cheap/ healthy snacks

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I suppose the nearest thing we ever had to a snack was a cream cracker with butter, a scrape of jam, and a thin sliver of cheese then another cream cracker put on top like a sandwich.One was more than enough to fill you up.It was usually after Christmas when my late mum wanted to use up any left over cream crackers :):)

mardatha

All the Scots will know and love the famous "jam piece". I still do

Shropshirelass

BTW - Welsh for Gran and Grandad is Nain and Taid. Only know because I used to live next door to Welsh speakers.


OH and I both agree in 40s and 50s, if you were hungry between meals you might get bread and jam (or sugar), possibly dripping from the Sunday roast, but that didn't last long - was certainly gone by Monday. Didn't eat on street, or on public transport. What we now consider snacks, including cake, scones, biscuits, fruit, would be eaten as part of a meal, or in place of pudding.


I think in 60's it started to be a regular thing to have a biscuit with a cup of tea, or at favourite auntie's, to have pop and flapjacks, or a KitKat or Penguin. (That could be why she was favourite!)

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mardatha wrote: »

All the Scots will know and love the famous "jam piece". I still do

ah a Jelly piece much loved by most kids when really hungry :):)

meritaten

yes Shropshirelass, you are correct in that Nain and Taid are the 'proper' Welsh for grandmother and grandfather. Here in the mining valleys though many welsh words have been 'corrupted' and we spoke a mixture of half remembered Welsh and English - lol, now known as Wenglish!
Because when my great grandparents were little Welsh was frowned upon and actually banned from being spoken in school!
you don't hear 'Taid' for grandfather in the valleys. Nan or nana or nanny is how nearly all my contempories referred to their nans. This was usually exclusively reserved for your mums mother, her mother was known as 'Gran'. this is still common now! grandfathers - now they were a different matter! mine and tbh most kids had 'Granchers' some had 'Pops' as in Grandpop.

Gigervamp

Grandad is Bampy in my neck of the woods.

happy35

i grew up in the Valleys in South Wales until I was 12, I had 2 nannies and 1 grancha and 1 grampy. It may depend slightly on where they live as around where I lived most were grancha but my grampy was what my cousins called him as they were older and we just copied. They still lived in the Welsh Valleys but a different part.

Nanna and Granda seem to be the norm where we live now though

Mint1955

A treat snack at grandmas was a weetabix with Nutella. Yes she was considered posh lol

meritaten

Yes a friend of mine had a 'Bampy' too! and I have heard it a few times.

My OH is 'Gar' to the grandkids - that started with oldest grandchild not being able to say Grancher - he starting calling him Gar instead and it stuck!
he wouldn't allow Grampy - said he knows I would use 'Grumpy' instead! and the kids may pick up on it! rofl - he knows me too well!

clairfairy

Hi I have been looking through this forum and been getting some great ideas to cut my shopping bill, I usually spent between £50-£70 a week (depending if partner working, or meals plans for that week) on food for 2 adults and 2 toddlers but I want to get this down to £50 at most.

Our main issue is snacks, my partner does snack through day, I would like to get away from shop bought biscuits, crisps. None of us are big fruit eaters, we have a lot of vegetables for main meals, but if I could sneak fruit into things I could probably get us eating more.

So my question is what do you have in for 'treats'?