article_snippet: Faced with an 'of-the-time' dining room for each decade; the 1960s kitchen had 'luminous sky-blue walls' and 'radioactive yellow walls', while the 1970s saw a move towards open-plan dining, something which made the kitchen much more of a social hub for families.
article_snippet: The rise of the TV dinner: The Robshaw family, pictured above in their 1980s-style kitchen found the decade that gave us the Pot Noodle to be all about convenience, with gadgets aplenty helping them to make meals .
article_snippet: The arrival of multiple television sets per household in the eighties stifled mealtime communication however, with TV dinners - effectively a meal on a tray in front of the box - becoming commonplace. '
article_snippet: Gastronomically, the country began to breathe easier with rationing a distant memory and plenty of new-fangled ideas hitting the kitchen cupboards.
article_snippet: Dining rooms went open plan for the first time, making Dining rooms a real social hub of the household for the first time.
article_snippet: Even cookbooks were dominated by making life easier, with casseroles and one-pots a big foodie trend.
article_snippet: This decade saw the family cook look to appliances to make favourites with a more professional finish.
article_snippet: Working mums would rely on the ping of the microwave to feed Working mums family quickly.
article_snippet: The French sent over Nouvelle Cuisine and aspiring chefs went crazy for pretty, tiny portions...fancy food was all the rage in restaurants.
article_snippet: The number of televisions per household rose which saw the rise of the TV dinner, sidelining the dining table in favour of a tray on your lap.
article_snippet: On the restaurant scene, the gastropub arrived, reinventing old boozers by putting a chef with ambition in the kitchen.