To be slightly horrified now by what I ate as a kid in the 80s?

That diet has got to be setting a child up for diabetes as they get older OP! With that complete lack of nutrition you're lucky you didn't go blind as a teen like that one poor lad. I guess though that your evening meal was probably more nutritious then the rest of your days food? At least you (hopefully) had one healthy meal a day.

I liked banana sandwiches. Salad cream sandwiches were good too.

He's 4. You are not out of the woods yet, believe me

My lunchbox was pretty much the same, sandwich (cheese, ham, jam or meat paste) crisps and a penguin/club and a carton drink. Breakfast was ready brek or cornflakes, we didn't have coco pops or any of the fancy ones! After school snack was toast. Dinner was a proper meal with veg and we rarely had puddings, occasionally a fruit salad or yoghurt. Sundays we'd have crumble or apple pie. Me and my dad did the food shop on a Saturday, he'd buy one bottle of squash and one packet of cheap biscuits and when they were gone, they were gone and we didn't buy more until the next Saturday!

I loved banana sandwiches too as a child. Tried making them for my oldest once and she was disgusted

My Dcs when they get a packed lunch now usually have a ham and butter sandwich or cream cheese and cucumber sandwich. They then usually get some fruit that tends to travel back and forth for the entire week before I succumb to the inevitable and give it to DH; water and some mini cheddars or crisps popcorn. TBH not much different to what I had growing up in the 80s. But they get a wide range of fruit and be for breakfasts and dinners so I' m not too fussed anad as one DC has autism-related food issues any meal eaten is a win.

I loved banana sandwiches. Even better- banana and peanut butter sandwiches. Sadly one of my DCs is allergic to peanuts so no more. But I have discovered that a wrap made with tahini, banana and a drizzle of honey is pretty good.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to be healthy that's absolutely fine if you can afford it then do it. But to be horrified that people eat that stuff or can only afford that stuff is annoying not everyone is privilege to eat avocado on toast every morning and that's also fine

Meh, you’re alive so it can’t be that bad…unless you’re posting from the beyond? In which case, what’s the internet like there?

The kind of people are the ones that can't be asked with the arguments and meltdowns if you try to get them to eat something else and are just thankful that they are eating anything at all.

a saturday treat was a white crusty loaf,
well dm said it was a treat
i couldnt really care less!

I used to buy the 3p white loaves from Asda with my pocket money as I loved white toast as a snack but we rarely had that kind of bread, it was nearly always "proper" bread. I guess we always want what we don't get, whether it's the fancy stuff or the cheapo stuff.

I spend so much on bread now though even for the children, just spent nearly a fiver on 4 bread rolls for me and DD (but that's gluten free prices for you 😞)

@Natsku My mum insisted we drink orange juice with breakfast every day (not sunny d though, that was too expensive) which I hated but swallowed down.

We always had orange juice in the fridge but it was my mum's - apparently it was too expensive for us kids to drink. We could have extremely diluted squash or water. Same with wholemeal/seeded bread. That was mum's special, expensive food (and she only ever bought it right after pay day). We got cheap white bread for our packed lunches.

My mum insisted we drink orange juice with breakfast every day (not sunny d though, that was too expensive) which I hated but swallowed down. Only realised as an adult how bad that was for my teeth, no wonder they're in shit condition.

Thinking back, fruit and veg were a really big part of our diet because we had a big garden which mum used part of for growing vegetables, we had a blackcurrant bush (which mum would make juice out of each year, which again, I hated) and two apple trees (eating apples and cooking apples) and there were a lot of brambles in our garden for blackberries. In the summer weekends were often spent visiting PYO farms to pick berries or sweetcorn (mum was so efficient at picking one of the farmers used her as an example to the lazy young men he was employing to pick ). And our holidays in Lapland we'd spend a lot of time picking bilberries and cloudberries (and fishing so we could eat extremely fresh fish) and eating fresh peas in the pod from markets as snacks (which my children also view as a lovely summer treat, even my teenager!)
At Christmas we'd always get exotic fruit in our stockings which was a lovely treat - one year I got a whole mango to myself and I was overjoyed.

I gave my kids gallons of sunny delight in the 90s thinking it was healthy. 🙊

lol. My parents allowed me to take a glass of lemonade to bed each night instead of water.

I still pile up Milo in a tall glass every so often.

Yet as a parent, I wouldn’t give our DC any sugary soft drinks and 1 to this day still doesn’t drink them.

the joys of being an adult I guess…

Poaching is too much of a faff in the mornings. Fried is much easier. And Salmon dinner would be previous night’s leftovers.

But, essentially, yes. Why?

Anyway, I’m a 70s kid. My breakfast was cornflakes. Lunch was a white bread sandwich and an orange drink. After school snack, white bread toast. Meat and 3 veg for dinner. My kids eat much healthier than I did. But a lot of the stuff I used to eat was marketed as healthy. Advertising standards have changed.

Death date 😳

I remember eating the first tiny McCain pizzas in the middle 80s. They were heaven. We would get half each and it was served with salad.

Could have been worse my mum gave us Weetabix, all bran or shreddies. The minute I left home I invested in a huge box of frostie. deeelicious.

I don't know when you were growing up OP. But if you don't mind reading my version here goes:
We were born in the early to mid sixties in North Wales on a farm.
Sunday was a roast dinner, usually lamb or beef, occasionally pork - this is what Daddy bred. A roast chicken was a rare thing - a treat (and expensive back then).
Monday would be left over roast with homemade chips (fried potatoes),with chutney or pickles.
Tuesday the last of the Sunday roast made into a pie (homemade pastry).
Wedsnesday would be sausages with onion gravy and mash.
Thursday chops of some kind with veggies etc
Friday maybe Liver and onions and potatoes.
Saturday - it was wash day for Mammy - school uniforms for three of us. So a big pan of homemade soup for lunch. In the evening we would visit an elderly widowed farmer friend. We would pick up fish & chips, mushy peas/curry sauce and spend the evening with him.
Everything home bred or grown. Apart from Saturday evening!