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Meals were always really plain at our house - meat and two veg as we call it, here. So we'd have roast chicken or pork steaks or some other plainly cooked meat with boiled potatoes (sometimes mashes potatoes) and, maybe, cabbage and carrots to peas or broccoli. This was always served with gravy. Neither of my parents like garlic or spices - they wouldn't eat pasta dishes or anything like that.

Food I would cook for myself - well, my mum used to buy in boxes of"micro-chips" or "micro-pizzas". They were pretty disgusting but I could get them out of the freezer and microwave them if I was hungry. Not good!

DH and I don't eat like this at all! We love garlic and spices and interesting food!

@Cherrybee: oh! you just reminded me ... bagel bites after school. i liked baking them extra crispy

and taquitos too. for a while the frozen package came with guacamole, but then they stopped including it.

My mom always made beef chili with kidney beans, spaghetti with olive oil and chicken, cornflake chicken, pork chops...

For snacks, I always had chips and cheese (tostito chips with American cheese in the microwave haha), frozen grapes, pizza bagels... Drawing a blank on the rest!

When I was in college I used to eat uncooked ramen noodles, hahaha. You know the cheap packages that looked like a brick? I'd eat those out of the package. Don't ask me why!

lots of home made chinese dishes--steamed fish, stir fried leafy greens with garlic, fish soup, vegetable soup (winter melon, bird's nest), tofu and ground pork stew, porridge, ginger chicken, won tun and noodles, sigh things that I would give my mom a hard time about sometimes because I wanted "american" food--spaghetti and tacos.

snacks i'd make--ham and american cheese cigars, scrambled egg sandwiches, marinated artichokes out of the jar, my version of "pizza" (white bread toasted with ketchup, and american cheese), spam musubis (rice balls, if you're from hawaii, you know what i'm talking about).

@pepper, I ate those uncooked ramen noodles too, with the package of seasoning heaped on--so bad.

Chicken tetrazzini
Chicken a la king
Beef stroganoff
Tater tot hot dish
Spaghetti
Pancakes

Convenience was pretty much the standard American diet
Grilled cheese and tomato soup
Ramen
Kraft Mac n cheese
Chicken pot pies

Nothing too special my family (as in DH, me and DS) could not be more different than how I grew up!! Haha

Chicken paprikash
Beef stroganoff
Spaghetti
Pancakes
Grilled cheese and tomato soup
Cereal - lots and lots of cereal.
"Regina's Famous" - pasta shells, hard boiled eggs, chicken, celery, onion, mayo, mustard, s&p, paprika and dried cilantro. Served cold.

@Coco Bee: your childhood foods sound like mine. Where did you grow up?

Pasta on Sundays...spaghetti and homemade meatballs, gnocchi, lasagna

Goulash, tator tot casserole, kringle, apple pie, tuna casserole, French bread pizza, macaroni salad, potato salad, okonomiyaki, gyoza, tempura ... my mom is a good cook. She mostly made western food but on special occasions she would make Japanese food.

I used to eat uncooked ramen too, in college. Along with Mac and cheese, cup a soup..... anything you can make with just a hot pot.

I didn't realize it growing up, but my mom's not a very good cook. Everything's pretty bland. It's a reflection of when/where she grew up. She makes a mean roast chicken and mashed potatoes with stuffing, stuffed peppers and beef vegetable soup. Her chicken soup is good too.

There are several recipes of my grandmas that don't taste right until you add a squirt of ketchup.