Eating habits....then and now.

[bafta16]

I was born in 1957. I was never much a of a breakfast person. I liked cocoa pops and sometimes toast. Lunch was school dinners. Primary school was big helping of ghastly food which we more or less had to eat.
Dinner was 5pm. Something like shepherd's pie. I lb of meat for 4 people. Tinned fruit maybe. Supper a couple pf plain biscuits.
Moving to Secondary, less lunch, sometimes a bag of donuts or some chips. I wonder how many calories...maybe 1,500 or so? No alcohol in the house.

Now I am constantly grazing and/or stuffing my face. I do wonder what on earth has gone wrong. Somehow I need to re educate myself.

I definitely think we should try to return to a. most bottles are glass and refundable, and b. plastic bottles attract a higher deposit and there are machines everywhere where you can post them in and get an instant refund. Imagine, kids and people who are prepared to scavenge can get an instant payback from lazier, richer people deciding to just chuck them on the ground/in the bin.

BTW I've seen this system working in Austria and Germany, I'm not just making it up. Airports do not have overflowing bins because either you can return your bottle or you can leave it and someone else will do it for you - for money.

I was born in 62. My parents didn’t have much money then (I was unaware of this) and I remember one chicken (smaller than the ones today) could feed five of us with pickings after! Now three of us demolish a much bigger bird!
We didn’t really have desserts, certainly not daily, and no junk food other than some biscuits . My mother cooked every day. I imagine there was less variety as less available but my Dad grew up in India and my mother lived in Malaysia so they did like different foods. I don’t think we ever ate out at a restaurant til I was in my teens. Portions were tightly controlled. I don’t recall ever helping myself to anything in the kitchen till I was a teenager.