It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

weenancyinAmerica

@euronorris - when I had tonsillitis, my mother would make lots of jelly (Jell-O here). I loved having different flavors and it does help slide down the throat really well. 

elsien

Nelliegrace said:

I did a shop for milk, fruit and vegetables yesterday just in case people start panic buying when they see the yellow warning for snow for tomorrow and Friday. Dinner tonight was the last of a tin of chopped ham, jacket potato and tomatoes, very much in the spirit of WW2 rations. There is some more pot roast lamb left over for tomorrow. 

I had an interesting conversation with a woman whose mother was in the Women’s Land Army. I was at the till buying the yellow stickered Sainsbury’s cheese at Dobbies and said I would freeze it in ration portions.
Manual workers and Land Girls were allowed an extra ration of cheese, but there was some difficulty with rations in rural areas. Her mother went to bed hungry every night, but it was mainly due to the farmer’s wife who kept a lot of their rations. It was the custom that men got the meat and the best food, and women and children made do with the pastry, vegetables and gravy.
Do we get proper nourishment or are we fobbed off with just a little protein with a lot of cheap filler in the prepared processed meals on offer?

I remember my grandmother doing that for Sunday lunch - "do the men want any more meat."  The men included both my brothers (we are very close in age)  but not me which I used to get very annoyed about. Given that we were still at school so they weren't doing any sort of manual labour.

Snow has settled here today - I am in walking distance of supermarket but also have all the basics in so don't need to go for a few days. It's the veg I'd run out of first - I do have tins but they're emergency only as I much prefer fresh  

ladyholly

My dh grandmother always used a 10inch dinner plate for the men and an 8inch dessert plate for the women. The logic was that men do hard physical work and the women dont. Whoever decided that were not housewives in a pre electric age. They also earned the most money so needed to be kept fit to earn. Womens wages were poor by comparison.

euronorris

weenancyinAmerica said:

@euronorris - when I had tonsillitis, my mother would make lots of jelly (Jell-O here). I loved having different flavors and it does help slide down the throat really well. 

You read my mind. Made a batch for her yesterday (with peach slices this time) and she's already had two so far this morning! Thankfully antibiotics are kicking in quickly so she'll be back to school tomorrow.

GaleSF63

When I was at school (1950s and 60s) tonsilitis operations among the pupils were very common, and generally not too worried about as everyone knew the Childrens' hospital used to feed them ice-cream.

Nelliegrace

In the 70’s the student nurses had to persuade the children eat cornflakes the morning after their tonsils and adenoids op, “To deslough the wounds.” It seemed cruel. 
One small child summed up the difference between the medical and surgical patients.
“Are you here because you are poorly or because they are going to make you poorly?”

Floss

Nowadays child tonsillectomy patients are told to eat proper food as soon as they're awake & up.

Florenceem

I remember having ice cream and jelly after a tonsils op in the 1950s.
No spending yesterday.
I popped to the community shop today - spent £2.60 - got 3 jars of pickled onions - August 2024 date + bottle of Hellman. vinaigrette
+ 1 lb tomatoes + 6+ lbs potatoes. Well worth going to a community shop if one in your area. Would have been getting over £9 in Asd.

YorksLass

Our snow settled a little yesterday on grassed areas, cars and house roofs but not on the roads and pavements so I think the gritters must have been round, even if we didn't see or hear them.  It was still the same in the early hours of the morning when I went for a comfort break.  When I got up it was coming down thick and fast until early afternoon when it more or less stopped for a while but it's back again.  I think there's more to come tonight and tomorrow too.  

The bread maker has been doing its thing today as has the SC for tonight's liver/bacon/onion casserole that we'll have with mash and the last of the cabbage.  There'll probably be some cabbage left over so on Sunday I'll cook the last of the potatoes and mix left overs of those with the cabbage for a couple of bubble & squeak cakes for Monday's breakfast with some bacon. 

I've also discovered half a block of frozen puff pastry in the freezer and have that defrosting in the fridge to make a fruit pie tomorrow (with a tin of cherry filling I got on clearance).  I'll add a bit of grated cheese to the pastry trimmings to make cheese twists that we can have with soup.  To fill up the oven I'll bake some chocolate butterfly buns and then use the cooling oven to dry out bread crusts and whizz those up to refill the jar of breadcrumbs.  Lastly, any left over cherry filling can be added to yogurt for a quick pud.

I sometimes feel as if I'm making work for myself but, if it uses up odds and ends and keeps my purse closed, then it's worthwhile.  

euronorris

They're very reluctant to remove tonsils these days. I think on the basis that they play an important part in stopping infections going deeper (lungs). I think anyway.

To be fair, this is her first bout of bacterial tonsillitis and she's 6. Plenty of sore throats before, but they were viral and part of colds etc. And she had strep in November, but that's it.

I remember removal being quite routine in the past and the GP saying to my mum that if I got tonsillitis one more time, they would remove mine. I didn't get it again until my early 30s! He scared them into submission I think! Haha