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

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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 ?!

cory Scandi?

Egg n chips
Chop n chips
Beef skirt n chips
Findus crispy pancakes n chips
Minced meat n mash
Potato hash
Roast once a fortnight
Curry

Chips all done in a chip pan

Spag bol and pizzas arrived when I was about 15

I don't know how I survived. Not a vegetable to be seen until the fortnightly roast!

Irish stew, which consisted mainly of lambs vertebrae and barley.
Spam , which my sister and I called doom.
Lamb chops
Firsh fingers
Spaghetti on toast
Egg and chips
Lots of mash, carrots, cabbage

Pudding was angel delight, jelly , supermarket version of mr Kipling Apple pies with evaporated milk, and once or twice, arctic roll. But mostly Fresh Fruit.. it was just fruit , but if it was for pudding it was always called fresh fruit.

60,s child
Stew
Faggots
Vesta meals!
Sausage and mash
Chops
Sunday roast

Gooseberries (ew!)
Angel Delight
Sponge pudding
Rice pudding
Crumble

Ah yes angel delight or the cheap version Instant Whip.
And yes to stuff with barley in. Lamb Stew and soups for instance.

I wonder if the porridge in a drawer was a tale to cheer people up rather than real ? "Oh we may only have porridge but at least we don't eat it out of a drawer like the Doyles" i wouldn't be surprised.

I was just thinking about hot pork pies today, so I've ordered a Melton Mowbray pie to see if it's anything like those hot pies from my childhood!

thighofrelief Hope your Dad's soon on the mend. If the wine glass of Lucozade hasn't been served yet, there is hope for him I think.

Dried soup mix soaking in a pan overnight. Mum's soup often had some big bone in it too.

Silentbob my MIL still boils frozen broccoli for 25 minutes because - it has to be cooked 🤦‍♀️

We had lots of offal too, I still can’t stand the smell of liver, never mind eat the stuff 🤢

Ada thank you, i think there's still hope while we're at the egg in a cup stage. The wine glass is still at the back of the cupboard so we should be ok

cory Scandi?

I was thinking that too. I live there now and if it is then not much has changed.

Ugh - meat with tubes! I had forgotten that terribleness. Also rissoles, i hate those and still call them gristles. I do love a cloutie dumpling though pre microwaves boiled all day in an old shirt.

Ham sandwiches, cheese or pâté on toast, scones with cream and jam, battenburg cake, homemade coffee cake, Victoria sponge... not all at once! Sometimes an iced finger after school though that may have been more 80s. And loose leaf tea in a pot!

Born 1960

Stews oxtail with dumplings was a favourite
Pies and puddings (meat and fruit)
Mince with onions and carrots
Chops (esp pork chops with a bit of bone and the kidney in)
Shellfish and eels in parsley sauce
Meat and two veg
A lot of fish - even salmon as a treat
Consomme
Chicken loction
Steak sometimes
Egg and bacon pie
A lot of cabbage
Liver and bacon
Stuffed hearts
Salt beef and pease pudding
Pressed tongue
Wimpeys
A special treat - spag in one end of a tin and bol in the other
B Aked potatoes
Frozen moussey things (raspberry and lemon)
Rice pudding
Blancmange
Jelly
Tinned fruit
Learning to eat fish such as plaice and dover sole nicely on the bone
Kippers
Smoked haddock
Roasts on Sundays, cold meat, mash, pickles and cabbage on Mondays
Arctic roll
Jam tarts
Carnation milk
Oh yes, chip pan
And the joy of new potatoes, strawberries, peaches, runners, etc as they came into season.
Sweets at school
Never having salad in winter

..and shock, by the late 60s, my mothef was adventurous:
Spag bol
Chicken kiev
coq au vin
Baked alaska
Curry and rice
Quiche and salad

I had my first pizza in a restaurant at 15 and queued for a McDonalds at Marble Arch when I was 17!

In the 70’s my parents went giddy and bought a chest freezer.

We had days out to Bejams and DM would purchase an entire animal from the butchers; every party of the poor beast was delivered in labelled plastic bags.

We also had a giant brown sack of potatoes in the larder.

Do essentially every meal would involve a part of the animal, potatoes and frozen veg.

No dessert was complete without evaporated milk. I thought tinned mandarin segments were the last word in sophistication. We fought over who got the cherry in the fruit salad.

If you woke from a coma you’d know what day it was by what DM would dish up (the only detail changed would be the type of animal she would pull from the chest freezer.

You could only get Lucozade from the chemist. DM measured it out in v small shot glasses.

We also used to have this enormous family size sausage plait and stuffed marrow. I really hate things stuffed in other things, very disturbing and there was a lot of it!

Pate was sold in plastic tubes. Later in the 80s we had quite exotic meals from a deli including garlic sausage and salami.

Homemade plain scones with butter, warm out of the oven.

Coconut buns from a bakers. Just a bun with some white icing on it and desiccated coconut stuck on.

Liver and bacon, cottage pie, homemade steak and kidney pie, roast dinner, fish pie, chicken casserole, beef casserole, lamb chops with potato and veg, cheese or ham salad, sausage pie.

Saturday tea was something on toast eg egg, beans or spaghetti hoops or kippers. Then cake with cup of tea.

Spamfritters, baked beans and chips

Loads of meat & 2 Veg dinners
Shepherds pie
Lamb stew
Cheeky fry up on Saturday and maybe a small steak dinner
Findus crispy pancakes, I tasted one as an adult and it was GROSS and fish fingers for the quick dinners
Chippy for a cheeky treat

When you had a sick bug it was lucozade and chicken soup.

Mum used to hand me a bone from the chicken with a ball and socket. Don't know if it was to eat or play with?!

Chest freezers! Oh yes. We didn't have one but many of our friends and neighbours did. They were a 70s rage.

My mum handed me sticks of raw rhubarb and a bowl of sugar to dip it in.
Or the peelings from a cooking apple to eat.