As far as I know, they could generally all afford as much food as they wanted.
Unless your great grandparents were rich, this seems unlikely. People massively underestimate how much worse and more expensive food was in the recent past. In the 1950′s, people spent a lot of their time thinking about how to get cheaper food, and eating food we would consider to be not particularly good (pretty much everything canned).
Similarly, the best food you mom knows how to make is probably not representative of what your family was eating regularly in your grandparents’ generation.
Going to the gym for 20 minutes every other weekend burns more calories than a 9 hour shift cooking food every day.
I think this is incorrect by a huge margin. Working out actually doesn’t burn very many additional calories at all.
Unless your great grandparents were rich, this seems unlikely. People massively underestimate how much worse and more expensive food was in the recent past. In the 1950′s, people spent a lot of their time thinking about how to get cheaper food, and eating food we would consider to be not particularly good (pretty much everything canned).
Similarly, the best food you mom knows how to make is probably not representative of what your family was eating regularly in your grandparents’ generation.
I think this is incorrect by a huge margin. Working out actually doesn’t burn very many additional calories at all.
Hmm maybe you are right about my great-grandparents food availability, I should look into it more.
The second quote was meant to be a joke.
One thing to consider is food expenditure over time:
People spent twice as much on food in 1950, despite eating out half as much and mostly cooking foods we’d consider extremely cheap today.