Those all sound fucking horrible, but for some reason, I find the "meatloaf" most offensive. Probably because I loved my mom's and make mine similarly to hers. Did your mom ever get better at cooking?
Also meatloaf related, I remembered after my parents separated, and my dad tried to make meatloaf one night because we loved our mom's so much, but he coated it with barbecue sauce instead of ketchup, and I was a little shit, so I refused to eat it after having one bite. Looking back, I feel horrible. It wasn't even bad, just different. Poor dads.
My mom was a really good cook, and yeah, of course she made stuff like Hamburger Helper sometimes, but the years that she had main custody of us (it switched a few times), she was also working as a waitress and dealing with alcoholism and, at one point, an abusive boyfriend, so I ain't mad about a little box meal.
My sister, though, she had custody of my brother and I for a year while our dad was MIA and my mom was getting her shit together, and her husband could cook some things okay, but mostly thought he was Top Chef #1, even though most of his food was bland or over-seasoned/try-hard. My sister, though, would make this horrible thing called Tater Tot Casserole, with tater tots, cream of mushroom soup and ground beef. It doesn't sound that bad, now, but at the time I was like wtf. But I also didn't really start cooking until I turned 18, so you know.
Anyway, thanks for reading my blog. I'm gonna go cry.