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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Born 1970, grew up in eastern Massachusetts 30 minutes outside Boston until we moved to Arizona in 1979 and then to Maine in 1989.

On the weekday dinner table growing up:
Sloppy Joe’s from the can
Kraft blue box Mac and cheese
Hamburger helper and tuna helper
Steak’ums sandwiches with extra grease
Ragu spaghetti sauce on pasta witg Kraft Parmesan cheese - never meatballs, too much work
Chipped beef on toast in white gravy 
Breakfast for dinner (usually poached eggs on toasted Wonder bread)
Etc.

On weekends we ate better when the father was around:
Overcooked dry pork chops
Overcooked dry pot roast
Overcooked dry roast chicken
Overcooked weiner schnitzel and sauerkraut 
Overcooked steak and rice
Overcooked tasteless meatloaf

Salads were hunk of iceberg with wedge of tasteless tomato, cucumber and radish topped with sickly sweet French or thousand island dressing

Vegetables came exclusively in cans - is it any wonder I had no fondness for them?

The tuna helper was a particularly nauseating dish which I always struggled to consume. To this day I struggle with cooked tuna, but I am about to learn to make tuna meatballs because I’m eschewing beef and pork and expanding my Mediterranean cooking repertoire.

Sadly for several years after I left home I continued to eat basically the same stuff - it was all I knew how to make. I definitely explored other food out in the world, but I didn’t become an adventurous cook until my 40s so there were a lot of years wasted on a very bland diet. I hope I have several more years ahead to continue to taste all the flavors!
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I forgot to say, our spice cabinet growing up consisted of Morton’s salt, ground black pepper, and a bottle of paprika which mainly got sprinkled on deviled eggs - the same bottle sat in the cabinet for years and years so it was essentially flavorless. 
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