What foods were banned in your household growing up?

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I would say for mine sugary cereal like frosties.

Processed foods like potato waffles, chicken nuggets, fondue crispy pancakes, frozen pizzas. Mum quite rightly thought they had no nutrition.

Nesquick and Coco Pops - too sugary

I inhaled that shit like I was half-starved when I went for tea at friends’ houses....it tasted like ambrosia. I now let DD have food like that on an occasional basis, in the hope it will avoid her going mental on it when she’s in a position to buy her own food. Only time will tell on that one.

FINDUS crispy pancakes! Though, on reflection, they are kind of like a fondue inside....

Nothing

I grew up on coke , crisps, mars bars and club sandwiches from the officers mess as a child.

I survived and I'm 40 with no fillings either. Seems the coke diet isn't so bad after all

We weren't allowed McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King etc, nestle products, white bread, Coca-Cola, dairylee, those plastic cheese slices, chewing gum.

Just chewing gum - nothing else was banned and I would say that we all have a healthy relationship with food as adults. We rarely had any convenience foods or take-aways though - it was all home made. My cousins were raised by my super-healthy aunt who didn't allow any snacks or sugary treats and I always felt really sorry for them!

Red meat - my mum would only eat white. Never had takeaways or ate out as we couldn't afford it. Had my only takeaway in my entire childhood, aged 11, at my aunt's house. What a novelty! Also loved going to friends houses and having micro chips (we didn't have a microwave) and my aunt had things like Chicago Town little pizzas and frozen pies!
Sugary things and pop were not banned. My mum had/has a sweet tooth. I used to eat donuts for breakfast 😱. It's no wonder type 2 diabetes is rife in that side of the family. It's something I'm very conscious of.

I'd forgotten that bubblegum was banned as well.

So funny about Sunblest bread someone mentioned, me and my brother used to go and hang around our neighbours house put of sight of our mother, and the neighbours mum would wipe slices of real butter onto Mothers Pride and toss it to us. We fell on these gifts like starving pigeons. Better than crack.

Fizzy pop - coke in particular as it made me hyper as a kid.
Now I cannot stand the stuff after not drinking it for all those years, although I do now drink lemonade and appletiser.

Beef because BSE/mad cow disease
Any hard lollipops because choking risk
Chewing gum/bubble gum for the same reason

Would have been a fairly boring childhood but my dad used to take me out for burgers occasionally without telling DM

Spangles.

My mother was convinced they were a choking hazard!!

There were lots of things we didn't have, but the only things that were actually banned were alcohol and margarine. I was brought up in a strict Methodist family, and my Mum didn't trust margarine, or a lot of other processed foods come to think of it.
My parents were born in the 1920s and were very conservative in their attitudes to food. We really only ate traditional British recipes, and since we grew most if our own veg it was obviously always seasonal.
We also didn't have a fridge til I was about 10 or a freezer til I was 15 or 16 so my Mum shopped most days and cooked more or less everything from first principles.
At the time, I felt rather hard done by as all my friends were eating lots of the popular "convenience foods" that seemed rather exciting and exotic to me but with hindsight I probably had a rather healthier diet than the average 70s/80s kid. If my parents were still alive I think it would amuse them that a lot of their eating habits that were looked down on as being old fashioned or due to us being poor, are back in fashion again now. And it seems my Mum was right about margarine all along!

Am I the only one who had no bans on foods at all? First it was the clothing thread now this making me feel like a right commoner

Monster munch- this was common, and cornettos as these were only for rich children.

I never ate a mince pie until I was about 13 because my mum hates them and wouldn't have them in the house.

As it turns out she was entirely right to do so. I discovered I hate them too!

Child of 80's, no Soda Stream because my brother was allergic to the chemicals. I've never tasted Soda Stream because round the time he grew out of this problem, I grew into it and it's put me in hospital waaaaaa