Late 60s - mid 70s 'diet foods'

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Just had cottage cheese on Melba toast with grapes for lunch which always reminds me of my mum who was (I now realise) often on a diet.

It's a real early 70s 'diet' lunch in my eyes as is grapefruit and black coffee for breakfast.

What foods/meals do you associate with diets from this era? Do you/did you like them.

This isn't a diets are bad/no food is 'diet' thread but more of a nostalgic look back.

I remember weird combinations of food that had to be taken exactly as and when the diet sheet said.
Eg frankfurter sausages, peanut butter and hard boiled eggs.
I suppose it was low carb.
Also steak and salad (no potatoes).
My mum used to make me spinach with a boiled egg on it. Tasted much better with a knob of butter. But again, low carb.
A 1/2 grapefruit starter really burned the calories off.... and celery --apparently you use more calories digesting it than it contains, so it really was a 'slimming' food. 😉🤔

I loved those 10 calorie soups!

I also still love crackerbread now - often have it with cheese spread and marmite on for lunch.

I remember Crackerbread. It had a texture a bit like Wotsits so it stuck to the roof of your mouth. It would crumble as you bit it and the crumbs were very scratchy and clung to the skin by static. I can’t remember the taste just what an unpleasant experience it was to eat them.

Crackerbread sounds like torture

I just HAD to get some crackerbread for lunch today. Couldn't get the real thing so had to make to with a gluten-free version. It's hard as nails.

Christ, at this rate the only things left in the shops will be 70s diet food.

Yes, tenuate dospan from the private GP. I was so buzzing I could have powered every electrical appliance in my street. 😂

Bovril (20 calories a cup)

Cottage cheese lovers grab yourself some and a bag of kettle crisps/tyrells to dip...

I remember everyone at work getting out their cottage cheese at lunchtime and piling it onto sticks of celery, followed by a Shape yoghurt.

We made low calorie hamburgers with ‘minute steaks’ (as in they were that thin they took a minute to cook! You bought them frozen in packs of 10 - actually I remember they were quite nice

We also used to drink some low calorie bottled lager that was disgusting

I remember Weight Watchers was popular and there was a slimmer of the year contest each year.

People ate Ayds (unfortunate name).

A popular drug was something beginning with P - like 'Ponstan' or 'Pom-something'.

tamara gosh I'd forgotten all about St Ivel Gold! I still eat those crackerbreads now, the wholemeal ones are really nice.

Lean cuisine

Great advert song, questionable food

Special K. I remember a diet where you basically ate special k for every meal for two weeks.
Low fat Primula on Ryvita. Sesame Ryvita if you were fancy.
Slimcea bread
Pasta

I still think nimble bread is better than the weight watchers bread

nakedavengeragain mentioning Primula cheese (I still love it) reminded me that I think the very thin crispbreads were actually Primula.
A popular drug was something beginning with P - like 'Ponstan' or 'Pom-something'. Not Ponstan; that's an anti-inflammatory drug.

I got ponstan for period pain as a teenager so It wasn't a diet aid

Probably more early 80's than 70's but remember my Parents having Branslim fibre tablets that you took before a meal to feel more full.Also 808 sweets that were also before a meal reducing your appetite.
Off topic but 80's i used to love the Eden Vale chocolate yogurts - breaking through the extra tasty top layer to get to the rest

I’ve been having ritz crackers with cheese a lot lately (they’ve been on offer at some point last few weeks)

@Graphista, if you can get to Aldi, (and assuming there's any on the shelves) they do their own version that I reckon is superior to Ritz crackers. And great with cheese 😁