My Weekly Rations - Week Four

 

Here are my weekly rations for this week.

 I don't really know if it's worth photographing them every week as the only thing changing at the moment seems to be the sweet ration.  But I guess it holds me accountable to myself, and I at least get to see what I have over from the previous week as I top up jars and dig things out from the cupboard, fridge and freezer.

So perhaps it is.

My usual sugar canister was too full for me to be able add this weeks 8oz to it, so I gave the sugar ration another jar as I topped it up from the bag of sugar in the cupboard.

The cheese was easy, it was the other half of last weeks Violife Extra Mature block.  This week I grated it rather than just leaving it as a block and it looks a lot more that way doesn't it.

There was a little smidge over as the scales reached the magical number ... so I just popped it into my mouth.  It wasn't big enough to save and there were no dogs to bee seen, so it was all mine. 😉

I weighed out this weeks combined butter/margarine ration straight into the butter dish.

The spread that was left over from last week and which was still in the tub, weighed in at exactly 4oz.  I think I will use this up today and make some scones and some pastry.  It feels like it's been ages since I've had a pie or pasty!

This weeks 2oz of olive oil that I am taking in place of lard, only just fitted into the little jar that I have been using, and the other jar is still in the food cupboard.  So I am ahead with the oil too.  Maybe some more pastry will need to be made to use it up.  😃

My sweet ration this week is slightly over on the scales, but I'm hoping the extra 3/8oz will vanish when the things are unwrapped, if not, well it doesn't really matter.  I would rather be using up what I already have in than going out buying little bits of sweets that will fit exactly into the right weights.

Talking of using up, this mornings breakfast was last week's egg ... it's like an action replay of last weeks happenings!! 

 It seems that one egg a week is just fine for me.  I might take away the extra half a dozen that I was going to allow myself to have each month in place of the dried egg ration and just buy half a dozen once a month, having one egg each week on the menu and the other two as spares, for baking or some other extra.

It's been really good over the last three full weeks of rationing.  I am slowly but surely getting used to having some limitations, while at the same time being quite amazed that I am not really touching too much of the things that were already in the cupboard and freezer from 'before rations'.  At this rate my supplies will be going down really slowly and there's nothing really to worry about.  👌

This week instead of reading recipe books and about the history of the wartime home front years, I decided to read the follow on to the television series Home Fires.

The first book in the set follows on exactly from where that second series so annoyingly left us, up in the air with so many loose ends just waiting to be tied off.  They never were, as despite the viewing figures being very impressive it just wasn't recommissioned for a third series.  I don't often read fiction but I am really enjoying this, and I managed to read over half of it while we were at the Welsh flat over the weekend.

Sue xx