What kinds of food were you fed growing up?

WTFitness

Let's get nostalgic!

My mom used to pack my brother and I sandwiches made with white bread, butter and sugar! We'd also have some fruit juice, Dunkaroos and Goldfish crackers for snacks. I also remember taking a pack of dry instant noodles, adding the seasoning, vigorously shaking and crushing the bag, and eating them like chips.
I cannot believe the crap I used to put in my body!

dietcoke281

I remember my friends always used to be so jealous of me in primary school cos I would have the best lunches - sandwiches, crisps, biscuits and usually a chocolate bar on top of that. So much food!

JennLifts

Oreos and milk! Dunkaroos-what a take back!
I don't remember the name, but they still sell them. The little crackers and cheese dip individual servings, loved those! My mom made lasagna a lot... yikes haha. Mac n' Cheese with peas and tuna.
Nature valley granola, lots of those. Frosted animal crackers, peanut m&ms, Capri suns, those little koolaid bottles.

theidarisafa

Ramen noodles, kool aid(which the kids made with double-the amount of sugar-yuk)

Beefaroni, spagetti'os.

High sugar cereal. Us kids used to make "bread balls" from white bread. Basically you take bread and make it into a ball and eat it. Usually multiple slices(when there was NO whole wheat white)

Lots of fast food.

Meals that my mother and grandmother made for me.

I see why I have problems with food now.

Sheila62

we regularly had dripping on bread (pure animal fat) with lots of salt, and chips cooked in lard, fried bacon and eggs and tripe ugh! that was disgusting, i'm surprised i'm still here lol

amycal

High sugar cereal. Us kids used to make "bread balls" from white bread. Basically you take bread and make it into a ball and eat it. Usually multiple slices(when there was NO whole wheat white)

I remember making bread ball! My parents did buy "whole wheat" Roman Meal which was "tan bread" not really whole wheat. LOL

My mom would also make hotdogs with beans, hamloaf, and salisbury steak (in the tin pan with gravy)

ezreka

We always had chips and coke in the house, but we also always had fruits and vegetables. My dad was a wonderful cook. My brother and I used to make peanut butter and syrup sandwiches, kool aide with 2 cups of sugar and white rice with butter and sugar. But, we never ever had white bread, my mom always bought wheat bread, and now my kids never eat white bread either. But I do have chips and cookies in the house for them.......but no soda, when I gave that up, they did too

StPattysGrl

Spagetti Os! Dolly Madison Zingers (like Twinkies)! Mac and Cheese! Corn Dogs! Bologna Sandwiches!

But we ate lots of healthy food too... we always had fruits and vegetables around. Always had a well balanced meal with a protein and a veggie.

I ate a lot more crappy food then I do now... but we also ate healthy as well. I think my mom tried to keep it in balance.

ian191

I don't remember exactly, but it was all unhealthy, very few vegetables, lots of fatty foods and what not.

My grandma always watched us when my parents were at work, and she never really had much money, so even when she was watching us and using food my parents bought, she still cooked as if she had very little... So just lots of the cheap unhealthy stuff.

It is still very hard for me to eat healthier, because most healthy food is still nasty to me, but I am getting better.

staps065

Almost everything my mom cooked included bacon grease if it was fried at all! :ohwell: Wholesome, good food, just too much of it! We were expected to clean our plates and never leave the table hungry at all. Holidays were the worst! Lots of food and everyone ate until they gorged themselves! Still hard to mentally break that tradition; ingrained into most people I know. Now on holidays I try to make a normal-sized, although special meal with one type of dessert!

tbtravels

Grilled cheese, mac n cheese, cheddar cheese, anything with cheese, bologna, biscuits & gravy, Ramen noodles, wheat bread (thanks for that Mom!. She also put wheat germ into our cereal or yogurt), Little Debbie snacks, Taco Salad, Diet Coke, not a lot of fresh fruits, veggies or fish, which were hard to come by where I grew up in Appalachia. I have always been addicted to quality tomatoes though and my great granddaddy grew 'em best!

