food traditions broken

kpnuts23

My Mom was British. All meat was cooked to death and covered in gravy. Vegetables were boiled until mushy and in a lot of salt and there was always a cake or ice cream or pie for dessert.

Now.... no gravy and meat is cooked until done. Veggies are stil a touch crisp with no salt and dessert consists of maybe a skinny cow ice cream or an netle mini ice cream.

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Im glad my mum doesnt cook like this!! :happy: Her Sunday Roasts are amazing!

NB - Not all english mums cook things till the death!! ha ha! Although my nan has a habit of cooking the potatoes until they all shrivled (sp)!! :laugh:

Demetria

My husband and I are both Mexican so we grew up eating every meal with tortillas, homemade with lard, refried beans and spanish rice. It took forever to get my hubby to stop having tortillas with every meal, we would use them as forks to pick up our food, how bad is that! I stopped making refried beans dozens of years ago and I never got the handle on making good spanish rice so hubby makes it only seldom. I just switched them over to whole wheat bread, the oldest son and hubby are okay with it but the ten year old is balking a bit, oh well. And since we only see our family once a year we don't fight eating their way for those two weeks too much. We all know that we will work it off later.

I don't feel too bad about changing our eating habits since I try to incorporate other family traditions that don't involve food into to our family's. I feel alot better knowing I am stopping the trend of obesity, diabetes and other health problems that plague our family.

Demetria

vanessa915

I too grew up in a household where dinner consisted of a meat, a veggie (usually canned or frozen), and a starch (often potatoes of some sort). My mom was (and still is) a pretty good cook. Some things were healthier than others, but we did eat a lot of red meat. Ground beef, roasts, steaks on the grill in the summer. But my dad also hunted, so many times we had venison instead of beef, so that was much healthier. Chicken was always whole pieces with the skin on. My dad still refuses to consider boneless, skinless chicken breasts actual chicken :laugh: She also made lots of soups, things like stuffed pepppers, stuffed cabbage, spaghetti, etc. But we always had white bread, never wheat. She used lots of margarine (since it was that generation that was told it was healthier than butter), and used vegetable oil in her cooking pans (or Pam spray). Salads were iceberg lettuce with full fat dressings (although she did used to make her own sometimes w/ oil and cider vinegar and spices, but not a healthy oil).

I still love my mom's cooking, and look forward to it when I go home to visit, but she's made a lot of healthier changes over the years. She uses olive oil or canola oil now. She chooses a wider variety of lettuce blends instead of iceberg. They use smaller amounts of real butter, or use a more heart healthy substitue for margarine, and they eat more fish and seafood, etc. Some things my dad will never change, like eating white bread and Velveeta cheese, but that's ok in moderation. And I've made a lot of the same changes to my own cooking. I'm still not a fan of boneless, skinless chicken breasts most of the time (I am my father's daughter, lol!) but I remove the skin from whole pieces of chicken. I steam my fresh vegetables, or roast them with olive oil. I use canola or olive oil to pan sear meats.

I still eat a lot of the favorites from my childhood, I just make them healthier if I can. And if I can't make them healthier, then I make them less often. Like I still make Thanksgiving stuffing w/ white bread and lots of butter because it just doesn't taste the same any other way - but I only eat it once a year, so I'm not worried about it.

Vanessa

vanessadawn

We always baked. Home made bread, buns, cinnamon buns are impossible to resist. Then there are brownies, pies, squares (confetti squares with coconut yum!), cookies etc. Always homemade, always delicious, but dangerous in large scale consumption lol

kpnuts23

We always baked. Home made bread, buns, cinnamon buns are impossible to resist. Then there are brownies, pies, squares (confetti squares with coconut yum!), cookies etc. Always homemade, always delicious, but dangerous in large scale consumption lol

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MMMmmm... Home baking! We always used to make Cakes, Cookies, Fruit Pies, Pastries, quiches and those yummy rice krispy + chocolate nests at easter! YUM YUM!

I have adopted my mums love for baking and make some killer cakes! :blushing: Not to blow my own trumpet... The worst thing is about making them is i love the following things:-

- The cake mixture while its still raw
- Rolled Icing (from the box)
- Butter icing that goes in the middle
- Alll the other little decorations...

and thats before the cake is finished!! lol i just pick away while im baking! Soooo i have stopped baking for a while! :laugh: