5 days of eating a 1980s diet...and here’s what happened

[@kikiadams9605]

graces relationship with food has helped me so much with my ED! I watch these videos while I eat and it makes me feel so much less alone! I hope she knows how important these videos are

[@Remy4300]

Same!

[@laragobbel5068]

Omg I feel the exact same way too. Grace just seems to have souch a good relationship with food and always says how you should listen to your body. It's just comforting in some kind of way ig

[@estrellarouge]

Well done to you all!!!!!’n and thanks Grace!! Really I love your relationship with food too. Keep doing you. You never know what good you will do. 🌺

[@Sam-0827]

Same! She eats whatever and whenever and she doesn’t feel bad which makes me feel better about eating what I want intuitively ❤

[@lainechange1765]

Wow! At first I thought ED stood for something else! So sorry and glad that these posts help you guys

[@Kari_B61ex]

Love this Grace - I was born in the early 60's, I was raised on home cooked fresh food (my mum also worked) During the 70's I was taught Home Economics at school - yep, we were taught how to cook and feed a family on a budget, I believe today it's called Food and Nutrition. Over the years I learnt to batch cook and that Friday is 'Fish and Chip' day.

[@miamistrawberry]

I’m 23 now but never had any classes like that in high school. It would’ve helped a lot. I have no clue what to Do with fresh ingredients !!

[@thesinglechronicleswitheli2337]

My mom did home cooking and still does. As much as I love her though, she didn’t know about portions and didn’t need to. She was thin. We did have healthy meals and frozen pizza on Fridays. My dad wouldn’t allow sugar cereals. It’s funny i wasn’t as stern but I didn’t allow my son was he young sugary cereal either. I did allow honey nut cheerios

[@brittanyrussell727]

I teach in NL, Canada and we have home economics for junior high, and courses such as nutrition, human dynamics, and career education for high school. Such important outcomes!

[@HMMC101]

I’m 27 and we never had any Home Economics classes in my middle school or high school! We were on our own! Thankfully I was raised in a home where my mother cooked every night, and I learned to cook fro. Y mother and grandmother mostly. Then as I got older, I searched out recipes and out cooked them eventually haha. My mother also taught me how to sow or at least the basics. The things I didn’t learn, it had to be self taught. If you didn’t do these hinges for yourself, you didn’t learn them. I went to a private school and you would think they would be able to include some Home Economics classes!! A lot of my firemen’s in High School were clueless. It was sad and scary at the same time 😂

[@ormille2519]

I was taught home ec too, and I left school in... 2010 I think :D

[@sarabxra]

I'd love to see a 90's/early 2000's version of this! I know a lot of us grew up eating the 90's diet but I personally think our attitude changed so much towards eating during these years, especially when it came to our approach to our body image and 'health' foods (the Special K controversy springs to mind.) Obviously it's a subject to be approached with a little bit of caution as it's triggering to some people, but you have such a good relationship with food and you're so good at talking about it, I think it'd be a really interesting vid :)

[@Nettietwixt]

Yes from what I remember 80s was still a lot of traditional British stodge with a smattering of health food. Then in the 90s everyday food began to feature a lot of new flavours and textures. Then the 2000s was a lot closer to the trends in food we have now.

[@kirstiepea]

I would definitely still enjoy watching a 90s one. You could include the famous Turkey Twizzler... even though the new versions apparently aren't as good! I love your content so much!

[@hannb99]

as a history major I've been absolutely loving this series!!! I've recently gotten more interested in food/gastronomic history and the way you present your research (cooking the food, the fun facts, the recipes!) is super interesting. if I ever decide to do a research project on how food has changed over the decades I will def be referencing your videos as a starting point!!

[@hi_ich_bin_lorelei]

I love love love your more educational/history related videos! I can actually really picture you as a TV presenter for a kids' show or something like that 🥰

[@joshua8725]

YESSSS she would be amazing on Cbeebies or something like that

[@nicolesvrcinova1482]

Great as always! It would be interesting to see you go further back in time, but another fun idea would be doing the same decade twice to compare the diet of the lower class vs the upper class. I think a lot of people would be surprised at how poverty food has changed or not...

[@DevikaKundra]

BBC should do a collab with you for their series back in time for tea!! I think you and your family would be great for it 😅

[@ovbs.annie_2010]

Yes that would be amazing

[@ayembic7933]

omg grace would be so perfect for BBC food shows. Her presentation is comfy and her passion is inspiring! i live

[@quittenfee42]

In Germany 1980s food was quite different. We mostly ate home cooked food. Usually German traditional dishes or adapted Italian food. Dessert was often fruit salad or Vienetta 😊🎉 Premade frozen meals were kind of gross 🤢. Eating out was often Chinese or Greek. Takeaway was Döner or Pizza. Thank you for this series. I'd like to see you going back in time further.

