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Some chocolate from the very late sixties/early seventies. |
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The 60s were a time before packed lunch-sized snacks or pre-packed sandwiches and there was very limited choice. The chances were, if you were a child in Scotland in the 1960s, you wouldn’t have tasted curry, lasagne, chicken chow mien or pizza!
A typical school lunch might be mince, cabbage and mashed potato with sponge pudding and custard to follow; if you didn’t like it you might be very hungry until dinner time. Luckily a lot of children did!
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 Children talk about their favourite ‘school dinners’. The growth of foods which are common today, like fish fingers and frozen vegetables, only happened as more and more families began to buy refrigerators. And as they did, convenience foods became more popular. You could buy almost any kind of food in tins, frozen, in boil-in-the-bag packets or in dried packet meals. Things like “Smash” dried mash potato and “Instant Whip” desserts became new favourites.
Supermarkets also became very popular in the sixties. Up until then most people did their shopping in local independent shops but as more and more supermarkets sprang up people stopped shopping daily and started going once a week for a “big shop”.
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