Foods You Thought Were "Healthy" As A Kid

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.

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

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.

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...

Bagels with cream cheese. Muffins with fruit in them.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.