Did you have the same meal on the same day every week?

[Nittersing]

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(Swiped this idea from a twitter thread)

My early years were in Lexington, Mass and on Saturdays, we always had franks and beans. And sometimes brown bread from the can.

Did you have a similar routine?

[Walleye]

1. I pretty much have the same meal every day. In a terrible rut.

Been too alone for too long

[Nittersing]

4. Don't know if this strikes and chords for you, but...

this site sparked some new ideas for me.

https://onedishkitchen.com/

[bottomofthehill]

13. Ice Cream Place in Lexington or maybe Bedford

When we were young my mom and dad would take us ( siblings all loaded into the family station wagon) to Lexington and Concord in April, early in the month when it was still cold, and then in June or July they would take us to Walden Pond and it would end at an ice cream place in a strip mall. It was not a brighams, it tied somehow into our trip. It was a long time ago but they made a big deal of their belly buster sunday. They were not always fun as we saw the same thing over and over again, but it did teach up to love our country. I can’t remember the name of the place but it was always fun at the end of a long day of learning.

[Nittersing]

16. Maybe Chadwicks?

I found this little tidbit about Amy Poehler

"Poehler recently recalled her time working at Chadwick's, which has since closed, reminisce about how she loved the attention she received when dishing ice cream and how it taught her to look forward to the future. She recalls serving the BellyBuster sundae, which, as anybody who visited Chadwick's knows, was HUGE"

https://patch.com/massachusetts/waltham/amy-poehler-recalls-ice-cream-at-chadwicks

[bottomofthehill]

17. Putnam Pantry

Just spent 20 minutes talking to my sister about the trips. We lived near the Bunker Hill Monument and General Putnam was one of the architects of the battle of Bunker and near by Breeds Hill.

My sister also told me I was working on the belly buster, the Sunday’s were Bunker Hill themed and they you could belly up to the candy bar to put on your own fixings.

The Putnam pantry belly buster could not survive Covid times. She thinks it was a 21 scoop sunday that groups of people would eat. A massive bowl of ice cream with long spoons and everyone digging in. Again, it was the 70’s.

This brought very fond memories.

[Nittersing]

36. Buttricks!

Finally got an email back from my sister. She said it was between Walden Pond and our home in Lexington. So that would have been a pretty regular trip for us. And black raspberry ice cream was the flavor of choice!

[bottomofthehill]

39. There was a Buttricks, she is right. We went there too.

This is a great walk down memory lane. It comes at a great time too. Thanks to you and your sister. From Frank’s,Beans and Brown Bread to ice cream tour of revolutionary war history. It pisses me off to no end that the shitbirds who attacked the Capitol on 1/6 calling them selves Patriots also ruined the 1776 meaning.

Thank you so much for bringing back happy memories.

[LakeArenal]

2. Not every night. But I have a two week rotation down.

[samnsara]

3. half the time i dont even know what day it is...

[Chainfire]

14. You may say that in jest

Since I retired three years ago, and especially since my wife retired a year later, the days of the week have little meaning. If not for doctor's appointments, we could throw the calendar away. In fact, the hours of the day don't matter any more. For the fist time since I was about 14, I don't wear a watch every day. I go to sleep when I am sleepy and wake up when I am refreshed, I eat when I am hungry, and nap when I am tired. If I want to read my book until three in the morning, there is no penalty to pay the next day.

When we go out and about, I find myself feeling very sorry for the people who are rushing around, making a living, and filling their few hours off completing personal chores. Been there, done that.

From the time we enter child care, or kindergarten, we are driven by time constraints. We don't realize how chained we are until the bonds are cast off. I am loving it.

According to my monitor, it is a few minutes after 10 AM. I am still in my robe and looking at the last dregs of coffee in my cup, and I don't feel guilty a damn bit!

[Nittersing]

20. I could have written this entire post.

It's a wonderful thing and I remain so grateful that get to enjoy it.

[KarenS]

5. I eat the same breakfast and lunch everyday,,,,

dinner varies each day but only slightly,,,,
I consider my self a food minimalist. whatever.

