How do your cooking and eating habits as an independent adult differ from those of your childhood family?

foods in my childhood were not as internationalized as they are today. my mom, being a city girl, only knew how to heat up foods that came in a can. We never ate fresh vegetables when I was a kid, so now I can't get enough of them. There also were not many restaurants when I was a kid and I can't get enough of them either. I married a man from the middle east and I cook everything my mama never knew! Spices, olive oil, rice. My mom never even used salt and pepper.

It is not worth the effort But I will add

IN the 40's & 50's mom only had about a $400 /mo. budget for the house food included..I think we eat well but often we had Like SOS,, lots of pasta,, rice,, or mashed potatoes,, then casaroles with potato dumplings goulash at least monthly there was a roast or leg of lamb

Nothing has changed much since

Like you some foods just were not popular or even in the markets... I never heard of an artichoke or brussel sprouts until the 70'sthat is also when Pizza came on the sceane

Now today artichokes are $2.99 each,, I can buy a small steak for that,, so I am begining to cook like mom Cheep!

Sorry 'check spelling' is not working here,,.

Another tribute to Yahoo programers..

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I eat a lot less meat...as kid growing up every meal was either steak or some sort of roast...now a days as an adult I eat very little meat...I tend to eat my vegetables raw where as a kid they were always well cooked...I eat many more salads as a main course as a kid they were a side dish...only thing about the same is the amount of pasta (mother was Italian).

I've been reading comic books since I was about 10... I've gone through period were I have stopped buying them due to either money reasons or living in an area without a comic shop. However, I now buy more than I did when I was younger! It is mostly Marvel stuff, some DC and a handful of smaller publishers.

Its interesting I think that today's Supermarkets and the immigrations issue effect our diet. In supermarkets in the UK you'll find food from every corner of the world. Yet most of it is uniformly bland!

So we get a superchoice of blandness! With the immigrants coming in, they have their own food shops which are very different.

My parents are very traditional in their eating habits but changed when my Mother become Diabetic. Yes they still have a proper Roast on a Sunday. Yes Monday is their left over from Sunday day! and of course Friday is fish day.

My father is a tradional "I'll fry it" man. But he doesn't get the chance. Because they started travelling in their 60's they are more open to the world's food. Myself I'll eat anything and \i love proper sushi (hated the idea when I was a boy!)

My family tends to cook with a lot of butter and oil and when i was a kid i had to eat what was served. Now that i'm an adult I tend to bake ,broil,or steam food rather than fry . I was not exposed to a different variety of vegetables so now I try different types of vegetables and beans and whole grains. I try to find recipes that incorporate foods that i would like to try.

when i was growing up

my mom and dad cooked. so i cook alot

of old country food.

my children grew up with

my folks tradition.

my daughterinlaws, have

my recipies.

its great.

but i believe we accure a taste for food, we are

used to from childhood.

for instance if your mom

cooked oatmeal for you.

you would eat that and give your kids and family.

we are introduced by

generations.

laney

when i 1st got out on my own i was a junk food lover because we where not allowed to have in our home as children but when i started having my own kids i seen why my mom did us that way so now i cook healthly meals for my husband and kids plus when i was eating out all the time and snacking on unhealthy foods my waistline expanded and now i am paying for it lol