What did your parents feed you when you were a kid?

TheGoblinRoad
TheGoblinRoad Posts: 835 Member
edited October 22 in Food and Nutrition
Dad: More healthy foods, like sushi, salad, steamed veggies and rice

Mom: Frozen cheese pizza, Pepperidge farm cookies (sometimes with ice cream), Potato Chips with whipped cream cheese dip, and all the coca-cola I could drink.


Guess who I lived with most of the time 8-/
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  • SomeMorr
    SomeMorr Posts: 220 Member
    Anything I wanted (all we had was crap food in the house: cookies, chips & french onion dip, pizza, m&Ms)... yeah I had to learn self control on my own

    edit: my mom did cook but not always healthy stuff!
  • KareninCanada
    KareninCanada Posts: 962 Member
    We were all over the map... sometimes on health kicks, other times not so much... I do remember a lot of beans, bread, rice and potatoes...lots of baking. And comfort food. Ice cream fixes everything, right? Guess which habit is the hardest to break as an adult? lol
  • EuroDriver12
    EuroDriver12 Posts: 805 Member
    my mother worked alot as a single parent.. my older sister took care of me when i was a kid n shes an awesome cook!!! everything for me was fresh produce, meats, soups, healthy foods... n mother would spoil us once in a while with basteries.. i dont care for chips, choclate bars, pop or any junk food.. but when it comes to bastries i got a soft spot still haha
  • scott091501
    scott091501 Posts: 1,260 Member
    I'll say this.... everyone in my family but myself had a fast metabolism and handled exactly what I was eating with ease. I got fat. Dinner was generally a fatty protien with 2 starchy sides. I was allowed to eat whole boxes of mac and cheese at a time, whole boxes of cheez its, etc. Not that they knew any better in the early 80s. It just is what it is.
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
    Breakfast: M-F: cocoa & toast; weekends: eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, french toast
    Lunch: M-F: school cafeteria; weekends: homemade hotdish (a.k.a. casserole) or sandwiches, milk
    Dinner: meat, potato, vegetable, bread, milk

    Very rarely did Mom serve any type of processed/packaged food. She made everything from scratch.
  • jsteffen80
    jsteffen80 Posts: 136
    The only thing I remember at home is lots and lots and LOTS of hot dogs and mac n cheese. My grandma would fix me pancakes... If I had to guess, I would say I have eaten tens of thousands of pancakes in my life. I can still put down a ridiculous amount.
  • twinoakbob
    twinoakbob Posts: 177 Member
    We ate lots of different stuff. Some healthy and some not so healthy. But back then we weren't all fitness / nutrition crazed that we are all now. The biggest problem was the life lesson about the "clean plate club". No portion control at all - just eat everything on your plate, regardless of when you become "full". I blame this all on my parents.
  • rebeccawalker1982
    rebeccawalker1982 Posts: 117 Member
    It was always crap food because my mother grew up eating crap food so that is now she fed me and still feeds my little brother. She is convinced that McDonalds is healthy because it is meat and cheese and he does not eat his fries most of the time and gets juice or milk sometimes.

    Everything in her house is always processed, frozen and comes from a box.

    The cycle ends with me. My son is only 7 months old but I am making his food myself and when whatever I am cooking is not spicy (hubby and I love spicy food), he gets what we eat because for the most part what we cook is fresh, not boxed and canned.
  • TeresaB1123
    TeresaB1123 Posts: 7
    My parents made me my own separate meal every night... pasta, pizza, chips, fries, etc. Needless to say I turned into a fat marshmallow. Its definitely more difficult (though not impossible) to teach yourself how to eat healthy later in life when you've spent the first 15+ years of your life eating junk food.

    Parents: don't feed your kids crap. :bigsmile:
  • DawnOssett
    DawnOssett Posts: 21 Member
    Mainly large hearty dinners and Chinese takeaways. Trips to the cash and carry would ensure there were huge boxes of crisps, multi pack Cokes and multi pack chocolates always to hand in the house.

