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

[OneUmberJoker]

Sugary cereal like frosties

@Strewth1 my dm was a hospital dietician specialising in diabetes. I had an affinity with dentists’ children at school growing up 😆

Fizzy drinks
Sweets, cakes, biscuits
Ready meals or freezer food (exceptions were veggie burgers and fish fingers, and mixed veg)
White bread, pasta etc- only wholegrain or wholemeal was allowed
Sugary cereals
Butter
Ice cream (unless vanilla flavour)

Basically anything sugary or processed wasn't allowed. I went a bit overboard when I first moved out and bought my own food... have my diet mostly under control now.

@ginasevern
Same - all home grown and home made food, minus the eggs, but I had an aunt who supplied us with those. DPs just didn't buy much, and snacking was a foreign concept. No deli/ sliced meats, no convenience foods at all. We did have breakfast cereal, but never anything sugary.

The only thing banned outright was chewing gum and bubble gum.

We had fizzy drinks once in a blue moon, mainly Cidona but also cream soda and ginger ale (the latter two for upset stomachs or convalescence). DPs never bought Fanta, Coke, Lilt, etc.

Not so much banned but we never had them and I was a bit surprised when I left home: white bread except if crusty, I still don't like white sliced, cheddar - we had Edam because it's easier to slice. I'm working my way up to extra mature, in my 50s! But I went straight onto sweaty "white cheese" or "orange cheese" at the ScotMid as I was a student in Scotland and it was cheapest.
My mum can't stand anything spicy but I don't think I realised that as a child because we did eat tacos, curries etc but only with NO chilli pepper at all. My parents divorced when I left home and I then discovered it was not my dad who wouldn't eat hot curries!
We desperately wanted a Soda Stream but we were allowed the occasional Coke (though usually diet as my mum was convinced I in particular was overweight) or other fizzy drink, and we were allowed to have cinnamon and sugar on toast which my cousins were very jealous about, their mum thought sugar on bread was common!

We weren’t allowed Pot Noodles. Parents let me have beer before that for some bloody reason…

I was a child in the 60s.
Meals were all home cooked, no such thing as ready meals. Pudding was always fruit pie or crumble.

Never had fizzy drinks, fast food or takeaway.
Never had snacks between meals ( still don't).
Never had anything spicy or flavoured, it was all very traditional meat or fish and veg.
Never had crisps or similar.
Never went to a restaurant until I was 18.

Most processed food.

Boiled sweets specifically cherry drops as my sister choked on one once, and lollipops for the same reason my mum was obsessed that they’d come off the stick and kill us!

70s child.
No curry or spicy food at home as my dad wouldn’t tolerate it. It was all meat, boiled potatoes, veg.

I still remember when I went out for my first ever curry - that was a great experience.

I also never had a curry as a child - my mum was an amazing cook but hated spicy food. My best mate went to Bradford Uni and took me for my first ever curry when we were 18 - completely fell in love.

Everything. I never even got an easter egg or chocolate coins at christmas.
I was allowed one jar of jam per year on my birthday and when it was gone it was gone.
Also force fed food I hated and would be made to sit there until I ate it and continue even if I gagged.
It was the 70s but still. My father was a nasty bastard.
No wonder I have lifelong food aversions and struggle with my weight.

Fuzzy drinks.

Nothing I can think of. We were allowed pretty much anything in moderation.

Basically anything processed - like a pp I wasn’t banned from having them elsewhere but they were never bought in. 80s child so quite unusual then. Kinda grateful now though

White bread here too.

Don’t remember anything being “banned”. I would say we ate quite simple plain food, and that sugary cereals, drinks etc were reserved for special occasions, but don’t think anything was banned. This was in the 1980s/1990s.

Pop tarts and fruit roll ups

Oh my God, mine too! I’d forgotten about slices of Mars bar!

Nothing was banned in our house as we didn’t have much anyway I’m a 60,s chick

Fizzy drinks. I'm glad now we never had them as a kid as I still don't have a taste for them now.

Child of late 60s nothing was banned, l dont remember any snacks just 3 meals a day.
My children were born in the 90's only thing l banned was chewing gum.

Sweets/chocolate etc ONLY at Easter or Christmas.
Exceptions: my mother popping into town and getting a pick and mix bag from Woolworths (once a year or so )
Visitors brought them as a gift
My grandmother had a special sweet cupboard we all made a beeline for when we visited.
Only drinks allowed were milk/water, occasionally squash.
Or chocolate ( made with cocoa ) milk, hot cocoa in winter or hot milk with honey.
Grandmother had lemonade in glass bottles, such a treat, again only on visits and only one glass.
We only went to restaurants for a super special occasion e.g an adult's birthday, when you were around 10+ think were maybe allowed to order a coke or fanta ,
You might go out once/twice during a holiday to a restaurant or grandparent's might take your for lunch.
Def was very special to dine out.
Never had fried food unless my mother made hand cut chips from scratch once or twice a year.
Took ages. Divine.
Or a treat after a day on the beach, we lived by the coast.
All our food/meals homemade, all seasonal, much simpler.
Fruit/Veg came only from the garden/allotment. Maybe the odd glass jar of peas and round carrots or frozen spinach. Tinned pineapple for toast Hawaii.
All veg and meat tasted better, way way better in fact.
Meat/bread came from the butcher or bakery, never the supermarket, which was tiny anyway.
No snacks at all.
To this day I hate big supermarkets and the sheer amount of choice.
Do we need aisles with 500 e numbered cereals to pick from ?
Ok exaggerating a bit but you get my drift.
I recall living in the States, taking kids trying to buy a simple ice cream, e.g 5 ingredients or so.
After looking a gazillion choices of unnatural ingredients finally found one with 5 natural ones.
Frozen paws.
It was ice cream for dogs....Tragic.

My kids never had baked beans because I never thought to buy them because I loathe them.
They both discovered them as adults and love them.
They think I am weird. 😁

70's kid- bloody yoghurt as it was 'sour milk' and we would not like it - my mother was great but deranged with regard to yoghurt! When I was 10 I was allowed to try a strawberry Ski and loved it!!!! much to my mums surprise. Turned out my dad loved yoghurt too but had supressed the urge for 20 yrs. In fact when my mum turned 80 and I was her carer she loved full fat Greek yoghurt and ate loads of it. She passed away with a big tub in the fridge!

Same here the fear never left me. Chewing gum and gobstoppers too.