What was your childhood diet?

BAGGY

I was born mid 60's to older parents.
Sunday would be a roast (lamb or pork) with lots of veg and pots. This was the only day we had pudding.
Monday qwould be left over meat with bubble and squeak.
Tuesday might also include l/o meat in some form. Sometimes sliced in batter like toad in the hole which i loathed as it disguised the fat.
the reat of the week would be sausage plait, toad in the hole, stews (neck of lamb with bones) liverr and bacon, spag bol (extra long spag that came in a blue waxed paper packet. Bread was in waxed paper then too!). Everything home made. Lots of green veg and very little rice or pasta - you could only get spaghetti or macaroni. Mum did chicken stew with boiled pot for me and dad which she would serve then curry the rest for 2 sisters and her. With white rice. boiled bacon featured heavily as that would last 5 meals or so. Funnily enough I dont remember too much chicken.

floss2

B 1964

We had a fairly good diet - apart from Tate & Lyle golden syrup or treacle on bread now & again!

Roast every weekend - usually lamb, pork or beef, chicken was more expensive then.

An eggy breakfast most days (or ready brek in the winter) - egg bacon fried bread / poached egg on toast / scrambled egg on toast / boiled eggs.

Lots of leftovers meals on Mondays, h/m soup on Tuesdays. Mince & dumplings, stewed steak, lamb casserole.

I remember one meal which was a teatime meal for me & my brothers - a dish of mashed potato, make 3 or 4 hollows in the potato, add a blob of ketchup and break an egg into each hollow - bake in the oven till eggs are set - scrummy!

Also things like spaghetti or beans on toast, with Angel Delight, jelly & custard, bananas & custard or Jamaican Gingerbread, chocolate teacakes, Iced Gems, Penguin or Club biscuits for afters.

Am starving now!

pollyskettle

I was born in the early seventies and brought up primarily by my grandparents as my mother worked full time. My grandmother couldn't cook to save her life, but boy, could she bake! My childhood diet consisted mainly of burnt fish fingers, some vague mince mixture - I was never really sure what was in it, very well cooked roast beef and all the trimmings (including extremely over boiled sprouts, which is still how I love them!), heinz soup, copious amounts of angel delight and some of the most delicious cakes ever! Even my children remember their Great Grandmother as only ever cooking them sausage casserole (packet mix, thank you very much) and angel delight for pudding.

Makes me smile fondly whenever I see it, but it certainly isn't a healthy diet to be following!

OrkneyStar

Grew up in the late 70's, early 80's. We had a reasonably ok diet, mince n tatties, stew, homemade soup, chicken based meals, interspersed with some 'boil in the bag', veg was fresh or tinned but rarely frozen varieties, we often had puddings. Didn't really eat 'foreign' food, eg pizza, curry, pasta (other than tinned) until later in life when sis and I started trying it elsewhere. We did get too many sweeties though. Mum worked part time as a cleaner, dad a bus driver, we were not well off but not poor poor either.

Pink.

I was born in 1963.

My mum wasn't the best baker...a trait I have unfortunately inherited. But boy could she cook! We had 'foreign' food, spaghetti bolognese, boeuf stroganoff etc before any of our friends had ever heard of them.

Mum taught me how to make soup, pies and most of what I cook now. The one thing I couldn't stand the smell of was tripe which she did especially for Dad because none of the rest of us would eat it. The other thing I remember her cooking regularly was tongue. She used a brick, yes a brick, to keep the lid on the pan. I still have no idea why. Fray Bentos pies were a luxury on caravan holidays. She also made something called choco mint mouse which involved lots of messing with gelatine and was to die for and brings back many happy celebratory memories. Sadly we don't have the recipe.

Something she said to me quite often was, 'If you can read, you can cook' which made me try to learn how to cook different things myself.

Thanks Mum.

missymish

DB 1982

My Mum was a full time working single mum and our diet at home consisted of cereal and beans on toast, we were very fortunate to have my Nan who collected us from school each day and because of that we had a great diet. Proper Food. Always made from scratch and although with basic ingredients we were always full and had our five a day even back then.

We hardly had anything sweet, treat night was a friday night when we were allowed to choose 1 treat from the shop and then on a saturday we were allowed a cake from the bakers at the market.

We didnt have much money but I always remember eating well and through my mum and nan I was taught to budget for food from a very young age and I think it is a skill that everyone should have male or female.

The one thing I did hate growing up was liver and bacon night or hearts yuuuuccck I feel that powdery weird texture in my mouth whenever I think of those meals. Needless to say I only ate the potatoes and veg on those nights!

Emm-in-a-pickle

My childhood memories of food (latter 50`s/early 60`s) are in 2 separate categories, Home, and School -
Home: Dad was diabetic, mum was a nurse, and so her menus for the 3 of us centred around dad. Meat/veg stews and roasts, some lovely casseroles (mum worked on the district so was able to nip home and put stuff in a low oven sometimes - she`d have loved a slow cooker!) NEVER puddings or chips.
Pies had thin crusts, scones and fruit pies were barely sweetened. Quite healthy really. Like it or not though, you had to eat it without a fuss. The only exception was breakfast, I just couldn`t eat breakfast! In the end mum gave in and sent me off with a lump of bread to eat on the bus (noble compromise, except that I always binned it!!)

School - lots of mince & mash & soggy cabbage, fish/chips/peas on Fridays, and every day a Pudding. As at home though, you had to eat what you were given, or there was no pud.

VJsmum

floss2 wrote: »

An eggy breakfast most days (or ready brek in the winter) - egg bacon fried bread / poached egg on toast / scrambled egg on toast / boiled eggs.

Ooh Ready Brek - I'd forgotten about that. I wonder if you can still get it?

My mum would cook porridge in an aluminium pan - I am guessing that isn't great. It certainly had a taste that I remember well but have never been able to replicate, I wonder if that was the pan?

mandatory

Born in 1987.

My diet was okay in my earlier years, and I always remember Sundays as having chicken, rice and peas for dinner (Dad is Jamaican and his cooking is just to die for!). It was the snacking that was a problem for me and when my parents split up my mum didn't do much cooking, and it would be cheap food that wasn't necessarily the best nutritionally. Family visits also ended up with my grandparents giving us lots of cakes and sweets. I still go to my dad's house for dinner sometimes but my portions are a lot smaller and I've persuaded him to cook using healthier methods. School lunches were cooked until we moved out of Birmingham, then it was packed lunch and fruit. I used to hate fruit and I'd always find a way of getting rid of my apple! Now I love apples...

plum2002

Born in 1970

I remember lots of fish and seafood we lived overseas next to the sea, hm soup (lettuce was my favourite),beef stroganoff, chili con carne, spag bol, lasagna, Mum made everything from scratch, bread and lots of cakes and puddings (black forest gateaux anyone?) - my favourite dinner was mums cauliflower cheese with prawns and crispy bacon - it's my childrens favourite too.