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?

Just laughing thinking about how precious pure fruit juice was in the 70s! I still often have a feeling of nostalgia when I drink grapefruit juice as it reminds me of staying in hotels when I was about 7 and teeny glasses of fruit juice were always a starter option!! Literally one slurp and it was gone!

Yes Sarah!
My grandparents ran a guest house in the 50s and 60s (before my time mostly!) but this is what their starter often was.

we used to have divide make angel delight into six, tiny amounts for everyone. i once made the whole packet and ate it myself in the garden.

my downfall was sweets, i loved all of them especially sweet tobacco and toffee logs!

My sister used to make those horrid cheesecakes in a packet.

Unfortunately,she would eat most of the mix in the kitchen,so it would invariably appear on a saucer (I kid you not)
We (a family of 5) were not allowed to pass comment on this at all,or a massive teenage strop would ensue.
Instead we would divide it up and eat with a slightly cowed expression while my mother made bright comments like 'It's Lovely darling!!'

The best thing about the 1970's/80's food was Ice Magic - the chocolate sauce stuff you poured over ice cream and it set rock hard especially mint flavour. I absolutely dread to think what was in it!

ice cream tasted better then as well, ooh ice magic that was space age!

I like the sound of your Scottish childhood Sal.
Why were you there??

I disagree with mercy. I think my childen eat better than we did as kids. My Mum was a great lover of her deep fat fryer and before that her chip pan. And she never used to wash her frying pan so even things that were shallow fried (eg suasages, fried eggs etc) were cooked in half an inch of bacon fat. I wouldn't eat a lot of fried food (bacon, sausages, chips, fried eggs) because of this. I don't deep fry and when I shallow fry (very often even if it is just the onions!) I use a small amount of olive oil.

Ahhhhhhh...

No I was bought up on lamb chops and boiled potaoes with cabbage & gravy, blamonge, angel delight, and orange squash

Now it's fillet steak with saute potatoes and spinach, creme brule, fresh parmesan etc

oh my god, where did fresh paresam come from?
I meant to say wine.

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Can't talk or spell or do anything really!

the mention of fresh parmesan reminds me of those pots of powdery parmesan you could get. minging. and other one was slices of melon with ginger sprinkled on. actually quite nice but would need your tongue firmly in cheek to serve it now.

Yeah, that's where the mention of it came from. I don't know what happened to what I thought I was typing!

Those minging pots, that's what was in my head, that's what we used to ahve, what my dad still has.

And peper was that white powder crap, not freshly ground black stuff.

Freah herbs - never had them till I moved out of home.

I can remeber the first time someone cooked me carbonara with fresh basil. i was shocked atthe decadence of it

Catergorically No

I was fed quite poorly by mumsnetter standards (Matthews turkey roasts etc), but I am an adventurous eater now....

In most cases yes, if Mum could get hold of it/grow it we ate it, and my friends mum was brought up in Singapore, so fed us lots of 'odd' foreign foods, much to my disgust often at the time, but I love them all now come to think of it, that mum was the 1st to feed me proper fish as well (not in breadcrumbs) and I reacted odly to that at the time too!

Oh gosh now I much much tastier fun sweetier things, now I eat healthy and I'm sorry but now matter how much I dress up a salmon salad it doesn't bet cornbeef and potato pie with chips!

this thread is enlightening. I thought everyone ate the same food as me in the 70's.
I thought that my Mum tried hard and now I realise it was all crap and that other Mums did cook healthily !

Her speciality was red jelly whizzed up with tin of Carnation milk to make a sickly pink bubbly thing covered with Hundreds and thousands.
We always had that if a friend came for tea. Did any one else ?
Findus crispy pancakes..side salad with Salad cream. Lard sarnies on saturday lunch times GROSS!

Yees jelly with whisked with evaporated milk was a treat in our house. Also remember a powder mix that would make ice cream or did I dream that bit ??

Remeber Rise and Shine and Apeel

Always roast on Sunday with left overs for tea on Monday, stew on Saturday and fish on Friday,

Everything freshly cooked no freezer or microwave. No waste , Mum brought up during the war .

Strawberries only in summmer if we were lucky !!e

I'm really enjoying this thread - it is fascinating and brings back so many memories! I grew up in a large family, my mum didn't work and my Dad supported us all on his pretty small salary so there wasn't a lot of money to go round. My Mum was (and is) a good cook, but it was always the "101 ways with mince" type of cooking (apart from special occasions of course). Day-to-day we'd eat spag bol, sausage meat pies, stir fries etc and lots of things involving tinned tuna. Her speciality was "tuna fish slop" which was basically tuna and sweetcorn in white sauce which would be served with (alternately) rice, mash or pasta! We'd also eat a lot of so-called "risotto" (which bears very little resemblance to the risottos I've had in adulthood!). It would be a very special occasion indeed that would merit a whole piece of meat each (i.e. chicken breast or chop) instead of pieces cooked in stew-type form (to make the meat "go further"!). Saturday lunches were always cheese on toast, packet soup (made with that dried powder that you add water to) or boiled eggs and toast. Sunday evenings often meant roast, followed by crumble made with windfall apples, blackberries we'd picked or rhubarb from the garden. Weekday puddings were a choice of HALF a piece of fruit(!), yoghurt or one of those frozen mousse things (swirl of raspberry in vanilla in an opaque plastic pot with cardboard lid). There were always homemade cakes every day though for when we got home from school - rock buns, flapjacks, coffee & walnut cake etc etc. We looked forward to Christmas for the food more than anything - a whole baked salmon on Christmas eve, the usual on Christmas day and a gammon on Boxing day - yum. Party foods were the usual 70's fare, with a "french onion" dip taking centre stage (made from a packet of dried soup mix stirred into natural yoghurt, and served in a beige plastic tupperware bowl which fixed itself centrally onto a cream-coloured "platter" that would be covered with carrot sticks etc...!).

Actually (the odd bit of processed crap aside) we ate very well - lots of vegetables and fruit, and most things made from scratch. We always ate together as a family, every night, and always at the table.

Milge, we have a botle of that Magic Ice cream sauce in the cupboard at the moment!

DH saw it in Tesco and had to buy it to relive his childhood!

It is the choc flavour and is rather nice.