I definitely remember those days with young ones who weren’t old enough to make their own lunches. 😊 Now my three kids are 16, 18, & 20. These are great ideas!
As a child raised in the 1950s, we didn't get asked what we wanted for lunch. Lunch was made and was put on the table and there was no deciding what you would like to have for lunch. I guess we had less to choose from there for parents had to make what was most cost-effective and it usually centered around my father's taste vs. The children's wants. Good job Maria!
I'm a 70's baby and I was always given two choices for meals. 1) I could take it (eat it) or 2) I could leave it. And that was an exhaustive list. There wasn't any going and making myself come thing instead. 🤣
I like Maria’s style, not like I saw one channel she has a large family and very picky eaters. She gave in, which is not teaching her children, to have more responsible eaters and I feel it’s teaching bad discipline in my opinion.
I used to love cornbread cereal. It was cornbread crumbled in a bowl, covered with milk and a sprinkle of cereal. I also loved macaroni noodles cooked in V8 or tomato sauce.
Cornbread and milk was a Sunday after evening church staple in my parents southern home. No cereal though. Just corn bread and milk. Or buttermilk which I do not like.
I make similar pizza roll-ups with crescents when we're crunched for time. I use string cheese for the cheese. Cut them in half if you want them really cheesy use half of a cheese stick. If you want them less cheesy or you're trying to save a little money, you can cut them crosswise and then lengthwise and use a quarter of a cheese stick.
It was the 1950's when I was learning to eat solid food. Lunch was often reheated left-overs from dinner the night before (if there were bits and pieces left). I had a stay-at-home mother who made real food, not packaged "meals". Pizza was as-yet unknown and no child of my acquaintance was ever asked what they'd like for any meal. You ate what appeared on your plate or in your bowl and were thankful for it. Every lunch menu except possibly PB&J included vegetables and/or fruit. The fast food items in my family home were canned soup, pb, and canned salmon or tuna. A glass of milk (without sweetened, flavoured powders added to it) accompanied any meal. That was just the way it was in my home and the homes of my cousins and my friends. My personal favourite lunch was a grilled cheese sandwich served with either pickle slices/spears or apple slices alongside. I still enjoy it from time to time. I'm 75 next month.
One time my father was in charge of our meal, and he made us milk toast (toasted bread with butter, salt and pepper, in a bowl of milk) and canned mushroom soup. We said, “Dad, we don’t like this.” He said, “Today you do.” 😝
A friend of mine years ago brought me a recipe for cream cheese dill and imitation crab wraps that are made just like the ham pepper cream cheese ones that you made in this video. They were so yummy.
Hey Maria. Loved this video! My daughter taught me a trick to egg salad. She scrambles the eggs instead of boiling/peeling. I never would have tried this but it actually works!!
We had butter and jelly sandwiches, Kraft cheese slices on white bread with miracle whip, fried egg sandwich are just a few we had back in the day. Thank you for the great ideas Maria! Love your channel.
How neat! We had the same things! The American cheese and MW sandwiches we would toast. I loved it as a kid, and we were so very poor. But we didn't know, we always had something to eat. 😊
Tomato sandwiches with mayonnaise and salsa. Mayo and banana sandwiches or Mayo and canned pineapple rings. Grated carrots, Mayo and raisin salad. Lettuce, canned pear halves, grated cheddar, and mayo salad. All are delicious
I still like butter and jelly sandwiches. One thing we ate as child when we didn't have much money was saltine crackers in a bowl of milk like cereal. The milk was powder milk that had been chilled
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Also watercress sandwich with tomato. Daddy usta make orange Julius in the blender using fresh oranges, banana and whatever he found say an egg I think. Oh and wheat germ in it. And sometimes strawberries added. Chicken salad made from leftover roast chicken but add grapes and pecans. Oh another weird thing daddy made was ham salad using smoked ham, cheese, sweet pickle relish and mayonnaise. Egg noodles with cream of chicken soup.
My husband was saying that he would have mustard sandwiches, cold bean soup sandwich, peanut butter and pancake syrup sandwich when they got home from school, total of 10 kids. He said that whatever was cooked for dinner is what they till it was gone .. so if soup beans were made they knew breakfast, lunch and dinner were going to be served beans so they ate them in different ways. I don’t recall eating anything out of ordinary in my childhood.. we would have bologna sandwiches, can soups . I did have butter on saltines for a snack .. that was so yummy.
