I grew up eating home cooked meals from a stay at home mom, and back in the 80's before food was full of weird chemicals. Most modern "food" tastes weird to me, so I cook healthy expensive foods from whole foods or farmers markets and low and behold, tastes just like what I remember from when I was a kid. And I noticed a long time ago that the amount of carbs I was used to on the plate was wayyyyyy less than you find nowadays. I'm very lucky that my mom didn't allow junk food in the house until I was a teenager, and even then it was only in very small amounts. Never got addicted to cokes either, I remember those as being a treat whenever we were eating out at a restaurant as a family. But this was in the good old days before free refills were a thing, had to learn to drink your coke slowly because you weren't getting anymore (without paying that is, and moms was frugal!) At the time I was a little miffed that most other kids had parents that let them have junk all the time. But as an adult I'm very grateful for the habits it instilled into me.