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[quote=Anonymous]Born in 1970. Grew up in Michigan.

Dinners were the typical bland meat/veg/starch/salad. Bland oven baked chicken, meat loaf, cheap steak on the grill, hamburger meat with onions, pork chops cooked in a pan with just salt and pepper. Veggies were usually canned, unless it was broccoli with cheese sauce or cauliflower with browned butter. Salad was iceberg lettuce with "Viva Italian!" dressing. Starch, if we had it, was usually potatoes, but occasionally rice. My family was very fish averse but we did have fish sticks a few times. I don't think we ever had a dessert, unless it was a birthday cake or a grocery store pie for a major holiday.

When we veered from this formula, it would be chili and corn bread, tacos from an Ortega kit, spaghetti with bottled sauce and frozen-section garlic bread, or maybe a lasagna if it was a special occasion.
 
We didn't always have breakfast, but when we did we had cereal (Count Chocula, Fruity Pebbles, instant oatmeal), or toast with butter and honey or butter and cinnamon sugar.

Lunch was tuna straight from the can with salt and pepper. Alphabet soup. That bologna loaf with olives in it. That kind of thing. If my mother was feeling energetic we might have English muffin pizzas.
 
If my mom went out, we'd eat tv dinners or, if lucky, order a Domino's pizza. Or maybe she'd get us Burger King. We very rarely ate in restaurants but I remember the occasional trip to Ponderosa Steakhouse or to Red Lobster where, being fish averse, we'd all order popcorn shrimp and dunk it in lots of cocktail sauce. Special occasions were at a place called Godfather's Pizza or a chain Mexican place where everyone ordered chimichangas. There was an amazing sub place in town, but my mom usually only got one for herself and I only got some if she ate half of it and put the other half in the fridge and I got to it before she did.

Always had a pitcher of Kool-Aid in the fridge. [/quote]

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