Dharmabum I still do give my kids pasta with tomato soup sauce! Poor is a very different thing these days. We have all mod cons and while we have had to downbrand in the supermarket we never go hungry and yet we have less 'money' than we have ever had in either of our lives. Like many people of my age I was brought up on the buy now pay later which works fine until you hit a glitch and the outgoings outway the incomings. Many are now paying the price for easy credit and will probably think twice before going down that road again.