civil war.

I think that the point of the book I'm reading is about food, i think its what it is like back then with the food, and how it has changed, also i think that it is also about how hard it was to cook back then and how it is so much easier now, we have ovens, microwaves and everything not like back then when they have to use fire, and they have to sometimes let there food sit out so it can like cool down or get cold because they don't have refrigerators. In my story I'm going to have a character being a mom for someone who is in war and 2 kids. This mom will want to always have food for her family. The conflict in mine is going to be that she doesn't have enough food for the dad when he gets home because he is really hungry and back then they only have around 1 meal and one meal is a small serving size, for example: 2 pancake things serves 2 people, and it is not like you can go out and buy groceries, its harder for them to get there food. I haven't really made up my mind on what i want to write about yet...