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The Kind of Family I'm From and Why It Seems So "Well to Do"

My family didn't really *trash the traditions*. They didn't force me to go ahead and mix the spaghetti and the sauce instead of eating it with the spaghetti as much plain as possible. They didn't ditch dinner. It wasn't "PIZZA!?"

We didn't have frozen vegetables etc. That's easy enough, I could have done it.

We did have traditional food that was not exactly Asian dining. I improved it on my own by chopping the meat ahead of time and squeezing lemon (or lime I will start soon too) and sprinkling salt and pepper on it, as well ... but the pieces are already cut.

We had good vegetables, like good broccoli with lots of spice, among other things, cooked vegetables to include lima beans, peas, cauliflower, lots of corn, etc. We also had fresh carrots and cucumbers, the cucumbers being a favorite of my younger brother, every night for supper. Of course, it would be hard to get into a routine to bring to school, but some people do or manage.

We had bread often, Italian bread, like baguettes? I liked lots of thick pieces. I had done gymnastics, so this was good. I didn't eat a lot of candy, ever, especially before age 5. I was very hungry. We didn't always eat quite the same or as much.

There were times, long times we ate very differently I could go into.

We had the meats: chicken often lemon pepper rotisserie, beef/steak, pork, ham, and for Thanksgiving turkey. Sometimes, fish, a newer thing, maybe because of the bones.

We had cereal for breakfast and maybe other things, orange juice since I used to be allergic to milk but had it in my cereal, though it just made me throw up. I've had other things for breakfast. Oh yea, pop tarts, sometimes waffles Egos.

We had fruits kinda like a treat but more to be healthy that it was okay it was tasty you know? No added sugar, but that would be a new dessert.

We had dessert, just not candy all day since I didn't when I was little I guess. Sometimes, we made special things, like most people's parents have them do. People at school in public high school made such a big deal I always made store bought cookie mix cookies, chocolate chip.

We had the drinks: sodas like Pepsi or Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, and Orange Soda. Water with ice we had to make at first for awhile. Sometimes, I did it, but it wasn't a big deal and they ignored it. I was naturally clean, though. We sometimes had other things like the Hawaiian Punch I liked with cheese sticks, Yoohoo!, and for lunch Capri Sun which used to be sweet and good frozen from breakfast.

We ate out, too, and it was very social in a way to sit there and feel it.