What did people used to eat for breakfast.

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Years ago. When people all sat around the table for breakfast before one or both parents went off to work and the kids went to school. What was being cooked/prepared/eaten? I can't imagine men were off down a pit on a diet of cornflakes but maybe I'm wrong.

I remember going round to a friend's house in the mornings to get a lift to school with her when I was about 13 onwards and she would have things like beans on toast for breakfast. That seemed revolutionary at the time to me.

Never ate breakfast together so I have no idea what my mum and dad ate ,but in the early 60s I had cornflakes with hot milk , which I hated until I discovered via the kelloggs advert that the sunshine breakfast was usually made with cold milk

I also had grapefruit for breakfast from the early 70's - porridge in winter though.

During the week we’d quite often have kippers or salty porridge with butter. Yum

Readybrek, Shredded wheat, Shreddies, toast and jam, on Sunday a fry up.

Weetabix was also an option

My Grandma ate Grapefruit for breakfast for at least 30 years

I was born in 1933 and breakfast in childhood was porridge made with water and toppped with a little milk. A sprinkle of salt never sugar. (scottish). Sunday breakfast however was bacon, egg, black pudding and fried bread. Changed a lot since then over the years I have drooped the fried stuff but still love my porridge. Now top it with fruit. No salt!

DF's partner who is from a very traditional background usually makes porridge, eggs and toast.

My granny had half a grapefruit for breakfast every morning!

Grapefruit is a very 70s breakfast. When people talk about the past a lot depends on how old they are.

@Babdoc Oooh! You were posh. We could never afford Ski yoghurts and had to settle for Coop's own brand on the rare occasion we too were treated to them.

Totally outing myself here to anyone who knows me. But one of the few foods that I could keep down when pregnant was a Little Chef omlette, and their lemon lollies really helped when I felt really sick, they took pity on me and gave me a handful everytime I went in.

Porridge, cornflakes, Ricicles or Weetabix, toast and marmalade, and most mornings two plain chocolate digestive biscuits. Sunday always eggs, bacon, fried bread and sometimes mushrooms or tomatoes. But we walked and cycled everywhere and my parents were not prepared to be a taxi service.

We had locally produced Daisy Dairy yogurts. Their advertising slogan was, "get fresh with Daisy Dairy" 🙈🤣

You will love this show:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nc5tv

It's called "Back in Time for Dinner" and has two seasons. The first season covers the 1950s-1990s and the second season the 1900s-1940s.

If I remember correctly:

They had lots of meat in the early 1900s for breakfast that their cook prepared such as lamb chops, but the young kid had porridge.

In the 40s/50s lots of bread (wholemeal) with lard and tomatoes (food was rationed).

In the 70s scrambled eggs with bacon, toast, beans, lots of butter.

In the 80s/90s I remember everyone already having breakfast individually often such as poptarts.

It's an interesting show.

How many years ago are you talking?

My dad was a miner until shortly before the government closed the pits in the early 1990s. He'd have a glass of coke and a peanut butter and banana sandwich, then crunchy nut cornflakes came out and he started having them instead.

Both my grandfathers worked in the pits .
I don't really know what my paternal grandfather ate. He seemed like a cooked breakfast type of bloke to me but I don't know. My maternal grandfather liked cold toast and a cup of tea.

Early 70s, Dad had porridge with extra milk on the side and honey, when he was being 'healthy' other times he'd have the porridge followed by bacon & eggs. Then off to the office.
i ate an hour earlier because Dads office didn't open til 10. I'd have ready brek, Rice Krispies or scrambled eggs. If we'd had one of our family parties the night before, mum would let me have trifle for breakfast... 'but don't tell your dad'
My brother and sisters were a lot older and I don't remember really seeing them at breakfast, although my middle sister seemed to survive on bowls of shreddies.
Another who can't remember what mum had. She was so busy getting everyone else's breakfast and washing up, I don't remember her sitting down to eat anything, just drinking endless cups of Nescafé.

I'm one of them! Though not every day, and not as the only thing we had. We might have half a grapefruit followed by toast. Or cereal. Or sometimes scrambled eggs on toast.

In winter it was usually porridge (with soft brown sugar and condensed milk on it).

The fanciest breakfasts we had were when we stayed with my grandparents who lived by the sea. We sometimes went out early with one of the fishing boats and came back with mackerel for breakfast.

Years ago people didn't use tk have breakfast. That only started with industrialisation when people had to keep going for 12 hours in the factory.

It really depends how long ago Op is talking.

Breakfasts probably haven't changed much since the 1950s. Although more people probably have cearel than porridge now than then.

Grapefruit would not have featured much before the 60s, its an imported fruit, so definitely wouldn't have been available during the war years or just after.

We do 'breakfast for dinner' very often. At least once a month and lately every Monday. Lately it has just been scrambled eggs on bagels with some fruit salad afterwards but sometimes I will do my version of a full frup which is eggs, bacon, beans, grilled toms and toast. I like doing it. It's easy and I don't have to think and everyone eats it which as I have a child with extremely restrictive eating is a massive win.

My dad had a fag and a brew. Mum can’t remember but she will have been on a diet so perhaps nothing. We had a cooked breakfast as lunch on a Saturday and Sunday.

My dad ate porridge the kippers during the week, while we had porridge and toast. At weekends we all had a full English.9

Kippers were big, I think.