We had everything in an old plastic ice cream container ( or any other sturdy-ish plastic food container) they were used for the fridge (left overs, cookies etc) if it was hard enough not needing it, say carrots or apples etc..they'd just be in a simple freezer bag 😂 no fancy boxes etc.
Our food was wrapped in waxed paper and it was always coming undone by lunch. I had a Dukes of Hazzard metal lunch pail my mom got at a yard sale and no I wasn’t a fan! Lol
I have never commented on any RU-vid videos before, but I really wanted to tell you that this is my favorite video of yours. You have such a wonderful, real, and just incredibly comforting personality and that really shines through in every part of this one.
@thehapagirl92 Didn't your mama teach you that if you have nothing kind to say, to say nothing at all? @Cooking_the_books Anna, please remove the rude comment about @B. Dylan Hollis. Dylan is actually extroverted, a bit over-the-top, yes, but also kind-hearted, extremely funny, and sweet. The above commenter has probably only watched a few of his short videos and has now strung him up over that.
I was a young adult in the 1980’s. It feels weird to me that cookbooks I bought new in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s are considered vintage today. It’s interesting to me to watch the changes in food trends over the years. I really enjoy your meals from different decades videos. They bring back memories for me. Some of my earliest field trips as a child in the 1970’s were to a tortilla factory (and got fresh, warm flour tortillas), and an ice cream factory (and got some ice cream sandwiches). There were also trips to the zoo, the aquarium, the planetarium, museums, pumpkin farms, an orchid farm, operas, ballets, plays, etc.
Yes! I was born in 1992 and it’s weird things from that time are vintage haha. I can imagine how someone your age feels. My mom probably feels the same as you. She was born in 1956
I went through all my mother's cookbooks when she died. There were clippings from 1930 and 1940 newspapers and magazines which were very interesting but my cookbook favourite is "Dinner Dishes for the Raj" ...... My great great uncle had been an Army officer in India and he had brought the book back for his mother. It is full of English versions of Indian food!
I'm a 1976 baby, from Georgia, and I had totally forgotten about my mom wrapping Cokes in foil. LOL I rarely was allowed to have them, but she made sure they stayed cold! This is my fave video of yours yet!
In 2nd or 3rd grade in the early 60s we went to the Wonder Bread/Hostess factory. I remember being on a catwalk peering down over huge vats of bread dough. The best part was the little bag of goodies we all got after the tour with a Hostess cupcake, a wooden ruler and the best thing ever, a mini loaf of Wonder bread. I ate the loaf of bread in the bus on the way back to school.
@geelizzie Lizzie, did you take the wrapper with you, or did you leave it on the floor like many of my kids do every day? Hahaha! (I'm a school bus driver.)
I'm an 80s kid. My Mom liked soup and sandwich lunches on weekends, a lot of Campbell's Bean & Bacon, Vegetable, and Chicken Noodle. She always whisked a beaten egg into the chicken noodle, because Campbell's did a print ad about how adding egg boosted the protein and "added a little sunshine."
I can remember waxed paper wrapped sandwiches. My mother always did a special fold, and they didn't come open. We would purchase a bottle of milk, with the red striped paper straw. Yes I am a child of the 50's.
I was born in 55 so a little older than you but some of my best memories from school are getting to take a sack lunch on field trip day which we always had toward the end of the school year---we paid a nickle or a dime a day or so ahead of time to our teacher then each bus drive loaded up a number 10 wash tub which he filled with a block of ice he had busted up and bottles of pop (the money was to pay for our bottle of pop that he gave us to drink with our lunch--no canned pop back in those days)also for the kids who did not have the money to pay they still got a bottle of pop and no one ever knew the day of the trip that someone couldnt afford it (that was so considerate of the teachers)....I thought I was 'something on a stick' on field trip day lol...mom packed bologna sandwich but I dont remember us being able to afford chips for all of us...sometimes I made oatmeal raisin or peanut butter criss cross cookies for our bag dessert...thanks for bringing back some fond memories ---oh we usually went to the Oklahoma City zoo which was about an hour away from our country school...I love your long videos and would appreciate more of them...
