I loved the meals my mum cooked up, we had baked beans with every weekday meal- it was an essential and requested by us two girls. We had porridge for breakfast, in the winter, and liked it even better with a teaspoon of strawberry jam. Nana came for lunch every Sunday and always bought the pudding, a home made apple pie from thier tree in the garden. My dad bought in the meat every week and mum made meals accordingly. Saturday was stew day, mum used the left overs form the week, chucked it all in a big pan and it simmered on the cooker whilst we all helped with the weekly wash in the morning. Mum varied our meals during the week, but Saturday was always stew and Sunday was always a roast beef/pork dinner. A wonderful look back into the past, thank you.
One thing that I always find moving when seeing these interviews of women during hard economic times is the meal plans. Due to costs and shortages women had to be a bit more creative and try some unorthodox things to put food on the table. I'm sure this was often not well received and I can imagine the complaints and jokes that women must have heard as result especially from the children they cared so much about. It really breaks my heart to think about how demoralizing that must have been to be assigned an impossible task, be ridiculed for doing the best that you could even possibly the best anyone could have done, and yet have to continue doing that task three times a day 365 days a year. It just highlights just what hero's moms are. I miss mine terribly.
@@jesterday2222 A lot has changed but many things like people in poverty has remained the same. Back then with one parent working families were poor. Today families are poor with both parents working.
We had porridge plenty of homemade soup and potatoes veggies and mince.Sunday roast. My nanna did lot of baking.I have to say I think we were happier then.
And raised undernourished kids. 😢 Too bad, GenX! You'll get no protein until supper! If you get hungry, just chew on one of the plastic toys we gave you, that'll be fine.
This is fascinating! I was 7 years old in 1974, amazing to think how times have changed. Sheila was a bit negative, she was probably in her late 30s but looks late 50s.
Mum should be setting the food guidance, not the children for after school food. We always had a bowl of fruit on our kitchen table, according to what was in season at the time. Fruit and rare vegetables were our after school food in the 60s and 70s. Not biscuits, huge slices of bread and jam. Water or milk as well. There were no sugary drinks in hour house. May be boring to some these days, but that's how it was, we just knew not to complain.
When you could buy a property for 3x your income, when one wage could support a family ... When we had direct face to face interaction with public govt and utilities, We also had sexist attitudes to grapple with but at least women could look after and raise their families . Now women are expected to do both and pay for the privilage. One wage wont buy a house ,and mysogyny is alive and kicking as men claim they can be better women than women ..... Id rather return to the 70s on many issues ... Are we progressing or regressing ??
Back in the 50's and 60's we used to have large green grocer vans that went round the streets they would pull up open up the back door and in you went bins with potatoes cabbage sprouts and other veg mum had her basket she bought with her the grocer would weight it up then tip it into the basket no packaging we paid then home we went.
I feel this mom so much. She has 4 kids, and doesn’t eat enough so is always exhausted. Can’t get stable bc she has to do her menu off of the sales. Fruit spoils so quickly as well. I would’ve suggested at least adding canned (with no high fructose syrup) fruit to the menu instead of jam. But we have many more options today.
How is she living on this food and the kids will have diabetes soon. Bacon water and fruit instead of a potato pie for lunch? Doesn't make sense economically or nutritionally.
@@Padraigp kids went out to play back in the day, on the street or to the park, dood god UK only had 3 TV chanels then BBC! and 2 ITV and HTV Wales if you lived in England near the border AND they did not run 24 hours a day, heaven forbid - no computers, Xboxes etc Bikes, roller skates and other such old fashioned things - needed the fat and sugar content to keep up with the other kids!
@sandramalone9977 indeed. I am irish so we had only rte one and eventually network 2 which had some kids programmes on Saturday morning and then a few after school. Then it was news and all I remmeber is everyone watching dallas after dinner and the hullabaloo with all the neighbours talking about Bobby getting shot. It was a bigger issue than when jfk got shot! And everyone watched the same telly so you always knew the same news and the same episode you could talk about. Now everyone watches something totally different and binges it all in one go. I watch poldark with my mom every Monday night which we could watch it all on e4 but where's the fun in that!
I was born in 1979 but I remember well in the early eighties almost everybody had a little plot for vegetables (or knew someone with a little allotment and they would share the work and harvest). My nan never stopped growing her own vegetables and canned fruit after ww2. The only meat you would see all week was once a week minced meat and once a week a little bit of fish (hello captain Iglo). Sometimes your mom would feel adventurous and made some pasta dish with canned beef 🤢. We only saw ‘expensive meat’ on special occasions like Christmas
1972 here. Chicken was a treat, people didn't eat it all the time like now as it was more expensive then. It was a Sunday roast and everything was used. I remember my mother using the giblets to make gravy, and we'd have soup from the boiled bones. She'd pick every bit of meat from it and it would make another meal like a casserole, and we'd use it for sandwiches.
