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

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charliecat · 14/06/2006 22:50

Or is it a sainsburys/waitrose/millenium thing?

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FioFio · 16/06/2006 14:38

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themoon66 · 16/06/2006 14:39

Or sweetened condensed milk - yum. spread on white bread - double yum.

southeastastra · 16/06/2006 14:52

rissoles were a bit avant garde for my family, what are they exactly? (reminds me of stella st)

FioFio · 16/06/2006 14:56

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Blandmum · 16/06/2006 14:58

we used to eat left overs as rissoles. Nicer was the chicken and Mushroom pie my mum used to make out of the left over chicken. We also used to have a 'Chop' based dinner of boiled potatoes and over boiled veg every Wednesday.....horrid, horrid , horrid

FioFio · 16/06/2006 15:07

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southeastastra · 16/06/2006 15:50

lamb chops were lovely, i don't eat lamb now, feel sorry for them, but blimey they were nice.

(I used to leave the fat for my sister to eat, she loved it!)

southeastastra · 16/06/2006 15:51

i thought rissoles were something exotic btw!

Norah · 16/06/2006 18:29

Rissoles in our house consisted of minced up cold meat (any variety !) minced onion and any other left over veg - mixed together with some egg and then formed into balls - quite large - about a handful - then shalow fried until warm through - which meant a nice crispy bit on the outside !

Actually they were quite scrummy - I could eat one now !

Why did my mother used to always have left over from the Sunday roast - we seem to finish it all off !!

marthamoo · 16/06/2006 19:00

Maybe a North-West thing, lucy - I'm Mancunian Grin

LucyCampCat · 16/06/2006 19:01

ahhh me too! Did you need a special pass to move to Cheshire? Grin

marthamoo · 16/06/2006 19:02

Nah, I just sneaked over the border when they weren't looking.

Carmenere · 16/06/2006 19:08

KTeePee, LGJ very kindly provided me with some Tayto today and my dd has a fledgeling Tayto habit now!!
Yes remember the Calvita and Galtee cheese well. I also remember my mum buying a huge block of cheddar from the village shop cut fresh off a block and wrapped in greasproof paper, ironically it would probably be considered 'artisan' today and cost 5 times the priceGrin

teabags · 16/06/2006 19:09

Our meals were like groundhog day:

Sunday - roast dinners
Monday - cold meat left over from the day before with boiled potatoes and veg
tuesday - macaroni cheese
Wednesday - pork chops
thursday - toad in the hole
every other Friday - home made chips with fishfingers or sausages
Saturday - sandwiches and cake

all washed down with a glass of milk

LucyCampCat · 16/06/2006 20:18

Grin what's it worth not to grass on you?

southeastastra · 16/06/2006 20:21

i remember eating loads of boiled eggs, i don't eat them at all now. saturday was always boiled egg day!

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 21:45

Rissoles I ate, but i never questioned what they were. They were just rissoles for dinner (I used to go home for dinners rather than stay at school) Dinner was at 12 noon to 1pm in those days too. Lunch was summat wot posh folk did. And we had our tea at 6pm, then it were nowt till supper time at 9pm. Supper was glass of milk and a biscuit or bowl of cereal.

notanotter · 16/06/2006 21:49

nora reading that i feel you must be may age!!!

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 21:52

Spot the children of the 70s. Arctic roll, rise and shine orange juice, vesta curries et al.

Norah · 16/06/2006 21:55

Hi notanotter - I'm 39 ! Are you ?

Mercy · 16/06/2006 21:59

I've never eaten Artic Roll! Poor me!

Another thing to tick off teh list

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 22:11

I'm not disclosing my age, but I hit my teenage years at the time of a very long hot summer and the Sex Pistols.

notanotter · 16/06/2006 22:22

Norah - I will be in October Wink

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 22:25

And Snickers were Marathons... and still are in my head.

notagrannyyet · 16/06/2006 22:26

For us the main meal of the day was always at mid-day.It was always a proper cooked meal. No salad,(rabbit food dad always called it!) even in hot weather.

It was potatoes in some form every day.
veg from the garden.
Meat- mince beef,chops,etc..We hardly ever had chicken and never in the week.
FRidays was always fish.with chips Smile,or white sauceSad.
Rice was only ever used in pudding & Pasta came in tins and was eaten on toast for tea!
Couscous polenta(sp?) were unheard off.

Puddings were FANTASTIC
Fruit crumbles,pies,bread and butter pud,spoted dick &custard (birds out of a tin),treacle pud, jam rolly-polly,etc.....How come we were all so skinny!

Sunday Lunch was always roast beef,and all the trimmings.Then us kid were packed off to Sunday school!

Fruit-We had apples,oranges,bananas,and pears all year round. Grapes were sent to people in hospital! All other fruit was seasonal.Strawberries were only available early summer, plums late summer.No exotic fruit at all!

I can remember when mum first bought yogurt.None of us liked it,Dad said it tasted like sick!

We had tea when we got home from school.
Sometimes sanwiches and cake.If it was cold we had toast with either, cheese,egg,sardines,
pasta, or beans.

Saturday lunch was always a mixed grill or a big fry up!

If we made our own sandwiches it was usually home made jam,but also remember eating salad cream or brown sauce on bread(yuk!)