Foods/recipes you grew up with that you would not eat today
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Fish fingers- so yucky and plain and probably the shittest fish inside ever guh
Pasta bakes (particularly tuna) with a lot of cream and like smothered in cheese. Guh.
Boiled eggs with bread and butter...it's not even that unhealthy it's like why waste time eating something so boring.
Burnt sausages with cooked carrots peas and corn- please just stop0 -
Yeah lots of canned foods and boxed things. Some of it I might still eat now *on occasion* but mostly noooo...not because it's so evil, but because yuck. I can make way better and healthier food, or at least splurge on something awesome in a restaurant.
La Choy "Chinese meals"
salisbury steaks
Definitely Tuna Helper as others have mentioned. I used to add some crunched-up Fritos and shredded cheddar.
Banquet pot pies. I liked them with cottage cheese on top.
Little Debbie snack cakes - especially the Swiss Cake Rolls.
Oh and Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough cut or scooped from the tube, raw. When I was like three years old I was underweight and that's all I wanted. By the time I was six or seven I was a little overweight...hmmm. LOL0 -
spacequiztime wrote: »My mom's lasagna because it's gone downhill over the years
the soup she used to make that was just noodles and chicken broth
the prune juice she would make me drink
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Just about all of it. Mom was not up on what was healthy and even when she was told, she just didn't care, lol.
We ate almost all crap, all day, every day. It was pretty yummy, though.0 -
My mom made ramen a lot but now i do not care for the taste. I also had to drink lots of v8, back before we discovered the fruit flavors. So basically tomato juice and now I won't touch it0
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Boxes mashed potatoes, canned veggies. Yuck. And 'bechamel' sauce. Never could really stand it and she made it too much...
I grew up in France though so there are a lot of convenience foods you get here that we don't get there (ramen, mac and cheese etc).0 -
Banquet pot pies with cottage cheese is the most horrible thing I've ever heard of. And I would eat either on its own.0
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My mom used to put bacon and peanut butter sandwiches in my lunch!0
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Liver gross0
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Canned mixed vegetables!! EWWW0
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Goulash... always hated my mom's recipe.
Things with velvetta.
Most canned vegetables.
Overcooked meat.
Potatoes at every dinner.
Canned soup.
Boiled hot dogs. Always hated those.
Super bland food. A spice rack is not there just to gather dust.
Frozen dinners.
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I would eat any, and all of them, just not something I would eat everyday. I love old fashioned comfort foods. The ones made on a budget were well, that's what we ate. I love to eat healthy now, but I do allow some good oldfashioned foods now and then!0
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dumplings, velveeta, banquet pot pies, frozen cream pies0
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It seems we ate lots of casseroles with mayo and canned soup as the base. So much fat and sodium! Ugh!
We drank way too many sodas and ate way too much processed lunchmeat. I don't consume that stuff anymore.
Also lots of doritos, fritos, chex party mix, etc... still do eat that stuff sometimes...0 -
We lived with our grandparents and my nan was a good cook and it was a case of waste not want not. If we got it we ate it, the only thing we didn't try was tripe, that was just for grandad. Used to love proper dripping with the jelly and salt on it on a slice of bread, don't know if I would eat that now though.0
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Nothing, really... I still eat pretty much everything I used to eat as a child. My mom always put in a lot of time and effort into cooking - since I live in a home cooking culture that values using the freshest ingredients and making almost everything from scratch. I do, however, eat things now that I did not eat as a child. Oatmeal for example. I didn't even know it existed as a child, but when I tried it for the first time 2 years ago I fell in love.0
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Creamed chipped beef, canned vegetables, sugary cereals with added sugar on top, Kool Aid. Can't think what else.0
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Scrunchions (pork rind fried up crispy)0
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Tuna casserole - pasta, canned cream of mushroom soup, canned tuna, a few slices of onion and celery thrown in, and topped with a mound of cheese.0
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I grew up eating pretty healthy meals, Lots of fresh fruits and veggies and Mom cooked an actual meal most nights even though she worked, which was unusual for a wife and mother in the early 60's. We were a meat, potatoes, and vegetable family with very few casseroles. In my early days money was very tight so some of our meals were low budget, and I will not eat some of them ever again:
- Smothered beef patties: hamburgers smothered in cream of mushroom soup and served with smashed potatoes. The soup was the gravy for the potatoes. Put me off mushrooms for life.
- Creamed chipped beef on toast and *kitten* on a shingle
- Beef Mexicana: ground beef with mexican niblets corn and whatever else
- Canned veggies. We ate a lot of fresh when available but canned beans, peas, and corn were staples
On the other hand, I still prefer pancakes and waffles as lunch or dinner foods rather than breakfast foods.0
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