[@crystalh450]

LOL. I also lived in Germany in the 1980s and had a very different experience. Perhaps because I was there with my military family? Where are the pop tarts and cinnamon toast for breakfast? Those were the go-tos for us. The 1980s were also when toaster strudel came out. My mom would make bacon, eggs, and pancakes, but maybe only on holidays or some weekends when we didn't have a lot of plans. For lunch, PB&J, pizza, chicken nugs, beanie weenies, grilled cheese, fish sticks with mac & cheese, or maybe a worst and brochen if I was having street food for special occasions and that was our "take out." I think we had a McDonald's a couple of times on field trips, but it wasn't the same as the states so it was a no go for us. There were homemade meals mostly for dinner like salmon patties, tuna and noodle casserole, beef or chicken and veg, etc... but when my mom made something I hated, she would let me have a PB&J instead. Again, I don't remember getting take out very often there. I will say that I agree that most frozen meals from the 1980s were gross and were not eaten super often (they were more like a novelty) but they are much better these days than they used to be. I still don't eat them super often, but it is nice to have a couple on hand to fill in the gaps when you want something that tastes homemade but you don't feel like making the effort right then.

[@Italktocarrots]

@@crystalh450 those meals are very american, the military family situation likely skewed your view as if your parents came from the states they likely cooked what they knew best, not traditional german meals

[@crystalh450]

@@Italktocarrots We actually had both. It was kind of the nice thing about being in a foreign country and growing up there. I wasn't limited to the military base.

[@EraLuna13]

I enjoy when you do "historical" foods videos. Go back further in time - Victorian, Edwardian etc. Also, I'd enjoy more Home Front ones. Thanks, Grace 🥰

[@carmen-22]

I AM SO GLAD THIS SERIES IS BACK!!! 1950s, 60s and war rations vids are my comfort vids!

[@claudia.4079]

didnt know vienetta being an exclusive special dessert is a universal experience😅 very much one of the food highlights of my german childhood

[@EmmaDailly]

Butterscotch Angel Delight and tinned pineapple was a staple pudding for us in the 80’s 😂Great vlog! X

[@heartthemhorses]

5 days eating like you think we would in the future would be interesting as well!! Love this little series :)

[@bethel1019]

It might be fried insects. 😂

[@magicmace89]

I love these videos Grace. I’ve watched all of your ‘back in time’ food videos and this makes me want to go and rewatch them all again! If you haven’t already, I’d love to watch you do a Victorian diet or medieval diet

[@HerbieRey]

I love this video series! Especially how you get your family's input. I really loved on previous episodes when you asked your grandparents experiences😊

[@tracey7920]

Things I ate being a infant growing up in the 80's were: Toast toppers in a tin (discontinued), Pot noodles, Findus crispy pancakes, Potato waffles, Bernard Matthews turkey drumsticks. Home cooked food as well such as my Grandmothers Roast dinners, home fried chips in lard. A simple melted cheese on a plate was amazing! pudding was tinned fruit, angel delight, biscuits such as break away, trio bars (advert gave me nightmares), tip top and condensed tinned milk. Home made stewed apples with custard (baking apples). Home made fairy cakes with melted chocolate and a cherry on top or butterfly cakes. Food and drink was a programme that we used to watch for inspiration and Gilly with the wine reviews was funny. Top of the pops was also a big thing which was a lot of fun music. Thanks for your videos

[@badbassnine]

God the crispy pancakes take me back.i loved the cheese and ham

[@tracey7920]

@@badbassnine Yes they were amazing

[@victoriakelly6872]

I loved toast toppers!

[@emmajones1745]

Yes, classic Grack is back, and I am here for it. Plus, my era. I was born in 1977 xx

[@nighthawkdragonfly8339]

80s were the best. Love these videos and am always excited to see what you're up to. Keel being awesome.

[@snowysnowyriver]

The biggest change I notice is both portion size and the increase in sugar. That was highlighted by having three Weetabix!! My husband would sometimes have three if he knew he wouldn't have time for lunch. Otherwise, he had two and I had one slice of toast. We got married in 1975 and were given a lovely Dinner Service. The cereal bowls didn't hold three Weetabix, when husband had three, he used a soup bowl! We also wouldn't cover it in sugar like that either. A teaspoon of sugar was usual. We used Tate and Lyle Golden Syrup on porridge or Ready Break, again, just a teaspoon. Everything is so sweet these days. To me, even ordinary bread tastes sweet. Gravy was Bisto Gravy Browning powder, mixed equal parts with cornflour, meat juices and the cooking water from whatever boiled veggies we had. Jam Roly Poly....I made my own! As did my mum, grandmother and sisters. Same with Yorkshire puddings.

