Growing up did you have bread and butter with your evening meal?

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I was pretty much always given it, either to make a chip butty or to mop up gravy. I used to enjoy it, so might just start it again, who cares about calories!

No, but my DH did and still does sometimes!

Depends on whether there was some carbs on the plate or not.

so chicken and salad, yes. Sunday dinner no.

yes I agree….sunblest was rank. It was bearable as toast, that’s it.

Depends what the meal was. If bread & butter went with it.

Bread & butter certainly doesn't go with gravy, or a roast dinner as I've seen some people eat. B&B goes with fishfingers, chips & beans etc.

Never a thing at our house. If there was gravy to mop up I’d mash some potato into it - I still do. Or use a spoon…

We always had it with chips, casseroles and mince (we had mince in gravy).

I always do bread and butter if I’m doing home made chips as a dinner even now, and when we have casserole, I usually either pick up a fresh baguette for I have the part baked ones in my cupboard and stick some of those in the oven - you cannot beat a slow cooked casserole with a really rich gravy and warm crusty bread to dunk it in!

At Christmas, on Boxing Day I usually do those part baked baguettes and we fill them with turkey, stuffing and gravy as our dinner. Now that is food of the gods! I actually think I look forward to that more than my Xmas dinner (and I love Xmas dinner/roasts in general).

We did (South Wales 1970s/80s.) I mentioned it to my dc the other day and did it then the next night they asked for it again! My mother used to do it to pad out the meals I think.

We had no snacks in those days eg no crisps or chocolate bars in the cupboards or things to help yourself to in the fridge so you had your ‘tea’ and that was it.

We used to have crusty bread and jam as a dessert...
My mother was a complete snob though.
Bread with a main meal would have made her shudder.
She was not born into the class she acted she was!

No never. 70s child - middle class southerner tho. Mum cooked lots of Indian and Middle Eastern foods - lots of pulses and grains.

Dad and step mum were more tradtional two meat and veg - but we had homemade wholemeal bread and butter for ‘afternoon tea’ a few hours before dinner. (Cake on only for Sunday tea!)

My wife comes from a working class Welsh background and had b and b with her evening meal.

Bread and butter goes with practically anything. Sweet, spicy or savoury.

I can't see your mother as a snob because she served up bread and jam as a dessert .

It was a thing growing up but I wouldn’t want to add unnecessary calories and saturated fats to my diet now. I’d much rather have extra veg if anything.

Both of those are so much more calorific than plain white bread and butter (don't get me wrong - they are lovely). But I remember when you had to make your own garlic bread - and nan was only available if you went to an Indian restaurant, I can see why i've got fatter over the years!!

I think she just grew up in a different era.
If I had said to anyone that out dessert was bread and jam...
She would have been mortified.

It depends on the meal, we definitely had it with prawn cocktail and avocado (you can tell I grew up in the 80s 🤣) I don’t remember it being served with much else apart from soup though.

Would sometimes have bread to mop up gravy-never with butter on it though.

Yes, and we still do!

Not sliced up and ready buttered,but with most meals, the loaf is on the table and the tub of butter is put out. Sometimes eaten, sometimes put away untouched.

My kids love making anything into a sandwich though, and if it means they are earing what I have cooked, thats fine by me.

We had bread and butter with salad in the summer and crusty bread with mum's homemade soup in the winter. We also had it with fish and chips which was an occasional treat. Otherwise no, not really. My mother would've had an absolute fit at anyone mopping up gravy with bread.

What area was your mum originally from ?
I think it might be a depends where you are from thing ? My mum was born in Wiltshire in the mid 1930s but it wasn't something we ever had .
Having said that , I dislike sweet things on bread as never grew up with them . Bread and jam / chocolate spread was not a thing in our house and the only time they ever came together would be toast / marmalade at breakfast .
We wasn't posh enough for a toast rack though !

I suppose it would, but I prefer to eat noodles, rice, dumplings, toad in the hole, potatoes, flatbread, wraps, naan or whatever traditionally goes with what I am cooking. I wouldn't serve bread and butter with a curry, stir fry or fajitas.

I don't tend to double carb unless it is a roast with Yorkshire pudding and potatoes because I always provide sufficient carbs in the main meal. I can't imagine wanting to eat chips with lasagne, for example, because I make a large enough lasagne to not need anything else other than salad.

Yep, every meal apart from Sunday roast. Both my dad and brother were manual workers so it was a cheaper way to fill them up, money was tight when we were kids.

Back in the 1950s/early 1960s my mother used to produce it for nearly every evening meal. I never had it after I left home nor did anyone else I ever ate with. I used to assume ot was a working class custom to bulk out meals because we were quite hard up.

No never. Didn't have bread and butter at all. I had that awful wholemeal sliced bread toasted at breakfast. I'd force half a slice down.

I remember eating things like stir fry or chicken kiev as a kid and bread and butter wouldn't really go with that. My mum didn't tend to make stew/soup and things that go with bread. Plus there was no decent bread in the early 80s!

No…but dad always had bread and butter with his mince and potatoes!

No we didn't. I'm glad, I don't like bread. The phrase 'mop up' makes me feel sick. I think i need to stop reading this thread