Re: Mediterranean Diet
Re: Mediterranean Diet
Re: Mediterranean Diet
Also our vegetables and fruit were grown without all the chemical fertilisers etc. They weren't genetically modified. Our meat, chickens were grown without added hormones. They were just grass, hay eating. Our milk was unadulterated, just straight out of the cow. Our only preservatives were salt, sugar, vinegar etc.Re: Mediterranean Diet
Re: Mediterranean Diet
BV I also wonder whether our modern farming practices are causing lots of problems with health. I know over here Asthma and allergies are on the increase, especially children with allergies. The worst one that springs to mind are peanuts. Here now products have to be labelled if there is any chance of peanuts in them and now they ban any products in schools that may have them. Children are not even allowed to take peanut butter sandwiches or lollies that include peanuts.Re: Mediterranean Diet
Hi Sandi. I agree with you about food additives that may be causing some illnesses. We have had the peanut warnings for quite a long time now. Many of our products will even state 'this product has been prepared in an area that may contain nuts'. When I was very young, I remember at Christmas and New Year, everyone tucking into nuts but I don't remember anyone ever being allergic to them - I wonder if nut allergies are a recent thing?Re: Mediterranean Diet
Yes I wouldn't be surprised BV but also our lives have become a lot easier than our Parents and Grandparents. No washing machines, no motorised lawn mowers, all wood fires and my Parents hot water system was wood too. I still remember having to cut the wood to put in the Chip Heater as it was called in those days, to heat the water for the bath. Wood to cut for the old copper in the laundry and for cooking and heating. It had to be chopped and then carried to where it was to be stacked. I used to have to feed the chickens, ducks and turkeys every morning and night, collect the eggs, wash out their drinking water tub, and fill with clean water. Separate the milk from the cow and wash up the separator. Then at weekends it was my job to clean out the two chookhouses and bucket the manure up the yard, ready for dad to put it on the garden. I hated that job so much as we had over 200 chooks, ducks and turkeys and they poop a lot. Each morning and night I had to fill the wood boxes up ready for the fires and bucket the coal up.Re: Mediterranean Diet
No you are right I often mutter when I am vacuuming how lucky I am to have one, I remember sweeping/beating carpets and the old carpet sweeper that we had before the electric hoover. Also our washing was done in the garden shed in a large "copper" with an open fire under it to heat the water. Took two grown women to carry it outside to empty the water out. So very lucky these days.Re: Mediterranean Diet
Crikey Sandi, you were kept busy!Re: Mediterranean Diet
I think they would be a lot happier in those days than they would have been now. We have some things easier work wise but there's a lot more stress for us than they had. Most women stayed home and looked after the children and did the housework. Imagine what they would think of having to go out to work, come home and get meals and do everything else when you are dog tired and just want to go to bed. If they had parties, everyone was involved in getting everything ready and doing baking so that it didn't fall on one person. They all contributed with food, they helped each other out in times of need, neighbours looked after each other. If someone was sick they gave a hand, taking turns to prepare meals, maybe looking after the children, doing the washing etc.
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