What was your diet like growing up?
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Typical meat/starch/vegetable, or pasta/sauce/meatballs. Bread & butter. We didn't often have dessert or soda, except on Friday night late my dad would make homemade pizza and we had soda pop with pizza while watching the late monster movies.
My dad ate eggs & toast every morning so sometimes I would have that. Or my mom would make me french toast. Sometimes cereal, though it was usually like raisin bran or something, not the really sugary stuff, but I would add my own sugar.
We did have stuff like chips & popcorn. Way back when, candy bars were inexpensive and whenever we had money we would walk to the corner store and buy candy. When I was like high school age, I would buy a pound of M&M's and stay up all night reading and eating the whole bag.
I didn't really put on weight until I was older.0 -
My parents both grew up at the end of the depression so their thoughts on food were to eat every part of the plant/animal. Because of this I was a very adventurous eater. I always had to try something at least once but if I didn't like it I didn't have to eat it. Not much I don't like (this is a problem ha ha) We always had a garden and dad hunted and we raised our own beef. I was not allowed too many sugary things and if we had them they were homemade. Dinner was always homemade except for the rare pizza or chinese food. However, I think that because my mom was from the depression era the frankenfoods facinated her and during the 70s we did have some boxed stuff and there was always Crisco, Gold n' Soft Margarine, and Miracle Whip in the fridge. Three things I would never eat now! Anyway, I feel I had a very balanced food experience growing up. I just like food and when I'm bored I like to eat it.....but I'm trying to fix that
I think this sums it up for me. Except my mom was enamored of frankenfoods. My mom was born in 1927 and my dad in 1924, so definitely depression era kids coming of age during WWII. But BOY did my mom embrace frozen and boxed convenience foods. I think to her they represented "status" and even "success". We weren't rich. Solidly lower middle class. My dad was the first with a "white collar job" in my family, but man did we like our shake and bake!0 -
GaleHawkins wrote: »We grew 70% of our plant based food and kept it by canning and freezer and killed our own pork and beef.
Jello was our go to desert since mom worked out in the fields with the rest of us but she was a good cook and was good at making pies and cakes from time to time. I was gone from home before there was sodas and ice cream in the house on a regular bases.
Carbs and protein were our go to calories but did eat animal/dairy fats too.
Gale, that sounds like an idyllic childhood.
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farmers_daughter wrote: »Dude don't even talk to me about being picky, because I didn't have the option, if you didn't eat what was on your plate, you wore it in your pants. You heard me right. Dad would put it in our underwear. Try sitting with mashed potatoes and corn in your underwear, yep I did. And they say I'm fine, I don't have issues with food. mmmmmhmmm.
Im sorry but this just cracked me up. Poor @farmers_daughter
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CoconuttyMummy wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »We grew 70% of our plant based food and kept it by canning and freezer and killed our own pork and beef.
Jello was our go to desert since mom worked out in the fields with the rest of us but she was a good cook and was good at making pies and cakes from time to time. I was gone from home before there was sodas and ice cream in the house on a regular bases.
Carbs and protein were our go to calories but did eat animal/dairy fats too.
Gale, that sounds like an idyllic childhood.
Thanks to Google I know what idyllic means.
I had to work hard daily and read into the night. It was a hard life but there was stability that most kids to not get to experience so much these days. There were few unknowns and bad surprises. I can not believe some of the horrors some kids face daily at home.
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GaleHawkins wrote: »CoconuttyMummy wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »We grew 70% of our plant based food and kept it by canning and freezer and killed our own pork and beef.
Jello was our go to desert since mom worked out in the fields with the rest of us but she was a good cook and was good at making pies and cakes from time to time. I was gone from home before there was sodas and ice cream in the house on a regular bases.
Carbs and protein were our go to calories but did eat animal/dairy fats too.
Gale, that sounds like an idyllic childhood.
Thanks to Google I know what idyllic means. I had to work hard daily and read into the night. It was a hard life but there was stability that most kids to not get to experience so much these days. There were few unknowns and bad surprises. I can not believe some of the horrors some kids face daily at home.
I would have given anything just to have a mum and dad there with me as i was growing up. My grandma raised me, and although she did her best, nothing beats the security and consistency of being raised by loving parents. Nowadays broken families and dysfunctional upbringings are prevalent which has hugely negative social implications in the longrun- a proper loving family for a child is priceless. IMO everything else is secondary.
