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?!

Real butter instead of margarine!

I don’t have kids.
But I never had avocado, sauerkraut or tahini and I gorge on them now.

avocado, olives, papaya, mango and katsu curry!
We were pretty poor growing up so fruit was generally tins of fruit cocktail lol! We didnt do a lor of freezer food though, my mum used to buy fresh beef when it was on the cheap and apend the weekend batch cooking loads of steak pies bulking it out with veg and freeze them all.

I grew up on a 70s whole food diet, branded ‘hippy’ by all of my friends. Mum was in a food cooperative where they bulk bought and shared it out.
It’s funny now that a lot of what mum gave us is rebranded now as superfood and sold for £££. Unsweetened peanut butter, lots of whole grain flours, whole grain pasta, dried fruit, nuts galore.
My kids get individual child yogurts when they want them - we never even had pudding.

Not as fancy as some stuff mentioned but DD has wraps for lunch usually and a Greek yoghurt for afters - I dont think I ate a wrap until say 10/15 years ago and had never had Greek yoghurt until the 90's.

Asparagus
Avocado
Olives
Blueberries (though we did eat wild bilberries, which are similar but smaller)
Spinach
Greek yoghurt

Literally everything! I hadn't heard or tried what my DC have until I was an adult. I was another 70s British food or freezer food

Smoothies,houmous, rice cakes

Grew up in the 80s and we didn’t do badly for the time (we definitely had avocados every week for example, which I think was quite cosmopolitan) but no soft fruits apart from strawberries in May/June. We buy our daughters all manner of berries and they eat them all year round. Melon was a treat too- my Nan served it as a starter on special occasions! And I remember eating watermelon for the first time aged around 10 and loving it and campaigning for an annual watermelon every summer holidays. Fruit juice was also a massive treat and we don’t even think about drinking it now.

I wonder what in 30yrs time we will regularly eat that is unthinkably luxurious now?

I grew up in California so most of your exotic things were my ordinary in 1970s.

Stuff i didn't have, or very rarely:

Flavoured potato crisps, cooked brassicas (sprouts, brocoli, etc), lots of other cooked vegetables, sausage rolls, jam sandwiches, home-made pastry, egg-fried rice, roasted meat, potatoes (roast, mashed or boiled).

Not daily but DC tend to have a few times a month: cottage pie, baked beans, tuna bake, Taramasalata, kebab,

My cousins' (young) children in California eat out many times a week & eagerly say that sushi is their favourite. Cousins are far from wealthy, btw.

Didn't have pasta till I was a teenager apart from spaghetti
Fruit was apple banana or orange only
No bagels, hummus, pesto, jar sauces (though my mum was a health food nut so I'm sure others had them!)
No smoothies
I don't even remember chicken nuggets etc

Definitely Blueberries
Olives, DD loves an olive!
Pesto. I don't think my mum has ever bought a jar of it in her life.

Olives is another thing.And curry.They tried to make one,it was horrible.

My mam god love her couldnt cook,so from age 13 i bought my own food and cooked it.I broadened my range quite a bit then.

Bagels
Avocado
Olives
Fresh parmesan (you could only get the dusty stuff in a jar when I was a child!)

There's probably loads more. We ate very simply when I was a child. Very much meat and 2 veg type meals. It was good food, but quite plain compared to my DC's diet now.

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I grew up in a Mediterranean country that banana import was forbitten until the early 90’s.

I have a mate from Romania who never tried bananas till Ceausescu was overthrown. I grew up in Scotland where you could get everything but we were skint so my diet was almost as restricted as my mate's, although we did have bananas to be fair . This conversation took place as our kids grazed on bowls of strawberries, blueberries and melon. I always feel like, we have to remember this stuff and realise that in small boring ways, quality of life is actually getting better. If only someone would sort out the housing crisis.

We also never ate out in restaurants. We would sometimes get fish and chips on the way home if we'd been out somewhere, but the first time we ate out in a restaurant as a family was when we were on holiday in France when I was about 9.

Pesto. I didn't even know what it was till I was 18

Bagels
Sushi
Cous cous
Mango
Wraps
Spinach
Hummus
Falafel

The list goes on but dd (3) refuses so many things that would seem normal for a kid. Cheese, yogurt, eggs and baked beans are a no go for her

Smoked salmon, antipasti and lobster. I think the price of these had dropped and they are more available these days. Plus I let her watch tv and she sees them on adverts then when we do the shop.

Yogurt amazes me now. It’s just an everyday thing. We only used to have it at Christmas as a treat 😄 I remember watching Blue Peter and wanting to make something that used a yogurt pot and wondering who these beings were that would happen to have old yogurt pots lying about.

And where has all this sushi suddenly come from that you can buy instead of a sandwich??

Another one is takeaway food or eating out. My parents would never entertain the idea of takeaway food in any shape or form from fish and chips to a bought sandwich. I was into my 20s before I even tried bought fish and chips from a shop.

We used to eat out a fair bit but I didn’t have a takeaway until my 30’s!!

Oh, proper curry!
My mum had a pot of Schwartz curry powder. It was green and tasted nothing like curry. She put sultanas and celery in it.
Nice fish. No weird cod bricks that were mostly bones or smoke 'flavoured' haddock fillets. It isn't a regular thing, but we've cooked tuna steaks a few times and my eldest loved it.

We ate a lot of mincemeat and cabbage

I adore celery - but in curry? No

Strict English food - meat and veg parents 🤦🏼‍♀️
Cottage pie, shepherds pie, mince and onions (which I hated!), Meat and vegetables, occasionally lasagne or spag bol.

Basically my dc and I eat none of that now! A lot of Mediterranean style food here.

Born in 82 and rarely had fresh fruit. Never had tuna, rice (mum thought it looked like magots), houmous, falafel, chedder,takeaway except for fish and chips when we moved into a new house.

I never tried chinese until i was in my 20s got taken out by a friend and they only had chop sticks they found it hilarious as i had no idea what i was doing.