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What was day to day food in your childhood?

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  • 5RadisH2
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    edited 6 December 2017 at 11:09PM
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    My breakfast was either dripping or golden syrup sandwiches. I went home from school at dinnertime to a hot meal of mashed potatoes, leg beef and cabbage or cauliflower. 50's food was poor quality and food rationing was still in force after WW2 until, I think, 1953.
    School meals were even worse. Potatoes , cheese pie and dark green cabbage followed by spotted !!!! pudding and lumpy custard. It was supposed to be a balanced meal but tasted awful. The best part of school meals was that, one day a week, we had semolina pudding with jam - you could stir the jam in to make a pink pudding.
    Tea was dripping, jam or treacle sandwiches, whichever I didn't have for breakfast.
  • Blackbeard_of_Perranporth
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    I can’t remember my childhood, I was starving and had rickets!
  • Pollycat
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    5RadisH2 wrote: »
    My breakfast was either dripping or golden syrup sandwiches. I went home from school at dinnertime to a hot meal of mashed potatoes, leg beef and cabbage or cauliflower. 50's food was poor quality and food rationing was still in force after WW2 until, I think, 1953.
    School meals were even worse. Potatoes , cheese pie and dark green cabbage followed by spotted !!!! pudding and lumpy custard. It was supposed to be a balanced meal but tasted awful. The best part of school meals was that, one day a week, we had semolina pudding with jam - you could stir the jam in to make a pink pudding.
    Tea was dripping, jam or treacle sandwiches, whichever I didn't have for breakfast.

    I loved potatoes (mashed) and cheese pie at school but we used to have it with tinned plum tomatoes.

    Were school meals in those days really supposed to be 'balanced'?
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    A memory just popped in .....did anyone else's mum start stews off with an Oxtail Soup cube (I think it was FOSTER LEN's OXTAIL SOUP CUBES) to make up for the small amount of stewing shin of beef that went into them? I've tried to recreate the flavour with modern soup mixes but it's nothing like as savoury as I remember it!
  • Eenymeeny
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    MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »
    A memory just popped in .....did anyone else's mum start stews off with an Oxtail Soup cube (I think it was FOSTER LEN's OXTAIL SOUP CUBES) to make up for the small amount of stewing shin of beef that went into them? I've tried to recreate the flavour with modern soup mixes but it's nothing like as savoury as I remember it!
    I remember my mum adding a packet of Knorr vegetable soup mix to give her own soups 'a bit of body' The only stock cubes I remember in our house were Oxo beef cubes which we often had as a hot drink, accompanied with a slice of dry bread to dip in, for supper.
    I recently purchased Heinz Oxtail powdered soup from a market stall. Maybe it's intended for export? I haven't seen it in supermarkets. It was lovely added to a beef stew... :)
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    tin meat with sauce...

    Luncheon meat and tomato sauce sandwiches. On a Saturday we would have that tinned plastic ham.
  • caronc
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    MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »
    A memory just popped in .....did anyone else's mum start stews off with an Oxtail Soup cube (I think it was FOSTER LEN's OXTAIL SOUP CUBES) to make up for the small amount of stewing shin of beef that went into them? I've tried to recreate the flavour with modern soup mixes but it's nothing like as savoury as I remember it!
    I think my mum must have used something like that but I can't remember what they were called, she did somewtimes use a couple of tsps of the powdered soup you used to get in small boxes (about the size of a matchbox. I find an oxtail cupasoup does the trick:)
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    That's the one CARONC, small box of powdered soup and it was gorgeous as the gravy sauce to the stew!
  • Bigjenny
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    Think they were called Foster Clark's Soup Cubes.
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  • thriftylass
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    We would get our warm meal at school and my parents at the local factory's canteen. Dinner would often be bread, pickled fish, cheese and cold cuts as we had one warm meal already. Saturday would be roast chicken night (half a broiler each, nothing else :) and Sunday anything from my mum's well stocked freezer of batch cooked meals (various stews, stuffed cabbage, HM beef olives, goulash). Lunch on weekend would often be any kind of soup.

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