What was your favourite non dessert food as a kid. I like canned Chef Boyardee

[applegrove]

spaghetti. I could not get enough. Then I tried it as an adult and all I could taste was the tin and acidic tomato sauce.

[Aristus]

1. Vienna Sausages and mashed potatoes made from Potato Flakes.

I remember the first time I had mashed potatoes made the old-fashioned way, with boiled potatoes and a potato masher, I didn't like them 'cause they didn't taste as creamy and light as Potato Flakes potatoes. I've leaned since then how to make really good mashed potatoes. Haven't had the stuff from a box in decades...

And I don't know what it was about Vienna Sausages, but I just freakin' LOVED them as a kid. When my mother would go to the grocery store, she would get a can of them for me, then present them to me as soon as she got home. Ten minutes later, they would be completely devoured...

[kick-ass-bob]

29. The first 2 things out of my head were Chef Boyardee and Vienna Sausages.

I gobbled those 2 things up back in the day.

Mmmmm Vienna Sausages

Now I can't even stand to see an opened can of either...

[Kat45]

2. Cheese, which back then would be a slice of American cheese.

I loved it so much that my friend and I would sometimes have a "cheese party," when we would sit at a card table and each have a slice of cheese (on a plate, I think) and a glass of ginger ale.

[StevesRedLens]

3. Spaghetti for me as well

Seems like we had spaghetti several times a week and I still love it to this day!

[marzipanni]

7. Me, too. Spaghetti with my mom's sauce is still one of my favorites.

Growing up with three older brothers spaghetti was filling and plentiful enough so that after they devoured their first helpings and went for seconds there was still some left for my parents and me to have second helpings if we wanted them!

I'd like to lose ten or fifteen pounds, then travel to Italy and gain it back. ;)

[freshwest]

4. Van Camp's Beanee Weenee

[csziggy]

5. Anchovies straight out of the can. Or olives, or pickles

If none of those were available, lemon juice with salt. All the kids in my family loved sour salty stuff. My little sister loved pickle juice, olive juice and lemon juice with salt, all mixed together. Maybe it had something to do with living in Florida with no AC and needing electrolytes?

[freshwest]

31. Better than going for all that sweet stuff. When I was a kid, I couldn't handle sour stuff at all.

[csziggy]

35. I was also a sucker for Hershey bars

My favorite way to eat one was to put it in the pocket of my jeans on a hot day while on a horseback ride. When it got good and gooey, I'd take it out and lick the liquid chocolate off the wrapper. Hershey bars don't taste that good anymore, maybe from the HFCS or because of the plastic wrappers.

[freshwest]

39. Yeah, Hershey's was a staple of my diet as provided by my older brother.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Kraft macaroni and cheese.

The stuff made with the weird, unnaturally orange-colored powdered "cheese." I loved it. I still do.

[freshwest]

33. Yup. Some call it 'heaven in a box.' I've tried it from scratch but prefer the box kind.

[Sugarcoated]

8. BLTs

Or just BL's, or just Bs and mayo

[kimi]

9. Kraft Mac and Cheese here too

But the kind with the foil packet of plastic orange cheesy kinda stuff. The kind where when you stir it, it makes a "glop glop" sound.

My kids always loved it too. Now they make a version where you can top it with breadcrumbs and put it in the oven under the broiler to finish it off. But it still makes the "glop glop" sound. And I really hate it now but the kids still love it.

[safeinOhio]

10. creamed herring

[pokerfan]

11. Mom's grilled cheese sandwiches

Comfort food.

[meegbear]

17. Still my comfort food today ...

the only good thing about catching a cold was to buy a big thing of cheese and a loaf of bread and eat those til I felt better.

[freshwest]

32. I was given those with a cup of tomato soup. Still treat myself to them on occasion.

[applegrove]

42. We had that Sunday night for dinner. I got some really expensive cheddar. Delicious!

[Frank Cannon]

12. Chef Boyardee Spaghetti Dinner was awesome.

I remember my mom fixing it all the time when my dad was in grad school. I could have eaten it every night.

[Pool Hall Ace]

23. Oh wow . . . will you look at that old ad!

I'm looking for any subliminal sex hiding in that dish of spaghetti! :rofl:

[Phentex]

13. I only ever ate that at a friend's house...

that and pop tarts which we never had at home. I thought those were GREAT!

Later when I bought it for myself I thought it was nasty. :D

[Raven]

14. Will Pitt grew up on Chef Boyardee thanks to his mother's cooking. :-)

[CBGLuthier]

15. A can of Durkee Fried Onions covered in ketchup.

Easy fixin's with the pop top lid and all. Sort of tastes like onion rings. Sort of.