I was born 75 and we had meat about three or four times a week, usually steak, chicken or the dreaded liver and kidneys, lots of veg and salad, salmon, pasta, quiche, eggs, cheese, wholemeal bread, and occasionally fish and chips. We certainly did not eat like this lady in the video, OK, we were middle class, but you can eat reasonably cheaply, I certainly did as a student, lots of ethnic grocers, veg, spices, lentils, chicken mince bulked out with pulses etc.
My Grandad would slip £5 to my mum behind my Grans back. That £5 would feed and pay bills for my parents and 4 kids under 10 all the week. You can't even buy 2 cornish pasties for £5 now.
I was born in 64 and we always had fruit in the house. It was often just a boring orange but we would have some grapes for a treat. I was in Canada and would also have Watermelon for a treat. It had way more taste than now.
That lady's family diet seems like pretty standard fodder for those days. Most people ate a lot more carbs like bread as opposed to vast amounts of crisps and other snacks that some people eat these days. It's amazing we managed to survive really 😅😅
I was a 17 year old newlywed in 1974 I had a daughter on the last day I of the year. I made all the baby food and our dinners from scratch. I ate meat back then. Chicken for Sunday roast. Monday made a chicken something with left overs and boiled the bones and made soup. Husband came home for lunch so dinner was cooked mid day and tea time was soup and a sandwich or beans on toast. Rice pudding, egg custard, fruit pies or crumbles were our puddings and I’d bake cakes too. We didn’t have lots of puddings though. Liver and onions once a week. Important to keep iron levels up. Things made wirh mince and also sausage meat and eggs. Like the lady said it depended what was on offer. Potatoes and veg always on the menu back then. If we had biscuits I made them too. It was the way to survive as we were on a low wage. We never went without food but we often had limited money for fuel. Cooking helped to keep the house warmer. I went for years without new clothing. I am thankful I always had what I needed even if not what I really wanted.
Your wrong, the woman trying to ‘teach’ her wasn’t listening and obviously has never been on the bread line. Bread and jam has always been dirt cheap, I’m talking of cheap bread and cheap jam. She had no money for fruit, she was buying the cheapest meat etc she could.
@@jemmajames6719My husband is from Leeds and ate sugar butties for after school snacks. Bread, butter and sugar. That’s it. I guess it’s not much different than the cinnamon toast we are every morning. But every Sunday the roast was epic.
And they never will do... no matter WHAT conflict or agro is being pushed in the MSM the REAL fight is ALWAYS "Rich suppressing the Poor"... everything else is smoke and mirrors.
i was born in 1969 and have never had a piece of fruit in my whole life, only started eating vegetables in my 20s when i met my wife, i was raised on salmon paste sandwiches with salad cream
I'm an eskimo and didn't grow up with access to great fruits/veggies in our remote northwest village. But my mom picked wild veggies, stored them in oil, put them in the freezer, and we'd have those with our salmon. And she'd pick berries all summer & freeze them for winter. Berries & wild veggies. Too bad you didn't have those things.
Did it ever dawn on you to get fruit for yourself? As a young adult, that is. Mum let you down, after all. It's a wonder you survived a diet of fish-paste butties and mayonnaise.
£1.60 only gets I bottle of milk Back then you get a weeks worth milk ! Even taking into account the rise in wages from then to now, the cost of living is too high , Inflation is too much today
Where did Sheila live?! I can’t believe apples or pears were really expensive in 1974! Broccoli or cauliflower too. This isn’t about price it’s what Sheila and her family liked to eat and they didn’t like fruit and veg! What a difference 48 years make!
Broccoli? You never saw broccoli then! Fruit and veg was still mostly seasonal. Just looked it up that £12 in 1974 is about £157 today! Who can buy healthy meals for a family that size for that money.
@@jemmajames6719 You absolutely can if people can be bothered to learn to cook and be efficient in the kitchen. My partner and I live on 15-20 pounds per week and our meals are healthy and varied plus a couple of pudding nights. Everything is made from scratch.
Imagine giving kids toast and dripping in this day and age 😂, My husband, born in 1960 and the 4th born out of 5 children was fed bread and dripping or with the bread toasted. I was born a decade later in 1970 and would have been mortified had it been presented to me. I do recall one of our local pubs which I frequented from a young age, feeding the darts team when it was a home match, bread and dripping and the men, all older than me swooping in for it like they were ravenous.
This is when ‘poverty’ meant something. Now everyone cries poverty and they cant even tell you what things cost, because they believe poverty means you cant buy what you want when you want it.
I'm in ABJECT povver eh .... I've had to cancel my amazon prime AND netflix subscriptions and dropped to 40 fags a day to be able to afford the monthly contract on my Iphone 47 and a half !!!!!
