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 ?!

We weren’t fat because we had no snacks (nothing at school apart from lunch and school milk before Maggie Thatcher stole it away) you only need to look at threads on here about people packing snacks/sandwiches to take on the school run!!

@ScreamingValenta

I remember powdered ice cream mix too. I think this was the stuff!

We had snacks.

At infant school we always got a viscount biscuit with our milk.

At junior school the headmaster ran a tuck shop. Chocolate dundee biscuits as big as your head were the best. Or bags of crisps with the little flavour sachet inside.

Chips
Chips and egg
Mince and potatoes
Cheese sandwich
Jam sandwich
Roast chicken, mashed potato and beans
Meat paste sandwiches
Later on.... sausage casserole (hmm) and ‘macaroni cheese’ (boiled macaroni with cheese melted on top)
A cup of tea with most things.

Mince and tatties
Corned beef hash
Stovies
Smoked haddock, beans and chips.
Fried herring fillets, boiled potatoes and tinned peas.
Homemade fish and chips with battered haddock fillets and twice fried chips.
The occasional vesta Chinese meal.
Findus crispy pancakes
Frozen beef burgers with chips.
Lamb chops
Liver and onions
Haggis, needs and tatties

Fish and some meats must have been cheaper then.

No takeaways except fish and chips.
Rare restaurant outings, usually Indian.

We had a chip pan with lard in it that didn't get changed very often.
We also had a pressure cooker that did silverside of beef.

Just been over to Mum and Dad's house. Dad's not well and guess what he's had to eat? That's right:

Egg in a cup
Saps (white bread mashed with warm milk and sugar)
Liquid jelly in a mug

thigh barf!

When us kids were ill we got Campbells condensed chicken soup and a Scottish morning roll. Heaven.

I forgot about corn beef hash!

What’s liquid jelly?

Liquid jelly is jelly cubes with boiling water poured on but not set. A hot, sticky drink - meant to put hairs on yer eyeballs or something.

Tinned soup with potted beef sandwiches. Yum.

Did anyone else used to get potted meat from the butcher in see through pots with bumpy sides (I can’t think of the correct term). I used to get it for packed lunch sometimes to eat with a fork, not spread on anything. I ate so much of it the thought of it makes me queasy now. Haven’t seen it for years.

Hah cross post kind of Brexit.

Do not think I ever drank liquid jelly though I did like chewing on jelly cubes.

Lucky he's not ill enough for hot Ribena - that's an intensive care job.

Used to wish we could have Ready Brek instead of porridge with salt. Now that we've all left home they have maple syrup with the porridge. That would have been scorned as fancy and English.

I remember potted meat in butchers though we didn't get it.
We did have shiphams sandwich pastes. Chicken, beef or sardine and tomato. yum. I had sandwiches with that on for my packed lunches.

hmmmwhat was that potted heed?

We also used to get hot pork pies from the butchers with the jelly still hot. Delicious - but boak.

Ooh slices of Neapolitan ice cream.
Tinned fruit with evaporated milk.
Arctic roll.
Crumbles with evaporated milk
Homemade rice pudding.
Semolina with evaporated milk.

My Dad who grew up in the 30s and 40s swears he had a friend who used to get a slice of porridge from a drawer every morning. I think it's a rural myth - no one has ever seen a slice of porridge cut from a drawer full of cold porridge but I have heard other people talk about it too. Or is it just me?

Or potted hough?

Born in 1959.

No ready meals ever. I don't think they existed in rural Yorkshire. If they did our local shop wouldn't stock them. Although I do remember rissoles and beef burgers.

Quite often tea was mashed up sardines or pilchards on toast. One slice each only.
Or a boiled egg - only the one each. Fill up on bread and jam.
Melted cheese drizzled over a slice of toast. Only one slice each.
Occasional chicken on a Sunday, which had to last three days.
Bloody awful Fray Bentos steak pie with mash and veg. One pie to serve two adults AND two kids.

Supper was often a raw egg each, whisked into a glass of milk with a dash of vanilla essence. It was delicious! My favourite supper!

I have no idea how my father coped as he had a manual job, as did my mother! No wonder we were all thin.

Oddly, I don't recall feeling actual hunger though.

Ive read about the drawer of porridge and also folks getting scurvy on that diet.

I've just remembered a really odd meal we used to have. Sausage rolls (six inch long ones out of the freezer) freshly baked with tinned oxtail soup poured over the top. How on earth she came up with this culinary masterpiece I will never know (we all loved it!)

haha, I grew up abroad so I'm going to join this thread just to be awkward

we had things like:

pan-fried herring and boiled spuds
sliced fried cod's roe and boiled spuds
fishfingers and boiled spuds
meatballs and boiled spuds
pan-fried mackerel and boiled spuds
sausages and home-made mash
beef stew and boiled spuds
casseroled chicken and boiled spuds
fried liver and mash
sauted kidney and...you're not going to believe this, folks- rice!

My grandmother was rather shocked at my mother's propensity for serving rice rather than boiled spuds with meals...oh, maybe once every 3 weeks, or so. Not a proper meal if there weren't plenty of boiled spuds around, according to my grandmother's generation.

My mothers arms must have lengthened considerably over the years with the amount of potatoes and evaporated milk she hauled home.