Huge changes in food habits

Did you catch this news item yesterday, on how our food buying, cooking and eating habits have changed since 1974?

It's fascinaing stuff. A long article and worth taking 10 minutes to read it right through (imo).

Some facts which jumped out at me

- 24% of a typical pay packet went on food in 1974 compared with 11% today

- a drop in the popularity of canned and tinned food. The amount of canned peas bought by a typical household dropped from 88g to 14g per week between 1974 and 2014. In total, consumption of canned vegetables dropped by a third over the same period.

- "ready meals and convenience meat products" went up fivefold.

- dried and fresh pasta was not even recorded on the National Food Survey until 1998. Between then and 2014, weekly household purchases in this category more than doubled.

Lots of other ups and downs throughout the report. Bet you find something which chimes with you - and probably some facts where you go 'Hmm, not in this house'

Re: Huge changes in food habits

DM you only have to look on the shelves in shops at the number of goods now available as well as the content of people's shopping trolleys to see how much food tastes have changed over the yeras.