I disliked milk as a child (still do and can only drink lactose free) so my grandma used to give me vanilla ice cream for my calcium. She also let me drink coffee (with a pretty good size pour of milk). I loved going to grandma’s house!
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I like your grandma’s approach. 
Ice cream was my favorite treat (and still is).
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This sure looks like the real thing
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Sterzings potato chips! The only ingredients are potatoes, oil, and salt. I grew up on them and still get cravings. They are wonderful at fish fries with river fish (which tastes way different than lake or pond fish).
They used to only be in stores within about 30ish miles from where they are made. That has expanded a little bit and I can now get them a 3 hour drive from where they are made.
Wise potato chips with french onion dip (made with Lipton’s onion soup mix). Snyder’s potato chips too.
TV Time popcorn. I had a little yellow plastic apron with pockets for the popcorn.
Penny candy from the corner store.
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Loved Cool Whip- I would eat it by the spoonful. I liked Sara Lee pound cake in the frozen section (in a tin loaf pan).
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Cool whip, used to freeze it to half way and eat it like ice cream. Yummy!
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My mom called that “coffee milk”. She’d pour it in a coffee cup for me.
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I loved Spaghetti Os as a kid. I had them with chocolate milk every Saturday. Sometimes I’d switch off and have Chef Boy-ar-dee ravioli. I do think they’ve messed with the original sauce. They’re not as tempting now.
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I can’t do much Cool Whip now - it’s pretty flavorless to me - but it was THE invention back then!
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The Cool Whip talk reminds me of a generational type story.
At our church in a prior town, our women’s circle would always prepare soup and cookies for shut-ins for Valentine’s Day each year (the kids made the Valentines). The women in the older circle always saved up their Cool Whip containers all year long for this event. We (at the time) younger folks would have NO (or maybe just one) Cool Whip container we had saved. They couldn’t figure out why we didn’t have more of them. Because we didn’t use them!! Really hard to convince them to go to the more disposable-type Ziploc containers because they couldn’t see the need. Never mind how much better the lids were, that we could buy sizes that accommodated both singles and couples, and that they stacked much better.
I, too, liked Cool Whip as a kid but agree that it is pretty flavorless now.
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I still buy Cool Whip once in a blue moon but prefer Reddi- Wip.
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Many stores have their own copycat GS cookies (not for all varieties). And Aldi’s is supposed to make a really good version (and of course much much much cheaper). And lest someone lecture me that people should be willing to pay the high price for the real thing, the girls themselves actually gets very little money from each box sold. Much better to buy the copycat version and give the different to the GS in cash for their troop.
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We just bought Girl Scout cookies yesterday at a troop stand at a brewery! 2 Thin mints and 1 lemon one. Support your local Girl Scouts!
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I donated some cash to the GS stand when I saw them outside of a supermarket, my daughter was a GS once, but I’m not buying a box of anything now.
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Same here. DH always gives them some cash, but no cookies, thanks. I could eat a whole box of Samoas by myself. I must avoid the crack.
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As I wrote before, we most recently only bought from the one GS we personally knew, but she’s aged out of GS now. If I have a hankering for GS cookies (which is just about never), I buy the much cheaper clones. I give to other causes.
I have avoided buying GS cookies till last week. When I ordered my coffee online they were selling cookies. I added a box of thin mints to my order. They aren’t my favorite and I will give one sleeve to my husband and one to my son in law.
We didn’t have them often but my favorite snack were Ding-Dongs. It was always a treat when they showed up in the lunch bag. I still remember them wrapped in aluminum foil with lots of small folds as they wrapped a round object with a square piece of foil. Then the cake dipped in chocolate around the cream in the center. Probably loaded with sugar and trans-fat, but hey we didn’t know better!
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I can hear that thin tin foil…. Like locking in the freshness …and the sugar!!