Foods You Thought Were "Healthy" As A Kid

heywithers

Just for fun

What foods did you grow up thinking were healthy for you and could eat as much as you wanted?

Bread/Bread related foods (like Blueberry Muffins.. until I realized muffins are essentially morning cupcakes with no frosting lol)

Butter

Mayo

Alcohol (ok not really when I was a kid but I honestly used to think alcohol had zero calories)

Fruit Juices

Any type of Noodles

miadhail

homecooked food especially my mom's.

My family always emphasized how home cooked food is a lot healthier than fast food's. Of course, in theory, there is some truth, but it can get very calorie dense if not eaten moderately haha.

meshashesha2012

food i thought were healthy were fruits, veggies and in general any food that my mommy and grandmommy made from scratch which was pretty much anything. i was pretty much taught that fast food was unhealthy, juices were unhealthy unless you're making them yourself from the actual fruit, same with soda. heck i couldnt convince my mom to let me have frozen pizza and chips until i was like 12 and even then i could only have a certain number a month

chatnel

The whole low fat fad in the nineties. We used to eat heaps of sweets/lollies thinking it was ok becuase they were 98% fat freee

tprice90

Fruits in excess. "Fruits & Veggies" were basically the same thing in my mind. Of course fruits can be a great part of a good diet, but overdoing it on the sugar obviously isn't.

nikilis

I honestly didn't think about health at all when I was a kid. I was mostly thinking about girls, watching classics like blade runner, predator, aliens and eating a *kitten* bunch of sour candy. like as much as possible. If i found 20 cents I'd walk 2 kilometers just to get my little bag of multicoloured powder or sour coke bottles.

in short, I was on crack.

slkehl

Bagels.

Shadowknight137

Cream.
Milk.
Butter.
Cheese.
Nuts.
Fruit.
Vegetables.
Meats.

And I was correct. All I was incorrect was of all the things I thought were UNhealthy...

Natihilator

Anything with "diet" on the label. Yep, I grew up in a household where Diet Coke, Lean Cuisine and Cheez Whiz Light were kitchen staples. *sigh*

And JUICE! AKA liquid sugar.

alisonlynn1976

Bagels with cream cheese. Muffins with fruit in them.

debi_f

My mom used to make bake-less cheese cake for BREAKFAST on Sunday mornings. Of course, because Mom made it, it was healthy.

Right?

;-)

esme1983

Fruit, fruit juice, diet coke, low fat yogurts, pasta, potatoes, baked beans, rice.... I think more than anything it was the quantities of things. We never portion controlled, I'd come home from school and eat a tin of baked beans, two veggie sausages, and a veggie burger with a cheese slice in white bread... thought it was healthy. I just calorie checked it in my mind and I reckon about 900 cals!!!! All before dinner :explode:

And donughts... lots of donughts, because they were cheap and we didn't have a lot of money. There was always a packet of donghnuts on the side - I never thought they were healthy but because they were small I thought they were fairly benign.

kennie2

fruit juice, like any, now i only get fresh and not from concentrate.
fruit lollys
thats about it actually haha i had a pretty healthy childhood

BeccaBollons

Bread and potatoes (not unhealthy really, its just the quantities we had) a meal wasn't really a meal if we didn't have one or the other!

haidos

I always thought potato was good.
Potato smiles and waffles.

and mushy peas.

irishblonde2011

I always thought alcohol was just liquid so had no calories.
I'm Irish so maybe that was just a wish :laugh:

TreddersPT

These arent really unhealthy in proper portion sizes but I never realised how calorie dense they were

muesli
dried fruit
granola
flapjacks
muffins

MyJourney1960

Orange Juice - Yeah, maybe it is healthy, but we used to guzzle it down like water.

Margarine - which we ate a LOT of, as a cheaper and non-dairy alternative to butter.

Jello - yuk, all that food coloring!

granola - my mother used to make this! and it was so yum that we ate bowlfuls of it!

Now that i think about it, those are probably the only things we ate that really weren't healthy. My late mother had type I diabetes, and was very careful about what she ate, so we ate cooked from scratch meals. We were probably the only kids growing up in the 1960s who didn't have breakfast cereal at home, evah! my mother assumed that it was over processed and over sugared and we were better off eating toast and eggs or hot cereal. I think that our problem was that we just ate too much and the fact that my mother tried to control our food (because she was afraid that WE would get diabetes) contributed to all of us kids being overweight and having unhealthy relationships with food.

hellokathy

Fruchtzwerge! A German mess of sugar and milk...uhm...I mean "fruit yoghurt" for kids.

purplepiggy1

fruit juices, dried fruits, salted nuts and sugary muesli bars!

6spdeg

How about peanut butter.. FULL of hydrogenated oils.

Francl27

I don't have that excuse. I knew it wasn't healthy. I just didn't care. The only thing I could possibly say I thought was healthier (and because really a lot of people still think it's healthy) are fruit yogurts, which really are not.

kellehbeans

Smoothies!

Now we all know that Innocent smoothies are full of unnecessary sugars and making your own is the way forward! :drinker:

saz_fairy

Kids yogurt (the types with heaps of sugar in it and fun packaging),
anything with fruit in it - some how that made it alright, even pop-tarts.
Juice by the liter and fried potato. Potatoes are vegetables right?

I came from a very destructive home-food situation.

lillith1991

Collard greens with salt pork.- it wasn't the greens themselves but the salt pork that was the problem.

Sugar free candy- name explains it enough

Tofu- I was born with very high cholestoral so I wasn't allowed red meat for a few years. Tofu was a staple for the house because of it. Its not bad though.

LouAnn71464

ketchup
pop tarts
any fruit pie
pudding
French fries
potato chips
corn chips
ice cream
chocolate milk
pizza

LyraVega02

Frozen fish sticks. My parents told me they'd make me smart, so I ate a ton. I ended up smart and fat.
Sweet potato casserole at Thanksgiving. You know, canned yams in syrup covered with butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows.
I wasn't a fan of white rice as a kid, but my mom always said it was good for me and I had to eat it, so she'd sprinkle sugar over the top. It was enough that it still crunched when I took a bite. I did hate it when the sugar touched the part of my plate with the mac and cheese, though. I'm still trying to figure out why mac and cheese and rice were ever on my plate at the same time.

aelunyu

Pop tarts for sure. I still eat copious amounts of pop tarts.

CassieReannan

Juice
Flavoured milk
The sugar laden cereals my mum bought
White rice
Copious amounts of milo (with like 6 tablespoons heaped in the glass)

semarsh12

I used to think granola bars were healthy. You know, the soft kind that are dipped in chocolate? Yeah, those. Also, bagels or low fat muffins from Dunkin Donuts.

aquinoz

cookies from Subway...:huh: