Snacks

[Grumpbum123]

Do you remember having snacks as a child?

I remember September onwards being allowed satsumas and feeling lucky if I went to a friends house and was allowed crisps, apart from this and the occasional ice lolly in the summer we never had them. I wonder when they became popular

Guess I’m the only one 🤣

No we never had snacks, unless you count fruit like apples or pears.

We had 3 meals per day and if we were hungry before bed, we'd have a slice of toast.

The only time we had crisps/peanuts/chocolate etc would be a special occasion, like Christmas/Easter or a siblings birthday.

My mum baked on Tuesdays so we had flapjacks and fairy cakes and biscuits. When they were gone, they were gone.

We had a fruit bowl with apples and bananas and tangerines but no, we didn’t snack like kids do today.

Nope. We weren't bought anything like our kids are today. My dhs family seem to never stop eating. So when i say the kids have eaten enough. They try to suggest i am starving them! They eat 3 meals a day and constantly ask for snacks .very active not over weight or underweight. And if i say no to more chocolate or biscuits then i am an awful mother.

Also growing up even fruit was a luxury in our house!

Im an 80s child and we rarley had snacks. If we were hungry after tea, it would be toast or cereal, christmas we would vienetta or cornettos, a real treat. An occationally it would be an artic roll or like a multi pack of frozen mouse from the freezer shop. My friend used to have draws full of chocolate, i was so jelous.

Mousse, not frozen mouse

No we were never allowed snacks. I was often very hungry as a child as I had a very fast metabolism and did a lot of swimming and ballet.
My kids have 2 snacks a day and they eat their 3 meals

I was born in the late 60s. We were allowed 2 biscuits after dinner and a bar of chocolate/packet of sweets on Friday and that's it.

We did have snacks but not the range there is now.
There was a tuck shop at primary selling fish 'n' chips, chicken 'n' chips, those weird puff crisps, and penny sweets.
If I didn't have any money for that I'd eat my penguin or trio from my lunch box at break time.
We always had with rich tea or digestive biscuits in.
My Mum often made currant cakes- teeny tiny scones we'd eat with jam and butter.
We would always have an after school snack, something like a 10p mix, iced bun, caramac, jelly tots or a toasted tea cake.
Fruit was always available but it was usually bananas which I've always hated, pithy oranges or woolly apples. In the summer grapes, strawberries and cherries which we loved.

Weirdly we didn't eat lunch at weekends or school holidays unless we went out. We'd often have a cooked breakfast which I never liked. I'd only eat bacon and toast or fried potatoes then only a snack until dinner time. Rarely my Mum would give us a bit of cheese on toast, a crust or cracker with butter on or half a carrot at about 3 or 4 but not very often.

No, not at all. I remember going out for the day in the holidays with my parents and grandparents and it was a picnic or lunch out and back for tea. Maybe an ice cream or an afternoon cake if we went to the cafe but nothing like it is now. I am actually scared of going out these days without a huge bag if snacks as my DC are constantly 'starving' apparently.

A lot of kids these days don't actually know what hunger feels like as they're rarely given the chance to feel it. Or if they do, it's not for longer than a few minutes as parents are normally armed with snacks.

Goodness knows why. Hunger is not the enemy and if they were allowed to feel it more often, they'd probably get used to it.

Actually yes Friday night I was given 5p for a packet of meanies at youth club

We didn't routinely have snacks between meals, but we always had pudding after tea, like tinned fruit and evaporated milk, jelly, Angel delight or those frozen mousses, and we always had supper before bed, something like cereal or toast.

Fruit bowl was always on offer. Beyond that, only at Christmas or when we were having a family party there would be nibbles. I don't encourage snacking with my ds. He's 11 and quite capable of having three meals a day. Sometimes he's really hungry after school and then he can have something healthy. If he isn't that hungry he won't eat the fruit or veg on offer.

Snacked all day long for as long as I can remember.
Born in 1960s (outside UK).
My mother stopped regular cooking when I was 8yo so we all ate what we wanted when we wanted.

As a young child I don’t remember many snacks but we often had a glass of milk and a biscuit and before bed.
Once we were older we did have an after school snack and I remember having ice poles in holidays.
Oh and we used to be allowed to choose some thing from the vending machine after swimming or gymnastics.

Born early 70s. The only snack was an occasional slice of homemade fruit cake after school with a cup of tea because we had dinner at 6 when my dad got home.3 meals per day and expected to clear your plate. You did because your appetite wasn’t spoiled.

Oh yes ice poles in summer or an ice cream at the seaside. We always had a fruit bowl but was limited to one piece a day. I didn’t feel starved and played out all day too.

No. 3 meals a day and then toast or cereal or crackers in the evening if hungry. Ice creams on holiday. That was it really.
Our dcs have snacks mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Usually fruit or something like a couple of crackers with hummus or cream cheese.

We had peanut butter sandwiches after school. Nothing else really.

Generally fruit if Mum was home but if my dad was home it was a different story. I remember eating cookies from the packet with lemon curd on them! Still bloody love it. had to be fairly cheap cookies and lemon curd.

Not saying they’re a bad thing my boys snack occasionally I was can’t remember when it became normal

I think the answer to that is when manufacturers started making ‘snack’ items and packaged them that way. Probably 90s/2000s

I moved to UK at end of 1991 & there was packaged snack food everywhere. Flapjacks were the goto item, and they can be difficult to find nowadays. Single packet crisps were ubiquitious & if I believe MIL were widely sold from 1950s onwards, maybe before. She's had a biscuit (snack) with her morning cuppa all her life, even though in next breath she'll claim she 'never snacked' between meals.

Not to mention loose fruit or nuts or milk or a million other things that can be snacks.

Elevenses (first use in English around 1819?)... High Tea (4pm, dates from 1840s ). Could hardly be more traditionally British. If these aren't "snack" events, I don't know what is.