[@Lilly-ud6qs]

That’s very true. Her portion sizes in this video are not entirely accurate for the 80s and a little too large. It wasn’t really typical to double up on portions like that.

[@MS-19]

I was born at the front end of the 80s, so with this video you are trigging the mother of all nostalgia rushes! Bless you and thank you, Grack. You would have fit in so very well in that decade.

[@amyschneidhorst1384]

Ha! When you grow up in an era, you don't think of your diet as something that will be "historic" some day. I remember my Mom toying with the grapefruit diet and trying to eat more salads. When microwaves came out in the late 70s/ early 80s, initially cookbooks would have recipes for cooking an entire entree, but as the decade wore on there was a realization that microwaves were better at heating up leftovers and steaming veg and not so great with replacing ovens for entrees. I had never experienced paste on sandwiches until I visited English friends in 1995. They were really disappointed when they saw I was struggled to eat it.

[@Mikee2022]

Hi Grace, I love your videos. Many of your meals I never ate. In the 80s, many families couldn't afford to eat some foods that you made. I remember having beans on toast on a Saturday lunch. My mother would grow her own potatoes and vegetables. Every meal was basic. It would be nice if you did a realistic poor family diet. Thanks

[@natashaj4113]

Yes what a good idea, I think that would be helpful and very informative. Maybe even some cheap meals inspo for others struggling esp at the moment

[@KarenaDashfield]

In the 70's we had meat and two veg most evenings. Liver & onions, breast of lamb, pork belly... the cheaper cuts of meat but by far the tastiest. We also saw the rise in dried foods after the moon landings. Vesta filled the shelves with numerous boxed dried meals which you had to rehydrate with water...example are Vesta beef curry and paella. It was basically a box that contained 2/3 sachets of rice, dried beef with a powder of various seasonings. All you had to do was add water and simmer to create a meal. Frozen foods included various items from Birds Eye and Findus. Chicken Kiev was a firm favourite as was pancakes filled with minced beef or chicken. Not forgetting pop tarts, they were a cross between a biscuit and bread which you 'cooked' in a toaster. They were pretty dismal but popular with kids. Meat paste in jars was a familiar sandwich filler, sardines on toast and heinz did small tins of toast toppers. It was a like a thick chicken and mushroom soup that you smeared on toast then popped under the grill until hot. A family favourite was a birds trifle, another boxed delight of several sachets that you either mixed with water or milk. Instant jelly, custard powder and in place of fresh cream was instant delight. To top it off they supplied a small sachet of sprinkles. Those were the days 🤣

[@dees3179]

Thanks for doing another history video, these are my faves. Could you try and do some more dinner parties? Perhaps some older ones…..Victorian, Edwardian…….could get pricy so obviously with modifications! Also, if you can dig up any old diaries or recipe books and follow what real people were making rather than what was being printed that would be great to see. I was a young teen int eighties and remember going to friends houses who had things like microwaves and soda streams. Mind blown. We were broke so dad used to grow all our food. But we were probably a lot healthier!

[@marlajacques6947]

Nice! I like how you worded that ‘broke’ instead of ‘poor’ there’s such a big diff

[@dees3179]

@@marlajacques6947 true. I think there's also a lot riding on the slang used locally and in your small social circle. So without thinking about it I say we were broke. To me that means we worked hard, didn't over spend on things we couldn't afford (modern example, I haven't had heating on much at all the past two years because I know I won't be able to afford it and I'd rather prioritise other things like the mortgage) lived frugally, made entertainment with cheap things. Poor to me is the grinding poverty that gets into your soul and there seems to be no way out of. Where you don't have a mortgage to sacrifice the heating and food bill for so it all seems pointless. I have a mortgage because I started saving for it at 16 and sacrificed a lot to get here. I missed out on many things and still consider myself fairly broke because of it. But there is a lot of horizon scanning and thinking about likely future payments and costs going into that assessment. I'm broke because that mortgage has to be paid off before I can retire, the car is on its last legs, my glasses need replacing etc. I don't earn much and im getting old so time to be paying for these things is short. I would really like a holiday! I'd consider myself poor if I was paying rent (someone else's mortgage) and getting nowhere on the same salary. Which is the position I could very easily have been in. I think poor has a sort of pity connotation of giving up hope. It's sad and I don't like it. It's a trap. I feel like saying I'm broke gives me permission to keep going and get financially secure. Interested to hear what distinction you make between the two words if you are willing to share.

[@dees3179]

Before I get attacked by people complaining about the difficulty of getting a mortgage and that I'm being rude about people renting , can I just point out I'm old, this was a long time ago, and I'm talking about something different in this conversation. Current difficulty in house prices are a total different type of insanity.