Poverty means you can't afford one or more basic needs (a roof over your head, food, etc) in my opinion. When someone told me "there are people with expensive smart phones and expensive cars lining up for financial assistance and the food bank" I thought it was a joke or a gross exaggeration. I've seen that it is true now. I've heard people call themselves poor or broke when they had non essential services they could cancel and other expenses they could cut down on to free up quite a lot of money.
Gosh, this interview looks like a patronising set up. Very few people ate pre cooked junk food in the seventies. Interestingly the junk food like cornflakes and biscuits were more expensive then than healthy food. Today it's the other way around.
And state funded 'free at the point of care' health care from cradle to the grave. No rip off take your house and all your savings privatised elderly care.
Brilliant, nothing changed; still adviced to eat more healthy, but the customer can't afford it and the supply chain is not delivering, no proper healthy groser, just a scamming supermarket. Also the healthy advice is debatable, adding sugar as a catch to children.... unfortunately it shows, live in yhe UK is, keeps, massively decaying....
So the family had enough that one partner could stay at home all day and "plan for the whole week" and they ate like that. That sounded like a Queen's meal
Amusing, and very interesting. I think we all need a Georgie Rodgers in our lives. It was only several years ago, when I was buying a coffee and muffin one day (-after paying for petrol. Classy cafe, yes.) The man behind the counter looked at the muffin and said, "They're bad for you. They make you fat." At first I was surprised, and defended my actions. "It's got fruit in it." I said. "Like 'banana' bread", he replied, "Yes, it's full of sugar." "So, it is bad for you." "Yes." Right 😔
The housewife seems quite unpleasant. She chose to go onto television, refuses to take advice, instead just buys crap from the supermarket, stuffs her kids with bread, and refuses to buy fruit or try anything else thats cheap
I thought that she was stubborn and not willing to try something new, the diet they were on sounded appalling and I certainly did not eat like that as a tiny child in the late 70s!
The diet was appalling, no fruit and vegetables. They must of all passed from coronary heart disease, unless they walked off the crap she fed them. I was 13 in 74 I’m sure we didn’t eat meat pies all the time 🤮
So much flour/sugar. Empty calories. No greens? More vegetables needed! Beans? Don't like porridge? My mom would have said, that's what is for breakfast - eat it or go hungry, this isn't a restaurant. Of course kids will choose jam sandwich - it's sugar. Be a parent, Sheila. LOL. Super defensive Sheila. Wow. Calm down. The economist is just offering suggestions, lady.
Georgie reminds me of some of the older ladies in my family, only they were more humorous, she feels comfortable for me, whereas Sheila seems a bit too rigid and unwilling to try new things.
Poverty really has become a misused word. The crisis we are currently in is still, thankfully, a long way off from reaching anything like the poverty of the 70s. Imagine people now “struggling” with one car, Freeview, no two ice daily café Nero, and a £15 a month smartphone. What WOULD the neighbours say?! 🙄😂 also, Joan Shenton was gorgeous!! an amazing woman. Go read about her.
There always have been and sadly always will be people in genuine poverty (as measured by the general standards of the country they live in). Let's not start the stereotypes of lazy scroungers, or how people in the Third World have it worse (they do, but it's a different set of circumstances and markers). There are a lot of people genuinely trying their best on relatively little money. They might need a car for work (yes, some poor people work). Freeview, well duh that's free once you have the box and the TV. Most people in genuine hardship aren't getting soy lattes from the coffee shop. They actually might need a phone to apply for jobs, go online as everything is done that way now, keep in contact with the school for their kids, etc. etc. But hey you keep trotting out the same old sh!te from your ivory tower. Idiot.
@@Markcain268 yeah just like people didn’t need to smoke to hell and back in the 1970s chap. Poor people shouldn’t have to be denied all possible pleasures in life. Grow the hell up and get real here.
Dear oh dear, the diet of that family sounds awful. Meat pies twice in a day, jam sandwiches every day. Mind you the suggestions from the expert sound pretty poor. Porridge is OK, but baking all the time is a bit off and not particularly good for their wastelines. As for the time taken for baking, recipes very rarely take the time suggested in my experience even though I cook pretty well every day for several years now.
Notice how they cope here? There’s not a mention of running down to a Foodbanks,no mention of how to stop smoking and drinking.They simply get on with it.WEVE lost our sense of pride nowadays,benefits for everything .Theres no ridiculous excuses like ADHT,ANXIETY,LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND ALL THE OTHER PATHETIC EXCUSES FOR NOT WORKING AND CLAIMING BENEFITS.
No poverty in 1974 England London Britain it Mixed economy. Cost of living crisis 2024 Britain London England. This in 2024 66 million English people paying £1980 per year electricity and Gas bills per year. British MP salary £13000 per year. 2024 129 MSP's Scottish government parliament pay it £72000 per year for each MSP'S salary per year £72000. Brilliant content. These people England in 1974 are normal stable and well off in 1974 it gone it shame about it what we lost politically and economically. Art Bezrukavenko bring it back Britain England London Mixed economy. Labour party England British government UK general election 2024 Labour party landslide victory over the Tories.
