Bread and Dripping
Four women recall raising families during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The film also looks at the activism of women and the beginnings of the early feminist movement in Australia.
Synopsis
Four women recall raising families during the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s. The interviews are intercut with historical footage of the living conditions of both white and Indigenous families and footage showing events of the time such as protest marches and the Glebe Militant Women’s Group.Curator’s notes
by Damien Parer
This poignant story of survival reminds us of the true battlers, and throws into perspective the current use of the term to describe families living on low incomes.
These brave Australians struggled to survive and raise their families during the Great Depression. The film also looks at the activism of women and the beginnings of the early feminist movement in Australia. It was produced with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission’s (AFC) Women’s Film Fund (WFF) that was available during the 1970s and ’80s.
http://videomedia.aso.gov.au/titles/breadand/breadand2_pr.mp4
http://videomedia.aso.gov.au/titles/breadand/breadand3_pr.mp4
Food Investigators
Food Investigators
The Tough Time War Time DietTimes are tough and families are hurting as they try to put food on the table. But Australians have been through tough times before, especially during the Second World War when rationing and a much narrower range of available foods made life really tough for mum as she tried to keep her family happy and healthy. In The Tough Time War Time Diet the Heptinstall family, mum dad and the four kids spend a week eating like great grandma's family in the 1940s. It's a restricted diet based on limited meat, butter and sugar but packed with fresh fruit and vegetables. With no fast foods, packet mixes, even take-away chicken the family have a big wake-up call. What can we learn in these tough times about how mum, dad and the kids coming together for real family meals makes a real difference?
Obesity and chronic disease
In this week’s episode we answer the 36 billion dollar question, is fat mainly to blame for making more than 60% of Australians overweight or obese? In an earlier episode we discovered that sugar in our diet isn’t the major culprit for the country’s obesity problem, so what role does fat play? And what’s the difference between saturated, polyunsaturated and trans fats? Which are the good ones and which are to be avoided? Joe Avati has the facts on fat.
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The WW11 Diet
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