In 1980, I started working and living on my own. On Sunday I would cook up a roast beef or chicken, so I could make sandwiches for work and maybe a stew or soup with the leftovers to have for dinner for the next couple days. This is what my mother used to do and what I still do. Anyway the first time I was making chicken n dumplings with the leftovers, making broth by simmering the carcass, I called my mother to get recipe for dumplings, she advised me to go purchase a box of bisquick and follow the recipe. LOL. Oh and egg salad for work lunches, I would put the egg salad in a separate small tupperware container and assemble at work.
My son was born in 1981. I am from North Carolina and subscribed to Southern Living. This video brought back great so many great memories from that time. In the south egg salads are made with mayo and mustard and tend to be very creamy. Never used cottage cheese. My first field trip was when I was 6 years old and in the first grade in 1960. We took our pack lunches to the movie theater where we all watched a showing of "Dumbo." Never will forget it.
Stick those buns in the freezer - they'll be just as good thawed later. If you don't get to them quickly enough and they start to go stale, use them to make garlic toast or bread crumbs. Loved this video!
I haven’t even watched this but I loved it when my mother made garlic Parmesan toast with the hamburger buns! We always had these random bits of bread in our freezer it’s funny we were a family of six when I was growing up and you had a chicken fed the whole family and we would have leftovers of course I was a little kid and I didn’t really like meat so I would eat the back. LoL
My 1st field trip was to our neighborhood library. The childrens section had a stage set up with a whole medieval themed puppet/marionette show area. It was freaking AWESOME! Those librarians were so creative and talented. It was like an actual professional show. One of the naughty puppets threw little bags of candy into the audience to cause chaos. It worked. We were tussling like gladiators for the candy🤣🤣🤣
What a fun video. I was born in 1969. I feel very fortunate to have grown up during the 70's and 80's. I have all of my mom's "vintage" cookbooks. I have the red McCall's cookbook. I have never really looked through that one. I will have to do that. My mom also had a lot of the Southern Living cookbooks. I am going to make that sandwich for sure. I love soup and sandwich meals. Also, my mom would put the coke in the freezer and let it get slushy and then wrap it in foil. Midwest girl here also--Kansas City area. I am relatively new to your channel and I have been loving it.
Good grief: Betty Crocker (especially the Cooky Book), canned soup meals, 4-H membership, a love of cooking all kinds of food since childhood (I still love cooking and experimenting with foods from around the world), and recent hip surgery-we have a lot in common. Love all of your videos. Thank you for everything you do.
I attended a Catholic school in the 1950s, a class resided over by a psychotic nun. My first field trip was to a religious convention where religious articles were in view. My mother made me a delicious but messy egg salad and tomato sandwich. We ate in class before we left, and the nun gave me a sour look at my excellent sandwich. I didn't tell my mother this for decades; she was still annoyed! Your sandwich was a lot neater, but it reminded me of that day.
Anna I have to apologize that I don’t often get to “like” your videos because I rarely watch on my phone or computer. Where most people get in front of their big screen TVs and struggle to decide what to binge watch, Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video etc, I sit down and opt to binge watch the lovely and charming Anna on make and discuss her recipes from her great collection of vintage cook books on Cooking The Books! Today I saw a ‘no cheese cheesecake’, no bake Christmas fruit cake, some tuna, peppers and pineapple over La Choy noodles…I’ll have to find the videos so I can “like” for your channel. PS where do you live that you always have what appear to be HUGE monster sized eggs!!
I can like videos on my tv, as you are watching click the up button, and you should see the thumbs up buttons, right on the screen, you also get the timeline so you can forward if you are not interested in the selling part if the item is not anything you need or want to learn about.
What a poignant, precious video this is. Love the idea of reconnecting with special childhood memories as you did. I’m a 60s kid and enjoyed seeing how similar your 80s lunch was to mine. The sandwich, carrot sticks, Pringles and Hostess snowballs - same as mine except I loved Hostess Suzy Q’s, not sure they are made anymore. You do wonderful videography and are so engaging to watch. Thanks - keep up the great work! 😊
Seventies kid here, and my memories are similar. Field trips were the best. I have a daughter who's in high school now and I went along on every field trip of hers that I could. Kids on school buses haven't changed much!
