To ask what did your granny eat?

Boiled eggs for breakfast, meat from the butchers and veg mostly grown organically at home followed by home grown fruit & custard - their garden was out of this world and the stuff of my fantasies😊…… it has 15 new build houses on it now😢.

Anyone remember "paste" sandwiches 🤣 gee, thanks for the offer nan but I'm not that hungry

I always have Canada Dry, with Scotch, ever since my Scottish granny got me started on it, age 12. Lived to 98.

Mince and tatties. Just about every meal. And maybe some scones and rock buns.

Rabbit stew and dumplings. She taught me how to skin the rabbit.

I stopped for coffee this morning and was very tempted by an apple turnover. Then I saw that it had 420 calories!. My grandma would have shared that between 4. Cakes and pastries seem so oversized, nothing that's just a small bite of something delicious.

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Boiled potatoes with skins on, boiled bacon and cabbage - Irish 🇮🇪

I’m a bit older than you lot and my nan would be 125 if she was still alive !! She was a great cook and did everything from scratch with fresh ingredients and fresh veg. Nothing was pre bought and she didnt have a microwave so everything was cooked and served fresh. She watched her weight and that of my dad and his two brothers, and helped me to stay a healthy weight without starving. The only time she ever stayed in hospital was as a result of broken bones. She died in her sleep at the age of 94 having been actively involved with her grandchildren to the end.

My granny drank tea with three sugars, sucked boiled sweets all day and had the occasional omelette or ready meal. She ate like bird and was about 6 stone most of her adult life. Loved a peach schnapps too. She had crippling osteoporosis and died at 73 , she was probably malnourished in a few ways. She didn’t understand the concept of drinking tap water but would have a glass of lemonade when very thirsty. Also loved a mr Kipling slice! She died in 2009 so this wasn’t like years ago. Her husband my grandpa ate more ‘proper food’ meat and two veg but also drank at the pub every day, smoked and had type 2 diabetes, he died of heart complications aged 69. So not everyone was healthier at all ‘back in day’

A lot of offal and vegetables from the garden.

Swore she was teetotal but loved a bit of whisky in her tea! She didn't live near us but I remember the butter softening by the fire for toast and dreadful salads floating in beetroot juice with soggy lettuce and ham. I couldn't eat anything at her house.

Shit tons of butter. She died early 70s of a heart attack.

My 95 year old grandma is still alive. She was a farmer, as was my mum as am I. Our eating routine hasn’t changed much in 95 years.

6am - first breakfast of porridge
9am - second breakfast. These days it’s a cup of tea but in manual days it was a bacon sarnie or eggs
1pm - lunch. Always meat, potatoes and 2 veg. Fish on a Friday. Bubble and squeak on a Monday. I now add pasta and lentil curries to the meal rotation
5pm - tea. Tea, sandwich and fruit if busy. Tea and cake if not.
9pm - supper. Not eaten November to March but otherwise a bit of cheese or cake.

Depends how old you are, I suppose. My granny ate a ton of UPF foods in later life like tinned soups, M&S ready meals and chocolate biscuits. Before that, lots of boiled meat and veg. She would bake from scratch but only used margarine as butter was deemed too expensive to waste on baking.

My Nana, porridge or wheaten bread, cooked dinner (meat potatoes and veg), old fashioned salad (lettuce tomato, cucumber, beetroot, scallions abd cold meat) usually with bread or new potatoes, pudding (rice, crumble, jelly and ice cream). Most snacks homemade scones, shortbread, cakes etc

My Nanny, toast, soup and bread or toasted sandwich or sandwich, cooked dinner. Bought biscuits cakes etc

Fried slices of cod roe, fried potato discs and peas. And toffees. She always had toffees.

My Nan parented 2 children through the war. Was really experimental with her cooking, due to rationing- I made some of her ginger biscuits the other day and they were great - after rationing ended she would have small or cheap cuts of meat, fish on Fridays, small roast on Sundays and leftovers Monday with enough for bubble and squeak on Tuesdays. Lots of seasonal vegetables that she would grow in tubs. She would hedgerow pick for jams and chutneys. She made treacle tarts, jam roll poly, spotted dick, bread and butter pudding.
She also had half a pint of bottled stout or Guinness every evening. She died at 94 so was clearly doing something right.
Her sister, my great aunt, had a small holding and grew pretty much everything she ate. She had 2 cows, for milk and she’d send their male offspring for slaughter and jointing. 2 goats and a few sheep that she would breed for meat. Bunch of laying hens and a few ducks. Oh, there was Jeremy the gander and his gaggle of ladies. Best security ever and they laid breakfast. I loved living with great aunt.
She taught me a lot.

My grandparents were born in the 19th century. (My mother was born in 1922 and my father in 1915).

My mother's parents were Scottish crofters and had nine children. My grandfather also worked down the village coal mine.

Granny made all her own bread, cakes, jam, marmalade, cheese, butter and cream.
All meals were homecooked, as no convenience foods had been invented (or were available) in tiny villages in Scotland then.

They ate the vegetables that they grew and had a lot of soup, boiling beef, mince and fish.

Granny did all this cooking and baking despite having all those children to look after.

There were only two bedrooms in their house, too, and no inside lavatory.

My grandfather actually built the house himself. They got married in 1904.

Fried breakfast cooked in lard or dripping
white sliced toast with lurpak butter
tea or camp coffee with sterilised milk ( horrible)
cream soda and vimto
meat and 2 veg dinners with the veg boiled until it was dead with added bicarbonate of soda ( to aid digestion)
tinned salmon and salad all soaked in vinegar ( with cucumber and tomatoes peeled) Tinned potato salad with carrots and peas in it.
tinned ham ( oval shaped tin)
rich tea biscuits
rice pudding with a mince pie in the dish ( a Boxing Day treat)
birds trifle
absolutely nothing that could be considered foreign
Both grandmothers lived in the midlands and died in the early 1980’s. We tended to visit at Christmas and Easter. The food was never good.

My mum's mum and stepdad were very healthy from what I can remember. Largely centred around a meat and two veg dish, always cooked from scratch. Ironically my grandma had type 2 diabetes. She was like a rake, very active. My mum said she had a sweet tooth and that's why she developed it. Unfortunately it was what killed her.
My mum's dad and stepmum was all the hearty home cooked meals, lots of stress. Always with bread and proper butter. My mum used to play heck with her dad for not switching to margarine and processed "brown" bread. His diet was probably healthier than our "low fat" processed crap.
I would have faired better on either of these diets than the plates of beige my mum would dish up with Sunny D on the side. My mum was suffering with her mental health when I was a child, and as a result she stopped cooking meals when I was around 6. I have battled with my weight almost my whole life and I'm sure it's down to childhood diet.

I always thought it was just my granny that cut bread like that until I read a novel where a character did it - and got told off because it was unhygienic to hold the bread again her body 😂

One grandma - mostly gin.

My mum cut bread that way too. With a very blunt bread knife (I sharpened it once so I could cut bread the normal way, I was in the doghouse for days).

Food heaven