Just putting up with whatever some expert suggests but the reality is people need more money period and stop perpetuating poverty. Life hacks is not living.
All my old neighbours on the Liverpool council estate where I grew up in the 60s and 70s talked "proper" English....by the time I moved out in the mid 1980s I could barely understand half of what the replacement neighbours were saying. Nowadays its easier to communicate via emojis with a lot of them.
Bread, jam and biscuits. Well, that's their choice when they come in from school and put on the tv Complete absence of parental intervention , 50 years later nothing much has changed except it's got worse
Yes I agree. When I came in from school in the 80s/90s, I'd have a glass of juice or water, maybe a cup of tea and some fruit or a wholemeal sandwich or a cereal bar, something like that. I never ate jam sandwiches and dripping on toast, or drank Coke etc. My mother or grandparents never pushed anything on me food wise in that capacity, I just wanted stuff like that myself.
If this is how the typical family ate in the 1970’s… such a lack of fruit and vegetables and a diet high in animal fats and protein… it is no surprise people have such high rates of heart disease and cancer …
This is a time before we had the politically contrived definition of poverty. Poverty today seems to include expensive but unnecessary electronic gadgets like phones and tablets. There are four children mentioned. It is about time that our planet saving green politicians said two children maximum. Lower world population, lower greenhouse emissions.
Smartphone contract is cheaper than landlines in 2024 My work requires me to use an app and my council requires me to use the Internet for waste services and council tax Welcome to the future , consumerism has made a smartphone or tablet necessary Lack of bus services in rural areas makes car ownership more of a requirement Society has made useless carp a necessity..... more people in the world have a mobile phone than have access to clean water
"unnecessary" to have a smartphone? Good luck applying for jobs, paying bills and other admin, keeping in touch with people and a whole load of things you would struggle to do without a smart phone in this age. The smartphone was a mistake.
Loved seeing how things were done in the past.
I did Home Economics O'Level and my teacher was not unlike this woman. She's being honest. Biscuits and jam sandwiches have no nutrition.
I adore these little windows to the past. And the no-nonsense, hard working people :) ❤
I loved the meals my mum cooked up, we had baked beans with every weekday meal- it was an essential and requested by us two girls. We had porridge for breakfast, in the winter, and liked it even better with a teaspoon of strawberry jam.
Nana came for lunch every Sunday and always bought the pudding, a home made apple pie from thier tree in the garden.
My dad bought in the meat every week and mum made meals accordingly.
Saturday was stew day, mum used the left overs form the week, chucked it all in a big pan and it simmered on the cooker whilst we all helped with the weekly wash in the morning.
Mum varied our meals during the week, but Saturday was always stew and Sunday was always a roast beef/pork dinner. A wonderful look back into the past, thank you.
Ahhh bless you Sheila and all those other housewives doing their very best back then 🙏
One thing that I always find moving when seeing these interviews of women during hard economic times is the meal plans. Due to costs and shortages women had to be a bit more creative and try some unorthodox things to put food on the table. I'm sure this was often not well received and I can imagine the complaints and jokes that women must have heard as result especially from the children they cared so much about. It really breaks my heart to think about how demoralizing that must have been to be assigned an impossible task, be ridiculed for doing the best that you could even possibly the best anyone could have done, and yet have to continue doing that task three times a day 365 days a year. It just highlights just what hero's moms are. I miss mine terribly.
Yes! I agree. It never changes either!
I miss mine too. She passed recently.
Some things never change. 50 years later and people are still struggling.
So true!
A lot has changed actually. People have changed. Mostly not for the better.
@@jesterday2222 A lot has changed but many things like people in poverty has remained the same. Back then with one parent working families were poor. Today families are poor with both parents working.
We had porridge plenty of homemade soup and potatoes veggies and mince.Sunday roast. My nanna did lot of baking.I have to say I think we were happier then.
"Children don't like porridge."
Essentially: "Too bad. They get porridge. Like it? Doesn't matter."
Corn flakes, and milk isn't bad for you though. It's just corn, and milk really.
My father ate oatmeal every morning when he was a child. He has a lifelong hatred of oatmeal, but he was very healthy.
When you mix in Nestle chocolate milk mix they sure do. Or any baking cocoa plus a pinch of sugar
The hard working women and men held the family together ❤❤❤
And now its social media
And raised undernourished kids. 😢 Too bad, GenX! You'll get no protein until supper! If you get hungry, just chew on one of the plastic toys we gave you, that'll be fine.
Joan Shenton (79) loved watching her on Thames.
This is fascinating! I was 7 years old in 1974, amazing to think how times have changed. Sheila was a bit negative, she was probably in her late 30s but looks late 50s.
Her cough. 🤮
She definitely looks 20 years older which makes sense. Back then people went into nursing homes in their 60s . Now they're in their 80s.
