ot: ever go without supper?

DENNIS MIN · Dec 24, 2013

All,

As a kid I remember lying to my Dad about feeding the cattle. He caught me in my lie, and I fed them.

To prove a point, at suppertime I got an empty water glass and watched all my siblings enjoy supper followed by all the ice cream they could eat.

Breakfast was good, and lesson learned.

D.

LAA · Dec 24, 2013

My dad used to holler out the back door one time that supper was ready, whoever showed ate all they wanted and tough luck for the tardy. A few of those long hungry nights greatly improved my listening and paying attention skills.

Craig2 · Dec 24, 2013

I can,t remember ever having to go to bed hungry. However all of my boys have went without supper at one time or another because they didn't want to eat what their mom had cooked. Didn't take them long to learn that you ate what was on the table.

pete black · Dec 24, 2013

that's the way it was at home and that's the way when we raised our sons.

caseyc · Dec 24, 2013

Been there and do it to my own kids too. You eat whats on your plate, if not you go to bed hungry. Mine aren't old enough yet for the lying about chores yet but they're getting close...

Casey in SD

farmerwithmutt · Dec 24, 2013

one story i heard about my grandmother she wasnt going to have english spoken if they did they went to bed without supper eventually she learned english and less missed suppers .
i never forgot one nun telling me about food there are people dying for what you got .

da.bees · Dec 24, 2013

I would say that every family should skip comfort food,desert or other unnessary food occasionaly. I don;t aprove withholding food altogeather as punishment.

Ozlander · Dec 24, 2013

When I was a kid, nobody ever asked me what I wanted for supper.

BillinCentralMO · Dec 24, 2013

While I don't disagree with any of the above my experience was quite different. We were always welcome to any food in the house. I found it odd that my friends asked permission for a glass of milk. We drank whatever milk we wanted. No candy or snacks were allowed nor expected right before a meal was really the only rule. Also food was not to be wasted. If Mom made a cake for church or something she also made one for us. As a result food was never a big deal to me even now. And I have never been overweight.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 24, 2013

I remember my dad talking about how the nuns told him that people in Africa were starving to death in the 1930s. His comment was that by now you'd think they'd be dead.

Jiles · Dec 24, 2013

I grew up in a large family with two brothers and three sisters. Dad was a hard worker but wasted a lot on alcohol!
I can clearly remember not having enough to eat, many times, and getting up during the night and sneaking down to a bowl of cornflakes without milk. However there was plenty of beer!
I don't feel sorry for myself, but learned lessons that have stayed with me.
Just upsets me to see all the food that is thrown away at some of our family gatherings today.
I just can't understand why some people pile their plate and only eat a small amount!
My wife and I always clean our plate and if we want more, we go back for seconds.
Changed world?????

DENNIS MIN · Dec 24, 2013

Jiles,

Wasting food or any resource is a problem. Wasting anything for the sake of wasting is just wrong for me.

I remember that hungry night for a reason, it stood out against all the other well-fed nights.

D.

NoNewParts · Dec 24, 2013

never went to bed without supper.
food was fuel and hard workers needed fueling.
grew up in a hard household, waste was not tolerated.
No choice on what was for supper, and you finished what was on your plate.....period

hoof print · Dec 24, 2013

There is a lot of truth to that Bill. Human nature says that you always want what you don't have, and what you are not supposed to have becomes desired

Anonymous-0 · Dec 24, 2013

Dont remember ever going to bed without supper or lying about chores being done. When I was 8, I asked Dad for a calf (and got one) and always considered the care of my animals important.

Pitch · Dec 24, 2013

Food wasn"t always easy at my house. There was always something,but there were a few times that something was squirrell or rabbit.
My old man did whup my butt once because I was whining about greens and game,the preacher showed up and we killed a chicken in the middle of the week,I was not happy!

