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

[OneUmberJoker]

Sugary cereal like frosties

Those like me who grew up in the 60s on very plain home cooked diets with no snacks or pop - how did you change as an adult?

My first ever meal out in a restaurant was aged 18 - prawn cocktail, steak and chips. Then I had Indian and Chinese food. Loved it all and learned to cook it when I left home. I still don't eat between meals but my DC do. I like to be properly hungry at mealtimes so I really enjoy my food.

Processed foods like bisto and fizzy drinks
Most ready made stuff
There was sugary or bad stuff occasionally (eg cocoa pops, crisps) but very limited and not replaced

Yes exactly the same for me. I had forgotten about my dad bringing cream soda home to have with vanilla ice-cream.My mum was type 1 diabetic so worried about me and brother having too much sugar.My dad gave us treats sometimes.We never had any other fizzy drinks.My mum had emergency lucozade 😖.We never touched it.

Same, far too unhealthy. Or Coco pops. Cornflakes/rice Krispies were much healthier, with a spoon or two of sugar sprinkled over the top from the sugar bowl of course!

I was born in 1960, WC household (despite my mum's aspirations), not much money coming in. No food was 'banned', but not much food was available back then, mum cooked everything from scratch. She hated cooking so it was all fairly basic. Sweets once a week when we got pocket money (9d), no crisps (expensive) fizzy drinks (REALLY expensive), not much fruit and the veg was either homegrown or potatoes. Lots of stodge (dad had a physical job) and slow cooked meals like casseroles cooked in the oven with rice pudding. Home made cakes. Never ate out, no takeways (there weren't any around us, until a fish and chip shop opened mid 70's).

I didn't eat curry/a chinese/a ready meal/pasta/garlic until I was in my teens and eating away from home a lot more. My parents didn't like 'foreign food' or garlic and many of these things were relatively more expensive back then.

I now eat absolutely anything. Except artichokes.

Artichokes 😆yes tried them once, pretty pointless..

DM used to do the cutting Mars bars into slices thing. She also used to do it with other big chocolate bars like Marathon. I can see her point actually. They were were too big and expensive to give a whole one to a child.

Incidentally, sliced Mars bar that's been chilled in the fridge is lovely.😁

Rock. If anyone bought us Rock it went straight in the bin.

Also my Dad was like the Garlic Bread Peter Kay sketch. Hated Garlic, anything too foreign and pasta. We had it when he wasn’t around.

We didn’t have snacks or pop but our home cooked food wasn’t very plain. My mother made her interpretations of “Continental”, Indian and Chinese foods.

I still don’t drink pop very often and a snack is usually a sandwich or similar. We rarely have biscuits in the house. A bar of chocolate can last months. Food is prepared from scratch with quite a heavy Asian influence.

Not much difference really.

I don't drink pop,fizzy drinks and I still eat cheap biscuits.I hardly eat meat now though ,we had meat at every meal apart from fish on Friday when I was growing up.I don't eat sugary cereal, only porridge oats.We only had Weetabix or cornflakes as kids.I think my childhood diet has sort of stayed with me , apart from the meat.I was a child in the 60's and 70's.Teenager in the 80's.So dinner was eat what you are given or go hungry.

1970s. Nothing was "banned" apart from bubble gum, this was absolutely not allowed ever! but I don't remember ever having crispy pancakes, fish fingers, Vests curries etc. Most food was home cooked from scratch, mum made all the bread (wholemeal) and we used to bake cakes or biscuits at the weekends. We had sweets and biscuits, fizzy drinks were allowed but were for parties and Christmas rather than everyday drinks. Grandma would always turn up with a massive bottle of fizzy Lucozade if one of us was ill!

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