What did you have for tea in the 60s & 70s?

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I’m a 70s child with a very poor memory!!

looking at the housework thread made me wonder what a typical meal plan looked like in the 60s & 70s?

I can remember a lot of pies & stews, and chips with omelette.. what did you have ?!

Findus crispy pancakes, sausages, beef burgers, Angel Delight. Mainly meat and veg or stews though

What I remember from the 70s is things like, sausages and mash, meat pie, stew, egg and chips, fishfingers, birds eye beefburgers, occasionally spaghetti hoops on toast (I don't like beans) and a roast dinner pretty much every Sunday.

Sausages,pies,roasts,Stews,chippy teas,Fish in parsley sauce.Liver ( bleugh!)

We didn't have a freezer so everything was fresh and made from scratch. But basic. Meat and two veg with potato. Never had anything fancy like pasta or rice 😁

Mum has never been adventurous so homemade curries, stir fry, anything not quintessentially 'english' was out. I remember lots of roast dinners, chop-and-chips meals, liver and bacon with mash, stews and casseroles (with dumplings like lumps of lead), the odd spaghetti bolognese, and beans on toast or egg and chips was a perfectly good dinner.

Child of the 70's. We had lots of brown dinners ie. meals with gravy. Meals were always cooked from scratch and we never had pasta or rice so that ruled out anything spice or "fancy". Potatoes were a staple of every meal, chipped or mashed.
The pressure cooker regularly got an outing. A takeaway was a rarity as there were 6 of us so it would have cost a fortune.

Pies, crispy pancakes, faggots, beefburgers , Dalesteaks.
Accompanied by tinned potatoes and frozen veg.
Mum never was very interested in cooking

Puddings were only for the weekend and were either tinned fruit or angel delight.
For a real treat we helped ourselves to a slice of rice pudding.

Egg and chips
Cottage Pie
Findus crispy pancakes
Stew
Sausage and mash
Mince curry yeeeuuugh

We had a massive freezer and my mum used to batch freeze seasonal fruit ( mainly self pick strawberries and runner beans that we grew. There was also a sizeable amount of pork in it. Mainly had meat and 2 veg, plus potato's ,never pasta hardly ever chicken because it was expensive .
We usually had a Sunday roast followed by crumble . Salad in the summer .

Stews, chops. Salads with radish 🤢

we had the famous mumsnet chicken which was roast on sunday, cold on monday and curry or pie on tuesday, then things like bacon and egg or something on toast, fish, fish pie and cottage pie.

Chips.
Egg and chips.
Sausage and chips.
Sausage, egg and chips.
Sunday was a roast.
Monday was a meat and potato pie (leftovers) or chicken chow mein (leftover chicken) soy sauce and noodles, either came with chips.
Fridays were sandwiches and pork pie for summer and fish, with chips, for colder months.

Our chip pan earned its keep.

1970s child too - shepherds pie, plaice & chips, pea & ham soup, goulash, toad in the hole, lots of mash, gravy, carrots, cabbage, broccoli. Sardines on toast or omelettes on Saturdays, roast on Sundays.

We would have a roast on Sunday usually a joint of beef or lamb or a chicken. On Monday we would have cold meat (off the joint) with potato cakes made from the leftover potatoes from Sunday dinner, and probably reheated leftover veg too. Later in the week we might have stew and dumplings also made with meat from the same joint or soup from the chicken carcass. Chicken soup would be served up for ages, actually. Lots of things with leftovers.

Fried Spam sometimes. Sliced ham and salad of lettuce, tomato, spring onions. Omelettes. A rare treat - fish and chips from the shop.

It was very exciting when Vesta dehydrated meals came out!

We had lovely roast dinners. pies, fish, cottage pie, steak and kidney, chicken casserole, spaghetti bolognese and that kind of thing. We had a big garden and mum and dad grew a lot of our fruit and veg.