My BFF's dad once spiked her lentil soup with orange Metamucil because he thought she and her brother needed regularity. They won't let him forget it!

KrystalLight03

Who has two thumbs and is an extremely picky eater?...this girl *points thumb at self*! I only ate hotdogs, mac & cheese, chicken nuggets, alfraedo, PB&J, cookies, chips, ice cream, and any junky sugary food I could get my hands on. Both my parents have demanding full time jobs that didn't bring them home until after 7 or 8 P.M. and I'm an only child, so every night was what my mom liked to call "Fend for Yourself". Needless to say, I never made wise decisions when it came to feeding myself.

greeneyed84

We used to eat a lot of fast food withy dad but wheny parwnts got divorced we hardly ate it.
I'm from Germany & trust me, we love to cook & we love food. We mainly had white bread but hardly ever sweets on the house.
My Mom & Grandma cook big german meals, but we also add a lot of veggies. I love most veggies b'c of that & fruit is a daily thing.
I have 3 kids now & I used to be this way but after having our son I started changing. No white bread or pasta & every meal with veggies or fruit. We also mainly drank sparkling water, no soda except for at parties. I do the same now!
I can't switch over to brown rice though for some reason....hm

Edestiny7

I grew up eating Swanson TV dinners (fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, & brownie) and Chips Ahoy cookies. All bread was white. Was forced to drink mineral oil for years, which had I just been fed fiber rich food, would not have been necessary.

Seesaa

so much.

raw hot dogs, bologna, cheese slices on white bread with MW, chips...sugar filled cereal.
spagettios for sure. hostess fruit pies lol

but that was lunch

supper was always home cooked food...home made mach and cheese. fried chicken, mashed potatoes, roasts lol not much fruit going on...and usually canned veggies, but that was budget living. you cleaned your plate and were grateful for what you got.

oh and we wouldn't get to drink our milk till we ate our food lol

glittersoul

Who has two thumbs and is an extremely picky eater?...this girl *points thumb at self*! I only ate hotdogs, mac & cheese, chicken nuggets, alfraedo, PB&J, cookies, chips, ice cream, and any junky sugary food I could get my hands on. Both my parents have demanding full time jobs that didn't bring them home until after 7 or 8 P.M. and I'm an only child, so every night was what my mom liked to call "Fend for Yourself". Needless to say, I never made wise decisions when it came to feeding myself.

We had 'Fed for yourself' nights regularly at my house too.

ickybella

Oh gosh, this is fun. My mom used to make us white bread, toasted, in milk with sugar, all heated in the microwave so the bread got soft and the sugar dissolved. It was so sweet! She called it "Milque toast." We also had: instant potatoes, crunchy taco nights, ordered pizza, doritos, lots of veggies, much to my younger brother's disappointment, diet sodas, a little fast food, and, when they decided to count calories, we had things like cereal, instant potatoes made with water :sick: lean meats cooked on the foreman grill, lots more veggies, even less fast food and ordered pizza, homemade subs, and a lot more diet soda.

When I lived with my great grandma, it was either cereal or scrambled eggs with ranch dressing and toast with butter and jam for breakfast. The toast was always cut into little squares and if it was cereal, the cereal was dumped into a tupperware container, so that I could have the toy. She also let me drink coffee at the ripe old age of five, with milk and sugar, out of a cup shaped like a bear with the head as a lid and a straw. For lunch, breaded chicken patties on white bread with mustard or a happy meal. I liked chicken nuggets with BBQ and french fries dipped in honey. What?

