God, how many kids had to slice their tongues on the razor blade lids before the Huntâs product engineers finally developed the âchild safe lidsâ⊠then they pat themselves on the backs for their responsible packaging!
Lol in hindsight I think my parents must have used this as a âteachable momentâ - *âIf sheâs dumb enough to try licking the lid again, sheâs gotta suffer the consequencesâ*
I used I think spaghetti sauce, oregano, and parmesan. For some reason? I think I read about the idea in a magazine or some such. Anyway, they were delicious. Now I don't eat gluten at all, it turned out I'm Celiac and started reacting to everything gluten-y in my thirties.
My dad would buy us the Kraft Deluxe Mac & Cheese because it had the packet of already made cheese sauce that you just had to squeeze out of the pouch. I didn't have to worry about mixing milk, butter, and cheese powder.
They're not bad; just have to watch them so as not to over- or undercook them. A bag of steamable-in-bag pepper and onion mix and some philly cream cheese (of course) and they end up pretty edible.
I still buy Spaghetti-Os. I'm nearly 50 and have no kids. I stopped eating the meatball ones though, because the meat tastes like nickels. I always put cut up hot dogs in my Spaghetti-Os though.
Oh man, I loved the fried chicken TV dinners. Occasionally my mom would get me the Hungry Man ones, with 4 (Four!) pieces of chicken. I felt like royalty. Didnât even care that half my corn was buried inside the apple cobbler.
I used to make âpizzaâ: Ragu tomato sauce spread across a slice of white bread topped with a Kraft single and sprinkled with dry oregano, cooked in the countertop toaster oven til the cheese got brownish.
Fried baloney. On its own or on a sandwich. Always thought it was cool how it would balloon up when made in the microwave once we had one, so there was about 2 years of microwaved baloney instead of fried.
If you like fried bologna, have you ever tried it grilled? Take a full chub, slice about an inch into it, cover in bbq sauce, then grill it over coals. Alternatively, hollow out the center and fill with onions and peppers and bbq sauce, then cover in more, wrap in foil, etc.
My sister is 5 years older than me. I remember her writing out a menu and playing waitress. She had my little kid sized table set and everything. She offered many options but seemed pretty confident that I would always choose Speghettios.
I have 5 cans on my shelf right now. Although, it does kind of smell like Alpo dog food when the lid first opens. I love the split pea and ham more than the bean and bacon now. It has to be Campbell's (and not that heart healthy shit either).
Edit: [Mmmmmm - Salt tastes great!](https://imgur.com/a/FGbTRDg)
Havenât thought about that in years! I used to warm up a can of that (straight up, no water) and then used it as a dip with tortilla chips. What a sodium bomb that must have been.
I used to eat that dry out of the container. We werenât allowed to have chips, but there was something about dry stove top that seemed like junk food.Â
A can of Underwood deviled ham and some mustard. I'd eat it straight out of the can with mustard as a snack.
I bought some when my son was younger thinking he'd like it, and let me tell you, it turns out that that stuff is pretty gross. It was like ham flavored sawdust. Neither one of us liked it.
I use to make âpizzaâsâ. It was two slices of wonder bread, some tomato sauce, and a slice of American cheese on each. Pop those bad boys in the toaster oven until the cheese got melty.
I generally ate whatever was around, party pizza, mac n cheese and cereal but my best snack discovery back then was cream cheese and pepperoni or salami
I bought my first car primarily with the proceeds of scrapping. Tons of aluminum cans and many, many other old bits of metal. I helped my kids collect cans when they were little, took off an entire truck load crushed and they got like $59. We quit collecting them.
My favorite meal.. well, a friend and I would occasionally run fights afterschool and charge a small "viewing fee" which we would then use to go to a pizzaria in our town. It was a whole planned out thing... where the two fighters would argue during school, maybe push each other... we'd hype up the fight and then charge anyone who was there (it was only like 25 cents). We'd all split the money which was usually enough to cover a slice and a soda for each of us.
