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

[OneUmberJoker]

Sugary cereal like frosties

ketchup, fizzy drinks, ready meals, cereal, biscuits, crisps.

There wasn't a lot of fast food about so mum had to cook from scratch. I vaguely remember fish fingers being the first one I tried. Ice-cream in the summer with tinned fruit. Porridge and proper cocoa in the winter. Browning crumpets on a long fork in front of the fire.

Lucozade when you were ill with Heinz chicken soup.

I wish more was banned or at least restricted.

We had a diet of processed food and lots of junk and fry ups.

I eat far too much shit now, but I'm trying to improve.

You say all your meals were homemade but then say you had toast Hawaii which is processed white bread, with processed ham (carcinogen), with tinned fruit and cheese and processed cherries… hardly homemade

Oddly enough, the same as the OP, along with fizzy drinks.

Not banned as such. Just never bought.

Angel delight

Anything French cos of nuclear testing

My father wouldn’t allow “foreign food”. I first tasted pizza and pasta at friends’ homes in my teens, early 1970s, and had Vesta curry at my boyfriend’s house when I was 17. Rice at home was a baked milk pudding, not a savoury side dish.

Conversely, there was zero concern about healthy eating. My mother would liberally sprinkle sugar onto breakfast cereal, Ski fruit yogurt, ice cream, and all fresh fruit was sliced onto a plate with sugar. I had salad cream and tomato ketchup sandwiches made with white sliced Mother's Pride bread spread with Stork margarine, or jam sandwiches, and there were sugar lumps for treats! I was a small child and active, never overweight, but I blame my mother for my awful teeth.

Fizzy drinks, sugary cereals, any branded thing aimed kids at that cost more than it should. I went through a phase of being very pissed off with my parents that I was not allowed Alphabetti Spaghetti and had to make do with own brand spaghetti hoops.
Later, Sunny D, when everyone was drinking gallons of it. Glad in the end as that was found to be not a healthy drink they claimed.

another 60s/70s child - no spicy food, or garlic or onions - the latter because apparently dad couldn’t digest them. So my first ‘curry’ was what passed for it at school, and Vesta when I went camping with friends. And I can still remember my first Chinese meal when I was 16.
The funny thing about the lack of nice spicy food was that my parents would happily eat hot horseradish and English mustard with a roast.

Marmite … student life freed me to love marmite toast without being branded “just bloody weird” by my judgy marmite-hating family😁.

So many things! And randomly, too. I think they believed whatever was in the news. I’m mire relaxed with my children but there are still loads of things in the supermarket that I wouldn’t know how to eat/cook. Suet, meringues, coronation anything, condensed milk, evaporated milk, tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, kippers, cockles, kidney, liver, tinned pies, stout, turnips, rice cakes, custard powder, squash/cordials, herrings, microwaveable meals, premade rice…loads of things. I don’t want to try them (otherwise I would), but there’s a whole segment of the market that are just not in my realm of experience!

Curry. My dd can't stand the smell.

Any thing from South Africa so fruit was limited to apples and oranges.

Sugary cereal, pop, junk - just about unlimited.

Ribena
We only had fizzy drinks for special occasions like birthdays

I feel sorry for these parents being blamed for their adult offspring's fizzy drink addiction. It seems you can't win - if you let them drink fizzy drinks they get used to having them because it's normal. If you don't, they go wild for them once they leave home! Fizzy drinks are just addictive - it's not your parents' fault!

We never (except for birthdays) had fizzy drinks, sweets, chocolate, biscuits, cake, crisps or anything similar.

As adults, my brother is obese and I am bordering on it.

Gum

But there was generally less volume and variety of food available than now.

Sunny-D orange juice drink. I used to beg my mum every time I was made to go to the supermarket. We also never had Coke, we did have some sort of fizzy pop with Sunday dinner or at parties and possibly a small glass on Monday if the bottle hadn't been finished. No fizzy drinks otherwise. I spent a time when I was in high school drinking loads of cans of pop usually one at lunch time then one after school, but I don't really drink any fizzy drinks now. Only either alcohol (fruit cider/prosecco) or as mixers.

Chips, fizzy drinks, random sweets. We very rarely had biscuits or cake, and never things like chocolates in the house. I don’t ever recall having burgers at home, noticeable because if I went for tea to a friend’s, the meal would often be burger, chips and buttered bread. We didn’t have a chip pan, and I don’t think oven chips were invented then!
We were allowed one cup of Ribena a day, although we did also have cheap squash, but mainly drank tea and coffee. I don’t ever remember drinking water.

Literally nothing. I cringe at the crap we ate and drank.

Poptarts

@TenGreatFatSquirrels my mum called it that , it was light coloured bread from bakery ( we never had toast) with a pineapple slice, ham from butcher and cheese ( gouda or edam think ) sliced from a cheese block. I'm not from here and older , sorry but you're right, it's obviously junk food. By homemade meant we had no ready meals. And there wasn't much to buy in shops.

Sunny D and poptarts! I think fizzy drinks were teenage and upwards too, I don’t really remember them featuring except for pub trips on holidays.

Fizzy pop, we couldn’t afford it.

The next door neighbours used to have the weekly pop man deliver a selection of brightly coloured glass bottles and we could only look on in envy. Cherryade, Limeade, dandelion and burdock, cream soda. We’d go and ask to play in their garden with their kids in the hope that we’d get offered a glass.

I forgot to mention snacking. There was no such thing in our household or amongst any of my friends. You had breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dinner was always eaten at the table as a family and there was no separate offerings for me as a child (I wouldn't have wanted that anyway). Very occasionally you'd get a packet of crisps, usually on holiday when my parents went to a beer garden for a drink! I wasn't allowed bubble gum or chewing gum either, and god help me if I was ever caught with it. Funnily enough my mum sometimes bought cream soda, that was the only fizzy drink we had. She'd let me have it as a treat in the summer with a scoop of ice cream on top - an ice cream float. It was delicious!

Im in my 40s.

Was only allowed fizzy pop on birthdays and Xmas, and even then limited to one or two small glasses.

No chewing gum or bubble gum