GordoSD · Dec 24, 2013

I got a new full grown lab, and the first night he was allowed to slep in the house he tore my Dad's (RIP) great old Stetson apart in little pieces. I put those pieces in his food bowl. After three days I thought he got the picture. He never chewed up anything again.

redtom · Dec 24, 2013

I don't personally agree with kids going hungry, my BIL is just the opposite. At our family gatherings he would hover over their little daughter and scream and scream forcing her to eat something she took and didn't like. That's abuse. We had a little rule with our kids that you had to try 3 bites to decide if you didn't like it. We all have dishes we don't like, kids included. By the way, she grew up fat.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 24, 2013

dennis did you come from the same hardnosedgerman line as my folx ?,LOL.. that kinda happened once in our childhood ,, but in all honesty ,, we always had enuf to eat , and enuf resources to get everything in order ,,. to have a nice comfortable life ,.but we never had money to throw around ,,.mist a few evenin meals as an adult , I have worked long hard days , everything was goin well,and hated to loose stride and stop to eat ,,. came in filthy and took a bathe and went rite to bed ,the boys and I have slept on the trampoline exhausted from hay pitchin , before waitin for the rain ... ,. next morning made myself a he- man breakfast,sausage /eggs /fried taters , I can run on them kinda breakfasts til dark

Matt in TN · Dec 24, 2013

My parents never let me go without food. I never lied about chores. Nowadays, I regularly go without supper although I usually have some almonds or a snack size portion of something when I don't "dirty up a plate".

Rust Addict · Dec 24, 2013

(quoted from post at 09:04:44 12/24/13) that's the way it was at home and that's the way when we raised our sons.

Unfortunately in this 'new age' that might be considered child abuse. Anyone here ever been that abused?

Mike (WA) · Dec 24, 2013

Had a battle of wills over liver when I was about 6- I hated it, folks were determined that I was going to eat it. Finally, about 9 o'clock, when the liver was thoroughly cold, I tried eating it, promptly threw up on the table, and without a word I got up and went to bed. I figured I'd get paddled over it, but at that point, I just didn't care. Was surprised when nothing was ever said about it.

That was the last episode of that- they switched to the "try a bite" theory.

howdy1960 · Dec 24, 2013

I heard and didn't respond right away. I had to wait till others were done and got to eat cold food.
My parents were the 'just try a little bit' rule. Finally about age 30 I decided I no longer had to keep trying that sliver of pumpkin pie. Not too much I don't like tho

RBnSC · Dec 24, 2013

Never missed supper but a few whippngs for not feeding the pigs

DENNIS MIN · Dec 24, 2013

j hikemper,

I'm sure my Dad was more upset over me lying, but the sans-supper night was simple, swift, timely, and most of all, effective.

Never was lacking for food, otherwise.

German Dad, German/polish Mom. Hard workers all. Not financially rich, but wealthy nonetheless.

D.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 24, 2013

my parents never did that to us kds and I would never do it either, a really poor way to get a point across in my opinion, we always had 3 main meals with lunch breaks at 10 and 3 when haying or filling silo however at supper time it was take it or leave it and go without,we chose to eat it!, most of the food my mother made was pretty good but I wasn't crazy about eating bullheads and when I was a kid we always had some in the freezer

pete black · Dec 24, 2013

they ate, just didn't like what they ate. didn't
go to bed hungry.

Fergienewbee · Dec 24, 2013

Never went to bed hungry but Dad made me eat my potatoes cold because I dilly-dallied during supper. That was probably 55 plus years ago. Potatoes are the first thing gone to this day.

Larry

gene bender · Dec 24, 2013

I would say that was a great lesson and it sure didnt hurt you to miss one meal. If you didnt feed the animals and lied you sure didnt miss feeding them again or telling a lie. Sometimes the simplest things can be great teachers I was told when i was 4 or so that i could probably outrun my dad but he said im not going to chase you but when you come home for supper ill be here never entered my mind again.

DENNIS MIN · Dec 24, 2013

Gene bender,

You've got it. I've had only the one meal denied me, that'd be the one. I am not the worse for wear because of the skipped meal.

It did instill in me what it was like to not be fed.

My lying to Dad just sealed my fate; he detested lying, as well as thievery.

I think back on how appropriate the lesson was.

Of course my siblings really hammed it up when I was denied the ice cream treatment.

D.

Alan K · Dec 24, 2013

I remember eating liver.....I cringe at the thought of it even now.

DENNIS MIN · Dec 24, 2013

Alan,

Me, too.

D.

Dr. Walt · Dec 25, 2013

Mike:

FRESH Beef Liver (not the month old stuff you get in the stores), sliced Onions, and sliced Mushrooms fried in fresh homemade Butter in a cast-iron skillet. DELICIOUS!!!

Doc

Nathan (SD) · Dec 25, 2013

We had a $100 prime rib last weekend. I cleared the plates from the table. I had 2 more meals from what 6 other people left on their plates.

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