I grew up on the same cooking style , with the exception that sugar was abundant .
No mother milk for me due to infection's on the nozzle's . First 2 weeks sucking sugar water for the powder milk took a while to deliver . It didn't help that my grandfather had a sweets bakery ,... i grave sugar , burn it like ether .
But now i learn to drink some herbal mint thee from the garden ,... without sucker . I guess i took enough sugar during my life to stay a sweet nice dude for a little longer .

Now let's hope this really is mint ,... and not some killing weed that looks like it .
It did smell minty do . ;-)

BTW , one might think i am a obese fat overweight basement dweller , but i am not , 72kg 1,82mtr skinny fit's me better .