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I don't believe there was ANY food that was forbidden to me as a child, but we also lived where most our food came from our own or surrounding farms. We certainly had candy and "soft drink" but it was home made.
Store bought cookies, soda and candy was considered a real "treat" and I certainly didn't see much of it growing up. Mind you, when I was a kid (yeah I know, I'm OLD) a so called "family size soda" bottle only contained 4 glasses worth, and a family sized block of chocolate was MAYBE 12 squares.
My mum made pretty much everything from scratch - apparently when I was little I considered having processed white sliced bread at a friend's house a "treat"!!!!!!!!!!!!
We were allowed chocolate, occasionally, but never ate sugary sweets - my Dad was convinced that sucking sugary sweets for ages was the WORST thing for your teeth - I'm sure he was right too.
We never had any kind of sodas and even as a kid I always preferred water to any soft drink - and I still hate carbonated drinks!
We were allowed ice cream sometimes - but I only ever remember having it in the summer - and always if we were out for the day, never at home!!!!!!!!!
I never remember feeling "deprived" of anything - I never really developed a "sweet tooth" either and am very thankful for that!
I was a lucky kid and didn't know it. My mother served me milk at all meals til I was 18 years old. Sodas were only for birthday parties at other kids' houses. When I first moved out of the house I went on a soda pop and Kool-Aid binge.
Today, I drink root beer only in my root beer floats, probably once a month. No more Kool-Aid or any other sodas or sugary drinks. I don't put sugar in my coffee or my iced tea. Once in awhile in the winter I have a hot chocolate.
I've learned I'd rather eat my sugar than drink it.
There really wasn't anything forbidden as I grew up. With my daughter I try to teach her moderation when it comes to food. We talk about sometimes foods and anytime foods. I'll let her have a healthy snack if she needs one. Or if she wants a candy, I'll ask her about the healthy foods she's eaten and think if it ok to have a sometimes food.
I think it is working, especially when she asks for a snack and says that she wants a peach instead of candy.
When I was growing up (late 50s through 60s), we kids were not allowed to eat any junk food or pop unless we were having a party/picnic/gathering of some sort. When we did have stuff like that, it was a real treat!
The first time I ever had a fast-food hamburger was when I was in college. (I'm sure I was the only kid in my high school who wasn't addicted to Micky D's and BK!) Having been raised on good, home-cooked food, I've never been impressed with, nor developed a taste for, most fast food.
Dessert was also a special treat in our home; not an everyday thing.
In general, when parents start to ban an item, it is generally the FIRST thing that the kids want to try.
For example, being from a German family, we always had a case two or three cases of beer in the house for my parents and their guests. Occasionally, even even when we were small, we had a sip from my parents' beer. No big fuss was ever made. My parents did NOT tolerate drunkenness even to the point that if a friend got tipsy, they were generally not invited back.
When I got to high school and college, drinking was no big deal. In general, I rarely drank in college and only occasionally drink today.
Of the handful of friends who have had drinking problems, nearly all of them come from families where drinking was verboten
We always had white bread around the house. But why in heaven's sake would you choose it when we had up to six different varieties of German rye breads in the house?
Why would you eat store bought cookies (except Oreos) when you have the real thing at your disposal when your mother is a heck of a baker and makes the real thing?
The reason MOST kids eat so much junk is that 1) that is all they ever get from their parents and 2) they have no good food to gauge it against.
Real butter and we could only have skim milk. My step-father died of a heart attack, so we couldn't have any good stuff in the house. We also only ate boxed macaroni and cheese and hamburger helper. Suprisingly I didn't grow up with food issues, but I can't stand that crap now and I only use real butter and drink 2% milk
My parents would not let me eat red M&Ms or anything with cranberries in it.
That was in the late 50s when foods-that-cause-cancer was the parental by-word.
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