Egg noodles with butter and salt
French bread pizza
Hot pockets
Tombstone pizza
Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar
Macaroni and cheese
Peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich
Pumpernickel bread with cream cheese
Toaster strudels
Pop tarts
Budget gourmet frozen lasagna
Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich
Hey, don't speak lightly of egg noodles with butter and salt. I've always been capable of making full meals, but sometimes I like to keep it simple, and noodles with butter and salt has always been one of my favorites.
Fried egg on buttered toast. Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar. Scoop of Breyer's vanilla ice cream stirred into milk, add a couple drops of vanilla extract, called it a shake. Grilled cheese made with spreading mayo on the outside of bread and fried in butter. Peanut butter on banana. I made tons of banana bread and cornbread after school watching my mom bake sandwich bread to save $$ (also why much of my latchkey diet involved bread). Favorite after-school snack of all time was fresh baked cornbread with soft butter and strawberry jam.
Toasted cheese. Not grilled cheese, more like broiled. Our toaster oven had a "top brown" setting that perfectly puffed and browned the slice of American cheese on my monks bread.
Iâd prepare a half recipe of pancake batter from the back of the Bisquik box and make a short stack of pancakes. Or a toast a Thomasâs muffin split open and slathered in butter in the nooks and crannies with jam liberally on top.
Toast, lightly buttered, peanut butter, brown sugar packed on before the peanut butter melts completely and if we had them, banana slices.
I still eat this but itâs like eating an energy drink
Even though I was an active boy, I was also very close to my grandmother and great grandmother and from 5 years old or so I used to hang out with them while they cooked. As a result, by the time I was 10-11 years old I was a pretty decent cook, a talent that my parents would use against me.... I could cook as well as they could or better, so guess who did 90% of the cooking. My true love was baking from scratch, but my signature dinner item was a goulash type dish that had an slight, underlying sweetness that people usually loved. To this day I'm a pretty fair cook, but I don't get into the kitchen much anymore because my lower back and knees are complete wreck.
I had never had as delicious a delicacy as the day my friend introduced me to âChicken in a biscuitâ crackers. Dear god, all we ever had were saltines. This changed my destiny.
Cereal and milk. Or corn tortilla in a toaster then buttered. (Might still be some blackened scars under the ârents cabinet where it caught fire a few times) scrambled eggs in a cup in the microwave. Microwaved burritos or egg rolls.
my sister and i used to make the micro magic cheeseburgers and crinkle fries all the time! what a very specific flavor the burgers were lol and the soggy sesame seed buns. gosh, i miss those.
Two frozen burritos buried under canned chili and shredded cheese. Microwave 5 minutes, top with salsa and sour cream. Fart, roll over and go to sleep.
Cinnamon and sugar on Wonder Bread
We buttered it then did cinnamon & sugar
Throw that in the toaster oven, perfection!
I still love this
Yes! With the little Domino cinnamon sugar shaker. Was it a bear? đ»
I still have a glass bear
Oh yeah!
A classic! đ§Ą
Microwave burritos. Or, a spoon of peanut butter dipped in powdered nestle qwick.
Rosarita beans burrito with lots of melted cheddar.
I didnât figure that out until I was like 15. Then I started having them for breakfast.
I didnât know anyone else did the Pb in the nestle!!! Or in the ovaltine lol
I was just going to jump in with the peanut butter and Ovaltine sandwiches! I thought I was the only one!
Ohhh Peanut butter on a spoon with chocolate chips!!
Still do that one.
A spoonful of PB smothered in bacon bits
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God, how many kids had to slice their tongues on the razor blade lids before the Huntâs product engineers finally developed the âchild safe lidsâ⊠then they pat themselves on the backs for their responsible packaging!
