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    Unhealthy/Gross foods growing up

    Posts: 37 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    The sugar post currently on the front page got me thinking it could be fun to start a new thread to share all the unhealthy and gross foods you had as a kid, that you now look back and shake your head at (or still have as an indulgence, we're not here to judge lol). I'm sure this has been done before, but it's still fun to share...

    We had "bread and butter" with spaghetti which was just a slice of untoasted wonder/white bread with a generous slather of butter on top. It was my favorite meal as a kid just for that bread lol I know this isn't very far from garlic bread/toast, but the thought of just plain untoasted white bread makes me want to gag!

    My Mimi would make me sugar grapes, which was just regular grapes wetted and rolled in sugar, as if they aren't sweet enough already lol. But it was "our thing" and I always asked her to make them for me when we would go visit.

    Mine are pretty tame haha

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    • Posts: 1,513 Member
      My mum was a terrible cook. We grew up on things like Turkey twizzlers and chips, chicken Kiev and chips, chicken nuggets and chips (noticing a theme yet?)

      Her other thing to do as we were active kids and went to dance class straight from school were sugar sandwiches (white bread, thick butter and sugar folded in half) or hot cross bun filled with butter, jam and thickly cut cheddar cheese to eat in the car on the way
    • Posts: 870 Member
      Bread and butter with spaghetti here too!

      Rice cereal: hot white rice loaded with condensed milk, butter and sugar. My neighbors used to give me grape jelly and American cheese on white bread sandwiches. Fried spam, bologna, or Vienna sausages. Park's pork roll sausage sandwiches where the meat was so greasy the bread melted onto the patty. :s
    • Posts: 2,383 Member
      edited March 2018
      I used to not eat egg whites. My mom would soft-boil my eggs, then I'd carefully eat the runny yolk with little rectangles of toast, avoiding the egg white like the plague.

      Now I enjoy eggs in all forms - including the whites!

      As a kid, I'd also only eat my McDonald's hamburgers with just buns and the patty. Nothing else on it. How bland can you get.
    • Posts: 37 Member
      MishMashMisha wrote: »
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      Haha! Yes, we had the same thing. We'd also make spaghetti sandwiches (spaghetti with meat sauce on white bread, sometimes with a slice of american cheese)-- I guess in a effort to make spaghetti as unhealthy as possible. I don't think it's gross though. I still do it (very, very) rarely as an adult, for the nostalgia.

      That just reminded me of fried spaghetti sandwiches!! My mom would take left over spaghetti with the noodles and sauced mixed, and fry it with oil in a pan so there'd be crispy bits throughout, and have it open faced on toast. Sooooo good!
    • Posts: 37 Member
      mrsnattybulking wrote: »
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      It's one of the main ingredients mixed with mascarpone of a tiramisu; it's not that bad! haha

      It actually makes a lot more sense when you put it that way. At face value it sounded more strange lol
    • Posts: 4,047 Member
      af240 wrote: »
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      It actually makes a lot more sense when you put it that way. At face value it sounded more strange lol

      I saw a YT video about egg coffee recently, I want to say it's a Vietnamese thing according to the video?
    • Posts: 2,343 Member
      edited March 2018
      MelanieCN77 wrote: »
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      I saw a YT video about egg coffee recently, I want to say it's a Vietnamese thing according to the video?

      It's really just a shot of espresso in the egg mixture to flavour it (cause the 3tbs of sugar just isn't enough lol) It's more of a thick dessert you eat with a spoon or old bread not really "drinkable" like that Vietnamese coffee.

      http://www.misya.info/ricetta/zabaione.htm
    • Posts: 339 Member
      newheavensearth wrote: »
      Rice cereal: hot white rice loaded with condensed milk, butter and sugar. My neighbors used to give me grape jelly and American cheese on white bread sandwiches. Fried spam, bologna, or Vienna sausages.

      Yep, on all of this. My dad still likes the jelly and cheese sandwiches. I don't understand it at all!!
    • Posts: 570 Member
      I remember eating mayo and cheese sandwiches as a child. I want to vomit just thinking about eating that now. :s
    • Posts: 3,564 Member
      edited March 2018
      Not sure what the issue is with white bread & butter... my mom used to have to have a small piece with *every single meal*. It's my 12 year old son's favorite thing too. :)

      Now, you want to talk gross- my mom often made a can of corned beef hash with a poached egg over it. I had to sit at the table until I ate ("enough") of my dinner, and on hash nights, I just planned on a long night at the table ;)
    • Posts: 107 Member
      I loved sugar as a kid (and still its my weakness in adulthood) but as a kid I made syrup sandwiches which is exactly what it sounds like plain untoasted bread with lots of syrup. so good then I would toss my cookies if I ate that now though lol. I also remember eating Doritos and plain Philadelphia cream cheese together sounded nasty but was actually really good. haven't done it in years so not sure if I would now.
    • Posts: 896 Member
      Also into the plain white bread with too much butter. And my dad would spend hours making red sauce with loaded with veggies from the garden and meatballs for pasta, then get super mad because I wouldn't eat it and just eat buttered noodles with garlic salt.

