I bet I could determine your age by your mom's recipes of this era LOL! --50.82.xxx.xx

My mother used both a lot too, tuna noodle casserole, meatloaf, onion dip for parties! --71.248.xxx.xxx

One time I bought Cream of Mushroom but it was Clam instead. Happened to a lot of people and made the local news. It's made not far from here. So, no Campbells except sometimes the chicken soup for lunch. Grandmother made soup from marrow bones. She added an onion and a parsley root which she called something that sounded like "paydelly wortzel". It was tremendous and probably saved my life a few times. Some of the Campbell's soups taste like gourmet if you use a can of chicken broth in them instead of water. I cook chicken for my dogs and have broth left which I use to make my own broccoli soup, mushroom soup etc. Powdered onion soup was mixed with sour cream and used as "dip". I wish something had been made better because other than the soup, the food was awful. Everything was overcooked with no added spices. The best meal of the year was Thanksgiving. Ham was edible. Pork roast was edible. Pot roasted beef was edible. Anything fried was like shoe leather. Grandmother cooked and her mom had died when she was 12 so she made NO Hungarian food and did not really know how to cook. Very sad for all. I just had a microwaved potato, fried ham slice and am now going to eat my home made broccoli soup. --173.61.xxx.xx

My grandmother cooked with lard. Beat that. Lol --174.105.xxx.xxx

MJ [OH], my grandmother cooked on a wood fired stove & I'm sure she use lard as well. --96.237.xx.xx

My grandmother cooked with lard too. And guess what it has come back around as a healthier food than CRISCO LOL. --50.82.xxx.xx

Mom didn't use any packaged stuff. Everything from scratch and vegetables out of the garden or home canned. I still hate snapping beans to this day. --50.26.xx.xxx

Here's a Clue for your riddle... i plan on never eating Tuna Noodle Casserole again. It was me who made it, there was a cheap meal time of my life. Enough said? The end. --99.203.xx.xxx

Grandma made lots of good food. She cooked cabbage and pork roasts. Grandpa made the best welch rarebit (sp). Grandma showed me how to make an apple pie. She used lard for that. Great crusts --24.233.xxx.xx

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To this day, the smell of it makes me feel queasy. --98.146.xxx.xxx

Cooked rice, frozen chopped spinach, green onions, canned cream of mushroom soup, cubes of cheddar cheese all baked together. --98.146.xxx.xxx

I have such fond memories of potlucks as a kid. Plate full of food followed by an even bigger plate full of dessert! --47.12.xxx.xx

We just finished off a casserole of noodles, ham, peas, parmesan cheese, and cream of mushroom soup. Mom never used either of those, but I sure have! --151.197.xxx.xx

I wish my family was normal. My Grandma used to make Rabbit stew with the rabbits that she raised ( and we played with). She would make “ lucky rabbit’s foot” keychains. She would actually be mounting their little dead feet onto the metal keychains at the table while we were eating them. No wonder I ended up a vegetarian as a teenager. --71.10.xxx.xxx

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Green Bean Casserole was a staple of our holiday dinners. We still make it! But now we use fresh green beans, fresh cream and butter and garlic for the sauce instead of canned soup...however, Granddaughters still insist on the canned onion rings as a topping! --50.82.xxx.xx

And where would fresh vegetables be without bacon grease. I don't think I would be as much of a vegetarian as I am today without bacon grease. --108.69.xxx.xxx

Lye soap and outhouses. --73.120.xx.xxx

Here in TN everything has pork or lard in it. --73.120.xx.xxx

Hill Billies --73.120.xx.xxx

It took that but wont take R>D NKS --73.120.xx.xxx

A chuck roast with mushroom soup, and dried onion soup sprinkled over it in a brown in bag, with potatoes & carrots cut up inside is about as good a meal as I have ever had in my life, baked in the oven about 350 for a couple of hours. Yum --71.219.xx.xxx

Easy and Delicious! --68.10.xxx.x

My mom use Olie. If i could buy some i could make her bread recipe. Best ever! Try substituting butter and another time Margarine and another time lark... never the same. She never used Campbell soup. But i did wherever i had to pinch pennies to get ahead. Thanks for rattling the memories! --99.203.xx.xx

20 somethings don't know what meat loaf is - honestly --24.101.xxx.xx

My paternal grandmother use to have cans of lard by the stove. My mother never allowed it in the house. My mother made reservations and bought lots of Stouffer's casseroles. I am now learning how to cook. It is work, but i am convinced it is the only way to eat healthy. --108.51.xxx.xxx

One day I prepared fresh vegetables for Mom and Aunt. When I placed the fresh veggies on the table they both looked at me and declared "They're raw!" The two of them promptly took the "raw" veggies to the stove, slathered with lots of butter, and cooked until mushy. Yes, generational difference of opinion, that's for sure! --67.164.xxx.xxx

After reading this thread, I don't think I was missing out on anything. --47.28.x.xxx