ChefJenn

i had all homemade foods, my father was a grill chef and did not believe real food came from a box. My grandparents owned a seafood restaurant that I ate at all the time. I know I ate more shrimp in my day that I will ever eat again. Steamed flounder, Ribeye, Hamburger steaks, homemade coleslaw. Every Sunday we ate at my grandmothers house. Again everything homemade from pot roast, to Chicken being grilled over a large pit fire outside, and my dads family all were raised on the dairy farm a few hundred acres so we had fresh corn, cows milk, watermelon, eggs, and we sent the pigs out to get fresh pork.
I am a true born bred and raised in the South Girl...
All this family time and cooking is the reason why I am a Chef today

squeaktones

my mom made home grown brown beans and home grown fried potatos every night. We usually had pork chops, fried chicken or hamburger patties for meat. You had to grab very fast to get a piece of meat. There was 7 of us kids and my mom and dad so sometimes there wasn't always meat to go around. Home canned pickles or chowchow. Koolaid or ice water to drink. Rarely soda or chips or snack cakes. Sometimes mackreal (sp?) patties. We had tomatos, green onions, white onions, leaf lettuce, radishes, corn on the cob and carrots in the summer that we grew in the garden. Grapes, apples or peaches if we happened to spend the summers helping out at a local orchard or vineyard. We had a bowl of corn flakes or cheerios with powdered or watered down canned pet milk for breakfast during the week and sundays. On saturdays mom made scrambled eggs, bacon, biscuits, gravy. There was homemade jelly usually grape or apple or peach. we had whatever was served at school for lunch. My weight didn't come on until my mid 20's when i got out of the military.

That_Girl

I had breakfast, lunch and dinner. All balanced. Protein, veggies and grain.

Our bread had seeds in it LOL I hated it...although I like it now.

Dinner was always a meat, veggie, salad and grain.

I had 3 glasses of milk a day.

This is what caused me to go NUTS when I moved out. I gained weight when I was on my own...finally able to eat the foods I was never allowed.

My kids get balanced meals and junk in moderation.

rschmmidt

If it came in a box, we ate it. Instant mac & cheese, Hamburger Helper, chinese food (in which case there was a can IN the box), Tuna Helper, Rice-A-Roni, Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima, Stove Top Stuffing, Potato Buds (instant mashed potatoes) and frozen stuff. I guess my mom was way into convenience. We also had powdered milk on hand at all times, also in a box.

Also, I remember my parents were on a Burger King kick for awhile. They would buy a dozen or so burgers (maybe they were on special?) AND PUT THEM IN THE FREEZER to heat up in the microwave for the rest of the week's meals.

That's a riot. It wasn't until I moved out of the house that I realized how many people actually buy and prepare actual foods using recipes. What? Mashed potatoes don't come out of a box? LOL

rschmmidt

raw hot dogs

I was queen of the raw hot dogs all during my single years!

1113cw

i had all homemade foods, my father was a grill chef and did not believe real food came from a box. My grandparents owned a seafood restaurant that I ate at all the time. I know I ate more shrimp in my day that I will ever eat again. Steamed flounder, Ribeye, Hamburger steaks, homemade coleslaw. Every Sunday we ate at my grandmothers house. Again everything homemade from pot roast, to Chicken being grilled over a large pit fire outside, and my dads family all were raised on the dairy farm a few hundred acres so we had fresh corn, cows milk, watermelon, eggs, and we sent the pigs out to get fresh pork.
I am a true born bred and raised in the South Girl...
All this family time and cooking is the reason why I am a Chef today

My mother is 2nd generation off the boat from Italy, my grandparents right from Italy in their teens. NOTHING in my house growing up was processed or prepackaged. Our "treat" was 1 box of sugar cereal. Everything else was prepared fresh, from unprocessed food. And they ate some pretty out of the ordinary things. I didn't know what Kraft Mac & Cheese was until I moved out when I was 18. .

