What was a "treat" in your house growing up that

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Actually was just a normal food or drink? Mine was pure orange juice my parents only bought it at Christmas

Mr Kipling cakes in the packets such as Viennese whirls and cherry bakewell tarts. Also jam tarts, battonburg and French fancies!

Fizzy drinks
Neopolitan ice cream

Yoghurt- we became middle-class when we bought a yoghurt-maker 😂

Then when it broke down we hit the ground hard

60's child

Remember:
Lucozade in cellophane when ill
OJ or melon as a starter on holiday and smoked haddock with a poached egg on toast for breakfast.

My treat at grannies: spag bol in a double ended tin. Spag at one end, bol at the other.

We ate well so I don't recall treat food as such but do remember the joy of seasonality: strawberries, cherries, peaches, runners, peas, asparagus, new potatoes, stored apples, etc.

When father came home after a trip to London: smoked salmon and bagels or Kossof's cheesecake.

Oh and packets of dried dates at Christmas which were vile. I disliked dates until I tried fresh ones.

Oh and something my grandmother made which seems novel today. Ice cream wafers, slicing the icecream from a wafer sized block.

Oh, and the occasional steak and kidney pudding but very regular pies: steak, chicken and ham, and all the fruits. There was always fruit pie at weekends.

Vienetta ice cream! And seedless grapes, if we were ill.

Chips. We only had chips once a year whilst on holiday.

White bread.

Pop at Christmas (I since became a diet coke fiend).

Fruit was one piece a day.

Veg portions were tiny.

Strawberries, cherries, baguettes, pasta, sausages, ski yogurts, rotisserie chicken from the super market, fresh orange juice, steak

White bread

Cheese

‘Cracking’ nuts were DF’s treat at Christmas. He used to sit with the bowl and nut cracker slowly working his way through walnuts, hazelnuts, brazil nuts, etc. Used to sit with puppy dog eyes near him willing him to give me one. If I was good I used to get a shard of Brazil nut.

Oh yes, getting food according to the seasons instead of available all the time.

I still refuse to buy fruit out of season, I look so forward to the first strawberries etc. Similar, I don’t eat clementines in Summer.

Also fresh orange juice! My parents would buy a carton every so often and it was rationed out (between a family of four ). When it was gone, it was gone.

Vienetta, Neapolitan ice cream, tinned salmon sandwiches

YY to Lucozade in cellophane. That was a treat when recovering from illness. It wasn't the 'everyday' drink it is today.

Oh I'd forgotten red salmon sandwiches. We used to have them on Sunday evenings.

Lemonade for the kids with the roast on Sunday. Grown ups had a bottle of wine.
On holiday my parents went into the pub and left us kids outside in the pub garden with the dog - and yes, this was a treat! We had lemonade and crisps brought out to us.
Reading this thread makes me realise why we have an obesity crisis now

RIP to 1980s Lucozade (only when you were sick). Have you tasted it now, since they reduced the sugar and pumped it full of sweetener? A shadow of its former fizzy sugary orange delicious self.

something my grandmother made which seems novel today. Ice cream wafers, slicing the icecream from a wafer sized block.
Sliders!
Not an everyday food then or now but DH's dad used to bring them home a liqourice root each to chew on as a treat. In the way that my dad got us a packet of Opal Fruits each.

@AuntieMarys

Remember fruit juice was served as a starter in resturants

Still is in a pub restaurant near us... Even in WINTER!!

Yoghurt. We were allowed one each a week and my goodness the palaver we made about choosing our ONE yoghurt a week. I never dared try a different flavour no matter how much I liked the look of it, I just couldn't risk not enjoying that one yoghurt a week. Mr Men Black Cherry flavour in case you're interested. Later I managed to work up the courage to try Peach Melba and fortunately it was very nice but I never moved on beyond those two flavours. The risk was just too high.

Bridge rolls for birthday parties. Much posher that sandwiches. Mum used to order three dozen from the local baker.

My parents practically rammed choc, sweets, fizzy drinks and all sorts of shit down my throat as a kid. So healthy stuff was actually a treat strangely ......

Pot noodle. We got one a year on our annual summer holiday. It was agony choosing, knowing that if you went for chicken and mushroom you'd have to wait a whole year before you could experience the exotic delights of spicy curry!

I still think of tinned red salmon sandwiches as something special!

Blackberries, which were my favourite fruit. My mother wouldn't buy them as you can pick them wild. But we lived in London and she never actually took me to pick them! But she did relent and buy them once or twice a year.