16 Answers

Cheaper.

I know that doing this (above) was not something that was routine but rather, only an occasional treat.  That is why McDonald's was always trying to encourage it.  I know some young families now, who think it is the "norm" to do this 4-5 times per week. Sure not the case, in the 1960's!

Yes, Us Baby Boomers sure did eat weird food.  Milk out of glass bottles,  mashed potatoes that were made from actual potatoes, Fresh fruit and veggies- winter was Hell!  Apples and Pears and maybe oranges imported from the Sate of Florida.  Shall I go on??  Perhaps this is too scary for you to think about.......

Ducky

lol

Meat, potato, veggy, bread, and a dessert. Meat was wild game, potato and veggy were from the garden, bread was made from scratch and dessert fresh out of the oven.

real meat and veggies. no steroids no hyponics. that was good food.

Ducky

Remember when we had to be concerned about so many foods "going bad"? Lots of today's products will last forever it seems.

See some here.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.html#1960s

Ducky

Yes quite!

potato

Same as now, minus the junk food.

Wild boar, raw fish, berries off the vine. What would make you think that mans diet would change in a relatively short period of time? How old are you?

Ducky

:) Yeah, I still eat wild boar every week...well as often as I can find a hunter to "go git me one"!

Ducky

Look who's calling whom(?) "strange"????? lol

People in the 60’s where worried that $20 dollars would not feed a family of 4 for week if the prices continued to go up.

We ate at home in the 60's. No canned or pre-packaged foods, all from scratch. Still do today!

I loved (and still do) the hamburgers............

Lamb here in Oz was actually very cheap, so lots of it with .....wait........FRESH veg, chicken was expensive so kept for special occasions, and the thing that stands out the most for me was first ever experience with the then new to Oz, KFC, yummo

Ducky

So...lamb ate lamb? :)

I imagine a lot would depend on what part of the world we're speaking of. But, for the most part, it doesn't seem to have changed all that much. The only major exception would probably be in the amount of artificial ingredients in things.

Same stuff, different packaging.   Less variety. Not so much "freeze dried".