What did your parents cook?

[FallenPixels]

My mom didn't cook lol.

So what food did you never try until an adult?

[Patty Smyth]

So what food did you never try until an adult?

Shark fin soup, bahahahahahahaha

[Patty Smyth]

Ok seriously not much because I learned to cook the family meals at about 11 or 12 otherwise we would have been eating sandwiches and soup for he rest of our lives. In high school I let a friend use my kitchen as an experimental place because they were in cooking school so I pretty much got free cooking school for 2 years . Learned a lot.

[Sally888]

My mom made everything, but since she worked afternoons and my dad days she taught me how to cook from the time of 10 on, I made suppers.

She made one heck of a seafood pasta from scratch.

[emmy3111]

I grew up on a farm where we raised pigs, cows and a few chickens, and had a HUGE garden that we canned/froze fruits and vegetables from. Pretty much had meat, potatoes and a vegetable for supper every single night.
Never really had a wide variety of meals regularly until I grew up... now it's rare to have the "traditional" meal of meat, potatoes and a vegetable more than a couple of times in a month.
As far as not ever, until I was grown - anything "exotic". I don't remember having Chinese, Mexican, Thai, Indian... now some of my favourite foods are enchiladas and sushi (although, not so much the raw variety).

[Miss_April]

I remember the first time I tried hamburger helper at a friends house when I stayed for dinner, I thought it was the most amazing thing ever hahaha. They thought I was crazy.

I went home I requested for my mom to please make me some again but she refused and has never made it to this day.

When I discovered KD is a whole other story LOL

[Darth Penguin]

Mum was a single parent and she mostly shoved prepared food into the stove. She'd do a roast on Sundays or something simple like cottage pie or toad in the hole and that was about it.

I never had pizza until I was 17, Chinese when I was 18 and curry until I was 22.

[BuggaBugga]

We mostly had things made with ground beef (spaghetti, tacos, shep pie), sausages and beans, and shake and bake chicken. Mashed potatoes, spaghetti, and minute rice were the usual suspects. Frozen vegetables and the salad with purple cabbage and carrots were it for veggies. We very rarely ate out. Once a month mom would take us to a&w for a kids pack. A lot of foods I eat all the time I never ever had until I moved out.. sushi, subway sandwiches, spinach, avocado, perogies, pepperoni pizza, steak, anything ethnic really like curries, hummous, souvalaki.

[bluerose]

Mom would peel almost 10 pounds of potato's every night ,to feed 8 and 9 people. So dinner was at 6 p.m. and there was lots of mince steak,canned peas,carrots and mashed potato's. Comfort food for me these days.

[recessionisnotfun]

We always had meat, potatoes, veggies and salad. All baking was scratch, and her gravy was to die for lol. Homemade bread, buns. Dad liked liver and onions the odd time, just the smell of it cooking I would get sick, so she made me hotdogs that night.
We had a lot of roasted chicken and roasts, yummmm

[recessionisnotfun]

Oh and she used to cann a lot, we had a huge garden, got tired of shelling peas and snipping beans lol Tons of pickled carrots as welll, drooool.

[emmy3111]

Funny how the things you had so often growing up, now become a treat... when we went to Disney World, all four of us agreed that one night was the BEST meal of the whole trip. The meal was roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans and buns. After all the convenience/fast food it felt like home...

[safielstar]

My family is Italian, but my parents were self-employed and worked long hours so mom made mostly everything from scratch but there were some processed/prepared things (Kraft Dinner, Lipton soup w/ grilled cheese) she fell back on for the odd night she just couldn't manage an hour to cook dinner. She always made potato dishes from scratch and I never knew potatoes came in a box till I did my own grocery shopping as an adult...still haven't had the courage to try it ^^;

We ate a lot of pasta, and it amazed me when I met DH that his family rarely eats it at all ^^; We also ate more chicken than pork or beef, and to this day the only beef I really eat is steak and won't touch a pork roast unless I don't have a choice. My grandparents made their own prosciutto and bacon, so every winter we had tons of that (mmmmmmmmm).

Until adulthood, I had never eaten yorkshire pudding (and other things too, but that was the one thing that amazed DH). To this day, I have never eaten Chef Boyardee, Alphagetti, Hamburger Helper, and Shepherd's Pie.

[Jasminenicole]

My mom made almost everything from scratch. We would occasionally have Kraft Dinner as a treat or Campbell's soup. She also baked goodies. I remember making pulled taffy (or as we called it in French, "la tire", which literally means pull). To this day I still have a really sweet tooth, although I can only have a little bit of candy as I am now diabetic.

Since we all ate what dad liked, I did not have much diversity in my diet. It was more of a French Canadian meat and potato diet. To this day I hate boiled potatoes and will only eat mashed if there are raw onions in it and lots of gravy.

I started experimenting with different ethnic foods once I moved out of my small town to Toronto and then Montreal and I love most of them. I never had tzatziki until I met Patty and I love that stuff. I like most foods with a few exceptions: Cucumber and melons are some, and I don't like curry because of the texture, not the flavour.

There are cucumbers in Tzatziki!

[Patty Smyth]

There are cucumbers in Tzatziki!

Yes but the garlic kills the taste lol