Did anyone else's mum give them a food nobody you speak to has heard of?

[Rollerbird]

Although with mumsnet I bet others have had 'it:
In my case it's a' treat' of Cabbage Water
Basically when she cooked (boiled) cabbage (which was with a chopped onion, pepper and nutmeg) I could have a cup of the water after (veg stock I suppose)
I did see it as a treat and am drinking some now, remembering her fondly.

Oh yes, breakfast slices. I used to like them. I presume they were cheaper than bacon?

In Ireland we have Marietta biscuits, which are like Rich Tea but with a pattern of little holes in them. As children, we would make a sandwich of two Mariettas with butter in the middle and squeeze so that tiny ribbons of butter would escape through the holes. Lovely.

Does nobody else like Bisto gravy? I love it, but I am a salt fiend. I am often intimidated by what seem by very high cooking standards on MN!

Breakfast slices www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/cookstown-breakfast-bacon-strip-170g

@Rio18 we had the same children's cook book. Mum used to go mad when we left crispy sugar all over the grill pan !

Mum used to use left over mashed potato, fry it up and then pour beaten eggs over it and call it Oglet. I still cook it now as comfort food and loads of tomato ketchup

Nan used to do the onions in vinegar for Sunday tea and we'd have tinned fruit with evaporated milk and bread and butter to dip in the juice.

You can still buy butterscotch Angel Delight in Tesco.

Asda smartprice instant noodles with chopped up fish fingers and tomato ketchup mixed in.

Plain pasta with peas and sweetcorn with cheese on top. Still a comfort food now.

As well as Russian salad Heinz also did coleslaw in a tin.

I much prefer egg sarnies with salad cream rather than mayo. And with sliced cucumber on.

@herja
We were forcefed sosmix too
My mum followed a diet for her arthritis (avoiding stuff helped calm the flare ups) and avoiding red meat was one of them.
She made them into sausage shapes - it was vile. She also tried to sell us carob chocolate as “real” chocolate. 🤮
Mind you, she was a proper traditional housewife (early 80s) and didn’t do any of this fancy newfangled “foreign food” so we used to have minced beef and onions with spaghetti, or rice with gravy for a change 😂

My mum used to do ‘kick at the pantry door’ meals. Basically used up whatever was in the food cupboard. Also Vesta meals - usually Beef curry or Chow Mein.

She also made fruit crumbles with Alpen muesli topping.

And my friends said it was weird but I loved the pumpernickel she bought from the Polish deli buttered with dippy eggs.

My grandad loved grilled bacon, boiled potatoes and broad beans with the bacon dripping poured over - delicious.

And at school we had sponge pudding with rosehip syrup instead of custard.

milk jelly ooh, my mum would make jelly with evaporated milk added to make it creamy. It was lovely.

OHs dad used to make curry from a tin and add crisps in place of poppadoms

Fried potato, fried onion and bacon bits. We called it 'Speck', but that's just the smoked bacon

Yes to

Cheese and jam sandwiches

Cold potato sandwiches

Eggy bread

French toast made by buttering the bread then grilling

Weetabix spread with butter and honey

Cheesy potato pie (basically mashed potato with cheese) is my favourite food.

The sliced cucumber and onion in vinegar my gran used to give us as part of Sunday tea. Tinned fruit salad with bread and butter being another.

Slightly strange we used to have meat pie with grated carrot on the side. Always after I'd been swimming. I used to have it sitting under one of those hairdryers you used to get at hair salons .

Also we used to have cauliflower cheese as a main meal with ritz crackers on the side.

The milk jelly people are describing- if you whisk this up just before it sets its like mousse.

I also used to get jelly cubes to eat like sweets - my mom said they were good for my nails (?)

My dad used to make Cowboy Pie: a mixture of baked beans, sliced sausages and, crucially, pineapple chunks - under a thick blanket of mashed potato, topped with grated cheese.

I love it still.

DM used to make a variety of meals which I didn't consider odd until I was older:

• cheese and potato pie, which was basically mashed potato with cheese stirred in until melted, put in an ovenproof dish, sprinkled with more cheese and then whacked under the grill until the topping melted. Often served with fried onions. It was yum, but not really a pie 😁

• stovies, which was basically a sausage stew with potatoes, carrots and onions, as Mum said we wouldn't like 'real' stovies.

• spag bol made with full fat mince and sliced carrots - I can remember the slick of orange oil left on the plate to this day.

Also had some oddities from the shops:

Brunchies - rissoles made with egg, sausage meat and onion, breadcrumbed and fried - gorgeous

Walls Meat & Potato pie - unknown minced meat with potato in a pastry case - I love it!

My sister and I were also dosed with a tablespoon of malt extract and a teaspoon of cod liver oil on a weekly basis (separate spoonfuls) - you can get these combined now but it tastes vile - I still like the taste of malt extract and love cod liver oil (I know it's weird).

Also - bread and gravy.
This was normally from the stew - so mom would make a stew, second day we would have the left over meat & veg with pastry crust, then another meal we would have the left over gravy over bread (always white bread)

@Easterbuns1 my Nana would always do cucumber in vinegar and slices of onions in vinegar when she did a salad. I loved the stuff. It's quite possibly where my love of pickle juice came from as well

Cheese pudding is a recipe featured in the Hamlyn Cookbook , which I still have,
I used to make a "curry" with tinned tomatoes and eggs cooked in the tomato sauce. I loved it and it was very cheap to make. I also used to buy a pizza base mix from Boots and make my own pizzas in the 80s. I was sad when they stopped selling it.

Wee Rabin with butter mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Weetabix! Wtf is wee rabbin 😂

crispy pancakes and cabbage at grans!i think they made a return,not sure whether they are still around now.
everyone used to think I was some sort of weird alien when it was pack lunch time on trips and my mum would pack some beff and horseradish sandwhiches.heaven forbid I didn't have the "ham" or cheese ones!i used to get teased for it and hated it.god kids are fucking weird.

A pudding made up of whisked evaporated milk tin mixed up with a tin of puréed apple and presented like a cloud in a bowl, and topped with a few strands of green angelica.

Absolutely gross really. Haven't had it in thirty years and never want to again 😆

@BobbinThreadbare123 tongue butties? I was born in Russia where tongue is very common and mum would make me tongue sandwiches (delicious) to take to lunch at school (in Australia) where all the kids (and teachers) would quiz me about what it was and then wrinkle their noses. Good to hear other kids around the world do eat it

My (Irish) family made boxty completely differently to any recipe I've found online. Just grated potato and flour, no mash at all. Occasionally my nan would put in onion but nobody liked it. Best food in the world. Served with butter and salt.
Also made "googly" which is egg mashed with butter and salt but I can't stand that.

Fish dish.

It was a slimming world recipe back from the green/red days. Basically watery white fish cooking in tinned tomatoes. No syns but also no taste...

Sydneysider2019, yeah I liked it. It's nice and savoury. Not so keen on the luncheon meat, or Billy Bear ham!

Toasted cheese ( or roasted cheese where I come from )
With a sliced up banana under the melted cheese.

Try it. It’s delicious