Going back to the OPs question, the food i ate as a child was your typical carb heavy rubbish. In fact, thinking back, most meals were based around carbs - lots of pasta dishes, sausage & mash (where the mash
was 80% of the meal), baked potatoes with beans, beans, tinned spaghetti or ravioli on toast, deep pan pizza, filled yorkshire puddings, porridge, cereal or toast for breakfast, sandwiches & crisps for lunch with a slice of cake (battenberg was the favorite, served daily), rice pudding or bananas & custard for pudding... and then to be 'healthy' i was made to drink skimmed milk (urgh!) and low-fat sugar-laden yogurts and that rubbish low-fat cream substitute, Elmlea,. Carbs carbs CARBS!
My solution was to go on Slim-Fast shakes at 14 yrs old. Disaster!
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »My parents both grew up at the end of the depression so their thoughts on food were to eat every part of the plant/animal. Because of this I was a very adventurous eater. I always had to try something at least once but if I didn't like it I didn't have to eat it. Not much I don't like (this is a problem ha ha) We always had a garden and dad hunted and we raised our own beef. I was not allowed too many sugary things and if we had them they were homemade. Dinner was always homemade except for the rare pizza or chinese food. However, I think that because my mom was from the depression era the frankenfoods facinated her and during the 70s we did have some boxed stuff and there was always Crisco, Gold n' Soft Margarine, and Miracle Whip in the fridge. Three things I would never eat now! Anyway, I feel I had a very balanced food experience growing up. I just like food and when I'm bored I like to eat it.....but I'm trying to fix that
I think this sums it up for me. Except my mom was enamored of frankenfoods. My mom was born in 1927 and my dad in 1924, so definitely depression era kids coming of age during WWII. But BOY did my mom embrace frozen and boxed convenience foods. I think to her they represented "status" and even "success". We weren't rich. Solidly lower middle class. My dad was the first with a "white collar job" in my family, but man did we like our shake and bake!
It seriously must have been exciting to have all those choices not really realizing that it was crap. Now I look at that stuff and laugh. I don't think I have one boxed item in my house now. I guess when the apocalypse hits I'll starve ha ha.0 -
It probably seemed very "liberating" to my 30-40 something year old mom.Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »My parents both grew up at the end of the depression so their thoughts on food were to eat every part of the plant/animal. Because of this I was a very adventurous eater. I always had to try something at least once but if I didn't like it I didn't have to eat it. Not much I don't like (this is a problem ha ha) We always had a garden and dad hunted and we raised our own beef. I was not allowed too many sugary things and if we had them they were homemade. Dinner was always homemade except for the rare pizza or chinese food. However, I think that because my mom was from the depression era the frankenfoods facinated her and during the 70s we did have some boxed stuff and there was always Crisco, Gold n' Soft Margarine, and Miracle Whip in the fridge. Three things I would never eat now! Anyway, I feel I had a very balanced food experience growing up. I just like food and when I'm bored I like to eat it.....but I'm trying to fix that
I think this sums it up for me. Except my mom was enamored of frankenfoods. My mom was born in 1927 and my dad in 1924, so definitely depression era kids coming of age during WWII. But BOY did my mom embrace frozen and boxed convenience foods. I think to her they represented "status" and even "success". We weren't rich. Solidly lower middle class. My dad was the first with a "white collar job" in my family, but man did we like our shake and bake!
It seriously must have been exciting to have all those choices not really realizing that it was crap. Now I look at that stuff and laugh. I don't think I have one boxed item in my house now. I guess when the apocalypse hits I'll starve ha ha.
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Always convenience type carbage. From boxes and bags all the time. On holidays, such as Valentine's day, we would hit the stores that evening to buy the discounted chocolate, take it home and eat until it was gone. Usually would feel sick but learned to binge at a young age.0
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I was born in November of 1982. By 6 weeks of age I was having rice cereal 3 times a day as I was a "hungry baby". Mum quit breastfeeding by 4 months.
I'm from New Zealand so you might not all know the brands I am referring to. But breakfast was alwaya cereal with low fat milk. Ricebubbles or cornflakes. Truck loads of sugar.
Lunch was a vegemite or golden syrup sandwich, a biscuit (cookie) and something else like some luncheon or a small bag of chips. Sometimes yoghurt. Always a bottle of cordial (erm...powdered orange flavoured sugary drink stuff you add to water).