In the early 80s we were blessed with a vending machine in our cafeteria, and I showed my gratitude with the purchase of a Suzy Q and a carton of milk for lunch everyday my 8th grade year. 😬
So glad I found your channel! My kids were born in the 80's. Your recipes amd field trip brought back many good memories. I can't wait to see your '50's videos!
I make cottage cheese egg “mayo” sandwiches all the time. I don’t blend the cottage cheese. I find I can’t really tell the difference between the curds and the cut up egg whites. And I love it more than regular egg mayo. And it keeps together well, not watery. 😊
Thank you for this info. I was thinking the recipe sounds amazing and then wondering if I should just use it as a dip if it liquefies, but I'll first try it without blending it.
I think what that recipe called for was just what today we call regular cottage cheese as opposed to dry curd cottage cheese. No need to smooth it out.
I'm Canadian and my lunches looked a bit different. Breakfast was the same, cream of wheat (but not chocolate!!! So lucky!). I don't remember lunches on field trips but I remember some 'special' lunches my mom would make. One of them was a hot dog in boiling water in a thermos. She'd make it in the morning and the hotdog would still be warm by lunchtime. The bread (not bun) had all the condiments on it already and I just had to put the hotdog on the bread. I absolutely LOOOVED that lunch and I always thought I was super special in the class because I was having a HOTDOG for lunch, and the rest of the kids were having "just sandwiches"... lol. (I grew up in the country so a hotdog for lunch was a BIG thing.. lol) I loved this episode!
Grew up in Denmark in the 80's. Don't know that we had field trips in 1st grade, but I remember a trip to the danish Island Laesoe in 2nd grade. I found a dog tag on the beach with the inscribtion "Thor Vesteroe 1968". I still have it to this day.
My grandma has the Southern Living annuals from the 70s to the 2000s. I was born in 81, so thats my earliest memories as well and I get very nostalgic for that decade.
My first field trip in grade school was to see a lady who owned a parrot that talked. We walked to her farm house from school. We ate lunch there on her front lawn ,as she and the bird talked to us. I loved it.
I loved seeing your packed lunch. I am 64 in a couple of weeks and my mom would wrap a can of pop in foil too for a field trip. What a blast from the past! I am from Portland, Oregon and we called it pop growing up. I live in Pennsylvania now and we refer to it as soda or a soft drink here.
I have that Southern Living cookbook - from that time. When I lived in Germany, I learned to butter, thinly, the inside of the bread for sandwiches to keep the insides from seeping into the bread. Aaah, I miss those days! Those sandwiches look delicious! Very fun day.
That was the "proper" technique to use when making a sandwich, according to my 1968 home ec teacher. She also repeatedly told us to be sure to bring the fillings all the way to the edge, not like the SKIPPY peanut butter commercial where they beautifully smear the middle of the bread with a dollop of peanut butter.
@@eclairtreo of course. Who wants an inch of wasted bread all around the filling of your sandwich? I wish they’d had more home ec classes. We didn’t have much, but what I took were really fun and educational.
Fellow 80s kid here, and the packed lunch absolutely reminds me of what I used to have! My mom wrapped a soda in foil and also a paper towel, which I guess we thought kept it colder? And we always had Pringles. As for the carrots, to this day I think baby carrots are the inferior option. They don't have as much flavor as real carrots, they are always weirdly wet, and they taste of preservatives.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. My first field trip was to the diary not far from my house. They taught us about pasteurization, making cheese, etc. No lunch was needed. We went home for lunch every day
Our lunches when out on field trips were usually jam and cheese (usually cheddar) sandwiches and some sort of dessert and a bottle of water (because nothing there would spoil in the heat). I didn't realize anyone else did jam and cheese sandwiches until I read a 1950s cookbook in college. As a farm kid, we also had "field meals" which were meals for when we accompanied dad to the field because mom was working and planting or harvest had to get done. Those were some sort of canned meat salad sandwiches (usuallyat least 12 sandwiches) in an Igloo box cooler with a large ice pack, a large box of donut holes, and two large insulated water jugs full of water.
