Well, when I was a kid, we had very little. So when it was just us kids in the house, and no food easily accessible; I as the oldest, had to make dinner. This was a bad idea. I had no instruction except for watching my parents cook. So I would find whatever we had in the house and throw it in a pan and cook it. We had corned beef hash with french-fries and onions. All cooked together. It was pretty good with some ketchup. Once I tried to combine some LaChoy ingredients: water chestnut, noodles of some kind, and to add some fresh stuff to it I put in some onions and tomato paste. It was rude. I realized I should have drained the canned stuff first. I thought it needed the moisture. I never made that again. Forgive me I was about 12 of 13 at the time. At one pint we had to live of army issue food rations for a whole week. This may not seem so bad, plenty of variety in those green stamped pouches, however we all found that we broke out in the worse case of acne ever. We all had tons of pimples for days afterwards. I guess they were the greasiest things I have ever ingested. SO I vowed no more government cheese and goulash stew for me. To date, I haven’t had to.