I'm 49 and she looks like she could be my aunt or mother lol 😂
@@JasmineSurrealVideos you need new mirrors then
but, the skin of these ladies is so beautiful.
Mum should be setting the food guidance, not the children for after school food. We always had a bowl of fruit on our kitchen table, according to what was in season at the time. Fruit and rare vegetables were our after school food in the 60s and 70s. Not biscuits, huge slices of bread and jam. Water or milk as well. There were no sugary drinks in hour house. May be boring to some these days, but that's how it was, we just knew not to complain.
When you could buy a property for 3x your income, when one wage could support a family ...
When we had direct face to face interaction with public govt and utilities,
We also had sexist attitudes to grapple with but at least women could look after and raise their families . Now women are expected to do both and pay for the privilage.
One wage wont buy a house ,and mysogyny is alive and kicking as men claim they can be better women than women .....
Id rather return to the 70s on many issues ...
Are we progressing or regressing ??
The vegetable shop! So glad Joan told us what a greengrocers is :)
Back in the 50's and 60's we used to have large green grocer vans that went round the streets they would pull up open up the back door and in you went bins with potatoes cabbage sprouts and other veg mum had her basket she bought with her the grocer would weight it up then tip it into the basket no packaging we paid then home we went.
@@liveswithgarden6566 we had that and a butcher and local shop, and fish van.
I feel this mom so much. She has 4 kids, and doesn’t eat enough so is always exhausted. Can’t get stable bc she has to do her menu off of the sales. Fruit spoils so quickly as well. I would’ve suggested at least adding canned (with no high fructose syrup) fruit to the menu instead of jam. But we have many more options today.
So processed food the American healthy way is the answer? No.
How is she living on this food and the kids will have diabetes soon. Bacon water and fruit instead of a potato pie for lunch? Doesn't make sense economically or nutritionally.
@@Padraigp kids went out to play back in the day, on the street or to the park, dood god UK only had 3 TV chanels then BBC! and 2 ITV and HTV Wales if you lived in England near the border AND they did not run 24 hours a day, heaven forbid - no computers, Xboxes etc Bikes, roller skates and other such old fashioned things - needed the fat and sugar content to keep up with the other kids!
@sandramalone9977 indeed. I am irish so we had only rte one and eventually network 2 which had some kids programmes on Saturday morning and then a few after school. Then it was news and all I remmeber is everyone watching dallas after dinner and the hullabaloo with all the neighbours talking about Bobby getting shot. It was a bigger issue than when jfk got shot! And everyone watched the same telly so you always knew the same news and the same episode you could talk about. Now everyone watches something totally different and binges it all in one go. I watch poldark with my mom every Monday night which we could watch it all on e4 but where's the fun in that!
Too true.
I thought they were going to end up smacking each other with their handbags.
Don't you disrespect my pies!
😅😂
I was born in 1979 but I remember well in the early eighties almost everybody had a little plot for vegetables (or knew someone with a little allotment and they would share the work and harvest). My nan never stopped growing her own vegetables and canned fruit after ww2. The only meat you would see all week was once a week minced meat and once a week a little bit of fish (hello captain Iglo). Sometimes your mom would feel adventurous and made some pasta dish with canned beef 🤢. We only saw ‘expensive meat’ on special occasions like Christmas
1972 here. Chicken was a treat, people didn't eat it all the time like now as it was more expensive then. It was a Sunday roast and everything was used. I remember my mother using the giblets to make gravy, and we'd have soup from the boiled bones. She'd pick every bit of meat from it and it would make another meal like a casserole, and we'd use it for sandwiches.
I was born 75 and we had meat about three or four times a week, usually steak, chicken or the dreaded liver and kidneys, lots of veg and salad, salmon, pasta, quiche, eggs, cheese, wholemeal bread, and occasionally fish and chips. We certainly did not eat like this lady in the video, OK, we were middle class, but you can eat reasonably cheaply, I certainly did as a student, lots of ethnic grocers, veg, spices, lentils, chicken mince bulked out with pulses etc.
Mrs Merton is everywhere!
Absolutely- or a Victoria Wood sketch.
My Grandad would slip £5 to my mum behind my Grans back. That £5 would feed and pay bills for my parents and 4 kids under 10 all the week. You can't even buy 2 cornish pasties for £5 now.
The mother should be the one giving advice. She's much better informed and not so obsessed with fruit.
Fruit is extremely important
I was born in 64 and we always had fruit in the house. It was often just a boring orange but we would have some grapes for a treat. I was in Canada and would also have Watermelon for a treat. It had way more taste than now.
That lady's family diet seems like pretty standard fodder for those days. Most people ate a lot more carbs like bread as opposed to vast amounts of crisps and other snacks that some people eat these days. It's amazing we managed to survive really 😅😅
Still do
I was a 17 year old newlywed in 1974
I had a daughter on the last day I of the year.