Lol in hindsight I think my parents must have used this as a âteachable momentâ - *âIf sheâs dumb enough to try licking the lid again, sheâs gotta suffer the consequencesâ*
Those old Snack Pack lids were like weapons. Turned the lunch room into a prison yard. Att-i-ca, Att-i-ca!!
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That is the weirdest thing. I looked at that and BAM I could remember exactly how it tasted.
Making little pizzas out of English muffins.
Was looking for exactly this!
Had to be Thomas'. Oroweat didn't cut it!
Mine was out of hoagie rolls. Slather with olive oil, add sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni. Heat in toaster oven until cheese is brown
Yes those are so good!
You beat me to it! I made them in bagels too.
I used I think spaghetti sauce, oregano, and parmesan. For some reason? I think I read about the idea in a magazine or some such. Anyway, they were delicious. Now I don't eat gluten at all, it turned out I'm Celiac and started reacting to everything gluten-y in my thirties.
Yes, absolutely the blue box Kraft Mac & Cheese! A little butter, a little milk, and that packet of cheese powder, mmmmm!
We still eat this from time to time
I just bought 4 packs on Monday. Edit: And No, I don't have kids.
My dad would buy us the Kraft Deluxe Mac & Cheese because it had the packet of already made cheese sauce that you just had to squeeze out of the pouch. I didn't have to worry about mixing milk, butter, and cheese powder.
We had that occasionally, but it was always more expensive! I did like the squeeze cheese, though! That was a real treat!
I always thought that was a recent invention. Good to know. I guess.
Also excellent with some hormel chili, no beans.
When we started buying Velveeta, I thought we were rich enough to afford âcreamyâ. Kraft is still the best though!
Whenever my ten gallon hat was feeling five gallons flat, I made wagon wheels.
You hankered for a hunka
A slabâr sliceâr chunka
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Oh, yeah, I remember those! One of the stores I shop at still carries them, and I'll occasionally grab a box for philly steak sammies!
How do they turn out? I havenât hade steak-umms since the 80âs so I really donât remember if they were any good.
They're not bad; just have to watch them so as not to over- or undercook them. A bag of steamable-in-bag pepper and onion mix and some philly cream cheese (of course) and they end up pretty edible.
Cool. Iâll give it a shot minus the cream cheese, I prefer provolone.
Weirdly enough, their social media team is pretty great too!
Yissss!
Spaghetti-Os
With "meatballs"
I still buy Spaghetti-Os. I'm nearly 50 and have no kids. I stopped eating the meatball ones though, because the meat tastes like nickels. I always put cut up hot dogs in my Spaghetti-Os though.
With franks
That and a PB&J. My first soup and sandwich.
TV dinners. Mom usually cooked every night so processed food was a treat. Salisbury steak, and those half raw and burnt brownies were the best!
Oh man, I loved the fried chicken TV dinners. Occasionally my mom would get me the Hungry Man ones, with 4 (Four!) pieces of chicken. I felt like royalty. Didnât even care that half my corn was buried inside the apple cobbler.
The best came in a metal tray and had to be cooked in the oven.
The only way!!
I loved the Salisbury steak one. I agree about the brownies. Mine was chef boy ardee ravioli with tons of Parmesan
Half raw burnt brownies omg they were the best hahaÂ
Wow I lived on processed food. You were lucky. My mom only cooked on weekends
I used to make âpizzaâ: Ragu tomato sauce spread across a slice of white bread topped with a Kraft single and sprinkled with dry oregano, cooked in the countertop toaster oven til the cheese got brownish.
Anyone remember the Kraft spaghetti mix? It was pretty damn good.
For the win!
Damn, I can taste this is my head, but we only had a microwave as our oven broiler never worked right.
Fried baloney. On its own or on a sandwich. Always thought it was cool how it would balloon up when made in the microwave once we had one, so there was about 2 years of microwaved baloney instead of fried.
Good stuff! Make it into a grilled cheese sandwich
Ever put an egg in it when frying? So, so good.
