Same old crappy food...

[dennis08]

My grandma cooks for me and it sucks. She always cooks the same thing. This is my daily food intake.

Breakfast: Waffles or cereal (every day)
Lunch: Ham or turkey and cheese sand which (every day)
Dinner: Chicken, rice, meat, vegetables, fish and microwave potatoes. That’s all we eat she just mixes it up. Its prison quality since my family doesn’t have time for anything.

They don’t know how to buy food. It’s dumb. If I go with them it doesn’t matter they will still buy the same old crap.
Side effects include diarrhea from eating the same godamn can O goop every day.
Well I’ve had my rant. Has anyone else had to eat crap growing up?

[Erin Pavlina]

Actually your menu sounds heavenly compared to what my mom used to make us.

Breakfast: toast or cereal and we had to make it ourselves.
Lunch: a jelly sandwich (no peanut butter) every day
Dinner: burned chicken or spaghetti with powdered sauce.

My mom never put a vegetable in front of me. I used to wonder what the green and red stuff was in my friend's sandwiches. Turns out it was lettuce and tomato.

My advice for you is to learn how to cook and offer to do some cooking for your family. Once they get a taste of some good food, they will be inspired to get more creative and allow you to buy better ingredients. I started cooking elaborate meals for my family when I was in college. Everyone was happy and I learned how to cook in the process.

Maybe this is your chance to learn something.

[The David]

I didn't have to, but I didn't know any better.

[SmellyOrc]

Only during dinner. I always have a large amount of applesauce with my meat and potatoes. Else it's just yuck. Really. Yuck. Except for the chicken. Chicken is yummy
Unfortunately, like 3-4/7 days a week we get fried potato....stuff. Transfats all the way?

@Erin WHAT?! No peanut butter? HOW DARE THEY?!

[Erin Pavlina]

I know right? My mom told me and my sister to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for school. So my sister called dibs on the peanut butter and I was stuck with just jelly. Took us years to figure out she meant to put them together.

[Matthew Shea]

I'm with Erin, take a load off Grandma and cook yourself. Maybe start with one or two nights a week, maybe on the weekends for starters. If you're lucky, they'll get used to the better food and, if you play your cards right, Grandma might even start to improve her game.

[NotesMaeve]

What Erin and Matt said! Cook.

I was lucky growing up, although my father was weird and restrictive about food, my mother made amazing stuff when he wasn't around and I got to try everything from German to Thai to Cajun. I'm very grateful she taught me to keep an open mind to food; it's made my transition to vegetarianism so much easier.

So although dinner with my father might have always been wheat bread with white gravy and hamburger or chicken tenders fried in fat free saltines, I still got quite the experience.