[@marlajacques6947]

I’m in Canada and there’s a lot of ppl that are house poor as you probably use that expression wherever you are too. I had a house once and the taxes/maintenance caused me constant worry as a single mum with no support. But I’ve worked with seniors for decades now and they always advised me to take the money and run. So I did. Spent every dime on travel with 2 kids and a backpack and saw 11 countries. I’m broke all the time but I’m very wealthy! I live in one of the most expensive places in the world so a house is impossible lol agreed, it is a trap for most! I hope your situation improves tho 🙂

[@dees3179]

@@marlajacques6947 house poor.....no, I hadn't heard that one. Gosh isn't that interesting. We mean both the same and the opposite within our definitions. We both see 'poor' as the trap and 'broke' just means we haven't money. For you the house is the trap and for me it is the safety net. Your life sounds amazing. Congratulations. I bet you have the best stories and memories. Eleven countries! I haven't even had a passport for the last twenty years. Pipe dream at the moment.

[@penelopesparrow]

I grew up in the 1980s in Australia but my mum was English. She was also an ex-model so I had my fair share of diets thrust at me LOL I wonder if the frozen/home cooked was a class thing - most of my working class friends ate out of tins/the freezer, but we were middle class (or so my Mum thought!) and we had a home-cooked meal every night. Tues was fish n chips, VIenetta was only if guests were over, otherwise it's neopolitan ice cream, self-saucing pudding, tinned peaches n yoghurt (diet mode!) or golden syrup dumplings after a Sunday roast. Brekkie was weetbix or corn flakes, porridge in winter. But the portions were much smaller, food wasn't as processed, we snacked less and moved around more.

[@sunnygirl5467]

My Mom was born in the early 60s in western Germany and from what I‘ve heard about it, the food she was served as a kid was really different than what you were served in England, I find it sooo interesting😊🙌✨

[@angelfriend5211]

I was born in 1961 of a German mother and English father growing up in London, and we grew up on brown bread with butter. I used to be envious of my classmates who had white bread and strawberry jam. Today I‘m glad we had healthier bread.

[@hannahk1306]

This could be an interesting set of videos: exploring the same decades from different countries and cultures.

[@sofiablack9081]

I was born in 1986 and ready brek was a very popular breakfast. I remember my mum saying “I’ve put sugar in it already” as we promptly added about 4 teaspoons extra!

[@east_coastt]

Nice memory

[@AmySparkles27]

As an 80s baby this brings back so many memories. I feel like angels delight used to make so much more!!

[@juliajacobs1848]

Instant whip used to use 1 pint of milk, Angel delight was about half a pint. As long as it was butterscotch I was happy.

[@mairi2693]

This brings back memories of family dinners when my mum had just bought a chest freezer. I remember her buying frozen Findus 'fish in sauce' for meals whilst still buying fresh fish for the pet cats that we had! lol!!

[@deejmum1]

You can buy cheese slicers in most places that sell kitchen stuff. However most box graters have a slicer on the side . Lots of food here I remember from the 80s and still love a shepherds pie. If my mum was feeling flush we had M&S lasagne verde , wonder why green pasta went out of fashion . Another great video Grace

[@laurienbooij8928]

The cheese hack!! I’m Dutch and we always slice our cheese this way. We actually have a ‘kaasschaaf’ made for it!

[@JB-vd8bi]

Yeah I kind of wondered who that's odd to. My cheeseboard set came with one. I love it.

[@lifewithguineapigs9800]

AHH im so happy to see you got the email and followed the meals that my mum used to eat!!Such a great video to watch, I'm obsessed with your channel xx

[@clairjarman]

Omg I live in the 80's😱😱 this is nearly exactly what we eat in a week now, a mince dish, a chicken dish and even down to fish and chips friday! Although I remember having nutella sandwiches for school lunch 😋

[@jansleet6379]

Loved this vid. We used to have sandwich spread but not with cheese - it was on its own and was always near the end of the week when the cheese and ham had been finished up already.

[@simplydebby2530]

One of my favorite meals (requested it for my birthday even!) was a simple one. Lite red kidney beans, with liquid, canned sliced potatoes, fried up bacon (broken into bites), and I think diced tomatoes. Mom heated all that up in a sauce pan for 4 of us. We had buttered rye bread with it. We also had stroganoff. I liked that a lot too. Love these videos! Your dinner parties, nostalgic meals, & meals from other countries are so fun to watch.

[@louisacoote2337]

1982 baby here: would have either toast with honey/jam/Marmite/Bovril or Weetabix, cornflakes, Frosties, Coco Pops etc for breakfast, with a glass of juice. Lunch when I lived in the UK, I had a meat or fish paste sandwiches, a packet of crisps, a packet of California Raisins or a piece of fruit ( clementine/apple/banana) and a Kipling cake/malt loaf. Dinner would be shepherd/cottage pie, meat with potatoes/rice and veg.

