Heh this is fun
anonymous
September 30 2006, 18:39:52 UTC
I went to the grocery store and about died. it was so expensive. but I was moving in with a guy ... he had got the apartment and I had to furnish all the eats. there was nothing in there and he was in the oil field for the rest of the week. I needed to find a job so off I went. this is what I lived off of. peanut butter sandwitches and mayo and bannana sandwitches. fruit and proten all rolled into one gross sandwitch that I wont eat anymore because it was all I had for a week. LOL....
from da moosie
anonymous
September 30 2006, 19:53:50 UTC
okay - I'm boring - also of the "older" generation. I moved out of my Mom's house the day I got married 37 years ago. Certainly not the way young women do it these days, I guess.
Hubby's apt. was a disaster area - beer glasses with growing experiments in them - old food, etc. So the first few weeks were spent cleaning up the place. We ate a lot of BBF (Burger Boy Foodarama) burgers and chili spaghetti from Frisch's Big Boy restaurants. We were both working and "could afford it" then.
Three months later we found out we found out we were pregnant - and I couldn't hold down a whole lot. ;-) His fave food - baloney (no, not balogna) sandwiches made with white squishy bread (remember the bags with the ballons? yup that) - place two slices baloney between two slices of bread and SQUISH them together. Add a bag of chips and a beer and he was in HOG heaven. heh
Re: from da moosielolo_artOctober 1 2006, 16:13:22 UTC
Hi Barb! Burger Boy Foodarama...gawd that's a great name for a burger joint. The bread with the balloons on it was "Rainbow Bread" we have a BIG Rainbow bakery here in Sacramento. I remember in grammar school we took a tour of the facility and at the end of the tour we all got Hostess cupcakes--you know, those chocolate ones with the white curlie-Q line on top? ---I will never forget how excited I was! Lo**
Lori, I don't remember eating much of anything back in those days (the middle 1970s), but I lived through it so I must have eaten occasionally. One thing I do remember, though, is a thrifty friend advising me that onions were really cheap and taste good browned in a skillet. You could have an onion dinner for only about 25 cents.
I also remember the price of sugar skyrocketing in 1974 and people were panic buying sugar. I bought some sugar, too, thinking the world was going to run out. But I never used sugar, so it was a really dumb purchase.
Lo, I was born/raised in California, but right after high school I went to Dallas, TX to visit my sister. I ended up getting my own apt and stayed in Dallas a year and a half before returning to California. The Texas drinking age was 18, and I became a bartender at a Sheraton night club that had live music. It was loads of fun, I often worked double shifts from 10 am to 3 am (no kidding) so I wasn't home much. Instead of buying food, I bought house plants with the money I earned. I usually ate a meal at work unless I was too busy mixing drinks, then I didn't eat anything at all. Yes I was pretty skinny. It was a crazy time but I had a ton of fun.
My mother didn't teach me much about cooking, so when I was on my own at eighteen, I made a lot of spaghetti with Ragu sauce, and scrambled eggs. A lot of my groceries were canned foods. I didn't mind at all (ah, youth!). Later I learned how to cook veggies, so very slowly my diet became healthier and more varied.
Livin Large on spuds
anonymous
October 1 2006, 02:37:08 UTC
When I moved out to go to college, I roomed with my sister. We both ate a lot of pasta, and frozen potato products of different varieties. I remember baking a brownie one time and it got rock hard on the counter- nobody ate it. That would only happen in a dream these days...
Hope the Cali rolls turned out, my hubby LOVES those!
Re: Livin Large on spudslolo_artOctober 1 2006, 16:41:04 UTC
Hi Jen! I didn't have time to make the Sushi yesterday :( I got home from running errands at 4pm then didn't feel good so I layed down. But I plan on making them tonight and I will send your husband and Erikie some to try out (ya, kidding)
Pasta was retty popular with most people I asked. A friend of mine said he lived on Ragu sauce on pasta for MONTHS. He even bought the sauce by the case!! Lo**
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((laughing))
"fruit and protein all rolled into one gross sandwich."
That's a great slogan for a Food TV commercial!
Lo**
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Hubby's apt. was a disaster area - beer glasses with growing experiments in them - old food, etc. So the first few weeks were spent cleaning up the place. We ate a lot of BBF (Burger Boy Foodarama) burgers and chili spaghetti from Frisch's Big Boy restaurants. We were both working and "could afford it" then.
Three months later we found out we found out we were pregnant - and I couldn't hold down a whole lot. ;-) His fave food - baloney (no, not balogna) sandwiches made with white squishy bread (remember the bags with the ballons? yup that) - place two slices baloney between two slices of bread and SQUISH them together. Add a bag of chips and a beer and he was in HOG heaven. heh
those were the days, my friends.
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Burger Boy Foodarama...gawd that's a great name for a burger joint. The bread with the balloons on it was "Rainbow Bread" we have a BIG Rainbow bakery here in Sacramento. I remember in grammar school we took a tour of the facility and at the end of the tour we all got Hostess cupcakes--you know, those chocolate ones with the white curlie-Q line on top? ---I will never forget how excited I was!
Lo**
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I also remember the price of sugar skyrocketing in 1974 and people were panic buying sugar. I bought some sugar, too, thinking the world was going to run out. But I never used sugar, so it was a really dumb purchase.
Caren
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You don't remember eating in the 70's? geez were you on drugs!??? You had 25 cent onion breath a lot then egh? (jk)
Lo**
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I was born/raised in California, but right after high school I went to Dallas, TX to visit my sister. I ended up getting my own apt and stayed in Dallas a year and a half before returning to California. The Texas drinking age was 18, and I became a bartender at a Sheraton night club that had live music. It was loads of fun, I often worked double shifts from 10 am to 3 am (no kidding) so I wasn't home much. Instead of buying food, I bought house plants with the money I earned. I usually ate a meal at work unless I was too busy mixing drinks, then I didn't eat anything at all. Yes I was pretty skinny. It was a crazy time but I had a ton of fun.
Caren
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Lo**
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and scrambled eggs. A lot of my groceries were canned foods. I didn't mind at all (ah, youth!). Later I learned how to cook veggies, so very slowly my diet became healthier and more varied.
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We were kinda both into the ((canned thing)) because another one of my food staples was corn out of a can. ;)
Lo**
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That would only happen in a dream these days...
Hope the Cali rolls turned out, my hubby LOVES those!
~jen mce
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I didn't have time to make the Sushi yesterday :( I got home from running errands at 4pm then didn't feel good so I layed down. But I plan on making them tonight and I will send your husband and Erikie some to try out (ya, kidding)
Pasta was retty popular with most people I asked. A friend of mine said he lived on Ragu sauce on pasta for MONTHS. He even bought the sauce by the case!!
Lo**
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