"Store-bought" when you were growing up... was it any different than today?

AnnieA said:
Besides the inital expense of the canner, there's that issue of following correct procedure to a 'T' ...gotta keep an eye on that pressure gauge! :oops:




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Pressure canners have always scared me, because of this. OMG, I cannot imagine! People have been killed before from expoding canners.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Pressure canners have always scared me, because of this. OMG, I cannot imagine! People have been killed before from expoding canners.
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They're dangerous if not used properly. I use an All American pressure canner because they don't use rubber seals that can go bad. They're so well made that the bottom and lid fit together 'metal to metal' with a thin film of oil between. The also have a secondary safety release valve.
 

AnnieA said:
They're dangerous if not used properly. I use an All American pressure canner because they don't use rubber seals that can go bad. They're so well made that the bottom and lid fit together 'metal to metal' with a thin film of oil between. The also have a secondary safety release valve.
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Wow, Annie, those canners look marvelous! Now THAT'S a canner!

Now I know which canner to get! Thank you so much for the information and firsthand knowledge!
 
My mother was a great cook so we did not eat pre-packaged meals. Even cakes were made "from scratch". But when I got grown and it was just me for awhile...I do admit I bought T.V. dinners because I hated to cook. My husband and I have shopped at Costco for years and we would buy prepared meals from there. I'd make sure the sodium count wasn't too high. When we first got together we ate out almost every night, mostly because he never knew for sure what he was in the mood for and I'm no short order cook. That got to be expensive so we cut back a bit with the help of prepared meals (sure better than T.V. dinners) and me cooking sometimes.
 
I grew up in the suburbs or small cities most of my life so we always had plenty of stores around in my memory. We got TV dinners a few times a year and they were a real treat for us. My mom got them when she and my father would to out to eat or go to a play or a concert. I remember how fun it was to go to the store with her and pick out my dinner from the freezer section.

Although my mom cooked most of the time a lot of her dishes were from the midwest school of cooking using canned soups as the sauces in what she made. We always had packaged cereals for breakfast and when Instant Breakfast came out we'd get that sometimes as well. I recall occasional packaged rice dishes, but I don't remember how often we had them. I also remember the Rice-a-roni commercials but we rarely or never had it. My mom worked at least part time a lot of my life but she almost always cooked. Another rare treat was a bucket of KFC.

We started going out to eat more often as I grew older as my father moved up in the management chain and there was more discretionary money available for them.

We would usually have pizza at the pizza parlor and I don't recall ever getting food delivered but I might just not remember it.

My mom baked cookies quite often and we almost had fresh cookies available. She also encouraged us to eat fruit and we usually had a lot of that around as well.
 
I only ate food my Mom made every night....Mom made her own pizza....I helped her with the dough....
We never had boxed cookies....Only hand made....(Some here might be a little younger,)ā€¦.
No TV Dinners for us.....Mom also had fruit for us kids....NO CANDY....GOD FORBID IF I BROUGHT CANDY HOME.... Momamiiaā€¦.
Mom baked cakes 2 times a week....
 
asp3 said:
I grew up in the suburbs or small cities most of my life so we always had plenty of stores around in my memory. We got TV dinners a few times a year and they were a real treat for us. My mom got them when she and my father would to out to eat or go to a play or a concert. I remember how fun it was to go to the store with her and pick out my dinner from the freezer section.

Although my mom cooked most of the time a lot of her dishes were from the midwest school of cooking using canned soups as the sauces in what she made. We always had packaged cereals for breakfast and when Instant Breakfast came out we'd get that sometimes as well. I recall occasional packaged rice dishes, but I don't remember how often we had them. I also remember the Rice-a-roni commercials but we rarely or never had it. My mom worked at least part time a lot of my life but she almost always cooked. Another rare treat was a bucket of KFC.

We started going out to eat more often as I grew older as my father moved up in the management chain and there was more discretionary money available for them.

We would usually have pizza at the pizza parlor and I don't recall ever getting food delivered but I might just not remember it.

