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margaretclare

Where I lived, out in the country, there was no processed food at all. My DH had fish-and-chips, living in a town - we didn't even have that. When I was growing up we had 3 ounces of sweets a week, and that involved a 2-mile walk to get them - the family's Saturday afternoon walk.

We've been invited to a church social get-together to visit a bowling alley. I'm told there is food available - when I asked what kind I was told 'burger and chips, chicken and chips, that kind of thing'. So we've turned down the invitation because we don't eat that kind of food.

Any ready-meals, take-aways, foreign food e.g. pizza, tandoori, tortillas, kebabs, those kind of things, none of them were available to your granny, nor to me when I was growing up.

My granny always served Yorkshire Puddings as the first course of a meal, the meat course following, and she would have regarded with horror the frozen ones, added on the plate to a roast dinner. She made her own jam and baked her own bread, so the food she served was not transported huge distances and filled with additives as preservatives.

Eric_Pisch

margaretclare wrote: »

Where I lived, out in the country, there was no processed food at all. My DH had fish-and-chips, living in a town - we didn't even have that. When I was growing up we had 3 ounces of sweets a week, and that involved a 2-mile walk to get them - the family's Saturday afternoon walk.

We've been invited to a church social get-together to visit a bowling alley. I'm told there is food available - when I asked what kind I was told 'burger and chips, chicken and chips, that kind of thing'. So we've turned down the invitation because we don't eat that kind of food.

Any ready-meals, take-aways, foreign food e.g. pizza, tandoori, tortillas, kebabs, those kind of things, none of them were available to your granny, nor to me when I was growing up.

My granny always served Yorkshire Puddings as the first course of a meal, the meat course following, and she would have regarded with horror the frozen ones, added on the plate to a roast dinner. She made her own jam and baked her own bread, so the food she served was not transported huge distances and filled with additives as preservatives.

Fish n Chips, Yorkshire Puddings, Boiled Sweets, Flour, Jam and the sugar in the Jam and Sweets are all processed foods, go back 50,000 years and we would have eaten none of it and we are biologically the same as then

Don't get me wrong I do agree thou its generally a good idea to avoid "over" processed foods and foods with excessive amounts of modifications / additives (tinned salmon in spring water is fine imo thou). Mainly because on the whole they are very energy dense.

Where things are different now to the good old days are two fold, as you pointed out if you wanted something you had to go and get it / make it, now you just jump in a car / taxi / bus / train etc so we move about a fraction of what we used to, but mainly we are surrounded constantly by billions of calories of energy dense food just about every where we go, even the local petrol station has a couple of million calories scattered about it, and even worse its incredibly cheap.

PepPop

Wow Eric you're doing great.

1lb loss for me please Fred :j:j - I can't remember the last time I actually lost something

Hi Mirry

Heatherberry don't beat yourself up and have some virtual hugs. You will get there and you're trying which is what matters.

Off to change my signature :T

victory

In Spain, where I grew up, every year I go back and yes they have massive supermarkets now carrying products from all over the world but the friends I have none of them would ever touch any processed, ready meals, they make it all from scratch, some of them have their own land that they farm veg etc on, there is no way they would go out for a chinese because they say 'they don't know what is in it' all foods are fresh:D and they taste the best, my friends mums chicken noodle soup made with the carcass is the best there is:D

victory

grannynise wrote: »

-3lb please Fred.....

so the rumbly tummy was worth it.

:j:j:j:j:j:j:jalways worth it:D

katiepoppycat

Lets not forget, not everything form the good old days was good - I'm researching 1930s dinner party menus at the mo with the help of Elizabeth Craig's "entertaining made Easy" published in 1933, and . . there's a lot of it that I wouldn't feed to a cat, even one that's just sicked up on the best rug. The chapter on 'holding a valentines themed afternoon bridge party with only one maid' has been most enlightening though.

IT's FASCINATING how some things change and some things don't though - Mrs Craig recommends that for a picnic, where one has to choose between fruit and sweets one ought to choose fruit. She seems strangely obsessed with pimentos though - presumably they were the raspberry vinegar of 1933?

I always say with processed food that there has to be a good reason to buy it - for me it's usually that it's too difficult/timeconsuming/needs too many ingredients to make yourself. So I look with horror at jars of bolognese sauce, but have no qualms at buying an 'authentic' curry sauce or paste.

sorry, food trends and history is a pet topic of mine!

mazza111

I dunno, I'm extremely jealous of all you losers atm Just feels like forever since i actually lost any weight at all. I know, I know over 3 stone in under a year is still pretty good. But still angry with myself for putting 10lbs back on.

Just can't seem to get the kick start that I need. Doing all the right things, even getting a wee bit more exercise. Just that damn vending machine at work. Guess it's time to start leaving my purse at home again.

Eric_Pisch

katiepoppycat wrote: »

Lets not forget, not everything form the good old days was good - I'm researching 1930s dinner party menus at the mo with the help of Elizabeth Craig's "entertaining made Easy" published in 1933, and . . there's a lot of it that I wouldn't feed to a cat, even one that's just sicked up on the best rug. The chapter on 'holding a valentines themed afternoon bridge party with only one maid' has been most enlightening though.

IT's FASCINATING how some things change and some things don't though - Mrs Craig recommends that for a picnic, where one has to choose between fruit and sweets one ought to choose fruit. She seems strangely obsessed with pimentos though - presumably they were the raspberry vinegar of 1933?

I always say with processed food that there has to be a good reason to buy it - for me it's usually that it's too difficult/timeconsuming/needs too many ingredients to make yourself. So I look with horror at jars of bolognese sauce, but have no qualms at buying an 'authentic' curry sauce or paste.

sorry, food trends and history is a pet topic of mine!

you could "bore" me for hours with it :T

beanielou

REporting a STS this week.

heatherberry

mazza111 wrote: »

I dunno, I'm extremely jealous of all you losers atm Just feels like forever since i actually lost any weight at all. I know, I know over 3 stone in under a year is still pretty good. But still angry with myself for putting 10lbs back on.

Just can't seem to get the kick start that I need. Doing all the right things, even getting a wee bit more exercise. Just that damn vending machine at work. Guess it's time to start leaving my purse at home again.

Hugs and empathy Mazza, I know how you feel! Its so tough and disheartening when you don't see the results, but stick with it and it will come. (Hmm, must start listening to my own advice!)

I'm reading all these food history posts with great interest - keep 'em coming guys...

heatherberry x