Poorish- had lots of comfort type foods
Pasta and rice dishes often.
Mom was a good cook and could make the cheapest stuff taste good.
We got government commodities sometimes.

That's a huge accomplishment congrats 🥳🤗 I was 220 at 17 years old but went down to 145 by the time I finished university. I'm a shorty so it looked awful too. Also grew up poor lol maybe it's because the bad food was/is cheaper and there's the natural instinct of wondering where the next meal(s) might come from, so we hoard what we can when we can. not sure

also a win for sriracha 🌶

My FATHER grew up during the Great Depression in the Midwest...and there was never enough food. His father used to tell him and his brother to "fill up on bread", because there was never enough meat for everyone. He thought my mother's family was rich, because she lived on a farm and they had milk!

My grandmother had a large green apple tree in the back yard, and she always had a big pot of applesauce on the back of the stove, which she would make from drops.

As a child, I used to watch my father eat...and he would eat like it was a contest to see who could shovel the food in their mouth the fastest...sort of like a starving dog. I used to save the potatoes on my plate till last because I liked them best, (and my mother was a terrible cook...the potatoes were instant, and usually the only thing she didn't ruin), and my father grabbed my plate and put ALL my potatoes on his own plate. My mother yelled at him for doing that, and then I started crying...and he told her I was only crying because SHE said something.

But it was even a little difficult for ME growing up in a house with an absolutely HORRBLE cook...and THEN she went on a diet...and when I was in high school the only food in our fridge was bread and mustard and cheese slices and pickles. I lost a lot of weight.

My parents both grew up during the Great Depression. They both lived on farms and said you could have anything you wanted to eat as long as you could grow it.

what did you put on your eggs? it's not ketchup is it? i gained like up to 180 lbs the other year and am down to 160 sometimes i try to lose more other times i'm like why bother? idk 😳