My dad did the majority of the cooking and he was a great cook, mum and dad had lived abroad so we were quite adventurous and had curries, tandoori, stir fries and other more exotic meals. We also had Findus pancakes, French bread pizzas and Vesta meals as well mind as these were quite exciting and exotic in the 1970s.

There are quite a few family recipes that really remind me of lovely, big family dinners that I still cook today

I was born in 1971. My mum was quite an adventurous cook so we did have curries and pasta. We, also, had casseroles,stew, meat pies, roasts, sausage all with potatoes and home grown veg. She'd boil a piece of ham and we'd have that with salad. My dad was a proper food snob, he stil is a bit, and wouldn't allow us to have burgers or crispy pancakes etc so if he was away with work my mum used to let us have them as a treat.

Egg and chips. Cold boiled ham and chips. Gammon and chips.

There were a lot of chips, fried on the hob in lard.

Stew, usually with pancakes.

Pea and ham soup.

Roast on a Sunday with Yorkshire pudding as the starter.

For afters, tinned fruit salad or tinned peaches (my favourite) with carnation. Apple pie, rhubarb crumble (or other fruits in season) with custard (made with Birds Custard Powder). Strawberries or raspberries from the garden with REAL cream in the summer, yum.

Forgot toad-in-the-hole with onion sauce, we had that quite often in winter.

We had a strict meal rota (1970s)

Sunday roast (pork/chicken/lamb/brisket in strict rotation)
Monday - Sort of shepherd’s pie or casserole made from left over roast
Tuesday - cauliflower cheese or soup (or something everyone except my mother considered an inadequate meal)
Wednesday - spam fritters or weird homemade pizza
Thursday - pie (bought not home made)
Friday - fish and chips
Saturday - stuffed peppers

We didn’t have tea, we had dinner but it was

Spaghetti Bolognaise
Lasagne
Meatballs
Shepherds pie
Chilli

I think my mum liked mince

We also had a lot of lamb chops, steak and roast chicken, beef or lamb.

I also remember beef casseroles, salmon rissoles and lots of soups.

At one point I also recall boiled potatoes appearing quite a lot but my mum was quite early on the whole pasta and rice front too. Occasional fishmongers with either chips or mashed potato served using an ice cream scoop

I was bornnin 1973 we had a lot of homemade pies cheese and onion wss paticularly nice, potatoe hash , roast dinners , we always had a cooked breakfast on a sunday , my mum was quite adventurous though so we also had spaghetti Bolognese (although i remember it being bland) and curries always with sultanas in them , if we went abroad (this would have been in the 80,s though my mum would always try and make a version of a local dishes when we got home, with varying resuts .

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Monday: cold meat (from Sunday - beef or pork)and chips (homemade in a pan of lard which spent most it's life solidified on the cooker)
Tuesday: Cottage pie and beans or calves liver and onions and mash
Wednesday: Fishfingers and chips/ mash or sausage and mash
Thursday: Homemade mince pie, mash or spag bol
Friday: Bacon butties (hurah)
Saturday: Fish and Chips (double hurah). Also mum spent the day baking so had egg custard, apple pie, ginger biscuits, fairy cakes (buns!!) in all the colours of the rainbow - she liked a bit of food colouring.
Sunday: roast beef or pork and cabbage

Ooh other puddings we had during the week - bananas and carnation milk, blancmange, ground rice, rice pudding, supermousse (yum!)

Mum was a fantastic cook! Wish I had known at the time it would be my last ever taste of her apple pie - it was such a treat! :)

I would love a nutritionist to give their verdict on this lot as (and this will make me sound 100) it seemed like what to have for tea was less of a THING back then and that perversely the more we know about healthy eating now the more anxious it makes us.

Seconding the ever present chip pan solid with lard here @stottiecake

Born 1971, egg and homemade crinkle chips!!
Stottie cake with lemon curd!
Hot pot.
Sunday dinner at dgm house.