Peanut butter and butter sandwiches. Also we'd slice potatoes, fry in cast iron with butter until cooked through and crisp on edges, then placed on bread buttered on both sides fried like grilled cheese. Don't forget a touch of garlic powder and sea salt on 1 side crust after removing from the pan. Oooo, and banana and butter sandwiches
THANKS FOR SHARING ❤-MY GO IS =CAN CHICKEN /mayo/sour cream/red onion & CRAISINS WITH lil bit of garlic powder-onion powder and pepper and parsley ❤🍽️🥳
I use to make those Cresent pizza rolls for my older girls all the time. I would do Cresent ham and cheese or put an hot dog in the Cresent rolls. So good! And you can never go wrong with some good ol fashion spaghetti O's. That was my favorite as a kid 😂
I don't remember childhood lunches. I was out the door in the morning and rarely went back to the house until the street lights came on. Usually to ask my mom for a quarter to get a sundae at the corner store. If I did get hungry I'd go make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If it was after 2 pm, my mom wouldn't let me do it because I'd ruin my dinner. Which I did usually turn up for then right back outside.
My daddy used to make us sugar sandwiches…just sugar and white bread and also olive oil, lime and salt on bread. Really reminds me of being a little kid!
I preferred grilled cheese but grilled peanut butter was a nice change. Sunday lunch was chef boyardi pizza. And brace yourself… bologna salad with ground-up bologna, mayo, and pickle relish.
@@jesuslivesforevevr we used not sliced but a hunk of bologna. I loved putting it through the meat grinder. After that we just added mayo or miracle whip and sweet pickle relish until it was the consistency we liked, and then put on bread for sandwiches. I’m sure there are jazzed up versions but we kept it basic.
Those wraps would be good with diced cucumbers and herbed cream cheese in them. I love cucumber tea sandwiches! You take cocktail rye spread with vegetable or herb flavored cream cheese spread and top with sliced cucumbers. My son used to love when I made chicken nuggets and tater tot skewers for a portable lunch. I paired it with a skewer of fresh fruit pieces. Another favorite was a hotdog with a slit cut in it, add some cheese into the slit. Then wrap a slice of bacon around the hotdog and cheese. Bake at 375*F or 400*F until the bacon is fully cooked. Serve on a hotdog bun. Pork & beans with cut up hotdogs in it was another favorite. If your kids don’t like the yolk of hard boiled eggs, I used to make a cream cheese and shredded cheese blend with a bit of garlic powder and bacon bits to stuff the whites of the eggs with. Another great lunch was the Pampered Chef vegetable pizza made on the crescent roll dough. You baked the dough and topped it with cream cheese and ranch dressing as the sauce. Then add finely diced raw vegetables for a yummy cool lunch or snack.
Mom made what she called "half cooked" potatoes. They were all cooked, just she didn't like browned. Cube up potatoes about half inch. Cook in butter until cooked through and salt. I don't do them because.. hassle. She also made pine nuts in the shell. We had a crud pan because LOTS of pitch gets on. Boil I don't even remember how long. They come out green and are tough to get the shell off.. but it's a nice flavor. Very close to edamame... so I just eat that instead. And finally, my sister used to make me sugar on toast. Sometimes with cinnamon.
My mother always have food prepared for the entire day, which usually consist of white rice, a stir fry that has the protein, and some sort of soup broth made from boiling vegetables, so my siblings and I often don't go hungry as kids. If there's one thing I faintly remember being hungry as a kid, my siblings and I would often make rice balls topped with soy sauce (or fish sauce in our Vietnamese household). Instant ramen was also pretty common since all we needed was boiling hot water.
Hey! I still like a butter and grape jelly sandwich once in a while! Maybe not weird, but when my brothers were at school and I was home (too young for school) my Momma used to put steamed asparagus on white toast and top with a sliced hard boiled egg.
Kids vitamins might help them curb their appetite. More veggies with carrots celery tomatoes with ranch and make them eat that before they get the other too.
