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We didn't have a choice either and we weren't allowed to refuse or to leave anything- the choices came during the time I was teaching and basically led to the food becoming 'child friendly' i.e more junky!

I wonder how many other people often feel as guilty as I do when I see the huge amount of food choices available in our supermarkets today. It's nice to have it all, but is it really necessary for our health as a nation? As Johnboy as said, we were much healthier as a nation during the war because our fat intake was severely limited and whilst I still occasionally indulge myself with a thick splurge of butter on my breakfast toast I mostly still adopt the meagre scraping which was indoctrinated into me as a child when I remember my mother scraping the occasional butter paper wrapper she'd been given by our local grocer as a freebie extra to her ration. (That would yield an extra ounce of butter for a few minutes' effort). It's difficult to imagine now that a windfall like that during wartime would have been worth its weight in gold to somebody trying to feed a hungry family. I often recall those steaming pots of lentil soup when I came home from school or the trays of bread pudding my mother would make, which contained as many sultanas as she could spare from her precious "points" rations.

Hi Primrose and Chantal

I am obviously not alone regarding what I thought the Turkey twizzlers looked like.....I thought it might be my over-active imagination!

People actually buy and eat this muck?????

Cheers!

Johnboy. You've got me going, the smell of mums stockpot on the go as you walked in the kitchen door, everthing went into this pot, as time went by it developet a crust on the bottom of the pot, if you was in favour, you got some of this crust on an end of a loaf.

Elaine wrote:Hi Primrose and Chantal

I am obviously not alone regarding what I thought the Turkey twizzlers looked like.....I thought it might be my over-active imagination!

People actually buy and eat this muck?????

Cheers!

I don't know if they buy them but they were used for school dinners!

Primrose wrote:I wonder how many other people often feel as guilty as I do when I see the huge amount of food choices available in our supermarkets today.

Did you see the programme? - I think it was Jimmy's Food Factory -where they showed a huge heap of bananas that has been discarded by the supermarkets. Many were perfect. They were using them as fuel to heat a greenhouse in which was growing tomatoes.

I saw that on tele - firstly was horrified that these were
thrown out in perfect condition when they could be given
to the poor or a soup kitchen. Then I felt better that they
weren't totally wasted then angry that the end product was
for out of season tomatoes that again would be expensive and
again a lot thrown out in fairly good condition.

And how green is it when you add on the banana boat travel
across thousands of miles? All these conundrums always spark
a big debate in our house adn I change sides so much never
really finish with a clear winner.

Westi