Fav old food memories.

[saltrock123]

What is your oldest favourite food memory?
For me it would be Jacobs cream crackers with Marmite whenever I felt poorly as a kid.
And a small bar of Cadbury milk chocolate which a visiting uncle always used to bring for me.

Oh God and Bernard Matthews Turkey Joints were sooo good

Eating all bran for breakfast at posh auntie’s house.
tinned salmon sandwiches on a Sunday at other lovely aunts.

my mum’s mince pie and rice pudding with currants.
Nana’s lentil soup.

so many memories involve food!

Bernard Matthews used to do turkey sausages, my gran would make them for us with tinned tomatoes and chips. I tried them again a few years ago and they weren't the same

Tinned new potatoes with peas and (cold) tinned salmon
Someone mentioned little jars of meat/fish paste - loved those
Boil in the bag cod and parsley sauce

Sweet things: Sara Lee chocolate gateux, homemade rice pudding (the skin!), dipping strawberries in sugar before every bite, iced buns (the really plain bread rolls that came with either pink or white icing spread on top)

In the 80s, getting 20p and buying a huge bag of penny sweets as some of them would be half pence 😀

I’m seriously beginning to worry about my brain. When I read that I was picturing you on your knees in the school corridor with a straw in your mouth and the other end in the vending machine syphoning out the hot chocolate 😂

Hedgehog crisps!!! Core childhood memory unlocked! My mum used to tell me they were made of hedgehogs 🦔

I take it your mum also shopped at the health store? My mum always got the bean burgers and veggie sausages sachet that you mixed with water 😂

Rise and shine ( powdered orange juice)
Vesta chow mein
chicken supreme
sugar puffs
Ground rice for pudding with a dollop of jam
Junket
Milk jelly
I also remember being jealous of a friend whose parents both worked - she could go home and have a findus crispy pancake for tea and I had to have mum’s home cooked meals..!!!

Ski hazelnut yogurt

I remember those. Always eaten frozen! There was a peach Melba one as well which was lovely.

Findus crispy pancakes and french bread pizzas were another 80s favourite.

My fave food of the 80s was the Safeways prawn cocktail sandwich. My dad got me that sometimes as a treat.

I went to a friend's house for tea one day after school.
We had spag bol.
I had never had anything like it before, my mum would always cook meat and two veg type meals.
I thought it was delicious.
I remember the mum's chatting and the friend's mum being surprised I'd not had spag bol before. I think it was a bit of a go to for her.
I think my mum might have made it a couple of times after that but not often.
I became veggie soon after that and my mother pretty much stopped cooking for me.
I still love vegan spag bol but can't eat it now because tomatoes cause inflammation.

Birds Dream Topping, a sweet fake cream powder whipped up with milk used to be a treat on a Saturday teatime when I was a kid with either tinned fruit, fresh strawberries or banana.

There are sweet mild curries with apple & sultanas in them. The first curry I learned to cook at school had minced beef, apple, mango chutney & sultanas in it.

I loved school dinner puddings.

Yep, my mum did these.

I read recently you had to defrost them, we never did and just ate them like ice cream, never did us any harm as "they" say.

I used to.have (grilled) cheese on toast with white pepper and slightly burnt edges at my Grans when I stayed over, I still have mine burnt edged.

cheese on toast cooked under a gas grill, it is not the same using an electric grill

butterscotch tart and a jam with mouse layer tart that was an odd lilac colour, both school puddings

Ski also did a melon yoghurt it was amazing.

Oh what a nice thread.

I'm in my 50s. My parents were both exceptionally good cooks.

favourite memories:

• rissoles and onion gravy with mash
• My grandmother's homemade madeira cake. She had a stroke when I was 5 and never walked/ talked again but i still remember her madeira cake.
• My father's pumpkin soup with cheesy croutons
• Father's homemade semolina gnocchi
• Mother's beef wellington
• Mother's spanakopita- not a usual thing for an Australian family in the 70s but we lived next door to a Greek family and my mum and Maria would cook together for fun
• my dad did curries and he would have as a side sliced banana with lemon and coconut

Happy days.

Horlicks and mash mallow chocolate tea cakes in the cafe (although my dad called it the canteen), after swimming in swimming baths.

Yes to the Mint Cracknell mentioned a few posts ago.

And I’d also like to add my mums rhubarb or apple sponges made in an ashet. She’d just lay the fruit down and sprinkle sugar over it before mixing up a basic sponge mix to go on top. It was the best pudding ever and had to be made in an ashet. She’d serve it with creamola (custard) for us but she always had it with cold milk on top. A few weeks before she died we went out for Sunday lunch, she was out of hospital for the day, and I asked for apple pie with milk for her. The cook was a bit put out in case other people wanted the same and he ran out of milk but once he realised my mum was ‘a poor soul’ on day release from the local psychiatric hospital she got her apple pie and milk ❤️

It was one of the last things I ever did for her apart from kneeling down and fastening her shoes a few days later.

Was that to follow the ratatouille?

oh yes was really good 😁

My mum used to make a sticky syrup cornflake tart, which was served warm.