Well as you can see I am from the South... the Deep south and I was raised out of the Garden so to speak..... Mostly good food but just too much of it. I didn't have a weight problem until I was transplanted about age 12 then I gained a lot over a friendless summer. I then lost it and was subject to family always telling me you could lose another 5 pounds... hence the beginning of my bulimia. I ran about 130/135 all my teen years at 5'8 that isn't overweight. I would give my right arm to weigh that again.


Things I can not believe I ate:

Strawberry Ice-Cream and Pringles.
Wendy's Frosties and French Fries.
Mustard and Pickle Sandwiches.
Fried Bologna Sandwiches.


Those are my odd balls foods.

When we had our 3rd child I became obsessed with ice cream and after we had the kids in bed I'd make John go to Beckers at the corner to buy chocolate ice cream (for a premium price) and we'd eat it all up. That's probably why the 3rd-child-weight would not move, that and I was 30.

John grew up in a family that had to eat desert after every meal. We only had desert on Sundays, after the over-cooked roast beef and mashed potatoes. I HATE roast beef ~ cannot eat it.

My kids are always yapping about desert. HAVE AN APPLE, I'll yell. They look at me like I'm nuts. My mom-in-law was here for a visit in Nov. and I found her eating sweets in the kitchen between meals because she didn't get enough sweet at lunch.

At family gatherings they make pistashio-marshmallow SALADS.

Yuck.

Anyway, enough ranting.

L

My family gatherings they make a pistachio marshmallow dessert-it is actually quite good...it is made up of pistachio instant pudding powder, cool whip, with a can of drained crushed pineapple and mini-marshmallows mixed in...
Aphil

That's the same one only John's family serve it as a SALAD. They have one with mandarin oranges too.

Then comes desert.


L

Okay...in my family, THAT would have been dessert...
Now understanding the correlation between the inlaw's and your weight problem. lol

Amy jo- I thought my town was the only one to do Wendy's frostie's and french fries. I also loved Peanut Butter and Jelly with a layer of potato chips inside.

P and J with chips is wonderful. I shouldn't read this thread before I have eatten!

My Mum used to cook up a batch of homemade french fries then place them between two slices of buttered bread.

She used to make pickled beet sandwiches too

Okay, that is really gross!

My mom used to eat bacon-fat sandwiches. She died of heart disease, go figure.

LOL - when I was a kid I used to eat cheese (mainly cheddar or cream cheese) & peanut butter sandwiches! I used to love mixing cream cheese & peanut butter, and then zapping it in the microwave to melt it and then piling it on slices of bread.

Course... I was a normal weight then... maybe I should whip up a batch of those tonight!?

Oh blech. I just overate and then had a nap. You girls are making my stomach heave! Which is maybe a good thing.

Anybody else sop up roast drippings with bread as a kid?!? Talk about hardening of the arteries!!!

When I was a kid we went to an Italian restaurant and I always used to get mozzarella in carrozza ("in a carriage") which is big thick squares of bread loaded with mozzarella (in the bread carriage, see) and then it is all deep fried. Delicious, and about six trillion calories. That would be my main course.

At Christmas dinner I would eat a dish of hard sauce for dessert (after a main course of mostly stuffing). Lovely, well-balanced meals!

Lidian

My Mom and Dad have this little blue pottery bowl that they brought with them when they moved from England to Canada years ago. On the side it says, "Drippings". BLAH!!! Toast and dripping!!