How many courses at dinner?

Rowan9

My late Auntie Lizzie made the best tattie soup ever, you could march an army on it .Those winds fair whistle around the north-east coast :D:D[/QUOTE]
Quoting JackieO above

I love tattie soup.I'm a north-east coaster but have moved a bit further down the coast now. Still windy! Tattie soup is a meal in itself!

Tonight I had day 3 of carrot and coconut soup and then we both had some HM left over spag bol from freezer and a lovely big salad from Morries. The soup is.....not very nice (new recipe not to be repeated) but I am being stoical and eating it up. I have been stirring a spoon peanut butter and spoon yoghurt into each bowl. DH won't even look at it haha. There is another serving to go and no doubt I will persevere with it tomorrow.

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Being a small, retired, older woman, now widowed, I am trying to wean myself off deserts. My husband was a high energy athlete so deserts were almost always available, we ate our main meal at lunchtime after retirement. My main meal plate is an entree plate and I will eat fruit in between meals as better for digestion. Desert could be eaten after say a salad meal but is now something like blackcurrants with a sprinkle of crumble and some natural yoghurt. Never anything bought or fancy any more

I make lots of soup and generally it becomes my meal at teatime, with a chunk of hm sourdough bread. I like soup as it digests easily and also provides at least three veg a day, I aim for about seven a day, which is achievable for me

I should try for a small soup portion before a salad meal as I am battling a chocoholic sweet tooth after lunch

As a child in a big poor household in the 50s, we had soup as a first course every day, never a desert and we were slim and healthy. Most of us are not slim now but we all remain very healthy

sparrer

wmf wrote: »

The soup is.....not very nice (new recipe not to be repeated) but I am being stoical and eating it up. I have been stirring a spoon peanut butter and spoon yoghurt into each bowl. DH won't even look at it haha. There is another serving to go and no doubt I will persevere with it tomorrow.

Another who was taught never to waste food no matter what it tasted like

Lance_De_Boils

dandy-candy wrote: »

It's brought back memories seeing the comments about eating in the street. My mum thought it was "common" and I never did it until I was probably in my late teens, when I was with a group of mates who all did it so I relaxed the rule!

Currently I attend a college one day a week right next to Covent Garden. We have an hour for lunch but I love looking around the streets and nipping into shops so I have to eat on the go otherwise there wouldn't be time. Normally it's a sandwich, but this week I had a little packet of carrot sticks with houmous. I did get quite a few looks but I couldn't really give a fig. There are a lot worse things people do in public nowadays than eat their lunch as the walk along!

As teenagers me and my mate knew it was common to eat in the street.
So, we would get a portion of chow mein and two forks. We would then scoff it in the phone box. We had in house entertainment provided by dial a disc.
Even then we were moneysavers. We would use a lolly stick to press into the coin slot instead of money.
Out local newsagent was mindful of people being on a tight budget. He would sell five fags in a paper bag to us.
Ah, the Jean Genie. Happy days.

lillibet_dripping

Another one brought up on 'no eating in the street'. I still abide by my grandma's rule of not hanging the washing out on a Sunday. Also, no lawnmowers, hammering and banging before 10.00 a.m. on a Sunday. You also never telephoned someone before 9 a.m or after 9 p.m.
At a push, I might eat a salt 'n vinegar bag of chips sitting on the seawall on a warm summer evening or an ice-cream at a country fair but no scoffing sausage rolls walking down the High Street!!!

schmouse

Sorry, eating in the street is common.

Justamum

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

I still abide by my grandma's rule of not hanging the washing out on a Sunday.

My mum told me it was always considered 'common' to hang your washing out on a Sunday. If it's a nice day I'll hang it out no matter what. I've been known to hang it out on Christmas Day before now! My mum will hang washing out on a Sunday now too.

I agree about eating in the street though - dead common

katkin

We always had 2 or 3 courses when I was growing up. Mostly a thinner vegetable based soup to start. Portion sizes were definitely smaller though so there was plenty tummy room for extra courses. Puddings were mostly fruit based - so when I think about at least our 5 a day was well covered. There was always loads of veg in the main dish too - home grown too.

Now I mainly do a main course and only on special occasions a pudding is done. Though I do enjoy a soup and pudding night which seams like a treat.

I'm all for a picnic outdoors but mainly we enjoy that in rural settings or the coast. There really isn't anything as enjoyable as fish suppers on the beach though! I quite like a picnic packed lunch too, where I find somewhere nice to sit and can watch the world go by. Technically that would include eating in the street or town square or something like that in public. For me it feels ok if I have a nice lunch in a box packed with a little napkin etc.

Eating outdoors is lovely, it doesn't all have to be about scoffing a sausage roll or burger when walking down the street..

Lance_De_Boils

I don't think eating in the street is common. It is something my friends and I enjoy when we go to Camden market, Borough market etc. Those street chefs wouldn't make much of a living if people thought it was frightfully common to be seen outside with food in one's cakehole.

Talking of portion sizes I was recently asking Mother if leg of lambs were bigger back in the day. We had roast lamb Sunday. Cold lamb and mash Monday. Shepherds pie made with lamb on Wednesday. And stew with veg and pearl barley with the boiled up lamb bone on Thursday.
According to Mother legs of lamb were not bigger. We just had less of it at mealtimes. More like a garnish, she said.

katkin

I'm now reminiscing about street food in Thailand, Morocco and Japan. Street eating seems to be a cultural thing. In the right place at the right time it's perfect. Thai street food must be one of the very best in the world.