Unhealthy/Gross foods growing up
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I keep remembering more of these. @seltzermint555 I think I have done every single one of those at some point as a kid! LOL I used to eat those non dairy creamer packets as a kid whenever we went out to a restaurant. ...I was a weird kid.
With the mention of marshmallows, peanut butter, and chocolate it jogged my memory of a favorite I had on my way to the bus stop. Two toaster waffles with peanut butter, marshmallow cream, and Nutella sandwiched in between. Yum. I'm not sure it would taste as good now as an adult. So much sugar!
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basically we all ate crap. 2 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Sauerkraut and ketchup sandwiches...always knew we were waiting on pay day when we got that for dinner.
Oh my
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Graham cracker/frosting sandwiches
Peanut butter and marshmallows melted in the microwave, mixed, and eaten with a spoon
Peanut butter and chocolate chips melted together and eaten with a spoon
Cheddar cheese, melted in the microwave. We'd pick what was left of the cheese out of the oil that came out, and eat that.
Cinnamon and white sugar on buttered toast
Spaghetti sandwiches on buttered Wonder bread
Rice with milk and sugar (usually as a breakfast). I think this was one of the "we're out of food, what do I feed the kids?" meals.
We'd put Tang in a ziploc baggy with a little bit of water until it formed a ball, then eat the ball.
ETA: Not sure I find any of these particularly gross or inherently unhealthy, now that I think about it (except maybe that last one).
Your list jogged so many memories for me of the crazy snacks we used to come up with. I used to love scooping handfuls of spaghetti up with buttered bread, and would eat 2-3 slices with dinner. Also my cousins would microwave old popcorn with marshmallows, then we'd stir it up and eat it from the bowl.
I completely forgot about when I would sneak Kool-Aid mix from the panty and eat it as a snack. I just carried around a zip-lock baggy full of it all the time, my hands would be stained all summer because I did it so often.0 -
As a kid I loooved Saltine crackers with that spray cheese! My Mom would write letters on the crackers and we’d have secret messages as a bonus
I was also a frosting fiend! I loved nothing more than a can of cake frosting with some vanilla wafers to eat it with. I can barely stomach the thought of doing that anymore!1 -
The bread and butter. I remember being too good to eat it, and would make myself toast. Because, toast. Also, to sugar sandwiches, you guys don't even know until it was cinnamon and sugar toast.
My mom always made spaghetti with the bread and butter, and a can of corn mixed in.
My husband used to (and still does) eat milk and saltines. It's his favorite late night snack and he eats it like cereal.1 -
I remember eating Spam occasionally--wasn't bad fried!
My mom made me eat peaches with cottage cheese once--for "dessert"!! I'm still traumatized by the cottage cheese...
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On the yummy side--cinnamon toast for breakfast!! My grandma gave it to me when I was little, and I've just recently introduced it to my kids. I do use wheat bread and a lot less sugar for theirs, but they love it!!
My husband had a thing for Cheetos in yogurt. Blecchh!!0 -
I still love some cinnamon sugar toast.5
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Crafty_camper123 wrote: »I keep remembering more of these. @seltzermint555 I think I have done every single one of those at some point as a kid! LOL I used to eat those non dairy creamer packets as a kid whenever we went out to a restaurant. ...I was a weird kid.
and that reminds me that I use to drink those tiny liquid French vanilla coffee creamer cups! (you know the ones that are always at coffee stations and don't need refrigerated lol) I would sip it so slowly like it was the worlds smallest coffee haha I was a weird kid too...4 -
I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.1
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?0 -
Bread balls! Squish up a piece of white sandwich bread into a little ball and eat it. As kids we thought they were great!9
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.4 -
We definitely still have bread & butter with spaghetti..1
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.
Ah... didn't realize there were rules. Or that American cheese wasn't real
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.
Ah... didn't realize there were rules. Or that American cheese wasn't real
I don't know very many people that actually consider american cheese to be real cheese, lol. That's just all we ever had growing up so I didn't know. I would never put plain american on some chips now and call it nachos I love all the things on them now, the more, the better!
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star crunch cookies, beef and cheese sticks, and cheese doodles - the run of your under 50 cent snacks at any nyc bodega really, really wish someone discouraged me from eating that growing up in hindsight1
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The weirdest thing my mom used to regularly offer would be turkey and mustard sandwiches. Neither my brother nor I were big cheese eaters, we didn't like mayo and mom didn't want to chop up any veg to go on it. So, just turkey and mustard.
