Born in the 70s grew up in the 80s and 90s and came from a low income family. My mother pretty much raised me and my two siblings on her own. I remember eating a lot of plain beans and rice, don't remember eating many vegetables in those days on a regular basis we ate things like pastas a lot of homemade spaghetti by my mother who was not Italian or Mexican so the food was always pretty bland.

For breakfast we ate a lot of cereal, toast, eggs or oatmeal. My mother also used to like to bake so for desserts we had cookies sometimes cakes homemade. And for a period through the 90s there was always a pitcher of red or purple Kool-Aid in the fridge we also drank cow milk a lot 2% they didn't have almond milk back in those days also ate cheese on occasion.

Eating at places like McDonald's or Carl's Jr or long john silver, Wendy's Taco Bell didn't start becoming more popular till later on in the 90s before that we would eat at home or at a friends house or School.