Should I feel guilty????

It can be rather high in salt nellie The small tins of spaghetti in sauce aimed at children don't have any salt in them; if I finish up DGD2's because she can't manage a whole tin then I have to add salt for my taste.

Angel Delight - my DC used to love it. Yuk, I would never give it to my DGC.

One thing I used to make for the DC which I haven't done for years is a milk jelly:

Make a jelly with about half a pint of water instead of a pint, allow to cool but not set at all. Whip up a tin of evaporated milk until very frothy and whip in the jelly. It sets as a sort of mousse. The DC used to love it and it made lots of portions.

(check the ingredients on the jelly packet first though - although I never used to)

My Mother used to make milk jelly, I don't think i ever have, another thing we don't get here, jelly.
There are some large supermarkets which have Overseas sections, usualy for the Brits, the choice tends to be, HP Sauce, Bisto, Jacobs cream Crackers,,, equivalent £3.20 for a small packet,,,,,,, a fancy deli near here sells small tins of Heinz Tomato Soup for £2.85.DD loves a crunchie, cost me £2.10p.
there is more choice where there are more Xpats but then the prices can be even higher, i wouldn't mind but we are not exactly at the other side of the world.

Sorry about the grammar and spelling DGS seems to have hidden my glesses!!!!!!!
He wants to make duplo towers not have me on this!!!!!

felice you might like this one from the 'Overheard in Waitrose' site:

^Overheard in Wimborne Waitrose: girl aged around 4-5, and a mum with a baby .

Mum: so what do you want for tea darling, it will have to be one of these children’s meals as its getting late, cheese pasta?
Girl: no
Mum: cottage pie
Girl : nope
Mum: fish pie, or chicken..
Girl: (in a loud voice). NO NO NO I already told you I want the letter shapes from Tesco
Mum:Looking rather embarrassed, “sshh um oh well they might have those here I suppose”^

Milk jelly; what a blast from the past. I must make some...I had no idea how mum made it and had forgotten about it completely.

Tegan, I used to make this for DC but used yoghurt instead of evap. melt the jelly leave until cool then whisk in a yoghurt pop in fridge , it comes out like mousse. Think raspberry jelly with strawberry yoghurt was the favourite. Sometimes put fruit on the side, tinned strawberries in syrup!! And they've still got teeth!

This is a jolly thread! I do wonder how we all survived as well as we have. We were surrounded by a fug of cigarette smoke for much of our childhood and early working lives. For many of us, the first introduction to anything other than either breast or bottle milk would have been baby rice, or rusks melted into our evening bottle to "help the baby sleep through". Our first taste of adult food was probably potato mashed with the gravy, so full of salt. Yet, here we all are, happily posting on gransnet.

I feel for young parents, the pressure to be perfect seems to increase each year. Bring on the spaghetti hoops or beans and fish fingers at grannies!

I was fed 'Sister Laura's' because I was a sicky baby!
I hope it wasn't out of this tin:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Lauras_Food_Supplement

Dd had Sister Laura's in her bottle in the early 70s, recommended by HV at the time as she was never satisfied. HV was keen on adding things to bottles, I give you an extra teaspoon of sugar to help with constipation!!!! She (DD not the HV) was ever likely be constipated it must have been the Sister Laura's!

My mother used to give me Scott's Emulsion, which I think contained, amongst other "goodies", halibut oil! I remember quite liking it as a child, but I bought some when mine were small and they didn't like it and, by then, neither did I!

I didn't realise that Sister Laura's was still going in the 1970s.

I do remember Heinz spaghetti on toast - no such thing as alphabetti spaghetti or Winnie the Pooh pasta shapes in those days!

Yes it was Rose, DD was born in '73. By that time it was in a cardboard box with a picture of a Florence Nightingale look-a-like on the front. Bit like the HV herself thinking about it!