To ask what did your granny eat?

Oh and my grandpa had beer he brewed at every meal... Gawd it was the cloudiest stuff you'd ever seen. Meals like spaghetti Bolognese, can't think what else. Lived until 91, obv

Oh and also a bottle of stout every day!
'It looks good,
It tastes good,
And by golly it does you good!'

Home grown everything - fruit, veg, dairy products all processed on the farm, meat slaughtered and butchered on the farm, honey from hives, jam from blackberries and blackcurrant, fish from a traveling fishmonger, usually salter herring, and eggs and fowl from the farm too. They got tea in huge chests, and bought sugar in large containers too, and salt.

Other granny had been in India and made curries as best she could, sending away for spices from Harrods. But basically a very unprocessed diet too, as she also lived in rural Ireland.

She enjoyed porridge, boiled eggs and toast and the dinners were mainly meat and two veg including potatoes. Never drank or smoked. Also soda bread and boxty (giving nationality away here). She used to make her Dad (my great-grandfather) custard at night with the Bird's powder. Fairly plain diet, I don't remember a lot of fruit or salad but really very little processed food or eating out. Lived to 90, only Covid took her out.

My granny always had Canada dry

Meat and two veg (in season or preserved- they had an allotment)
A suet pudding or fruit pie
Rabbits (grandparents kept them for food during WW2).
A pint of best bitter for grandad and a port and lemon for gran.

I remember grandad visiting us and calling lasagne sheets lino.

DH’s Irish granny was shocked at her DIL eating potatoes with the skin on and bread with seeds in it because that’s what her Scottish mother made (DH’s Scottish granny lived to 101).

My great granny (born 1891) regularly had a yorkshire pudding with gravy as a starter.

Cup.of tea and a boiled egg for breakfast, main meal at 12pm, meat pie with vegetables or stew and dumplings, often with a saucer of mushy peas as a side dish.

Never ate chips, only with fish from the chippy.
At home, fish was pan fried with a coating of flour with potatoes.
Veg was cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, potatoes. Broccoli, squash, sweet potatoes were unheard of.

I always laugh when people say this, remembering my lovely step-grandmother (born in the 1920s). I once ate a delicious cherry pie she’d made and asked for the recipie. It started ‘take one can cherry pie mix’. She and DGP also drank a never ending volume of fizzy drinks.

On the other side the favoured snack was a big bowl of cornflakes with a large spoon of sugar on it before the milk was added.

Tripe
Pig’s trotters
Faggots
Scrag end of lamb
Stuffed lamb’s breasts
Sausages
Beef Stew
Brawn
Rice pudding
Apple tart
Stewed plums
Bread pudding
Pick and mix from Woolworths once a week.

What she grew or could trade for. She was a smallhold farmer with 3 fields, 2 cows and seasonal pigs, chickens/turkeys and sometimes lamb. My mother was a champion hand milker as a teen
She loved a fish supper and would have delighted in a microwave ready meals. She died in 1984 and loved the modern appliances of the day.

Proper breakfast - eggs or porridge with toast, butter, home made jam
Main meal at lunch time - homemade meat pie with potatoes and veg, or gammon with salad and boiled spuds, roast dinner on a Sunday, cold roast with salad and chips on a Monday, mince and tatties. Usually with a pudding.
Tea was sandwiches or soup or bacon and eggs or beans on toast.
Couple of digestive biscuits with a cuppa during the day.
Ovaltine and a square of chocolate before bed.
Sunday tea was lovely - trifle, scones (cheese and fruit), HM cake, tinned fruit and 'vap.

However, I have some of her dinner plates and they are literally half the size of mine 😬, and pudding bowls are the size of a teacup.

Anything boiled. Cabbage. Potatoes. All washed down with Guinness, after all it was good for you. Didn't do her any harm, lived to be 84 with no ill health and I doubt she drank a glass of water in her life.

Gold top. Big plug of cream at the top.

My parents (born in the 20s / 30s) were brought up on sterilised milk for cups of tea, so that’s what we had.

In her later years , I think Grandma lived on M & S trifle ( washed down with a whisky Mac )

Boil in the bag fish with boiled potatoes and boiled veg. Jelly and ice cream. Tongue sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

The only particular thing I remember my grandmother consuming was gin martinis.

I would consider their diet a bit samey. But the principles are very worthy.

My Nan was also very fond of tripe. And cod’s roe. And a lot of faggots, chips and peas too. A proper Brummie gal.

Mine cooked everything from scratch, with lard & salt of course. She died of heart disease at 72

My grandparents ate home cooked, traditional food. Fresh veg (only apples, oranges, berries and bananas for fruit). All pastry etc was made from scratch.
No dementia or cancer. They lived long and active lives.

Meat and potatoes and veg.
Rabbit stew
Cheese and potato pie.
Fish and potatoes and veg.
Game like pheasant in a stew.
Homemade pies.

Lots of home grown veg.
Apples from trees in the garden.

Always a pudding after main meal, pie and custard, cake and cream, tinned fruit, angel delight.