You can’t go wrong with coco wheats and faygo!!! All my school field trips usually involved going into Cleveland for a museum, zoo, symphony or opera. I have fun memories of getting to see behind the scenes at a grocery store and staying overnight at COSI. I am watching this while I drink a mug of glazed lemon loaf tea- all thanks to you!!!
Is always nice to see cooking and bringing you to memory lane with foods that you ate when you were a child.. I grew up on the 80's.. so for me corn dogs are my memory lane 80's comfort food. Love your videos, looking forward to your new ones. 😊
Ah, Coco Wheats.😊 Our mom would make them frequently beginning in the fall, growing up in MI. In the 60s after relocating to FL, we were living in a CBS (Cement Block Structure) house when the temperature dropped and I was freezing. Went to the grocery and could not find Coco Wheats, so I just picked up a box of plain cream of wheat. When I got home, I cooked up enough for my 2 young children and myself adding some instant cocoa in. All these years later, I still do cocoa wheats the same.
My first field trip was to an apple orchard. I was so excited! My Mom always packed ham and cheese with mayo on Wonder bread. She would throw an apple in there. I also got a Hostess Funnybone (my favorite). I never got soda, she always packed juice. I was so envious of the kids with soda.
Hi! 80's kid here, too! I was never packed soda/pop for field trips in school BUT my mom ALWAYS aluminum foiled Hi-C juice boxes for my bagged lunches.
Class trips were extra special because I went home for lunch everyday and never got to pack a lunch. If you lived close enough, you weren’t allowed to eat at school. I guess they assumed all Moms didn’t work. I would get a YooHoo wrapped in aluminum foil. A rare treat!
I was a kid in the 70s. One hot spring day, my class went to the Pittsburgh Zoo for an end-of-year field trip. My mom packed my favorite: tuna sandwich. We left our lunches in the bus when we went to explore the zoo. When we came back to eat, the whole bus smelled like a dead fish. My favorite sandwich spoiled in the heat. Oh my word, I was so embarrassed! I had to throw it away and just eat my apple and cookie. It took a few weeks before other kids stopped teasing me about that tuna sandwich. Good times!
My mom put the can in the freezer and the foil was there to keep the bag from getting soggy (I'm from Detroit). I love cream and coco wheat more than oatmeal.
@BetteStewart Sanders yes. The others I may have heard of but Hudson's closed when I was in elementary school. I went there once but I don't remember it. My mom would talk about it, usually around Christmas. I'm not sure about the market. I grew up to 18 at Michigan & Martin, about a mile from Livernois. We didn't have a car until I was 14 so we didn't get to a lot of places very much.
Hi Anna! Very fun meals. The cheese sandwich looked the best! I was born in '61. The first field trip I remember was to Rye Beach in New York. This was an amusement park and I remember that I had a fantastic time. I do remember my mom wrapping a can of soda in aluminum foil. Growing up in that era my mom made me a brown bag lunch every day. Our school didn't have lunches but we had to give 'milk money' every week to buy a small carton of milk to drink with lunch. Typical lunches for me would be a pb&j sandwich or Genoa salami sandwich with a piece of fruit.
I just added my comment then I saw yours. Grew up the in same era and had the same lunches. We had a hot lunch at school bur I rarely ate it since I could leave school and walk home for a meal if I didn't have a sandwich (yes, they let a first grader leave school grounds on their own back then). A school trip I remember from elementary school was to tbe Museum of Natural History in NY. I don't know how the teacher handled a class of 30 or 35 kids on the subway from The Bronx but we all arrived with none lost.
Your recipes are so fun. I really enjoy how excited you get! I graduated in 1984 so I really liked that your recipes were right up my alley. Thanks for sharing them. 😘
1. I was born in Ohio but I’m not from Ohio so that might be the difference but we always froze a juice box to use as an ice pack for our 80s kid lunches. We then had fruit snacks (why were they shaped like sharks?) carrot sticks, and grapes an apple or a banana (I preferred the apple). My favorite sandwich is just peanut butter. 2. Coco wheats- I adore coco wheats, we added hot cocoa mix to them to make them more chocolatey. The best way to cook it is to mix part of the water into the cereal before you heat it, that way you don’t get as many lumps. 3. Now I really want vegetables beef soup. Mom used the frozen mixed veggies with the Lima beans and then when it was 1/2 done she added cabbage. I feel like cabbage in soup gets overlooked now. If you want a great vintage cookbook, hunt up a copy of Diet for a Small Planet. Mom bought it in like 77 when she was vegetarian in college- the hippy health food is so….70s.
