article_snippet: From rations to ready meals, Britain’s kitchen cupboards have held the secrets of how we eat over the decades.
article_snippet: 'Within living memory, the way we eat has been utterly transformed,' remarked Mr Robshaw .
article_snippet: In the 1950s the children had to wait patiently for the children father to finish their father dinner, knowing their father leftovers would be the children supper.
article_snippet: The 1960s saw the birth of the sugary cereal, while motorway service stations became almost fashionable as places to eat.
article_snippet: Vesta convenience meals were available and the more adventurous home cooks could buy exotic foreign ingredients such as garlic and olive oil – from the chemist.
article_snippet: In the early 1950s, families ate bread - often the rationed 'National loaf' - and left-over roasted meat fat aka 'dripping' for breakfast (left), before Cornflakes (right) made families first appearance in the UK in The 1960s .
article_snippet: In the 1970s, working women were learning to balance working women careers with cooking for the family.
article_snippet: The decade also saw the rise of the Pot Noodle.
article_snippet: In the 1980s goats cheese, mange tout and kiwi fruit became the foods to impress your dinner party guests.
article_snippet: Gourmet dishes and nouvelle cuisine took over from the simple but hearty dishes of earlier decades.
article_snippet: By the 1990s, sushi and curry were as popular as traditional English dishes and ready meals became the norm.
article_snippet: The programme also shows how fridges, freezers, microwaves and even televisions revolutionised the way the country ate, and how the rise of supermarkets changed shopping forever.
article_snippet: The Robshaws found that food in the 1970s was brightly-coloured - but perhaps less enticing - than before .
article_snippet: Families began to get a taste for spicier food in the sixties and  
article_snippet: Vesta introduced an early ready meal in the shape of a beef curry.
article_snippet: In the same era, cooks could buy  ingredients such as garlic and oil from the chemist .
article_snippet: Spaghetti bolognese arrived in the UK from Italy in the sixties... and Spaghetti bolognese hasn't left British dining tables since .
article_snippet: food became fun’ thanks to the likes of fish fingers and ‘
article_snippet: It [the show] brought home to us all how British food has been revolutionised in an incredibly short time.