i think kids, well, neurotic kids, liek to eat the same thing every day. i always ate a cream cheese and jelly snadwich every day of my childhood without fail. i would have nothing else. there is comfort in complete lack of variety for little ones. it’s amazing i was able to grow to achieve semi-normal adulthood ona diet of just cream cheese and jelly for lunch. sure there was a bit of protein in the evenings, but all i remember is cream cheese and jelly on a sandwich every day, and anger if i got anything else. i guess i woulda been screwed if the price of cream cheese or jelly went thru the roof.

it was also a topic of much mirth among my parents that the only vegetable I would eat was cucumber peelings. yes, the waxy feel. the family would eat salads, and i would eat peelings. this was not economy minded at the time. just liked peelings, basically, garbage. probably pesticide laden. I ate buckets of em. weird. but inexpensive. i have no interets in eating cucumber peelings now and have no recollection of what was attractive about them. after eating probably 3,000 consecutive cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, i just stopped one day and never had another.

i guess people have wildly different ideas about what is necessary in terms of food. Food insecurity is a terrible thing, but there are options on a limited budget.

I remmeber thinking as a kid, those stories of old people eating cat food cause they were broke? why not just have some spaghetti. I wa spretty sure there was no way I was going to eat cat food, no matter how bad it got…