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When childhood food scarcity affects adult eating choices

I grew up poor eating government cheese and now I can afford good food but I still feel guilty spending money on ingredients my family would call fancy even though it's just normal groceries.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic trauma around food persists long after material circumstances change, binding us to old limitations.

Ideas that help explain it
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