re: Food and activities us OT Poors had growing up

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I know parents like this mean well, but a better way would have been to figure out how to make more money.

It's easy to look back with rose colored glasses, but a lot of this is not even economical.

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my dad was a lineman. his dad was a lineman. i don't think he knew anything else. i have nothing but respect for what he was trying to do. to my knowledge he never bought a single shirt or pair of pants for himself ever. i remember helping my mom with the wash at that point it was obvious how threadbare all his clothes were.

in fact, i can't remember anything my dad bought growing up that was just for him.

food
some dish my mom made up called 'stuff' and yeah, a lot of beans

activity
feeding the ducks at city park with day old bunny bread

food/activity
picking blackberries in city park; picking up crawfish on chef highway during migration and then eating them

toilet paper
wipe once then fold in half and wipe again

vacation
driving to galveston tx in the dead of night to go stay with relatives

wouldn't change a thing :)

Whatever happened to coke bottle tops that you can win a free coke with?

I grew up on tomato sandwiches and cucumber sandwiches. They’re still staples of my diet.

Syrup sandwiches, ketchup sandwiches, anything sandwich really. There have been times where we didn't have much food in the fridge but we always had potatoes. I ate so many baked potatoes, lathered in butter and salt/pepper/tony's sprinkled on it.

Wasn’t dirt poor, but we def ate cheap simple foods when I was young. If meat was cooked it was like round steak, fried pork chops, burgers. . My mom would drive to Baton Rouge every Saturday for groceries and had a cooler in the car so the cold stuff would stay cold on the ride home. There weren’t runs to the store in between. You just ate what we had.

The biggest difference between me and my kids was how little entertainment we had I’m in general, but especially during the summer.
Had a baby sitter most days during the summer and she watched MTV or talked in the phone so we played ball, played in the woods, swam in a pond, or maybe sometimes watched tv.
It was a huge treat ti get to go to a KOA campground for the day because it had a pool.
During summers my kids went to fun camps that had field trips, did summer vacations with us or friends, has all the video games, and it seems like half their friends have pools. Going to the movies is something they do when they are bored. LOL

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A man has to draw a line somewhere, and this is my line.

I can do fresh asparagus, but that stuff from a can should be illegal

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I actually recall liking it... maybe I just liked mayo

Syrup and bread
peanut butter and syrup sandwiches
Roasted chicken quarters
Chef Boyardi Pizza
Shake and Bake porkchops
Apple sauce with cut up hot dogs mixed in

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cheese toast (is this still a thing?) my mom would put a slice of american cheese on a piece of bread and stick it in the oven until the cheese had burned spots on it

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Yikes. I considered our family "poor" but I at least had the block cheese that melts up nicely on a slice of white bread.

I tried that slice shite as an adult because cheese toast was my normal breakfast during the school year as a kid. It's not the same.

I still eat it (with the block cheese. I've perfected the perfect amount grated off the block instead of sliced because that took forever) when I'm running short on time and my 8 year old son asks for it about 90 percent of the time when he wants breakfast.