What food did your Mum make you eat when you had nowt else!!

[West Ender]

I, honestly, can't remember being made to eat anything. I know I avoided bread, until I was about 8, then discovered a liking for it. Up to then I'd been eating just meat or fish and vegetables - I suppose that was, really, a very healthy diet but I was small and very thin, not good in the 1940s, they wanted chubby children in those days. I never quite made it.

There were certain meals my mother used to make specially for my dad; rabbit pie and pigs' trotters comes to mind. I wouldn't eat either of them (more on moral grounds than taste-wise) but there was always something different for us children.

I used to get dosed every morning. For a while it was Cod Liver Oil and Malt, which I absolutely loved, and later it was Rose Hip Syrup - mmmmmm! I still love Cod Liver Oil - yes, honestly - and I make my own Rose Hip Syrup. All the above were supposed to keep me healthy and, my mother prayed, stop me being so thin. It didn't work. Oh I was healthy enough but when Nature says you're gonna be skinny until you hit 45 - that's how it is.

[shazfury1]

Had it for lunch today, lovely done right.

[darwendosser]

my mom would boil a sheep's head up and dad would tell her to leave the eyes in so it would see us through the week

[beechy]

swedes.. mixed with carrots,so i wouldnt notice
as if

[gdm27]

My Mum would boil the sheep's head then take the brains out, mash them with salt and pepper and vinegar then make a sandwich of it!!!! Thankfully she was greedy and never made us eat it!!

[emamum]

Originally Posted by beechy

swedes.. mixed with carrots,so i wouldnt notice
as if

we love carrots and swede mashed with a bit of butter mmmm one of my favourites

[steeljack]

Can remember a family who lived across the street from us , must have been the mid/late 50s when cheap plastic products first came on the market , the Mother decided to make a potato pie. In those days the white enamel washing-up basin (used in a slop stone) served a duel purpose as a cooking utensil for pratie pie/hot pot .
needless to say the 'new' plastic washing up bowl did not withstand use in the oven and the fire brigade made a visit much to the merriment of the local kids .

[gdm27]

I remember when we had our 1st roast chicken Sunday dinner, that was in the late 50's. Home made spud pie until then.

[docker5]

darn right....i still love it...and i'm 67...lol...no real name...just cheese and egg done in the oven...cheers