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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This made me ponder my boomer working class childhood in the "meat, potatoes and a vegetable" era. My mom never worked full time but she always had some kind of part time work outside the house and there were 5 kids.
There was no thinking/planning required other than to remember to take meat out of the freezer. We always had a 50 lb burlap bag of potatoes in the basement, from age 7 or so it was my job to peel them. Boiled or mashed. Sometimes baked or fried. Leftover mashed potatoes became potato patties. Cook meat--burger patties or round steak usually or fried chicken, and my mom always made gravy. Open a can of peas, beans, carrots, or corn.

There was some variety like spaghetti some nights, or waffles, or fish (my brothers caught panfish a lot in the summer) something. But I just realized that routine approach had to have made the mental effort a lot easier, and no worries about ingredients on hand or not.

Some news thing I watched or read described an Italian family which has eaten the SAME MEAL (a stew of beans and vegetables and some meat) every night for decades and how healthy and long lived they all are.

How much of the expectation of variety a cultural or SES thing? Do families in Europe or Asia have to figure out what to make every damned day? 
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Wow what makes you think there was no thinking or planning involved?

My mom worked various part time shifts as a nurse. When she was home for dinner we had meat, canned vegetable or boiled potatoes, and salad (then and now, salad at my parents house is iceburg lettuce and low calorie Italian or low fat ranch). Occasionally a cheesy rice casserole thing or something. On her work nights she made some casserole for my dad to put in the oven. Occasionally my dad did hotdogs on our nights alone. He was actually a great weekend BBQ guy though. Like, he was on a team lol. Anyway, mom stressed about that meal planning every week, I remember. [/quote]

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