We grew up in the 1970s. Our mothers cooked with budget ingredients that were available in the shops and what was grown in the vegetable patch in the back garden. Come and see what our mothers cooked for us.
Links below to recipes for the food I cooked this week. I mainly use my own recipes learnt from my mother but these versions are a good approximation.
Haslet – https://www.food.com/recipe/haslet-ground-pork-and-sage-meatloaf-72705
Bubble & Squeak – https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bubble_and_squeak_with_29950
Beans on Toast – https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/176572/recipe/perfect-beans-toast
Mince & Onions – https://www.fabfood4all.co.uk/minced-beef-and-onions/
British Meatballs and Mash – https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/faggots-onion-gravy
Jam Sponge & Custard – https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-jam-sponge
Homity Pie – https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/deep-filled_homity_pie_48616
Scotch Broth – https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/scotch-broth
Frugal Queen in France
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Oh I remember these meals from when I was growing up and most of them would feature regularly in our house. I'm now retired too with no debt and a paid off mortgage and find myself going back to these meals to help keep the budget under control, maybe not as often as we used to but they do remain in the meal rotation. Thank you for sharing as Haslet is one i"d forgotten but I will be making sometime soon now you've reminded me.
They all look good! Both my Parents were from NE New Mexico so our home food was very different than most. But when she died fry up a chicken I just don't remember how that stretched to feed 9 of us. But I do remember them purchasing 50lb bags of potatoes and pinto beans…. I have no idea how long those lasted in our home
Oh yes! Did you have toad in the hole too? That makes a few sausages go a long way. We used to have a roast chicken sometimes, that did 4 of us for 3 days, roast on Sunday, cold on Monday and chicken stew on Tuesday. Beans or spaghetti on toast were a great treat for tea, particularly if we were allowed to eat by the log fire instead of at the table. Sunday tea could be made special with one of those little jars of meat paste shared between all of us.
Thank you so much for bringing back memories, all your dishes look so delicious. Our mums could stretch a shoe lace and make it tasty and their pastry was to die for!! Im from Ireland so we had quite a lot of Irish stew back then! Now I make it in my slow cooker these days and its also a cheap meal as I add more veg than meat as meat is so expensive these days. Meat loaf is another I have continued with as it really is a pound stretcher, either adding left over bread or rice and add in the middle feta cheese and parsley. As you point out you can have it cold the day after on a piece of bread. I do that as well as slice and freeze for meals later on, when you dont really want to spend too many hrs in the kitchen.
Love seeing these recipes. We had the American version of these in rotation all through my childhood as my parents were farmers and very frugal. I still cook several of them now. Brings back wonderful memories❤
Still make these now, I grew up in a small village, ( DERBYSHIRE) my mum always made filling warming meals for 7 of us kids, I always loved the suet steak and kidney pudding but I wold just eat the suet and the gravy, loved the gravy.
My mum made a huge Yorkshire pudding at the end of each week, she added all the bits she had left over, a slice of bacon chopped small, a few peas, whatever scraps she had. We loved it! Five growing children fed on half a pint of milk, two or three eggs, flour and scraps! Lots of gravy. Delicious
My mum would cook stuffed hearts. I loved them as a kid but couldn’t bear the thought of eating them now x
We loved bubble n squeak on Boxing Day using up the left over veg from Christmas Day with cold turkey!
On Mondays (wash day) it was always Jacket potato with baked beans, or cheese or scrambled egg for my tea. Mum also did a brilliant mince and onion pie with veg. Stew and dumplings, fish patties (mainly potato with some fish and dried sage) and homemade chips. Always try to keep her meal ideas on my menu!
This was a fab video, so many great meals that brought back memories of meals that I”d forgotten like mince and onions and bubble and squeak. I just daren”t even attempt to cook these things anymore where my teens would balk at anything thats not pizza or pasta really. But I’m going to make some of these to surprise my husband with some long forgotten classics. The teens can eat microchips and lump it😂
Thanks for sharing meals from the 70s. My meals are from the 60s in America that were similar, but different. We were a family of 6. Toast and baked beans with hot dogs as the meat. Little ones got 1 hot dog, big kids got 2 and dad got 2-3. She would freeze the ends for a loaf of bread and instead of toast, we might have the hot dog wrapped around with the bread end, a substitute for hot dog buns. Tomato soup and grilled cheese was popular, only one slice of processed cheese per sandwich.
Love these recipes, takes me straight back to my childhood in the early 70s. Pity the word for the “meatballs” has been hijacked and so now offensive to certain people. Oh dear, what a world we live in! 🙄
Thoroughly enjoyed this video though and it’s inspired me to revisit these golden oldies so thank you! x
Fab delicious eat all of them !, I loved Haslet , and brawn sandwiches growing up !, not made but for ages and the controversially named meats lol ( we all know what they are called …) thanks for sharing 🏴
I cant see the recipe?
Great video thanks😊
Great video. We ate all these meals in America during the 70s and 80s. Times were tough, meat was very expensive. Chicken was a special treat.
I don't remember much about how my mom stretched the food budget but like just about everyone there was barely enough money each week. I know when I was around age 7 to age 9 I took egg salad (eggs and mayo) to school A LOT for lunch. I liked it but that wasn't why. It was cheaper than buying lunch at school. Buying lunch would have been easier because my mom didn't really like cooking. So one less task would have been great in her eyes. 😀
Also we lived next door to my grandparents. During that same age range I went to their house after school until my mom got home from work. More often than not I ate dinner there which help with the house food budget.
Absolutely remember these types of foods as a child, loved the video, it’s great having nostalgia moments. Just one question the puddings with jam then Victoria sponge in the pots do you bake them or steam in a pot of boiling water? Thank you for your time and have a great day. Lynn Perth OZ
Also I forgot to tell you I make turkey meatloaf which looks very similar to your haslet. Very economical we we can get reduced turkey mince from Aldi.
Not sure why, maybe it’s the old fashioned style food,
and nostalgia, but this was one of my favorite episodes.
P.s. I still remember the first time I saw an ad and did a double take, for those “meatball’s” it’s not offensive at all.
Love bubble and squeak
I our house bubble n squeak was fried up potato and any veg left from sunday dinner and even had choppped up yourkshire puddings in it!! 😊
My mum also made tripe and onions regularly… never hear of it now
As kids we loved it and ate leftovers on toast 😊
Some memory joggers there Jane and they look delicious, corned beef, mash potato and beans was a meal my mum often made (it’s still a favourite of mine and I am in my 60’s) great video 😊
These are amazing, Jane, thank you! We will be having these a lot at our house!
Please tell me the name of the meatballs because I want to make it so must look up the recipe… is it haggis?
Everything looked scrumptious!