    Mum would use often use chocolate as a bribing tool and Dad would praise me for eating large quantities when I was little, I remember getting a smack for tipping a fried breakfast in the bin when I was about 7. Then on Mondays I would be on the next crazy grapefruit or boiled egg diet with my Mum because I was getting chubby.

    This has ensured years of unhealthy binge, purge, love, hate relationship with food. I'm still not sure when my body is saying it is full.
  • fguillory
    fguillory Posts: 291
    I grew up in a family of 9.

    By the time I was 18 i've lived in 20 different houses.. With that many kids we couldn't always afford the best food. My dad is a truck driver and he raised us himself. What we normally ate was Hamburger helper, a lot of hamburger helper actually....cream of mushroom chicken, ramen basically every day for lunch sometimes breakfast too. But we always had vegetables with our food.
  • Tiffa0909
    Tiffa0909 Posts: 191 Member
    Both of my parents were big on cooking , and everyone in my family loves to eat. I'm Puerto Rican , so we had rice almost every single day . There was also always soda and some type of sweet , which are my biggest problem.
  • Alsha1999
    Alsha1999 Posts: 46 Member
    B: We usually ate a chocolate covered granola bar or my mom fried pancakes, eggs, bacon!
    S: We just grabbed some junk from the "junk drawer" which was full of all the little debbie snacks
    L: ham/butter sandwiches, sausage/sauerkraut...typical fatty german food
    D: Usally steak, pork pork chops, ham, fried chicken and potatoes or pasta followed by fruit for dessert.

    We were so active, it didn't really bother us, my parents always had healthy options available! I wanted the chocolate. :)
  • beckipercy
    beckipercy Posts: 160 Member
    My mum was always a great cook, but she was a child minder and so we ate with them a lot, which meant eating early (guess who snacked a lot before bed) and eating processed food. My mum was also a big believer in comfort food so while she cooked good food, it wasn't always healthy food!

    Once I turned 11 and went to high school was when it got really bad, as I was given free reign and most days ate sweets instead of real food :/
  • tikanique
    tikanique Posts: 54 Member
    Breakfast was cereal and lunch was whatever the school served.

    For dinner we always had a meat, a starch and a green vegetable such as salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and turnip greens or hamburger helper and spinach. and Kool-aid. cleaning the plate was mandatory and there was no saying "i don't like this!"

    After dinner was done, we received a dessert, usually a couple of oreos or an oatmeal cake.

    Saturday was usually pizza or hot dogs or burgers and Sunday was the big deal - roast w. carrots and potatoes, cabbage and chocolate cake.

    Thanks Mom!!!!
  • teamnevergoingback
    teamnevergoingback Posts: 368 Member
    Fast food, tacos, spaghetti, french toast, mac and cheese.

    My Dad and I are now BOTH losing weight and eating healthy now though!
  • ddd_davis
    ddd_davis Posts: 5
    Hamburger Helper, hotdogs, boxed mac & cheese, and the occasional canned corn or green beans. Yeah, not such a great diet, but at least we didn't starve.
  • Sardine239
    Sardine239 Posts: 72 Member
    My mom stayed at home, so she had time to cook. We live on a farm, so most of our meet came from the farm. When you hear "down home cooking" that's what we ate. So so good, but a little bit goes a long way and a lot goes even farther...
  • jenniet04
    jenniet04 Posts: 1,054 Member
    For meals, it was healthy home cooked.

    But there were always lots of bad snack foods in the cupboard.

