SURVIVAL BOMBS As a typical farm family of the time, we weren’t exactly in danger of starving. There were plenty of canned vegetables, sauces, eggs, potatoes, milk , cream and home-churned butter. But ,there were only a few packages of meat —pork. We had brought home only enough from the locker plant for a week. It was kept our back porch entry way that doubled as a walk-in freezer in those constant subzero winters. …show more content…
The lighter things dad had carried back in an old grain sack when he made a frigid, grueling walk to town over the snow banks, but, the larger things, like a 50 pound bag of flour and the 10 lb. bag of sugar, were too heavy. No flour or sugar meant no bread, no donuts , no cookies , no pancakes, no syrup and worst of all no