My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (160)
sorted by:
I grew up on pinto beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes. We rarely had frozen or processed dinners.
I got a choice between freezer crap or home cooked meal. Don't like what we cooked? Lol fuck off and have a hot pocket.
I would have been in so much trouble with my dad for disrespecting my mom's cooking if I tried to eat a hot pocket.
Sometimes she didn't feel like cooking and we'd just have something like that for dinner, with a few small extra things or leftovers, but you didn't just go get that by yourself.
My parents wanted me to be self sufficient from a pretty young age, if I didn't like something I had to do it myself.
When I was older I would make dinner if I didn't like what they were planning on making, it started with a "fine YOU do it then!" But later on they liked having one less thing to do. it got to the point where they would say they're making something I didn't like without having the ingredients because neither of them wanted to cook that day.
Now I'm a chef and in a year or so, when the property I want is ready to rent, a restaurant owner.
Seems like a win win situation.
Good luck with the restaurant.