I remember coming in after sledding (using a large piece of cardboard for a sled) and having my Mom make us a dish of pieces of home made bread, Hot milk and sugar. It sure tasted good!

Yes, I remember the polio vaccine on sugar cube and maybe at Grandma's.

I remember when pizza in the box first came out. My older brother had been at my aunt's house and came home and stated, "I don't know what Aunt Marie is having but it sure stinks" ( I guess he was referring the cheese). He still does not eat pizza and he is 66.

...those were the days....

It was in the 60's actually. Still very few fast food restaurants around here. We would go to a neighboring town for shopping and visiting family. Sometimes on the way home, dad would stop at a small store that did their own butchering, and get a lb of bologna and a loaf of bread. Mom would put together sandwiches, no mustard or anything else, and hand them out in the car on the way home. Two pieces of bread and 2 pieces of bologna. Guess money was tight that week. Still eat bologna sandwiches that way.

Homemade mac and cheese!! yes!! After marriage and children, I'd gotten in the nasty habit of using boxed mac and cheese... until we went to a funeral and at the dinner, someone had brought REAL mac and cheese... It brought back such sweet memories and I've never bought another box again... that was 25 years ago!!! There's just nothing like the old ways... thank goodness for Southern Living magazine and the recipes!!!

That was the most favorite dish that my Dad got us to like as well, had forgotten all about it. Oh, I do not remember having 'store' bread, as Mother would bake a big batch every Saturday.
Thank you for reminding me, another fond memory of our youth.

thanks for the memory trip ! I remember I worked in the kitchen at school to earn my meals. Government must have given the schools rice either cheap or free cause we had 'spanish rice' at least twice a week. I hated it and here I was working for it! mother would made enough food for their noon meal so my sister and I could then make supper as we were farmers and mother and dad milked 12- to 15 cows by hand and appreciated the evening meal ready when they finished.
We also raised hogs, sheep, and LOTS of chickens. the cracked eggs we kept for ourselves. now days are they thrown away? Mother also was a great cook and baked lots of bread.

Oh yes - I remember the 50s & 60s Mom canned so we have "home cooked" meals. There was no Mc Donalds, Burger King, Taco Bell - all the "fast food" joints. Mc Donalds wasn't until the late 50s or early 60s (can't remember). Mom made pizza - we didn't buy it. Home made noodles. Milk from the farm with cream on the top. Snow pudding. Eating ice cycles broken off the eves of the house during the winter. Popcorn from a bag popped on top of the stove in a soup pot. I could go on and on. Those were the good old days. Ahhhh - Memories.

I wonder if the rice-milk pudding she was referring to was like desert rice pudding.
margee

I was a Big City kid born in the late 50's, everything came from the grocery store, but remember having the same thing every Monday because of Scouts. ( Have 4 brothers ) Spaghetti from a box!, Friday at least twice a month was Pizza night, from a box also. We were treated on holidays to home made Macaroni and cheese. I still make it for my husband at least 4 times a year. Soo good but not low fat!!!! Breakfast was cereal every morning either hot or cold. I still eat cereal but can't do instant oats or cream of wheat, the regular cooking variety is great in the microwave. And waffles and pancakes were still dinner choices on Sunday. I don't remember when we started calling those things Breakfast dinner we very seldom had them for breakfast. Since then I have added biscuits and gravy with eggs to Breakfast dinner. Fondest memory was walking three blocks to Morrie's corner store with a quarter and getting a big bag of candy, he had the glass front displays and you could tell them how many of each thing you wanted. Wrote on the bag with a pencil what the total cost was so our moms could see what we spent. And rice was desert, milk sugar and cinnamon!

Oh yes, such fond memories whirling through my head right now. Being from Louisiana, we ate rice instead of potatoes most meals (so I do love a plate of rice and brown gravy with my roast beef); and getting accustomed to the many different customs in eating as we traveled all over the US (military husband); I've learned a lot, but I still love the things we enjoyed when I was a kid growing up in rural LA--no town of any size for 40-60 miles; just the grocery truck on Wednesdays, an occasional traveling salesman for new furniture or kitchen appliances; the ice truck on Saturdays; and I do remember the cube of sugar with the pink polio medicine on it at school. We also got all our immunizations at school--parents' consent or not. And oh yes, no freeways--in fact no paved roads--just two-track dirt roads or gravel roads.

Yes, quite a memory trip on this post. Thanks, whoever started it.

Ditter, I love you & your memories, made me think of how often my mother would thicken a drained can of green peas with corn starch and we would eat it on toast for supper. I still have the little green coupon books we had to use when grocery shopping, the government gave every body to use. Did tell you how old I am? Older than the hills.

Me, three.

And rice was a staple at our house because it was cheap!

You know I only remember about one person over weight back then...

Nice walk down memory lane. Life was much simpler during the fifties. Only two things to worry about when buying groceries - can we afford it? And do we like it? We also had fewer choices. I was grown before I tasted broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower or many other veggies I love today. If you didn't have a garden those veggies just were not available. Pizza I discovered after I was grown also. We did not eat rice or noodles or fish growing up because my dad didn't like them. A lot of our food was fried..... Okay, now I am hungry....on my way to the kitchen for a bedtime snack! Lol!