Your Mom's Worst Meals...

[Andipandi]

My mom was not a good cook and still is not a good cook. You would think in time things would get better but no such luck. My parents were kind of vegetarians when I was growing up. My mom would make homemade spaghetti sauce but she would put chunks of tofu in it for the protein. Yuck! She made a lot of quiche too. Once in a blue moon if we were having company she would make steak or a roast. It was always cooked to death. Hard as a rock. My friends would always eat before they came to our house. One girlfriend actually brought her own food when we were having a sleep over. Thankfully I have broken the curse and cook pretty well. My husband always jokes and wonders how I cook so well. LOL I guess I just figured out how Not to cook food. LOL

 

[AustinTink]

We were very lucky because my mom was an excellent cook. We rarely ate out and everything she made was from scratch and delicious. BUT... there was this one time... someone gave her a fry daddy for Christmas. She tried to make corn dogs, hand dipped and everything. I'm not sure what went down inside that fry daddy, but the whole family ending up barfing afterwards. It was all kinds of wrong. She never used the fry daddy again.

 

[Halloweenqueen]

My mother wasn't much of a cook. She did feed us liver and called it steak. I actually grew to like it.

 

[pweyl36]

My mom was a fairly decent cook she could reinvent spam in so many ways that it was actually edible.

She could not make chicken soup. I swear she put the beaks and claws in it. She said she didn't, but I don't know. Thee were strange things floating in that soup.

My mom would make a mac and cheese casarole with spam it and I always wanted to throw up

 

[chiefmickeymouse]

Salmon cakes. When we lived in Alaska my dad would salmon fish during the summer. My mom never knew what to do with it, so she'd make salmon cakes. They were disgusting. I like salmon now, but the thought of those cakes still make me shudder. My parents didn't offer options for kids who didn't like dinner. You ate it or had a hungry night!

 

[Julylady]

Tuna noodle casserole made with cream of mushroom soup and elbow macaroni. My sister loved it though and still makes it today. Her kids hate it and I don't blame them! I tell her to invite Mom over when she makes it and I will take her kids out to dinner.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Fried. Eggplant.

Traumatized by it. Work ever eat it in may form again. And if you tell me "but you haven't had mine"...I have no problems making sure I never do.


All steaks were deader than dead. (Is there a well well well well well well done?)

Food stuck in on as because if was cooked so long and so poorly.

She finally went to culinary school and things are much better now.

But compared to Worst Cooks in America--her cooking was too good for that show.

 

[Marlea98]

If it didn't come from a jar, packet, frozen food container or the take away shop my mother didn't make it. I don't know how I survived my childhood. To this day I joke that you needed a chainsaw to cut the meatloaf my mother made. Spaghetti was always covered with ketchup.
The only thing she was good at was garden salad and sliced lunch meats that we would eat in summer. You know, I can't recall ever seeing a cook book in the house now that I think about it. My husband even said to me recently that he realised he's never had a meal cooked by my mother when we have gone to visit - it's always frozen Sara Lee lasagne, KFC or fish and chips. Sadly, he is correct.

I liked the occasions when my mother had to work late and my dad would cook. He was a "bit of this and a bit of that and let's just add this" kind of cook and no matter what he made it always tasted right. My dad made the best pea and ham soup