Eating habits that prevent you from living from the USSR

“You won’t leave the table until you finish it”, “You will leave all your strength on the plate”, “Just soup? What about the second one?” – these and other statements from the USSR have probably been heard by everyone. The desire of parents and grandparents to feed us as children evolved over time into bad eating habits, which are still very difficult to get rid of.

But in the meantime, that’s not the only thing we may encounter. For example, remember those strange food combinations that brought pleasure in childhood – salty black bread, sugary pasta or milk soup with noodles. Although some of this generation suddenly declared their intolerance to lactose and gluten, the majority still maintains the habit of snacking on these particular products.

Building a healthy relationship with food is difficult. Especially if you have traces of gastronomic preferences since childhood. We are talking about the most popular eating habits in the Soviet Union that interfered with your life.

Eat bread with every meal

We’re sure we’re not the only ones whose parents constantly serve bread at every meal, whether it’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner. By the way, the afternoon snack would not even be complete without it, because sandwiches were often served at that time. In Soviet times, this was the absolute norm – bread quenched the feeling of hunger, so it was often served along with the main course, and sometimes even instead of it.

There is no need to “seize” everything in exactly this way anymore. You can make snacks healthy by replacing them with dry foods; For example, you can eat a banana or apple instead of a sandwich. It is better to buy a healthy loaf of bread rather than a piece of bread.

Tea with sweets

No matter what anyone says, Russians love drinking tea. Especially with candies, cookies, and other not-so-healthy snacks. By the way, this is another bad eating habit from childhood. Remember for yourself – whenever someone came to visit, everyone would sit down to drink tea. They also offered sweets as snacks: candies, cookies, cakes, etc. in the list.

But many people still do it now. Although many alternative options for “correct” sweets without glucose have long appeared on the market, they are no different from the same delicacies with sugar in their composition.

First, second and… third

Remember what lunch was like; The first is soup, the second is salad and the third is even hot. This is a classic meal option for factory workers in the USSR who worked hard all day. At that time, it was especially important for energy and performance to have a large amount of carbohydrates and fat in the diet. Now that our lifestyle has changed significantly to a sedentary one, the body no longer needs such a large meal. It is much healthier to eat frequently but in small portions.

sweet compotes

Nothing is more associated with childhood than the sweet compotes that every housewife always kept at home in Soviet times. Along with lunch or dinner, a cut glass was served to the table along with a drink made from dried fruits or a sweet fruit drink. There were very few options then. Nowadays it is really rare to find compote at home. But it was still replaced by packaged juices that contain large amounts of glucose. I agree, after that the compote no longer seems harmful.

Sour cream and mayonnaise

If it is borscht, it is with sour cream, and if it is salad, it is with mayonnaise. These were the rules that many Soviet housewives followed when setting the table. That’s why almost no holiday meal is complete without sauce. Of course, today the habit of adding mayonnaise and sour cream dressings to salads continues. That’s right, now you can make them yourself by checking all the ingredients.