What a lot of filling food on that list. This cold weather is making even hungrier than ever. I don't suppose many households could afford to eat like that in the 1950's, or now.
I grew up in the 50's, and we didn't eat as much as that. We did eat well, despite a low income. Mum didn't work outside the home, so spent little money and a lot of time baking, cooking, gardening (she grew salad crops and vegetables). We had jam butties, toast and occasionally porridge for breakfast. School dinner, or on holidays cooked dinner at home. Tea may be kippers, salad with tinned fish/meat/cheese. Supper would be jam and bread, toast. Fresh fruit was bought on Tuesday and Saturday and we always had two pieces each a day. We didn't have crisps or pop, and biscuits were bought on Saturday and when they'd gone, that was it. We did have home made pies and cakes. Sweets on Saturday when gran brought them. Chocolate at easter and christmas, and very rarely otherwise. We were lucky in having a relatively varied diet but we did eat a fair amount. We were much more active that most children are today. We walked a distance to school, explored our neighbourhood on bikes. We played football, rounders, cricket, ball games, skipping and endless games on the street where we lived. We also had fields at the back of the houses, and spent days in the summer holidays 'fishing'. I suspect most of us couldn't swim, but we'd been warned not to fall in, and magically, we didn't.
Writing this has brought home how lucky we were. Sorry for going off post but just thinking about food brought so many memories.
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