A book that might interest some of you is written by Carl Honore and it is about the Slow philosophy/movement regarding food and life in general. It is a principal that I adhere to and always have being that I grew up on a farm and processed foods were not a part of my life. well, not until my misspent youth when I got the munchies....

Margarine has never been allowed in my home and I will walk out of a restaurant if they try to pass that junk off on me. Same thing for non-dairy creamer. Yeccch!

Want to cook how momma did? Get yourself a copy of the Fanny Farmer cookbook. Find cookbooks that predate 1965 (I collect them) especially any of the old Reader's Digest cooking book series....man those were some labour-intensive recipes and still stand the test of time.

As to the coleslaw debate.....that item differs from region to region. Coleslaw down here is made with cabbage and carrots and infused with a product called Heinz Salad Cream....neat stuff. My fave cabbage dish however is of a Russian derivation - straight shredded cabbage marinaded in vinegar, pepper and garlic overnite....gets better with each day that it percolates.

FAve comfort foods to this day though.....Tuna casserole, crusty topped mac and cheese, garlic mashed spuds, poached eggs on muffins with hollandaise, fresh homemade bread slathered with butter.

oops...gotta defibulate.

WHAT THE HECK IS CREAMED TUNA??????

lol

Did you ever have salmon pea wiggle or tuna pea wiggle in grade school? If you're old enough to remember that, or remember your parents talking about it, it's tuna pea wiggle without the peas.

My Mom used to make salmon croquettes. They were good (not my favorite) but all I can remember are those little round bones in the salmon that were so soft you could eat them. Yuck!

We never had creamed tuna but we did have creamed chicken over rice. She'd make this rice nixture and bake it - then cut it into squares and put the creamed chicken over it. YUM!! Comfort food! The creamed chicken was sort of like what you'd find in a chicken pot pie.

lol mel dont know and am pretty sure i dont want to know

oleo is still not allowed in my house and non dairy is like caffeine free useless

i have always tried to stay away from additives and crappola in foods

how many of u feed ducks and geese with over the counter bread???

you are slowly killing them, they store the additives and crappola in their fat cells till it to becomes toxic, u want to feed them get some home made bread or seed without additives or preservatives

stands to reason it would do something similar to us

i have always said it can not be good for a woman who's body goes through a chemical shift change whatever u want to call it once a month for most of your lives, and adding all that junk cant not help one bit

we try our best to keep it clean here, although eating clean can get costly

I don't even know what OLEO is??

Now I have to learn what creamed tuna and some kind of Pea Wiggle and now Oleo.

God, I'm dumb!!! lol

My Gramma. my Momma, and now I myself know homemade chicken soup is unacceptable if you didn't make your own noodles. It is a sin in my family to use a bag of egg noodles or "No Yolks". Noodles must be made from scratch when you make chicken soup. LOL