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

We were only allowed fizzy drinks and chocolates on our birthdays.

Another one for Angel Delight, but I can't imagine how we thought it was a treat!

Fruit ... we were not allowed take it without asking, and rarely allowed have pears or oranges - they were treats for adults 😂

(In fairness as a parent of 3 now, I do go nuts when the bananas & satsumas disappear within a day of the food shop, while apples get wrinkly & bruised!)

Fresh Orange juice - only ordered Christmas week and bought when on our annual camping trip to the Lakes.

Also at Christmas - a Macdonalds before our yearly trip to the cinema.

Frisch orange juice and melon

Angel delight too! Hard to choose between strawberry and butterscotch.

We also had creme caramel that came in 2 packets. Loved making that.

Oh yes Lucozade when you were I'll

Arctic roll and Vesta Chow Mein.

Mini Kievs - we were usually a nut roast/chicken basque kind of a family.

Oh Yes! Nesquik!

Sometimes on a Saturday night my parents bought a small box of maltesers and a bag of minstrels, and shared them in glass bowls between the four of us, absolute bliss!

Lucozade- Not just ill, you actually brought it to people who were in hospital and it was sold in pharmacies like some kind of medically approved recovery drink 🤣

😂. Anyone remember the bottle coming wrapped in cellophane?

Swigging Camp Coffee out of Dad's saucer on Sunday evenings.

The variety packs of cereal - only had them when we were at my nan’s who we saw about once a year
McDonalds Happy Meal was a Birthday treat

McCoy's crisps at the pub when my parent's had a drink
Snowball drinks at Christmas
Sugared almonds from my grandma

Instant puddings/angel delight. Once a year a trip to KFC or Pizza Hut

Coke. Only at Christmas.

Crisps, never ever.

Home made chips made in a chip pan (before people realised they were dangerous) we had them as a night time treat once a week when watching London's burning (the irony)

Fizzy pop - only at Christmas
Sunny Delight - everyone at school (well, it seemed like everyone to me!) had it in their lunchboxes, I had to practically beg for it as a treat. I now don't really know what the fuss was about

I remember when fizzy lucozade, lemonade or ginger ale was for the sick in hospital too

Yes fruit here too. If you had eaten your apple that week that was your lot. I had a well off friend and was astounded that apples used to stay in her bowl so long they wizened. They could as many as they liked and never ate any.

Other treats were sweets. Once a week we had two ounces of whatever we wanted from the newsagent which was usually jelly teddies as they were small and you seemed to get a lot in two ounce.

And yet, my mum baked, every day after tea we had a fabulous home made pudding, lemon meringue pie, apple crumble or syrup sponge.

Weird.

McDonald's only when one of your cousin's were having a birthday party there

Mr Kipling French Fancies on a Sunday

Strawberries. We used to put them in volovants? My kids eat them pretty much very day from April-September!!

Yes to Nesquick. It was the most amazing invention somehow

A block of Neapolitan ice cream (it came in a cardboard wrapper) or Arctic Roll.