What Childhood Food do you Miss eating

[Aunt Bea]

Too many things to mention.

I think what I miss most are the dear old souls that prepared all of the holiday treats and everyday foods that I remember so fondly.

I also miss the bountiful amounts of food that we enjoyed.

These days most of my food is portion controlled and engineered to be low carb, low fat, etc…

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I miss scooping marzipan from the fruitcakes my mom made. I love that almond icing.

 

[Murrmurr]

I used to love hot dogs with mustard and relish when I was a kid. It's not that I can't eat one, I don't think, but I don't because there are healthier things for me to eat which are just as good. Sort of.

I also miss bugles which were a corn chip type snack loaded with trans fat but since they took the trans fat out of everything I haven't eaten a one. Crackers and chips without trans fat may be healthier but they taste like crap.

The FDA banned artificial transfat. Natural transfat is not considered a health risk. In fact, it's beneficial. Necessary, actually.

 

[Naturally]

Anything my grandmother made ... miss it

 

[MaidMarian]

Candy. Does that count as a food?

 

[AnnieA]

Gluten containing products. Too many to list.

 

[Rose65]

Fat does seem to enhance a food's flavor significantly. I have been recently cooking pork chops and, of course, am forced to trim the fat. But the small amounts of fat that I (accidentally on purpose?) miss, are absolutely delicious.

I eat the fat, it's delicious and I love it. Fat is what gives flavour.

 

[GoneFishin]

Pablum

 

[rbtvgo]

potato pancakes, use to make them myself
still like them

 

[Della]

My grandmother made Floating Island, a liquid, sweet egg custard with blobs of meringue floating on it. I loved it.

 

[jujube]

My mama's banana pudding, made from scratch, and poured into a bowl lined with ripe banana slices and Nilla Wafers. No substitutes allowed...they had to be Nilla Wafers. I hear the angels singing.....she's up there right now, making them banana pudding.

 

[hollydolly]

potato pancakes, use to make them myself
still like them

I like potato pancakes, I still have them sometimes for breakfast with eggs and bacon...

 

[rbtvgo]

I would grate a potato fry them and then take off for my girlfriends house

 

[Knight]

Mother used to make home made bread. Still warm from the oven two slices buttered & made ketchup & onion sandwiches. Didn't know it at the time that lunch meat was way more than we could afford.

 

[DebraMae]

Tunnel of fudge cake. Pillsbury quit making the frosting mix that was used in the batter and I have tried the "updated" recipes that I have found, but they are not the same.

 

[Radrook]

My mom made delicious fluffy peach rice pudding which I will never have again. I don't know what happened to the recipe and even if I had it, I doubt it would turn out as good as she made it.

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[hollydolly]

Mother used to make home made bread. Still warm from the oven two slices buttered & made ketchup & onion sandwiches. Didn't know it at the time that lunch meat was way more than we could afford.

we never had home made bread, but we did have ketchup sandwiches...

 

[Radrook]

I liked those "no-bake cookies" made of oatmeal, cocoa, sugar, and peanut butter. Far too many carbs to touch them these days though.

Oatmeal and peanut butter! Absolutely delicious! I used to buy them at the Amish market.

 

[Radrook]

we never had home made bread, but we did have ketchup sandwiches...

You are joking. Right?

 

[hollydolly]

You are joking. Right?

No... we had very little money when I was a kid. We'd walk home from school 2 miles at lunchtime, and we'd either get a bowl of knorr chicken noodle soup, a banana.. or a ketchup sandwich, then we;d walk 2 miles back... we were verrrry skinny kids..

 

[BeefStu]

My mother made the best butter tarts in the world. Thank God my oldest sister has the recipe down pat.
My wife made the best carrot cake and sweetest icing for it I have ever had! She always knew what to make for my birthday.
My blood sugar is probably going nuts just talking about it.

 

[Eupher]

My mother used to do a lot of canning - tomatoes, other veggies. Grape jelly using grapes from my grandfather's farm. Made for some good eatin' because the veggies were right out of our garden.

 

[jujube]

we never had home made bread, but we did have ketchup sandwiches...

I loved mayonnaise sandwiches as a kid. I still love the flavor of mayo but don't use it often except on BLTs.

 

[seadoug]

When I was a kid my dad would occasionally take us with him on his business trips. We would always stop at Howard Johnson's if there was one in the area and I would have a clam roll. The clams were sweet and fried and were served in a hot dog bun. They were delicious!

Also, my grandmother made a great peach cobbler with biscuits in it. Yum.

 

[Radrook]

I love Amy's products, Walmart carries a few of their items.

I miss the homemade Banana ice cream that was made outside in a hand cranked ice cream maker with salt and ice chipped from a big block.

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