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[frugalsar]

Does anyone remember APPEAL it was an orange power drink and was scrummy!

we were really poor my mum was a single parent in the 70's so we had loads of budget food, pancakes all the time (i still love them and she now makes them for my kids who love em!) squares of jelly, home made crisps, egg flip flops! home made potato cakes, bread and marg, or salad cream! corned beef hash yum, 10p raiders or 5p pickled onion thingys! we used to get a mars between us and cut it into slices and eat it slowly to make it last!

I remember when I had to have a tooth out and as a treat my mum bought choclate buttons from the market so she could melt them for me to lick off the spoon but they were so cheap they melted into a big hard blob and went unedible - oh how i cried! and when the hamper came in early december ready for christmas we used to unpack everythingand put it into piles and pick a treat for that day!

oh also used to have 50p on my mums pay day and go into the sweet shop after school and get sweets ouut of the big jars, they would wiegh them out to 10p for you!

Oh I've got to go and give my lovely mum a big hug now!

[LOOYATES]

Oh what are you like i had forgotton about that, it was like rise and shine that was similar, remember strawberry sweetheart? it was thick pudding like angel delight only it has pieces in, oh and nutty bars? fudge bars with peanuts on deevine!!!!! ah the good old days when golfball chewies were the size of golfballs!!!!

[Newgirl]

Oh, what a fab thread...let me see...

- long-forgotten food and sweets: pacers
Dundee biscuits - no-one ever remembers these but I do!
Nutty bars
Grandad making grilled cheese and having it with bread for lunch
milk roll bread - round, ridged so you could slice it
Grandma's hot pot and broth - and her fab pea soup
Mellow birds coffee
Ringos crisps - not the same when they changed
Boiled onions or cauliflower cheese with bread and butter
Caramac bars
Chocolate sponge pudding with pink custard
Little boxes of packet soup - which no-one else remembers, who knows what they were called...?

- Only having a black and white telly and Grandparents watching snooker ( and having to listen to Grandad call out what was happening on the snooker cos Grandma went blind)

- Sneaking down the garden an eating peas straight from the pod

- Always having a tortoise as a pet

- Sleeping at grandma's on a saturday night and sleeping on the camp bed - and always having to have a certain sheet and blanket cos I liked the pattern!

- Spending all my pocket money on collecting scented ink cartridges and scented erasers

- Pfennings powders when you had a temperature or cold

- Grandad putting TCP on for EVERYTHING

- Getting a Lucky Bag on a Saturday

- Coke in glass bottles (the first time around) and collecting tokens to get some glasses.

- Getting our first duvets from the pot fair - before that, waffle blankets and flanelette sheets

- Mum buying nylon covers for her old three piece suite

- making toast on a fork over the gas ring or fire

- Playing with a tennis ball in the leg off a pair of tights - you stood with your back the garage wall and bounce it to either side/over your head/between your legs (and annoyed the neighbours)

- Going to the chippy on a Friday night and getting three chips on a fork for free while we waited... or taking your own bowl to get pea-wet - chips and peas! (well they used to charge for trays!)

- Soap and sugar on your knee when you fell - grated green fairy soap with sugar, on a piece of white cotton, held on with a plaster - drew all the dirt and grit out and made your scrape go all slimy -

- electronic game for the telly which only had tennis and squash - brilliant at the time

- A doll my Grandma made, from fabric scraps, it had two head-ends and different outfits, you flipped it over and the skirt hid the other dolly.

- Telly that didn't go on all day and Suzy the test card

- Half day closing in our town

- A perfume from Avon - Ariadne I think

- The debate when Culture Club had their first single - was Boy George a boy?

- Picking chickweed and dandilions for my rabbit

- Mum drinking Lift lemon tea - yuck

- Going out 'for days' rather than holiday - many a happy day spent on Ainsdale beach near Southport



Oh, I could go on for hours...

Newgirl

[borderlakland]

NewGirl I'd forgotton the uproar/debates about boy george, my dad was disturbed to say the least.
i also remember getting duvets for the 1st time we felt soo posh.

one smell that always takes me back is savlon cream.at school our infant teacher called it magic cream. any knock,bump graze etc and you would go to her for some magic cream.it worked everytime.it still works for my kids and my neices.(no need for accident books then)

no shops open on a sunday or on bank holiday(no one to my knowledge starved )

going to the cinema during school hols and having a short film(winnie the pooh or similar) before the main disney film.Mum disowning me and sis for howling all the way through a lassie film.

opening xmas pressies from a pillow case all huddled up together in mum and dads bed.