I have some crazy memories of childhood food. My favorite lunches were made by my grandma. We'd picnic on the lawn when I visited and she made me a hard boiled egg, carrot and celery sticks, raisin bread toast swimming in butter. At home I remember that I loved canned sardines in oil (oh yuck now!) and braunshweiger (liver sausage! Double yuck now!) Some of these lunch ideas are great dinner options too for my hubby and me. It's just us and we like easy things when it comes to weeknight dinners.
Oh, gosh, I ate braunshweiger sandwiches as a kid, too! I ate it on rye bread. It was something my parents really liked so we always had it in the house. I couldn't bring myself to eat it now.
Dead serious, my favorite thing to eat was a pickle and mustard sandwich lol. When I was a teenager, it was tomato mustard sandwiches. Sometimes with chips in the sandwiches
I loved onion and mustard sandwiches. Sometimes, I would add tomato. It's heck getting old as I can't eat raw onions anymore, so I do a cooked onion style. You don't get the crunch, and obviously, the onion tastes a little different. It's still really good, though. Thank you for sharing.
I make corndogs with the swirls too! I place an unrolled swirl between parchment paper and roll across with a rolling pin to make it wider and thinner before wrapping around the dog. It covers the hot dog completely and distributes the cornbread more evenly. Have not rolled out with flour, but may make the cornbread too tough/dry.
Here's a cheap meal, box of mac and cheese, three diced up hot dogs and a half a bag of broccoli cuts. All can be cooked at the same time in the same pot.
Mom worked, we packed our own school lunches and I guess we made our own at home too although I can't really remember. I do recall "mock chicken" and mustard sandwiches. Also bologna and mustard. Looking back, what the heck IS mock chicken???? LOL
On the mac and cheese/tuna recipe I bet you could just add a half cup of frozen peas to the pasta while it’s boiling for the last 3-4 minutes if you didn’t want to cook up the entire package of frozen peas.
Fried bologna sandwiches with potato chips. I put the tater chips on my sandwich an my momma said what is that? I said "redneck lettuce" she laughed and I still call it that an eat it that way. I was 4 then and 48 now 😂❤😂
Love the goldfish nugget idea. I use up potato chips as a breading for nuggets. The onion sunchips are my favorite, but the garden salsa is also good ..doritos, sour cream and onion chips...so many good ones
My kids love red beans & smoked sausage over rice. I have 2 versions, quick and totally from scratch. Ready-made foods are going up in price and down in quality. Companies are using lots of fillers and chemicals 😭
My husband eats butter and peanut butter sandwiches. He still loves them. I ate the same sandwich every day for a year except on taco day.. it was white bread (Wonder Bread) and Miracle Whip and the beef from Budding. Definitely not the healthiest but I liked it. Love your ideas.
Spaghetti O’s on toast was a favorite! My mother wasn’t the best cook, so we’d eat whatever she imagined up or go hungry. She used to make a “leftover casserole”, which was 🤢 but we ate it. Surprised I’m still alive actually.
My dad knew how to make like 2 things.. hot dogs and frozen burritos 😅 but i do remember once he started making big batches of ramen noodles with dumplings on top and we LOVED it. But then my mom (who did 98% of the cooking) caught wind and said no way, that is starch city and zero nutrition.. but it was fun while it lasted 😅 Also - mind. Blown. About the canned cornbread! I have bever seen this but im going to search next grocery trip! My kids recently realized (after several tries) that they love corn dogs, so i love this idea!
Has anyone said fried bologna sandwiches yet? Or Ketchup in scrambled eggs. Lol. My mom put sugar in our grits and in our rice for a treat. Not as much for us as she did for my children though! I finally had to say, ok less sugar grands.
You can make them in a mini muffin pan and have less cornbread around the hotdog pieces. I used to make them that way because my son wasn’t a huge fan of the cornbread but liked them made with less cornbread.
I was thinking to myself, when will Maria be making videos of her children making meals. That would be great to educate children on making simple meals they could make for themselves. I guess the meals would be foods that could be hand made using no heavy machinery. I'm so old I don't know what child proof is today. Today's parents use more safety cautions. I had my boy up at the kitchen counter in diapers stirring ingredients in a bowl. He still likes to cook and it helps his wife out, as they both work. outside the home. In other words, learning to cook makes good husband material. He does housework as well,, another thing I expected of him as a child to help with the chores.