      When I stayed at my grandparent's, one of our regular snacks was microwaved pepperoni slices on plain white bread or fried bologna sandwiches. Odd, as they were both good cooks and normally healthy eaters. I think it started as something fast my grandfather could make after getting out of the mines late at night.
    • Posts: 10,740 Member
      I remember the white bread slathered in margarine along with spaghetti or ravioli. Horrors! haha

      A lot of mine are just horrific to me now, but none of them are really that notable or disgusting. We went out a lot to Pizza Hut and always got bread sticks before our pizza, and never salad. My mom wasn't a bad cook but she took a lot of shortcuts and didn't do many veggies. The vegetables she did cook, I didn't like because they were very overcooked, especially carrots with roast & potatoes...the carrots were the texture of chewing gum and tasted horrible, lol.

      As a kid and teen, so many meals ended with a Little Debbie snack cake. I especially liked the zebra ones and Swiss cake rolls, or peanut butter bars. Even at school (grades 6-12) I remember them selling Little Debbie oatmeal crème pies, Star Crunch & fudge rounds like crazy and everyone would eat those for lunch...so many snack cakes. I always thought of them as "real food" and not "candy" so on some level, I imagined them being lower calorie than a Snickers or Twix and now I know that wasn't necessarily the case at all - especially if I had a couple of them or an XL one.
    • Posts: 1,774 Member
      Mr. Noodles (aka ramen noodles) with the beef seasoning. I used to eat the full package (apparently the serving is half. who knew?) = 380 calories and 1140 mg of sodium. Still scares me haha but I crave them every once and a while .. so I make rice noodles with my own sauce to kill it
    • Posts: 3,564 Member
      kschildroth wrote: »
      I remember eating mayo and cheese sandwiches as a child. I want to vomit just thinking about eating that now. :s

      I could handle a good cheddar on a substantial bread that way, but a staple in my lunch was Velveeta & Miracle Whip on plain white bread. :(
    • Posts: 10,740 Member
      These are so entertaining. It is funny how things go...I was never allowed to have ramen noodles or sugary Kool-Aid and my mom strictly limited how much juice I could have. Meanwhile I ate so much fast food and snack cakes!
    • Posts: 1 Member
      af240 wrote: »
      The sugar post currently on the front page got me thinking it could be fun to start a new thread to share all the unhealthy and gross foods you had as a kid, that you now look back and shake your head at (or still have as an indulgence, we're not here to judge lol). I'm sure this has been done before, but it's still fun to share...

      We had "bread and butter" with spaghetti which was just a slice of untoasted wonder/white bread with a generous slather of butter on top. It was my favorite meal as a kid just for that bread lol I know this isn't very far from garlic bread/toast, but the thought of just plain untoasted white bread makes me want to gag!

      My Mimi would make me sugar grapes, which was just regular grapes wetted and rolled in sugar, as if they aren't sweet enough already lol. But it was "our thing" and I always asked her to make them for me when we would go visit.

      Mine are pretty tame haha

      Oh yes, we definitely did the bread and butter with spaghetti, too! And I would put the spaghetti on the bread and butter and fold the bread over for a little spaghetti sandwich LOL.

      My mom would sometimes make "chip dip" which was just a tub of sour cream with just enough salsa to make the sour cream turn a pink-ish color and then we would dip the Doritos plain chips in it. The thought of that makes me want to gag now!!! EW.
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Kraft dinner with boiled hot dogs.. those M&M's steak ems... beefarnoi, pizza pockets.. all things I don't like anymore, but might have a bite of for the memories :)
    • Posts: 391 Member
      How about Twinkies??? Thinking about those things to this day makes me want to vomit.
    • Posts: 417 Member
      I used to eat bread and mayo a lot as a snack when I was a kid. Not as a sandwich or anything, just bread and mayo as you would do bread and butter (although sometimes I had that if mayo wasn't available).

      Looking back, I cringe at how I ate growing up- lots of fast food and takeout in my family, tons of high-sodium Italian cooking, and not-so-healthy snacks. Oh and soda. Omg, there was so much soda in our house we could run our own beverage store. It was just disgusting! It's no wonder to me now why my grandmother has high blood pressure and my dad ate tons of takeout/fast food/processed crap... because that's what his parents did. Then I ended up doing this and ballooned up to 355 pounds! But I'm turning it all around now. :smile:
    • Posts: 1,440 Member
      "Graham Cracker Cereal" was one of my favorites as a kid. This was before golden grahams came out, I think. Take graham crackers, break them up, and pour milk over. Probably way more nutritionally void then actual cereal, but it was soo delicious. Not something I do much as an adult. Once every few years. Maybe, lol.
      PBJ's with potato chips mashed in was one of the weirder ones. Adds a nice crunch, but not something I'll eat as an adult. Mostly because I rarely eat PBJ's with potato chips for some reason, lol. I grew up eating Hamburger Helper. It got me through my early 20's too, but I have discovered I usually have enough ingredients to throw together a "pasta & meat surprise". It takes exactly as much effort, tastes better with , & has less preservatives. So hamburger helper is a pointless pantry item for me now.
      Oh, and cinnamon sugar on toast or tortillas. I LOVED buttered toast or a warm tortilla with cinnamon and sugar as a kid. But it's a snack I rarely eat as an adult. It's just not as good as I remember. Also, it leaves me hungry an hour later.
      Just remembered another one before I hit post. TANG and Nestea mixed together. I think I bought TANG once in my adult life, and I was not impressed, lol. That's all now...before it turns into a book. (so much nostalgia)
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