What was (more-or-less) banned in your house growing up food-wise?

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Sugary cereal like frosties

Sugary cereals, fizzy drinks, fryed food (child of 80s so everyone had a chip pan) and cakes/sweets/ chocolate except on a Sunday night.

Not a food but Energy drinks. I’m now 30 and drink far too many, unsure if related.

Only fizzy drink in the house was lemonade and it was only for DF to mix with his spirits. Children were strictly forbidden from touching it. Also no bubble gum or chewing gum ever.

Nothing!

Nothing.

Nothing was banned, but one of my parents didn’t like spicy food so I’d never had a curry until I left home.

Nothing but my mum made a mars bar last a week for me and my sister by slicing it up. Fizzy drinks only at weekends. None of us liked sugary cereal.

Food, mostly.

I don’t think anything was, born in 70s. But food was almost always home cooked, rarely fried unless a breakfast occasionally. Not many fizzy drinks, sweets, chocolate.

@boulevardofbrokendreamss my mum used to do the slice of mars bar thing. Actually, I was never allowed a full chocolate bar in one go.

Full fat/sugar coke was never allowed. I wasn't allowed it out and about either. If we went out somewhere, I was allowed a lemonade. I was insanely jealous of my cousin, who was always allowed a (diet) coke.

Coke. I was only allowed Diet Coke and now I can't stop drinking the normal coke. My cousins were banned from drinking all Coke!

Absolutely nothing. If my Mum or Dad fancied it, we got it. If my brother or I fancied it, we could make a case for it and we might very well get it. On the one hand, this means we ate some dreadful rubbish when we were growing up (1960s and 70s), but on the other hand in adult life we both eat a reasonably healthy diet, by choice. We weren't desperate to try the forbidden fruit. On the contrary, I often used my pocket money to buy an orange I could have all to myself. I didn't need to buy sweets as my parents (children during the years of rationing which started in WW2 and continued until the early 1950s) always had them in the house. Fruit, which my mother considered more expensive, was not so freely available. She would cut an orange or an apple in half and give us one each. Not enough for me!

Child of the 1960's here. Nothing was banned per se but all our food was homemade (including jams, pickles, even lemonade) and grown in our own garden with eggs from our own chickens. At the time convenience foods were on the rise (think crispy pancakes, Vesta curry and fish fingers for example). We never had any of that and I always used to want to try it because of the adds on TV. I went to a friend's house once for tea and was given crispy pancakes, beans and chips. It was bloody horrible and I still can't stomach convenience food to this day.

Nothing was banned, but we’d be encouraged only to have fizzy drinks at the weekends.

In the 90s, sugary cereals, at least in our house wasn’t seen as that bad.

Sweets before lunch, cn't eat sweet stuff in the morning even now.

Lollies the hard ones you got in party bags. Still are in my house my Mum drummed it into me how dangerous they are and whether or not they actually are I have never let my kids have them!

All our food was healthy /whole food.
Amazing of my mum to take so much care.
But the flip side was we all swung quite wildly the other way when we left home and it's taken me a long process to get back to healthy eating

Bubble gum after I copied Violet Beauregarde, stuck it behind my ear, got it in my ( v long and thick) hair and needed an emergency hair intervention.

Looking back, anything that was fun!

No fizzy pop except Christmas. My friend had pop delivered every Saturday by the Corona man.

No bought cake or biscuits - those were made at home

No fish fingers or any convenience food as it wasn't proper food. I was about 12 before mom agreed to buy me baked beans for breakfast as they obviously weren't a food for any other time of day.

No squash other than orange. Not even at Christmas

Orange juice - Christmas only

No cereals other than corn flakes and then All Bran (mom went on a diet)

Definitely no chocolate or sweets other than once a week after Sunday tea

No bananas unless my grandfather bought them for me. My mom told him that I liked bananas instead of chocolate for a treat!

No yoghurt at all - I thought my friends very sophisticated having Ski yoghurt

White bread

Not “banned” in the sense that we were never allowed them, my parents would buy them if we were out for a meal or something, and there was no issue with us having them at parties etc.

But fizzy drinks, chocolate bars, and crisps were never bought for the house.

Contrary to some of the views I’ve seen on MN, these things not being bought did not lead my sisters and me to become fiends when presented with these foods at parties and completely unable to regulate.

‘E’ numbers! DM wouldn’t let us have anything with them in and had a list up ranking them, the ‘E1’s were the worst iirc

Theoretically nothing was banned but we didn't ever have anything nice in!

No crisps, biscuits, cakes, fizzy drinks, chocolate or sweets.

Snacks didn't exist. Could have fruit or yoghurt as a pudding after dinner. Toast with jam (if we were lucky), honey (ditto) or cereal (nothing sugary!) for breakfast/supper. Brown bread only. No delicious warburtons toastie bread...

I have all these things in now.

Fizzy drinks were party drinks for us. Squash (orange or lemonade) were the everyday drink.

Nothing was banned in our house. It was the 70s and my mum embraced new inventions! But she always cooked a meal from scratch in the evenings and she never bought white bread. I think it was more that she didn't like it rather than that it was banned.