War time recipes

Longwalker

YorksLass said:

Our dinner plates and soup/cereal bowls are huge but they very rarely come out of the cupboard - instead we use our old ones that are much smaller and more portion friendly.  I was always told to leave the table feeling as if you could eat a little more and wait for 20 mins - if you were still hungry then you could have more, but more often than not you felt full.  Snacks between meals just didn't happen and biscuits were limited.  Sweets were a weekend treat sometimes but again, limited.

I never have sugar in tea (personal preference) and can actually tell if there's sugar in it just by smelling it.  How weird is that?  It brings back memories of an uncle who would put 3 teaspoons of sugar in a cup (a small teacup not a mug) but didn't stir it properly so there was always a sugary sludge in the bottom of the cup.  DM eventually sugared his tea for him - one teaspoon - and he never noticed the difference!

DM would bake on a Sunday - loaves, oven cakes and rice pudding in the range oven next to the coal fire and fruit pies, custard or jam tarts etc in the gas oven in the kitchen.  Once the pies and tarts were gone, that was it for the week.  We also had dripping jars for fat - one of my favourites was (and still is) pork dripping on an oven cake.  And buttered crumpets that we toasted in front of the coal fire.

Zero food waste here - I begrudge feeding the bin, better inside us and better for the purse too.  

I can smell sugar a mile off, in tea and coffee and theres a few guys in work that drink boost, I smell it on them as they walk by

And those that vape fruit flavoured liquids - smells to me like they have dipped themselves in syrup

YoungBlueEyes

We didn't have snacks or sweets growing up. Father used to eat muesli for breakfast, and one thing I did used to like was sharing the raisins out of his bowl. He said that they counted as sweets cos they were sweet so I didn't need anything else.

I remember starting 'big school' and my friends eating "goodies" (chocolates/sweets). I  never liked them cos they weren't what I recognised as sweets. Anyway I asked father if he'd buy me a bag so I could take some in to share. "What kind of goodies are they?" "I don't know, they're all bits of stuff in a bag". So off I went with my sweets to share but no-one liked them.

It was years before I realised he'd given me bombay mix. 

YoungBlueEyes

QueenJess said:
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I find portion sizes far too big when I eat out and I’d actually have a smaller portion of both dinner and dessert. If I eat out at lunch, I’m not hungry for dinner.  I’m not sure when someone decided that bigger was better?

This ^^^  I wish you could get a choice of sizes like you do in fast food restaurants. I don't like asking for child sized portions, even though most places will happily oblige. I'd love to find somewhere that does a half size dinner and a half size dessert - that'd be ideal for me.

RobM99

YoungBlueEyes said:

I remember starting 'big school' and my friends eating "goodies" (chocolates/sweets). I  never liked them cos they weren't what I recognised as sweets. Anyway I asked father if he'd buy me a bag so I could take some in to share. "What kind of goodies are they?" "I don't know, they're all bits of stuff in a bag". So off I went with my sweets to share but no-one liked them.

It was years before I realised he'd given me bombay mix. 

That's not funny, not a bit. OK maybe a bit, maybe a lot. OK a lot. In fact it's hilarious!  "These jelly babies are a bit hot!" and I bet the ice cream van only dingled when it was empty...

YoungBlueEyes

I know, I was mortified at the time! Why don't they like my sweets?!

And yes about the ice cream van too  

Jeez he was a sod.

Siebrie

A restaurant near my parents does a 'senior's plate' for €5. It's just 1 plate full, from anything on their menu.

RobM99

YoungBlueEyes said:

QueenJess said:
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I find portion sizes far too big when I eat out and I’d actually have a smaller portion of both dinner and dessert. If I eat out at lunch, I’m not hungry for dinner.  I’m not sure when someone decided that bigger was better?

...further, why aren't 'kids' meals' just smaller portions of a main menu?

Pollycat

Thanks, Katiehound.
Like the sound of Saturday pie - but there's never any leftover meat in our house as it all gets portioned out and put in the freezer for another dinner.
I can't recall us having any leftover meat after Sunder dinner when I was growing up in the 50s/60s.
But I do like the sound of mashed potato and meat layers.

The pea soup looks lovely.

Katiehound

Not replying to anything

Finally managed to post once again and not stuck in 3 shades of grey.

How did I do it? Fluke? Deleted all the words and then pressed backspace. Clear white screen. I'm not quoting for a while as I have been blocked out of the Aldi thread for a couple of weeks!

That might be the achievemet of the day!! No, I have swum 20 lenghts, delivered doggy duvets & dashed round Aldi.

Thanks to folk who suggested ways of getting past the greyness!

YoungBlueEyes

Yes Rob, I think they should be! Occasionally when I ask for a smaller portion they'll direct me to the "kid's menu". I feel like shouting at them - we haven't come to a nice pub so I can eat fish fingers and beans! I want steak and ale pie and mustardy mash but I don't need a while lot of it cos I'm not a fatty!!

It's a good way to sort out the actual homemade menus from the pre-portioned ping meals that are just labelled as home made tho. The places with decent staff and true home made meals will often oblige with a smile. 

Bigger isn't always better, sometimes it's just more.