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To: yarddog

“I am not sure where I got it, but I have always hated the idea of wasting food”

Me eithr. But I think it comes from being the child of parents who grew up in the depression, then had six kids and we were taught to waste nothing.


5 posted on 06/06/2013 5:02:09 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: freeangel

That pretty much describes my family too.

I do disagree with the Pope that it is like stealing from the poor.


7 posted on 06/06/2013 5:05:43 PM PDT by yarddog (uit.)
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To: freeangel

I was brought up by parents who were children of the Depression and WW2 rationing, and my grandparents had been outright poor when they were children, so I grew up with the “don’t waste food” adage drummed into me.

As an adult I decided it was even worse to treat my body as a garbage can, to make myself consume what I didn’t want and what would only make me fat rather than throwing it away. I don’t push the “don’t waste food” on my children either if they don’t want to finish - rather I encourage them to take a smaller portion to start with and then take more if they are still hungry.


24 posted on 06/06/2013 5:54:49 PM PDT by heartwood
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