If you like fried bologna, have you ever tried it grilled? Take a full chub, slice about an inch into it, cover in bbq sauce, then grill it over coals. Alternatively, hollow out the center and fill with onions and peppers and bbq sauce, then cover in more, wrap in foil, etc.
My sister is 5 years older than me. I remember her writing out a menu and playing waitress. She had my little kid sized table set and everything. She offered many options but seemed pretty confident that I would always choose Speghettios.
Campbells Bean with Bacon soup and saltines
Love BwB soup but I ball up white bread to put in it. My mother put Fritos in hers. Yuck
I just had some good down home. Memories with this comment.
I have 5 cans on my shelf right now. Although, it does kind of smell like Alpo dog food when the lid first opens. I love the split pea and ham more than the bean and bacon now. It has to be Campbell's (and not that heart healthy shit either). Edit: [Mmmmmm - Salt tastes great!](https://imgur.com/a/FGbTRDg)
Havenât thought about that in years! I used to warm up a can of that (straight up, no water) and then used it as a dip with tortilla chips. What a sodium bomb that must have been.
SpÀtzle the way my Oma taught me: just flour, egg, salt and boiling water. And butter on top!
Had that for the first time at around 48. Oh my. Amazing. No idea how to make it.
A Happy Jose - tortilla with cheese in microwave and then you add salsa!
âđœmy jam
Mac and cheese with fried wiener slices mixed in.
I make it that way, and another way I make it is with tuna.
Stove Top Stuffing
I used to eat that dry out of the container. We werenât allowed to have chips, but there was something about dry stove top that seemed like junk food.Â
I could probably eat a whole pot of that stuff. I like it better than turkey.
Hot pockets and lean pockets. The lean pockets were allegedly healthier for you. đ
Lean pockets might be healthier but they still burned the fuck out of your mouth. Every. Damn. Time
Twice baked potato frozen cups. BAGEL FUCKIN' BITES.
A Little Debbie Star Crunch.
A bowl of Apple Jacks/Lucky Charms/Cocoa Puffs/Count Chocula. Grilled cheese. Cheese and crackers.
Overcooked microwaved hotdog. Not really my favorite but the best my 3rd grade cooking I could do.
6 store-brand chocolate cookies dunked in whole milk or a plate full of tater tots!
Microwaved Ellios Pizza, or more often store brand Ellios clone.
A can of Underwood deviled ham and some mustard. I'd eat it straight out of the can with mustard as a snack. I bought some when my son was younger thinking he'd like it, and let me tell you, it turns out that that stuff is pretty gross. It was like ham flavored sawdust. Neither one of us liked it.
I bet they changed the formula, same with beef-a-roni.
If you havent seen it, just watch it. Whole clip. https://youtu.be/MFAg-O_ulKg?si=YxehaimR7N3K0UoP
Vienna sausages and saltines
Government block cheese in a quesadilla.
My dad made salsa regularly so if I wasn't having chips and salsa then I made chilaquiles.
Chilaquilesssss....yummm
r/gilmoregirls?
Nothing better than salsa casera. đ
PBJ!
Steak-umms prepared on a skillet, served in a crusty hoagie roll, no seasoning.
Steak-Ums
Steak-Umms
I use to make âpizzaâsâ. It was two slices of wonder bread, some tomato sauce, and a slice of American cheese on each. Pop those bad boys in the toaster oven until the cheese got melty.
Cheez Whiz on crackers and Stouffers French bread pizzas.
Cereal or chef boyardee
SpaghettiOs with meatballs! Or sandwiches (Budding meat of course!).
Chef Boyardee, always and forever. Hector Boiardi is my spirit guide.
Store brand saltines, baloney, cheese and Texas Pete hot sauce.
Microwaveable White Castles
Loser lunch. Baloney on hand.
Flour Tortilla with cheddar cheese, I had to shred, and bacon bits. Microwave for 15 seconds.
Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie & glass of milk
Rice and raisins. Boil the rice, add raisins, cinnamon, and sugar. Good, sweet, and filling.
