sweetlanamarie
Assistant Cook
+1 eewwwwwwwI feel nausious looking at that.
+1 eewwwwwwwI feel nausious looking at that.
Canned asparagus, jarred herring, jarred pickles, jarred spaghetti sauce, most canned fruits, canned corned beef, most Cross & Blackwell products, canned octopus...
I grew up on those. My overworked, underpaid, mom fed us those and green(grey) beans from a can. Love my mom more than anything. Hated those veggies more than anything.Canned peas. I once picked an entire can of petit pois out of a salad at a restaurant. The owner thought it was for the person I was with, a friend of the owner, and added them to be nice. Yuck. I did give one a try.
I grew up on those. My overworked, underpaid, mom fed us those and green(grey) beans from a can. Love my mom more than anything. Hated those veggies more than anything.
I know what you mean! Someone gave me a box of Hamburger Helper several years ago. Not only was it so salty it was pretty much inedible, but it would have been much simpler to make from scratch!Most supermarkets have an aisle I'll call "side dishes". It consists of various envelopes or boxes of starches and seasoning powders that, when reconstituted, allegedly make things somewhat reminiscent of pasta, rice, or stuffing. Most of these things bear little resemblance to the real foods they are modeled after.
If you plan a meal, it takes such little time to create most of these dishes from scratch, so I've never understood the reasoning behind buying this boxed/packaged crap. They aren't really all that convenient. I won't even go into the chemicals they contain.
Let's take boxed hash browns, for example. You mix this with water and cook in a frying pan for 20 minutes..
In that same amount of time, you can grate three potatoes and fry up a batch of crispy fresh hash browns that taste a thousand times better. Why would you go for the box?
I navigate a wide berth around this aisle.
The only cereal I wanted sugar on as a kid was oatmeal. I don't know why my mother told me that Rice Krispies only go "snap, crackle, pop" if you put sugar on them. I'm sure I would have eaten them more often without sugar.Oddly enough, the one aisle I thought I was done with after all the kids left home was the cereal aisle. But I find myself there trying to find cereal that kids will eat for the food bank. And while I am there, I pick up a box of Chex or Cheerios or myself. Two of my favorite snack foods. Just plain right out of the box. No milk or sugar. I liked Wheaties and Cheerios.
When I buy for the food bank, I have to get sugary cereal. Some families don't have sugar. And kids won't eat cereal without sugar. I would like to know that they don't go to school hungry.
The only cereal I wanted sugar on as a kid was oatmeal. I don't know why my mother told me that Rice Krispies only go "snap, crackle, pop" if you put sugar on them. I'm sure I would have eaten them more often without sugar.
I like Spoon Size Shredded Wheat straight out of the box. I remember watching an episode of Mike Hammer. Someone asked him how he knew he was tough. He replied, "I eat Shredded Wheat with no milk." I said to myself, "I must be tough." 'cause I had my hand in a box of Shredded Wheat. Too bad I can't find the spoon sized ones anymore. Now it's all that Kelloggs c**p with sugar on it. Don't like those.
A lot of people skip the first step and just put sugar and hot milk on them. They advertised that as a way to turn it into hot cereal, but it never sounded good to me (and I love some hot cereals).As a kid, my mother would take two large SW biscuits, pour very hot water over them, drain and press out as much water as possible, and then pour milk over them with a sprinkle of sugar. I think it was her version of a hot cereal?
Me too! There is a great mexican restaurant we go to, sometimes. I have to say no cilantro, in order to eat it.My store carries cilantro sauce in a jar. To me cilantro is vile, and I can't imagine creating a whole sauce out of it. It would taste like a jar of soap to me. I even hate the smell of it.