Break and milk for breakfast?

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Growing up, bread & milk covered in sugar and heated in the microwave was a standard breakfast. Thinking about it, we used to eat weetabix with lots of sugar heated in the microwave too.

We also used to regularly dunk toast in sweetened tea.

I wouldn’t eat either now as I don’t have a sweet tooth anymore, but they were fairly standard meals in our household.

Did anyone else eat things like that or was it just my household?

My dessert used to be Fruit in syrup with evaporated milk!

I still occasionally have it!

I’m horrified when I think back to how I was fed in the 90s (although realise was very lucky to have enough food to eat).

Coco pops, Frosties or Golden Syrup on Toast for breakfast.

Milky sugary teas and coffees several times a day with biscuits every time (wagon wheels, foxes classic, clubs and penguins etc). I think I was given tea in my baby bottle.

School lunches were a processed cheese slice or primula sandwiches every single day for years, crisps, biscuits, yogurt, fizzy drinks or cartons of juice. Home lunches always things like Heinz Tomato Soup, Spaghetti Hoops, Tinned Meatballs, Hotdogs or Pot Noodles.

Dinner without fail was something with Alphabets and Beans or Spaghetti hoops. Chicken Nuggets or Fish Fingers usually. Tinned Corned Beef or Cheap Frozen Sausages. Findus Crispy Pancakes.

We’d have fresh orange juice with a couple of teaspoons of sugar in it. If we ran out of processed cheese slices, school sandwiches were often jam or syrup ones. Peanut butter was always served with sugar on top. So were oranges when I’d occasionally have one.

I think the only time I had any veg was a Sunday with a roast dinner.

I’ve had lots of health and digestive problems throughout my life with lots of nutritional deficiencies and I often wonder if my horrendous diet as a child played a part. I’m surprised I didn’t get scurvy!

My mum was an early adopter of the whole food thing (way back in the 70s) so my house was all brown bread, brown pasta and cakes made with wholewheat flour. Things we weren't allowed that I wanted so badly: squash, white bread/ pasta, angel delight.

^^ this - a million miles away from your upbringing!!

I remember a girl I was mates with years ago used to spread butter on weetabix and sprinkle with sugar when she had no biscuits in. 🤮

I went to primary school in the 1970s.

Breakfast was weetabix or similar, with full fat milk.
Lunch was school dinner, which I tried to eat as little of as possible.
It was meat and two veg with pudding.
Tea was a jam sandwich and something like a small piece of cake or a Club, Penguin or Viscount.
We had free access to the fruit bowl, but generally ignored it.
Supper would be something like beans, cheese or egg on toast (one slice).
Sweets and crisps were occasional treats
Very few kids were overweight.

Oh, we normally drank water or tea, and had squash sometimes.
Pop was only very occasionally, and if you were ill, you go orange juice or Lucozade (wrapped in orange cellophane).

Sugar sandwhiches were a regular thing here, as were everything else covered in sugar.... My mum did go through a phase of banning e numbers but tons of sugar was fine

I've always had a real problem with my weight, I'm a sugar addict and I'm now obese (though trying my best not to be!)

Also hotdogs, packet noodles and beans mixed up in a bowl were a staple... The thought still makes me gip now

Oh yes banana sandwiches and jam sandwiches too!

Oh, the other thing I thought of. Salads growing up was just a Plowman’s lunch. I don’t think there was even any lettuce. Maybe just a slice of cucumber. Imagine my surprise in my 20s when I realised what salad actually looks like!

Yes! My Mum's salad was chopped cucumber and tomato!

We found a hedgehog once, and my mum said they ate bread with milk and sugar (not sure where they got that when foraging for themselves .)

We used to have buttered toast with cinnamon sugar - a spice jar type thing that you shook over the toast that was cinnamon with sugar.
It used to melt into the butter an make lovely patterns.

I never had strawberries without sugar and cream until I had left home. The realisation that strawberries were sweet on their own actually blew my mind. My mum always thought they were bland and we only had them once a year. It was so ingrained that when I eat strawberries now I'm still surprised by how sweet they are

Yes my dad used to give us a bowl of warm milk with torn up white bread soaked in and sugar, he called it sop.

It was horrible and soggy!

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Hahaha my first thought was hedgehogs too!!! Obviously we know nowadays not to give them that!

I never had bread and milk but did have all the sugary cereals, sugar butties, and i used to do a weird thing where i picked the middle out of white bread and roll it into doughy squishy balls 😂

My mum so couldn't cook. My grandad tried to teach her but he said she couldn't even fry an egg and gave up. He spent his life coming to our house everyday to cook and make sure we had an edible meal. He wasn't the greatest of cooks as he was getting older. But he made sure we had veg even if it was to bed or frozen. We had protein and he gave me a good life. I still remember when my name was drawn from the hat to go to the millennium dome from school. He made me the biggest packed lunch ever there was enough for three kids so I shared with some others. He was the best grandad ever and pretty sure he saved my life. God knows what would have happened staying with my mum without him and my nan. I ocassionaly male a grandad meal to feel like I'm home

Resisting the temptation to go downstairs and make a banana sandwich with sugar now after reading the throw back foods from childhood.

I remember salad also to be slice of tomato cucumber and a spring onion laid out in a row around the edge of the plate.

My mum took microwave cooking to the extreme in the 80’s. Roast chicken cooked in the microwave to be fair she she made roast potatoes in the deep fat fryer they were ace

It used to be that only English strawberries in season were really nice to eat in terms of flavour and natural sweetness.

It used to be that English strawberries in season were the only ones available! Followed by Scottish raspberries grown in their long hours of daylight.

You don't seem to be able to get dripping now, shame really ,it never done us any harm.

Sure you can, you get it for free if you roast beef that's got enough fat on top of it.

To this day I can't eat weetabix without a crust of sugar, so I try and avoid it completely.
For "afters" we were sometimes given an Apple cut into pieces, on a plate with some sugar to dip it in

I manage to get my kids to their teen years before they realised people put sugar on weetabix they were most put out to hear that i had sugar oN all my cereals growing up. Then again my mum used to make up the breakfast milk with Marvel milk powder so needed a lot of sugar to make that palatable!

I used to have Carnation milk on my Rice Krispies as a 10 year old..........and guess what - I was fat!!!

Aww my wee Grandma (west coast of Scotland) used to give us half a banana with a wee saucer of sugar to dip it into. It used to drive my dad absolutely...well, bananas

Weetabix is disgusting to be fair. My kids eat it (without sugar) and I don’t understand how they can stomach it. It looks like wet cardboard.

I remember beef dripping poured from the roasting tin before making gravy. I think beef nowadays is less fatty, so less dripping is produced. It was delicious on toast, and a godsend in the days of butter rationing.

sugar was more important back then, and people needed more calories because they moved around more, fewer people had cars etc. you didn't see as many fat people about ....