General Chat

Both my daughters are on messenger asking about food they ate before 7! :-S :-S
Eldest started it.
She remembers space invaders on toast, with marmite, by some boats when she was 5/6.
Eating the duck food, and her dad boiling her some eggs, but not 'everyday' stuff
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Actually, eating the duck food was an 'everyday' food for her! She'd steal it from under their beaks!

With a bit of prodding, she remembered the stuffed marrows her dad did with soya mince (ugh!), my shepherds pies and eating the veg straight from the garden.

I never gave them 'toddler' food, they had what we had - just cut up.
In Essex, as we lived on a farm, they'd eat chicken from the farmer, pheasant from the gamekeeper, vegetables from out garden, or the farm, and duck from our garden :-D

Bickiepegs, I ate hundreds of them.

I know you are supposed to take them away after twenty minutes when they are soggy but I don't think anybody was brave enough to try!

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Mine had Ovaltine teething rusks.

Farley's rusks. I ate loads of them and the kids didn't get a look in. However I tried some a few years ago when a friend was feeding her grandchild and they were awful. How my taste buds have changed!!

Kath. x

Kathleen, I used to love Farleys Rusks years ago when my children were small.

I bought some for when my grandchildren stayed and when I tried them again they did not taste the same. I think they may have had more roughage added - at least that's what the taste was like to me.

When my two were young, the older one could not stand 'rabbit food', as he called a salad while the younger one loved them, ate them from being very young, and would happily take them for her packed lunch. They were both brought up with the same food fed to them so I guess inherited taste buds have a lot to answer for. :-S

I remember having 2 Farleys Rusks with hot milk and sugar for my breakfast well into my teens!
I was a small child, and could go ages without eating - I just didn't get hungry.
The doctor encouraged my mum to pander to what I wanted, (She hated that), even though, as I didn't get hungry, it wasn't much. Just rusks :-D

I remember mum feeding our youngest sister born 1949 with Farleys Rusks

I had our daughter in 1958 and they were still a solid mushed in milk as a food for a baby being weened

There are loads of foods that I don't think taste the way they did years ago, so my family always tell me that it must be my taste buds that have altered - but I'm not so sure.

Kath. x

They've removed all the sugar, Kathleen :-(

Does anyone eat blancmange these days?

A yellowish tone of cold blancmange that had been set in a rabbit mould was always placed in chopped 'grass' green jelly at many children's parties.
Pink wafer biscuits and marshmallow cakes in bullseye foil paper and iced party ring biscuits were other party treats.

I eat blancmange and did once serve it at the village lunch.

I'm anybody's for custard anyway, not that they even really need the custard!

My son has never eaten a vegetable in his life
apart from Potatoes

He is 42 now :-( :-(

He won't thrive

He is over 6 feet tall Sharron

and he hasn't had fruit either :-D :-D

I hated Farley's rusks, but I did like the Ovaltine ones!

Elder son loved fruit and most veggies, suitably mashed up, until we went to West Africa when he was 18 months old. Soft fruit (strawberries, plums, apple etc.) were unavailable and he lived on banana and oranges and a limited choice of veg. As a result, when we returned to the UK he wouldn't eat anything "new". I can't remember how I solved the problem, but he now eats nearly everything!!

Joy - just imagine how big he would have been if he HAD eaten his vegetables! :-0

Andysmum - my children didn't like Farley's rusks either, so not only do I have to confess to eating them (with hot milk & sugar) well into my teens, I also ate them when my children were young!
You know, buy the 'odd' packet 'just in case' they like them now - their taste might have changed in a week. :-D

Maggie he was over 11lb when he was born
and is still big now

I tried everything when he was little
even payment per mouthful

But no he hates them :-D

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Mine just at the veggies straight from the garden!
Oh - and the eldest ate gladioli flowers - once.
I re-directed her to the Marigolds and Nasturtiums. :-D

Did anyone eat hawthorn leaves, as a child?

I was thinking about this earlier this week, when I saw all the fresh green growth on local trees.
Why did we call it 'bread and cheese?

This was near south coast Hampshire

Gripe water! Don't ask me why. One spoon for the kiddlies, and one for me. :-D :-D