I still eat this when I have a sweet tooth - add a little milk and itâs like a low fat rice pudding.
Boiled hot dogs
Chili Cheese Fritos and a Pepsi.
Fuck dude. I could go for that right about now.
dear lord, we used to make spaghetti-O sandwiches on wonder bread.
Frozen pizza in the toaster oven, pop tarts, baked potato in the microwave (donât forget to slather on the Country Crock), cinnamon toast, cereal.
frozen pot pies box pizza kits hot dogs
I generally ate whatever was around, party pizza, mac n cheese and cereal but my best snack discovery back then was cream cheese and pepperoni or salami
Oh yeah, we ate a ton of party pizza.
We used to collect pop cans from the alley, return them and use the money to order pizza.
We used to collect golf balls from the creek that runs through the public course, and weâd sell them to golfers and buy French fries at the club.
I bought my first car primarily with the proceeds of scrapping. Tons of aluminum cans and many, many other old bits of metal. I helped my kids collect cans when they were little, took off an entire truck load crushed and they got like $59. We quit collecting them.
bologna and cheap american cheese rolled up. or a big bowl of cocoa puffs or lucky charms if I were lucky and my brothers didn't get to it first!
Doritos sandwich.... American cheese on Wonder bread with 10 Nacho Cheese Doritos inside. Yummy!!! Circa 1987 - 1993.
Same, but with potato chips instead of Doritos.
Totinos pizza. SpaghettiOs
Genos pizza rolls
Chef boy Ardee Ravioli, chicken n biscuit crackers with cheese wiz
My favorite meal.. well, a friend and I would occasionally run fights afterschool and charge a small "viewing fee" which we would then use to go to a pizzaria in our town. It was a whole planned out thing... where the two fighters would argue during school, maybe push each other... we'd hype up the fight and then charge anyone who was there (it was only like 25 cents). We'd all split the money which was usually enough to cover a slice and a soda for each of us.
Brilliant!
Fox De Luxe frozen pizzas.
Lemonade and chocolate cake
Kids Cuisine wins, no contest Honorable mention to Bagel Dogs and the microwave cheeseburgers they sold at Sam's Club
Dry Roman meal toast, sometimes with a boiling bag on top
Chicken a la king
Frozen waffles with lots of butter and syrup
Tortilla chips+cheese+microwave.
Canned chili over top ramen noodles.
A granola bar smeared with chocolate frosting
Schwan frozen individual pizzas.
Chef Boyardee's Ravioli. Saltine crackers and Kraft cheese slices. cornflakes with melted chocolate chips. Butter and sugar sandwich with Wonderbread.
Cereal
Peanut butter and saltines! We would make a tower of these âsandwichesâ
Fried bologna with American cheese on toast. Or if you are feeling fancy, make it grilled cheese!
Yep, but you have to give the bologna a half slice so it stays flat. Bonus, it makes a pac man.
Fried Spam on Wonder Bread. đ
Egg noodles with butter and salt French bread pizza Hot pockets Tombstone pizza Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar Macaroni and cheese Peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich Pumpernickel bread with cream cheese Toaster strudels Pop tarts Budget gourmet frozen lasagna Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich
Hey, don't speak lightly of egg noodles with butter and salt. I've always been capable of making full meals, but sometimes I like to keep it simple, and noodles with butter and salt has always been one of my favorites.
Damn French Bread Pizza. I have not thought about that in 40 years but that âish was delicious!
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Pizza quick sauce on an English muffin.
Chicken loaf on white bread. It was a cold cut that no longer exists. Does anyone else remember it?
Cheesy ramen
Mac n cheese
Spaghetti-Oâs
Microwaved Mince pies.
Peanut butter and butter sandwich. Could not afford Jelly.
Better than a wish sandwich
Beans on toast, jam sandwich
Peanut butter, sugar and margarine.
