What were meals like in your home when you were growing up? Did you learn to cook as a child?

Meat, potato and vegetable every night with a tall glass of milk. Yes I learned to cook from my mother which is probably why I do not measure very often when I cook

Meals were always extravagant, and healthy. Steak, crab, fish, meatloaf, beef stroganoff, tuna cassarole... chili... veggies.. salads...


We had huge breakfasts as well. Seasoned potatoes, eggs or omlettes with cheese, and veggies, toast, or bagels, or dunkin donuts.



We always had milk, or apple juice, or cool aid.


My mom and I used to eat tuna sanwiches on toast, and campbells chicken noodle soup, or vegetable beef soup with it, and maybe some chips for lunch, or grilled cheese.

I had school lunch usually, but when she packed my lunch, shed pack 2 sandwiches, a fruit, some cupcake, or star crunch, and she let me pick out, hi c, or a capri sun of some kind.

a heart attack waiting to happening..bacon drippings in every veggie buttered up bread I am surprised I am still alive..just goes to show you maybe the good is wrong...lol

dinner was... improvisation. i learned to cook VERY early...i can almost make a tasty soup out of water.

nothing went to waste, and we cooked as a family. i still do that with my kids...we make everything together.

what's a measuring cup, lol...everything back then was by taste.

although, it took many years before i could handle to eat macaroni and tomatoes again...that was by far one of the most common meals. that, and beans and cornbread with fried taters.

Hamburger helper for dinner LOL Mom wasn't much of a cook

Good, but I ate like a bird.

The kitchen belonged to mother .

She cooked and baked everything
from savory roasts, fresh picked vegetables,
and breads to fresh blackberry cobblers,
cakes, pies and cookies from scratch,
and eggnog .
Homemade icecream, jams, and more.

She'd often let me help,
as I was in-training.