Childhood food memories... lasagna, lots of pasta in general, lots of fish, meat, veggies and fruit.. simple dishes made into a meal. Grew up on things like calamari, octopus, artichokes, capers, spinach, and all sorts of things. I am thankful for this to this day since I attribute it to the fact that I will eat nearly anything, there are only a handful of things I don't like (beets and cottage cheese are the only things I can think of right now). As a result, I do the same thing in my adult like.. many things are unprocessed and meals are cooked from whole, clean foods

BUT... having the heavy Italian background.. I do LOVE cheese and bread, and wine.. in fact those would be my "desert island staples". :laugh:

backinthenines

I grew up with traditional home cooking "meat & two veg" diet.
Pudding was only on Sundays.
Sweets and chocolate was rationed and had to be asked for.
Fruit was always available though.

We had a bit of land and grew most our own vegetables like potatos, carrots, various sorts of cabbages, onions, leek, and lots of fruit trees and berry bushes... a lot of the fruit my grandmother would make jams out of.

We also kept chickens, geese & ducks so had our own eggs. Dad also bred rabbits.

helloiloveukitty

usually had cereal like grapenuts or wheaties or some eggo waffles for breakfasts on school days. on weekends it was mom doing pancakes and eggs or omelets with cheese and bacon or sausage

lunch was sandwich, fruit snacks, crackers and a juice box mostly at school, my parents wanted me to take lunch and I was happy with that school food was vile...if i was home for lunch it was a can of campbells soup or spaghetti o's

dinner was stuff like mac and cheese and bbq chicken and a canned veggie, lots of meat veggie and side betty crocker kinda stuff or just simple recipes like chili, casseroles, burgers or steaks and fries.

we had wendys, mcdonalds and pizza sometimes and I was encouraged to drink juice and water, we didn't have soda in the house til I was in like 5th grade.

snacks were fruit stuff, fresh or dried or fruit snacks and things like toast or yogurt or cookies.

My mom is normally weighted and my dad was a big guy back then and diabetic but mostly a non compliant one who was really picky.

skinnylizzard

I would come home for lunch and pan fry an entire pack of hot dogs and eat them dipped in ketchup! Either that of a family sized can of cambell's tomato soup with grated cheddar and Tabasco sauce!!!

Heather_Jeanie

My parents were never home, and my mom didn't cook anyways so there was alot of frozen dinners, mac n cheese, cookies, chips, pop, PB&J, sugary juices, what ever junk was easiest...

FitJoani

I came from the old school upbringing where dinner was cooked EVERY day. It was always a from scratch meal with limited chicken or turkey, rice, sometimes potatoes or noodles and vegetables...and in the summer it was stuff from our own garden or a farmers market. I was primarily raised a vegetarian. We seldom went out and when we did it was often a melt down because I woudnt eat the "kids meal" selections. Fruit was always on hand for snacks too...I was a "freak" and "wierd" to all my classmates growing up because of my upbringing with food

wriglucy

Wow...seeing all these responses makes me way more conscious for my future kids foods! My mom is an RD, so growing up, we always had healthier options. Did have the doritos and cheese spead, but mostly healthy.

nkaplosinit

fish sticks, instant mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, PB&J, juice, pop, fast food(hamburgers, chicken nuggets), fried chicken, bacon, eggs, hash browns, hot dogs, canned soups, grilled cheese sandwiches, fish, spaghetti

tjhmoody

I'm apparently older than most of the members answering this question. My 2 sisters and I were adopted by an aunt and uncle when our birth mother died when I was 4 years old. This was in 1943 while WWII was going on. Their 2 sons were grown and then all of a sudden, when food was being rationed, they had 3 young girls to raise. For breakfast we would have biscuits & gravy most mornings (can't stand white gravy now .. yuck); for school lunch we would have white bread with peanut butter and Miracle Whip (can't stand Miracle Whip now); for supper we would have pinto beans, fried potatoes and cornbread. Sometimes we would have tomatoes or green beans out of the garden. Meat was a luxury that we only had on Sunday dinners. If we had fried chicken or roast beef or hamburger we knew it was a special occasion. Very starchy and fatty foods .. but it was all they could afford. It set a pattern that is really hard to change.