I made all the baby food and our dinners from scratch.
I ate meat back then. Chicken for Sunday roast.
Monday made a chicken something with left overs and boiled the bones and made soup.
Husband came home for lunch so dinner was cooked mid day and tea time was soup and a sandwich or beans on toast.
Rice pudding, egg custard, fruit pies or crumbles were our puddings and I’d bake cakes too.
We didn’t have lots of puddings though.
Liver and onions once a week. Important to keep iron levels up.
Things made wirh mince and also sausage meat and eggs. Like the lady said it depended what was on offer.
Potatoes and veg always on the menu back then.
If we had biscuits I made them too. It was the way to survive as we were on a low wage. We never went without food but we often had limited money for fuel. Cooking helped to keep the house warmer.
I went for years without new clothing.
I am thankful I always had what I needed even if not what I really wanted.
Good job, Anne! I hope things got easier for you.
The housewife is resistant to change, lets her kids dictate a bit too much, and has no idea of how important nutrition is. A charming watch. 💞
Your wrong, the woman trying to ‘teach’ her wasn’t listening and obviously has never been on the bread line. Bread and jam has always been dirt cheap, I’m talking of cheap bread and cheap jam. She had no money for fruit, she was buying the cheapest meat etc she could.
It was all about getting enough calories to live back then
@@jemmajames6719My husband is from Leeds and ate sugar butties for after school snacks. Bread, butter and sugar. That’s it. I guess it’s not much different than the cinnamon toast we are every morning. But every Sunday the roast was epic.
I was born in 1974, how times haven't really changed with poverty to this day.
And they never will do... no matter WHAT conflict or agro is being pushed in the MSM the REAL fight is ALWAYS "Rich suppressing the Poor"... everything else is smoke and mirrors.
Gosh she’s argumentative
i was born in 1969 and have never had a piece of fruit in my whole life, only started eating vegetables in my 20s when i met my wife, i was raised on salmon paste sandwiches with salad cream
I'm an eskimo and didn't grow up with access to great fruits/veggies in our remote northwest village. But my mom picked wild veggies, stored them in oil, put them in the freezer, and we'd have those with our salmon. And she'd pick berries all summer & freeze them for winter. Berries & wild veggies. Too bad you didn't have those things.
Did it ever dawn on you to get fruit for yourself? As a young adult, that is. Mum let you down, after all. It's a wonder you survived a diet of fish-paste butties and mayonnaise.
£1.60 only gets I bottle of milk
Back then you get a weeks worth milk !
Even taking into account the rise in wages from then to now, the cost of living is too high , Inflation is too much today
Where did Sheila live?! I can’t believe apples or pears were really expensive in 1974! Broccoli or cauliflower too. This isn’t about price it’s what Sheila and her family liked to eat and they didn’t like fruit and veg! What a difference 48 years make!
Broccoli? You never saw broccoli then! Fruit and veg was still mostly seasonal. Just looked it up that £12 in 1974 is about £157 today! Who can buy healthy meals for a family that size for that money.
@@jemmajames6719 You absolutely can if people can be bothered to learn to cook and be efficient in the kitchen. My partner and I live on 15-20 pounds per week and our meals are healthy and varied plus a couple of pudding nights. Everything is made from scratch.
@@pixelfu623 £15 a week for food? Yikes. We make everything from scatch and I spend that per day easy.
She suggests more variation then tells her to eat the same thing as the night before 🤔
Get a slow cooker and use more lentils and beans. Less meat.
Meat is extremely nutritious. Lentils are not
@@skulltaylor1616meat is the highest value food for protein that the body can digest. Nothing beats it.
Beans are starch heavy - practicly eating sugar, metabolicly.
Imagine giving kids toast and dripping in this day and age 😂, My husband, born in 1960 and the 4th born out of 5 children was fed bread and dripping or with the bread toasted. I was born a decade later in 1970 and would have been mortified had it been presented to me.
I do recall one of our local pubs which I frequented from a young age, feeding the darts team when it was a home match, bread and dripping and the men, all older than me swooping in for it like they were ravenous.
She was right to favour meat over fruit. You don't need fruit at all, you need vegetables.
Don’t need those either 😂
Don't need any of the animal foods.
😂 well, if you want to die young, no.
0:21 is that an ashtray on the desk?
Yes.
Hell yes
That woman telling the menu for the day... OMG the CARBS!!!
This is when ‘poverty’ meant something. Now everyone cries poverty and they cant even tell you what things cost, because they believe poverty means you cant buy what you want when you want it.
we have a food bank explosion and ballooning homelessness rates. go tell someone sleeping under a bridge they've never had it better
I'm in ABJECT povver eh .... I've had to cancel my amazon prime AND netflix subscriptions and dropped to 40 fags a day to be able to afford the monthly contract on my Iphone 47 and a half !!!!!
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 you should be in a straight jacket
@@BOZ_11 When did you escape from yours?
