What childhood food do you still eat/never cook?

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<p>We ate lots of casseroles growing up in the 70’s. Tuna casseroles with chow mein noodles on top, mac & cheese… something with canned mushroom soup & tater tots, German food- sauerkraut & sausage, liver & onions…
( But even though I make great mac & cheese( the secret is dry mustard), kids liked Annie’s better :frowning: ) </p>

<p>But that kind of food always seemed so heavy that I rarely made it when the kids were growing up & certainly not now when it is just the two of us. I do miss my mom’s potato soup though, she always made it when I was sick.</p>

<p>What kind of dishes did you grow up eating & do you ever make it?</p>

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<p>I only wish that my hips could afford my mom’s luscious mac and cheese. I do however love my various takes on the classic Tuna Casserole. I have lightened it up, added vegetables (fresh peas or green beans), fresh herbs, and porcini mushrooms. But I still crumble saltines on top.</p>

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<p>We used to eat chipped beef on toast. Never eat that now, although I’d like to have it once in a while.</p>

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<p>We had chipped beef on baked potatoes last night. Haven’t had it in years! (We used to have it on toast, too. Called it ***** on a shingle)</p>

<p>Fluffer Nutter sandwhiches- peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. I still eat them.</p>

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<p>Liver and onions. Gag.</p>

<p>We used to have it once a week because my mother had read that American kids were all iron deficient or something.</p>

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<p>Yum…chipped beef and gravy. My mom is and was a great cook. We grew up eating pretty heavy meals, lots of casseroles. She also went through a real health conscious phase in the mid 1970’s. We were on a teacher’s salary and ate from the garden–I have had various kinds of squash in every imaginable form.</p>

<p>I swore the day I left home I would never ever again eat liver and onions or soup beans/ham. 31 years later, still going strong on that promise :)</p>

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<p>When I think back, Saturdays were always hamburgers on the grill in warm weather (must have been cause Dad was home to grill them), Sundays was almost always steak with our main meal at lunch-ish time after church) and Wedsneday was often pasta - you know, “Wednesday is Prince spaghetti day!” Guess my mom took that to heart!!! :)</p>

<p>Mom didn’t do much casseroles - more meat, starch, vegetable meals. </p>

<p>Three things I couldn’t stand to eat as a child. Beef stew, chop suey, cooked carrots. (when these were on the table I instituted the “bite in mouth, drink some milk” to get it down trick) Still will not eat the first two! Blech!</p>

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<p>I used to love the tomato sandwiches my grandfather made. I don’t fix them these days because he used Miracle Whip. No one in my family like MW, so we don’t buy it. Although, WTH, I just might get a jar for myself. Miss you, Papa. </p>

<p>Mom used to fix liver about once a year. Bleh. I’ll never eat that again or serve it at my house.</p>

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<p>Strangely, my mom would make liver and onions and I LOVED the liver!</p>

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<p>Tuna casserole:<br>
one bag ruffles potato chips, crushed. </p>

<p>alternate layers of chips with layers of 2 cans tuna fish.
Pour one recipe (2 cups?) of white sauce on top.
Bake til golden</p>

<p>I can’t in good conscience make it anymore, but we loved it.</p>

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<p>Miracle Whip! my mom bought that- I hated it.
We also never bought pickles( except for occasionally cucumber chips) as both my great aunt & grandma canned sweet pickles every year.</p>

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<p>Oyster stew! I don’t think anyone else in the family would try it, so I haven’t made it yet.</p>

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<p>always as as a kid, never as an adult. Liver and Onions YUK!</p>

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<p>A staple at our house was sauerkraut and polish sausages and I LOVED it. I haven’t had that for years but just typing that is making my mouth water.</p>

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<p>I still love the taste and smell of fried hamburger . I grew up in Calif . We ate a lot of great food . My mom was an amazing cook-I especially miss her Beef Stroganoff and scratch coffee cake and breads .</p>

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<p>My Dad used to request that I make tuna casserole. Tuna, crumbled potato chips, cream of mushroom soup. Haven’t made it in 40+ years, although I think I’d still like it. :)</p>

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<p>My Mom made perfect fried chicken. I can’t stand the spatter of such frying, so I never make that.</p>

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<p>I liked the meat loaf my mom made. I learned to make it in the early 70s (supermarkets used to sell “meatloaf mix,” a mixture of ground pork, veal and beef), then dropped it when so many people I knew became either vegetarians or foodies. I kind of miss it.</p>

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<p>MOWC and I share the same mother. I haven’t had SOS since college probably.</p>

<p>I also never cook a casserole called “My lastname’s chili”. It consists of one can of Campbell’s Tomato soup, 1 can of kidney beans and one box of spaghetti. I actually still like it, but no one else in my family does. My Mom is not to blame for this it was her MIL’s recipe.</p>

<p>I do make my mother’s meatloaf a lot - it’s delicious though she says her mother made even better meatloaf.</p>

<p>I grew up eating all sorts of stuff - from 1950s casseroles to local specialties. (And since we lived in Thailand, Japan, and East Africa there were a lot of interesting local specialties.)</p>

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<p>I remember my dad telling me that his (Irish) mother made the Campbell’s tomato soup/pasta dish - he was embarrassed to admit that he actually liked it! Maybe we just associate certain foods with childhood, no matter how mediocre they really are.</p>

<p>My mother made a delicious rice pudding with raisins. I’ve made it a few times, but no one in my house likes it, and it is so high in calories that I can’t justify making it only for myself.</p>