re: What did your mom cook for dinner when you were young?

Round steak and rice 'n gravy
Spaghetti and meat sauce
Chili Frito pie (in a layered casserole dish, made when Daddy was out of town because he refused to eat casseroles)
Chicken fricassee and rice 'n gravy
Baked chicken
Pork chops and rice 'n gravy
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes
Dinty Moore Beef Stew over biscuits (canned)

Always two veggies with each meal, in addition, she'd put out some kind of raw veggie,whether it was carrot sticks or cucumbers or even bell pepper sticks. She liked something crunchy with every meal.

Tuna salad sandwiches with Lays potato chips on Friday nights, later it became seafood gumbo on Friday nights

Roasts and gumbos and fried chicken were usually reserved for Sunday dinners.

I went through a weird period of hating rice and we had rice and gravy several times a week. I would put a slice of Evangeline Maid on my plate and ladle a little gravy over it. Later, when I finally decided I could stomach rice, every single grain had to be covered in gravy. All stems from a bad rice experience in the school cafeteria. Refused white beans and rice until I was an adult because of bad school cafeteria experience.

My mom was a working mom before it was an everyday thing. Props to her for still having supper on the table every night.

In North Louisiana, dinner was what we called lunch and supper was what we called dinner.

chicken fried round steak, dredged in flour then butter milk then back in flour again

chicken was done the same way - cut up into the normal 8 pieces with an extra piece or two - neck bone and wishbone piece from breasts

milk gravy

mashed potatoes (not much rice eaten at home then)

greenbeans or purplehull peas

cornbread

fried okra, or fried yellow squash cut thin and coated in corn meal

creamed corn cut fresh off the cob

cucumber slices

sweet tea (unless at grandparents in east Texas, then only unsweetened tea for some reason)

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Eddie I'm fairly certain we are related and by related I mean thisclose. That was our menu growing up as well.

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nice. i ate damn good as a kid...home cooked meal every single night. we rarely...and i'm talking once or twice a year rarely...ate out...both my parents were great cooks and my dad insisted on a home cooked meal everyday.

I had the best Mother ever. Looking back now I am amazed that she was able to do all she did in a day. She would get up before anyone about 4:30 or 5 and start making breakfast. For us 3 kids most of the time it was 2 boiled eggs, 2 pieces of toast and chocolate milk, oatmeal and toast in the winter and occasionally cereal. She would always make Dad a breakfast sandwich to take with him, sausage, egg and cheese.

After working all day our supper's were always fantastic, typical;
fried chicken with all the fixins
spaghetti and salad
fried rice
dirty rice
lasagna
hamburger steak
chicken and dumplins
gumbo
Saturday dinner was typically tuna sandwiches and Dad normally grilled burgers on Saturday night. Sunday dinner was roast, potatoes and carrots and normally on Sunday night us kids would have bread with gravy on it because the meat was gone. Dad would have whatever and she would just have popcorn.
We never ate out couldn't afford it. RIP MOM!