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bubbs

Maman you will soon start chipping away 😁


LW, if we had cottage pie we always knew pudding with be a pancake with lemon and sugar 😋 only 1 mind. Mum used to make fruit pies, Bakewell tart or such like to have with custard and funnily enough boxing day we laways had roast pork, cauli, pickles etc and pudding was alway rice pudding and a mince pie together, ohhhhh the memories. In the summer sometimes we had tinned fruit and a choc ice , can you still buy choc ices ?
We could never have an ice cream from the ice cream man because they couldn't afford it 😢 I was a deprived child 🤣🤣

Coxy11

I see your half stone and double it @maman!! We will get there. I’m a half pound a week loser so I reckon it’ll be summer before I’m back at target! 

Viennetta was posh - my DDad used to call it Vendetta 🤣

beanielou

I’m about a stone over target too. 

Longwalker

bubbs said:

Maman you will soon start chipping away 😁


LW, if we had cottage pie we always knew pudding with be a pancake with lemon and sugar 😋 only 1 mind. Mum used to make fruit pies, Bakewell tart or such like to have with custard and funnily enough boxing day we laways had roast pork, cauli, pickles etc and pudding was alway rice pudding and a mince pie together, ohhhhh the memories. In the summer sometimes we had tinned fruit and a choc ice , can you still buy choc ices ?
We could never have an ice cream from the ice cream man because they couldn't afford it 😢 I was a deprived child 🤣🤣

I remember going to Bejams and having to buy the " chocolate flavoured coated " choc ices , but as disgusting as they are to our taste buds now - OMG back in the day - bliss 

But then back then, if we were thirsty we turned on the tap and if we were hungry - we had to wait for dinner time 

There was a time, back in the late 70's , we were just so poor, that dinner was a plate of potato bread , just before Thatcher came to power it was, when we were going through considerable shortages of everything - including jobs. We lived on spuds and stodge, more dumpling then stew and god help if you didnt like marrow - we had marrow all through the summer months - no such thing as a courgette back then, but we were never fat. I think perhaps we weren't because we needed the energy from the stodge to keep us warm and mobile. Very few car journeys for kids, we walked to and from school, I did a paper round before school and had a Saturday job , reached by walking and bus 

Im not looking back with rose coloured specs , life was !!!!!! back then, our diets were bland and boring, but as long as we got enough food, we were strong and healthy   We got our school milk ( pre Thatcher ) , school dinners were a proper meal - meat, veg and a carb, and pudding for pennies. My first job in 78 we could get a cooked meal for 8p in the staff canteen , even in the 80's, a main course meal in a staff canteen was only 12 - 15pence . Those places that didnt have staff canteens gave Luncheon Vouchers so you could get a decent meal for little money during the day. So you weren't reaching for snacks , you weren't feeling like you were going to pass out from hunger on the journey home, you could last out till dinner/supper was on the table. Subsidised lunches were part and parcel of working 

Now it's all fast food, instant gratification .  Cereal bars, protein bars, instant pots , meal deals, take aways . I work with 20 year olds who are nibbling at the protein balls at 8am , washing down with Monster, then they put aside a sausage roll or jambon for tea break , then think of nothing of having a pizza or Chinese for dinner/supper   

And I dont think that the 18/ 20 year olds ( some are only 17 ) that I work with are unique. This group have never eaten or tried a third of the foods that I eat. They have very restricted diets , never tried any fish for example , or duck or even spaghetti bolognaise or lamb or couscous or peppers/ mushrooms - just basics

No wonder we have such a "sick" nation   Nutrition really needs to be taken serioulsy 

Coxy11

Oh Bejam’s! That brings back memories of my DDad buying a bulk box of wagon wheels (when they were bigger !!) and stashing them on a high shelf in the garage. Us kids (and pals) used to raid them regularly teehee. 

I’m up early to go to Sainsbobs this morning. DH and I have a meeting to attend at 11am at the community allotment, so I need to be back, unpacked and changed, hence the early start. 

Just having a coffee and an apple with my supplements before I go. 

joedenise

Morning all it's really cold again this morning but at least it isn't raining (or snowing - although we only a a flurry I think Thursday).  Today is the only day forecast to be dry this week!

I think back in the 70s we were all pretty poor but didn't really know it as we were all in the same boat, although us older ones did know we were poor but the kids didn't as we always made sure they had food.  The 50s were far worse, especially the early part when rationing was still in place for some things.  I think I was one of the luckier ones as my DDad had 2 allotments so we always had plenty of veg - the only meat we had was a lamb shoulder on Sunday which became shepherds pie on Monday and stew on Tuesday (which of course was 90% veg) and you were lucky if you had a stringy bit of meat in your dish; we filled up on bread with it!

Anyway let's get back to today:

B - fry up with bacon - P; S; F
L - burger, onions, gherkin slices, soft pitta - HEB; S; 0.5
D - SC chicken curry, rice, mango chutney - P; S; F; 3 (will also have a naan if Iceland have any today!)

HE- milk
HE - soft pitta
HE - naan?
Syns - burger 0.5; mango chutney 3

Have a good day everyone.

Coxy11

Back from Sainsbobs - surprisingly not busy. I didn’t know the store layout so ended up walking every aisle to find things. Some things I couldn’t get due to dates, but can top up during the week. 

Food today:

B - apple, toasted protein bagel thin, light Philadelphia - S, HEB, 1/2 HEA
L - JP, LO veg chilli, satsuma - 1, S
D - Pasta Jon - farfalle, shallots, courgettes, mushrooms, Parma ham, light crème fraiche, Parmesan - free, S, 5?, 1/2 HEA 
HEA - milk
Syns - estimating 1 for the frozen McCain JP and 5 for dinner as will have 2 slices of Parma Ham and 2 tbsps of light crème fraiche = 6

Jellybaby

Well I didn’t make WI this morning. We have snow - that I could probably have driven in - but quite honestly I’ve got too much swirling about my head that I decided to sit in the living room in the dark with my tea instead. 

I know I’ve gained this week, can feel it in anything I wear and definitely see it when I look in the mirror 🙈 so line drawn and fresh start yet again.  I’m supposed to be out for a late lunch and drinks with family later today but thinking I’ll drive if the snow stays off.

Will need to read back but hope you’re all well and swipping away 😁

beanielou

Bejams. There’s a blast from the past. I had a bejams freezer at one point! 

joedenise

beanielou said:

Bejams. There’s a blast from the past. I had a bejams freezer at one point! 

That's where my first ever freezer came from - it lasted years.  They were much better built then I think.

I tried both the Iceland branches on the Island today and neither had the naan breads - disappointed as think they'd have been a nice addition to the curry tonight.  They hadn't even heard of them in the High Street branch!  Will just have to keep trying.