Reply #101: The only thing I remember not being able to eat was [View All]

[Blue Diadem]

canned potato soup. My Dad was really strict and sometimes downright mean, we had to sit there until our food was eaten. There's a lot more involved that I won't go into but suffice it to say I was so traumatized over the potato soup incident that I never fixed it once for my kids or DH until just this past year, some 45 yrs later..and it wasn't canned potato soup.

After DH and I were married, my MIL attempted to get me to try some of her concoctions. Her cooking was excellent..but some of her ideas for what to drink were downright disgusting. She got on a save money kick, of which she had no reason to do, it was just something she wanted to try. I remember being pregnant with my first child, sick all of the time, and she offered me a glass of milk. At first I thought it was skim milk but it was extremely watered down. Then she began talking about how you can freeze milk and you could stretch it by adding water. She had given me frozen bottled milk "stretched" with 50% water. Another time she gave me what she called a chocolate drink..chocolate extract flavoring mixed with water. After that, I refused to try anything else.