My dad used to buy anything but white bread, not because white was crap but because it had no flavor. I still like PB&J on Cincinnati rye (very dark rye made by Klostermans' in Cinci) or Russian rye.

We did get a sweet cereal about once a month (capt crunch..yum) but after it was gone then we had to eat oats or cream or wheat or rice w/milk & sugar. I tried to do as much of that with my kids but my garden was never as large. This year will be first year in almost 10 that I've planted anything. I can't wait! I'll be on here seeking advice ways to keep the varmits out it.

Same here, my mum still does. Funnily enough she was visiting last week and was going through the catalogue of seeds deciding what she was going to order this year. We used to have 4 apple trees but due to some bad fungus (honey fungus I think) they are gone. I still remember climbing the trees in autumn to pick the apples, digging up potatoes for dinner, cutting lettuce for salads and stuff like that. Our neighbour used to grow a bunch of fruits and veg too so we traded with them, home made pies, baskets of fruits and veg and flowers. Sadly the neighbours are now dead and the apple trees are gone but the vegetable plot is still there and going well.

My sister has also found herself in quite a good food situation in London. She works as part of Prince Charles' household so sometimes gets some of the Duchy stuff and a couple of the people she works with have farms so she often gets offered various pieces of organic or close to it meat and produce.

The problem with where I live is that almost my entire 1/2 acre is shaded. There is a small area next to the partial fence that gets sun so I'm going to try and plant some of the more compact veggies/herbs and leave the sweet corn and squash family to the local farmers. I can taste my farmer's market gazpacho now.