1 I can remember the old IGA van coming out to the farm to deliver our groceries, god knows what the labels said back then. The old Rawleys man use to come around and the family Priest for tea. Going to church on a Sunday was the highlight of the week lol. We probably didnt worry too much what food pkts said as Mum did home baking all the time (home made pies, youghurt etc) and Dad had a vegie garden
2 I will be 50 next year, hubby will be 50 in a couple of weeks.
No, there wasn't a lot of stuff in packets. The only thing I really remember was when the cake mixes came out and Mum thought they were great. I remember getting a packet mix birthday cake and I hated it!
Every week we would do a grocery shop. There were no big supermarkets, just corner shops like Keystore and Four Square. You bought your veges fresh, usually from the kiosks at the side of the road that belonged to farms, or you grew your own. Meat came from the butcher, again once a week you would go down with the list and bring it home. If you were lucky, you got fish n chips once a week. Fizzy drink was for special occasions, probably around twice a year, Christmas and birthdays. We bought that by the crate from Ballins, swap a crate they were. We had around sixpence or 5 cents spending money for lollies, again, once a week.
People ate good, healthy food. We had the meat and 2 vege type meals. My parents had immigrated from Holland so we had a lot of good Dutch cooking as well. I can't remember any families or friends that ate very differently. We usually had dessert as well, it would be icecream, or sponge cake, cream, custards in winter.
Our lunches were homemade, we didn't have packet biscuits much. In my class of 48 kids, only one girl brought packet biscuits to school and she was the envy of everyone else. There was only one type of potato chip available and that was Smiths, which I love and you can only get in Australia.
We didn't eat chicken much. It was very expensive and was kept for Christmas or New Years Day dinner.
People bottled excess stuff out of their gardens in Summer to take them through Winter. There wasn't a lot of frozen stuff available, it was mostly cans, or dried, both of which we had when we went camping.
Grocery stores were only open Monday to Friday. If you ran out of something you waited till Monday. No one bought from the dairy, far too expensive and usually stale. We did have Sunday bread, fresh bread from the dairy on a Sunday. Yum.
We had milk and bread delivered every day.
I don't remember ever being hungry and food tasted great.
3 Takeaways was Fish and Chips no more than once a week and usually on a Friday night. I was brought up on meat and 3 veg and eat whats on your plate or go hungry and yum who can forget the Sunday hogget roast. Chippies and lollies were a treat not everyday.
4 Gosh that brings back the memory, just a couple of things different in my life back then was we went to the Greengrocer for vegs and fruit, and we only had milk delivered every day to the letterbox not bread. I chuckle nowdays when I see the panic buying at the supermarket if they are to be closed the next day which is about three days a year because we managed fine when they were closed from Friday 5.30 till Monday 9am
5 I miss them as well...sunday roast.....sunday bath lol.....baking day thursday.....fresh home grown veggies fruit iff the trees and rows of bottled fruit and home made jams in the store cupboard
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