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What I (Used to Eat) Wednesday
Good morning!
Today’s What I Ate Wednesday post is actually quite different from those I’ve posted in the past. This post is inspired from Meg and Caitlin, featuring a bit of a twist on your typical WIAW shennanigans – What I Used to Eat Wednesday.
Growing up, eating healthy wasn’t a concern of mine. You can actually read my food history in this post. From those chronicles, we’re going to take a typical day of my Freshmen year in high school. Allow me to paint a picture of the setting for you:
A 14-year old Paige was in her first year of high school, and absolutely immersed in playing volleyball. She played at school, and in club, and lived and breathed it. Other than volleyball, Paige goofed around with her friends, going to pool parties, having slumber parties, and having all around innocent fun (yep – I was pretty innocent my first two years of high school!)
She didn’t really give a rats behind about healthy eating. She was care-free and blissfully ate whatever sounded good, or was around.
Breakfast – 7:30 AM (right before catching the bus)
Oreo O’s!
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Is it sad that seeing that makes me crave it? Oreo O’s with skim milk. I’ve mentioned before that, although my mom was health concious, I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, where everyone feared fat. High-sugar, incredibly processed cereal? No problem to have that in the house! Any type of milk that didn’t resemble blue water? Forbidden. So, Oreo O’s and skim milk it was. And I was happy with that 
Snack – 10:00 AM (because we all know how full high sugar cereal keeps one)
Typically this was a chocolate bar being sold for some type of school fundraiser – usually of the caramel variety
Lunch – 12:00 PM – school lunch
Every day my freshmen year I got a deli sandwich with turkey and american cheese on white sub bread (don’t be fooled by the picture above. There were never any veggies on my subs.) And I always ate it with a big chocolate chip cookie, which were THE biggest, most delicious, greasiest chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever eaten. What is it with school lunch cookies being the best ever?!
Snack – 3:30 PM – stuffing my face as soon as I walked home from the bus stop or before practice:
Raisin bread with butter – and sometimes sugar – was my preferred pre-dinner snack. I’d down like 3-4 pieces, and then be ready for dinner by 6:00. PS – Sun-Maid totally kicked Wonder Bread’s booty. If I had practice right after school, I’d likely eat a couple granola bars beforehand.
Dinner – 6:00 PM
If I had a game that night, I’d walk over to Jimmy John’s with my friends and grab a slim 4 with cheese, and, wait for it…a big oatmeal raisin cookie – they had the best.
If it wasn’t a game night, I ate what my mom cooked. Minute steak, instant mashed potatoes, and forced veggies were the norm. Other usuals included grilled chicken breasts and sweet potatoes, as well as bratwursts, buns, and baked potaotes. My mom was a working mom (8th grade English teacher!) so dinners were quick, but they were always on the table. BTW – I credit my work ethic to both my mom and my dad equally. 
Oddly, I don’t remember eating much after dinner at this age. Oh wait – if I’d had a game that night, I would come home and eat another BIG bowl of Oreo O’s:
Other than that…my dad and I used to go out and get ice cream a LOT after dinner when it was warm out at this place called Double D’s. I know, weird. We called it the Dairy Dump, and it has this funny looking ice cream cone outside the building:
…aaand I just made myself homesick 
With that, I’m off to prepare for some things…I have a couple important meetings today
What was your after-school snack growing up?
What was your breakfast growing up?
I used to eat tons of frozen foods… I remember eating these frozen twice baked potatoes from Costco. I love them, but I would probably die if I looked at the ingredients list today. I ate either cereal, granola bars, or toast with PB for breakfast most mornings. Lucky Charms… They ARE magically delicious!
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My after school snack when I was a kid was almost always toast and butter, a bagel with cream cheese or an english muffin with cheese whiz. Clearly, I was/am a carb lover! (and is it bad that I kind of want cheese whiz now?)
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This may sound hard to believe, but in elementary school my after school snack was usually a full-fledged meal! I did gymnastics 4 days a week for 3 1/2 hours and was active the rest of my day as well. I was tiny and my parents just wanted me to eat and not get too thin. A double cheeseburger, fries and a coke was a snack ha! Not the healthiest choice, but at the time my parents were doing what they thought was best, and that was to just get me calories! Nutrition now is just thought of so much differently than it even was 12 years ago!
you know what’s funny? Your diet really wasn’t *that* bad before. Sure, there are lots of ways to make it healthier with more whole grains, less sugar and less processed items, but I’d venture to say that it was still an AWFUL lot healthier than most people eat today!
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I loved peanut butter and crackers! Breakfast was always peanut butter and toast… Guess I have always been obsessed with peanut butter!
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This cracks me up as I ate some crazy stuff growing up! I either played sports or worked part-time in high school & remember my breakfast being a plain bagel loaded with cream cheese or some Pop Tarts. White carbs anybody?!? And my after school snack was either dorrito’s or a bowl of pasta with butter. Yikes!
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I cringe a little when I think back to what I used to eat as a kid. It obviously didn’t kill me, but it still wasn’t the best. Pop Tarts, powdered mini donuts, and all sorts of various sugary cereals were the norm for breakfast!
