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

[OneUmberJoker]

Sugary cereal like frosties

In the 70's when I was growing up, my mum was very much knit your own lentils and they grew all their own fruit/veg (or bartered it), produced their own meat, had hens for eggs, and had goats for milk and subsequently butter/cream/yogurt/soft cheese. Unfortunately mum didn't have a lot of time or inclination for cooking and so although it was all very healthy it was pretty awful with delights such as boiled tongue, stewed marrow for weeks and weeks in season, and tons of plain boiled potato.
We had takeaway about once a year, and your only chance of crisps or chocolate etc at home was if dad saw something at the Cash n Carry and bought it. No fizzy drinks.
OTOH, you could bake whatever you liked and since we had industrial quantities of cream and eggs in the summer we didn't really miss out.

My granny was a Pioneer (yous in NI will know what I mean!) She took me to the local pub for lunch one year when I was 18, and ordered milk for me. The barman brought me a pint of it 😁

Nothing else really. The rest was if my parents liked it we got it; if they didn't we didn't get it!

My father would have allowed anything...he was very adventurous and loved all sorts of foods.
My mother's opinion was the only one that was allowed. So the following weren't allowed in the house (because she didn't like them):
Garlic
Onions
Curry
Anything whatsoever that was spicy/tasty
Pickles / gherkins
Burgers
Most fish

Very bizarre, thinking about it now!

I am so lucky that I never liked fizzy drinks - hated that feeling when you swallowed it - so I was a simple child - water, milk and sherry when I was old enough (12)!

Not banned but we only had fizzy drinks at Christmas due to a tight budget.

Nothing was banned when I was a child, but we were fed an almost exclusive diet of fried/tinned/processed food. Never had home-cooked food because my mother didn't/couldn't cook and my father was male, so of course he never cooked.
Despite all this, I have been pretty healthy all of my adult life. This probably shows something, not sure what.

All convenience food apart from fish fingers or fish cakes, or (about twice a year) Angel Delight or ice cream. Cakes from the bakery and packets of biscuits were not included in this rule.
Sugary cereals (though I was allowed sugar on my Weetabix).
Margarine - even though we were usually skint. DM was convinced that it was full of crap, and couldn't see why butter (like eggs) had suddenly become poisonous.
Bread in plastic bags. Bread always came from a proper bakery.

Anything expensive.
Anything mass produced, apart from fish fingers.

Born in 69, so 70's/80's child/teen.

nothing was banned really, although I 'wasn't supposed' to buy the ice cream with bubble gum in the bottom of the plastic cone. But if I did it was more of a case of being reminded to be careful not to get it in my long hair or swallow it!!

we didn't have fizzy drink in the house other than 'mixers' for adult drinks, but as an under 8 I don't remember wanting them anyway. Except when I was about 7, I was at a family wedding where I was given a lot of coke by a relative and thought I was 'drunk' 🤣🤣probably a sugar rush!!

we emigrated when I was 8 & life was very different, but still no food was banned.

Pasta and rice. My mother hated both.

Sliced white bread, sweets, fizzy drinks apart from cloudy lemonade for birthday parties and homemade elderflower champagne. Oven chips, chicken nuggets, ice-cream, crisps apart from for special occasions, sugary cereals, most bought cakes and biscuits apart from Eccles cakes and plain digestives. White pasta most of the time. Angel delight, Müller corners, Lunchables, cheese strings, Dairylea triangles. Okay, you get the idea! DM was ahead of her time for the 90's

Pop tarts. I was obsessed with the idea of them and begged, but it was a hard no.

i generally eat healthy foods and very little in the way of junk… but I do treat myself to pop tarts every now and then and it feels so decadent !!!

Chewing gum, but we could have it in the car - never in the house or street, only in the car

@SixSeven same here. My mum absolutely detested garlic in any form. Wouldn't kiss my dad for days if he ate it 😂😂 poor man was always chewing fresh parsley after 😂

Fizzy drinks only at Xmas, chocolate or sweets once a week after tea on Saturday. My mum’s dad was a dental engineer and used to tell us absolute horror stories about children who ate too much sugar and had to have all their teeth taken out and he’d have to make them a set of dentures. (Pretty sure he was lying apart from one patient who didn’t get her milk teeth through).

Of course now I’m a complete and utter sugar addict…

Same - fizzy drinks were banned and I now drink a can a day. I'm sure it's down to it being forbidden so I still get a rush of delight every time I have one

I was never allowed

Fizzy drinks
Tic tacs
Curly wurlys

Chewing gum because it would ruin the carpets. Chocolate spread was considered very expensive and decadent so very rarely bought. Things like fizzy drinks were Christmas only. Pot noodle was once a year on holiday. The agony of choosing that year's flavour! Takeaway was rare too. I got a Chinese takeaway for my 18th birthday, it was that kind of special. But most of the things that would make people's hair curl now was fine - sugar on/in cereal, tea, crisps and cake in packups, squash cartons etc. Freezer teas on multiple nights. No fuss about protein/5 a day/teeth rotting etc. The 80s was not peak health conscious by modern values.

Ketchup. 1960s baby. I am fairly certain my mum never once in her 80+ years, bought ketchup.
I still hate it, but only because it’s so unfamiliar to me.

American food stuffs. Imperialist overlords not welcome in my parents' kitchen.

Fizzy drinks, lolly pops, boiled sweets (teeth related). Makes sense I think.

Fizzy drinks, only really allowed on birthdays and Christmas and my parents were quite strict on that. We did drink full sugar squash and had Coco pops and similar for breakfast, jam sandwiches with a penguin and crisps for lunch and always had a pudding for dinner so not really sure why my parents were so strict on that considering diet wasn’t otherwise particularly healthy!

Pop
Squash
Sugar
Sweets
Meat
Milk
I didn't even try a coke until I was 15 (I'm now 40). We mainly ate lentil soup with dumplings

Im guessing you didnt have the amount of sugar kids have now, you walked places and have a good constitution?

Nothing was explicitly banned because of any health concerns or anything like that…..

But my dad did put a ban on any kind of smoked fish 😂 Yellow, smoked fish is his childhood trauma meal and the smell still makes him gip to this day 🫠😂