anything in the crisper was fair game - it was normally apples, oranges, carrots and celery in there ... and there were other things where we knew we could have a limited quantity of (one snack pack or little bag of chips after school, two icypole tubes, etc) any other fruit or food had to be asked for.

this changed when my brothers had their growth spurts (and by then, I'd make a whole saucepan of spaghetti for us or tons of cheese on toasties when we got home from school ... they'd eat it all plus carrots, oranges etc - and still eat their dinner!!)

but yeah, when we were younger, there were certain things in a certain spot which we could help ourselves to.