What foods from your childhood....

[BrattyMeg]

Originally Posted by marlathrall

Meatloaf... I will never even google the recipe.

And my husband loves it... And my mother-in-law loves to remind me of that fact.

blech I don't like meatloaf either...I don't make it..ever Pretty sure my kids have NEVER had it lol

We eat hamburger steaks and I'll even cook peppers/onions but something about it mixed with a glob of tomato sauce or ketchup and cooked together is so unappetizing to me.

I also have the eating style (but not palette) of a 5yr old. I don't like my foods touching and will spend extra $$ to have portioned paper plates vs regular round ones when not using regular plates.

[nikkiARNGwife]

I used to HATE meatloaf as a kid..but I think it's mostly b/c my mom literally put hamburger meat a little bit of bread crumbs and ketchup mixed together and called it meatloaf..it was awful.

Now I love it if it's a good recipe and my kids will gobble it up. It's a good recipe to hide veggies in too

[Stacey42]

my mom made this thing called chili that wasn't at all chili & featured ground beef, tomato paste, kidney beans and,this was important, a whisper of powdered garlic. I hated it. Don't like real chili either for that matter.

I will never serve canned green beans. Even if they were hand canned by you from your organic garden & you gave them to me as a gift. Been there, done that, as well as del Monte & Hunt's versions, far far too many times as a kid.

[marlathrall]

Originally Posted by FlirtatiousBrat

blech I don't like meatloaf either...I don't make it..ever Pretty sure my kids have NEVER had it lol

We eat hamburger steaks and I'll even cook peppers/onions but something about it mixed with a glob of tomato sauce or ketchup and cooked together is so unappetizing to me.

I also have the eating style (but not palette) of a 5yr old. I don't like my foods touching and will spend extra $$ to have portioned paper plates vs regular round ones when not using regular plates.

I think we have very similar eating styles. And I adore chicken fried steak... which is one of my husbands other favorites that make for him every once in a while. But man, it sure makes a huge mess in the kitchen.

Other childhood loves- chicken strips and nachos. Fancy food, right there.

[MamaBee]

Hmm... if you talked to my mom she would say everything she makes I don't make for my family. LOL! I'm an adventurous cook and get bored a lot with food so I'm always trying new recipes. My hubby would rather have meat and potatoes Monday, Taco Tuesday, Spaghetti Wednesday, etc.

I use to hate split pea soup... now I love it. So what are some things from childhood that i won't be serving my family? Fried fish... be it catfish or perch... blech! Chicken cooked in the microwave with no seasonings... nope... hmm... that is all I can remember, mostly foods when my dad had to go on a low cholesterol diet...

[MandaT]

Peas. I don't care if they are frozen, fresh or from a can, they will not be served in my house. My dad was of the 'you eat every.single.thing on your plate' school....which only worked until one day, one very lovely day, he forced me to eat peas, the kind from a can, I dispised them and everything came back to the kitchen table. That was the end of 'eat it, even if you don't like it'.
I actually do not serve any veggie/fruit from a can (except pineapple/diced tomatoes). In fact, we don't eat except maybe 5 things from cans. (re -fried beans, olives, diced tomatoes, pineapple, spaghetti sauce in a jar).

I used to not like cooked broccoli, it's delicious now.

[lovely1m]

Originally Posted by apphotos

My dad was of the 'you eat every.single.thing on your plate' school....which only worked until one day, one very lovely day, he forced me to eat peas, the kind from a can, I dispised them and everything came back to the kitchen table. That was the end of 'eat it, even if you don't like it'.

I totally did this same thing with dumplings. lol I still absolutely hate them! Then years later he tried to make me sit at the table until I ate my fish sticks, I completely hated even the smell of fish let alone eating it. I sat there til they finally gave up. I am a vegetarian now and didn't like it even then. I will never force my child to eat somethng he doesn't like. He does however have to try new things, but nothing more than try and I won't make him contine with it.

[Leila]

I don't make a thing my mother used to make for us. She's an awful cook. Well, she made good baked potatoes once she gave up on microwaving them...and I do make those, but I still cook them in a different way.

She used to make bean paste--she'd soak black eyed peas over night then boil the wahooty out of them, then throw them into the food processor to make this nasty grey paste. No seasoning of any kind, yet she expected us to ingest this travesty. So that's one thing my family will never be subjected to. The other is shake 'n bake. Just kill me if you ever see me contemplating shake 'n bake.

I use a lot of my grandmother's recipes, or variations of such since she never wrote down anything.

[Tracyfish]

I used to hate chicken and yellow rice when my mom made it, but now I kinda like it.

I used to LOVE beanie weenies when I was a kid, but I won't make it now for my guys because Jay doesn't think it's a meal and L.J. prefers things separate. I have to convince him to eat some casseroles every once in a while.

My mom cooked convenience food so we came up with a lot of funny foods. Beanie weenies, Beanie Burger (with ground beef instead of hot dogs) and Ricey Burger (Rice-A-Roni with ground beef). I love a good fast easy meal.

[melrio]

This is funny since I was at work today and we had this same discussion.

I WILL NOT COOK GREEN PEAS, LIMA BEANS, OR CANNED CARROTS!

After 20 years of being married to me, DH already knows that it just ain't gonna happen in our house...in MY kitchen! LOL His mother will cook that stuff and he'll eat it up but I'll go without food if I have to eat that stuff. Never liked 'em....never will! Even my kids love peas, beans, and carrots that way. Good thing they have wives that'll cook that stuff.

[mariewilcox]

I will never ever ever serve liver with bacon and onions (I actually liked this as a kid) or lamb and green beans. Other than those 2 dishes (which I really liked back about 35-40 years ago) I would and do serve a lot of dishes I grew up with. My mom was a great cook and my grandmas.

The one meal that is coveted by my sisters and I is our "Chrismaskah" meal every year (my mother's family are German Jews and my dad is Christian/agnostic - making for a pretty messed up religious upbrining ) Anyway, the meal consists of sauerbraten, latkes, and German red cabbage... I can smell it now as I type this.

[NeverendingJen]

meatloaf, cream tuna on toast, french onion soup, fish of any kind. eta THOSE are the ones I hate.


about the only dishes I make from childhood are grammies mac n cheese, and chicken rollups

[aggiefamily]

I love lima beans and asparagus! My boys don't enjoy asparagus but will eat enough of it to get the cool side effect. :/

I have never cooked liver and onions or fried liver and don't see myself doing that anytime soon. It has been a while since I made meatloaf but mine will eat it. I can't think of any other food from childhood that we don't eat now. I never ate vienna sausages, beanie weenies and sardines as a kid but my boys do now on camping trips. I can't stand the smell of all three so they aren't allowed in the house.

[LenaGardner]

My mom is an excellent cook, and a healthy cook, and I truly loved everything she made.










Except for flounder night.




Ugh.

[BrattyMeg]

Originally Posted by aggiefamily

I never ate vienna sausages, beanie weenies and sardines as a kid but my boys do now on camping trips. I can't stand the smell of all three so they aren't allowed in the house.

I just gagged a little

I have a sensitive gag reflex too that reacts to smells..i might like the taste but if i can't get past the smell it won't make it's way to my mouth.

I'm a pretty adventurous eater too and I'm not very picky but if it smells forget it!