What foods were banned in your household growing up?

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I would say for mine sugary cereal like frosties.

I grew up in the 70s. All our food was neon, fat or sugar

I grew up in the 70’s. All our food was whole grain, soya based and brown. No sugar or fat allowed!

I’d have traded places!

Fizzy drinks (only at Christmas or birthday parties).

White bread was an occasional treat. I used to drool over plastic Sunblest sandwiches in other kids lunchboxes.

Parsnips. Both my DM and DF detest them. I didn't know they existed until I was 14, didn't taste one 'til I was 20. Now I love them and eat them as often as possible

Late 70s/early 80s. Anything from South Africa (cape apples etc) - my parents were active boycott-ers due to apartheid.

Not food as such, we were never allowed fizzy pop. Christmas was the only time we were allowed a bottle of lemonade and I used to put in a bit of orange squash to make orangeade. I used to be so excited. Simple pleasures lol

Teenage me banned Nestle for all!
I remember when we were kids I'd be allowed coke as a treat but DBro wasn't because it made him go bananas.

Nothing from Argentina.

I grew up in the nineties.

No fizzy drinks except Appletiser or Orangina.
No sugary cereals.
No sweets or chocolate on a regular basis - they were considered real treat foods.
Never really had takeaway or things like pizza for tea.

I rebelled massively in my teens and spent all my pocket money on junk even now as a 31 year old adult I spend far too much money on junk and have a massive Diet Coke addiction!

Another one for coke or similar - in fact the first time I had it I was about 9 and at my cousins, the cans had to be opened with one of those triangular prodder things, and I can still taste it in my mind.

Fizzy drinks, sprouts, sweetcorn, cabbage and cauliflower. The drinks because kids like them and my parents disapprove of kids enjoying things, and the rest because my father doesn't like them.

No fizzy pop, sweets, or instant mash

Beef.

I grew up in the 70s. Chewing gum was banned my dad thinks it looks common. We never had sweetcorn as he doesnt like it I love it.

Child of the 80s - no fizzy drinks, sugary cereal, sweets, white bread or sausages. I was morbidly obese within 2 months of leaving home.

60s and early 70s - no garlic allowed because it was 'foreign' and 'smelly'. Then we went to Paris (first holiday abroad) and never looked back...

There was no proper cheese in our house because my mother didn't like it. She hadn't even tried it, but hated the smell. We sometimes had Dairylea triangles, so that was my only encounter with cheese and I thought it was horrible.

I love cheese now! My dad loved it too, but couldn't listen to my mum complaining and didn't buy it.

Fray Bentos pies and tinned potatoes. My parents ate so much of these as newlyweds who couldn't cook that they couldn't face them any more.
Spinach. They probably had too much of that growing up after the war. DP did, and he refuses it now.
Candyfloss! Not that anyone eats that at home. Tooth rot, apparently.
Exotic fruit apart from banana and orange. Too expensive.
Veal, because it was cruel. Though I don't remember it being a thing that anybody ate.
Soda stream drinks! Common. We were allowed Coke though. I thought the blanket disapproval of fizzy drinks began in the noughties?

My parents thought chewing gum was common too! (In fact any walking along with food was common).

We only had fizzy drinks once in a blue moon (bad for the teeth), never had any sort of juice.

I was at the dentist a few years ago and they commented on how unusual it was for someone my age from the UK (I live in Aus now) not to have any fillings and I said how my mum had never allowed sugary drinks.

Told my mum and she was like “Aha! Vindicated at last!!”

We ate anything and everything. Way too much sugary stuff as well. No wonder our family’s teeth are fucked!

I grew up in the 80s by the way.

Oh and I have the same rules for my kids too!

Nothing that I can remember. At least not banned as such.

Oh yes, walking along eating food, or chewing gum with one’s mouth open, was not allowed!

White bread
Butter
Sugary cereal
Fizzy pop (except a small glass on Sundays)

All treats and puddings were strictly rationed (or banned), with regular lectures about becoming "fat as porkers" whilst my DM lurched from one diet regime to another, rarely losing any weight.

40 years later my DB is borderline anorexic, having been 5 stone overweight previously and had a terrible binge relationship with sugar, and I have lost and gained the same 3 stone about 4 times. Currently 5 stone overweight - thanks to a terrible binge relationship with sugar.

I grew up in the 70s. Chewing gum was banned my dad thinks it looks common.

Same! Except my mum relented and bought me some after I ate some used chewing gum I found on the pavement.