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Post by bbbearsmom on May 1, 2024 22:41:38 GMT
Thursday, 05/02
What was the food, eating, cooking, meals, going out to eat, getting take-out, and snacks like in your family while you were growing up?
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Post by bbbearsmom on May 1, 2024 22:46:04 GMT
I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's, so the whole food and eating scene was very different from today. My mom made meat and potato dinners and was not an adventuresome cook. I ate three meals a day, maybe had a couple of cookies when I came home from school but don't remember ever eating after dinner. We hardly ever went out to eat and the only take-out we got was Chinese food. Fast food was just starting and as a family we never had it.
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Post by cathygeha on May 2, 2024 7:03:32 GMT
born in 1952 so...interesting food fare.
Breakfast was usually hot or cold cereal, milk and sometimes orange juice. I remember putting brown sugar in oatmeal.
Lunch was a packed lunch in elementary school and remember picking out the white bits in dried beef in sandwiches...can't remember what else was in the lunchbox but there was a thermos - milk perhaps?
Snack when we got home was probably cookies and milk Dinner was usually tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, Chef Boyardee spaghetti from a can, TV dinners - mom was into convenience foods more than real cooking EATING OUT happened sometimes and we went to cafeterias or to a local Italian restaurant usually.
When we moved to California things changed a bit but
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Post by ermabom on May 2, 2024 12:47:16 GMT
I grew up in a very regimented household. We ate specific meals at specific times - S. Indian food for lunch and N. Indian food for dinner. At various times, depending on schedules, I had toast or sandwiches for breakfast or to take to school. Snacks were limited to about 3 or 4 pm in the afternoon with tea. The snack cupboard was locked up - mostly to prevent any pilfering from the various servants/assistants in the house. I prefer to call them assistants these days. We had gofer from the office who ran errands and a maid who cleaned and washed clothes and dishes. So no eating at other times.
My SO grew up in a completely different environment where food was limited more by number of people and budget than by schedule. He had 4 brothers and 2 sisters and if you didn't grab what you wanted to eat when it was available, you might end up without. So when we got married, any kind of scheduling was out the door and I've become more like him than like my parents and siblings.
We never ate out. There was no budget for it.
One type of meal schedule was toast for breakfast, S. Indian food (rice, dal, vegetables, yogurt) for lunch, snacks (cookies, savory fried snacks) with tea and then N. Indian food (chapati, dal, vegetables, yogurt) for dinner. The difference between N and S Indian food is that N. Indian is wheat based with different spices and S. Indian is rice based with other spices.
eta: another one was sandwiches taken to school for mid-morning (no breakfast), lunch at about 1:30-2 when I came home from school, snacks/tea at 4 pm and dinner at 8 pm. Dinner was always around 8 pm. That's a normal dinner time in India. Some people eat earlier and some later.
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Post by lani on May 2, 2024 13:58:31 GMT
Interesting question bbbearsmom ,. I was born in 1953 lived primarily in the Midwest (ages 3-10) growing up. My mom's mom went to culinary school in Finland and taught my mother how to cook. So she was an excellent cook and baker. We did have a lot of roasts with potatoes and carrots for dinner. Everyone liked liver including me. Hot cereal for breakfast. Funny, I don't even remember lunch. She would make a pie, cake, cinnamon rolls, etc. every week and we would have that for dessert. There were zero salads. The old lemon jello with grated carrots and pineapple was about it. Vegetables were carrots and potatoes in the roasts. I remember a lot of canned vegetables. We would have a few outliers like goulash on occasion. I remember Swiss steak also. I do remember when I would eat at other people's homes the food was so bland. So my mom's food was tastier than the neighbors for sure. My dad was a dab hand with the grilling. He made a lot of French Toast on the weekends. And killer milkshakes. We had a cafeteria at school, those lunches I remember. Chicken with that pale gravy on Fridays. We moved to California when I was ten, mom went back to work and the food became more interesting. A lot more eating out mostly at ethnic places. Mom would swap recipes with the women at work (she was a social worker). They used to put together little cookbooks. |
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Post by hpeterson1951 on May 2, 2024 16:06:32 GMT
I grew up in the 80's so my meals might be a little different than everyone else's. I called it "a meat, a box, a can". It was basically some kind of meat, a can of veggies and a box side dish like scalloped potatoes, rice a roni, etc.
I do remember when dad worked nights we would have a big chef's salad in the summer, or spaghetti with just butter and garlic. Dad didn't eat those things so we had to have them when he wasn't around.
Both my brother and I went overboard with pork chops, creamed corn and spaghetti with butter/garlic when we moved out on our own because we hadn't had them in years
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