[your_latest_trick]

16. Rice pudding with cinnamon and sugar

I even persuaded my mom to make it once a month :-)

[blogslut]

18. Oranges

Every Christmas my dad would by a case of oranges and a couple days later, every Christmas, he would ask in surprise:

"Who ate all the oranges?"

Me. That's who.

[ceile]

19. Campbell's Clam Chowder

I still like it, but the amount of fat and sodium makes it a once a year meal. The low fat version just doesn't cut it.
Also ate a ton of spaghetti o's.

[MorningGlow]

20. Oh yeah, Spaghetti-Os and Ravioli-Os

Now... :scared:

I also gobbled up Swanson frozen dinners--back before microwaves, when you had to put the foil tray in the oven, and get a steam burn when it was time to peel back the foil from the dessert so it crisped up. I preferred the fried chicken dinners with mashed potatoes and gravy, but when they started adding Tater Tots, it was a revelation. I fondly remember the third-degree burns from scarfing down the hot apples in the whatever-it-was dessert, and the weird flavor of the warm chocolate pudding. Ahhhh... :9

Yeah, my mom wasn't much interested in cooking for me while she lived on salads. Does it show?

[RedCloud]

21. I drank Bosco straight from the can!

http://www.boscoworld.com/

[JohnnyLib2]

22. Lemons and salt

Bad idea, apparently

[shanti]

51. yikes

my ex used to love that too. i think it destroyed his tooth enamel.

[JohnnyLib2]

52. Yup, and our mothers warned us.

;(

[geardaddy]

24. Chunk King chow mein from the can

now, ewwww.

[WinkyDink]

38. Same here, both opinions!

[mikeytherat]

25. Spaghetti-Os, but NEVER Spaghetti-Os with Meatballs.

I am convinced the "meatballs" are really No. 2 pencil erasers.

mikey_the_rat

[FloridaJudy]

26. Raw peas

Right off the vine in my backyard. Oh, you *did* include candy, right?

Still love them, but now I live in an apartment, and rarely find them in supermarkets.

[sinkingfeeling]

27. Fish sticks.

[u4ic]

28. "Petunia" (tuna) sandwiches

I stopped eating tuna when I found out about the mercury levels around 10 years ago.

[MrScorpio]

30. I worship cream cheese

There's some in my fridge right fucking now.

I have to go worship it.

[freshwest]

34. When we're kids we eat what we're given. I thought that was sphagetti when ground beef was added.

When I left home I found out a lot about cooking. I can't eat half the stuff that I ate back then.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. sugar and butter sandwiches.

[likesmountains 52]

43. Oh my, are you my sister? We lived on these....of course on Wonderbread that

stuck to the roof of your mouth!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. but, of course!

:)

[applegrove]

50. We had sugar, cinnamon & butter spread on toast. That was good too.

[WinkyDink]

37. Too many! Fried Tomatoes! M&C! Hot Dogs & Beans! Halupkies! Mussels Marinara! Summer Bologna!

[Kali]

40. steak

mesquite wood (or charcoal) grilled T-bones

now I prefer a rib eye, but it is still up there as a top favorite:9

[applegrove]

41. My dad says it was Heinz spaghetti so I'm not sure it was Chef Boyardee anymore.

[likesmountains 52]

44. PI-Chee-Ams: Pineapple, cheese and ham sandwiches..

fry the canned pineapple rings, place on top of a slice of canadian bacon and cheddar cheese. Cook in fry pan until cheese melts and put on toast.

[applegrove]

46. I had a burger with cheese and a slice of pineapple on top. Was pretty good.

[mia]

47. Sloppy Joe sandwiches n/t

[Luciferous]

48. Tacos. Oh, and bologna and pickle sandwiches.

My grandma would put the bologna and pickles through the meat grinder and then mix it with mayo. I guess it's a Midwest thing :shrug:

[southerncrone]

49. Chicken Livers

Yea, I know, I was a weird kid.

[TuxedoKat]

53. Haha!

I think it was the Chef Boyardee boxed pizza mix with the dough you mixed up and the tomato sauce in a can and then we'd sprinkle the pre-grated Kraft parmesan cheese on it! We made it on Fridays alot. :)

[Patiod]

54. Rice with chicken gravy

To this day, if I'm deeply depressed, I'll eat that as a meal.

[peekaloo]

55. tomato soup w/peanut butter crackers. nt

[Odin2005]

56. Biscuits-n-Gravy!

[Ohio Joe]

57. Rice-A-Roni

I still love that shit.

[Angry Dragon]

58. Meatloaf, shrimp and french fries, fish sticks

peanut butter with almost anything

[hifiguy]

59. Swanson TV dinners

Especially the roast beef and fish varieties. Why I do not know. But I must have ate tens of dozens of them.