After school we would have a small snack, maybe some biscuits and a glass of milk. Or fruit.
Dinner was always the obligatory meat and 3 veg. Lamb chops I remember eating a lot. Also peas, soggy broccoli, mashed potatoes and boiled carrots.
We didn't usually have a pudding, but if we did it was icecream or an instant type.
As a teenager my mum got quite good at cooking. We had lots of chicken + veg stirfries, chicken pies made with filo pastry and lots of baked goods.
We never really had fizzy drinks or lollies (candy). We went to pizzahut a couple of times a year to celebrate birthdays.
My mum did her best, she had only just turned 18 when I was born and dad left not long after. I only got overweight as a 12 year old when I was sent to live with my dad. Most things she made from scratch and we didn't often eat generic packaged goods especially as she got better at cooking and baking.0 -
Kitnthecat wrote: »Yup, we had that comment about starving children in our house too. I can't remember which countries these starving children were from or how I could help them by finishing my supper.
I never made the connection when I was a child either LOL!Kitnthecat wrote: »I also remember having to sit at the table until our dinner was finished, if we didn't like something we were eating. We did not have a choice of what we wanted to eat, since everyone ate what was cooked that day.
We did that too....! We are from the same era.
Dan the Man from Michigan
Same here. I was usually the first one done eating, unless it was spaghetti night and I would be there half the night until they got tired of it and let me get up. I detest Ragu to this day because of this. Part of my disdain for McDonalds is that I used to have to wait 15-20 minutes longer because I didn't want onions on my burger. Why it was so difficult to give me a plain burger and a few ketchup packets I'll never understand.
I just thought of something else, my parents wouldn't let us have a dessert (if we had any) unless we finished eating everything on the plate. They would watch us very carefully, (if they turned their heads, we could dispose a few Brussels sprouts pretty quickly in our pocket or under the table...LOL!) dessert was usually Jello, popsicles or if we were really good, ice cream. (just piling up the carbs....)
Dan the Man from Michigan
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My German mom is a pretty good cook. We had a decent diet for the time and place. I remember had a hard time eating so much fatty meat and did a lot better with seafood. The one thing I truly could NOT hang with though was canned green (greyish) beans which we had to finish. I got really good at wiping with a napkin and getting the entire amount of beans into the napkin. She always made dessert so pies and cakes were common.
One quick dinner story . . . My older brother had just bought a Beatles album and was playing it in the living room. We all sat down to eat and it was still playing. We never listened to anything like that with my mom or dad around. Anyway, the song Help was playing. I think everyone was wanting to see if just this one time we might get away with it. So.we sat awkwardly there like that for a little while-- nobody saying a word. All of a sudden my dad yelled, "Will somebody please help that poor Son of a B$@!(/ . . . and then turn that damn stereo off"0 -
My family was fairly poor so we ate what we could afford. I remember salmon patties, macaroni and cheese, fried potatoes, beans and cornbread, lots of buttered bread, bologna and cheese, cereal, hamburgers, hot dogs, etc. etc. My fave times were going to Grandma's house, where we would always have biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast then she and I would stay up half the night watching Elvis movies while drinking sodas and eating an entire "milk carton" of Whoppers candy. That happened atleast once a week for I'd hate to guess how long. In high school, I would always pocket my lunch money so I could buy cigarettes instead and usually just forked out enough to buy a Coke and Honey Bun. High school is the only time I remember ever being thin, but that was due to being more interested in other bad things for me rather than food.0
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We never had "exciting" snacks, just plain vanilla ice cream, pistachio pudding, wheat bread. When it came to dinner my mom would cook various Filipino dishes that has tons of veggies, fish, chicken, pork.. Mmm... Of course I had all that with rice. My dad would take us fishing on the weekends and that was part of out meals. We rarely are fast food. We would have fruits also. My parents didn't have much money, but we has special BBQ days where we had steaks and jot dogs. Once a month mom would take me out to McDonald's. I never craves it. I loved her cooking. So fresh and yummy. When I left the nest I couldn't cook... Hello fast food! My husband is a picky eater which meant we ate out a lot. Spaghetti, burgers, and pizza was almost all he ate. Here I am not getting ready to start the Keto journey with my hubby (tomorrow day 1) and have a healthy lifestyle. P.s.i really miss my mom's cooking. 0
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Real food, when I was a kid. My mom had a garden, all that was fresh. Treats were watermelon, carrots, and strawberries. She never baked - something I held against her. (My neighbour always had muffins, and their house smelled amazing.) Once in a blue moon, my mom would buy a pack of cookies or something. Pop was rare, usually it was tap water or homogenized milk. (I drank tons of milk, probably 2-3 big glasses a day. I was also taller than a lot of kids my age, can't help but wonder if that's related).
