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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom was a child in the depression.  The cost of food
for a family during the depression was 25% of your
income. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/spending-on-food-reaches-a-new-historical-low-and-its-nothing-at-all-like-the-great-depression.

Up until 1952, the cost of food for a family averaged
22% of your income.

Food in USA is now a very low percentage of family income.
Food costs average 5.6% of family income now.

Mom always carefully parceled out foods at family meals
but she came from an era when food for the family was
a costly part of the family budget.

Children were expected to eat what was prepared for a meal.  If the children did not like the meal that an adult
spent a fair amount of time preparing then the child
would get a chance to eat again in 4 hours.  There
was not a lot of the extreme catering to children that
you see now. The all day snacking for children
did not exist in Mom's time.  You ate breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.  You did get a good dessert after dinner
Yea!

If your 60-70-80-90 year old family members are
less generous with food it may be because they grew up
in a time in which food was a major (25%) of the family budget and families had to be very very careful with
food costs in order to still pay the rent, heat etc.

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Or they are just stingy a-holes with control and mental issues. My MIL is a rather mean four feet nine inches, and he’ll if I’m going to apologize for eating because she eats like a bird. [/quote]

Agreed.

The PP's excuse only works if they are just as weird about other things that used to be proportionally much more expensive. Elders used to be pretty apprehensive about long distance calls (used to be insanely expensive), but it's rare to find a grandparent now that doesn't get that long distance calls within the US are effectively the same price as calling your neighbor in the same town. They still want to talk to the grandkids on the other coast, for example.

People are more weird about food because of control issues and what food and weight mean in our social context, at least to them.[/quote]

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