[Growster...]

Mrs Growster and I were discussing what we used to do for feeding soon after we left school - and home!

Top of the list was a Vesta curry, the packet variety, and a close second was one of those curries in tins where one end of the tin had all the meaty/sloppy stuff, and the other end contained the rice. All you did was boil the whole lot and risk third degree burns when opening both ends up...

Recollections please...

[mumofstig]

Wouldn't touch'em with a bargepole now - but those Vesta curries and Chinese meals were the bees knees back then 
I also remember steak & kiddley pies in a tin, with permanently soggy pastry, tinned 'garden peas' that were nothing like fresh garden peas and tinned potatoes   

Oooh just remembered crispy pancakes, and Angel Delight used to love those as well...

[8doubles]

Wouldn't touch'em with a bargepole now - but those Vesta curries and Chinese meals were the bees knees back then 
I also remember steak & kiddley pies in a tin, with permanently soggy pastry, tinned 'garden peas' that were nothing like fresh garden peas and tinned potatoes   

Oooh just remembered crispy pancakes, and Angel Delight used to love those as well...

Found a tub of butterscotch Angel Delight in Home Bargains a couple of months back !
I still like it !

[mumofstig]

Found a tub of butterscotch Angel Delight in Home Bargains a couple of months back !
I still like it !

In tubs now? Used to be powdered stuff in packets 

[Growster...]

Found a tub of butterscotch Angel Delight in Home Bargains a couple of months back !
I still like it !

In tubs now? Used to be powdered stuff in packets 

Tesco have their own butterscotch version in a packet, and Mrs Growster stockpiles them every time we go to the larger store in Hastings!

I'm sure Crooksfoot store would have them Mum!

[mrs bouquet]

Vesta Curries - they were the business.  Angel Delight, Delicious.  Pot Noodles for my children at lunch time.
Still got a Fray Bentos Meat Pie in a flat tin!  White Jam Sandwich - Condensed Milk spread on bread.
Jam sandwich - Piece of bread and jam it in the door    Broken Biscuits. Scrumping anything.  Happy Days  :)and we never got fat, because we were always out playing, climbing, chasing etc. Mrs Bouquet

[Goosegirl]

As a student I lived at home, and Vesta curries? Now you're talking! For some reason whenever I was recovering from an illness, I had to have a beef one - dunno why - but my mum had to race to the corner shop and get it to me a.s.a.p.! I liked their paella too but in later years it didn't taste the same. When I left home and was later on my own in the mid-seventies, I didn't have a clue about cooking but had a little book called "Cooking for two" which became my bible (until I lent it to someone and never got it back) but it had some great simple recipes. What you could do with some minced beef or a piece of chicken was a wonder. 

[Growster...]

My mum advised me to buy a tin of Scotch Broth, half a pound of mince, and keep it on the stove/heat up each day I was away! (I went home at weekends for laundry,rugby/cricket etc - latterly Mrs (then Miss ) Growster..;0)

Salmonella hadn't been invented back then!

I even heated up a Walls pork pie once, and lived to tell the ta

[mrs bouquet]

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I even heated up a Walls pork pie once, and lived to tell the tale

I still do !!!!  

I shall have to look for some Butterscotch Angel Delight now    Mrs Bouquet 

[hamstergbert]

In the youthful hamster days of stretching a very small income to include nourishment as well as beer intake, lived on Wimpy Bar lunchtime tomato soup - cheap and you got a little packet of crackers to go with it.  Many of the office workers who went in there would leave all or some of their crackers so was able to minesweep those and fill up on the crackers moistened with tomato soup that became tangier and tangier due to stretching it out through continually topping it up from those red plastic tomato shaped bottles of ketchup.   Suppose not terribly healthy but certainly very filling for a very small outlay.

Spent some of the summer vacations working as a waiter in Scarborough which gave easy access to lots of food, and towards the end of each summer a two week festival of staff room gluttony in some ridiculous attempt to stockpile body mass to help cover the lean kine that loomed..... and back to the Wimpy bar soups......

Then joined the RN instead and found myself in this amazing paradise of three squares a day!

IN later years, some strange food substitute called 'beanfeast' or the like with some mashed potato of dubious provenance would produce a dish that was almost but not entirely unlike cottage pie....  All the other rubbish we all fed our children on, though, I cringe at the memory.  After all those crispy pancakes, angel delights etc I suspect their bodies must still contain so many e numbers they are fairly pickled physically.

[Growster...]

When I was in a flat with several other reprobates in the sixties, Thursday was pub night. Six pints of bitter for under a pound was the norm, plus numerous fags.

To organise the stomach beforehand, nothing was better than a large tin of Heinz macaroni cheese (2/- or ten pence), and this worked wonders! I still like it, but Mrs Growster makes a great version - had some today asamattererfack...

[8doubles]

Found a tub of butterscotch Angel Delight in Home Bargains a couple of months back !
I still like it !

In tubs now? Used to be powdered stuff in packets 

Still powder but the tubs are equal to 4-5 pkts !

[LILLILEAF]

What a great thread,i would buy a pack of richmond sausages 8 in a pack would last 3 meals,would not touch them now.
I found a tub of butterstotch angel delight the other day 12 servings 99p,we used to have it with dream topping.
Mother would buy a chicken once a year they cost £7.00ea such a treat,favourite meal has to still be roast chicken.
My boss would supply my dinner mid day half a baked potato,that would have to do me on a 12 hour day working with horses,riding,cleaning tack,mucking out,grooming etc,i was as thin as a stick :lol:those were the days.
Another treat chocolate digestives i was only aloud 3 biscuits per day and to this day i only ever eat 3 in a day