Well, having grown up eating great food from my mom and my gourmet aunt, who grew most of her veggies all year long back in the 50"s - 60's I had some great food. My mom made excellent jello salads, a few of them I will still make to this day when the craving strikes me. Sad to say, they do not taste the same because ingredients today are not the same as they were back then. Del Monte green beans were a heck of a lot better, so was milk, cream, orange juice. Most stores did not have the availability of fresh produce we have now. Our family was fortunate in that between my aunt and grandfather, we ate fresh produce, had fresh eggs, chicken,rabbit, and fish all the time. When I married in 1963, jello salads were still the rage, and I loved them. They consisted of fresh veggies, shrimp, cream cheese, mandarin oranges, avocado, that sort of thing. I only remember mom using lime jello and my favorite was the one with grated onions, cream cheese, a can of mandarin oranges and grapefruit segments ( you can't get that anymore) and maybe celery.
My grandparents came here from the Azores and grandma made a pot of dried beans everyday because grandpa insisted on having his beans. They were delicious although I grew tired of having them everyday. Grandma made the best chicken soup I have ever tasted and I learned when I got older that she kept a bottle of white wine hidden in a cabinet and added it to the soup when no one was looking. I feel fortunate that I did not grow up on fast food, like so many kids today do. So even though we ate Del Monte green beans, jello salads, meat loaf, and lots of casseroles, we were always very healthy, no one was overweight or even had that problem. I can imagine that 50 years from now, folks will look back on what we are eating and groan.