Bad childhood dinners

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While eating ham, egg & chips tonight (childhood fav) I was thinking about the dinners I used to have as a child. My mum only cooked things that were frozen, tinned or came out of a packet. One particular meal we had a lot was Birdseye beef in gravy (which you boiled in the bag it came in) with plain pasta bows. At the time I actually enjoyed it but the thought of eating that beef now makes me gag a little. I remember it being chewy but my mum would cook all meat until it had the texture of a shoe, so I didn't know any better!

What childhood dinners did you eat that you couldn't imagine eating now?

@itsfuckingnotducking my dad took himself off on Indian and Thai cookery courses in the late 80's which marked me as being very posh at school (we really weren't!) and mum loved to experiment with new recipes which usually turned out well.

I by contrast, am a rubbish cook!

Cheese, egg and potato pie
(Not envy)
Literally boiled eggs cut in half and placed (decoratively) in an oven dish of mash potato and covered with cheese before being baked.

Mmmm

Hated eating it at the time, and am now so happy I'm an adult and don't have to eat it - mash (great), peas (great), and mince in beef gravy (bleurgh!!)

My mum was and still is an amazing cook.. however I do remember a particular regular that I now could not stomach.. the wonderful corn beef hash!

I am actually veggie now (not because of the above)

I also recall going round a friends house and her mum made us scrambled egg which was crunchy because there was loads of shell in there.

My mum used to concoct a vile slimy mince thing too with lashings of tomato puree, served with boiled cabbage I remember going to my posh friend's house in the 80s and being served spaghetti Bolognese, I literally sat there horrified as I had no idea how to eat it

The only one I remember vomiting up was scrambled eggs.
There was one year where the price of potatoes went through the roof, so my mother decided she'd cook rice instead. So you'd have a chop, some carrots and half a plate of plain boiled rice.
I think we all got very thin that year lol.
For lunch, the one that I will never forget (and never ate) was Easy Singles sandwiches. So white bread, lathered in margarine, with an easy single thrown in the middle. It was every kind of boak.
Then another time there was tapioca pudding. Which looked like larvae to me. Not sure I vomited that time, but I know it was never cooked again.

Overall though my mother was a fabulous cook and we had fresh meat and potatoes and maybe carrots/turnips/peas and gravy every day.

Wasn't the fondest of yellow pack burgers though for a while in the 80's. Gristly ghastly things.

My mother stuck with very traditional cooking, so didn't venture into things like pasta or curry. Meat and 2 veg.

Bubble and squeak and Mr. Brains fag got. Heaving a bit typing this....:)

I can vividly recall the scrambled egg incident as if it was yesterday. I'd say I was about 5 or 6 and had never had it before. I recall looking at it and thinking 'hell no' and my mother was 'Eat it!'. I took one mouthful and started to boak and I recall her shouting at me 'Swallow it, don't you DARE puke!'

And out it came, all over the legs of the table, chairs and floor and continued for quite a few more seconds.
She never cooked scrambled eggs again. Phew.

Stuffed heart. This always looked as though it was about to start beating on the plate a la Edgar Allen Poe. May be why I haven't eaten meat for 30 years.

Am having flashbacks to some really awful school meals now - traumatic! Pasta with Heinz tomato sauce and limp cold rice pudding. My husband (european) has just added French tripe sausage in aspic. He says it used to smell of 'colon'!! Heaving now!

@Thejezebel that made me feel a bit queasy!

My mum used to cook scrambled egg in the microwave in a Pyrex jug. It would plop out of the jug like a jelly mould, still in its jug-shape. It was overcooked and hideous.

Gofork, our cat used to love stew day because I didn't . I remember being left at the table while my mum went out with orders to finish my stew. The cat was really well fed that day. Chewy horrible meat made me feel sick and I don't eat meat at all now. My grandma used to make pigs fry, now that's grim for a kid who's waiting till they're 18 and can go veggie.

Turkey drummers, I used to like them till I realised how pink and greasy they were and I never ate them again. Tinned meatballs.

My Mum used to love the Homepride jars with beef or chicken and frozen veg thrown in. But they were delicious compared to her first goes at curry. It was leftover chicken with the strange frozen cubed veg (carrots, swede, potatoes and not sure what else), boiled in water with mild curry powder, sulatanas and chopped apple.
All lovingly served in a ring of boiled rice.

I hated that meal, and we had it after every roast chicken dinner.

I don't think turkey drummers were meant to be pink inside mine were never pink and greasy ! Tbf on my mum she was a decent cook just had some blips and she worked funny hours so had to feed us

My auntie used to make strange fruity curries, there was a chef on tv the other week and he was saying when his parents landed in britain they didn't have the spices to make curry so they used fruit or something like that