[pounds_and_pensive]

I think the little boxes of soup were Chef Square Shaped Soup. The line on the commercial was a kind of tongue-twister that went something like 'Chef Square Shaped Soups Show How A Good Soup Should Taste'. I'd forgotten about it until just reading about them, but how sad is it that I can dredge THAT up from my memory. No wonder I can never remember anything useful

[madoldbat]

Just found this thread and wasted a very happy 30 mins reading and remembering.
Friday night smoked haddok oached in milk Oh! the smell.I still dont eat fish.
Tined beans all kinds,tinned carrots,tinned peas yuk!
Beans on toast for tea yuk!
Braised sausage in thin onion gravy not saying what sausages resembled yuk!
Braides liver all grey yuk!
Bread butter/marg and golden syrup yuk double yuk!
Warm milk with sugar and bread broken into lumps this was called Pobs yuk,yuk and yuk!
Now for the nice
Beef stew and dumplings mmmmmmmmm
white bread and raw onion sandwich
Seabrook cheese and onion crisps,Astec bars,chocolate worlygigs,kayli,spanish (hard licorice to dip in kayli)
Grans 20 min cake,apple pie,rubarb pie porridge with sugar and milk.
School dinners,school milk,cabbage,coliflower,sprouts,swead.
At Auntys house salad, pickled onions fresh fruit salad.
Flying saucers,lucky bags.
Walking to school 1p to spend on either a corrot,apple or peanuts.

Took me years to find out veg tasted nice fresh or frozen,still dont eat tinned veg.I make sure all my meat is the correct colour and sauce and gravy is thicker than water.Had so little fresh fruit and veg any chance it came my way it was wolfed down.
Mum worked full time so meals were quick,cheap and easy as poss for the late 60s.

Sure others have found once started on remembering they like me could do another full post.Oh! dear I remember.........................................

[johanne]

I think i might be the baby here as i was born in 1985! But this thread is fab and reminded me of:

-Bunty magazine and being allowed to "progress" to smash hits when i was old enough

-Artic roll and Cheese pie for dinner in school

-Milk and biscuits or a slice of apple in infant school and then when i was top year juniors any spare milk from the infants was sent to our class at the end of the day and the teacher would give the "best behaved kids" that day the milk!

-My mum pickling her own pickled onions

-the lemonade man and his GREEN cream soda!! Modern clear stuff just doesnt taste the same... and it was 10p back for each bottle u returned in my day

- The cake my nan used to make which we had EVERY saturday.. was suppposed to be sponge but it was soooo stodgy and heavy and about and inch/inch and a half high, lobsided and a funny orange colour.. but we loved it anyway! We had it every week until she got too frail a few years ago to bake herself when she would buy (or get us to on our way to hers) a sponge cake and jam tarts for my little bro..!! It was never the same though as the orange stodgy cake and i DO miss my saturday afternoon tea and cake!

- Nan and grandad taking us to sainsburys with them if we stayed over (which i thought was really posh as we shopped in the Kwiky! ) and her buying us these little bottle of BANANA flavoured lemonade and cherryade too.. used to love them but not seem them since!

- Banana butties before bed when i stayed at nans "too help us sleep"

- Nan also used to buy this icecream type thing from sainsburys or M&S but it wasnt icecream it was more like cream or dream topping?! I THINK it was called "softwhip" and came in a white tub with orange and blue writing on. Had that with our tinned fruit for afters and ive NEVER found it in the shops since

- Animal Bars and opal fruits... NOT 99cal dairy milks and starburst like they are called now Oh and 10p mixes.. with about 20 sweets in!

-Going to woolworths with my other nanna and buying pic and mix as a treat always ensuring we had coconut mushrooms.. but not for us for nanna cos she loved them and would always pinch them all! Oooh and in that pick and mix you used to get chocolate in little foil cake cases in bright colours!

- Mojos, fruit salads and black jacks all costing a penny each!

- Getting a box of "mishapes" chocolates every week as a "treat" for being good when we went shopping in the kwik save. Bought a bag of these recently and its just not the same as the lovely purple box they used to come in and i think i was posh for having a "whole box of chocolates just for me!"

