How do your cooking and eating habits as an independent adult differ from those of your childhood family?

foods in my childhood were not as internationalized as they are today. my mom, being a city girl, only knew how to heat up foods that came in a can. We never ate fresh vegetables when I was a kid, so now I can't get enough of them. There also were not many restaurants when I was a kid and I can't get enough of them either. I married a man from the middle east and I cook everything my mama never knew! Spices, olive oil, rice. My mom never even used salt and pepper.