Meals of yore made by your parents

[Mrs Miggins]

Findus crispy pancakes? I always wanted those but my mum wouldn't buy them

My dad worked for Findus so we had a freezer full. And French Bread Pizzas, lasagnes and some weird strawberry mousse things. Happy days

Dad also had an allotment so we too had stacks of fresh veg. Fruit pies are the thing that I miss most though. We had blackcurrants, rhubarb, blackberries, goosberries, strawberries coming out of our ears as kids. I got really bored to death of fruit pies. Now, I'd kill for one. Mum made awesome pastry. We'd have them warm with carnation milk.

 

[beeboo]

I wonder what foodstuffs the yoof of today will look back on with nostalgic affection?

 

[mrsfran]

Weirdly, I can't really remember meals from when I was growing up. It's strange given that I'm so into food now, but I really didn't care about food as a child/teenager. I remember birdseye burgers and those cheap tiny cheese and tomato pizzas, and microwaveable chicken pies. But once I turned 13 I pretty much had to feed myself, and I mostly lived off pot noodles. I didn't start to cook until I was about 21.

 

[ringo]

Mu Mum makes the heaviest pastry known to man. Her mince pies weigh a ton - the base and top are about an inch thick with a tiny bit of mincemeat between them.

I prefer to make them like that now too 'cos it seems right.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I wonder what foodstuffs the yoof of today will look back on with nostalgic affection?

Cheese string and KFC

 

[weltweit]

Pork with Crackling .... YUM

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Must have been making it wrong.

Nah - Mum makes it right it's just me that's wrong

 

[ajdown]

Vesta chicken curry

The 99p shop in Brixton sells Vesta ... things. Can't really call it a meal as such because it's got about as much nutritional value as a pot noodle.

I remember my dad used to eat them a lot. I had my first one a week or so back after seeing them there - not necessarily something I'll be repeating in a hurry, although I'd like to try the paella to see if that's as bad as the curry.

 

[ajdown]

Least favourite was boiled fish and new potatoes in parsley sauce. Bleurgh.

I used to love the 'boil in the bag' frozen lump of square nondescript fish in thin white sauce containing a few flakes of a parsley style green thing that tasted of nothing really.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

We had rhubarb growing in the garden so we always had rhubarb crumble.

We also used to go bilberry and blackberry picking in the season which made for loads and loads of fruit pies.

We used to do that too

We had this huge chest freezer and Mum would make pies and crumbles then freeze them but forget to make a note of what they were. So we never knew whether we would be getting apple, rhubarb or other crumble At least she never made meat pies so we didn't get those confused as well!

 

[tufty79]

The 99p shop in Brixton sells Vesta ... things. Can't really call it a meal as such because it's got about as much nutritional value as a pot noodle.

I remember my dad used to eat them a lot. I had my first one a week or so back after seeing them there - not necessarily something I'll be repeating in a hurry, although I'd like to try the paella to see if that's as bad as the curry.

the veg stuff's ok, as far as i recall (from SE24 gastronomic adventures last year)
i think the chicken stuff was well wrong though

gastronomically unhappy times

 

[Meltingpot]

From my gran's cooking; cheese and tomato potato pie, pretty decent. She also made a kind of cut-up confection with marshmallows, butter and Frosties (and sometimes chocolate powder), heated up together in a saucepan and then poured onto a tray and allowed to set before being cut up. It was great, I've even made it myself.

BTW, the version of "wait and see" I grew up with was "teddies and point." "Teddies" were potatoes, never quite worked out what "point" meant.

My mum can cook too, she did some decent casseroles.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Our version of "wait and see" was "Bread and Catch-It". Still used by my Mother when she's not sure what to make or what there is to eat!

 

[Geri]

I used to love the 'boil in the bag' frozen lump of square nondescript fish in thin white sauce containing a few flakes of a parsley style green thing that tasted of nothing really.

Yeah, that's the stuff we had! The new potatoes were the worst bit though. I used to sit at the table for hours because she wouldn't let me leave until I ate it all, and I wouldn't eat it.

 

[Maggot]

Our version of "wait and see" was "Bread and Catch-It". Still used by my Mother when she's not sure what to make or what there is to eat!

You sure she wasn't saying 'Bread and cat shit'?

 

[DotCommunist]

I wonder what foodstuffs the yoof of today will look back on with nostalgic affection?

Meat, vegetables, real food that isn't just algae grown in vats as they huddle in caves and curse the Nuclear winter.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

So as not to muck up the working class salad fest.

• Prawn cocktail with frozen prawns, mixed salad cream/mayo and ketchup, half a rock hard avocado, lettuce leaf.
• Mince with curry powder and tinned fruit.
• Lemon meringue pie. Luminous catsick yellow.

Over to you.

what.the.fuck?

 

[JTG]

Adolf Hitler has much to answer for when it comes to the British diet imho

 

[QueenOfGoths]

You sure she wasn't saying 'Bread and cat shit'?

I may well have to ask her

 

[Funky_monks]

If there was roast chicken, we then had chicken curry and rice the following day then the remaining carcass made a stew as above.

I still do this when I push the boat out and buy a chicken/kill one of mine.

1) Roast chicken

2) Chicken sandwiches (leftover breast)

3) Chicken fricasse (cooked by my wife - meat picked from legs mostly)

4) Chicken soup (Meat picked from anywhere on the carcass - I can procure a surprising amount of meant from a seemingly unpromising roast chicken carcass)

5) Stock made with bones.


If it is a cockerel, it tends to get boiled straight off and used for a pie in stage 1. The sandwich stage is omitted.