I've forgotten about cocoa Wheats We used to use that or oatmeal And my grandpa had mint leaves, so he made mint tea all the time with honey. This takes me back. Thank you.
In the 60s and 70s, we packed lunch daily. Always had egg salad or liver worst. Kids used to comment on my smelly lunches. We weren't allowed to drink soda. That was a treat.
@ellenriddick2461 I had to giggle at your misspelling, since many people dislike liver. Anyway, the spelling is _liverwurst_ with _wurst_ being German for _sausage._ Just thought you'd like to know that you gave me a chuckle this morning. :-)
My brown bag lunch in the 80’s/90’s would be leftovers from the night before like pasta or chicken or meatloaf, chips in a ziplock bag, grapes, a Yoo-hoo or capri sun, and a zebra cake. Nice to see we all ate the same thing 😅
Your channel is so unique, 🙂comfort food was definately when I was growing up and what my parents have taught me from what they grew up on. Sure brings me back to the 70s and 80s
I just found your channel and I really like how you structured this video. It was fun to watch. The first field trip I remember was to our local recycling facility. They showed us the garbage trucks, the different buildings and they prepared a little course on how to make recycled paper.
Oh this video sent me down memory lane. I’m going to only share the good memory because well school for me was not pleasant but the good memory I have is my mom made a really delicious hamburger vegetable soup that started with a box of hamburger helper! Does anybody else remember that recipe? And she also made a homemade bread with it that was a cottage cheese dill bread from the Mary Moore cookbook. I don’t know if you get your hands on that cookbook. It’s Canadian and it was one of my vintage cookbooks that was lost in a cross country move. I managed to track down a copy on Amazon. If you can find a copy on Amazon or on one of your vintage book halls I think you would really enjoy it. ❤️🇨🇦🥣🍞
I need to track down her binder of recipes! I thought I had it out. I remember they came out with a bunch of different recipes kind of one for each flavour in the early 80s. I’ll see what I can find. 👩🏻🍳 - Found It - Courtesy of my mom's green binder. That book many of us had at home with hand written and clipped recipes. I think this recipe is from the early 80s or maybe the late 70s. That expression about time being elastic as you get older and dates being smooshed together is very true. 🤣 Hamburger Helper Beef Vegetable Soup - as taken from the clipped advertisement 1 lb. Ground beef 1/2 cup Onion ; chopped 1 package Beef Noodle Hamburger Helper 5 cups water ; warm or hot 1 Bay leaf 1/4 tsp. Salt 1/8 tsp. Pepper 1 can stewed tomatoes 1 package frozen mixed vegetables ; or 2 cups cooked vegetables Cook and stir ground beef and onion in Dutch Oven (at least 5 quart size) until beef is brown; drain. Stir in warm water, sauce mix (make sure to dissolve in water), bay leaf, salt, pepper and tomatoes (with liquid); break up tomatoes with fork. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat; cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Stir in noodles and vegetables; cover and cook 10 minutes longer.
I just found a beautiful blue one and am loving it since I started following you. I too am a vintage cookbook fan. Keep up the great job, you're traveling down my childhood and well today is my birthday and I turned 67.
I don't know how you ended up in my side bar but I'm so glad you did! I love vintage and food, and you have such a nice soothing presentation. My first field trip was to the airport when I was in Head Start, maybe 87ish. Can you imagine taking a bunch of preschoolers to the airport now? It was a different time! No aluminum foil for me, but pop in a lunch was definitely a special field trip treat! Carrot sticks too. Swiss rolls were my lunch cake of choice. Pink snowballs were reserved for walking around the block to the corner store with my dad. This video really made me smile!
