I packed lunches every morning even when I worked outside of home–peanut butter or tuna on whole wheat, apple or orange, salad in a dish and a cookie (only one, not too big) or single serving chips. Soup in a thermos in the winter and milk money (no chocolate in those days). Sometimes, juice in the thermos–no little boxes and such. Brown paper bags and waxed paper sandwich bags–mostly reused all week. Four children…nobody fat—never more than a simple cold for any of them—environmentally responsible adults.

My primary responsibility was to feed my family what was then called “proper” meals as economically as possible. It is hard to believe that someone shells out money for the meals described by Mrs. Q. Ugh!