Cooking & Baking
In reply to the discussion: Remembering the food of my childhood [View all]Ohiogal
(31,998 posts)My mother hated to cook, but she had to feed me, my sister,and my dad every night.
I remember lots of things made with ground beef - meat loaf, Swiss steak, chili, sloppy Joes, etc. We ate what my father liked. He hated both spaghetti and macaroni, which he called noodles. We had spaghetti when my father wasnt going to be home for dinner and my mother ordered it from a takeout place. We rarely had Jello, she didnt want to go to the bother of making it. I remember being forced to eat canned fruit and to this day I hate it. Those stringy pears!! I did like chicken but we only had it very rarely since my father didnt like it. No tossed salads. I dont ever remember my mom making a cake or cookies. Breakfast was always cold cereal. No pancakes or waffles or eggs or anything like that. Occasionally my parents ate soft boiled eggs. Soup was always Campbells. I liked cooking class in school ( back then all girls had to take cooking class) and learned how to make simple pies, French toast, rice pudding, and things like that. My mom was only too happy to let me and my sister take over the cooking once we got old enough. The first time I made soup from scratch, I couldnt believe anyone would eat the canned stuff!