You forgot the butter. It was REAL butter. My grandma was widowed with seven kids. Two oldest were in military WWII They got by and grandma could make wonderful meals from very little My aunts are not much older than I am. Dad was the oldest and We visited grandma every Sunday with a bag or two of groceries and she insisted we take some of her real butter home with us — For her home made bread (we usually had oleo )
Grandma only had a six grade education. She cleaned house and scavenged at the city dump and sold items from her garage Later in life she took care of the elderly in their homes. All seven of her children got college educations.