Poverty means you can't afford one or more basic needs (a roof over your head, food, etc) in my opinion.
When someone told me "there are people with expensive smart phones and expensive cars lining up for financial assistance and the food bank" I thought it was a joke or a gross exaggeration. I've seen that it is true now.
I've heard people call themselves poor or broke when they had non essential services they could cancel and other expenses they could cut down on to free up quite a lot of money.
I think Sheila will go home and do exactly what she has been doing. They ganged up on her to prod her into menu ideas she did not want to attempt.
Yeah. Sheila is no push over.
This is interesting. It sounds like they have 4 meals per day? Breakfast, lunch, tea and supper?
Growing up that’s what we did something light after school then dinner around 8
@@Kogo-nw8zp That makes sense, otherwise you're ravenous by 6.
Tin of fruit cocktail and a slice of bread between six of us or even better bread and pullit as my grandad would say.
Gosh, this interview looks like a patronising set up. Very few people ate pre cooked junk food in the seventies.
Interestingly the junk food like cornflakes and biscuits were more expensive then than healthy food. Today it's the other way around.
Sheila’s not easily swayed!
£12 a week is £135 in today's money. It was easier then and you could get a council house too
And state funded 'free at the point of care' health care from cradle to the grave. No rip off take your house and all your savings privatised elderly care.
Sheila is not really open to help, is she?
😂
Brilliant, nothing changed; still adviced to eat more healthy, but the customer can't afford it and the supply chain is not delivering, no proper healthy groser, just a scamming supermarket. Also the healthy advice is debatable, adding sugar as a catch to children.... unfortunately it shows, live in yhe UK is, keeps, massively decaying....
Yes! Same in USA. I'd grow a garden, but the water in the city costs a ton.
So the family had enough that one partner could stay at home all day and "plan for the whole week" and they ate like that. That sounded like a Queen's meal
Dripping toast...mmmmmm !!
brilliant eh? On one hand she wants them to have more fruit and veg, and then she suggests eating fat on toast!
(Yes, I know, balance)
Amusing, and very interesting.
I think we all need a Georgie Rodgers in our lives.
It was only several years ago, when I was buying a coffee and muffin one day (-after paying for petrol. Classy cafe, yes.)
The man behind the counter looked at the muffin and said,
"They're bad for you.
They make you fat."
At first I was surprised, and defended my actions.
"It's got fruit in it." I said.
"Like 'banana' bread", he replied, "Yes, it's full of sugar."
"So, it is bad for you."
"Yes."
Right 😔
Wait kids loved ready brek or maybe it wasn't around then
An interesting window in to the past.
The housewife seems quite unpleasant. She chose to go onto television, refuses to take advice, instead just buys crap from the supermarket, stuffs her kids with bread, and refuses to buy fruit or try anything else thats cheap
I thought that she was stubborn and not willing to try something new, the diet they were on sounded appalling and I certainly did not eat like that as a tiny child in the late 70s!
The diet was appalling, no fruit and vegetables. They must of all passed from coronary heart disease, unless they walked off the crap she fed them. I was 13 in 74 I’m sure we didn’t eat meat pies all the time 🤮
They probably lived long due to the calorie restriction. No one was fat.
Yeah i never remember anyone eating that much meat back then either. Fast track to a heart attack!
@@dontnoable meat has been disproven as causing heart attacks. It’s the high carb diets that lead to arterial plaque etc
@@dontnoable most meals in the 70’s were meat, veg and potato
Feed the poor bread & dripping! 😂
So much flour/sugar. Empty calories. No greens? More vegetables needed! Beans? Don't like porridge? My mom would have said, that's what is for breakfast - eat it or go hungry, this isn't a restaurant. Of course kids will choose jam sandwich - it's sugar. Be a parent, Sheila. LOL. Super defensive Sheila. Wow. Calm down. The economist is just offering suggestions, lady.
I love this. Sheila is a bit of a cow, isn't she. I like Georgie.
Georgie reminds me of some of the older ladies in my family, only they were more humorous, she feels comfortable for me, whereas Sheila seems a bit too rigid and unwilling to try new things.
A baby? She looks about 60
You’re being fooled then because she’s dressed in the style of grandmas today. She looks late thirties or early 40s, also poverty ages you faster
They didn't use SPF much then either.
It's alright for Georgie shes from money
Sounds like a complete carb fest for the family. Glad she does like meat 🥩
🤢🤮
Poverty really has become a misused word. The crisis we are currently in is still, thankfully, a long way off from reaching anything like the poverty of the 70s. Imagine people now “struggling” with one car, Freeview, no two ice daily café Nero, and a £15 a month smartphone. What WOULD the neighbours say?! 🙄😂
also, Joan Shenton was gorgeous!! an amazing woman. Go read about her.
Bang right mate 👍
There always have been and sadly always will be people in genuine poverty (as measured by the general standards of the country they live in).
