The food supply was completely different, home made bread to home baked goods of any sort. No fast snack foods like nacho Doritos. The only things that were available were peanuts and candy. Penny candy came in all sorts of colors and sizes for a nickle you would get a good bag of candy. This is some thing may be we would have once a month. Ice cream was a festival in itself with no refrigeration, we could buy an ice cream cone at the Ice cream parlor or should I say country drug store. This happened very seldom.
 
Summer time we had an abundance of fresh vegetables and fruit. I remember overeating on local strawberries. Every summer I would have a bad case of hives. When winter came back to just canned veggies and fruit. What change from than to now with all our supermarkets and fresh produce. That is something I don’t miss of the good old days. We only had fresh meat in the winter because that was the time they could butcher. The weather was cool enough to let the meat hang we had our outside refrigerator. Mom would can lot of the meat, maybe a hundred quarts. It would take forever to boil in the jars or we would put the jars in the oven and bake four hours.
 
This was all done a wood stove you had to keep the temperature exactly at the right degree. One would have to be a professional at keeping the Fire going. We children were the wood packers!
 
Wintertime we would make homemade Ice cream, because we had lot of ice which was available. Living in Wisconsin, the cold cold, winters, and I mean cold, we would stand around the heating stove and eat our ice cream! We enjoyed every bite.