After being away for the weekend, yes ... the rations came too ... I am struggling to get back to normal this morning. So to get myself organised I decided to weigh out this weeks rationed foods. I used last weeks milk but poured it into one of my litre sized bottles, with the idea that if I can see it properly I might use it up this week. And this week's cheese is what's left in this 'cream cheese' tub, about two thirds. It was already opened in the fridge and needs using up soon.
It was a case of topping some of the containers up as I didn't use all of last weeks rations, they've gone a lot further than I thought they would. Thank goodness for modern scales that I can zero and not have to do maths first thing on a Monday morning. 😄
I was surprised at how much coffee I had left after last week, but I have been getting into the habit of making my coffee a little bit weaker by getting my usual spoonful from the jar and then knocking a little bit of the coffee back in. I did well and had almost a full ounce left to add this weeks two ounces.
This week's sweet ration - two little bars of dark chocolate.
The leftovers from last week, photographed for posterity.
All of my milk ration, virtually all of my sugar ration, about half of the butter ration, almost half of the coffee ration, two thirds of the oil and even two of my three packs of 'sweets' from the sweetie ration. I do need to try harder to use all the rations, because it was the combination of the foods on ration and the amount you got that made for healthy eating.
Although I guess being low on the sugar can only be a good thing!!
Oh, and I also had my two sausages left over, tucked away in the freezer.
What has really helped stretch my rationed goods and the things in the fridge has been the regular little harvests from the garden. I halved all this with Alan for our lunches.
And made myself what was going to be a one egg cheesy tomato omelette ...
But it slopped out of the pan in a gloriously tasty cheesy mess.
While it was out of the fridge I decided to use the last of the cheese up by making myself a nice 'sandwich spread' for later, with a couple more spring onions two chopped tomatoes and large splodge of the opened mayo from the fridge.
So it was a good first week, a bit disorganised with meals grabbed from the fridge on the spur of the moment rather than properly planned, but this week I intend to make a basic menu plan and follow a few more wartime recipes ... and not leave all my cheese until the last minute and eat it all at once.
Sue xx
Ooh, eating all the cheese all at once - that sounds like heaven! (I love cheese, I think it's one of my absolute favourite foods). Although eating a little every day is good too.....
ReplyDeleteYes, I think I ate about 3oz of it in those two meals, very naughty of me. I must pace myself with the cream cheese this week for sure. :-)
DeleteSo well organised. We have just enjoyed another lunchtime homegrown salad, and some homegrown potatoes. I can see why the WW2 Dig For Victory campaign was so successful! All my rhubarb is harvested now
ReplyDeleteYes my rhubarb is all in too, I doubt it will spring back to life again, it's had a drastic 'haircut'. I think it's time for me to tip out another plant pot of potatoes to go with all my spring onions. It's nice having something to eat from the garden isn't it, I will have to officially re-name my little raised beds my Victory Garden won't I. :-)
DeleteWhat a lovely little harvest from the garden ,we too are finding we have left overs to carry forward so realise we don't have to be quite so cautious. I have worked out how much milk it takes to make yoghurt and will use the equivalent from our milk ration and will buy a dairy free yoghurt .
ReplyDeleteIt's good to find out what you actually use and in what amounts when you first start using rations isn't it. I honestly thought I would struggle with the 2oz of coffee, but it's been great. Homemade yogurt sounds like a good way to use some of your milk.
DeleteMy Mum said that she and her older sister gave up sugar in drinks during the war so that the younger children could have it and there was more for making custard to go with the stodgy puddings - jam roly poly with very little jam and similar delights!
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of adults did that didn't they, puddings must have been a real treat at least once a day. Jam roly poly sounds like it's something I should definintely have a go at.
DeleteWell done on your first week, Sue.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, I did a small pot roast padded out with plenty of vegetables, and a dish of baked apples for puddings, and put in a Barabrith to fill the oven. DH made a small loaf in the breadmaker this morning, and asked why there was sugar weighed out on the scales?
For a fat free, sugar free cake, made using just one egg, the Barabrith is not too bad!
Thank you. Oh gosh I do that sort of thing on a regular basis, it sounds like you made an almost ingredient free Barabrith. :-)
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ReplyDeleteThanks. xx
DeleteIt's almost lunch time here,,,,, not the best time to read your blog when I'm reading about the egg cheesy tomato omelette and sandwich spread with both look so tasty:) Great first week:)
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThat's something I usually do, end up reading blogs all about food just as I'm really hungry and sitting there with a growling tummy while I finish scrolling around Blogland.
You did really well on your first week of rations to have so much of it leftover! You've had a nice harvest from your garden, too! Looking forward to seeing how week 2 goes.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see the things that I planted finally being ready to be used. Hopefully after a couple of weeks I will be in a good routine with all this, I'm getting there.
DeleteA good first week and the garden produce looks amazing. Victory Garden it is then 😁 🇬🇧 👍
ReplyDeleteYep, it was just called that in my head before ... and now it's officially The Victory Garden. :-)
DeleteThat's a lovely harvest from the garden...a nice, useful variety. I would call the 'slopped out of the pan' eggy-cheesy concoction a 'scromlette'...somewhere between scrambled eggs and an omlette it's something that I 'invented' by being utterly rubbish at getting an omlette to flip over tidily. :)
ReplyDeleteI got so good at flipping omelettes just recently too, and then this!! Oh well, it tasted divine and that was the main thing.
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