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Using only childhood favourites ,what would you have for breakfast lunch and dinner?

84 replies

Leecallaghanexcoppull · 05/05/2024 13:13

I will start
Breakfast ready break
Lunch tuna sandwich
Dinner McDonald's

OP posts:
merryhouse · 05/05/2024 17:17

cheese on toast
ham and tomato sandwich
fish pie and peas

beans on toast
instant mash with cheese melted in and celery
cold meats, pork pie, bread, salad, pickled onions; trifle

fried egg on fried bread
roast chicken, roast potatoes, sprouts and raw carrots; rhubarb crumble
pilchard on toast

Weetabix with butter and jam
cheese and beetroot sandwich
fish and chips

(I didn't like rice, pasta or cooked tomatoes or onions as a child)

Fanchester · 05/05/2024 17:23

Start breakfast cereal

Fishfingers

My nan’s Sunday tea- white bread and butter (not allowed at home) salad cream (ditto), tomatoes, lettuce, hard boiled eggs, radishes, Battenberg cake for pudding.

sciencemama · 05/05/2024 17:26

Sugar puffs for breakfast (always had this at my grandparents house it was the best choice out of that, porridge or muesli)
Lunch prob a fish finger sandwich
Dinner has to be a pot noodle

Jewelanemone · 05/05/2024 17:26

Golden Nuggets cereal for breakfast
Findus Crispy Cheese Pancakes for lunch
Cold meat from Sunday's roast with home made chips and Branston pickle for dinner

Comefromaway · 05/05/2024 17:27

Breakfast - Rice Crispies
Lunch - Corned Beef Sandwich, bag of French fries
Tea - Fishcakes chips & beans
Pudding - Treacle pudding & custard

Cadela · 05/05/2024 17:29

Golden Grahams for breakfast (why did they stop making those fgs)
Little Chef kids burger and 10 portions of the mini donuts with chocolate sauce
Mum’s stuffed marrow (sausagemeat in a tomato sauce topped with cheddar) and chips for dinner. I was a weird kid 😂 but this is still my favourite meal of all time.

Deipara · 05/05/2024 17:33

Ready brek
Dairylea sandwich (milk roll bread)
Turkey Christmas Dinner.

Writing this out is making me so hungry for it all!

mitogoshi · 05/05/2024 17:33

Never liked breakfast even as a kid, leftovers or a sausage sandwich.

Tuna mayo and cucumber sandwich

Chinese takeaway (most coveted and only a couple of times a year)

Deipara · 05/05/2024 17:34

@Cadela Oh em gee little chef was the bomb... do you remember those lollies you would get i loved them!

Doseofreality · 05/05/2024 17:34

Weetabix
Birds Eye Potato Waffles and beans
Little Chef kid’s menu Fish Fingers

Xray83 · 05/05/2024 17:35

Dippy eggs and marmite solders

Corn on the cob with bread and butter

Cottage pie or as a bad choice, Bernard Matthews Turkey drummers, mash and beans

murasaki · 05/05/2024 17:37

Toast with proper butter

Ham sandwich on mums home made bread with iceberg lettuce and sliced tomato. Ready salted crisps.

Chicken Kiev and dad's homemade chips from the deep fat fryer, no veg if I could get away with it , broccoli if not.

LauderSyme · 05/05/2024 17:37

My mum's porridge which she poured cold milk over in the bowl, then us kids would carve out a porridge mountain surrounded by milk sea.

White bread bacon sandwiches

Toad in the hole, mash, peas and gravy.

RabbitsRock · 05/05/2024 17:38

Lovely thread OP!
Breakfast - Ready Brek or those Kelloggs variety pack cereals.
Lunch - Egg & tomato sandwiches
M & S ready salted crisps
Ski yogurt ( loved the pear or
pineapple ones
Dinner - DF’s special fishpie
DM’s steamed pudding which had
chocolate sauce inside
If I can include snacks too I would have Pink Panther strawberry chocolate, toffos
( the ones with different flavours) & space dust!

OldSchoolCasualty · 05/05/2024 17:38

@Cadela You can still get Golden Grahams. I have them shipped to me from a French import supermarket it London 😅such is my desperation!

WiseUp · 05/05/2024 17:38

Crunchy Nut cornflakes
Peanut butter & jam sarnie, hula hoops, carton of Moonshine
My mum’s homemade chips & egg

Mydahliasareshit · 05/05/2024 17:39

Toast and butter, lime marmalade

Fish fingers, chips, peas

Frozen French bread pizza 😋

Pallisers · 05/05/2024 17:40

Coffee and toast and butter

Chops, gravy, potatoes, cabbage, carrots
strawberries and cream
biscuits and tea (we ate our dinner in the middle of the day)

Salad (with salad cream) and chips with tea and bread and butter.

sawnotseen · 05/05/2024 17:42

B- Wheatabix or Ready Brek and a vile vitamin tablet
L- Salmon (red from a tin) and cucumber sandwich, satsuma, club biscuit, smiths crisps
D- cottage pie with white cabbage and peas. Followed by mums apple and blackberry pie

LauderSyme · 05/05/2024 17:42

Honey Monster Sugar puffs
Ski Yoghurt

Heinz tomato soup and cheddar cheese sandwiches

Breaded haddock fillets, fried egg and chips

Saschka · 05/05/2024 17:45

Porridge for breakfast

Bean and cheese toastie for lunch

Tea would be roast dinner, or cheese and onion pasty with tinned new potatoes and peas.

LauderSyme · 05/05/2024 17:45

Mydahliasareshit · 05/05/2024 17:39

Toast and butter, lime marmalade

Fish fingers, chips, peas

Frozen French bread pizza 😋

I found lime marmalade in Aldi the other day. I will be having it on toast for snacks 😋

therealjohnmajor · 05/05/2024 17:46

Breakfast: Shreddies with hot milk and a good helping of sugar

Lunch: cheese and onion sandwich on white bread, beef monster munch, strawberry petit filous

Dinner: fish fingers, proper fried in a chip pan chips and peas

Georgyporky · 05/05/2024 17:46

Poached egg on toast. DM thought cereals were awful - very prescient.

School lunch steak pie, with "mud huts" for afters - choc sponge with pink custard.

Roast meat & spuds, with peas. All meat was grey & unidentifiable when cooked by DM, other veg was not an option.

LauderSyme · 05/05/2024 17:51

Snacks and sweets would be curry flavoured Ringos, prawn cocktail Skips, Penguin bars, sherbet dabs, white mice and jazzy buttons.