Boomers: back in the day, what food did you parents rely on (canned, boxed, etc.) (school, mother)
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Boomer parents had us eat for Dinner
- Meatloaf, mashed or baked potatoes, green beans, broccoli
- Tuna casserole boxed, spaghetti from scratch, fish sticks, pork chops, pork and beans, chili with Jiffy cornbread
- homemade enchiladas and burritos on certain days.
- Fridays: Fried chicken and biscuits, McDonalds burger and fries, ice cream shake, Jack-in-Box burgers,
- Breakfast during week; Regular Milk, OJ, Frosted Flakes, Trix, Fruit Loops, Lucky charms, Pop Tarts, or a burrito and coffee cake from school.
- breakfast on weekends: homemade omelettes, french toast from scratch, oatmeal, or stacked pancakes and sausage.
snacks were chips, ice cream sandwich, ice cream drumstick, popsicles, jello, peach, apricots, or orange. water, kool-aid, 3 musketeers, Suzy-Qs, Honey Buns
And yes, we're all stillv pretty healthy in our early 50s considering all the sugar and carbs we ate. We weren't idle like kids are today. We were outside, played sports almost every single day. I walked home from school 1 mile away. We were always walking or on our bikes w/neighborhood friends.
She got home around 5pm, made dinner from scratch. She was a queen of the pressure cooker when we needed a quick dinner.
Yea pressure cooker popular in 1940s, 50s, and 60s. It was the way to go you wanted to tenderize tough cuts meat. Only thing meat came out kinda unappetizingly grey. But it was moist and tender and FULLY COOKED. Super heated steam will do that.
My mother never used pressure cooker or canner, she was afraid of stuff like that. Though odd one is afraid of 15psi pressure, must never ride in a car with those 35psi tires at each corner and one in trunk. Just think if they exploded... LOL
Modern computerized pressure cookers dont do over 7psi I think. And sure wont have longevity of those heavy cast aluminum ones from 30s, 40s, and 50s. The old school ones with wood handles.
My mother's family had a huge rural farm garden. We ate fresh hand-raised produce including lettuce, peas, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, berries, onions, cabbage, turnips and more!! But we did have to do the crappy chores of weeding, watering and harvesting it. We kids did not like it at all, especially as teenagers!
Corn did not grow well in that climate so we did eat canned or frozen corn. We'd pick our own berries and mushrooms out in the bush. What we did not eat fresh we froze or canned for the winter.
Upon our picking- in -the- garden adventures, we would arrive back to town with huge paper shopping bags full of peas to shuck and we would do that for hours sitting in front of the black and white TV (we got one in 1963).
Meat would come from either the local Hutterite colony; hunting elk/moose/deer/duck/geese; or from Gramma's raised chickens.
Those were the days. When I look back I wish I was more cooperative with the adults about tending the garden and to enjoy it rather than dread the work it required. Today I am all about it.
Boomer parents had us eat for Dinner
- Meatloaf, mashed or baked potatoes, green beans, broccoli
- Tuna casserole boxed, spaghetti from scratch, fish sticks, pork chops, pork and beans, chili with Jiffy cornbread
- homemade enchiladas and burritos on certain days.
- Fridays: Fried chicken and biscuits, McDonalds burger and fries, ice cream shake, Jack-in-Box burgers,
- Breakfast during week; Regular Milk, OJ, Frosted Flakes, Trix, Fruit Loops, Lucky charms, Pop Tarts, or a burrito and coffee cake from school.
- breakfast on weekends: homemade omelettes, french toast from scratch, oatmeal, or stacked pancakes and sausage.
snacks were chips, ice cream sandwich, ice cream drumstick, popsicles, jello, peach, apricots, or orange. water, kool-aid, 3 musketeers, Suzy-Qs, Honey Buns
And yes, we're all stillv pretty healthy in our early 50s considering all the sugar and carbs we ate. We weren't idle like kids are today. We were outside, played sports almost every single day. I walked home from school 1 mile away. We were always walking or on our bikes w/neighborhood friends.
FYI - I'm an early X-er not a boomer.
Whoa that was my house except for the enchiladas and burritos, omelettes, Suzy-Q's and add in waffles and applesauce. My dad ate Wheaties and Special K.
Buttermilk as a drink is evil. One of the nastiest substances known to humans. It makes great dishes when used in recipes, though. We never drank buttermilk, but my Mom used it for biscuits and such.
Our meals were pretty simple. Some kind of meat, mashed potatoes, and a vegetable, followed by a dessert, normally chocolate cake. A lot of this was driven by my Dad's stomach issues, which limited the types of food he could eat without having abdominal pain. We ate out every now and then, but not often. When we did eat out, it was usually Furrs, Luby's, or another cafeteria type place.
My dad drank buttermilk! He was the only person in our family who drank buttermilk. Yuck. Maybe it was a thing back in the 1920's and 1930's? My dad's father was a milkman.
My mom made a really good jellow fruit salad with sour cream filling. It had walnuts, raspberries, banana slices, and was layered into three sections, with sour cream in the middle. She made it at Christmastime. I've made it too, but I'm surprised at the numbers of people who find jello disgusting or unhealthy. Like the rest of life is so healthy?! Anyway, for me it's a sentimental thing especially since it's not really cheap to make and make it well. (Green Bean casserole at Thanksgiving being another expensive dish to make.)
It's not the jello that's disgusting, it's putting all that stuff into it.
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