Where Our Food Came From.

In the pre-apocalyptic early days of your father's and my marriage (before the planet we live on was totally and irreversibly fracked), food was very easy to come by to residents of the United States. In fact, a common problem of the day was learning how to consume fewer calories to avoid the diseases of over-eating!

During this halcyon time, a person could go to a place called a "grocery store" and find everything she could possibly want (except sometimes spelt flour) to cook or bake, no matter what the season. Here is a scene that was perfectly ordinary in our lives at this point: me, pushing my personal shopping cart into the house after a mundane shopping trip that did not involve running down and harpooning a mutant squirrel or wrestling people from a neighboring tribe for a few acorns.


Look at what bounty we had available to us!


(And also, the cart was useful as a clothes-dryer once we'd put the food away.)