Foods your children eat daily that you NEVER had as a child

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As I watched DS(3) gorging himself on blueberries, crabcakes and houmous (yes. On the crabcakes) for his tea, I realised that I never saw a blueberry until I was at least 18. Likewise, despite growing up beside the sea, I never had crab in cakes or otherwise, or houmous.

Now I'm watching Back in Time for Tea, and feeling like a museum piece.

When did we start taking this stuff for granted?!

Bagels

Ketchup

Oh we had ketchup. Sometimes just ketchup on white bread, nice.

Bagels yes! And wraps.
Strawberries were only for a special occasion as were melons and pineapples which my ds eats regularly.

Also when I finally tasted bagels I was pretty disappointed - I think my expectations had been built up too much.

Mango, bagels, out of season of fruit

Avacado

Out of season fruit and veg.

All the berries, really. I remember having strawberries, but only in the summer.
I remember mum buying one or two whole pineapples a year, and being very excited at chopping them up! Now, I buy ready chopped pineapple most weeks.
I had never eaten rice or pasta until I was 18, but that was probably not normal, even for the time!

We had melon boats (or grapefruit halves with a half a glacé cherry on top) as starters on Christmas Day. My Grandad would put sugar on both. Always honeydew melons - can you still even get those?

Pasta. Most berries. Salmon. Pesto.

Anything out of season.

Olives. My 4 year olds absolute favourite!

Avocadoes, mangoes, bananas.
I grew up in a Mediterranean country that banana import was forbitten until the early 90’s. If you had family that traveled by car to Germany or Austria that was the first thing you would ask for. It had to be hidden at customs or it’d get confiscated and you’d get fined.
A couple of almost black bananas were an exotic contraband of cocaine proportion in childhood.
Seems absolutely obscene now, stuffing my face with perfectly ripe bananas.

Dried mango, greek yoghurt, cashew nuts, peanut butter, yes to bagels as well.

Of course, conversely we went to a 'living museum' and I was the only person there who had made and eaten homemade oatcakes (kids get given shop bought). Maybe I should start making them again. Oats are a superfood after all.

Anything cooked from scratch with any flavour in.

I think my Mum still has the stale jar of generic "mixed herbs" that went in the mince and onions that passed for spag bol back then.

Don't think I tasted curry until I was in my 20s.

Fruit which I regularly buy for DS such as strawberries, melon and pineapple were an absolute treat when I was a kid. If my mum came home with a punnet of strawberries me and my sisters were beside ourselves!

Loads of stuff, I very much had a 70’s freezer food diet as a child! Off the top of my head - babycorn, sugar snaps, yellow pepper, blueberries, mango, peanut butter, noodles, salmon, wraps, bagels, brioche - most tasty stuff really

Sushi. Raw fish seemed a very weird thing. My kids inhale it

Blueberries, avocado, houmos, sweet potato

Olives, bagels, pizza, curry, pesto, hummous, yogurt, hot chocolate, biscuits.

You would have though we were still under rationing.

Just not interested in food, my family.

Bagels,
Suchi
Olives
Haribo!

Not a mum myself but my best friend’s son is obsessed with ‘shoona butter’. That’s cashew nut butter to the rest of us!

When I was little the only nut butter I knew of was that creamy Sun-Pat stuff, and maybe Nutella if I was a very good girl.

Fajitas or similar wraps- we have them alot and they were never around when I was little.

Bagels here too.

Pesto. And lots more pesto
Pasta other than spaghetti
Curries that have a name other than 'chicken curry' - although dc don't get the little bowls of dessicated coconut, banana slices and chopped onion and tomato salad
Brownies
Risotto
Olives

Oh yes sweet potato too. And I suppose blueberries.