I have some knowledges (not the same as memories cos I have very few memories from childhood). One memory is getting a half loaf from the baker who delivered it back in the days when food was delivered & picking at the doughy bit sticking out. yum

I know we took lunch to school most days - I assume it was a sandwich & fruit, and I also know that if I bought lunch (maybe Mondays?) it was a pie, chips (crisps) & cake. Bought lunch cost 2 shillings (before decimal currency came in in 1966 & 2 shillings changed to 20 cents) so I was less than 14 years old.

I know Dad gave us bought lunches & pancakes when Mum was in hospital having babies. He couldn't cook.

Mum was a bad cook & hated cooking. My brother tells me we put unwanted food we were being forced to eat (vegetables I guess) under the table on a little bit of a ledge behind the side bit.

A real memory from the 70's or 80's. I hadn't had a donut for ages so bought a pineapple one & can still remember the disappointment at the aweful taste, instead of the anticipated yumminess.

Another food memory from the days I was beginning to cook for myself. The book said boil the sugar to a syrup - but it didn't say, stay with it, stirring continually. It was a cold winter's night, (well, eastern Sydney's version of a cold winter night), & the place was filled with thick acrid smoke & the pan contained a very interesting layer of black stuff. Even opening all the windows didn't get rid of the smoke! I kept the black stuff for sometime as it was very pretty.

sandra