    My whole family is blessed with mostly good metabolisms - none of us are obese, but most of us are up to 40 lbs overweight. And most of that happened later in life when the metabolism slowed down and now it's a matter of retraining our thinking.
  • tangie82
    tangie82 Posts: 285 Member
    I'm from the south. Rice and gravy, gumbo, stews etc. Lot's of rice..
  • sandy2006
    sandy2006 Posts: 483 Member
    southern comfort foods, Fried chicken, mashed (boxed) potatoes, mac n cheese, corn, buiscuits and honey, and then there was the pizza, fries, fish sticks burgers, chips donuts and many more snacks.
  • Bridgetc140
    Bridgetc140 Posts: 405 Member
    My mom had her token 10-12 homemade meals that she would cook, but many boxed and canned items in between those meals. We actually NEVER had fresh fruit or vegetables or even frozen...always canned. Big Top Orange mix for drinks (orange flavored sugar)..................................We lived off HFCS most of the time. I'm the mother who cooks all dinners from scratch, but with a PICKY daughter.....so I take the things she likes and tries to make them as healthy as possible. Luckily, she loves fruit and vegetables(steamed or raw) and dairy products (milk, cheese & yogurt)...............it's just getting her to eat meat that is a problem. I make my own homemade chicken tenders for her and she loves eggs. I just worry about her iron levels.

    Oh and typical dinner from my dad when my mom worked the evenings: Mac n cheese (boxed) and fish sticks (frozen). BLECH!
  • pixiexxgirl
    pixiexxgirl Posts: 141
    Tons of junk food and anything i wanted lol.

    My mom was a little more strict but i was my daddys baby and he let me eat whatever iu wanted.
  • sweet110
    sweet110 Posts: 332 Member
    Everything. We got home cooked healthy food, home cooked unhealthy food, junk food, and fast food take-out. My parents seemed to have the philosophy that "food was food" and it was all fair game. Candy. Fruit. Cake. Green Beans. It was all available and we were allowed to eat ad libitum. Which didn't turn out so well, given that we usually preferred the things with the most sugar and cheese...
  • Inebriated
    Inebriated Posts: 271
    My mother usually fed us lots of vegetables and fruit but there was also kraft dinner, instant noodles, hamburger helper, crackers, pizza, peanut butter sandwiches, lots of vegetables for dinner with meat (only sometimes) and mashed potatoes, cereal, pancakes, lots of sweets, fast food, icecream, instant juice mixes, kool-aid, etc.. She did what she could, I was an extremely picky eater when I was young. A lot of what we ate was quick/easy and I was brought up being told to clear my plate when it came to dinner time which always bothered me.

    As of last year we both decided to lose weight together and changed our diets and we've both lost a good amount of weight.
  • Audddua
    Audddua Posts: 176 Member
    Oh wow I can relate to this! I grew up on junk with my mom. I have to give her a bit of a pass because she was a single mom and all but we ate junk 24/7. Mac & cheese, hot dogs, ramen noodles, kid cuisine, oreos, Mc Donalds, etc. :sick:

    Her diet is still just terrible. She won't eat an avocado because it's "too fattening", but she's pound an entire bag of fat free pretzels with fat free dip.

    Thankfully I spent a lot of time with my grandmother and she taught me how to cook.
  • dlaplume2
    dlaplume2 Posts: 1,658 Member
    My mom worked all the time. No lie, my dad would hand my brother and me 5 dollars each and we could get what ever we wanted for dinner. We ate a lot of Domino's pizza.

    School lunches, and cereal for breakfast. If we wanted a cooked breakfast like eggs, we had to cook it oursellves.
  • BADGIRLstl
    BADGIRLstl Posts: 473 Member
    I ate so poorly. They fed me fried everything. The cereals were high in sgar...and I ate a lot of prcessed foods. I did eat frui and veggies too, but it was nothing compared to the bad stuff I ate.
  • hsmithway
    hsmithway Posts: 191
    I lived with just my mom growing up, and we weren't very well off. It amazes both of us now to think about how little food we used to eat. For dinner we would often split a can of soup or a package of ramen between the two of us.
  • AnastasiaVegGIrl
    AnastasiaVegGIrl Posts: 30
    Tons of crap. Pot pies. fast food. Bologna sandwiches. Kool Aid. Candy. My parents got married at 19 - they were kids themselves! Kid food, for sure.
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