Favorite meals as a kid?

[Great-Kazoo]

Oddly enough our mother was lacking in the kitchen, like seriously. When asking my sisters what meal really stuck out that mom could cook. The reply was Mrs. Paul's fish sticks and spaghetti . Her Christmas & Thanksgiving meals were spot on, everything else mediocre.
To be fair her PB&J sandwiches along with liverwurst, lettuce, tomato on a hard roll........... award winning

Brian mentioned school / cafeteria lunches. Hot buttered noodles with brown gravy. The white rice with carrots and turkey was a winner. Once i went to HS. who had time for lunch.................

[SouthPaw]

Oddly enough our mother was lacking in the kitchen, like seriously.

Kind of the same situation. Mom wasn't as talented in the kitchen because Grandma always had that covered. My grandmother always, and I mean ALWAYS, every Sunday made a fresh batch of hot pork green chili and beans. The pans she used to cook were HUGE as she would make enough in one batch to feed 4+ families. She would pair it numerous other dishes which could vary from molle, caldo, menudo, salsa, pesole, fresh tortillas, homemade biscuits, spanish rice, chicken legs, over easy eggs, fried potato's with ground beef (my favorite), beef pot roast or anything else she could come up with. That lady was truly gifted in the kitchen. I always remember walking into her kitchen and hearing the valve on top of the pressure cooker going crazy.