I lived this way myself until I graduated high school and went straight into the Navy to get out from behind a plow.
Breakfast: two fried eggs, ham, grits with the ham drippings poured on, biscuits made with lard, whole milk, some sorghum molasses over biscuits, butter, coffee.
Dinner: (lunch to you city types) vegetables,(usually field peas, green beans, butterbeans, corn etc. more pork, more biscuits, corn bread, butter, iced tea, maybe some more molasses and or milk, maybe pie and or cake.
Supper: (dinner to you city types) often just some corn bread and milk, maybe some field peas, this was the light meal of the day, you don’t want a full stomach when you go to bed with the chickens and rise with the chickens.
This diet coupled with at least 12 hours of strenous manual labor including at least 25 to 35 miles of walking during the day will keep you as skinny as a broomstick! A lot of people ate this way and lived to be well past eighty and I know whereof I speak.””
Rip, you must have some age on you guy. My Dad farmed with horses and I am 57. We used tractors when we could but hauling hay (my brother, Dad and I put about 15,000 in the barns every year), fencing, and working cattle was no picnic except compared to farming with horses. My sweaty cap off to you. You probably gained weight in the Navy.
Mark