[@SR-no8sr]

As an 80's Canadian kid with 2 parents who worked full-time, we are so much microwavable and pre-fab food. Pop Tarts, Swanson TV dinners, Pillsbury mini pizzas, Manwhich etc. Not healthy at all. Probably why, when I left home, I became obsessed with farm food, cooking etc.

[@marymitchell8717]

Love these videos Grace! They help me come up with new ideas from 'across the pond' and it is really interesting to see what people ate in previous generations and how our relationship with food has changed over the years, from having to do everything from scratch, to canned, to frozen. Very cool!

[@lianvdvee]

I’m from the Netherlands and everyone here uses a cheese slicer

[@spindelsven]

About the cheese peel thing: everyone in Sweden does it! They’re called osthyvel and it’s a staple in every home ✨

[@frikuv]

Yes!! Same in Norway

[@carriegoodwin4624]

As an 80s baby I only have 1 thing to say....where is the Arctic roll at?????!!!!😂😂😂

[@S_J_banana]

I'm only 20 but this is basically my diet now and IDK if i should be happy or sad about my apparent 80s daily diet

[@tattyuk75]

Being born in 1975, I remember the ‘80s vividly. Favourite things that have disappeared include the Lovely frozen chocolate dessert - oh yes, chipping away at it for hours with a teaspoon because I refused to wait for it to defrost! Sandwiches were lunch whenever I wasn’t at school but school dinners during the week. Usually wafer thin ham and iceberg lettuce with mayonnaise on Mighty White sliced bread. I had two meals I’d cook when I got home from school that I’d learnt in Home Economics class - wholemeal crust pizza and sausage pie. Mum made a gorgeous spaghetti bolognaise that I can still taste in my mind today - complete with that dreadful cardboard sicky ‘Parmesan’ cheese! I’d eat loads of Ski yoghurt as well and had a habit of leaving yoghurt pots under my bed because I’d sneaked them out of the fridge 😂. No takeaways, no snacks really - Mum was permanently on a diet so they were never allowed in the house because Rosemary Conley would disapprove hugely 😂. Thanks for triggering some fab memories of my childhood and my late Mum ❤

[@natashaj4113]

Was it the Sarah Lee chocolate gateau, is so Aldi do a good dupe

[@lauraperrott]

Weetabix for breakfast, sandwich and biscuits for school, meat and 2 veg for dinner. Classic 80s! We didn’t have packaged crisps but not sure if they werent available or if we were just poor.

[@leelou1981]

This was a fun video to watch and you took me back to the 80’s and 90’s. Peeling your cheese was very popular up until maybe the last 5-10 years. Not sure why we stopped peeling them 🤔 we used to have cheese peelers at my parents home for a long time. Bistro gravy is so good 😋 it’s the only gravy I use here in Australia and came across it a year ago.

[@Melissa-fz9tk]

I was just thinking about and praying for Grace. Love the video!

[@aprilyoung5710]

Not exactly food related but I’d enjoy a video were you get color swatched to see what season you are, bright summer, soft spring, deep autumn etc. Food related, eating a Paleo diet for a week would be interesting.

[@thedrunkenelf]

It’s so cosy and nostalgic. I’m a nineties kid but even we did Friday take away (we changed what it was each week though). I remember it childhood diners weren’t really “meals” they would be like lamb chops, bit of lettuce, slices of cheese, slice of beetroot, carrot sticks, mashed potato etc. but I honestly think it was probably way healthier than how I eat now.

[@reba738]

Jam Roly poly "it's not bad, but it's not good. I actually quite like it" 😂 Your mum was right, you definitely needed custard. I agree, I always thought monster munch was a paw?! I knew when you said it was Friday, it was fish and chips, dam a lot of us were eating the same 😂

[@KatsCorner]

I was a teen and twenty year in the eighties. I am from Canada and I have never tasted the products you mentioned. But we did have deviled ham which was meat spread.

[@jai_b]

80s Sandwich spread sandwiches and Tangy Toms crisps, walkers salt n vinegar crisp was like acid..loved it. ! Wow, takes me back to happy memories 😊 also pack mix cheesecake mix was popular too, and Gino Ginelli tuti fruity ice cream. And after dinner mints chocolate was posh and strictly for adults.

[@kinolibby6580]

Oooooo I loved Gino Ginelli ice cream

[@luciachanger6505]

In the 80s, Curry became popular but it always had sultanas in it for some reason :) love this video Grace.

[@rebeccawright5987]

I was born in the 80s and canned fruit was for rich people, according to my mom. So whenever she bought it, I asked if we were rich.

[@DaisyLarson4936]

In Australia we were starting to enjoy meals from other countries and lasagne, spaghetti bolognaise, Thai and Indian were really popular. It was also the time for Mexican foods such as tacos and nachos. Our sandwiches were deli meats and school favs were cheese & vegemite. I started work at the end of the 80s and chicken schnitzel sandwiches, bacon and egg rolls and sandwich shops with loads of fillings and salads were popular.

