Flavors of Childhood?

acpgee wrote: »

Chicken a la king and shredded wheat snack mix. I miss that stuff where shredded wheat cereal was essentially tossed with butter and garlic powder and baked before mixing with pretzels and nuts.

Homemade "Chex Mix"! 😋

Friendly's Swiss Chocolate Almond Sundae

My mom was the best cook! She made so many delicious things. A few more: mini meatloaf, beef burgundy, lasagna, pasta primavera, baked apples; cakes, cupcakes, and cookies, all from scratch.

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

Corned Beef Wellington - tin of corned beef, topped with Branston Pickle wrapped in pastry.

That sounds magnificent.

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

Also something we called the ‘Fiendish Beandish’ - Tin of Baked Beans, cooked with onion, dry mustard, hard boiled eggs, dash of Worcestershire sauce and grated cheddar. This was a fast meal when we’d come home from a day out hiking.

So does that! If I wasn't already a fat knacker I'd have that for my tea.

Omg yes!

MoxyLeigh wrote: »

I want the recipe for the hawaiian fried rice.

As for kid food--ice cream sandwiches as I remember them. But nowadays my tolerance for sweet is lower and they are too sweet for me.

@Noreenmarie1234 YES to the dinosaur! (that'w what my brother and I called it growing up)

Mom: what do you want for breakfast
Us: DINOSAUR!!!

I used to eat this with a spoon.

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

My beloved mother, when it was really HOT outside would make what she called a "cold dinner" for us. I was ALWAYS thrilled when we had a "cold dinner"!

Coldcuts, shrimp cocktail, cheeses, pickles, green and black olives, various kinds of pickles, devilled eggs and fruit (usually grapes, watermelon, pinaeapple chunks, peach slices, strawberries). Even though we were children, she would have the table looking marvelous and always used colorful and cute toothpicks to have everything on, When I think about it...my mom was a wonderful person! We ate all of these with saltine crackers and washed it down with homemade sweet ice tea or kool-aid--looked kinda like this:

Shrimp cocktail w/homemade cocktail sauce


cold cuts and cheese (but again Mommy used to make it look GOOD with pretty toothpicks)




Relish plate/platter


Devilled eggs


Fruit plate/platter


This is what the old school tin can of saltine crackers used to look like when we ate with everything above

That reminds me! My mom used to ALWAYS make me saltines sandwiches in my lunch or for snack. She would put cream cheese in between two saltines or cream cheese and jelly in between. I couldn't find a pic, but this was the closest I could find.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

My beloved mother, when it was really HOT outside would make what she called a "cold dinner" for us. I was ALWAYS thrilled when we had a "cold dinner"!

Coldcuts, shrimp cocktail, cheeses, pickles, green and black olives, various kinds of pickles, devilled eggs and fruit (usually grapes, watermelon, pinaeapple chunks, peach slices, strawberries). Even though we were children, she would have the table looking marvelous and always used colorful and cute toothpicks to have everything on, When I think about it...my mom was a wonderful person! We ate all of these with saltine crackers and washed it down with homemade sweet ice tea or kool-aid--looked kinda like this:

Shrimp cocktail w/homemade cocktail sauce


cold cuts and cheese (but again Mommy used to make it look GOOD with pretty toothpicks)




Relish plate/platter


Devilled eggs


Fruit plate/platter


This is what the old school tin can of saltine crackers used to look like when we ate with everything above

That reminds me! My mom used to ALWAYS make me saltines sandwiches in my lunch or for snack. She would put cream cheese in between two saltines or cream cheese and jelly in between. I couldn't find a pic, but this was the closest I could find.

That looks soooooo YUMMY--Yep! We ate almost everything on saltine crackers--hardly ever eating bread, only on grilled cheese sandwiches (with tomato soup of course) or for sandwiches she would make/pack with totally LOVE for our lunches. Saltine crackers were definitely a staple in our house. We didn't eat that much peanut butter and jelly, but when we did...we ate it on saltine crackers instead of bread.

Someone mentioned Vienna Sausages--we ate a lot of those too (for lunch)...on saltine crackers with tabasco or hot sauce on them--here's what the package looked like when we used to eat them YEARS ago--also, we never cooked them, just ate them out the can with saltine crackers. This ad show corned beef hash too (my mother WOULD cook the corned beef hash though)--we ate A LOT of that for breakfast with eggs and buttered raisin toast and some kind of fruit and I loved it too:

777Gemma888 wrote: »

Anything (our) Dad made. I was such an unappreciative certifiable brat. He would make gelato, chocolates, chippies, you name it ... He made them for us. I would love just one of those treats or dishes now.

Ditto, plus Mum's corned beef meatballs wrapped with spinach (baby leaves, treated, cooked, drained etc) fried.

Was born in India (only not ethnically of Indian-descent). Grew up in Oceania-Pacific, NZ, Australia, UK.

Favourite snack bites from our food vendor neighbours if playing with friends:

* Tamarind with oven-baked peas or chick peas
* Bombay mix
* Spiced baked peas in a mini-tub of vanilla ice cream (from the school tuck shop)
* Sausage rolls
* Meat pies
* Roti parcels (chicken)
* Good 'ole fish and chips (Boarding house student-resident favourite, from the short-end of the neighbouring town, every Friday)
* Deep & wide container of microwaveable fried chicken from Marks & Spencer

Looking up the page, I miss Horlick's, Ovaltine and Milo, not that they're unavailable here, it's just that they don't quite taste the same.