tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post1821012458075452039..comments2024-03-25T20:18:21.478-05:00Comments on Diary of a Stay at Home Mom: The Wartime KitchenSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00448386993712122412noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-73073233790922425112018-04-29T14:16:11.739-05:002018-04-29T14:16:11.739-05:00I came across your blog on Pinterest,and so glad I...I came across your blog on Pinterest,and so glad I did! I’m also fascinated by this era,even tho it must Off been hard work and frightening when the air raids went off.<br />But everyone pulled together and just got on with it.<br />You might like this<br />https://youtu.be/nkJv1HgA-0A<br />Happy watching jane<br />xxblueyxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15822089700425728446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-50852518065068983372017-01-18T14:30:09.390-06:002017-01-18T14:30:09.390-06:00Brilliant article! I am going to share it with my ...Brilliant article! I am going to share it with my 15 year old daughter who is writing a book about World War II. My husband was out of work four months last year. The rest of the year has been lean. Believe me, all it takes is a car repair to blow our budget big time. Everything, I mean everything comes out of food money. So I have to do with what I've got a lot of the time.<br /><br />Be blessed!<br />Laura of Harvest Lane CottageMrs. Laura Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17334381585683324912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-72467485107424046722015-07-12T17:14:28.427-05:002015-07-12T17:14:28.427-05:00Here's a link to a 4 page booklet of a 1940...Here's a link to a 4 page booklet of a 1940's garden plan to go along with the rationing. It's designed for a standard size allotment/community garden plot.<br />http://www.earthlypursuits.com/AllotGuide/DigforVictory1/DigForVictory1_1.htm<br /><br />SharonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732413360832028386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-38940047400890197522013-03-12T21:22:56.573-05:002013-03-12T21:22:56.573-05:00Sorry to comment on an old post, but I just had to...Sorry to comment on an old post, but I just had to :)<br />The last couple of days, the kids and I (we homeschool too) have been watching various 1940s homefront videos- the 1940s house, The Wartime Kitchen and Garden (well the part I could find online) and Wartime Farm.<br />I admit, rationing seems so hard, I have no idea how my grandmother managed!<br />I will also admit to having a hankering for the old fashioned wrap around apron after watching all these!Spinnerettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18335780710513434157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-18551782568270913262012-06-14T05:04:39.284-05:002012-06-14T05:04:39.284-05:00What an interesting post, thank you.
This may be a...What an interesting post, thank you.<br />This may be a silly question but with the dig for victory campaign in place, why so few chicken eggs?<br />Hens wouldn't have taken up much space but would certainly have increased the egg supply!the big worldhttp://www.thebigworld.co.uk/howtodigforvictory.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-63691448787492086882012-05-31T20:50:42.651-05:002012-05-31T20:50:42.651-05:00As a 14 year old in 1939 living in London I went v...As a 14 year old in 1939 living in London I went very hungry due to rationing. In your list I found some discrepancies, ham and bacon was available on points, butter was 1 once per week, lard was 2 ounces, we were lucky to get an egg every three weeks, tea, preserves were on points. We were glad to get dried eggs, dried milk, spam but had to use food points for these. You had to select the best things needed up to the amount of points that you had. Use them up and you went without. Bread was rationed at one point as were potatoes.Rationing continued into 1940.Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-85721604616136806952012-05-20T14:04:26.113-05:002012-05-20T14:04:26.113-05:00Thank you so much for this post. I love this kind...Thank you so much for this post. I love this kind of thing!<br /><br />Your comment about potatoes not being rationed reminded me of the book 1493, which I just finished reading (it's about the Columbian Exchange). In the author's section on potatoes, he cites multiple original sources noting that 17th and 18th century Europeans who primarily ate potatoes were in better health than those who did not eat potatoes but had access to a more varied diet. He then explained that, nutritionally, potatoes contain everything one needs except vitamins A + D, complete protein, and fat. People who had access to potatoes generally had access to milk too, which filled those gaps. That meant that people who lived almost exclusively on a diet of potatoes and milk were better nourished than most other people in Europe at the time. Potatoes are also famous for growing in wretched conditions--making them the perfect famine/wartime food. Provided, of course, that you can keep the crop safe--as Europe learned from terrible experience. The women who kept wartime kitchens in the 1940's had grown up knowing people who were children during the Europe-wide famine of the 1840's, meaning they had access to information and habits that we don't today.harperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14770855937135928799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-67216817774399264392012-05-19T15:54:38.068-05:002012-05-19T15:54:38.068-05:00I'm rationed to $50 a week since I'm on fo...I'm rationed to $50 a week since I'm on food stamps. I grow some veggies, and stockpile sale items, use coupons, etc. I make it work pretty well, actually, especially since I don't eat much meat. I can't imagine being rationed like wartime, though. Thing is, if we all went back to growing our own food, or some of it, we wouldn't have to import so much and the world's oil supply would last much longer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-76114076320654066462012-04-30T12:19:29.354-05:002012-04-30T12:19:29.354-05:00Hi
I loved your post...
