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Message:: [QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 2186271, member: 22"][USER=164]@Christmasjoy[/USER]Joy,Trotters was a once a week meal when I was a kid along with boiled cabbage mashed tater and gravy. Sheeps head was another in the pressure cooker. Some days it would be boiled Eel or baked rabbit. Bread and dripping was another staple and if you were still hungry you filled up on bread and jam.Always had plenty of milk,apples and blood oranges though. My mother provided everything needed for a balanced diet, protein, vitamins, calcium, carbs and fat. Where I lived late 50's early 60's most people were still broke after WWII. 92% of the housing stock had been destroyed, only half my school was standing. People lived in temporary social prefabricated buildings. We were allocated a 3 bedroomed brick built house. My mother and her family were bombed out of 3 homes between 39-45, they lost everything they had. We were lucky on our estate the roads were built before the war and the homes just after in 1948. Near our house the road was concrete sections apart from two pieces right outside, that was made from hardcore and tarmac after receiving a direct hit from a 1000 pounder in 1944. That home and food served us well until the late 60's when my parents got better jobs and saved enough to buy a property outside the city.[/QUOTE]