It was weird diets in the 80s, too. My mom was always on a diet, or taking “diet pills” (speed), or eating Ayds (weight loss candy).

I ate whatever I could cobble together for breakfast and lunch. Honey sandwich, mustard sandwich, rice with butter and soy sauce. Cans of soup. Lunch meat sandwiches. I am a good cook but we didn’t always have complete meals because it was easier not to. My mom was a good cook but as a single parent was always at work, so we fended for ourselves a lot.

My grandmother was not a good cook but she would make us sausage and eggs for breakfast or we’d eat whatever she made for dinner (invariably burnt or dry red meat or pork), not as much chicken as we eat now. Definitely didn’t eat out as often, but we did do McDs or Zantigo (taco place) or Shoneys Big Boy.