[@Indywood]

#marmiteforthewin #marmiteisbetterthenvegemite 😭😭😭😭💃💃💃🥳🥳🥳

[@louburnett6782]

Hi Grace, welcome to my childhood 😂. I think you got the balance right there, my mum would cook but we also had frozen chips, savoury pancakes and kiev!! The only thing you missed for me was pot noodles xxx

[@mairi2693]

I remember moving into the nurse's home to begin my training in 1980 and thought having a pot noodle for dinner followed by a tin of Ambrosia creamed rice was a balanced diet! lol!!

[@mairi2693]

I remember having crispy pancakes! They were delicious!!

[@louisacoote2337]

Fish fingers, chips and baked beans was also a Friday or Saturday night dinner!

[@ceciliafairy88]

I remember my family serving tinned peaches with walls vanilla icecream for dessert when they had a dinner party 😂

[@RillaG]

I grew up in Canada on the Alberta prairies in the 1980's and 90's... I ate peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches for lunch every single day. Breakfast was toast with margarine. For a treat on weekends we could sprinkle cinnamon sugar on our toast. LOL Snacks (when playing a board game with my 4 siblings!) was popcorn with melted butter and nutritional yeast, or fruit (apple, orange or banana). A common dinner was usually roast meat or poultry with mashed or baked potatoes, and a side of boiled frozen veggies with a slab of marg, and everything drenched in gravy. Desserts... snickerdoodle cookies... freezer cheesecake topped with canned cherry pie filling... vanilla icecream drizzled with bottled chocolate hershey sauce.

[@Fantabbydozy2608]

Wow I was born in the mid 80s and this really brought back my childhood! Angel delight was such a treat back in the day haha. Still remember the first time I had a frozen pizza for the first time... my mum was very much a home made meal fan. Beef casserole, chicken stew, full Sunday roast. And Baths once a week on a Sunday! How did we not all stink?! I loved this video though. I live in Australia now and I’m not sure that readybreck is available here, nor angel delight which is a real shame!

[@sellbydate]

Hey I'm from UK now live in Perth Australia 🦘!! I'm sure I've seen angel delight in British section!!!

[@k8ybaby2]

I LOVE these videos! It would be really cool to see super old ones like 1900 or even before

[@kates7277]

Been waiting for this…born in 1980 and I’m already nostalgic just seeing the thumbnail!

[@lynneleverton8825]

I used to prefer Instant whip rather than Angel Delight. It had a slightly different consistency and I loved Aunt Bessies jam roly poly with custard. My Mother used to have that fruit cocktail and put evaporated milk with it, but I couldn't stand it, so I didn't ever give it to my family! I used to buy chicken kievs, but hardly any other processed foods. I've never really liked frozen foods either. Besides that, Graces' vlogs are just the best!

[@bethanymiller8406]

I love this series. Reminds me of that show ‘back in time for dinner’ that was on the bbc a few years back. Bring it back with you hosting!???

[@Elwene2fr]

In France we also have a thing called "Monster Munch" but they don't look like the ones from the UK at all. They are little ghosts and they taste great (everyone remembers the TV ads from the ~2000s too)

[@carolh9734]

As a family we didn't like angel delight so we'd have instant wipe with a cadbury's flake crushed and sprinkled through. And that was desert for 5 !!!! We thought we were living it up😂

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

I was born in the year 1980 but in the U.S. It’s definitely interesting to see the differences in food! Also as a side note, I am the only person in my family that was born and raised in California and all of my relatives are from back East in the southern states. I loved their style of cooking far more, but it still definitely had a lot of influence on what my parents cooked!

[@BecomingFinn]

Your mum is 100% right you need custard with jam roly poly or it’s just not worth having, it’s like McDonald’s nuggets without sauce to dip 😂😭

[@MeLaThor13]

