"Kraft Dinner (what we call the blue box mac n cheese in Canada). Used to love it as a kid, now I can’t stand it and just make my own mac n cheese from scratch."
"Fish sticks used to be a lot more common. Think it was an easy no stress way to get me to eat dinner."
"Sloppy joes."
"Homemade fried chicken. It was our Sunday dinner every week without fail. I make it like 1-2 times a year at most. I don’t want the grease in my kitchen."
"Jell-O with canned fruit cocktail inside to make it “healthier”."
"A dish my mom called oven stew. Basically, it’s ground beef, veggies and potatoes layered and baked in a casserole dish. Sort of a lazy, Americanized shepherd’s pie. It’s not too difficult to make, but when I make it, it doesn’t seem to come out right, so I’ve given it up. Every once in a while I’ll have my mom make it for a birthday dinner."
"Frozen TV dinners: Hungry Man, Banquet etc."
"Taco night with all the white people fixins. Crunchy shells, ground beef, shredded cheddar cheese, lettuce, diced tomato, and salsa."
"Grilled cheese sandwiches, cut diagonally."
"Hamburger Helper and other box meals. I bought a box of the cheeseburger one for nostalgia’s sake years ago and it tasted like bland chemicals."
"Ha, gluten. Coeliac disease s#cks."
"Spaghetti and country crock. God bless my single dad, but I’ve got tomato sauce money now."
"Jello Pudding Pops."
"My dad made a mean fried bologna sandwich; slice of American cheese, on wonder bread with mayo….and on special occasions a fried egg or Lays potato chips were added between the layers."
"Coke float. Can of Coke in a glass, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream."
"Lots of casseroles made with canned “cream of” soups. I can’t do casseroles these days. As a kid, chicken and rice casserole was the best! But now, it just doesn’t hit."
"Campbell’s soup cans were “pasta sauce” growing up."
"Meatloaf. My mom was an awful cook, and meatloaf is generally awful, but for some reason my mom’s meatloaf was amazing. I can make every other dish she actually made well (there weren’t many lol), but I have no idea how she made the amazing meatloaf. I should actually have another go at recreating it, I miss my mom and her meatloaf."
"Ocean fish. My dad fished for the family and we ate fish 3 times a week. Now I don’t trust the majority of supermarket fish and can’t afford the specialty seafood stores near me. I am glad I spend summers in Maine near enough to get fresh ."
"Cereal. Breakfast almost every day was cereal. Now I can’t stand the stuff. Also drinking milk with everything."
"Baked beans with cut-up hot dogs. I always looked forward to this meal as a kid, but my mom recently admitted that she only made it when she barely had any money."
"Rice-a-Roni. Haven’t had it in at least 15 years."
"Sliced tomato sandwich. We ate them on white butter crust bread. Mayo, salt and pepper."
"Shepherd’s Pie. Always my favourite thing my mum made but I’ve never bothered to make it."
"I purchased some Chef Boy R Dee ravioli in a can during Covid. I tried it and was really surprised… Surprised at how disgusting it was. I remember it fondly from my childhood."
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A big slice of tomato on a flakey biscuit is awesome.
It’s really salty, so I buy the one with the lowest sodium content (mini ravioli and meatballs).