She mostly made food from her country (stews, cabbage rolls - yummy peasant food like that), but also fries (from the garden potatoes) and popcorn (on the stove). We didn't have a microwave until I went to university - my mom couldn't see the point, and was kind of suspicious of the waves etc. I think this set my preferences pretty solidly. However, my mom always worked full-time, and saw cooking as a chore. By the time I was in high school, she was happy to let go of it, and would let us get pizza or McDonald's (previously only on rare occasions) or whatever we bothered her about for convenience's sake. Which obviously made us happy, ha.
Also, weirdly, I ate a LOT of food as a teen, a LOT of pizza and burgers, more than my brothers did, but somehow always stayed at a normal weight, until I gained in my 20s (after meds).
We had set meal times, but my mom also just let us eat whatever was in the house when we were hungry, and never forced us to finish our plates. I have no food hangups that I'm aware of, I think thanks to that. When I'm not injured, I'm pretty much ok balancing self-regulated intake and activity, as long as I don't wait too long to eat (which sets me up for bad choices). Right now, I can't burn as much as it's my habit to consume, so, here we are.0 -
My parents both grew up at the end of the depression so their thoughts on food were to eat every part of the plant/animal. Because of this I was a very adventurous eater. I always had to try something at least once but if I didn't like it I didn't have to eat it. Not much I don't like (this is a problem ha ha) We always had a garden and dad hunted and we raised our own beef. I was not allowed too many sugary things and if we had them they were homemade. Dinner was always homemade except for the rare pizza or chinese food. However, I think that because my mom was from the depression era the frankenfoods facinated her and during the 70s we did have some boxed stuff and there was always Crisco, Gold n' Soft Margarine, and Miracle Whip in the fridge. Three things I would never eat now! Anyway, I feel I had a very balanced food experience growing up. I just like food and when I'm bored I like to eat it.....but I'm trying to fix that
My dad was born in 33, grew up poor in Europe - he would eat absolutely anything.0 -
My mum is a good cook and food was pretty wholesome growing up. More Carby than I can tolerate, I now discover but good.
The problem came when my mum tried to restrict me aged about 11. She gave me smaller portions than my brothers and I massively rebelled.
Sweets and chocolate were not allowed so I would sneak them obsessively. I would regularly grab a 100g bar of milk chocolate and eat it in a couple of hours. My mum would always find the wrappers and be disappointed. When away from the house my obsession was getting things to eat and sneaking it all before getting home. Then eating my dinner!
The sneaking obsession went on into university and I would buy crap and eat it in my room alongside all my normal meals. Once I got a job I had even more money to spend on crap. I hated myself, hated my weakness and hated my weight.
Quitting carbs is the only thing that has ever made me feel in control.0 -
Kitnthecat wrote: »Yup, we had that comment about starving children in our house too. I can't remember which countries these starving children were from or how I could help them by finishing my supper.
I never made the connection when I was a child either LOL!Kitnthecat wrote: »I also remember having to sit at the table until our dinner was finished, if we didn't like something we were eating. We did not have a choice of what we wanted to eat, since everyone ate what was cooked that day.
We did that too....! We are from the same era.
Dan the Man from Michigan
Me three. I remember one time when I was around 8 having to sit at the dinner table by myself from 6:30 till bedtime at 9pm, with the remains of some refried potatoes (yuck) congealing on the plate. I hated those potatoes. Mom would use leftover boiled potatoes from the day before, and fry them up in bacon grease with pepper. Hated pepper! Now they sound pretty good... 0 -
My mom cooked a variety of foods and made her own jams, chutneys and bottled fruit and veg and my dad had an amazing vegetable garden so we got a pretty balanced diet growing up. My mom was always on 1 diet or another though (Slimfast, cabbage soup, weightwatchers, Atkins) and often ate differently from the rest of the family so I may have inherited my poor body image and bad relationship with food from her. She was never really overweight but she had an idea what her ideal weight should be and was always striving for it (she still is at age 67). It isn't my mom's fault though. I think it stemmed from her childhood when she was compared all the time to her tall, skinny, blonde cousin (she was short, dark haired and had an hour glass figure)
I was actually a healthy weight at High school but was convinced I was huge. Only really began putting on weight when I went to college. Had a lot of issues with eating disorders from about 19+. Trying desperately not to pass on the poor body image legacy to my girls.0 -
I was a baking fiend when I was younger. There were pretty much ALWAYS brownies, cookies, cakes, or something freshly made hanging out at our house.