[bottomofthehill]

6. B&M Brown Bread. Taste of childhood

That was my mother’s go to on Saturday Night growing up in Massachusetts too. One pot cooking. She would boil the dogs for a few minutes, dump the water and add the beans on low for a while. Slice the Brown Bread and we would spread margarine ( it was the 70’s and thought of as better than butter) then she would put the slices in the toaster oven face up for the margarine to melt. Next the split top rolls would go in the toster oven and we would have a meal. In the summer we would get a Hoodsie for desert.

[Demovictory9]

45. Hoodsie

[bottomofthehill]

47. Hood Dairy ice cream single serve cup

https://images.app.goo.gl/rCuuhQmZmQzUchySA

[Diamond_Dog]

7. We have

Spaghetti every Monday
Pizza every Friday

This is in accordance to my spouse’s preferences, not really mine.

I have never heard of brown bread from a can.

[bottomofthehill]

8. With or with out Rasin it was yummy

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/J0eEaiTA3D0oj4L0MJz_fz8KM9IvkKowLREIQPAaIpznx6dvqoBbZ7VJxOgGDt-LUQMZgT661Ln750yIFPe36hHT9KOu3GcBoABrn7i6dSHyqVpjHueS4upTKj-KSzufTQflZpD4M3qvhg5_5j9NnyQbtCsYkR3e-ttqDJD-bpNgEuthVs0n0eVK_kuJv03rhLcQ-48dUu6AHqSKUYBVuKaLLeqYKgEV5u-Fza4B5Bf5

Sorry, I still stink at posting pictures.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Wow thanks

I honestly never knew this existed and I’m not exactly a hermit! And I do all the cooking and food shopping here. Maybe more of an east coast thing?

I remember my college roommate from NJ always talking about Taylor ham which is something I have never seen in Ohio either.

But if you want Italian food, the Youngstown area is the place to be .....

[Nittersing]

18. You really ought to try it at least once!! nt

I was always led to believe that it was very much a New England thing.

[Walleye]

15. I loved that B&M brown bread with cream cheese

[Marthe48]

10. We had it in Cleveland, Oh

One time my grandmother made it. She washed 1 lb cans, and made the batter, filled the cans, and steamed them in a covered pot on the stove. They turned out exactly right.

We also got the BM brown bread. Great with some cream cheese on it

[chia]

11. No, never did. It was always random, and still is

I cook from whatever I have on hand at the time, in fact I've probably cooked more from an attitude of "what needs to be used up" than anything else.

[Marthe48]

12. I have a food plan I follow

An egg and toast alternates with a 1/2 serving of cereal and almond milk. Sometimes I splurge and have bacon with the egg, or go really crazy and have a sausage sandwich.

I usually have chicken and vegetables for dinner and make enough to last 2 days. It isn't always the same vegetables. I'm stuck on jerk seasoning right now. Still using curbside and delivery, so the days I get a fresh order, I have salad for 3 days.

[MontanaMama]

19. Tacos on Tuesday but

I try to mix it up week to week. I get bored making the same foods let alone eating them. Last week we had regular tacos, tomorrow will be shrimp tacos and next week it’ll be fajitas on Tuesday.

I’ve never heard of brown bread from a can!

[Nittersing]

21. It's so good

https://www.amazon.com/B-M-Bread-Brown-Plain/dp/B00FL41H4S/ref=sr_1_3

[EYESORE 9001]

22. No, but now I want some brown bread from a can

I have put it on my list for the upcoming week. Now to decide what to have with it...

[Elessar Zappa]

23. Brown bread in a can?

Interesting! I don’t think they’ve ever sold that here in southwest New Mexico. I’d like to try it actually lol.

[Nittersing]

24. Do it! This is exactly what the internet was made for!! 🤣 nt

[Irish_Dem]

25. Fish sticks on Friday. Franks and beans on Saturday.

Stopped at the bakery after Mass on Sundays for donuts or bear claws, then usually a nice chicken dinner at noon on Sunday.

