My dear old mum said to me "Do you ever look back on your childhood and think what appalling food you were given?"

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Bless her, she really wans't the best cook in the world and this seems to be bothering her in her old age. It made me wonder what we will look back on and stress about regarding our kid's childhood .

urgh yes!!!those!

and fray bentos where the ones i mentioned first..not as bad as gobling but still soggy and blergh

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Ice Magic....thats it!

My partner had a nostalgic moment in Tesco's when we first moved in together and had to buy him some 'Monster Crackin' (same as Ice Magic) and a tub of Vanilla 'Soft Scoop'!

Is still a regular on the shopping list for him now!

Great thread!

My mum used to cook traditional food like, roasts, sausage and mash, battered fish pieces and mash, faggots and mash, rissoles and mash...you get the picture?! But we always had a lot of chips too but always home made ones fried in a chip basket in lard. They were to die for I have to say! Oh and lashing of sweets and really strong drinks of squash!

Mint Choc Chip Angel Delight and Instant Whip was a real treat in the 1970s reserved only for birthday parties and when friends came back for tea and a Vesta curry or risotto was frightfully exotic.

I never had a chinese takeaway until I went to a friends house at the age of 12 and once I went to a friend's house and was presented with cheese souflee for lunch (not dinner!) I'd never seen such a thing!

Great childhood memories.

we used to have 'little miss muffet junket'(i think that's what it was anyway) - sort of flavoured milk jelly.

mum was a good if basic cook - slightly more adventurous now - always trying to feed me up and yesterday brought round a concoction of veggie sausages with sweet potato in carrot and coriander soup (at least those are the flavours that i could distinguish).Nice - strange but nice. Bless her heart - she's fab my mum.