typical weekly menus in 1960

To_be_Free

Hi all
Just read though this thread some great posts.
Please find my mums weekly menu for most of the late fifties early sixties until my dad lost his well paid job and had to take a less well paid one and my mum went to work full time as well.
Sunday Breakfast Eggs, bacon and fried bread.
Sunday Dinner Roast chicken and all the trimmings apple/rhubarb pie/cumble and custard, or rice pudding with jam.
Sunday Tea Bubble and squeak or salad in the summer fruit and jelly
Monday to Friday Breakfast was either Cornflakes or Porridge.
Monday dinner chicken hot pot.
Monday to Friday teas were always a sandwich or boiled eggs.
Tuesday dinner chicken soup with veg
Wednesday dinner mince beef and onion pie with mash and veg
Thursday dinner mince beef and onions in gravy with mash and veg
Friday dinner fish and chips from the chippy.
Saturday morning was shopping day up the city on the market and we would have bacon rolls for breakfast.
Saturday dinner bangers and mash with garden peas ice cream or a cream cake for afters
Saturday tea would be chips from the chippy on the way to the British Legion so my dad could have a game of snooker or bowls and we could watch telly as we didn't have one.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

WEEGIE wrote: »

Bar 6, I liked that, does anyone remember Mint Cracknel, MB Bars, Ice Breaker or Mintola? You are right, kids don't know they are born.

I liked Bar6 too.Do you remember Cadbury's Aztec Bars and those horrible Kipper crisps.There was also those revolting double ended divided tins of Smedley's garden peas with peas in one end of the tin and a mint flavoured white sauce in the other.UGH!

WEEGIE

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

I liked Bar6 too.Do you remember Cadbury's Aztec Bars and those horrible Kipper crisps.There was also those revolting double ended divided tins of Smedley's garden peas with peas in one end of the tin and a mint flavoured white sauce in the other.UGH!

I remember Aztec bars but not the peas with mint sauce (maybe just as well as that doesn't sound good).

Olliebeak

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

I liked Bar6 too.Do you remember Cadbury's Aztec Bars and those horrible Kipper crisps.There was also those revolting double ended divided tins of Smedley's garden peas with peas in one end of the tin and a mint flavoured white sauce in the other.UGH!

1. loved Bar 6 - quite biscuity if I remember rightly
2. kipper flavoured crisps _pale_ - think those would be MY biggest nightmare!
3. don't remember the peas/whitesauce in a tin but I DO remember a similar tin of curry with the rice in one end and the meat/sauce in the other end.

tudorfan22

My remembered things are, lurpak butter, my nan used to put it in the fridge so it was rock hard, I used to love watching her getting into a sweat trying to scrape a sliver off with a (proper) butter knife, and then when she put it on my toast it’d tear the bread so id get big holes in it! tasted better though for the wholes and the real butter. Also my nan used to get milk from the milkman and was obsessively precious about the cream at the top of the milk – you dare not waste it cos ‘that’s real cream, that is’ dunno what she thought we thought it was – fake cream!?!
Fish and chips on a Friday night in front of the TV – always family fortunes or the krypton factor!
Cold sausages – must have been leftovers but cold sausages in your lunch box with a thin coating of hardened white fat on them was just awesome! Also cold leftover mash with salads
Ice cream van – cherry brandy lollies – felt all grown up cos it MUST be alcoholic if it had brandy in it!
As a kid I never ate out at restaurants, I had my first mcdonalds at 12 from an auntie and that was my last one till I was 16 – it still amazes and disappoints me to see parents bringing up their kids up on happy meals. And I cant imagine being a kid and eating out somewhere like TGI Fridays – parents nowadays must have money to burn!
My nan used to make tomato ketchup sandwiches – very glad I never have to eat them again! What a gross idea!
Anyone remember the slices of ham with the face in it or teddy bear or something…..
Panda pops – poor mans Capri sun! but so full of E numbers would keep you buzzing through a school day no problem!!
I know you can get it now but my mums custard was always a powdered mixture – was a fight to the death to get it with no lumps in it – plus she mixed it with cocoa powder so we had chocolate custard with chocolate cake!

Roman1_2

Raksha wrote: »

Kunzle cakes - yum!

Bar 6 - blurgh........

Just noticed this thread.

Yes, KUNZLE CAKES and SPANGLES.

Bring them back NOW!!!

Butterfly_Brain

My DH says that his Mum always did the same things week in and week out and he knew what day it was by the meal, mainly because FIL is a fussy eater. The only meal that was the same in our house was the Sunday roast and Sunday tea with a salad, ham, cheese, bread and butter and a cake that Mum had made. Monday was leftovers from the Sunday roast made into a pie or stew

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circa 1968
Sunday leg of lamb (cost 18/- =90p in decimal money )

Monday shep's pie with some of the left over lamb

Tuesday curry with left over lamb

Wednesday last of the lamb in rissoles

Thursday Bangers and mash or liver and bacon casserole

Friday fish and chips (made myself as we couldn't afford a take away

Saturday Corned beef and saute potato's (my late OH speciality which he would cook with some chopped up onion and cabbage)Saturday nights dinner he always cooked as he said it was my night off.
Breakfast was usually cereal or toast in the winter it was porridge
I did him a packed lunch of sarnies to take to work and I usually had a sandwich myself I cooked all our cakes and sometimes biscuits.We never had crisps but I always like to have a fresh fruit bowl on the sideboard for my Dds to snack from. My housekeeping was then £8.10.00 per week and I fed three of us (I had a baby on the way then) and had cash left over .He was paid weekly then and his wages basic was £15.00 per week plus overtime He went to work on the bus and I walked everywhere pushing the pram with my eldest DD in it .When I had my second DD the eldest was relegated to the seat on the end.We lived in two rooms and kitchen and shared a toilet with three other families and had no bath at all I would walk to my sis-in-laws almost 5 miles each way once a week so the kids and I could have a bath.The rest ove the time it was a wash down in the sitting room for us all.No central heating or double glazing in draghty old Victorian first floor flat that we had to pay £100.00 'key money' to get into
I had no washing machine and olnly a Baby Burco boiler and a 'flatley' dryer to dry the nappies in the winter I did have a long pulley washing line that went from the back bedroom to the bottom of the back garden (about 150 feet) which I could get all my washing on.I had a tiny gas water geyser with a small arm that went over the sink and that was the only hot water we had apart from boiling up kettles on the gas stove.I had a big black enamel pot that I would boil the nappies in every other day and a bucket with Nappisan in under the sink
Our rent for this was 4 guineas a week (£4.4.00d) and on top I had a slot meter for the Gas and electric which got fed shillings.We still managed after five years to save up a deposit for our first house which cost us £6.850.00 in 1971 and our mortgage was £60.00 per month By this time my husband was on monthly money and his take home was £115.00 per month Things were tight but we never starved or went hungry ,although there were times when by the third week in the month things were a bit thin :)We survived all the turmoils of the 3 day week and the blackouts from the electricity cuts and because we had seen tough times it made us even more determined not to ever have an empty cupboard Now over 40 years later I still have a full cupboard, although my waist has dissappeared and my OH sadly is no longer alive But my children are now going through some tough times themselves but I know they will survive just as their Dad and I did.

rogueylawyer

Maybe I'm showing my lesser years but I'm confused by the idea of mincing down roast meat. I've never used anything but raw minced meat. How do you mince cooked meat, doesn't it just flake?

oldtractor

I LOVED Bar 6 and Mint Cracknel.