- Having a commadore 64 and thinking it was sooo cool! Oh and a sega mega drive!

- Grot bag, poddington peas and the shoe people on the tv!

- Making "dens" with my friends out of chairs and a sheet and playing out for hours in the street in the summer holidays inventing our own games and practising "survival" with my first BEST mate Danny... always remember building a little fire in a drinks can to make a stove to cook on and us having "rations" we nicked from our mums kitchens etc. Remember striping our faces with camoflague paint and crawling through the grass together spying on people and making "booby traps" and "camp gadgets" etc and thinking it was really cool he had a penknife we used on twigs and string etc..... All the girls thought i was weird for wanting to get dirty and stuff with him but i loved every minute. Hes now a marine so i guess it was all good practise!! (Oh and im a scout leader! )


- Danny being the only kid allowed to play with me for 2 weeks when i got chicken pox cos his mum wanted him to catch it and "get it over with" He never did!

- being told we were having "s**t with the dirt picked out" if we badgered people with "whats for tea?" also heard the "there and back to see how far is it" and "its not fair" was always followed by "and neithers john barnes bum!" Very PC!! lol

- Sausage and Chips every saturday night from the chippy except on a birthday when the birthday girl (was only me and sis at the time) got a "meal" as in sweet and sour or something which was always a treat!!! Wed all sit and eat it while watching Noel Edmunds house party.

- Making sugar mice and coconut ice in school for mothers day presents for our mums! Bet jamie oliver wouldnt allow that now!

- Clackers - so dangerous on your fingers! I think i was banned from having them?!

- Nafnaf clothing as someone said! I had a cerise pink nafnaf jumper mum bought me from the charity shop and i thought i was sooo cool!

- Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles first time round!

- Them big clips you wore in your head like a crocdile clip with fake "feather" type things attached that made the clip like a big pom pom!


Oh i hope my little one in my tummy gets to have half as much fun as i did as a kid... the world seems to have lost all innocence now and kids dont get to be kids for long enough!!!

[Winsome]

Originally Posted by Newgirl

Little boxes of packet soup - which no-one else remembers, who knows what they were called...?

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I remember those! weren't they made by Cross and Blackwell?

[Iguana]

'Bread and pullit' and 'Bread and scratchit' when you ask what was for tea!

Taking bottles back to the shop for the depsoit!

[Iguana]

Originally Posted by johanne

I think i might be the baby here as i was born in 1985! But this thread is fab and reminded me of:

-Bunty magazine and being allowed to "progress" to smash hits when i was old enough
-My mum pickling her own pickled onions

- Animal Bars and opal fruits... NOT 99cal dairy milks and starburst like they are called now Oh and 10p mixes.. with about 20 sweets in!

Clackers - so dangerous on your fingers! I think i was banned from having them?!

Oh i hope my little one in my tummy gets to have half as much fun as i did as a kid... the world seems to have lost all innocence now and kids dont get to be kids for long enough!!!

My nan's pickled onions!
Clackers, mine came form the Sun!
Bunty - with the cut out paper doll on the back of the comic!

[susank]

Brown sugar sandwiches! - not much wonder I have a mouth full of fillings to-day!!

[rosieben]

Originally Posted by Iguana

... Bunty - with the cut out paper doll on the back of the comic!

oooh, that reminded me - I had a huge buscuit tin full of cut out dolls and outfits. My mum worked in a nursing home and one of the old ladies used to give her a weekly or monthly magazine, bit like Woman and Home. Had the childrens page wtih stories of the Robin family???? I used to get it when mum had finished with it and loved cutting out the dolls from each one.

anyone else remember it?

[Winsome]

we used to have those paper cut out dolls when we were on holiday at my grandpa's..... other things I remember from being on holiday (always at Grandpa's house) is watching the Banana Splits on TV, bouncing on a bouncy Castle near the beach, Grandpa's beach hut - sitting in front of it shivvering in the wind while mum made a cup of tea on a camping stove, having to have tar removed from our feet and legs with a blob of butter..... paddling in rockpools and trying to catch things with those cheapie shrimping nets that always fell apart.

