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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, we ate less. Food was less readily available and more complicated to prepare. Chickens came whole, not cut up. Fewer choices at the grocery, so food was less appetizing. MUCH less variety. Just Uncle Ben's rice, no Basmati or Jasmine rice. If you wanted oatmeal, you took out a pot, and the ingredients and stood there stirring. No instant food. Also, the few instant things that were available tasted horrible. No frozen pasta dishes, or frozen pizzas. Ice cream, three flavors. Stuff got repetitive so you ate less. Fewer restaurants of all types, plus the cost of a meal out was higher relative to people's incomes. Food only sold in grocery stores, so if you went into a department store or drug store, no food. Events were not food centered. A typical birthday party was cake (small, homemade), chips, and soda. One bag of chips for 12 kids. 
I have always wanted PBS to do one of those back in time reality shows back to 1971. It would be fun. [/quote]

I was a kid in the 70's and I distinctly remember eating packets of instant oatmeal (maple and brown sugar was my fave) and packets of instant cream of wheat with sugar and butter mixed in.  We also ate sugary cereals - Coco Puffs, Lucky Charms, Captain Crunch, Fruit Loops - remember all of those kid cereal commercials on t.v.? I sure do.  Oh, and Pop Tarts - we ate those, too.

We also brought Hostess snack cakes to school in our lunches.

We were skinny because we walked and biked everywhere.  To/from school.  To/from our friends' houses, the playground, the pool.  I often walked a couple of miles to the grocery store and back.

We also helped our parents with yard work - mowing lawns, leaf raking, pulling weeds, planting flowers, etc.  We helped clean the house, straighten up the basement storage areas, cleaned up the garage.

Nowadays, kids get driven everywhere and, more often than not, people hire lawn and cleaning services to take care of household chores.  [/quote]

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