WWII Rations

carol_a_3

If you put your peelings etc into a compost bin then there really is no waste!

calleyw

carol_a wrote:

If you put your peelings etc into a compost bin then there really is no waste!

I do. But peelings etc use to be feed to pigs so no waste at all.

But still feel that I should be doing something with them.


Yours


Calley

thriftlady_2

I think you're absolutely right calleyw,while no-one would want to return to the deprivations of the war,the lessons of waste not want are so valuable today.I try not to waste anything and get a tremendous feeling of smugness doing it.

thriftlady_2

On the apple peelings question,I'm sure I read a recipe for making a drink out of them-sorry can't remember where.

calleyw

thriftlady wrote:

On the apple peelings question,I'm sure I read a recipe for making a drink out of them-sorry can't remember where.

I am sure that I read somewhere about sprinkling brown sugar over them and baking them in the oven as a treat.

And for potato skins spray some oil on them and bake them for again for a nice treat.

But I would need to put the oven on just for that. Unless I was organised to do it when I had the oven on for other things.


Yours

Calley

Dora_the_Explorer_5

I've read this thread with great interest, particularly peoples' reaction to waste. I was born during the early part of the war and lived through the frugality of the 40's and 50's and the feeling that I'd be struck by the wrath of doom if I wasted anything. So now, when I want to waste or throw something away - I do, it's a luxury I enjoy and I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it.

I especially enjoyed clearing my parents house after they'd both gone into care and chucking out the packets of Rinso and Oxydol, sugar in blue paper bags and all the stuff with a utility mark on it. They were both very keen on not wasting anything, consequently half the stuff they kept never got used - including the front parlour!

Queenie

JackieO wrote:

... I think today's families live far healthier lifestyles, with the choice of vegatable and food in the shops you can live fairly well without subjecting yourself to the horrors of war-time rationing.

I believe today's families having a greater *choice* of vegetables/fruit ... but ... it's interesting to note that the greatest growth of floor space in todays shops is given over, not to those scrummy healthy fruits and veggies ...
... but to crisps, biscuits, fizzy pops, sugar laden foods, ready meals and a whole host of other *junk* foods oozing chemicals, preservatives etc.

Obesity has rocketed, as have allergies, behaviour problems, heart problems, diabetes, cancers and so on.

Sorry, JackieO - while I do agree that families have a far greater choice - I can't agree that it necessarily equates to families living healthier lifestyles

My parents (both deceased; both young adults at the outbreak of WWII) never viewed the war years through rose-tinted glasses; yet neither would have used the expression: " ... the horrors of war-time rationing". Simply because the prevailing attitude was that they were grateful to be alive. Hungry sometimes but alive.

SueRob_2

I have the 'We'll Eat Again' book & regularly make a few wartime recipes, Woolton Pie is still a great favourite of ours.

SueRob_2

I still turn my bath towels into hand towels & then into face cloths as my grandmother did. I do the same with my bedding, I know it means nothing matches but then I rarely remember to use matching bedding even when I do have it.
I also have an old book of Mum's from the war, of how to make new clothes from old. From reading this, when my son, now 28, was a baby I made him 2 pairs of dungarees from an old pair of trousers.
Sue

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks pink-winged for giving me a link to this thread for before....

thought i would bump it just to show us newer people ..on os...

thanks... will also try and get some of the books mentioned...