Let's not start the stereotypes of lazy scroungers, or how people in the Third World have it worse (they do, but it's a different set of circumstances and markers).
There are a lot of people genuinely trying their best on relatively little money. They might need a car for work (yes, some poor people work). Freeview, well duh that's free once you have the box and the TV. Most people in genuine hardship aren't getting soy lattes from the coffee shop. They actually might need a phone to apply for jobs, go online as everything is done that way now, keep in contact with the school for their kids, etc. etc.
But hey you keep trotting out the same old sh!te from your ivory tower. Idiot.
great conversation on a seemingly banal topic
Jesus i was 4 yrs old back in 74, completely different planet 😮
Why do you have to take the Lords name in vain?? Why not Mohammed or Buddha??
Cut out the takeaways and booze and stop relying on electronic devices to run your life
In those days there were no electronic devices like today duh!
@@blakaeg true, but just because they're available doesn't mean you have to buy them
@@Markcain268 yeah just like people didn’t need to smoke to hell and back in the 1970s chap. Poor people shouldn’t have to be denied all possible pleasures in life. Grow the hell up and get real here.
hilarious...... no veggies
There were peas with the minced beef pie!! But they were probably from a tin lol!
So depressing things are just as shit now as they were in the 1970's probably even shitter. At least they had jam window pie.
Obsessed with fruit!
Obsessed with meat!
Dear oh dear, the diet of that family sounds awful. Meat pies twice in a day, jam sandwiches every day.
Mind you the suggestions from the expert sound pretty poor. Porridge is OK, but baking all the time is a bit off and not particularly good for their wastelines. As for the time taken for baking, recipes very rarely take the time suggested in my experience even though I cook pretty well every day for several years now.
When we could afford a Sunday roast.
very high faluting lady!
Cough loud into that microphone love
Notice how they cope here? There’s not a mention of running down to a Foodbanks,no mention of how to stop smoking and drinking.They simply get on with it.WEVE lost our sense of pride nowadays,benefits for everything .Theres no ridiculous excuses like ADHT,ANXIETY,LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND ALL THE OTHER PATHETIC EXCUSES FOR NOT WORKING AND CLAIMING BENEFITS.
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Introduce a little fruit....its meat you need.....
Just putting up with whatever some expert suggests but the reality is people need more money period and stop perpetuating poverty. Life hacks is not living.
All very posh
Bigot
All my old neighbours on the Liverpool council estate where I grew up in the 60s and 70s talked "proper" English....by the time I moved out in the mid 1980s I could barely understand half of what the replacement neighbours were saying. Nowadays its easier to communicate via emojis with a lot of them.
Bread, jam and biscuits.
Well, that's their choice when they come in from school and put on the tv
Complete absence of parental intervention , 50 years later nothing much has changed except it's got worse
Worse how? Poverty now means my phone is a bit crap and I can't go to Starbucks. Poverty then meant your pie had more potatoes than meat.
Yes I agree. When I came in from school in the 80s/90s, I'd have a glass of juice or water, maybe a cup of tea and some fruit or a wholemeal sandwich or a cereal bar, something like that. I never ate jam sandwiches and dripping on toast, or drank Coke etc. My mother or grandparents never pushed anything on me food wise in that capacity, I just wanted stuff like that myself.
2023 = new 1970s lol.
Diabetes doesnt cost much.😂 poor kids.
Dreadful smokers hack from lady in the green how much for cigarettes a week?
If this is how the typical family ate in the 1970’s… such a lack of fruit and vegetables and a diet high in animal fats and protein… it is no surprise people have such high rates of heart disease and cancer …
Georgie looks miserable.
Dripping toast 🤢
My dad used to take bread n dripping to work for his snap
Have you even ever tried it??
What is it?
@@tennillej9601I think it’s the grease left in the pan after cooking meat.
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Bread five times oer day 🤮
This is a time before we had the politically contrived definition of poverty. Poverty today seems to include expensive but unnecessary electronic gadgets like phones and tablets. There are four children mentioned. It is about time that our planet saving green politicians said two children maximum. Lower world population, lower greenhouse emissions.
You’d still moan if a person hasn’t got any children at all and is still a virgin at 32, and doesn’t work for WHATEVER reason wouldn’t you?
Also lowers the tax take , that's why we're having problems balancing the books now !
It's all a lie
Smartphone contract is cheaper than landlines in 2024
My work requires me to use an app and my council requires me to use the Internet for waste services and council tax
Welcome to the future , consumerism has made a smartphone or tablet necessary
Lack of bus services in rural areas makes car ownership more of a requirement
Society has made useless carp a necessity..... more people in the world have a mobile phone than have access to clean water
"unnecessary" to have a smartphone? Good luck applying for jobs, paying bills and other admin, keeping in touch with people and a whole load of things you would struggle to do without a smart phone in this age. The smartphone was a mistake.