I grew up in the 80s, in Michigan, USA. My Mom cooked every night- usually soup/stew/chili, casseroles, spaghetti, tacos, and our fav "hamburger slop" (a lot of families used campbells soups as starting points for meal) which waa cream of mushroom soup, browned ground beef, simmered and put over egg noodles (sometimes we added onion and/or mushrooms to the gravy). Back then 16oz of burger meat was 99cents, so it was a cheap filling meal and quick to prepare. Tv dinners werent as choice foward, we had a lot of canned goods (frozen veggies were more expensive it seemed, where now a can of veggies is over$1). My Mom was single, and would take me to my Dad's Mom's every school night or when my Mom had work the next morning, so it was a lot of busy afternoons in hindsight. Friday's were the night i stayed home and my Mom was off Saturday. I got to pick where we went for dinner (usually fast food and a kid's meal almost exclusively) so my Mom had a break from cooking. Saturday was usually we went out for bfast or lunch with her friends and maybe shopping. Some weekends we went to my Moms parents and she'd go fishing with my grandpa. As a family, and depending who's house, we might have take out, or go out for a meal, but most often it was homecooked, very minimal processed(not that we didnt have them, but price point and available options........) and we did snack! We had a snack break during grade school, and usually afterschool, there'd be potato chips, or something with peanut butter or whatever involved, maybe a donut. At grandma's before bed, we'd share some pop (soda) and maybe a little icecream or something sweet. (She'd also buy me toaster strudels and carnation instant breakfast mix(which back then seemed cheap in comparisonto the price nowadays), bc i was never huge into bfast, and still am not at 41 lol) Sorry this was a lot, but a lot of the things reminded me of childhood. Also!!! We had those mini cereal boxes!! Wanted to share that ours were perforated to be cut open on the wider side, so you could open "the doors" and add milk and eat from the box. 😆

[@Intothewild1973111]

@MeLaThor13 what was breakfast?

[@MeLaThor13]

@Intothewild1973111 cereal, or toast.. sometimes eggs during school mornings. I wasnt into breakfast really personally (still not) but sometimes leftover pizza lol... my family tried, and i ate fruit or toast or something...

[@amberelgee1139]

KZbin recommendation - Tasting History with Max Miller. He does recipes for food and meals from history. Like ancient history, the Romans, up to what they ate on the Titanic. There is a lot of variation. Highly recommend.

[@synber]

you should invest in a cheese slicer, you can find them at ikea! no nordic home is without one, it's honestly the best way to get thin, even slices of cheese :D

[@frolicfutile2409]

In Denmark we have a different cheeseslicer than in the UK. They have metal string and they have a side for thicker slices and a side for thinner slices. And what you are doing with the peeler would be impossible with most danish cheeses because they are mostly square shaped, too wide for the peeler (Ive tried, my british dad does the same when the other one is being washed) and too soft, hence the metal string that glides easier through a softer cheese than the typical firmer British cheese... I'm half British half danish so I just wanted to share my cheese knowledge and the differences 😂

[@frolicfutile2409]

Oh and I loved Angel delight as a child aswell and I can with confidence tell you, you should have whisked it longer cause it should turn into a light foamy consistency that sort of doubles in size before you even put it in the fridge. Like a mousse? Is that what it's called? Strawberry was my favourite. I hope you tried it again 😊

[@crystalh450]

We have that kind of slicer in the US as well. I just took it as the peeler being a quick way to accomplish the same task without requiring an extra gadget if you already have the peeler out.

[@zandraling9121]

Ask any Scandinavian about shaving cheese with a Osthyvel or cheese slicer! Only way to have cheese on sandwiches!

[@bambieyes8296]

Shepards pie, spaghetti, meatloaf, Friday night pizza were all my 1980s food memories!

[@heatherb2307]

Everything looks delicious! I grew up in the '80s, and my family always put cheese on our shepherd's pie, FYI. It would be grated sharp cheddar cheese, yum!

[@Jess1ekins]

Please do 90s! I grew up in the 90s and would love to see. Mainly grew up on Findus Crispy Pancakes, Turkey Twizzlers, Turkey Dinosaurs, Spaghetti Hoops & Potato Smileys. 🤣

[@natashaj4113]

I would still eat potatoes smileys they were so good - also the turkey drummers 😅

[@orang1414]

Maybe letting a hat decide what you eat in a day, eating like my teenage self for a day, myth busting diet culture rules could be a series and would be helpful to many xx

[@pennyh4021]

I'm really impressed people can remember what they ate over 40 years ago. I have trouble remembering what I ate last year.

[@tswizzle4eva578]

Haven’t even watched yet but I already know it’s gonna be another banger 💪🏼

[@beeble26]

i dont remember splodge (angel delight) needing to be left to set? I had it growing up, but we would just keep whisking it until it was a light mousse.

[@Stephanie-ir6ki]

I feel the same way about fruit cocktail 😂 I used to love when my mom put the fruit cups in my lunchbox. But now I’m like ?? why?? All the fruit is mushy and you can’t tell what’s what 😂

[@AmandaGreenman]

This video was really interesting, I was born in the 80s but these meals resemble what I remember from my earliest memories in the 90s. I grew up in the USA but our cuisine and trends were definitely similar. I remember the Viennetta and cheese sandwiches (with mayo, we didn't have the sandwich spread), and chicken Kievs and I forgot about the French bread pizza! My maternal great-grandmother immigrated from England to the USA and brought over the tradition of tea time - but from the mid-century until the 00s my family made it super American by religiously drinking a Coke at 3pm instead of tea (and having a “cookie” as we say in the USA) but I have reclaimed my heritage and since the 2000s have gone back to having a nice hot tea at 3pm! Living in Canada now, I can also source a proper biscuit to go with it!

