Should I feel guilty????

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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”^

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

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.

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)

anno I saw butterscotch Angel Delight mentioned as having that lovely toffee taste, so bought some last year in a momentary nostalgic lapse. It not only didn't taste of butterscotch, but had a distinct chemical taste. Definitely not a food!

A FIT of nostalgia.

I agree with you when that Angel Delight is revolting. In a fir of nostalgia I bought a packet and it wasn't as I remembered it at all. Has it changed or have I? However, having read this thread, I'm beginning to feel nostalgia for spaghetti hoops on toast, but have none in my cupboard - just as well.

Thursday after school was always spaghetti on toast for me and then I watched Popeye on television.

Wednesday was Girl comic day

can't get Alphabetti Spaghetti here, thehoops came from the UK via a friend.
DGS likes pasta dinosaurs in home made tomato sauce, the difference with the tinned one is usually the sweetness, we use a little honey, tomatoes can be bitter and really need to be well cooked.
You can buy tinned processed foods here but the quality is not great as it is not very popular as people still like to cook from fresh, most still buy bread eveyday and you often see business men on the way home from the office with a baguette.
Our local corner shop, circa 1908 gets 2 bread deliveries a day.

Angel Delight at Granny's has to be butterscotch flavour, if not that, ice cream with a wafer and they cover this with a selection of sprinkles. The latter, they prepare themselves.

Find your name with alphabet spaghetti.

I always keep a tin of ravioli as a standby for the GC's and they absolutely love Ambrosia rice/custard and Angel Delight. They eat very healthy food normally, so Granny's are allowed to cheat occasionally

When we were children and used to go and stay with a maiden aunt for a few days, she would ask us what we wanted for tea (our mother never did, which was fine and made the visits to aunty rather special). On the first day my brother and I always asked for her homemade macaroni cheese followed by Angel Delight.

She used to buy Edam cheese, which we didn't get at home, and we would make things out of the wax.

Whenin64, neither can I! I picked a packet up in a supermarket recently, read the ingredients and very quickly put it back. Grandad makes milk jelly instead!

All my grandchildren like pasta shapes from a tin, including the macaroni cheese which I can make so much better [smug emoticon], but they've become accustomed to these tastes at home. I don't know if anyone has tried Angel Delight lately? It's disgusting - can't believe I used to give it my children.

The odd can of spaghetti will not do anyone much harm. It can be rather high in salt and added sugar but it gets carbohydrate into them.

When DD was small one of her favourite quick meals was spaghetti hoops fish fingers and peas, but she would keep threading the hoops onto her fingers and putting them into her mouth that way.

Yes you should feel guilty you should have given him Alphabetti Spaghetti
and tested his spelling then it would have been educational!!

I used to give my grandson pasta shapes in tomato sauce for his lunch. They are a good source of carbohydrate and he will not eat potatoes in any form. I wish I could replicate the sauce, as he loves pasta, but won't eat any sauce we can either make or buy, so just has it plain with cheese! His mummy and I continue to experiment! I remember Jane Fearnly-Whittingstall listing, in her Good Granny Guide, all the things she used to feed her children that she wouldn't dream of giving her grandchildren; Findus crispy pancakes, angel delight, spaghetti hoops, beef burgers and fish fingers. I'm sure many of us did from time to time and never turned a hair or guilt tripped about it (mine used to love tinned Campbell's meatballs!). If your DGS likes them for a light lunch or supper, let him enjoy them!