Yes sometimes brown bread from the can.

When the kids got the fish sticks on Fridays, my mother broiled a halibut steak for my dad.
When we got the beans and weenies on Saturday, she broiled my dad a steak.

[Grammy23]

26. Back in the day, every school served fish on Friday.

That was in deference to the Catholics attending public school but most of the Catholic friends I had attended St. Joseph’s. Go figure. Anyhow, we usually had fish sticks (straight outta the box) which we didn’t really mind since they were crispy/crunchy. They’d serve black eyed peas and a roll. Maybe corn. A carb fest. LOL. Jell-o dessert unless you got the yellow lunch card (cost $1.40/week, compared to $1.25/week for the cheaper orange card). If you had the coveted yellow card, that meant you could have cake or pudding for dessert. Milk to drink. Always milk.

Once in a while my mom would spring for the yellow card! Score! Our cafeteria manager must have been a drill sergeant in a former life because she was a stern old bag. Wore a white uniform with a fussy handkerchief in her pocket, displayed like a flower. She had short, salt & pepper gray hair and she’d walk around pushing our chairs in until our bellies touched the table. Mostly she was checking to see who was eating and who was skipping their peas. Some kids hid their uneaten (and unwanted) food inside the milk carton so they looked like they’d been eaten. She often insisted that kids drink their milk even as they protested they couldn’t drink milk. This was long before the days of half the class having allergies to milk or red dye.

Ah, the good ol’ days. Or at least we thought they were good at the time and looking back — they weren’t that bad. Lots of things wrong in those days, but generally we kids did ok.

[applegrove]

27. As kids, on Sunday nights, we had burgers in front of the tv when Walt Disney hour was on.

We would lay newspapers on the ground and the most delicious burgers mom would make: not lean beef with bran, kosher pickles, old cheddar cheese, tomatoes. Yum. I can taste it now.

[Nittersing]

29. Oh, I forgot about Sunday nights.

For us, it was TV dinners... on tv trays... in the living room!! (I *think* we watched Disney or Wild Kingdom)

Dad grew up in a family that always dressed for a formal dinner. He hated it. I think our Sunday dinners were his delayed and much enjoyed rebellion!

[applegrove]

31. My parents too made us dress up on certain occassions. My brothers - they hated it.

As to dressing up on Sunday nights we did not. I did dream of having long hair so once i wore a towel on my head at Sunday dinner on the newspapers. I would flip the towel over my shoulders like i saw people doing with their long hair (Cher or my sister). Our nanny was like "why do you have a towel on your head?"LOL!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. Nope.

I've tended to eat the same types of food lately, but I never know what I'll eat even a few hours ahead of the meal.

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. No, but I do tend to make a lot of the same things.

There's just not a set schedule.

If I'm home on weekends, I'll make something that takes more work, and open a "good" bottle of wine (compared to a weeknight glass of Bota Box or Black Box). Sometimes I give leftovers to people at work, but usually just portion & freeze for my work lunches.

[Iggo]

32. Steak Night.

Every Thursday for as far back as I can remember when I was a kid.

Filet Mignon, asparagus, baked potato, and whichever jazz record my Mom felt like playing on the stereo.

Every time you catch me whistling Take Five, that’s my Mom right there.

[Danmel]

33. As a child, on Friday nights, for the Jewish sabbath

We always had chicken soup with noodles and challah bread, along with some type of chicken main course.
Otherwise, it was pretty mixed.
I mix things up as an adult, but if i haveba Friday off, I usually bake a challah and then make french toast Saturday morning.

[csziggy]

34. For breakfast yes, not for lunch or dinner

For lunch it's all over the map - smoothies, sandwiches, soup, or just celery and peanut butter.

For dinner, it's whatever I feel like making that day. Since I seldom just make two servings my husband and I usually have the same meal two or more days in a row.

ETA - Mornings I can't handle complications so unless we're traveling I have pretty much the same thing every day - right now it's Belvita crackers, a cup of tea and a small apple.