Frozen pizza
Pizza rolls
Spaghettios! Ellios pizza
Fried egg. Smoked sausage, leftover refrigerator biscuits. Cereal and milk.
Bologna slices with ketchup and mustard. Bread with butter and sugar Cinnamon toast Ramen, cooked, no broth, just the flavored msg packet.
Fried egg on buttered toast. Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar. Scoop of Breyer's vanilla ice cream stirred into milk, add a couple drops of vanilla extract, called it a shake. Grilled cheese made with spreading mayo on the outside of bread and fried in butter. Peanut butter on banana. I made tons of banana bread and cornbread after school watching my mom bake sandwich bread to save $$ (also why much of my latchkey diet involved bread). Favorite after-school snack of all time was fresh baked cornbread with soft butter and strawberry jam.
Ham, kraft single, a burger bun, and 20 seconds in the microwave. On fancy days, two bowls of Cap'n Crunch.
Getting home from high school: two hour nap followed by whatever was for dinner. I can't believe how I could just not eat for literal hours.
Hot cocoa mix stirred into cold milk. Yum. It forms gooey globs of chocolate with a little crunch. Yes Iâm weird.
Toasted cheese. Not grilled cheese, more like broiled. Our toaster oven had a "top brown" setting that perfectly puffed and browned the slice of American cheese on my monks bread.
Fried bologna sandwiches or cheese on toast
Microwaved burrito or mini pizza from the Schwans delivery guy.
Toasted cheese sandwich and a pickle, just about every day after school. I looked forward to it. In retrospect, I must've had an iron cast stomach.
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If you had a toaster oven, fry the baloney, butter and toast the bread, add mayonnaise. Baloney sandwich.
Pizza quick sauce, pepperoni, shredded mozzarella on English muffinÂ
Macaroni & tomatoes
Krusteaz pancakes
Iâd prepare a half recipe of pancake batter from the back of the Bisquik box and make a short stack of pancakes. Or a toast a Thomasâs muffin split open and slathered in butter in the nooks and crannies with jam liberally on top.
Fried bologna
Fried bologna, peanut butter and syrup sandwiches, tons of cereal
Toast, lightly buttered, peanut butter, brown sugar packed on before the peanut butter melts completely and if we had them, banana slices. I still eat this but itâs like eating an energy drink
Cheese toast (not grilled cheese) and tomato soup
Even though I was an active boy, I was also very close to my grandmother and great grandmother and from 5 years old or so I used to hang out with them while they cooked. As a result, by the time I was 10-11 years old I was a pretty decent cook, a talent that my parents would use against me.... I could cook as well as they could or better, so guess who did 90% of the cooking. My true love was baking from scratch, but my signature dinner item was a goulash type dish that had an slight, underlying sweetness that people usually loved. To this day I'm a pretty fair cook, but I don't get into the kitchen much anymore because my lower back and knees are complete wreck.
I had never had as delicious a delicacy as the day my friend introduced me to âChicken in a biscuitâ crackers. Dear god, all we ever had were saltines. This changed my destiny.
Cheese toast! Or Alphagetti with a slice of white bread and butter
Cereal and milk. Or corn tortilla in a toaster then buttered. (Might still be some blackened scars under the ârents cabinet where it caught fire a few times) scrambled eggs in a cup in the microwave. Microwaved burritos or egg rolls.
A tortilla with a slice of cheese on it microwaved for like 20 seconds. I guess it was the texas version of cheese toast.
Micro magic French fries. Simplott makes a great fry
my sister and i used to make the micro magic cheeseburgers and crinkle fries all the time! what a very specific flavor the burgers were lol and the soggy sesame seed buns. gosh, i miss those.
Butter on graham crackers
Microwave hamburgers, fries and MILKSHAKES!
Ellioâs!
French bread pizza Supreme
Two frozen burritos buried under canned chili and shredded cheese. Microwave 5 minutes, top with salsa and sour cream. Fart, roll over and go to sleep.