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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What country did you grow up in, OP?

Curious because many of my friends/relatives who grew up in poor countries, and who grew up knowing hunger, actually tend to err on the side of forcing their kids to eat TONS from an early age and fret about them being too thin. They do anything to cajole and bribe their kids (who I personally feel could afford to miss a meal, because I am similar to you, OP) to eat-- and not things like broccoli, but things like chicken nuggets.[/quote]

We did not feel that we knew hunger.
What you don't understand is that in the 1960s, food was not all over the place. Drug stores sold drugs, gas stations sold gas. You went to the supermarket for food or the outdoor markets. If you wanted cookies, you started with flour and sugar...My family was upper middle class and we never felt deprived. However, on occasion, maybe 6 times a year, I don't know for sure, we would get caught in some kind of circumstance that made it hard to get food. So we really were hungry. Not a little hungry, but really bad belly pains. The little ones would cry, we just knew to not make a big deal out of it. My parents never stopped to get something, since that was not so easy, we would just drive home and eat. So, yes I felt more hunger than my kids. I only know of one experience where my dd was so excited to go out with her friend that she forgot to eat before leaving home. They went to the Kennedy Center and somehow, they did not get food. She cried when she came home, and to this date, I can't get her to go there again. That is the only time I know of my kid getting really hungry. 
My parents are well educated, so when we moved here, my mother never fed us junk. She knew about trans fat back in the late 70s. She was really suspicious of what was going into our food, so her skepticism limited our choices. [/quote]

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