[@crystalh450]

It is okay- I don't think the 1990s really came up with much original stuff. Maybe that is just me, though.

[@ellexpress111]

Oh wow this had my memory bank burst open. Monday night fir us was meat free night due to the cost of meat. We ate countless casseroles from the meat my mother would durive from Chicken necks. Lamb neck chops were cheap back then. Fresh veges always from the garden except for frozen pee's and boiled potatos with butter and mint. Roast lunch after church on Sunday with pudding. Chocolate self saucing pudding or apple crumble. I never ate lunch at school I was finicky about it, use to always polish off a pint of milk when I got home. Bfast porridge or weetbix with hot water and cream and lashings of raw sugar. Mum baked her own bread (put in the hotwater cupboard to rise) and baked all the cakes n buscuits. Sadly Mum died I was 15 and Dad died I was 18 but the memories of family meal times still linger.

[@donnasnowdon3459]

I was born in 72 and vividly remember those Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies in a tin with the flabby pastry that didn't cook properly served with luminous green tinned processed peas. I also remember the first curry I ever had was the Vesta curry in a box - it came in dried form and you added hot water I think? Sounds vile but they were really nice.

[@bbmcgee33]

😂

[@lexxieburton6182]

really interesting to see the difference between 80s food in the uk and the us, 80s kid and very little of what u ate was what id see on the table, also i the us sandwhich spread that ive seen is ham based

[@camibabyy]

Grace I would love to see a food tier list/ ranking video by you. You could do snacks, fast food, ice cream, etc. If you do this idea it would be awesome for you to include American and British foods

[@evelynkrull5268]

I stopped watching about a year ago... maybe a year and a half, idk why? But now I'm gonna get to binge all the Grace content while I have covid!

[@VamLoveAndKisses]

Oh my word vienetta! That was a proper treat even in the 90s.

[@crystalh450]

Yeah, it wasn't really a thing in the US until the late 1980s.

[@tanyadoe8086]

I ate a lot of spaghetti in the 1980's, but I was mostly vegan during the first half.

[@pennygiller2377]

Tostitos spinach spread with sliced cakes and a slice of tomato is awesome....lots of veggies and flavor.

[@GothicaBeauty]

I remember the 80’s with fondness. 0:32

[@orang1414]

Not sure if you’ve done a full day eating like the 1990s, but that would be so cool! X

[@paulbeesley5743]

Brought back some good memories there with this video. Sugar puffs were my breakfast of choice. I used to like Weetabix with warm milk. One big change I remember was the microwave, I'm sure we got one in the 80s and everyone in school was talking about micro-chips that came in a box and you put the whole box in the microwave and it had this special paper that was supposed to crisp up the chips. They tasted like cardboard. 😂😂. I'm a parent now and we still have a takeaway on a Friday.

[@ember1713]

So interesting to see what other countries were eating in the 80's, thanks for sharing

[@sarahstrong7174]

We had quick & easy food in the 70s. We used to divide a tin of beans, spaghetti, soup, or sardines between four of us or had a sausage or fishfinger (& peas if we were lucky) & had two slices of white bread & marge each with it, or had cheese on toast. (Butter was too expensive for most people back then). We didn't always have dessert. There were yogurts coming in just then about 74' so we sometimes had them, other times it might be an individual frozen Peach Meĺba, mousse, or a piece of cheesecake made from a packet mix. Either that or cheap supermarket cake, often golden syrup or ginger cake.. Really not very nutritious but no-one knew that back then. They had just about got around to telling us that we should eat some fruit as we needed the vitamins. Breakfast was mainly white bread & cheap jam, sometimes we could afford peanut butter or cereal. If you were lucky you got a boiled egg on your birthday. Lunch might be white bread, marge & jam but if we were lucky we might get marmalade. peanut butter or cheese, or sandwich spread sandwiches. Meat or fish paste was a treat! Sometimes we had school meals which could be good & tasty if you got a good cook.

[@nataliebrennan591]

Potato waffles was my go to as a kid. Summer holidays I had them with frozen pizza everyday while watching carry on movies 😂

[@gillianhope7742]

I remember being a newly wed in 1980’s ,cooking a Chinese food dinner party from scratch !

[@shadowweaver3693]

In Australia at lunch time it was pies, sausage rolls and pasties. Good old fish and chips on the weekend and Sunday roast

[@kathiheckenliable6958]

Viennetta was so fancy back in the 80's ❤

[@crystalh450]

Yes, that and Sara Lee Cheesecake.

[@laurawilliamson888]

The conversation about understanding take aways because of the cooking and cleaning is still mum life 😅