[Kory]

Originally Posted by Witchchylde

When my daughter was little and we wee dependent on WIC and commodities, they would provide s with potato flakes and powdered milk. I would only use the powdered milk with the potato flakes, since it was undrinkable just as reconstituted milk.

I have since learned that dried potato was a staple of Native American food storage, so we were incidentally using the traditions of our ancestors -- my family is Choctaw.

That's very interesting!
My mom also grew up using powdered milk!
She and her family were poor, so I guess it was a staple for her back then?
That definitely makes sense to use powdered milk in potato flakes!

My mom is a really, really bad cook. :(
I don't know why. My grandfather remarried like three times, and each wife was a really good cook.

And I tell my mom all the time, "Mom, I'm not a master chef or anything... I just follow the damn recipe! It's not that hard!!"

I don't know why my mom sucks so bad at cooking?!
Like, just follow the recipe! You can't mess up if you follow the recipe!