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

[bbcessex]

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 ?!

Pork chops
Economy burger
Chicken curry made with mango chutney
Findus crispy pancakes
Roast dinner on sunday
Sausage n mash
Ate out about twice yearly

Mince and tatties, cheese and potato pie, stew, fish fingers, stew, chops, ham and chips, roast dinners. If we had puddings it would be tinned fruit and cream, or sometimes Angel Delight or some kind of whipped-up moussey concoction. Baking was done at weekends but mostly eaten by Sunday night. We quite liked the Vesta curries and chow mein, but portions were stretched formidably thin, even with the obligatory chip accompaniment.

Findus crispy pancakes (they were obviously massive )
chops
stews
roasts
quiches
egg and chips
toad in the hole

I don't remember there being pasta, or even rice really. Pudding (not every day or even most days) was ski yoghurt or jelly or tinned fruit. We didn't eat out other than say on holiday (UK) scampi in a basket or occasional fish & chips, very rarely Wimpy.

Oh yes and shepherd's pie

In the 60s my Mother cooked
Fish every Friday, plaice haddock or cod usually, but my favourite was skate in black butter sauce or cold with mayonnaise.
Roast every Sunday, usually pork or beef, Yorkshire puddings were served with gravy as a first course when we had beef.
Other meals she did were poached chicken served in an egg sauce with boiled rice, mince & dumplings, stewed beef in rich tomato sauce with spaghetti, cauliflower cheese with baked gammon.

By the 70s I was married, and meals I cooked from scratch, as it is amusingly know these days were
Moussaka (shiny purple aubergines were irresistible and SO exotic!)
Risotto ("But there's no meat" greeted my first mushroom risotto!)
Spag Bol, chilli con carne, lasagna, coq au vin, beef casserole, and of course the Sunday Roast were all regular features.

I had a set of Elizabeth David cookery books and made many of the recipes, though some of the ingredients were impossible to find. Olive oil was still sold in tiny bottles by the chemist! Fennel was unheard of, walnut oil a precious holiday gift.

We only ever had ski yoghurt when relatives from Holland came, my Mum assumed that covered the continental palate.

Borrowing Mrs Adams spare dining chairs, ski yoghurt and my Da making dangerous homebrew in a swing bin in the coal hole.
Always meant happy chocolate sprinkle and marg sandwiches.

Homemade fish pie, cottage pie or lasagne. Always eaten at the kitchen table. The dining room was saved for "best". I was allowed to eat my tea "away from the table" one evening a week and I could choose my own meal. It was always Campbell's meatballs in gravy from a tin, chips made in a chip pan and peas.i used to eat it whilst watching The Waltons. Lovely!

OMG, I forgot about LIVER >

Bit later on, but anyone remember Bernard Matthews Turkey Roasts (I think they were called)... they became our Sunday staple!

Oooh yes, and chips and egg. With salad cream!

And in the 70s, our Sunday tea was sandwiches, pickled onions, sausage rolls (the frozen ones with very pink 'meat') and crisps, in front of the telly. Lovely!

70s:

Casseroles
Faggots
Stew and dumplings
Hash (either corn beef or leftovers from Sunday roast)
'braised steak' (this meant in our house steak with all flavour removed)
Mince
Lamb/pork chops
Home made sausage rolls
White fish
Lumpy mashed potato .

Child of the 60s, pretty much the same dinners every week
Roast
Cold meat and bubble & Squeek or chips
Stew
Liver and onions
Cottage pie
Fish & Chips
My dad also liked braised lambs hearts but my mum wouldn't touch it. She loved pie and mash or jellies eels from the pie and mash shop down the market near us.
I liked fish fingers and frozen spinach, I have no idea how that combination started but I had it regularly for about 5 years
All home cooked except pie and mash.

Born in1966 youngest of six in a traditional Irish family living in Nottingham.

I remember an awful lot of braising steak. Also warmed up co-op pies. And amazing chips done in a deep fat fryer.

We had a roast dinner most Sundays and plenty of stews (Irish).

I remember having scrambled egg a lot too. And a bowl of beans with bread to dip in.

Butter and sugar sandwiches, obviously.

Chippy tea on Fridays.

No rice or pasta. And I remember my dad being amazed when I came home from university in the holidays and cooked myself jacket potato with cheese. He’d never known such exotic delights.

I was born in 72. No one in my family was much of a cook so we ate a lot of convenience food. Typical weekday tea would be tinned soup with white bread and marg, things from tins on toast (hoops, beans, ravioli, toast toppers), boiled eggs with toast, sandwiches (ham, fish or meat paste, egg or cheese) or cold meat from a Sunday roast with new potatoes. We didn’t have a freezer until the mid 80s so I never got the delights of crispy pancakes or fish fingers until I was a bit older.

Sunday lunch. Same meal again on Monday as "leftovers" (My mum would deliberately do too much the day before. Followed by stew the following night to use up the very last of the leftovers. Usually had shepherds pie day once a week too. Potatoes, two veg and gravy figured heavily. Remember my mum making lots of "stews" which were made with soup for added flavour!

Funny how it's very stodgy food generally and lots of chips etc but everyone was slimmer!

I remember mum opening a tin of chilli con carne and thinking it was very exotic (70s).

Pudding was often a Bakewell tart out the packet but for some bizarre reason mum would bung it under the grill before serving it ..... the icing burnt to a black crisp

I forgot puddings in my list!

Rice pudding and semolina pudding (from which I begged to be excused) Served with a dollop of jam.
Home made apple pie (my mum still makes a brilliant apple pie)
Syrup/treacle sponge
Treacle tart

All served with custard (made with custard powder) but I declined the custard (I still hate custard to this day).

We were allowed to eat or not eat the food my mum cooked, but if we didn't eat it, we weren't offered anything else and there was no 'snacking' in those days, so we usually forced it down.

I don't think I ate a single meal without bread and butter - marge - dripping the entire 1970's.

Stews, sausage & mash, mince & tatties (DF was Scottish), egg & chips. Always a roast on Sunday lunch with another on Monday night using up the cold meat. Fish & chips as a treat, little Cornish pasties from M&S for Saturday tea. I can clearly remember how exciting and exotic a Vesta beef risotto in a packet seemed when I discovered it.

My mum was (is) a terrible cook and I hated mealtimes!
we had terrible dinners:
stew made with packet oxtail soup
mash which was literally mashed potatoes with nothing added and always lumpy
stuffed heart (blerrgh)
stuffed steak - some sort of flat steak (round?) stuffed with breadcrumbs

PG tips or loose leaf tea

I was born in 1973 and had similar meals to those mentioned here. My fondest memories though are for the puddings my Mum used to make, rice, tapioca, blamange, milk jelly and my favourite chocolate semolina. My Mum used to add spoon of cocoa powder it was heavenly!

We had something called '99' loose leaf tea - I think it might have been made by the Co-op. It wasn't great. I remember the joy of discovering Earl Grey in the late 80s!

Can't remember much - it was a long time ago - except chop and chips, which was tiny grilled lamb chops, chips and peas, which was my favorite, and 'lobby', short for lobscouse, a northern dish which was a kind of stew made with potatoes, onion, carrot, corned beef. Don't remember having puddings except on special occasions, maybe trifle, tinned fruit and tinned cream.