60s child
You have to remember 1st and foremost every food eaten was seasonal back then.
My mum was a great cook, worked P/T school term. She would prep the night/morning before, peel potatoes sort veg etc.
We had lots of soups, made from butchers bones, ham hough, ribs, veg, broth, lentil sometimes with butter beans in it, tomato soup had small boiled potatoes in it delish. Lots of bread and butter with soup and evening meals.
Puddings were great, crumbles of every fruit, baked rice with raisins yum, tapioca frog spawn we called it, semolina and jelly & custuard was made from custard powder.
Full cooked breakfast on Sundays porridge or toast the rest of the week. Butter not marg home made jam great days out picking from hedgerows blackcurrants red currents yum.
Plenty salads in summer she put tinned peaches in them with home made thin sliced chips salad cream cold meats, jar beetroot and pickles yum.
Lots of stews beef lamb chicken with veg in delish. Fish in milk with mashed potatoes. Always bough a big sack of them and trays of eggs from local green grocer. Lots of veg carrots leeks fresh peas turnip caulis cabbage brussel sprouts green beans, hated broccoli kale. Loved rhubarb stick raw with a little sugar wrapped in a paper when out playing.
Butcher for all meat, chicken pork beef, loved a silverside or brisket roast on Sundays gravy to die for.
Lots of scrambled egg on toast, lunches omelettes eggy bread yum.
Usual
Always two courses Sundays 3 always a soup roast and pudding loved Sunday dinners.
Nothing was shop bought always cooked from scratch very little convenience food we had.
Every school holiday dad would take us out for a meal mum loved that. Sunday best clothes on, varied where we would go. Sit in chip tea, local hotel a real treat, or to the coast if the weather was nice to a cafe. Fab days still remember them.
Sometimes at the weekend we would get an ice cream or ice lolly from the ice cream van than came around most days.
Odd sweet but not a lot as usually full till next meal. Drank water all the time with meals big jug on the table, milk and tea as I got older.
Latterly she would cook pasta, rice, chili con carne curries etc.
We never got a choice nor did mum cook more than one meal, you ate it or had bread and butter, we loved her cooking apart from dads liver he wanted occasionally, we got soup and a sandwich then.
Always fresh fruit in the house again seasonal fruit, used to look forward to strawberry season the best.
As I grew up with this type of cooking/eating I done the same for our family, always try to cook what is in season, usually cheaper too.
Taste so much nicer and can be done with a little ahead preparation as I work term time like my mum did.
Now our family are parents them selves they do as I and my mum did, with the odd convenience meal as a time saver.
Their children eat what is cooked and in the main they do, they dont cook more than one meal.
I really think we were more active in those days and ate what was offered with meals very little snacks, as we were hungry when meal times came around, we had no after school clubs apart from brownies/guides or scouts for my brother.