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Have you ever had spaghetti with chocolate sauce!

I have never had chocolate sauce and spaghetti! However, I grew up with a mother from Germany. She grew up during the war and they did not have lots of food to eat. She was always mindful of not wasting food. When we had extra spaghetti noodles left over, she would sauté some onions in butter and then add the spaghetti noodles and break a few eggs into the noodles and cook until the eggs were cooked and the noodles were warm. We would eat the noodles with applesauce, canned pears or canned peaches. It really tasted very good. Try it some time when you have leftover spaghetti noodles!
 
EvelynD2 said:
I have never had chocolate sauce and spaghetti! However, I grew up with a mother from Germany. She grew up during the war and they did not have lots of food to eat. She was always mindful of not wasting food. When we had extra spaghetti noodles left over, she would sauté some onions in butter and then add the spaghetti noodles and break a few eggs into the noodles and cook until the eggs were cooked and the noodles were warm. We would eat the noodles with applesauce, canned pears or canned peaches. It really tasted very good. Try it some time when you have leftover spaghetti noodles!
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My Latvian mother was in her 30's during the war and like your mother did not waste food because it was so scarce. That stayed with her until the day she died. My parents emigrated to Australia after the war and while she was a good cook, she certainly didn't waste anything and I remember as kids, that my sister and brothers were all expected to eat whatever was put in front of us, and of course we were never allowed to waste any of it! Some of the concoctions with leftovers were okay but some of them were terrible! lol!
 
wombat146 said:
My Latvian mother was in her 30's during the war and like your mother did not waste food because it was so scarce. That stayed with her until the day she died. My parents emigrated to Australia after the war and while she was a good cook, she certainly didn't waste anything and I remember as kids, that my sister and brothers were all expected to eat whatever was put in front of us, and of course we were never allowed to waste any of it! Some of the concoctions with leftovers were okay but some of them were terrible! lol!
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Your mother sound a lot like mine. We had to eat what was on our plate. I hate to waste food too but I didn't make my kids clean their plates as I knew what that was like from my childhood!
 
I've tried chicken with chocolate sauce... they call it mole in Mexico... it's rather tasty... well, a bit of chocolate and a lot of chili is tasty... so I don't see why instead of rice you can't pour it on pasta... might be a bit too hot for you, though...
 
EvelynD2 said:
Your mother sound a lot like mine. We had to eat what was on our plate. I hate to waste food too but I didn't make my kids clean their plates as I knew what that was like from my childhood!
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Oh same here!!! They always had to 'try' the food if was something new or different. My daughter used to hate tinned corn, my youngest son hated mushrooms, my elder son wouldn't eat mashed potato and son #3 ate everything put in front of him. :giggle4: So that wasn't too hard to manage on the cooking side of things. They certainly didn't get any dessert, on the nights we had it, if they didn't finish their dinner though! lol!
 
scrap-genie said:
Oh, dear. Wait till Chris @faerywings see this. :hiding2:
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I debated back and forth whether I was going to click on this post. I got burned by this one: Philosophy
But I saw the notification that I was mentioned here so I did. :rotfl:
Buddy the O' Elf said:
Oh, great! It will be wonderful to find someone else that loves spaghetti with chocolate sauce!:heartpumpred::chocolate::ilovechocolate:
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I have never had spaghetti with chocolate sauce, but I would take that over spaghetti with ketchup ANY DAY!!!
tanteva said:
@Buddy the O' Elf
All I have to say to you is: :ketchup:
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faerywings said:
I have never had spaghetti with chocolate sauce, but I would take that over spaghetti with ketchup ANY DAY!!!
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wombat146 said:
Oh same here!!! They always had to 'try' the food if was something new or different. My daughter used to hate tinned corn, my youngest son hated mushrooms, my elder son wouldn't eat mashed potato and son #3 ate everything put in front of him. :giggle4: So that wasn't too hard to manage on the cooking side of things. They certainly didn't get any dessert, on the nights we had it, if they didn't finish their dinner though! lol!
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I was the same way. No dessert if you didn't finish your dinner. If they said they were full I also told then that meant they were too full for dessert. One funny story was when we had casserole for dinner. Our son was five and he wanted to say the prayer before we ate. Here was his prayer "Dear Lord, I know this doesn't look good but it tastes good"! That prayer still cracks me up!
 
@Buddy the O' Elf

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Maybe you've spent too much time in the gluing dept of the elve's shop???
EvelynD2 said:
Your mother sound a lot like mine. We had to eat what was on our plate. I hate to waste food too but I didn't make my kids clean their plates as I knew what that was like from my childhood!
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One of the most difficult things for us upon returning to the States from the field was the amount of food available. Honduras is a very poor nation, and Mexico is 3rd world. They don't waste-we've seen houses built from palletts and bottlecaps (metal) then the stucco added. So our first thanksgiving back here was a bit too much to handle. We STILL do not discard food without a protest. The younger adults in the fam throw away leftovers, and don't take the remainder of their meals at restaurants home. They don't understand how much they have. We are trying to teach our grandchildren about gratefulness, but suffering seems to incite that, so they may have to learn it another way.
 
Amandajk said:
@Buddy the O' Elf

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Maybe you've spent too much time in the gluing dept of the elve's shop???

One of the most difficult things for us upon returning to the States from the field was the amount of food available. Honduras is a very poor nation, and Mexico is 3rd world. They don't waste-we've seen houses built from palletts and bottlecaps (metal) then the stucco added. So our first thanksgiving back here was a bit too much to handle. We STILL do not discard food without a protest. The younger adults in the fam throw away leftovers, and don't take the remainder of their meals at restaurants home. They don't understand how much they have. We are trying to teach our grandchildren about gratefulness, but suffering seems to incite that, so they may have to learn it another way.
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You are so right! Going without does make you more thankful for what you have. You have seen poverty first hand and know that many people have it so much worse than we do. We all learn from our hardships. I am so glad you are teaching your grandchildren about thankfulness. Many kids today want to start out their adult life with what their parents had but it took their parents years to get where they are.The first home Tod and I owned only had a wood stove to heat with. Kyla was born while we lived at that house. Tod would get up in the middle of the night to put wood on the stove to keep her warm. When we went away for Christmas, we came back and it was so cold in the house you could see your breath. We had a well and then the pump broke so we had to have water hauled to us and put in a cistern. It sure made me appreciate what we have now. God has blessed us so much and we are grateful.
 
I never had spaghetti with chocolate sauce, but i tried this once, but i didn't like it at all...
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my grandparents were born in northern italy and we only ever had pasta with red sauce or in soup so can't say i ever thought about putting choc sauce on it - i'll file it under food for thought but i don't really feel like i've been missing out though, i feel like having them separately is just as good if not better - maybe elves have different nutritional requirements...
 
bellbird said:
my grandparents were born in northern italy and we only ever had pasta with red sauce or in soup so can't say i ever thought about putting choc sauce on it - i'll file it under food for thought but i don't really feel like i've been missing out though, i feel like having them separately is just as good if not better - maybe elves have different nutritional requirements...
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My Very Italian Parents and Grandparents would be *horrified* at the thought LOL!
 
I would probably love it, therin and- therein lies the problem. I'm trying to lose weight before I go to Key West & start drinking Key Lime Pie Martinis for breakfast. and on alternate days, French Silk crepes for breakfast.
 
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