Kroger sells whipped cottage cheese now, which is the modern equivalent to creamed cottage cheese. Love the videos, I am also a vintage cookbook fanatic 😊
I feel like we're the only place without a Kroger or Kroger affiliate! 😂 My parents have one nearby though, so I'll have to look for it the next time I visit.
i was a teenager in the 80s but ive never seen or heard of cocoa wheats. My field trip lunches consisted of a ham and cheese sandwich, some chips-usually barbecue, an apple or banana, and something hostess like a twinkie or a suzie q with a foil wrapped Pepsi or Grape Nehi. Most of our field trips were to different areas at Land Between the Lakes like the planetarium or the Homestead where theyd teach us things about the 1800s and show us how to make things like dipping our own candles which we made then got to take home. The candle dipping one is one of my earliest field trips and inspired me to ruin on of my moms pots by melting all of my old and broken candles together on the stove and making more candles.
Creamed cottage cheese isn't necessarily blended. Creamed cottage cheese can also mean just regular cottage cheese as opposed to dry curd cottage cheese which is hard to find anymore. (Michigan brand comes to mind if they're still making it).
Collecting the Southern Living Annual Recipes books can be an obsession--I have all of them up to 2015 plus the 2019 book. I think I only bought one at full price, 1983. Once you ordered one, they would send the next on approval. My mother got it and didn't want it, so I bought it. The Elegant Sour Cream Pound Cake (p.79) recipe is the so good--you have to beat the egg whites separately and fold them in. The best thing about the set of books--they occasionally come out with an index that includes all of them to date which makes it really easy to find recipes.
Made the Hot French Cheese sandwich today. I tried it three ways, as per the recipe, with sliced chicken and another with some tuna salad. All were excellent!!!
Hohos. Suzy qs were too big by the time I had a sandwich and carrots. No chips even. I absolutely would NOT touch a snowball. I hate coconut, even now. I always got Pepsi as my pop. It was so rare I got pop that mom only bought what she liked.
Yes girl, field trip always meant a soda can wrapped in aluminum foil! Always excited that I got to have my own soda at lunch on the field trip also on field day.
I really enjoyed the way that you incorporated your childhood experiences into this full day of meals video! Hamburger soup is so delicious and although I grew up in the 90's, we've just started making it. The field trip footage was fun too!
Definitely had coke cans wrapped in foil for field day at school in the late 70s/early 80s. We didn't have a lot of off campus field trips, but field day was a day full of outdoor events on the playground, sack lunch with foil wrapped sodas were a special treat! Just discovered your channel this week and enjoying the trip through the past.
I was an 80s kid. I grew up with CoCo Wheats! I hunted some down for my Mom a few years ago. they are hard to find now. The cooking instructions say to add sugar. But we definitely did not wrap soda in foil, at least where I'm from in the Northeast. Most people had juice boxes. I don't really remember anyone bringing soda, but if they did, no foil.
I'm from Toledo, Ohio and I definitely remember Children's Wonderland at Christmas time. I don't think they've changed a thing since the 80's! My first field trip was to Amish Village, fun times! Thank you for the nostalgia. Definitely making the cheese sandwich and hamburger vegetable soup.
My favorite vintage cookbook which was our go-to on college and is still one that I consult today is The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, Eleventh Edition, copyright 1896.
First field trip was to Avery Island in south Louisiana where we learned how and where Tabasco sauce is made. We all got little bottles of it as souvenirs. Don’t know what I ate.
What a fun day you planned! I miss Half Price Books so much, and I'm envious of your finds. My mom worked nights, too, from when I was 10 or 11 until she retired. My dad woke us up and made us breakfast before she got home, and then she ran us to school before going home to sleep. My hot cereal of choice was Quaker Instant Oatmeal, apples & cinnamon flavor. (Still is!) When you pulled out that Hostess Snowball, I said, "HELL yeah!" Hostess snacks were our special treats; Dad would pick them up at the outlet store. And the first field trip I can recall was going to hear the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra play "Peter and the Wolf." What a lot of fond memories you've stirred up for me! Thank you! ❤
Oh I'm so glad I could bring back some happy memories for you! and I was SHOCKED to find that some states don't have Half Price Books (looking at you, Michigan).
