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We ate what was put in front of us happy we ate each day some things I never found to my liking.

Nothing close to Heinz except Hunts maybe #2.

I have no idea if we had ketchup or not or what kind it was I hate the stuff.

I remember the powdered milk ......living in the trailer park...

Ate government cheese and peanut butter out of the big white cans if anyone remembers those and not much else, only Christmas present I can remember was a matchbox car I got from a social worker. My parents were not people to look up to, my brother joined the Army and I followed in his footsteps, i made a career out of it. Went to college after and have a good job. Now my kids biggest concerns are why can we only have 2 cookies as a snack, they will never feel what my childhood was like even if I had to work myself to death

We always had enough to eat, but not much else. We always had Heinz ketchup, and Hellman's Mayo in the fridge, and once in awhile ice cream,Breyers was best but the local WAWA at the time made good vanilla fudge twirl (still my fav flavor of ice cream).

Dad hunted a lot in the fall and fished for trout in the spring, so we had trout 3 times a week in spring, with home fries and stewed tomatoes, and in the fall we had all sort of wild game, aside from deer LOL Dad wasn't much a deer hunter and in the 70's there were as many deer in Pa as now.

When married we were barley scraping by, and discovered beaver was fine eating, along with rabbits, squirrels and the occasional road killed deer. Kids said they never felt r thought of themselves as poor.

I remember eating sugar sandwiches when we ran out of peanut butter, jelly and bologna.
I had to wear hand me down clothes. Trouble was, I only had older sisters...
I wore nails coming through the cut out cornflake box soles of the two dollar shoes that don't fit my foot through most of high school.
We was so po, we couldn't afford the other 'O' or the 'Arra', (For all y'all rich folks, that's how po people say the letter 'R'.)
I'd like to say we was fine with it, but is surely did suck.
Gas station bought Christmas presents, or a bandana blindfold for playin in the street. "Why don't you go play in the street, and don't your blindfold I bought you. I paid good money for that." When your poor, everything said to have cost 'good money', weren't.
We got beat, because the ole man didn't ever give us nothin to take back. It would go like this, "If you don't start acting right I'm gonna take away your...
now turn around and bend over."

Mayonnaise and mustard sandwiches with no meat.

Fried spam and box macaroni and cheese now that’s broke food and I ate a lot of it

Yep grow up so poor we had no mixer or olives...

We was poor, but I still had AKC and/or UKC hounds, but after I was better enabled I found out sometimes the Heinz 57 ones were the best !

We were so poor,,,if we went to Kentucky Fried Chicken,,we had to lick other peoples fingers.Blues singers came to our house for inspiration.

I believe Heinz is owned by John Kerrys wife.

Hunts in my house.

The ketchup from Aldi when I was a kid was called Toms Ketchup. It was actually some good ketchup. I guess we were more worse off than I figured.

Never knew we were poor, figured everyone ate fried farina, lol

I don't think we were allowed to have a preferred for ketchup, but "sodie" crackers were absolutely positively going to be Nabisco Premium Saltines.

What happened to Heinz "57" on the bottle???