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typical weekly menus in 1960

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  • I don't really like fish to be honest either - yes it was the undercover 'permanent' market after the outside one went (not the one on Freeman Street). I worked on a cheese and bacon stall for 4 years whilst at school with a fish stall on 2 sides of me (yuck!).

    The best beef dripping came from a butchers just on the edge of the town centre, possibly called Pettits. I loved the jelly on bread but was never keen on the white bit.
    :D"Stay Wonky":D

    :j:jBecome Mrs Pepe 9 October 2012 :j:j
  • nursemolly
    nursemolly Posts: 1,144 Forumite
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    found this thread so absorbing.....also being a 1963`er
    brings back so many memories.
    i do remember having a curry on a saturday dinnertime always at one oclock...
    the curry always had sultanas in it.......
    we only had butter at christmas otherwise it was margarine.
    the meals were so stodgy full of suet pastry and the like..but soo yummy.
    dripping on bread on a monday.....me and brother would each fight over the jelly bit at the bottom of the bowl...
    but i do remember the weekly shopping trip.
    we didn`t have a car so me, my mum and brother would catch a bus to the city each dragging a shopping trolley (like a little lidded tartan bag on wheels) ..god i hated fridays..so embarrasing.
    i remember going to bejams..a big frozen store like iceland... were they a national shopping chain???
    oohhh happy days.
  • Petitts is still there, my Mum still buys more or less the same order as in 40 years ago. She has never eaten pasta or rice ( apart from rice pudding). I never know what to feed her on her visits. Maybe I could post a thread when she is imminent for help.

    Keren remember Appelby's ice cream??
  • oooooooh, Appleby's.............yummy.........it used to be a real treat to go to Conningsby ( I think) when I was 8 or 9 to their main shop/factory. Ice cream to die for and I don't remember it being available in the shops. I could never quite understand the link between the ice cream and the coach company of the same name!

    My parents may live near your Mum then - they are on Cromwell Rd.

    Liver in the 70s always had the nasty little 'tube' bits in it, you don't seem to see this very much now.

    My Dad was (and still is) a milkman and we always had a house full of very brightly coloured bottles of pop and cordial. I dread to think about the E numbers in a bottle of 1970s orange cordial or cherryade - it was so bright it was unbelievable! I think tastes have also changed - he used to sell loads of Gold Top (Channel islands milk) in the 70s with the cream at the top but I don't think he sells any now, he said nobody wants it anymore.

    Remember the little bottles of milk at school with a straw to push through the foil?? Warm in the summer........bleurgh........although I was a goody goody and I was milk monitor!
    :D"Stay Wonky":D

    :j:jBecome Mrs Pepe 9 October 2012 :j:j
  • We didn't have a cooked dinner in the evenings when I was little, because we had to suffer school dinners _pale_ and that was considered our 'proper' meal of the day. We always had a cooked breakfast though, eggs of some sort, sometimes bacon as well. We were only allowed cereal at weekends (don't ask me why :rotfl: ). We had 'tea' at 5.00, it was sandwiches and a cake with a drink of milk. In school holidays we had a cooked lunch, we had the usual suspects, cold meat and potatoes on Monday and a casserole on Wednesday but Mum used to ring the changes for the other days as she'd been brought up with a rigid menu and was desperate not to fall into the same habit.

    Vesta curries were a treat only for Mum and Dad (some treat!), and Dad also had the occasional kipper for dinner on a Saturday. Apart from sausages and fish fingers all our meals were made from scratch, and we also usually had pudding afterwards. Mum at 81 still insists on pudding and custard after her cooked lunch! Old habits die hard I suppose.

    We were only allowed fizzy drinks and crisps at Christmas, the rest of the year we drank milk, water or the occasional glass of very weak squash. We didn't eat between meals at all, except for the odd apple.

    Being brought up like that seemed very strange to some of my friends but now I'm grateful to my parents - living OS style has come naturally to me, I have cooked from scratch for all 30 years of my marriage and although some days I'm really tempted to pick up a box of ready made curry from the supermarket, I never do.
  • wendy+5
    wendy+5 Posts: 342 Forumite
    We were never allowed Vesta curries either. Or steak - that was a special treat for my dad, although having watched my mum cook it in the oven til it came out like leather I'm very glad!

    I remember coming home for dinner at lunch times which looking back now seems strange as we had free school dinners. Am I the only one who liked them?!
    I don't remember many meals apart from egg and HM chips and roasts. The veg was cooked for EVER! You could suck it up through a straw! sick.gif

    Yet my mum always comments on how nice it is to have crunchy veg:confused:

    Anyone else remember going to buy pink parafin?

    I remember going swimming on Saturday mornings. After paying 15p to get in, we would buy a hot chocolate from the vending maching and then on the way home buy a bag of chips and still have change from 50p!!!! :rotfl:
  • Mum is on Clark Ave now, just off Cromwell Rd. All this has really cheered me up this afternoon and got lots of work done too. I love OS
  • crockpot
    crockpot Posts: 631 Forumite
    I am a 70`s child, but thia thread has brought much back to me.

    Like the idea of a roast on sunday, lasting for mon and tues tea as well.

    Maybe we should bring back Sunday lunch for all?

    But to last all week, did they buy more meat? or eat less? Bet it was eat less.
  • boo81
    boo81 Posts: 654 Forumite
    Well even though I was an 80's child we still had certain staples. At grandmas we always had roast beef on a sunday and other favorites were grandma meat pie (made with beef skirt), cornish pasties, fish cooked in milk with bacon bits and duchess potatoes, shepherds pie, quiche, and my mind has gone a blank for the rest.

    She cooked suet spotted !!!!!! in a pudding cloth, steamed choc pudding with apricot jam at the bottom, a jelly and evaoprated milk dessert or lent pie. I must have been a strange child as i remember liking all bran, rich tea biscuits and crackerbread at her house and my mum hated her giving me cups of tea. She nearly always had hm cakes which were choc sponge with water icing and cherries on top, or congress tarts or fruit buns.

    At my parents saturdays was always sausage casserole or pie with dad, we used to fry loads of onions and have lashings of mash. Still my favorites!

    During the week we had breaded plaice with parsley sauce one night and we had a starange tradition of beef mince casserole had to be the same night as rice pudding. We also had crisy pancakes or mini kievs were my favorite. Roast was usually pork at home.
    I dont remeber my parents cooking everything because they both worked and they hate me saying that because they say I have a selective memory!
  • floss2
    floss2 Posts: 8,030 Forumite
    Think it was buy less, feed more with smaller portions - but Dad always got the best bits :(
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