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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fruit did not come in tubes. No lunchables.  [/quote]

No it came rolled up on saran wrap

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We had PLENTY of junk food back then, I promise you. This was not some agrarian paradise. Our food was chock full of chemicals.[/quote]

I’m 42 and we totally had lunchables in the 80’s. Also, bologna/American was a popular sandwich. Usually with a side of Doritos. And like a PP mentioned it was all in the those plastic sandwich baggies that folded instead of zipped because the zipper ones were way too expensive![/quote]

I’m 46, co-sign everything above. My mom wouldn’t buy Lunchables because she said they were overpriced and full of sodium. But she did buy Cokes (I’m sure I had a 16 oz glass bottle — remember those?! — nearly every day), and Hostess snack cakes, and Better Cheddars, and sugary granola bars, and all sorts of junk.

And like a PP in this thread described, “salad” was a big hunk of iceberg with dressing. Maybe some tomatoes and carrots.

Oh, and we ate at McDonald’s at least once a week.

I’m the same height as I was in my early teens (my growth spurt was early). Back then, I weighed about 15 pounds less. Sigh. Now it’s a constant struggle and takes vigilance not to put on any more pounds. [/quote]

It's funny--my parents were not the picture of health in the 70s/80s. They were both skinny in the 1960s when they got married and then both overweight when I was a kid mainly because they were not active people. They took walks maybe a few times a week, but never worked out or did any type of physical activity beyond walking. We never walked our dog until I was in high school or college and I would take her on walks, but the poor dog mainly got her exercise in the backyard because my parents never walked her. And they thought we ate healthy, but even if they were making home-cooked meals w/vegetables as sides, it was mainly carbs (pasta or if chicken then breaded chicken) and the portions were huge. They thought they were healthy based on their food choices, but really they weren't because everything was high carb/low protein, except cottage cheese. Boy did they like cottage cheese.  But, cream cheese and jelly sandwiches were a lunch staple. No one ever made a salad--never,  They refused to by fruit roll-ups and bought these disgusting natural fruit "leathers" which I hated. We lived off of Lorna Doones--never Oreos. Couldn't have Oreos,  We could never ever eat McDonalds, but greasy gross Chinese food? Perfectly acceptable. We could only have soda in the summer and if so, then it had to be Diet Sprite (my dad was diabetic so only diet soda) or diet Dr. Browns.  I remember when my mom started agreeing to buy Cheez Its instead of whatever gross "healthy" cardboard crackers she wanted to buy back then--I was in heaven! It was like the junk food of my dreams.  I remember going to my friend's house and heating up shredded cheese on Doritos in her microwave and thought it was the best thing ever because no way would my mom a) by shredded cheese (only blocks of cheese that we shred) or b)Doritos.  It's probably no wonder I am a snack addict in my adults and buy my kids boxes of goldfish, mini oreos and whatever other crap they want to have for a snack (of course this go worse during COVID) because my parents deprived me of snacks as a kid! I was a skinny kid and am a healthy weight today, but it amuses me that my parents thought they were being super healthy, when in fact they really weren't. [/quote]

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