Weekdays:
Breakfast: Rice Krispies (add sugar), Honey Nut Cheerios, Total (add sugar), or Eggos if I ate at home, with 2% milk. I liked my Eggos with Country Crock margarine and powdered sugar, not syrup. If I ate at school, it was snickerdoodles or candy and a Sprite.
Lunch: If I took my lunch, PBJ on whole wheat bread, chips, candy, and a Sprite.
Dinner: Meat with potatoes, pasta, tortillas, or rice & a veggie. Garlic bread or garlic toast at almost every meal.
Snacks: I kept Skittles or other fruity candy in my pockets and fed myself a steady stream of sugar once I hit junior high. I LOVED eating white bread dipped in BBQ sauce for a snack. Or warm buttered tortillas. Or tortilla rollups (tortillas filled with a mixture of low-fat cream cheese and salsa). Big bowls of ice cream for an afterschool snack.
Weekends:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with sausage or bacon & toast. Homemade waffles or pancakes (with margarine and fake syrup). Doughnuts at church. French toast. Milk toast (toast, buttered with margarine, covered in cinnamon and sugar, then drenched in hot milk - fabulous for sore throats!). Coffee cake. Cinnamon rolls.
Lunch: Sandwiches, either PBJ, tuna, or lunch meat with Miracle Whip, on whole wheat bread. I didn't like ham or turkey lunchmeat, and I have recollections of eating Miracle Whip sandwiches at the beach because Mom didn't bring me any bologna. Chips, maybe veggies, cookies, etc. Sodas.
Dinner: Much the same as weeknights.
I was pretty active until I got to college, but I had recurring sinus infections (seriously, I hated cherry flavored anything until I had bronchitis for a month and had to use cough drops all during school because it took 3 months for me to quit coughing) and exercise-induced asthma.
Once I went to college, I would eat such gems as large amounts of sauteed mushrooms over rice with soy sauce and tunamac (egg noodles with cream of mushroom soup and tuna) on a regular basis. I studied at Pizza Hut (where the one by campus had a meal deal - personal pan pizza, breadsticks, and a drink with free refills of course - which I asked for in a different city and was told "This ain't McDonald's") and coffee shops. I made chili and ate it with enough Saltine crackers that it was pretty much a solid food. My friend's 3-year-old thought I was the coolest person EVER because I always had Honey Nut Cheerios and Goldfish crackers in little containers in my backpack and was willing to share while his mom and I were studying. I gained the Freshman 15, then lost 30 pounds in a month my junior year or so when they put me on too high a dosage of Adderall and I basically quit eating during the day. Getting dizzy standing up from looking at the bottom shelf in the library is NOT a good thing. As soon as I was off Adderall, the weight popped right back on.0 -
I was a baking fiend when I was younger. There were pretty much ALWAYS brownies, cookies, cakes, or something freshly made hanging out at our house.
Weekdays:
Breakfast: Rice Krispies (add sugar), Honey Nut Cheerios, Total (add sugar), or Eggos if I ate at home, with 2% milk. I liked my Eggos with Country Crock margarine and powdered sugar, not syrup. If I ate at school, it was snickerdoodles or candy and a Sprite.
Lunch: If I took my lunch, PBJ on whole wheat bread, chips, candy, and a Sprite.
Dinner: Meat with potatoes, pasta, tortillas, or rice & a veggie. Garlic bread or garlic toast at almost every meal.
Snacks: I kept Skittles or other fruity candy in my pockets and fed myself a steady stream of sugar once I hit junior high. I LOVED eating white bread dipped in BBQ sauce for a snack. Or warm buttered tortillas. Or tortilla rollups (tortillas filled with a mixture of low-fat cream cheese and salsa). Big bowls of ice cream for an afterschool snack.
Weekends:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with sausage or bacon & toast. Homemade waffles or pancakes (with margarine and fake syrup). Doughnuts at church. French toast. Milk toast (toast, buttered with margarine, covered in cinnamon and sugar, then drenched in hot milk - fabulous for sore throats!). Coffee cake. Cinnamon rolls.