[chinagirl]

Originally Posted by livinginhope

This thread has got me thinking back,I remember the bread and butter at dinner (well marg because we were poor )
)
I too remeber the Corona man,cherryade and cream soda mmmmmm!
LIH

" Every bubble's passed its fizzical"

[Spirit]

What a wonderful thread. Sorry I can't help but join in.

Dad worked as a sprayer in car factories in the Midlands (remember when we had a manufacturing economy - Rover,British Leyland, Jaguar) and for some reason was given milk at work. He would bring the leftover milk home - open bottles re-sealed with masking tape. Yuk!

Living in a back-to-back house with a shared outside toilet (with squares of newspaper hanging on string - aargh) and washhouse.

• A snack was a piece (a slice of bread & butter)
• A treat was a piece dipped in sugar
• My baby brother having a bottle with milky tea in it.
• Orange syrup from the baby clinic

Going up in the world when I was 5 moving to an overspill town and mum and dad buying a house with its own bathroom and a downstairs loo. Buying a house was not easy then (is it really harder now?)

• My dad had 3 jobs. Factory Monday to Friday, all day Saturday in a garage, Sunday morning another garage. The smell of acetone/spray paint reminds me of my dad.
• I slept top-to-toe in a single bed with my sister and we would have coats on the bed as an extra layer of blankets.

Apart from Christmas - Turkey, ham and pork, I do not think joints of meat featured much. I can only remember eating minced meat stew or scrag end of lamb stew,bacon hocks, bacon, sausages or egg and chips.I can once remember my mum serving up rabbit and hurling it in the bin as we children had cried about the bunny.

Family from Ireland would bring over white pudding and 'corned beef' - I'd like to say it was delicious but it was vile.

No babysitters - so going to a catholic club with my parents on Saturday nights, we kids playing and drinking vimto, eating vinegary seafood from little white bags and dancing to a live band.The grown ups getting falling over drunk and then driving us home! These must have been the good old days.

Little bottles of (warm) milk at school. It used to make me throw up but it took a while before I was excused drinking it.

[wannabe_a_mum]

Originally Posted by sonee2405

jawbreakers!- there used to be 3 in a pack and they were enormous-differnet flavours aswell .I remember the fiery flavoured we used to stick them in our mouths and then when it got to fiery to cope with we used to wash the jawbreaker under the tap and suck on them again.
I also remember waking up early while my parents had a lie in to watch heidi and worzul gummidge and supergran I loved those programs must have been about 5 years old(im 26) and can also remember button moon and vaguely another program called lauras back garden, also loved watching the art program by tony hart and getting all excited over the chronicles of narnia but having to hide behind the sofa when aslan the lion used to appear.There was soemthing else aswell called mr mageeka on itv and another program about a witch who used to go to school on bbc1 but can't remember the name at all.
Any girls remember the "wake up daddy breakfast ready" ad with the little girl pushing a red&yellow breakfast trolley/kitchen thing around i always wnated one of those and when i finally did then ... well dad was a night shift worker but i used to wake him up every morning with a few cold beans on a yellow saucer.
bit older and i remember the yoyo craze with the coca cola and 7up logos -you were trendy at school if you had one also remember owning my first ever pack of colour changing feltips and boasting about them in class 4 and off course the colour changing t shirts which c&a first had which were pink but if you blew on them they changed to orange i had the t shirt with a pair of joe bloggs jeans which were the kind that either had a green bit on the bum or a red(mine were red)

Simon and the Witch.......and I remember trying to copy the dance that she and Simon did in the closing credits!!!!

[LOOYATES]

china girl was it not cresta....frothy man

[johanne]

does anyone else remember "playdays" every day with different but stops each day...my fave was the "why bird stop" with peggy patch etc and the worst and most boring was "dotty lady" stop with all the dominos things.

[Iguana]

Originally Posted by Spirit

What a wonderful thread. Sorry I can't help but join in.

• My baby brother having a bottle with milky tea in it.
• Orange syrup from the baby clinic

Little bottles of (warm) milk at school. It used to make me throw up but it took a while before I was excused drinking it.

Do people still give babies bottles with tea?
Do you remember rosehip syrup and Farley's rusks? We used to steal the rusks!

[SPARKY16]

I remember rosehip syrup and Farley's rusks?
I still buy Farleys rusks now they are not very high in calories so fit in great with my diet lol they take a lot longer to eat than a biscuit