What Did You Eat As A Child?

[safenow]

Good reminder,

Eating and drinking is part of being a good parent to yourself.

I do need to be my own parent, don't I? !

 

[Abstract]

Yes you do!! We all do. And it is amazing how hard it is. Especially when there have been deficits. Yours were almost entirely deficits but I can tell you have an instinct about what good parenting looks like. Its just doing it that is hard!

 

[Red Feather]

I usually ate corn flakes for breakfast and then made my own lunch for school, which comprised of a capri-sonne, a bag of chips, and two slabs of white bread with cheese. I always was so jealous of the kids that had all the yummy food filling their lunch boxes.

Thanks for the thread. Made me think again... I still love corn flakes for breakfast, but I couldn't bear to be giving my kids that for lunch...And I have a hard time feeding myself as well.

 

[piratelady]

When I was really young, we always had cold cereal for breakfast. Never the good sugar cereals. We also had Hamburger Helper a lot. My mom didn't have a lot of money and she could afford the Hamburger helper. I can't stand the stuff now.

When my mom re-married and had more money, she would make us breakfast every morning. I would have eggs or pancakes, or whatever, a small glass of orange juice and a slightly larger glass of milk. Those were good breakfasts!

 

[Bucky'sAngel]

Buttered noodles for supper. That was it.

Now come to find out I have Celiac Disease (gluten sensitivity), so eating noodles was definitely not good.

 

[NarcSis]

My mom was a genius in the kitchen and the garden because she grew up with so little. We weren't very well off when I was little so oatmeal was a staple, but dinners always involved a scary trip to the basement to retrieve a jar of her preserves - I especially loved the pickled beets!!

 

[shell]

We always ate very healthy, although food was used as a punishment. Many a time I went without dinner. Force fed liver at times, and if my mother got angry my meal got thrown. I often went without lunch, because it was my job to make it, and if mum was angry I left for school quickly.

From a young age it was my job to cook during the week and have it ready when mum got home from work.

 

[Estacia]

Barely anything and we when we got to eat it was sh*t.

 

[Tanishq]

Me neither got good food. My mother and her family members used to eat spicy food. So I got very limited items to eat. Only bread butter, chapati and honey.

Sometimes I would eat sand when I was playing outside.

 

[safenow]

For those of us who didn't get a lot of food, or who struggled with food, do you still have eating problems? I know I sure do. So many cotton-picking-problems in life. Just what we needed, one more, right?

 

[Tanishq]

do you still have eating problems?

yes. It is going to take much time to balance food. Having not good enough food has affected my digestive system,too. I often get ulcers in my mouth.

 

[safenow]

(((( Jaret )))), I'm sorry.