Popular options for kids today are pizza, cheeseburgers, macaroni and cheese, and chicken nuggets. While processed foods were available, but limited, in the 1930s, 60% of what we eat today is made up of highly processed foods. However, food today is more readily available through large and small grocery stores. 78 Mary Evans Picture Library, 81 Private Collection/Roger-Viollet, Paris/Bridgeman Images, 85 North Wind Picture Archives. microclimate, adding to the growing wind erosion in adjacent deltaic. These monoculture farming methods are a large contributor to global warming. Jason Evans (Australia), Vincent Favier (France), Erich Fischer (Switzerland). Today: Today’s farms have largely become monocultures (growing one specific crop or raising one type of livestock), and most are owned by corporations, rather than families. McDonald’s did not exist until the 1940s. Jell-o was a cheap protein source and found its way into many cookbooks during the Depression. During the Depression, casseroles and meals like creamed chipped beef on toast, chili, macaroni and cheese, and creamed chicken on biscuits were popular. If you were lucky to live on a farm not ravaged by the Dust Bowl, you might have grown a variety of crops and raised small amounts of livestock. 1930s: Food was scarce for a lot of families and many children suffered from malnutrition.
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