All this fancy stuff you eat and drink nowadays, were you brought up on it?

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Or is it a sainsburys/waitrose/millenium thing?

OMG Moondog, so of your incredibly diverse food experiences, particularly the mumu. I have read about them and seen them on the telly (Ray Mears, I think). Would adore to actually eat at one

We were not brought up on the sort of food I feed my family now. My Mum and Dad's diet has changed somewhat as well although I think it still has room for improvement. And they are both overweight.

As kids we ate:
Sausage, egg and chips
Roast dinners (chicken, beef or pork)
Fish and chips (both deep fried with the cod coated in home made batter)
Meat and potato pie
Shepherd's pie
Stew and dumplings
Sweet and sour meat balls and rice (real treat)

Then as we moved into the 80s we started with things like:
spag bol
sweet and sour stir fry
chilli con carne
pizza and chips

We only had puddings infrequently but would always be allowed chocolate biscuits after meals (choice of club, penguin etc and a choc. digestive). My Mum baked every week in the 70s but this dropped off in the 80s.

I buy yogurts all the time now, but in my day a yogurt was a rare treat and un-peeled with great reverance at Christmas breakfast.

Blue Peter home made stuff always required an 'old yogurt pot'. My mother?? Yogurt pot??! And as for sticky backed plastic - well it might've been quarried on the moon for all I knew where to get it

Oh yes - ski yoghurts were a treat for us too. We ate milk roll sandwiches with slices of plastic ham.

moondog - because it was "too good" (and too expensive) for kids to guzzle Totally different mindset to my parenting nowadays - my children eat exactly the same as we do, but when we were kids there were certain, 'special' foods that were parents only. And my Dad always had the best bits off everything - the prime bits of a joint of meat, the skin off the rice pudding (). I don't think it was meanness - it was how he had been brought up: his Dad had the last of the roast beef, they had bread and dripping.

Yes milk roll - we had that. Corned beef or spam or luncheon meet sarnies.

LOL at the salad being iceburg lettuce, toms, cucumber and salad cream!! That is so true. And family buffets would be sald bowl, corned beef pie, sausage rolls and chicken drumsticks and crisps.

Our fruit bowl only ever had banana's, oranges and apples. I never had mango/plums/kiwi/pineapple at home as a kid.

I love this thread.

Someone has asked why my Dad hogged the OJ from the milkman - I think it was because it was 'fresh' so was quite expensive. I had the crap pop.

My parents came to visit on Monday and I can't believe they are still eating the same crap I was brought up on in the eighties. I did some bagels and olives, asked if my dad liked them/wantd some and was told they had never tried them before. My mother refuses to eat here because of all the 'wierd' stuff I eat. I was brought up on anythign that could go on a tray with some oven chips and baked beans for the 'healthy' element. Usually pizza, nuggets, fishfingers or similar.

They still have never had an Indian or Chinese meal, my mtoher still thinks chicken kiev (out of a box) is the height of sophistication. She did soemtimes make an effort, I think we had chilli con carne and spag bol once or twice. And about once a month she used to do chicken legs in white wine sauce (out of a tin) with part cooked veg and then moan all day about how much effort she had put into cooking. Thank god I didn't inherit her cooking skills or tastes!

I was a child during the 60s & 70s and I think on whole we ate better then, even though the choice was pretty limited. Obviously there were bad things - lard, orange squash etc, but very little processed food.

The choice of fruit and veg was particularly limited, we ate whatever was in season - I remmeber it was a treat to have salad on Boxing Day!

My parents ahd chocolate digestives and I had custard creams!

my mum was exacuated during the war so really over compensated in the food department! everything fresh and homemade - tons of cabbage. i also remember my dad eating hearts.

My paternal grandmother was Italian, so we were brought up on Italian food before it was trendy. dad alsways got mum to make things that he'd grown up with.

And I remember her making various Chinese dishes after meeting a Chinese faily through school.

So I guess we were brought up similar to how I bring up the DDs.

I was brought up on olive oil, olives, humous, tahina, grilled fish, salads, couscous, fresh herbs, avocados, cured meats of various nationalities, yeah all the currently trendy stuff. But we also had Angel Delight, Arctic Pudding (ooooh remember sponge and jam wrapped round a fat sausage of vanilla flavour ice-cream?) MacDs, M&S Fisherman's Pie, tinned soup, tinned chicken in sauce, frzoen veg.

I went for years thinking that I didn't like pizza. My Mum must have been feeling adventurous and wanting to give us something exotic. However, she just sliced it up and served it as she didn't know that you had to cook it first!!

We had a roast evry sunday, chips once a week, salad once a week, we also ate pizza, pasta, curry and loads of home made puddings and cakes (yummy ginger cake).

My mum continuously harps on about how she had to live on rations after the war. She was lecturing DD (aged about 5) about how she shouldn't waste food and how rationing has given her the ability to survive on tiny amounts, even cutting up a mars bar and making it last 3 days. DD replied (on all innocence) 'so why are you so fat then granny?'

yes the moon! and how they never had a banana, and when they all got one, the person they were exacuated with ate them all

Yes, the rationing thing does get boring - ive been listening to it for 43 years now.

She brought me up on porridge with carnation milk and golden syrup for breakfast. Heinz tomato soup with wunder-loaf bread for lunch and sardines sandwiches for tea. Pudding was often butterscotch angel delight.

I remember going to mate's for tea and we had vesta curries. I though this mate was dead sophisticated! And i remember crumpets stuck on a toasting fork over the fire, but my dad called them 'pikelets'.

And i remember rise and shine drinks - orange or grapefruit. And arctic roll. And packet lemon merangue pies. I actually bought a packet lemon merangue pie in Morrisons a couple of years ago and it tasted as wonderful as i remember!

I was brought up on Frey Bentos Steak and Kidney pies and Angel Delight.
I made strawberry AD with hundreds and thousands the other day and it was as if I'd been transported back 25 years.

i sold my soul for arctic roll

my mum (now sadly departed) once brought a packet of dried egg cause she remembered how much she liked it

Ooh frey bentos pies. We used to have them for sunday lunch sometimes. I hated the grissley bits. In fact frey bentos can take most of the blame for my becoming veggie as soon as i left home.

And spam fritters for school dinners. Melt in the mouth fat and grease. Yum.

I hated the meaty lumps. I used to like the puff pastry and the soft squidgy pastry underneath. Always with frozen peas and oven chips.

spam fritters were truly awful, we were made to eat them at school and liver.

I remember those cheesecake mixes with the fruit puree in a pouch seemed the height of luxury. The crispy noodles with Vesta chinese curries were so so exotic!!!

My Mum used to subscribe to a weekly cook book called Supercook so every week we'd try something "unusual" instead of a roast - anything with garlic/pasta was a novelty!