My mom baked cookies quite often and we almost had fresh cookies available. She also encouraged us to eat fruit and we usually had a lot of that around as well.
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Midwest style cooking? what do you think of one lady's "spaghetti sauce": when the spaghetti was done, she'd stand over the pot with a bottle of ketchup in each hand and fire it on in. :ROFLMAO:
 
JaniceM said:
Midwest style cooking? what do you think of one lady's "spaghetti sauce": when the spaghetti was done, she'd stand over the pot with a bottle of ketchup in each hand and fire it on in. :ROFLMAO:
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Oh No....I guess because our family is Italian we didn't say "sauce"....It was Red Gravy....Till this day....
Funny you mention Ketchup...I don't like it, but everyone in my family loves Ketchup....But not on Spaghetti and meat balls....Ugh!!!
 
peppermint said:
Oh No....I guess because our family is Italian we didn't say "sauce"....It was Red Gravy....Till this day....
Funny you mention Ketchup...I don't like it, but everyone in my family loves Ketchup....But not on Spaghetti and meat balls....Ugh!!!
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Aha, an answer to something I've been puzzling about for a long time- a local, not Italian, from the west coast, used that expression and said most people did. I'd never before heard spaghetti sauce referred to as 'gravy,' even though I'm from the East Coast, a small percentage Italian, and had full-blooded Italian friends.

Also, can I ask you this: individuals in Chicago used the term "American-style spaghetti." What's that about- is it different than what most of us are familiar with?
 
My parents provided "three hots, and a cot"-the basics. At my house, desert wasn't on the menu. "Store bought' was way too expensive. I have to say say that thankfully my mother didn't bake much. What that woman could do to a poor, defenseless cake is best left unsaid. TV dinners, were kind of skimpy affairs- not much dinner in them. Plus outside of a few ice cube trays, you couldn't stuff much into into a 50s fridge's freezer. You had to eat the frozen dinners right after you came home from the grocers. And everybody knew that 'store bought' tasted lousy when compared to homemade. Jeesh!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
My parents provided "three hots, and a cot"-the basics. At my house, desert wasn't on the menu. "Store bought' was way too expensive. I have to say say that thankfully my mother didn't bake much. What that woman could do to a poor, defenseless cake is best left unsaid. TV dinners, were kind of skimpy affairs- not much dinner in them. Plus outside of a few ice cube trays, you couldn't stuff much into into a 50s fridge's freezer. You had to eat the frozen dinners right after you came home from the grocers. And everybody knew that 'store bought' tasted lousy when compared to homemade. Jeesh!
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I've never heard of the saying, "three hots and a cot" before. :)

Boy, do I remember the old days of iced-over freezers! I remember the last freezer defrost I did, knowing it was my last... I couldn't see our old fridge out the door fast enough, and never shed so much as a single tear. LOL!
 
Aunt Marg said:
I've never heard of the saying, "three hots and a cot" before. :)

Boy, do I remember the old days of iced-over freezers! I remember the last freezer defrost I did, knowing it was my last... I couldn't see our old fridge out the door fast enough, and never shed so much as a single tear. LOL!
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The term is also sometimes used to refer to incarceration: "3 hots and a cot- courtesy of our tax dollars!"

As for freezers- I'm 100% with you on that!
 
JaniceM said:
The term is also sometimes used to refer to incarceration: "3 hots and a cot- courtesy of our tax dollars!"

As for freezers- I'm 100% with you on that!
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Thanks, Janice! :)

As for my old refrigerator freezer, I was doing good when a box of popsicles for the kids couple be stored inside! Terrible things those old refrigerators were.
 
Kadee46 said:
Some of my 40 bottles of my home grown / preserved apricots
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@Kadee46 I know I have already replied but those gorgeous apricots put me in mind of a song
by John Williamson
called 'Galleries Of Pink Galahs' and the first verse goes like this
'Galleries of pink Galahs
Crystal nights with diamond stars
Apricots preserved in jars
That's my home'
 

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