What's your dinner schedule?

by Bob Sassone, Posted Apr 19th 2007 @ 12:40PM

When I was a kid, my mom would have a schedule of what dinners to make on each night of the week. It wasn't completely strict. She would be flexible sometimes, especially during certain seasons. But for the most part, Sundays were for pasta (or, as we called it, spaghetti), and either Tuesdays or Wednesdays were for The Hamburg Plate, which consisted of scrambled hamburg (side note: is calling it "hamburg" a regional thing?), mashed potatoes, and creamed corn. It was sort of a Shepherd's Pie, only all separated (side note #2: does anyone even eat creamed corn anymore? I think the last time I had it was in the 80s.) Other nights were set aside for a chicken dish, sandwiches, and another night maybe for some sort of soup/stew.

How about you? Did your family have certain nights for certain meals, and did you continue that sort of trend when you became an adult? I have frozen dinners and pizza a lot more than I probably should, but that's more about laziness and an addiction to pizza than anything else.

Filed Under: Ingredients
Tags: comfort food, creamed corn, dinner, family meals, hamburger plate, kids, mom, mother, pizza, weekday meals, weekly meals, WeeklyMeals

Chew on This

Royal Wedding Cake Details Revealed! - YumSugar

Make Your Own Pop Tarts - CHOW
Denny's Introduces a Maple Bacon Sundae - Eater
Whole Foods Opening Bars in Stores - USA Today
Rules Of Bar Etiquette -- For The Bartender - HuffPost Food

Reader comments (Page 2 of 2)

4-23-2007 @12:44PM KochSchlampe said... Growing up in Germany, there were fixed meals: every Saturday it was (and still is, as I mostly join my parents then for a meal) Spaghetti with really hot tomato sauce and on Mondays mostly a Minestrone.
But those were the only fixed ones.
Reply

Vote upVote downReport

5-05-2007 @10:13AM wdfstore said... Dear friend :
Welcome to our website: www.wdfstore.com We are the Chinese biggest foreign trade wholesaler and retailer.We have our own warehouse and stores,we have clients all over the world,and we have been received very high praise from our customers.If you are interesting in our item,please contact us.MSN/EMAILL: www.wdfstore.com@hotmail.com Skype: www.wdfstore.com
Reply