Do you eat better food than you did growing up?
We now see food in the shops that really are out of date due to being stored for months and then put on the counters for us tto eat, ie fruit such as Banana’s in december , the minute you get them home they turn black within a day or so, even potatoes seem to not taste as good as they once did, and the list goes on ,
even frozen foods are something to think about, ie peas all as one solid ice pack and not seperated as peas should be/ :Fish from the frozen counter “again little or no taste” are we being taken for a ride when it comes to are eating?
And what are we doing to our bodies,???strong text
are we not trying hard enough to feed ourselves healthy food?
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Although it’s nice for food to taste fresh, it can be just as nutritious when stored for a while. Our ancestors knew this because they relied on ways to preserve foids as long as possible through long winters.
Certainly not better but I would say more choice today. Being born during WWII when rationing was imposed on the population, food was non adventurous, but it was wholesome and nutritious with tendencies to be on the boring side. Being raised by my paternal grandparents who ran two pubs, plenty of black market food arrived on our tabel so we never went without. It was the same with our pawnbrokers where all sorts of unofficial exchanges took place under the counter, and I’m sure food also changed hands for the right consideration 
Honestly, I don’t know what kind of food one can reasonably expect to buy given that the majority of customers tend to be very price-conscious. I definitely eat better food today than when I was young. Back then there was no information about how the food was produced and, in view of the general shortage of food, people weren’t critical about food quality. They were lucky when they managed to get some fruits and vegetable in the shops. There was no variety at all. You may have found some apples, potatoes, carrots, and cabbage but that was basically it. Fish from the oceans may have been less contaminated but fish was not on offer regularly.
I think that once you are over 70 the time for worrying about what you eat or whether it is good for you has long gone.
What I eat is only what I like, have never liked green veggies so have never eaten any (except peas) much prefer chips.
But I still like fresh vegetables…
When I was growing up I largely ate what I was given. At that age most of us were still finding our way around as far as tastes and textures were concerned. At the age of six had I been presented with a little bowl of jalapeno stuffed olives I would have been mortified, not so today!
Tomatoes tend to spring to mind when comparing past and present. I really couldn’t stand those watery anemic things that were usually available. Nowadays I usually have some flavoursome cherry tomatoes hanging around on the little table in the front room.
Anyway, scrambled eggs for breakfast, some things just don’t change! 
I used to grow my own cherry tomatoes in a polytunnel. A great taste and I ate lots of them. Then I learn that anyone with kidney problems should only eat a minimal amount of tomatoes (if any). None growing this year and the polytunnel is gone. I don’t even buy tomatoes now.
sorry to here that,
It’s not just you, food really does taste different now.
My mother was a good cook, and we lived in a farming community. The war finished 7 years before I arrived, there seemed to be no shortages. Pheasants, rabbits and I don’t know what shot by my father, salmon poached from the river, homegrown fruit & veg. Good wholesome food. Today we don’t know what we are eating or where it from, a test-tube? Engineered to look good on the supermarket shelf before quickly turning strange colours. 
We buy organic sometimes but not always, not always convinced. We try to avoid processed, but our efforts are half-hearted. We had beans on toast the other day, first tin of Heinz Beans in years, they were pretty horrid, I didn’t recognise the taste, what are they doing to them now?
You can’t beat a tasty Peasant 
We never looked down on them. 
I think we are all Pheasant Pluckers, yes?
We lived on a farm in Scotland so we always had fresh meat including venison.
But is the so called procesed food we buy today anything to do with the increase in the mental health people are suffering? And the vast increase in Cancer?
You’re wright we really do not know what we are eating and to talk about cooking !
A lot of adults today can not cook, In the past the younger kids helped in the kitchen and mum & gran passed on the skills they learnt,
We all know we have fallen into the trap of both parents working to keep the house going,
But at what price ? Really at what price, ie the grant parents have not reached the age of retiring and putting their feet up, many are looking after the grand kids while mum & dad go to work and come home knackerd and that will be the long term future , All because we feel or are told we’re better off than the past; Are we & really,
daniel, not being “Working Class” anymore has come at a cost, that’s just a fact of this life.
Class is not for sale.
Folks used to be happy with a Picnic, now they want all inclusive.