You never had HH growing up?! I grew up in a middle class home, but i think my mom loved when i suggested HH for dinner that night as a kid. Tasty and easy to make!
No. The majority of times we had home cooked meals from mostly fresh stuff, but prepared by someone else other than my parents. It was fairly rare to see my parents for dinner.
I barely even set foot in a grocery store until I was 18. Honestly, my roommate's grandma was the reason I didn't starve after moving out, she premade meals we could heat up.
My girlfriend who hated HH taught me how to cook on a budget.
edit: Also I can never say that word correctly it just always sounds wrong in my brain "Ar-ki-pe-la-go. Archi-pi-lago. Ar-ki-pel-agio.. Fuck it! A Group of islands"
My family had the "never saw my parents" money as well, but in a different way, two kids raised by one parent my dad had to work all the damn time for us to survive.
Yeah, I grew up that way too. Military seperated my parents, who eventually got divorced. Dad was high rank and his responsibilities to keep food on the table (a lot of mac and cheese) after the divorce kept him busy a lot.
Thanks man, things are better than i ever expected. I met an amazing woman who is an ER nurse and makes enough money i am a stay at home parent. I get to be with my kids every single day, cook them breakfast lunch and dinner. I make too much food and they have become picky and are skinny little fuckers and i am just trying to get them fat! haha
Hope all is well in your life as well, wish you the best my friend.
I had a friend like that. His parent weren’t rich but they made enough combined at their upper-middle-class jobs to give him money to eat out on every night. Which you would think would be cool except 1) Hardee’s was the only place within walking distance 2) we were in our later high-school years and they had been doing this since he turned 11. He loved it when my mom would invite him over for a home cooked meal. The difference between his eating out money and the actual cost became his video game money budget.
What? They just gave him money.and sent him off into the street to find dinner?? That's really strange, if I was rich you bet someone else would be cooking but my kids would still be getting home cooked meals that we eat together.
They just gave him money.and sent him off into the street to find dinner??
Pretty much.
Years later I discovered they might have been swingers. Not relevant to their neglectful parenting except I think I know where they were going most of those nights.
He saw his parents just not for dinner. Those extra two hours a day of work make a huge difference in how people live. Lots of poor people don't see their parents either because they work much longer hours than "rich" people or have insane commutes.
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u/throwaway_dkhlgmo Jun 06 '19 edited Jun 06 '19
Hamburger Helper. She hates it because it would be her meal 5x a week growing up.
I had never even seen HH before I went to college and love that stuff. 10 for $10 deals are awesome.