A lot more local fruit -- oranges, grapefruit, mango -- since this was Florida and people grew those things locally. I've always hated citrus (beyond lemon and lime) as an adult. I remember frozen fish sticks and Hebrew Nationals from when I was very little.
I don't think my family ate the same food very often, though. (I was a vegetarian and did my own cooking as soon as I was old enough; my mom's usual dinner was cooking a cut of meat when she got home. and it was just the two of us, so we didn't bother sitting down and eating together very much, unless we were going to a restaurant. Granted, making my own food when I was a kid often meant cold cereal for dinner. :p I was also convinced I was fat by the time I was ten years old, so I just didn't eat a lot in general.)
I eat a lot more salad and leafy green vegetables as an adult (since it's not just the consolation dish you get when there's nothing else.) There's also just more vegetarian/vegan food available in a city than in a small town (I'd never heard of seitan until college, or non-dairy milk that wasn't soy).
Huh, that's interesting about the salad and leafy greens. I can't remember there ever being those in my grandmother's house growing up, and very rarely at home. It has not, however, instilled an interest in them as an adult ;) I think in part that's because I'm a supertaster, and so most raw vegetables are unbearably bitter to me, though -- but I suspect the same is true of my mother, and possibly my grandmother as well.
I definitely did not know about things like rice milk or almond milk until I got to college! I remember in the Vassar cafeteria occasionally drinking rice milk for the novelty of it. This may have been where I learned that I actually really enjoyed most vegetarian foods despite not being a vegetarian ;)
I don't think my family ate the same food very often, though. (I was a vegetarian and did my own cooking as soon as I was old enough; my mom's usual dinner was cooking a cut of meat when she got home. and it was just the two of us, so we didn't bother sitting down and eating together very much, unless we were going to a restaurant. Granted, making my own food when I was a kid often meant cold cereal for dinner. :p I was also convinced I was fat by the time I was ten years old, so I just didn't eat a lot in general.)
I eat a lot more salad and leafy green vegetables as an adult (since it's not just the consolation dish you get when there's nothing else.) There's also just more vegetarian/vegan food available in a city than in a small town (I'd never heard of seitan until college, or non-dairy milk that wasn't soy).
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I definitely did not know about things like rice milk or almond milk until I got to college! I remember in the Vassar cafeteria occasionally drinking rice milk for the novelty of it. This may have been where I learned that I actually really enjoyed most vegetarian foods despite not being a vegetarian ;)
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