more about huge meals

A couple of months ago, I posted about Farmer Boy, and about all of Wilder's descriptions of these incredibly huge meals. I always thought these meals were a glorified childhood memory, or some sort of Depression-era wish fulfillment (like Enid Blyton's books - she wrote about lavish meals in the midst of food rationing).
But no, apparently it was true. I went on from Farmer Boy to re-read a bunch of other LIW. I've been meaning to blog about this for a month or two, but kept forgetting. Here's a description of the Wilder family breakfast in 1924 or 1925, written in an article by Rose Wilder Lane*:

"There is a lavishness, an exuberant abundance in farm life....Here are bowls of oatmeal, large dishes of baked apples, the big blue platter full of sizzling ham, with many eggs disposed upon it; here are hot cakes piled by tens and dozens, with melting butter and brown sugar between them, and hashed brown potatoes, Graham bread and white bread, fresh butter, honey, jam, milk and the steaming pot of coffee.
Here are doughnuts or gingerbread to accompany the coffee cups' second filling, and then - for he [Almanzo] was a boy in New England - my father likes just one medium-size wedge of apple pie, to top off the meal and finish the foundation for a good day's work."

*I took this from an article called "Thirty-Mile Neighbors", originally printed in the Country Gentleman on 6 May 1925, reprinted in A Little House Sampler, ed. William T. Anderson (University of Nebraska Press, 1988).