What was your favourite meal as a kid. Mine has to be sandwichs made

[applegrove]

with french bread, slices of roast beef, Strubb's pickles (most important part), old cheddar cheese and mayo. Once you have the sandwich made, and this is the second most important part, you press down hard until the bread is really flat and doughey. We ate this meal all the time at the cottage.

[siligut]

1. Pinto beans

I grew up in the SW, USA. They would give us pinto beans in the school cafeteria. Still love pinto beans.

[kayakjohnny]

2. Flank steak and the original rice-a-roni.

I wish I knew exactly how my dad prepared the steaks, but they were the BEST!

And just smelling them on the grill made me anticipate them even more.

Also, my mom made a wonderful pot roast. And still does to this day.

[driver8]

3. There are two that come to mind -- my classmate's Mom's tuna fish sandwiches,

and the turkey dinner I used to get when my Mom took us for lunch at Grant's department store.

I can still smell and taste that turkey dinner; it was my all time favorite! (Turkey and stuffing is still my favorite meal.).

[HopeHoops]

4. It would make me barf to even think about it now, but "boil-n-bag" salisbury steak.

I've been a vegetarian for over 20 years now. That shit is just gross. I can't believe I'm even still alive after eating so much of that shit. :puke:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

6. Back in 1977

the folks gave me a Litton microwave (must have been the UNIVAC of microwave ovens)
Anywho, you could punch some holes in the boil-in-bag and cook it in the nuker or just drop it un-poked into the boiling water
Either way, I ate a lot

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. I used to LOVE those -- but had forgotten all about them.

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They used to be like 4 for a dollar. Two of them on several slices of white bread
was a filling, satisfying, TASTY student survival meal.
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Ultra-cheap comfort food.
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To tell you the truth... I wish I could still find them. I don't think I've SEEN
them in those 20 years you've been a vegetarian.
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Roast beef in gravy. Turkey in gravy. Maybe a coupla others, too.
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[TheCentepedeShoes]

5. The meatloaf fixed by

the lunch ladies at my high school
The right flavor and the right texture

[old mark]

7. Mom's tuna casserole. nt

[Swede]

8. Hot dogs cooked over an open fire. Lots of yellow mustard

[ohiosmith]

9. Chile dogs. I would save my lunch money and stop at St. Michaels on the way home from school and buy

one for 15 cents.

[tigereye]

11. tomato soup and grilled cheese on a cold day!

[applegrove]

12. Oh yum. I love grilled cheese sandwiches to this day and my George Foreman Grill

makes an excellent grilled sandwich.

[tigereye]

13. I miss em, I'm not supposed to eat much cheese these days

I also really like panini - I should get a panini grill/maker/what have you...

[csziggy]

20. Get a grill press instead - or use a second pan with weights

I'd been thinking of getting a grill since with the cold weather I wanted a real grilled cheese sandwich, not a toasted cheese sandwich. Then I thought about the grill press Mom had given me that I had never used - aka bacon press, grill weight. It makes great grilled cheese sandwiches! I just spritz a little oil in the pan, preheat the pan and the weight and it does not take much time at all until the sandwich is perfectly browned on both sides. I do flip it after the first couple of minutes.

The other way, even cheaper, is to take a second pan, heavy like cast iron or put some sort of weight in it and rest on top of your sandwich. I saw a panini made that way once on one of the cooking shows.

[tigereye]

23. thanks for the ideas!

[Iggo]

14. Filet Mignon, Baked Potato, Asparagus, Tall Glass Of Milk.

Thursday night was Steak Night, and I looked forward to it every week.

[susanr516]

15. I don't know if it qualifies as a meal

but my favorite was peanut butter on graham crackers, with an apple.

My Granny made the best chicken and dumplings, sourdough biscuits, and macaroni and cheese. She also made cinnamon toast under the broiler. The sugar mixed with the butter and got all crusty.

Thanks for bringing back some fond memories.

[applegrove]

16. I forgot about cinnamon toast with butter. I loved that too. Though we never did it under the broile...

That sounds great.

[WinkyDink]

17. Mom's Mac and Cheese!

[TheKentuckian]

18. I was a mad fiend for Long John Silvers Fish and fries, Godfather's pizza, my Grandmother's fried

chicken and her chili, country ham sandwiches from this little gas station outside Bardstown, and the rare treat we called Colonel's Chicken.

The Long John Silver's was off the meter though. It was my McDonald's at least.

[Odin2005]

19. My mom's home-made split-pea soup.

[csziggy]

21. Mom's Southern Fried Chicken

Real simple - cut up chicken tossed in seasoned flour (seasoned with black pepper and Lawry's Seasoned Salt), fried in about a half inch of oil until golden brown. Greasy goodness on a plate! Usually with the chicken we had sticky white rice, green beans, and corn bread.

I've made it, but not for a few decades. Maybe I will make some this year - after I get my physical and don't have to try to get my cholesterol down!

[Moondog]

22. PB&J

Just loved the stuff.

[GoCubsGo]

24. Grandma's pasta with Italian gravy and meatballs

I could eat it twice a day and not get sick of it. Usually, she made a chunky pasta like penne or mostaccioli. I also loved her risotto with chicken livers, pasta fagioli, lasagne, oxtail soup... Just about everything she made was good. Except the Brussels sprouts.

[Redstone]

25. I'm jealous. We never had anything that good when I was a kid.

Redstone

[Forkboy]

26. Spaghetti

[pink-o]

27. I would toast about 6 pieces of Kilpatricks' Bread...

Slather them with butter, heat up a can of Baked Beans and dip the toast in the bowlful. Yum!

To be honest, I'm not much different now, although I eat black beans with spicy salsa, scrambled eggs and guac on tortillas. Or Indian Dahl lentils and Chana Masala on Nan bread. Or Ethiopian Yemiser Wat on Injera bread...well, you get the pic.

It's funny, because my parents were distressed I loved beans and carbs--Po' people's food--far better than the high-end meat they'd serve us. They were depression-era babies, so to have roast beef or steak on Sundays showed they had arrived.

As for me, I became a vegetarian in 1971 when I was 16 and never spent a moment pining after the taste of meat!

[Auggie]

28. Any kind of Pizza

[surrealAmerican]

29. Hot pastrami on rye ...

... no mustard, a very sour dill pickle on the side, and Dr. Brown's cream soda.

[astral]

30. Sloppy Joes.

My favorite thing in the universe for dinner. It was more like spaghetti sauce with chunks of hamburger and onion and celery . . . and of course that great sweet-tangy taste! Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . . . .

[Broken_Hero]

31. Hot dogs and bbq chips, with a Squirt. nt

[krispos42]

32. Ravioli and mom's sauce

She would leave some in the pasta pot. Somehow after stuffing ourselves at dinner, I would manage to disappear into the kitchen, pry one or two out of the collander and dip them in the still-warm sauce in the pot on the stove.

:yum:

[Skittles]

33. fish 'n chips

the greasier the better - well, I was in England :D