What food was a luxury in your home growing up?

[TherealBolton]

Eating out

Eating out, take aways, sweet cereal, fresh sweet corn

Pot Noodles 🤣

Being of Mediterranean decent we ate many foods our neighbours had never heard of, all i ever wanted was Findus crispy pancakes.

A prawn sandwich from the local deli for school lunch if my mum forgot to make anything or didn't have the time.

Made even more supreme when we often got sad cucumber and butter sandwiches.

Novelty cereals, like sugar puffs or frosties.

@IntentionalError birds brownies with the nuts in them - oh lord

My mum was a good baker and always had the tins full. She thought it quite disgraceful to offer guests anything bought from the shop. One Christmas our family was given a huge box of broken biscuits that would have been seconds by an elderly couple who came for dinner. My brother and I were in heaven!

My mum was a HE teacher so we always had homemade food (like so many) but she also liked us to try different things - some good, some not do good (think cows tongue)

I remember the first time we went to an Indian Restaurant- it must have been about middle to late 80’s. I think I asked fir chips 🤣. To this day Indian food is still my favourite

chocolate biscuits

Microwave meals - my mother used the microwave for heating up milk

I don’t know if luxury is the correct word, but my favourite dinner was chips, beans, and sausages. It was never cooked at home as my mum didn’t like sausages, but sometimes my grandma would look after me and she always made me chips (proper homemade ones in a deep frying chip pan), beans, and sausages. The best days - I’m drooling now!

Crisps, sweets, biscuits, chocolate, puddings, cereal that wasn’t muesli or shredded wheat.

We had bowls of sweets out on Christmas Eve but the others never made an appearance (apart from an Easter egg, although parents preferred to get me something like a book or clothes).

Fizzy drinks - only at birthdays and Christmas
Vienetta
Cornettos - were for adults only,

Beefeater restaurants - for special meals out

They are amazing @sevensilverrings! Was introduced to them a few years ago,wow!

When I was a child we ate well at home but sweets were a weekly treat and you’d only get a small bar of chocolate or a bag of sweets. From the ice cream man a small cornet not a 99 except very occasionally from grandparents maybe, or a Mivvi ( similar to a Solero)instead of a small ice lolly. Someone upthread said pomegranates, they were a treat as so seasonal so maybe one or two a year. Fizzy pop was grandma’s only, dandelion and burdock. We’d occasionally eat out somewhere like a Berni Inn or a pub which did chicken in a basket. Now there was a thing! 😀

sausages chips and beans, (and an egg) are a suprising favourite in this house.
didnt really fancy cooking so made this,
we all love it!

Also Lurpak - never had it at home, only at my nana's who called it 'Nana's Best Butter'. Ironically I was spreading it on my crumpets a few months ago really appreciating how I was now able to just have it as my regular butter without struggling to afford it and then about a week later the price shot up to about £7 or something and it became a luxury again

Bought white bread. My mother was an avid breadbaker and made the most wonderful wholemeal loaves, but oh how we longed for the soft sweetness of a pappy bought white loaf.....

Sweets. Severely limited in our house, for which my teeth and I are truly grateful.

We never ate out (family of 6 and very little money) but mum was a proper trained cook so our meals were healthy and filling and her home baking was legendary locally. The biscuit tins were always kept well stocked with homemade flapjack, brownies and other delights.

I remember going shopping and checking the labels to make sure we didn't buy anything from South Africa. I wonder what the equivalent memory for my children will be - maybe unnecessary plastic packaging?

i still dont buy french apples

a white bloomer, a saturday treat!

Usually got treats when stayed with nan and grandad at half terms and some of school holidays. I loved it, and have some of my favourite memories from those times, and had a really strong bond with grandparents. Now also realise that made my mums life easier as was a 7 year gap between myself and younger brother. Treats were vienetta, birds trifle made from the box kit that you bought, and a pack of the small kelloggs cereals- where there was always one pack that not so keen on! And little "parties" with ritz crackers topped with cheddar, peanuts and older a bit of Babycham. At home - not so many treats, as didn't have enough spare cash.

And the occasional ice cream from the van that came round after lunch on Sunday- loved funny feet, or the little block of ice cream you could have between wafers or in a rectangular cone.

When I was really young (under 10) it was a twist of winkles from the fish stall by the beach. Dad and I used to eat them with pins to hook them out - bliss! Prawns at home (always a prawn cocktail) rarely happened, but it was great when it did. Eating out at a Little Chef and having the pancakes for pudding (stuffed with cream and drizzled with chocolate). When I was slightly older - early teens, it was a Chinese curry when Mum and Dad had fish 'n chips. Dad could cook one thing - it was a soufflée omelette which he did every other Sunday or so, and it was delicious.

The chocolate biscuit tin, as opposed to the plain biscuit tin.