You have put in words the ...Hi<br />I loved your post...<br />You have put in words the things that I have in my mind.. <br />Here in India we are developing about now , around 100 years back things where very different and I too love to watch movies or tv serials from that period when life was simpler and right now I am watching one such serial about a life of a girl who is married at 11 to a widower of 32 who is a social reformer.. He educates his wife (women were not allowed to study in some families) and she in turn managed to educate many women of her time too..<br />I love to see the costumes, the houses, the day to day life and food made which is depicted in that serial<br />THANKS FOR THE INFO AND THE TROUBLE YOU HAVE TAKEN TO GATHER IT..<br />would love to know more about the food cooked..during those times and the recipes.Mahekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05838929350804595150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-81809629909511329192012-04-30T06:59:40.498-05:002012-04-30T06:59:40.498-05:00Great article. I feel the same way that you do. I ...Great article. I feel the same way that you do. I admire the simplicity, family togetherness, and the fact that most knew their neighbors back then. I have this in my blood. I don't over schedule the kids so we can be home at the dinner table. I also make it a point to be outside. I have lived many places with the military and some neighborhoods, no one comes out of their homes. I eat a very healthy gluten free diet. But, I do use my Better Homes and Garden, red and white cookbook that was my grandmothers. It has the most basic recipes in there. If I feel like I have nothing to cook, I look to that for inspiration.Kelly Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12772301035967387661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-12286696404310017882012-04-29T21:56:07.025-05:002012-04-29T21:56:07.025-05:00This is an account of a lady who tried this in the...This is an account of a lady who tried this in the UK, some of her insights might help you if you do go ahead and try it. Also on that forum is a woman who tried to live on the USDA food stamps allowance if you want another one to do! http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=481412String Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741867531574462408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-30966388423830677302012-04-29T08:09:33.214-05:002012-04-29T08:09:33.214-05:00This is one of my interests also. Really enjoyed r...This is one of my interests also. Really enjoyed reading this. I also have an app for my phone that lists the use by dates and such on my pantry goods (which is empty at the moment) to help keep from loosing any food.autumnesfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519475352289814754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-24270491271580516452012-04-27T14:48:23.365-05:002012-04-27T14:48:23.365-05:00Just found this blog and am enjoying this post! It...Just found this blog and am enjoying this post! It serves as a great reminder to use what is in the pantry -- I forget all the time. It's a strange way of being lazy, isn't it? Going out and buying more instead of using what's at home.<br />The other thing that really struck me is the total lack of vegetables. I know people then grew them, but thinking about that line about how for some people, all that meat and those fats were the healthiest diet they may have ever had. Fascinating!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-34099623235309847972012-04-27T14:06:44.755-05:002012-04-27T14:06:44.755-05:00I just wonder.. what would this woman (in the uppe...I just wonder.. what would this woman (in the upper most picture, standing in her kitchen), think of Martha <br />Stewart's kitchen? lol..<br /><br />I mostly cook with what I have on hand because we're poor and we were poor growing up and so was my mother and my cooking style is generational, we all learned to cook that way. I do use recipes, but I often cook with what's on hand as well. I also think it would be interesting to take a month to live off my food storage and use emergent ways of food prep as a trial, just to see. I mean natural disasters happen all the time, it would be nice to be prepared.Mistiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990053982798400335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-59201843488584483062012-04-27T13:15:46.563-05:002012-04-27T13:15:46.563-05:00Love this post! We are certainly spoiled today. ...Love this post! We are certainly spoiled today. My grandmother grew up during the depression and was a young bride during WWII. I would have loved to have be able to spend some time in my Granny's kitchen!Wendihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02547001714523524390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-9629446045655219592012-04-27T11:38:16.101-05:002012-04-27T11:38:16.101-05:00I LOVED this post! It's one of my favorite era...I LOVED this post! It's one of my favorite eras of history to learn about. My girls love the Molly (American girl) books and we did a victory garden this year. We also gave her cooking/craft book from that time period. Many years ago my dad gave me my aunt's war ration book..with stamps still attached....it's been such an awesome piece of history to have and pass on to my girls :) I love your blog and look forward to your posts.