What kinds of food were you raised on?

Question

When you think of childhood, what foods do you think of?

Answer 1

lots of chicken, veggies, potatoes, corn, fruits, kettle popcorn.. basically home made comfort food

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I didn't eat as many fresh veggies and fruit as I should have. Breakfast was frozen waffles, cold cereal or warm cereal. I was never allowed to eat the sugary stuff. Lunch was a lunchmeat sandwich and soup (from a can).
Dinner was always a starch (usually from a box), a meat and a vegetable (usually from a can). We really only ate fish around Lent (and it was fried!), so all other times we were eating pork, beef and chicken.
My sister and I always looked forward to winter time - Mom would make lasagna, chili, or various casseroles and we really enjoyed the change of pace.
In the summer, Dad cooked on the grill and we ate steaks or grilled chicken.
Sundays were always the 'big' meal. Mom would make a roast EVERY Sunday. She would also make a dessert - pound cake, cobbler or pie.
I got a little worn out w/ the fried, fatty meat and I'm now a vegetarian. :-D

Answer 3

Well for me it's going back 1/2 a century and I'd say there were pluses and minuses.
On the downside the food was more bland because ethnic foods just weren't available-they either weren't known about or much slower transport and poor refrigeration made it that we couldn't import them in any fit state.
So choice was less but what we had was better because it had less chemicals in it-fewer preservatives fewer artificial colorings and fewer artificial flavorings.The food generally tasted better than it does today.
I would have been raised on meat potatoes and vegetables-lamb,beef chicken pork.
Pasta wasn't really around then.Neither pizzas.Chinese and Indian foods were,in the U.K. just only emerging.Thai food was unheard of and the world believed that the French were the only people who truly knew about food and how to cook.
(The French,sadly still think that is the case today).

Answer 4

Am from Louisiana so the staples were: Red Beans and Rice on Mondays..always. Lots of seafood gumbo. Sundays were fried chicken, mashed potatoes or potato salad, fresh garden veggies and always a big pitcher of iced tea. But my most fav memory is of my mother making my brother and I tuna salad sandwiches with a side of chips and an ice cold Pepsi and would serve us a picnic lunch outdoors.

Answer 5

green salad every night with dinner, pancakes on Saturday, cornbread and greens on Sunday, cornbread dressing on Thanksgiving and Christmas, black eyed peas and rice or cornbread on New Years, gumbo, pound cake or lemon cake under the glass cake saver at Grandparents house, teacakes and home churned vanilla ice cream, slurpies or icees or Thrifty's ice cream on hot summer days

My mother and grandmother always cooked from scratch. I don't ever remember eating a meal from a box or can. We went out to eat maybe a few times a month at a Chinese or Italian sit down restaurant or nice steakhouse. I'm proud to say as a single working parent, I've carried on the tradition quite well. I cook dinner virtually every night unless there's leftovers.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, most of what my brother and I ate as kids was canned, frozen or processed (even the juice, milk, and desserts).

*My mom tried to "Americanize" us (we're Americans, but she was born and raised in Japan.

*I was never as healthy as I am now, after about 20 years of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and NO frozen, prepackaged chemical-meals from some mega-processor.

*I love my mom (she's going to be 74 next month!), but my diet is much better since I graduated from college and got into the military over 20 yrs. ago.

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Answer 7

I grew up with parents that cooked every night of the week (except one) and the food that was cooked never came out of a box and we never had left overs. One night and one night only we had "fix your own" night, which we would make tuna fish or mac and cheese or grilled cheese. I had a older brother and sister so i was at their mercy on "fix your own" night. We also went out to eat at my dad's favorite place every Friday night.

Answer 8

Meat and Potatoes, The Sunday Fry up was a big event. I lived with British folk who eat "Unhealthy" The food was good but maybe not the best for you.

Answer 9

living house cooked nutrition with a great number of sparkling vegetables. Fried hen on Sundays. Biscuits and gravy and grits and Viscount St. Albans change into my fashionable breakfast and we merely had that on the weekends.

Answer 10

My dad worked out of town, so we got easy food during the week while he was gone. Scrambled eggs on toast with ketchup for dinner. Waffles, tuna melts, supper on bread, SOS,
Big meals when he was home, roast, potatoes, veggies etc.
Always home-made bread, cinnamon rolls for a treat.
My mom also made great home-made pizza with crust from scratch.
When grandma babysat we ate mac & cheese with chopsticks! Cheese and crackers, PB and crackers. Grandma always had home-made cookies too! (of course!)

Answer 11

I was raised on a meat and potatoes diet. Every meal had a meat, a starch (like potatoes or rice), a vegetable, a salad, bread or biscuits, and dessert. Every meal.