[UTUSN]

35. Not now, but there was that Catholic fish-Friday & scary Lent stuff.

[zanana1]

48. A chicken on Sundays.

I used to look forward to it. It was a treat for us.

[UTUSN]

49. Ours was roast on Sundays, left cooking while we went to mass, done by return.

This was before (for us) slow cookers, so I don't know what the method was - in the oven? These days for me, I'm totally freaked about checking that things are turned *OFF* going anywhere, sometimes come back to check (forgetting I checked) or even if haven't turned anything on in days. Not to mention that I cook less all the time. And yes the roast was a treat.

[Paladin]

37. I did when I was in school.

The Texas public schools had Tex-Mex every Wednesday: cheese enchiladas, refried beans, rice, etc. They did a pretty creditable job of it---turned us all into Tex-Mex junkies, needing a frequent dose of Tex-Mex cooking, to this very day.

[ironflange]

38. Jeez, totally the opposite

If I ever have the temerity to serve something we had less than three weeks ago I really hear about it.

[malaise]

40. That was my mother's routine

but I never followed it. Mom always made soup on Saturdays

[malaise]

41. That was my mother's routine

but I never followed it. Mom always made soup on Saturdays

[smirkymonkey]

42. No, never. My mom always liked to try new recipies.

Fortunately, she was a good cook. She also had a lot of meals in her repertoire that we would eat often, but not on a regular schedule.

My dad liked to cook breakfast on the weekends, and of course, he was the grill master when BBQ season started. Also, we had a big garden and always had whatever was ready to harvest.

We definitely ate well.

[smirkymonkey]

43. No, never. My mom always liked to try new recipies.

Fortunately, she was a good cook. She also had a lot of meals in her repertoire that we would eat often, but not on a regular schedule.

My dad liked to cook breakfast on the weekends, and of course, he was the grill master when BBQ season started. Also, we had a big garden and always had whatever was ready to harvest.

We definitely ate well.

[GumboYaYa]

44. Red beans and rice on Monday nights...I have been doing that since I was a child.

We still eat red beans every Monday. My kids grew up knowing what was for dinner on Monday. It is nice to know you are having an easy, inexpensive and tasty meal on Monday to start each week.

[nuxvomica]

46. Growing up, we had a pretty set schedule

Sundays: pasta, usually linguine with sausage or meatballs
Mondays: chicken soup, even in the summer
Tuesdays: wild card
Wednesdays: pasta, usually linguine with sausage or meatballs
Thursdays: meat pie, or some other Mom dish because Dad ate with poker buddies
Fridays: any combination of Sicilian pizza, spaghetti aglio e olio, potata frittata, broccoli pizza, fried dough, sometimes shrimp scampi.
Saturdays: steak and hot dogs with tomato, cucumber and onion salad, usually in the basement, on folding trays, while watching an old sci-fi movie on the Dumont.

All of it was homemade from scratch. On pasta days it was always a red sauce and we sometimes had perciatelli (bucatini) or rigatoni instead of linguine, and sometimes "pillows and spiders", which was stuffed calamari with the tentacles fried to look like crushed spiders.

[Glorfindel]

50. No, not at all. My mother was a fearless and inventive cook

She delighted in trying new recipes and making up her own. We never had the slightest idea what would be for "supper." Breakfast was usually cereal for me, eggs and bacon or sausage for the grownups (my parents and my maternal grandfather). "Dinner" (lunch) was usually a sandwich. I liked to read while eating; still do, but couldn't get away with it at supper. Conversation was expected and encouraged, but voices couldn't be raised or arguments conducted. A stern glance from Daddy along with, "You're at the table!" would quickly restore decorum.

What an excellent question. Thanks for asking.

[Nittersing]

51. Fun responses!

My Mom was not a cook at all, but my Mom's best friend was a gourmet cook, complete with a local cooking show! HER kids were not fans of all the fancy meals she would serve up. They loved to eat at friends homes where they could get more "normal" meals.