<br />In Him,<br />CrystalCrystalhttp://judtanothermodestmom.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-43029368145763719582012-04-27T09:36:03.125-05:002012-04-27T09:36:03.125-05:00I have been a lurker on your blog for quite some t...I have been a lurker on your blog for quite some time now. After watching this I just had to tell you I found it very interesting and thank you for sharing!Tammynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-24392552881857735442012-04-27T02:41:47.178-05:002012-04-27T02:41:47.178-05:00Look up the BBC series "Supersizers go....war...Look up the BBC series "Supersizers go....wartime".<br /><br />It is a great series from 2008 where previous eras are relived by food, clothes etc and brought into relation with today, the health aspects of it etc.<br /><br />Really great!<br /><br />Greets,<br /><br />MarionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-36394715978851064232012-04-27T01:44:56.066-05:002012-04-27T01:44:56.066-05:00You might be interested in the fictional story &qu...You might be interested in the fictional story "Coming Home" by Rosamunde Pilcher. It's about a young girl coming of age in England during WWII and covers a lot of the subjects you've mentioned here. There is also a movie, but read the book first! I promise you will fall in love with it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-4453460517706433132012-04-26T23:46:17.807-05:002012-04-26T23:46:17.807-05:00I'd love to have a garden, but "rogue&quo...I'd love to have a garden, but "rogue" rabbits eat every veggie I've tried to grow, so no Victory Garden for me...I found this all very interesting. We are certainly a "spoiled" society aren't we?! Can't imagine food being rationed.Sweet Teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15614958513434632328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-60394942078993921212012-04-26T19:33:37.085-05:002012-04-26T19:33:37.085-05:00What a great post and I loved that ladies video.....What a great post and I loved that ladies video..I'm going to try that with potato peels. I'm going to share it with some friends of mine (we have a FB page called Thrifty Green Girls and this would be fun to share...the video...since I forgot your blog was private)<br /><br />Thank you for sharing this. You really did your homework. We are down to the last of what's in the house before I go grocery shopping and I'm trying to use what I have instead of scrounging for money somewhere to go get something. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this...and boy are we spoiled today, with an overabundance of food at our disposal.<br /><br />I have a friend who came over from Romania several years ago and she was in awe of our grocery stores and the variety of items that could be bought. Her mom came over a year ago and felt the same way. It was quite overwhelming.<br /><br />I recently watched a cooking show by Nigella lawson and she was sharing how she had to buy her peanut butter chocolate chips online. I was like "what?" they're on every shelf here...so many options of chocolate chips...I just assumed they were available everywhere. A friend said when a relative of theirs came over from some country (I don't remember which one) they would bring back tons of chocolate chipsKirstinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17792132554787453551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-70815624513589333572012-04-26T19:20:10.932-05:002012-04-26T19:20:10.932-05:00I think there was wartime rationing in the US as w...I think there was wartime rationing in the US as well. My mom said that one of her early memories was a butcher giving her a hot-dog from behind the meat counter, off the books. Also, one time my grandma saved her meat rations for long enough to send a salami to my grandpa who was serving overseas. Unfortunately, he'd never seen salami, and thought it had gone bad, and threw it away! They managed to laugh about it in their 80s.Kathyhttp://www.kathysyear.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-42329781591790566942012-04-26T19:12:47.435-05:002012-04-26T19:12:47.435-05:00This is a great article. It really makes me think ...This is a great article. It really makes me think of all the food we waste and reminds me why we can also. I think this would be a great unit study for all 4 of my homeschooled children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-5726294818903779982012-04-26T18:46:31.144-05:002012-04-26T18:46:31.144-05:00Thank you so much for a fascinating piece on warti...Thank you so much for a fascinating piece on wartime rationing! I have been a student of the WWII homefront for 20+ years. I've also collected numerous cookbooks from that time period. There's so much from that era that can be applied in our kitchens today~thanks again!Marlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08017639823973821650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271473.post-36753727473726635662012-04-26T18:32:09.260-05:002012-04-26T18:32:09.260-05:00you and your children may be interested in an inte...you and your children may be interested in an interesting bbc(?) show we borrowed from our local library called "the 1940s house". the people on it had to live just like a british family during the war, complete with rationing, blackouts and air raids. a really interesting show!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com