[Witchchylde]

Originally Posted by Ava

My mom barely uses salt..

Her food was always so bland.
She used to make "mashed potatoes" and basically heated them up in the microwave, then would smoosh them with a fork and add WATER .... Not milk, not even cream or butter.... WATER.

And they were dry AF and I would have to cover them in ketchup to make them edible...
x.x

When my daughter was little and we wee dependent on WIC and commodities, they would provide s with potato flakes and powdered milk. I would only use the powdered milk with the potato flakes, since it was undrinkable just as reconstituted milk.

I have since learned that dried potato was a staple of Native American food storage, so we were incidentally using the traditions of our ancestors -- my family is Choctaw.