Love this! I used to bring my lunch in high school but would always find a way to get a dollar to buy one of those delicious cookies! They were the best because they weren’t cooked all the way and ginormous! Oh how I miss them!
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I loved cheetos! And we ate a lot of hamburger helper!
My breakfasts were so unhealthy growing up! Either sugary serial (with whole or 2% milk) or a poptart or Little Debbie snack cake. Yes, cake for breakfast was encouraged. No wonder I have such a sweet tooth, right?
I remember two particular after school snacks. One was just a Kraft American Single (you know the plastic cheese stuff?) or a Kit Kat bar out of the fridge.
That said, my mom almost always cooked a fairly healthy dinner so at least I had one meal that featured somewhat decent nutrition.
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Oh man. I love this post in an “I can’t believe all the crap I ate back then” kind of way 😉 My mom has always been diligent about exercise and therefore incredibly fit, but never gave a second thought to food. As a result we grew up on poptarts and Hostess chocolate covered donuts for breakfast and sandwiches on white Wonderbread for lunch. The thing that really makes me cringe in retrospect though was my after school snack throughout middle school (and probably late elementary school as well): an entire can of Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs (2 servings) + a can of coke. It’s so crazy to look back on that now.
P.S. Remember how the Oreo cereal would suck up all the milk??
HAHA I LOVED THIS PAIGE!!!!! Thanks for doing this 😀 I HAVE BEEN WAITING!!!! I’ve NEVER tried that cereal before. I know it would be much too sweet for me (even in my childhood, but then again, I HATED cereal as a child). My favourite breakfast was eggs and toast and my favourite snack was cheese and pickles 😉
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It’s just crazy how much our meals change over the years; as we get smarter about what we’re putting into our bodies as a way to fuel and support our lifestyles. I wasn’t a big veggie eater either and I gag at some (lots) of the things I used to have on a daily basis. I never in a million years thought I’d be making brussels sprouts or zucchini on the reg! 🙂
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Love this post! It’s so funny to think about the things we used to eat when we were younger. I was the blandest eater ever! Plain pasta with butter, toast, and dry cereal were all favorites of mine!
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if I ate any breakfast at all it was most likely a bagel w/cr. cheese or cold cereal. After school was always cold cereal. My mom was a single parent but we always had scratch cooked meals… meaning I never knew what instant mashed potatoes were until I was out of the house. I think our Quick meal was always tater tot casserole. Growing up we were poor so we ate a lot of crock pot meals, casseroles and soups. My mom is a wonderful cook and I’m thankful that she taught me that from scratch is always worth the extra time 🙂
I love these throwback posts. It’s crazy how I used to eat compared to now!
I honestly wonder how I survived. I ate NO protein, except for vanilla yogurt (seriously), no veggies (except frozen peas and carrots), and the only fruits I ate were strawberries and bananas. Otherwise my diet consisted of plain white bread, white pasta, and yep that’s it since I hated nuts and everything. I’m shocked I wasn’t a beast of a child;)
Compared to my diet, yours looks pretty darn excellent haha.
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that is so me! except mine was fruit loops, pops, or smacks. and snacks were dorritos or ding dongs. EEK!
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hahaha LOVE THIS! i used to be all about the otis spunkemeyer cookies after a turkey cheese & tomato wrap in high school (on a green spinach wrap!)
We weren’t allowed to have sugary cereals growing up. We only got that at my grandmother’s house. We were definitely the age of fat free! Crazy how long I feared fats! I used to eat a lot of cheese toast or cinnamon toast for breakfast. I often wonder what my kids will think of how they ate growing up. I don’t forbid anything, but we eat really balanced. I hope they have a healthier view of food in the long run.
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I can’t see how they wouldn’t – your meals are fabulous! 🙂
Ahh, the days of sugar cereals. Does Count Chocula ring any bells?
Oh wow, Oreo O’s! We were never allowed cereal like that but I remember the special Lucky Charms around St. Patrick’s day. Growing up there were a lot of Jimmy Dean meals. Goodness me 🙂
Paige, I could totally relate to this post. I was a child of the early 80’s and grew up on sugary cereal, hamburger helper, white bread and pasta. Its amazing how things turn around later in life and we realize we cannot take our health for granted… love these throwback type of posts!
I agree, I never cared about what I ate. I didnt think about body image, being overweight or any of that stuff when I was in high school.
-I never ate breakfast
-lunch was Peggy Lawton choc chip cookies, can of fruit punch or school pizza or salad bar-with lots of mayo based dressings.
-afternoon snack-my BFF went through fases-for a month it would be Kraft mac n cheese; then it was Ramen Noodles; then it was hotdogs or friend bologna.
-dinner was what ever my mom made (and we didnt like most of it)or get your own dinner-which would be steak-ums, bowl of apple jacks or more Ramen Noodles.
Never drank water, never ate fruit (do raisins count?) and never worried about gettin in veggies (all we really ever had were canned veggies, bleck!)
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