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 ?!

Born early 60s so pork/lamb chops, corned beef hash, mince & potatoes, liver, sausages, boiled ham, roast chicken (Monday), roast lamb or beef on a Sunday and scouse on a Saturday. Potatoes with everything - mashed, roasted, new. And lots of veg. Warm puddings e.g. queen of puddings; rice pudding; lemon meringue. Everything cooked from fresh by our nan who lived with us and was a great cook. Fridays were homemade battered fish and chips, and we often had fresh crab or winkles. In the summer when we came home from school we had mixed salad barm cakes (a white roll) with hard-boiled egg and a bit of salad cream. Regular Ski yoghurts (so much sharper than these days), cheese bought in big hunks, homemade jam, and strong tea.
I loved all of it - unfortunately for my weight - and starting making my own exotic foods when I was about 11. My mouth is watering now...

Custard tarts.

I might make some tomorrow as I'd forgotten how utterly delicious they were.

I just remembered swiss roll topped with angel delight. Lush.

Plus jelly made with evaporated milk. Lush.

Apple amber, eves pudding, chicken and bacon pie, rock buns, stuffed hearts, liver and bacon, coq au vin, corned beef hash (mmm may make that soon topped with grated cheese)
Goblin tinned hamburgers in onion gravy with mash.

Chips, chips and more chips. For every meal except breakfast.

There was only one type of salad and it was iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and boiled egg. With chips.

There was only one type of Chinese and it was chicken with a packet of sauce from the Co-Op. And chips.

Chips also came with pie, egg, sausage, fried lamb chop, tinned meat such as Pek, beans, etc. Or sometimes just with bread.

On the rare occasion we didn’t have chips, we had mashed potato. That always came with meat, veg and gravy. The veg was always boiled in salty water and I hated it. I was about 20 before I discovered that veg could be delicious and naturally sweet instead of horrible and salty.

Pasta and pizza didn’t appear till the late 80s. Neither did burgers in buns. My first lasagne was early 90s. I was grown up and left home before my diet no longer consisted of mostly chips.

Chips with just about everything. Even if we had salad, there would be chips with it. We had stews, broth, pies (sometimes shop bought). I absolutely loved angel delight. Findus crispy pancakes. Spam fritters. We never ever had rice, pasta or a baked potato.

Puppy I remember braising steak... !

I also remember drinking some kind of powdered orange 'juice' for breakfast - Rise and Shine?

goulash Crikey that's exotic!

We had stews, mince and potatoes, stewed sausages, fish in parsley sauce, mince round and potatoes. Everything was with potatoes and there was a lot of cabbage around in our house too. Those frozen mousses for pudding or angle delight, homemade marble cake or lemon meringue pie. I miss the 70s!

I remember my sister and I nearly passed out one day when we saw a garlic bulb on the window sill in the kitchen. Mum was thinking of being a. It exotic but it eventually went off she had to through it out. She had no idea what to do with it! 😂

Late 60s/70s here ...

'Savoury mince' - mince and onion, oxo cube, a squirt of tomato puree .... no herbs or garlic. Watery and yuk.
Chicken liver casserole - basically livers and a tin of tomatoes
Spam fritters
Liver - or more like leather
Breast of lamb - if you could find any meat amongst the fat it was tasty, but you'd lose your appetite searching for it!
Findus crispy pancakes
Fish fingers
The very occasional fish and chip supper from the chippy
Sausages, burgers, 'cutlets' (burger by any other name) .... Bejam's finest, not fresh from a butcher
Horrid frozen pizzas the size of a side plate which invariably would burn on the top before the base thawed

Oh, it was grim. My mum was a terrible cook - think Ria from 'Butterflies' if anyone remembers that and her skills, or lack of, were compounded by not having much money so we mostly ate 'cheap' and it tasted like it. Stuff was either burnt or half raw, and on a plate, half of it would be cold as my mum never got the knack of timings. Not that that was the fault of the 70s! But it was all so bland and boring .... the only pasta we ever had was spaghetti hoops.

Egg and chips.
Roast dinner at lunchtime on Sunday, then cold cuts on Monday; also my mum used to make rissoles out of these.
Cauliflower cheese
Findus crispy pancakes
For birthdays, we would have a hot oil fondue.
In the 80s we started having pasta and rice, and when Madhur Jaffrey had been on TV, even homemade curries. 80s food was so much better than 70s food!

I just remembered belly pork and now I'm not hungry anymore.

Spam fritters (surprisingly delicious)
Findus Crispy Pancakes
Roasts
Fray Bentos pies
Brains Faggots
Lots of mash and green beans
Angel Delight
Mr Kipling cakes
Ski yoghurts
Jam tart and custard

We had angel delight too, and blancmange, but my mum also used to make proper puddings from scratch - things like Eve pudding or jam Roly poly with Birds custard.

Mince and potatoes
Boil in the bag fish
Vesta curry loved them lol
Sausage plait
Pies
Sausages and mash
Didn't often have chops as they were too expensive
Gammon and parsley sauce
And as a treat we had steak sandwiches! The steak was from Bejam in a pack of 10 it was processed and wafer thin you grilled it, god know what meat it was but it said steak on the packet lol.

Things we had that I never cook now and I really must get round to one day:

Irish stew

Roast gammon (I only do it at Christmas don't know why I don't do it more often)

Bubble and squeak (ditto)

Rice pudding

Lemon meringue pie

Jelly and cream. Either real cream or a tin of nestle cream. Ham sandwiches. Jacob’s crackers with cheese. Egg on toast. More snacks than dinners.

Vesta chow mein
Artic Roll
Angel Delight
Roast every Sunday
Cottage pie made from the leftover meat on Monday
Junket
Veal cutlets

Ghoulash - YES!!! us too....

I can't quite remember when the Breville sandwich maker came into play - maybe 1980? but it was a game changer for lunch times!

Child of the 70s here- lots of spaghetti Bolognaise in our house and different types of pasta and rice. Consequently I crave mash potatoes but DH had potatoes with every meal as a child (never pasta or rice) and he hates mash and would rather rice/pasta which I don't like that much.

Worst dinner for me was yellow fish in a milk sauce with egg and unusually, mash. I only ate the mash!

Tea always sounds so posh, like something you’d go to claridges for.

I was an incredibly faddy eater and hated everything, to be fair there was some shockingly bad food in the seventies. There seemed to be meat in almost everything, even baked beans had a big slab of pork fat floating at the top of the can 😕

I did like: sticky rice, mac and cheese (from a box) mashed potatoes, meat loaf, really processed ‘cheese’

Does anyone remember those Lyons individual fruit pies which came in a box about 4 or 5 inches across, I loved those, I was always given one for school trips, they were a bit like the small mcvities apple pies but in all different flavours and bigger

White bread. So. Much. White. Bread.

I remember yoghurts in waxy cardboard cartons - ski I think

Ahhh - the Findus crispy pancake is getting plenty of mentions ...also Angel Delight!

Mostly bread and butter with various spreads. We had school dinners, and had a hot meal there. It doesn't appear to have harmed me.
Mum and dad occasionally had hot meal whilst we had tea, but they'd worked all day.