Weird foods your mom made

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My mom would mix sour cream and sugar together and serve it as dessert. It was my favorite.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom would mix sour cream and sugar together and serve it as dessert. It was my favorite.

Mine would serve strawberries dipped in sour cream and rolled in brown sugar. They were awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:My dad made "shells 'n' tuna". Which was pasta, a jar of sauce, and a tuna salad. He said it was protein (tuna), veg (sauce), and carb (pasta).

Sometimes I think it would be fun to make a higher end version and see what that's like.

Here you go

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/pasta-al-tonno-3367593

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https://www.food.com/recipe/milwaukee-pork-chops-51543

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is a hippie all natural organic everything vegetarian so nothing you wouldn't now find at whole foods but that was super weird to other kids. Think almond butter on whole wheat bread, seaweed salads, tofu hotdogs, kefir, etc. I would pick Wonder Bread at any friends house to get my fix.

My grandma was too. She’d make me tahini “candy.” I
Had an appetite for junk food and health food. I still drink Spirutein to this day

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For some reason my mom would always serve veal parmesan with mashed potatoes (and they were Potato Buds, not real mashed potatoes).

Also, fried, breaded eggplant dipped in ketchup.

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She’s boil rice in milk to make a sort of very dry rice pudding but no sugar or cinnamon etc. ...just dry rice cooked in milk. Had this for breakfast often. Kind of miss it!

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Tuna glop: can of tuna with pasta and cream of mushroom soup and peas. It was awful.

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My dad used to make cheese whiz, mayonnaise, and onion sandwiches.

He made them for himself nearly every day, and if he ever had to prepare a meal for us, that's what we were having. One Sunday, he made 15 of them and told us to pull one out of the fridge to pack in our lunches every day.

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Anonymous wrote:I was raised on Weight Watchers recipes because my mom spent most of my childhood dieting and since she was the one cooking, we ate whatever was on the diet plan that night for dinner. She had this deck of cards with bizarre names (lots of things had the word log or snack in the title) and she would deal them out each week as she planned her menus. As a result I spent most of my childhood eating weird diet versions of regular food without realizing it until I went to college. You haven't lived until you've had an "enchilada" open-faced on a piece of whole wheat bread with cottage cheese on top.

Remember when cottage cheese, bread, and canned fruit were "diet" food? What was that all about?

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My mom didn't make anything weird really, but she did have a weird combination which was a pot roast type spaghetti sauce (browned steak, celery, carrots, onions, red sauce, red wine) and served it with COLE SLAW instead of a green salad. All other pasta was served with green salad, and I did not get it.

This has come up on DCUM before but I also saw her eat a "snack plate" of saltines, sliced bananas, a canned pear, cottage cheese, mayo and PB. Like a cheese plate, but made by a 4 year old. Apparently this was a regional thing?

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Lemon Jello mold with shredded carrots and pineapple, topped with mayo. I still make it for Christmas.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was raised on Weight Watchers recipes because my mom spent most of my childhood dieting and since she was the one cooking, we ate whatever was on the diet plan that night for dinner. She had this deck of cards with bizarre names (lots of things had the word log or snack in the title) and she would deal them out each week as she planned her menus. As a result I spent most of my childhood eating weird diet versions of regular food without realizing it until I went to college. You haven't lived until you've had an "enchilada" open-faced on a piece of whole wheat bread with cottage cheese on top.

Remember when cottage cheese, bread, and canned fruit were "diet" food? What was that all about?

Bread? I remember the "diet plate" at restaurants as being a plain hamburger patty (no bun), a scoop of cottage cheese and fruit. "The Diet Plate."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was raised on Weight Watchers recipes because my mom spent most of my childhood dieting and since she was the one cooking, we ate whatever was on the diet plan that night for dinner. She had this deck of cards with bizarre names (lots of things had the word log or snack in the title) and she would deal them out each week as she planned her menus. As a result I spent most of my childhood eating weird diet versions of regular food without realizing it until I went to college. You haven't lived until you've had an "enchilada" open-faced on a piece of whole wheat bread with cottage cheese on top.

Remember when cottage cheese, bread, and canned fruit were "diet" food? What was that all about?

Well, anything's diet food if you keep the portion sizes small enough to limit calories.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was raised on Weight Watchers recipes because my mom spent most of my childhood dieting and since she was the one cooking, we ate whatever was on the diet plan that night for dinner. She had this deck of cards with bizarre names (lots of things had the word log or snack in the title) and she would deal them out each week as she planned her menus. As a result I spent most of my childhood eating weird diet versions of regular food without realizing it until I went to college. You haven't lived until you've had an "enchilada" open-faced on a piece of whole wheat bread with cottage cheese on top.

Remember when cottage cheese, bread, and canned fruit were "diet" food? What was that all about?

Bread? I remember the "diet plate" at restaurants as being a plain hamburger patty (no bun), a scoop of cottage cheese and fruit. "The Diet Plate."

Yeah wasn't the first huge low-carb wave with the original Atkins diet in the 1970s-1980s?