Lunch: Sandwiches, either PBJ, tuna, or lunch meat with Miracle Whip, on whole wheat bread. I didn't like ham or turkey lunchmeat, and I have recollections of eating Miracle Whip sandwiches at the beach because Mom didn't bring me any bologna. Chips, maybe veggies, cookies, etc. Sodas.
Dinner: Much the same as weeknights.
I was pretty active until I got to college, but I had recurring sinus infections (seriously, I hated cherry flavored anything until I had bronchitis for a month and had to use cough drops all during school because it took 3 months for me to quit coughing) and exercise-induced asthma.
Once I went to college, I would eat such gems as large amounts of sauteed mushrooms over rice with soy sauce and tunamac (egg noodles with cream of mushroom soup and tuna) on a regular basis. I studied at Pizza Hut (where the one by campus had a meal deal - personal pan pizza, breadsticks, and a drink with free refills of course - which I asked for in a different city and was told "This ain't McDonald's") and coffee shops. I made chili and ate it with enough Saltine crackers that it was pretty much a solid food. My friend's 3-year-old thought I was the coolest person EVER because I always had Honey Nut Cheerios and Goldfish crackers in little containers in my backpack and was willing to share while his mom and I were studying. I gained the Freshman 15, then lost 30 pounds in a month my junior year or so when they put me on too high a dosage of Adderall and I basically quit eating during the day. Getting dizzy standing up from looking at the bottom shelf in the library is NOT a good thing. As soon as I was off Adderall, the weight popped right back on.
Oh, junior high! I remember walking from home to junior high and walking past a little local gas station. We stopped every day and spent lunch money on zots, skittles, and candy bars. THAT was junior high lunch.0 -
SkinnyKerinny wrote: »My German mom is a pretty good cook. We had a decent diet for the time and place. I remember had a hard time eating so much fatty meat and did a lot better with seafood. The one thing I truly could NOT hang with though was canned green (greyish) beans which we had to finish. I got really good at wiping with a napkin and getting the entire amount of beans into the napkin. She always made dessert so pies and cakes were common.
One quick dinner story . . . My older brother had just bought a Beatles album and was playing it in the living room. We all sat down to eat and it was still playing. We never listened to anything like that with my mom or dad around. Anyway, the song Help was playing. I think everyone was wanting to see if just this one time we might get away with it. So.we sat awkwardly there like that for a little while-- nobody saying a word. All of a sudden my dad yelled, "Will somebody please help that poor Son of a B$@!(/ . . . and then turn that damn stereo off"
LOL! My dad was exactly the same! We had that happen all the time. He hated the Beatles....He hated Rock & Roll...
Then when my kids started playing some "rap" music, I acted exactly like my dad! "Turn that crap off!" LOL!
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I thought I grew up eating healthy, low sugar. I thought somehow my diet was ruined by me when I got a car and started eating fast food while I was out.
But looking back, I see that it was a LOT of pasta, a LOT of high-sugar fruits and vegetables, high sugar "healthy" cereals, and frequent pastries on weekends. My activity levels were high as a child so that's probably why I didn't start to put on weight until I was a teenager.. that coincides as much with getting a computer and starting to live in front of that as it does with going out and getting fast food multiple times per week.
In college I ate a lot of rice, breaded chicken, hot pockets, ramen. Some broccoli but in general not a lot of fresh vegetables.
I really set myself up for a carb addiction. Was in total denial about the weight on the scale as I went from 125 in high school to 165 a few years ago (I'm 5'3"). The trend was upward but I blamed "bone density" and "bathroom scales never work right" and "doctors' scales are always harsh." I was thinking just yesterday about how unreasonable I thought one high-end shoe store's boots were designed for people with stick-thin calves, and I think I even said to my husband "my calves aren't fat, they're just muscular!" But really, no. I was overweight. Had been for years, and couldn't even see it. Doctors don't tell you, friends don't tell you, partners don't tell you. I wish someone had said!
I wonder if I could get a pair of those boots now...0 -
Even the pre-packaged food in the 70's was different than it is now, though. For example: Betty Crocker Au Gratin Potatoes from the box. In the 70's, it consisted of dehydrated potatoes, dehydrated powdered cheese and butter.
Now, it is a 50 ingredient list and most of it is difficult to pronounce.0
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