Other than that, we ate pretty good food. We ate out almost every night for dinner at a restaurant. Although Taco Bell was a big thing. I ate a lot of cheese- free burritos. Also a lot of frappaccinos. From 8th grade to junior year of high school, I had one for breakfast at least 4 times a week.2 -
emcclure013 wrote: »On the butter note.... my mom used to put butter with any sandwich. Ham sandwiches had butter, turkey sandwiches had butter, pb&j had butter. The one I did like, and I still enjoy, is a toasted English muffin with butter and jelly with a slice of cheddar cheese in the middle. Rarely have it these days, but it's nostalgic!
Sounds perfectly normal to me! I think this might be an English vs. American thing, though. From what I can tell, Americans tend to put mayonnaise on sandwiches rather than butter. At least, in savoury recipes...
I don't have a strong memory of childhood, but I do remember that we had Nesquik milkshake powder in the cupboard. It was a rare sweet snack, around because it was needed to disguise the taste of my brother's epilepsy medication. I used to sneak spoonfuls of the raw powder, as well as spoonfuls of plain sugar...my mum was so angry, but eating in a relatively restricted way made me want to binge and steal food when I got the chance. You think I'd have learned from those patterns, huh?! Edit: also, LOL when my little sister accidentally drank the epilepsy milkshake when she was sneaking food she shouldn't have had. She was fine, but the image of how panicked everyone was still makes me laugh.0 -
MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.
Ah... didn't realize there were rules. Or that American cheese wasn't real
I don't know very many people that actually consider american cheese to be real cheese, lol. That's just all we ever had growing up so I didn't know. I would never put plain american on some chips now and call it nachos I love all the things on them now, the more, the better!
I was just messing with you... generally speaking, I like my nachos better that way too. But it did prompt me to do a quick search about the actual origins of "american cheese" and I found this article that is both fascinating & hilarious:
https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/07/whats-really-in-american-cheese.html
Now, not only do I want nachos with american cheese, I want a cheeseburger, mac & cheese, queso...1 -
Bread balls! Squish up a piece of white sandwich bread into a little ball and eat it. As kids we thought they were great!
Ha! I forgot about this. We weren’t allowed white bread in my house, and when I was 11 I started babysitting the kids across the street. Their house was always full of candy and snacks that I wasn’t allowed to have, but the one thing that I was obsessed with was eating their white bread because I had never had it before. After the kids would go to bed I’d sneak a piece, and before I ate it I’d squish it up into a ball. I didn’t know that anyone else did this!3 -
Cheese in a can!
We only got it when we went camping but Oh god that *kitten* was heaven!
Now however the idea scares me.0 -
Dunkaroos. Do they even make them anymore?3
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RachelElser wrote: »Dunkaroos. Do they even make them anymore?
I think those died right along side 3D Doritos, and Surge.3 -
crtripto165 wrote: »star crunch cookies, beef and cheese sticks, and cheese doodles - the run of your under 50 cent snacks at any nyc bodega really, really wish someone discouraged me from eating that growing up in hindsight
This stuff. And pork rinds, Funnyuns, Raisin cream pies, oatmeal cream pies, commissary cookies, and greasy Drakes or Hostess fruit pies. Unfortunately they followed me into adulthood.0 -
My mom insisted we eat breakfast, cause you know, most important meal of the day. We had either waffles drowned in syrup, white rice with sugar syrup(1 egg, 1 cup sugar beaten on low speed an hour or more, light, fluffy, sugary heaven), or cinnamon toast. Never a hint of protein.
Dessert for breakfast all the way.3 -
We used to make sandwiches out of anything, miracle whip, ketchup and mustard. Mother also made butter and onion sandwiches. She cooked all the time so we ate well. I loved when Daddy made SOS: left over roast and gravy on toast like he had in the Air Force. And Nestle's Quik powdered chocolate in milk. Yum!1
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RachelElser wrote: »Dunkaroos. Do they even make them anymore?
A woman at my gym recently told me she was excited for her trip to Canada because it's the only way she can still get Dunkaroos. So, yes, in Canada?2 -
I used to make white bread, bologna, ketchup and mozzarella cheese "pizza bread". It made my mother sick. And I could eat a dozen deviled eggs in a sitting if my parents let me.3
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