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 ?!

TheQueef you are right there was usually bread and butter on the table alongside a meal.
Love the Bakewell under the grill! brilliant.

This thread is making me so nostalgic and I miss the days where there didn't seem to be all this angst around food.

Did anyone else have Radio 4 on over dinner every night? Kenneth Williams' histrionics on Just a Minute, and the Shipping Forecast, which would be coming on as my mum was making coffee (in an electric percolator!).

remember horrible vesta curries and chow mein they came dry and you added water to them,
they were vile,
ox tail braised forever in the oven was nice
, my mom didnt have a lot of money so ocasionally we would have pig s trotters,
shepherds pie a lot
mince beef stew not proper beef stew

best thing my mom ever made was proper rice pudding used to cook it in the oven for ages my brother and i used to fight over the skin

We didn't have a freezer, so my mum would occasionally buy this powdered ice-cream that you mixed and froze in the ice-compartment of the fridge. We considered that an immense treat.

60s/70s :

Lamb chops with peas and mashed potatoes
Braised liver and onions
Sausage, beans and chips
Ham with thick fat and lurid orange breadcrumbs with salad and salad cream
Macaroni cheese
Cauliflower cheese
Onions in cheese sauce
Tinned spaghetti hoops on toast
Beans on toast
Tinned pilchards in tomato sauce on toast

My favourite was Walls skinless sausages with chips

It wasn’t great. My mum wasn’t a good cook so everything was very bland. Chips with nearly every meal. Egg and chips. Spam and chips. Frozen pizza and chips. Sausage and chips. Findus pancakes and chips. Even shepherds pie and chips!

Sometimes we were given a piece of incinerated meat, usually a pork chop or a tough piece of liver. Or a gammon chop. Sometimes they were all bristly and hairy. Roast dinners usually lamb or pork with boiled cabbage.

No sauces unless it was gravy or tomato sauce. No spices other than in baked cakes or biscuits. Bread and butter with every tea.

Never pasta or rice. Just potatoes.

Salad was generally a whole lettuce leaf, a chunk of unpeeled cucumber, a whole tomato and a piece of cheese or a whole boiled egg. Basically a few items rolling round a plate.

Pudding was nice though. Ice cream with chocolate Ice Magic, tinned fruit with Carnation milk, frozen strawberry mousses, or jelly.

We also ate sandwiches made with luncheon meat, corned beef, sandwich spread or fish paste.

I was thinking about this earlier. I think my childhood diet was pretty crap. But on the other hand we didn’t snack at all. It was very rare to be given a packet of crisps or a soft drink (usually we only got these when left outside in the pub garden waiting for our parents!)

Born late 50's

We had dinner with potatoes each day, always potatoes, liver once a week, lots of steamed savoury and sweet suet puddings which used to steam for hours and DP's wondered why the kitchen was full of condensation and dampish.

Angel delight was a treat and iirc in the 60s we used to have tinned fruit with tinned cream or evaporated milk with bread and butter.

We also had sugar sandwiches and bread and dripping, though that also could have been in the 60s

It was always meat and 2 veg, my mother never allowed the buying of "cheap shit". I used to go to friends house for tea after school and OMG she had frozen pizza, crispy pancakes, arctic roll, curry, smash and other fine things. I remember her showing me the foil dinners her mum made in the oven - I was so jealous at the time.

We had stew, chops, steak, minced meat (cooked with ketchup in it) roast dinners. everything served with potatoes and veg - only seasonal veg too so lots of cabbage, turnip, carrots etc. It was lovely food actually. Dessert was icecream and tinned fruit or jelly, queen of puddings or bread and butter pudding.

Tea was bread and butter and cups of tea with something like grated cheese or baked beans, or fried mushrooms. On Saturdays my mum did a full mixed grill for tea with chips. my cousins would come over for it. Salads were lettuce, tomatoes, jarred beetroot, spring onions and salad cream. She sometimes served chips with a salad - it is surprisingly delicious.

Meat and veg with potatoes. Only sauce was gravy and the only seasoning was salt and pepper.

70's after school was bread and jam for tea. I had a cooked meal at school and we didn't have much money so no hot food at home.

Weekends our main meal was at lunchtime and was almost always meat and two veg with fried potatoes or crumpets in the evening.

Lamb's hearts or corned beef hash.

Just writing that makes me want to vomit.

Bacon grill was a favourite.

Sometimes we had delicious corned beef fritters, and my DM also made the best fish and chips. I’be always hated shop-bought ones as hers were so good. As pps have said, our chips were always fried in lard until DM discovered frying oil in the late seventies.

Light my mum’s favourite treat was a condensed milk and sugar sandwich.

i still like sugar sandwiches lol
my children were 70s kids they got more fresh cooked from scratch food than we did, i used to do home made lasagne, curries, devilled kidneys, chilli so my kids got more choice than my brother and i, ours were mainly very simple foods,

I left home thinking you had to start boiling veg for Sunday lunch by 8am at the latest

My parents used to do roast potatoes in lard and flour. They were very leathery. It was a revelation to me when I started cooking them myself (from Delia Smith's instructions) that roast potatoes could actually taste better than boiled potatoes.

I remember having banana sandwiches made with thickly buttered white bread, sliced banana and Demerara sugar.
Toast with lots of butter sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon
A bowl of thinly sliced banana with brown sugar and top of the milk on (that was in the days when milk came in glass bottles and there was a small amount of cream that rose to the top)

Everything seemed to have sugar sprinkled on, I used to always have a couple of spoons on my breakfast cereal and also in hot drinks like Ovaltine. We always had butter in a butterdish as DM said marg was for cooking but we only really had Stork in a pat not like nowadays with all the different spreads.

Condensed milk was lovely, we had that a lot, it was sweet iirc. I quite fancy some now and a sugar and banana sandwich and some top the milk, I do miss that.

In the 70s stew and tatties peas,mince and tatties and peas, boiled ham chips and beans, pie and beans, steak pie and gravy bacon and egg pie
In the 80s crispy pancakes, waffles, Findus curries, spag Bol, chicken chasseur from a Coleman’s packer sauce , silverside on a Sunday

Lots of floury boiled potatoes.

We thought Vesta curry and chow mein were wonderful.

They were compared to Duo-can which was curry one end and rice the other end of a tin. It was truly disgusting.

This is a super thread!

70's child.
Loads of chips with everything.
Meatloaf.
Brains faggots.
Blamonge.
Angel Delight.
Jelly with tinned fruit in.
Carnation milk with tinned fruit.
Home made custard.