This is how I grew up. My mom canned everything-she canned suckers (fish) & made it taste like salmon (which she loved) This is how I learned. 1/2 acre garden with everything-I ate lunch in a willow tree (without a salt shaker) tomatoes, green peppers & cucumbers. We didn't go to big stores. milk man came around - she baked all our bread, pies, donuts, cakes etc
as a child we went around the neighborhood with a wagon filled with strawberries & sold for spending money. I was too young to pick at a strawberry farm for .10 cents a quart. We grew up working but never saw it as work, it was a way of life. Best of all I turned out perfect (ha) ly healthy that is.