What kind of food did you grow up with?

Pretty standard lower middle class north american food plus lots of asian food because mom is a huge vietnamboo.

Grew up eating traditional Filipino food--Adobo, fried fish, tamarind/vinegar marinated meats--along with meals typical of a middle-class family living out in Maryland. I was a pretty chubby kid cause my diet was mostly McDonald's burgers and fried chicken when I was younger.

We ate out quite a bit too. Mostly ethnic restaurants: Asian, Latin American, Ethiopian. stuff like that.

Beef.

My dad had a bad heart and a family history of dropping dead from heart issues at a young age, so my mom cooked everything low-fat, low cholesterol, and low salt.
We never had red meat, ate lots of chicken breast and "turkey ham" and other horrific turkey based red meat substitutes.
My mother never used butter, and even margarine got booted eventually (she used apple sauce in baking as a substitute). We drank fat-free milk and never had eggs. And it wasn't until I moved away from home that I tasted olive oil.
My mother was not a good cook even without all the self-imposed limitations (she had a bad sense of taste/smell). Everything was bland (no salt). But it was healthy and there was always lots of food.
When I moved out, I started eating shit food and now I'm fat.

I grew up in regional Victoria, Australia.
Whilst most of my friends at typical (read;bland) English-Australian cuisine, I was lucky enough that my father is an insane cook (both very skilled and quite obsessed). So I ate a huge variety of very delicious food. Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Middle eastern, French and German.

Sadly though it has kind of ruined me. Every dish he makes is very rarely surpassed by any restaurant that I go to, which leaves me with much disappointment. I am in the process of learning all of his recipes but it will take some time.

My parents were divorced though, so I spent half the week at each house. The food was much better at my fathers.

Very nice!
I live in a thoroughly vietnamese suburb and eat the stuff all the time.

I love pho and vermicelli but I always keep coming back to the pork chop/broken rice plate.

>that feeling when your chinese born chinese girlfriend can barely cook :(

bland garbage. Literally got excited every time I could eat McDonalds or something, because it had flavor.

Damn dude, if you thought McDonald's has flavor, I wince at the thought of what you had to eat

>When I moved out, I started eating shit food and now I'm fat.

That sucks user, I support you. It's never to late to get healthy. If lived a low fat diet for 18 years you can definitely start eating a healthy diet- just not an extreme like your family had.