To ask what did your granny eat?

I remember going to a butchers near Meltham to buy a whole tongue, I still love it to this day 🙃

She was tight with her food though. My grandad went away to war and came back fatter 😂

I remember my mum saying they would have a meal and granny would have a slice of bread and butter saying she'd eaten earlier. She only realised when she was older that there wasn't enough for everyone to eat. This was the 1920/30s. I could cry for my poor granny.

I don't remember much of my Granny's food.
Whenever we stayed over there was always toast and jam and a cup of tea (from the Teasmaid!) for breakfast. Apart from that I remember her banana bread, and the vast platters of food in the front room at New Year

My grannie was born in 1912 and they were farmers.

Lunch in cooler weather was always a stew (beef, lamb, oxtail, mince) or a pie: rabbit, chicken and ham, meat (beef), some times slices of boiled ham. Always with potatoes and veg and often dumplings - there was a marvellous steamed ham and suet pudding with parsley sauce. This was also given to the men and lunch was usually for 8-10.

In warmer weather, meat, cheese, pork pies (huge - I remember the gelatine going in, brawn (made in the old copper in the scullery), pressed tongue (I have never been able to eat it), always boiled potatoes but I don't really remember much salad but there were often pickled beets, pickled onions and tomatoes.

Puddings were fruit pies, rice puddings, custard, blancmange, sometimes a steamed pudding.

One of the wives was paid as a cook.

They ate more lightly in the evenings. Fish, parsley sauce, chops, sometimes some left over meat pie. Or more grossly- stuffed, baked hearts for example. There was always ice cream and fresh fruit, jelly and condensed milk. An awful lot of pastry was made - I used to help.

There were also plenty of sweets and lots of tinned fruit.

Not much in the cakes and biscuit line as grannie wasn't a cook and certainly wasn't a Baker. To be honest some of the evening meals were pretty tasteless - I recall being given white fish in white sauce with mash and cauliflower and pork chops, tinned spaghetti and chips.

Ox cheek and lambs tongues boiled up for the dogs. I cannot get my head around ox cheek being a tasty delicacy. Lambs tongues stewing were enough to put you off food for a fortnight.

I recall there was often a chicken in the kitchen but it was quickly shooed out.

A proper breakfast most days. We’d have ham shank and cabbage with new potatos, curry with what ever left over meat was there from the Sunday roast, lots of home baked goods - my nan never done the cooking tbh, it was all on my grandad and he was a lovely cook. My maternal nan was head cook in a school canteen and was a fabulous cook, she was a bit more upmarket and made things like beef wellington, salmon en croute etc. But both sides bought most things fresh daily from local butchers and fruit and veg shops.

One, I don't know. I didn't see her often. The other: lots of tinned food, cheap cuts of meat, white bread, salad, loads of cakes bought from M&S.

@PassTheCordialCordelia “car dependency, lack of activity” This is a really big factor of modern life compared to previous generations.
My grandfathers and dad all walked or cycled to work and did manual jobs, my grandmothers were both at home but active, walking for shopping, housework, keeping kids entertained.
I take a train to the office or work at home, at a desk all day. There’s a significant difference in activity levels.

My DM would leave left over Sunday roast chickens or the Christmas turkey uncovered on a plate in the pantry. They went away one summer and I forgot about the left over roast chicken for a few days. Still, the birds had a field day once I’d hauled the manky carcass into the garden.

Little Red Riding Hood

Born 1905
Breakfast- one slice of toast with marmalade
11’s- cubes of strong cheddar and a sherry to wash down the Aspirin she took every day in case she had a headache later.
12:30 -cooked meal so faggots, mash and peas or similar
6pm- a slice of Gala pie or a sandwich and a cake.
Died of stomach cancer!

My maternal grandmother (born in the early 1920s) didn’t eat anything she considered “foreign” such as pasta or rice! Everything was homemade though. She bought my mum a Vesta curry once as a ‘treat’. 🤣
She died in her late 70s of cancer. She smoked for many years though, as was more common back then.

I remember my grandma complaining that fruit now tasted watery and bland compared to when she was younger (born 1920).

She ate very well and we ate about the same. The only things I wouldn’t eat are lamb brains, fish heads (there’s a specific fish for this) and chicken feet. Sorry grandma, I love you but that’s a no.

I still miss her food.

I have one remaining grandparent who is still going at 95 (I’m 41, parents are 69, her eldest great-grandchild is 24) and she was an excellent cook, only slowing down in the last ten years or so. Meat, potatoes and veg, roast chicken and salad type of meals. She was a brilliant baker and could make pretty much anything from scratch. These days she mostly eats crisps, jam sandwiches and dairylea dunker things. It’s a shame.

Mine cooked things like suet puddings, meat and 2 veg (veg from grandad's garden), though ate slowly and very small portions. She liked liver and onions 🤢. She particularly liked tinned salmon or sardine paste sandwiches, dripping on toast, or crumpets. She loved strawberries and cream. Milky coffee in the morning, tea from lunchtime till about 3, gin after 3, whiskey in the evening.

My grandma drank a lot of gin too 😂. And her favourite food was sushi.

I remember my gran grew all the veg in the back garden, loads of different stuff.. was mainly meat and veg.. but i did get my love for natural yoghurt from her.. she had it with everything and now so do i... bit snobby now though getting the greek stuff and protein stuff, but i still love the cheapest tesco natural yoghurt, the runny stuff can drink it.. yum!

I loved that juice. It was called Appeal if I recall correctly.

She was awesome, loved a good party too, she was still out, living her best life until near the end! I used to love going to visit as a child.

One set of grandparents ate very healthily- home grown, seasonal, cooked from scratch type meals. Mostly the same each week, Sunday roast, Monday leftovers, Tuesday stew type thing. Hardly ever anything processed. Teatime snack like a piece of cake or biscuit but no snacks otherwise. However only ever drank tea, never even a glass of water just tea.
Other set not so good, grandma very much embraced the convenience food trend in the 60s and never returned. Used to try all the fad diets like cabbage soup and then binge eat, weight always up and down.

I forgot tongue sandwiches. Not eaten since I was a teenager but can still remember the flavour . Bloody lovely with some salad leaves and brown sauce

Mine was very much the smoked salmon and champagne type. Not a nice woman but she had style 😁

Boiled egg for breakfast. Fish/meat with a potato and vegetables at lunchtime and a sandwich at tea time. Everything was in moderation. None of my 4 grandparents ever had an issue with their weight and the oldest was well into her 90’s when she died. Everything was cooked from scratch and veg came from the garden or local supplier. None of them owned a car or could drive so either walked, cycled or bus!

As I recall when staying with her, fried bacon on white bread sadwiches breakfast with strong sugary tea. A cooked meal at lunch, usually a chop with boiled potatos and peas, sometimes a pie. Tinned fruit and evaporated milk for 'afters'. Tea would be another white bread sandwich with boiled ham, spam, luncheon meat, corned beef or some other pink meat in a square tin with a twisty key. Then a piece of homemade fruit or sponge cake. Lots of tea throughout the day (never drank anything else) sonetimes with a couple of rich tea biscuits. I wouldnt dream of adopting her diet. Yet she was slim and lived till 90 odd.

Sounds like my kind of gal 😊