The state's $275 weekly maximum benefit hasn't changed in 10 years and is making the economic downturn more painful for Florida residents as more join the unemployment rolls each month. In Massachusetts, unemployed workers collect up to $600 a week.
Give your body the best nutrients and eat these five healthy foods your grandparents ate. 1. Seasonal Produce: While in recent years, seasonal food has been much lauded, our grandparents just didnât have a choice. They ate what was in season because thatâs all that was available.. Food Cooked from Scratch: Since supermarkets didnât exist, neither did boxed meals. Unprocessed, from scratch meals meant our grandparents ate healthy homemade foods every day. Restaurants were a rare treat, not a quick, unhealthy convenience.
So, if we are to eat like our great-grandparents, as Michael Pollan implores, we are to eat a diet with little animal food, heavy in starchy foods like bread, potatoes, and oatmeal.* In her book, Turner states that the majority of Americans in the early 1900s were working-class.ollan may find the diets of our great-grandparents preferable, but from my reading I find them wanting. Our ancestors were, by our standards, poor, and access to food was variable. They ate few fruits and vegetables unless they were wealthy enough to grow them or buy them.