What meal did your family serve you when you were a kid,

Beef stew.  

Matzo ball soup. Also, salted cod stew. What was she thinking? We called them cod balls.

My Dad and I have almost the exact same tastes in food. So there was nothing I was ever forced to eat. 

Spaghetti 

So many things I've never eaten even once since being forced. Others I've been able to have an open mind about and now enjoy (Brussell sprouts, for example). 

Terrible thing, forcing kids to eat things they have tried at least once and detest or even gag on. 

Unless, of course, the goal is to create lifelong extremely picky eaters, people who have problems with food, and/or fear trying new foods long into adulthood. If that's what the parent is hoping for, by all means, carry on! 

 

Okra
Squash
Turnips
Beets
Chitterlings
Powdered milk
Puffed wheat cereal
Sauerkraut from a can
Spinach from a can
Vienna sausages 
  
  I’m sure there were many others against which I’ve formed a mental block, and therefore cannot easily recall them.
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My mother was an excellent cook. I never hated anything.

Lima beans

None.
Mum was a good cook when she was sober.
When drunk she was unconscious so we went without.

It’s oatmeal.  I hated it when I was a kid.  Even the word oatmeal sounds gross to me.  We should just call it porridge which sounds less gross.  I especially never want to eat it because of a really gross story my husband loves to tell about a time his grandma made a big bowl of oatmeal and fed it to the dog.  Eww.

Goulash
Beets
Meatloaf
Peas and carrots

Green beans. In adulthood, when cooking any recipe that calls for green beans i always substitute peas.