The Six Item Grocery List

This past Saturday, our family had our 58th annual family reunion. The last remaining member of “The First Generation” (my father’s siblings) is my Aunt Evelyn. One thing she mentioned really caught my attention. She said that there were only six things that her mother bought from the grocery store:

• Sugar
• Flour
• Salt
• Pepper
• Coffee
• Rice

Everything else needed to sustain their family of mother, father, and ten children came from their farm in Newberry, Florida.