Hello Dear Reader,

Just popped in for a quick chat before I get back to lots of work I need to do.

If you are from out of the country then you might not know about the TV programme called ‘Back in time for dinner’. A family is taken back in time to eat the food of the fifties, then the sixties and so on. They get to experience the food and life style of the time for the week.

Often, the food we grew up with shapes our future eating. It certainly did mine. I grew up on cheap, healthy, homegrown and homemade food. It certainly wasn’t 1970’s food. There was very little out of a tin, a packet, a freezer or any sort of ‘convenience food’. In fact, my food was either very retro or very modern. It was retro as it was home cooked casseroles and stews, braised steak, mash and garden veggies. Fish caught locally and local food. As that type of food is now fashionable I suppose it was very modern too and for the seventies ahead of its time.

So Dear Reader, if you went ‘back in time for dinner’, what era would you want to eat from? What would you cook? What do you eat now that’s either retro? Did the era in which you grew up influence the way you live and cook now?

Until tomorrow,

Love Froogs xx