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.
No part of the animal went to waste. 5. Fermented & Cultured Foods: Our grandparents ate homemade yogurt, cultured butter and home fermented sauerkraut and pickles not just because they liked the flavor, but because it was the way to preserve foods.. 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.