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my latest challenge "national food campaign"

war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
in The potting shed
they say everyone need a challenge  my
latest in finding all the leaflets in this series.
here are the ones i found so far. 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @war garden 572 

    perhaps you can search the archives here 
    https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Only one egg per person per week allowed.
    you may try looking for dried egg for omelettes .

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    This is what one person was allowed a week.  Maybe think again about breakfasts.
    • Bacon & Ham         4 oz
    • Other meat            value of 1 shilling and 2 pence (equivalent to 2 chops)
    • Butter                      2 oz
    • Cheese                     2 oz
    • Margarine              4 oz
    • Cooking fat            4 oz
    • Milk                       3 pints
    • Sugar                    8 oz
    • Preserves            1 lb every 2 months
    • Tea                        2 oz
    • Eggs                     1 fresh egg (plus allowance of dried egg)
    • Sweets                  12 oz every 4 weeks
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    edited April 2023
    Surprisingly though, we were healthier as a nation after rationing than before. Rickets were practically abolished due to margarine fortified with Vit D, and flour fortified with calcium. 

    "Rationing in Britain was hard – but shortages were far worse elsewhere. Collectively, 20 million people died as a result of malnutrition in the war, compared to 19.5 million in combat. In Ukraine, peasants dug up dead horses to eat their flesh, while in Greece, 2,000 people perished every day from hunger. In Britain, rationing created the best-nourished generation of pregnant women in history, as poor people received enough nutrients to maintain their health."

    "    But, being Britain, fish and chips were never rationed. Professor John Walton, author of Fish and Chips and the British Working Class, told the BBC that safeguarding the national dish was a priority for the government. "The cabinet knew it was vital to keep families on the home front in good heart," he said. "Unlike the German regime that failed to keep its people well fed, and that was one reason why Germany was defeated. Historians can sometimes be a bit snooty about these things but fish and chips played a big part in bringing contentment and staving off disaffection."

    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/75-years-on-from-rationing-what-did-we-learn-9963115.html
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Rationing was ok but they still had to have the money to buy the goods.
    My mum,  and almost everyone she knew didn’t even go to the doctors to register that they were pregnant,  they just called a midwife or someone local to help with the birth.
    it depended on  you lived as to how good things were.

    People living in the country did better,  farmlands around,  chickens for eggs.  It wasn’t so easy in heavily populated towns,  not everyone could keep chickens or grow food,  the little back yard would never have produced enough food for a family with about 10 children. 


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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    When I was young in the 50s mushrooms were very expensive, so was chicken. We never had them. We had a lot of stews with carrots and potatoes in them and dumplings with beef or lamb.  Neck of mutton stew usually had barley in it and was left in the Aga overnight. I really liked it.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We often have a neck of lamb stew cooked in a similar way @Busy-Lizzie ... a favourite here.  😋

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    How about Potato peeling Pie?
    We also went ormering at appropriate tides, otherwise know as abalones. 
     
    My father used to cycle to work so when he brought home a road kill rabbit it was wonderful!
    My grandmother managed to hatch some chicks from the French eggs we used to have.(We were living on Guernsey so food was extremely short). They were bantams of some kind, plus a cockerel which was the Devil incarnate. OMG! was he aggressive. Magnificent to look at, until he attacked my grandmother from behind. Then he was in the pot, tout suit.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That lamb stew was lovely,  we always bought neck for stews but they stopped selling it because of the BSE, when it was detected in the spinal cord.
    neck of lamb now is a ridiculous price.
    My mum only bought the mushroom stalks,  they’d fall off the mushrooms on the greengrocers stall and he would bag them up separately.
    Vegetables weren’t on ration but not always available. 
    We never had pasta as a meal back then. 

    If War Garden thinks he’s going to have two eggs for breakfast,  he’s well mistaken. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2023
    I think the recipes @wargarden has posted were for a 'standard' family of four.  Very few recipes were/are  given in quantitites for one serving. .. even now.  

    This may be of interest https://www.cooksinfo.com/british-wartime-food/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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