To be slightly horrified now by what I ate as a kid in the 80s?

[NotWantingToBeRude]

Breakfast was a bowl of either Coco Pops, Frosties or Sugar Puffs. (At least they didn't sell Froot Loops over here I suppose).

Packed lunch in my My Little Pony or Care Bears lunchbox was a sandwich (usually some form of processed meat, occasionally even jam), a pack of crisps, a chocolate bar and a juice box (Ribena or Um Bongo). Never any fruit.

Snack on arriving home from school would be not crisps and chocolate, possibly a Pepperami. Sometimes we’d stop off for pic ‘n’ mix.

Dinner included a full dessert every single night, usually with custard or cream.

Is it just me or would this not be considered so acceptable now?

Would it have been less horrifying in a different lunchbox?

Similar here with the exception of pudding every night as we had that at lunchtime at school...was a skinny kid/adult until I hit early 20s and then I started working in construction, bacon butties every day, pies and sausage rolls, donuts and cakes...not as many healthy options as there are today and I inevitably gained weight.

I don't blame my parents for that though

I bet you drank loads of milk, ate loads of fruit, cheese and yoghurts and had proper dinners though, and I bet you were out in fresh air most of the day. I’d be extremely shocked if today’s lifestyle was healthier than a child of the 80s!!

Oh no you had Coco pops? However are you still alive! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Your insane!

Have you read the OP's posts?! She's already said she ate hardly any fruit and wasn't active at all!

Sorry op still confused by your post and what you want from it especially since the update saying that you don't blame your parents.

You might need to educate me here but in the 80s/90s fast food was new rare and expensive and small portions at that. Microwaves weren't in every house and were back to the future things.

So your parents were rich and fed you these foods daily is that what your saying?

To be honest everyone I knew in the 80s/90s didn't even have a Microwaves let alone fast foods because of the unnatural items In them plus the expenses.

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To be fair she said if she’d had carrot sticks and rice cakes she’d have been looked at but back then there wasn’t the ridiculousness that there is now on food (even though because of the soil etc most foods are grown in nowadays it doesn’t even matter)- there was a proper dinner daily as less packaged food and a few bananas apples and pears. Just not humous carrot sticks and the like! I get her point, I just think she’s forgetting that milk was a normal thing and the share bags of crap that have now didn’t exist- the posts there’ll be in few years time- kids being given a giant bag of sweets and crisps!

i dont think i had breakfast as a teenager
lunch was a brown roll, cheese or salami
and a club biscuit

but there wasnt crisps or anything when i came home, perhaps a sandwich or toast, no puddings

actually when younger i used to eat Alpen
i find it so sweet now

In the 80s/90s humous and carrot sticks or homemade pack lunches wouldn't have been ridiculed those were every day foods. I say that as a woman who came from a run down council estate with a mother on benefits. Also studies show a wide range of different things. It's not what you eat as a kid that maps you out it's lifetime diet, exercise etc.

Op do you know that your death date is planned out on conception? So how far back are you taking diet?

Of my dc have a packed lunch they will have a cheese or ham sandwich, crisps, penguin or similar. Maybe a juice carton & some extra fruit & veg. Is it that different?

Loads of kids still eat this way or worse today. Loads. Don’t kid yourself.

i dont think people had carrot sticks and humous in the 1980s

My dc normally have school dinners & that comes with pudding.

@Helenwheels they truly did. Fresh foods were more available in season then. Hummus has been about before Jesus was born.

The 80s/90s was the very beginning of fast food/packaging foods and very expensive at that.

i dont think people had carrot sticks and humous in the 1980s

Hummus wasn't even in supermarkets until the late 80s, I tried it as a tween in the mid 90s.

@Cosyvibes it was first introduced in 89 by Waitrose. No way was it a common food 🙄

You may have been able to get it in small non supermarket shops before then of course but it wouldn't be something loads of people were consuming.

What I find horrifying is that a lot of kids round here seem to hang around in the chicken shop straight after school, buying bags of chips. Does this mean that they are not going home to dinner or are the chips just a snack?

Tesco didn't even start selling it until the late 90s.

The Egyptians invented hummus in the 13th century.

It was homemade and in shops forever...

@PopeJoan2 probably a snack. On a Friday after school I used to sometimes get a McDonald's cheeseburger & have dinner. Skinny though as I did a lot of sport.

You probably had meat and vegetables for dinner, so it doesn’t seem to have done much harm.
Pretty sure your lunch is still considered a good packed lunch here. Countless times the fruit comes back

Well yeah, it would have been preferable if it had come in a brown paper bag obviously.

The Egyptians invented hummus in the 13th century.

It was homemade and in shops forever...

No one is disputed when it was invented, you are the one claiming it was an everyday food in the 80s when it clearly wasn't.