There's that inspiring lyric from a Stephen Sondheim song that goes, "In the Depression, was I depressed? Nowhere near..."
Eating is always a mood-elevator (for me anyway, so pass the tuna noodle casserole this way). During the most grim days of the Great Depression, my great-grandmother (who had once run a boarding house), put terrific meals on her family's table because she was a great cook and knew how to stretch a buck. There are still cooks around, like the legendary Clara on YouTube,
