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Tuesday 4
Meals Past and Present
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1. What was your favorite meal as a child? As a teen? As a young adult and what is it be now? As a child, teen, young adult, and old lady... I have never been a picky eater. We had a huge garden and mom canned and froze everything. We ate well and we all liked all vegetables. We always had cheese and loved it on broccoli and cauliflower. Pasta, hot peppers, pizza... we loved it all and I still love it all. I can't think of anything that is different during those age groups.
2. What did Mom make for breakfast? For many years during school, we had toast and hot chocolate for breakfast. We dipped the toast in the cocoa. On weekends we would have eggs, bacon, and sometimes pancakes. Lunch? During school, lunch was in the cafeteria. At home, we had lunch meat or peanut butter sandwiches. Mom would buy 10 loaves of bread at the day-old store for $1.00. Half went in the freezer for the next week. Dinner? Hearty mid-western comfort food. Vegetable soup, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, roast beef, lots of veggies from the garden. Do you recall the menus? No.
3. How was dinner time as a young newlywed? The same mid-western comfort food. I learned from Mom. Plain.. fancy? Set the table of just catch as catch can? Nothing fancy. We weren't fancy. If you aren't married, how was dinner living on your own? Do you invite people over or to go out to eat? We couldn't afford to go out to eat. We were both in school and had little time to entertain.
4. Is it important for the family to eat together at the table in the evening or for breakfast? Why do you think so or not? I grew up eating all of our meals (except lunch) as a family. Dad was already gone to work when the rest of us had breakfast but we were all at the table for dinner and I think it is very important. Families today are too busy, in my opinion. Slow down and digest the food, and enjoy the people you love. Put the phones down.
LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE the last comment, smiles. Amen sister! I hope you have a beautiful day, smiles.
ReplyDeleteOur meals sound very similar.
ReplyDeleteI have so many fond memories of having dinner together as a family, Terri, and I do think so many young folks are missing out on that today. For most of my growing up/adult years, too, Dad always had a garden, and fresh veggies were in abundance. It was so great to eat that healthy!
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We ate our meals at the kitchen table and I always had big meals for my kids eaten together. They still say they couldn't sneak a book to read under the table and get away with it. I wanted my kids to have good conversation at the table too....all those years ago! lol Hugs!
ReplyDeleteYour childhood meals sound like mine. Except - you had pizza? My first knowledge of pizza was when my older sister was in 11th grade (I would have been in 5th) and they made pizza in home-ec class. She raved about it and then tried to make it for us at home. It was baked too hard and very thin. We thought it was horrible, hahaha!! Later in my teens I tasted pizza from Papa Johns and realized I liked it. A lot!!
ReplyDeleteNo pizza until my mid-teen years, Jean, but then we did have it a couple of times a month. We also had it at school for lunch.
DeleteSunday morning was always Mackerel soaked overnight and fried potatoes. Lots of butter. Wow.. :)
ReplyDeleteLove your advice! Not since I left home to attend college can I recall having meals at the table as one. (Regularly, that is.) Poor as proverbial church-mice, my first husband and I were regular patrons at the day-old bread store. Too, I'll never forget him showing me to stretch whole milk by adding the powdered variety. Gosh, the things I take for granted these days!
ReplyDeleteMy mother wasn't much of a cook, but her own mama died when my mom was only 14, so she had no one to teach her. She made meals like grilled cheese and canned tomato soup, and big pots of spaghetti with meat sauce, or scrambled eggs for dinner. It was good, and it was comfort food, but not gourmet cooking. I grew up with six siblings though, and she always let us use the kitchen too. My favorite thing was when my dad went to the bakery on a Sunday morning and came home with that giant white box filled with donuts...
ReplyDeleteWhen my Mother was alive I think she cooked my breakfasts. I don't remember. After her passing I had to scrounge around on my own, so, it was probably cold cereal or cold leftovers in the frig. I tried to never engage in conversation with my Father because he was too vitriolic. He would quickly digress into him yelling and swearing and calling me bad names. I left all conversation for my friends. It was safer that way.
ReplyDeleteI still love pizza. We make our own with Keto bread. It's so yummy! Need to make some again sometime.
Have a blessed day! xx
Agree about slowing down and just enjoying the time we are given to be together without distractions
ReplyDeleteThe only pizza I remember growing up was the Chef Boyardee kind in the box that we made ourselves. That was fun. Your mother must have been a wonderful cook. My mother was too, but when she had to go to work she learned to make quick meals after she got home, but they were still really good and always nutritious. I remember hot cocoa and toast for breakfast sometimes or for a snack. Mostly though I think we had cold cereal for breakfast during the week. We sometimes had a hot breakfast for supper. We always ate at the table together for supper. I loved trying to keep up with my big brothers and eat as much as they did, which was crazy as they played football and were big boys and I was MUCH younger. LOL.
ReplyDeleteYour life as a kid sounds like mine - canning, freezing, comfort foods. No pizza until high school though. It wasn't available before that.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, your childhood and mine sound pretty similar. Dad always had a huge garden and Mom canned and froze it all. There's one slight difference, though...I HATE egg plant and nothing anyone has ever done to it has changed my mind.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of eggplant until I met Joe. He hated it too. It is not a favorite but I can eat it now and then. There was none in our garden.
DeleteHasn't it been fun learning what everyone ate. I enjoyed your answers
ReplyDeleteAny meal with a family member or friend is important and to be valued. As you and I have both learned over the past year, meals alone are an adjustment.
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