I did it! Another day successfully navigating WW2 rationing and not succumbing to junk food! I’ve LOVED the food I’ve eaten today and I don’t feel guilty at all for consuming 1700 kcals, as in the wartime spirit I also moved more and walked a couple of miles today, too and from work!
Breakfast
I started off once again with porridge as per yesterday which was 50g of dried rolled oats and a teaspoon of flaxseed cooked in water with a splash of milk and a teaspoon of sugar! Calorie wise this is around 250 calories that includes the milk in my cup of tea too! Cost of breakfast (not including tea) = 15p
Lunch
I was sooooo excited to have leftover Parsnip Pie for lunch and I served that with Haricot Beans a la Bretonne from “Vegetables for Victory” by Ambrose Heath. Calories for lunch = 500 cals, cost was around 75p.
Dinner
For dinner I used another recipe from Ambrose Heath’s book. This time for Potato and Pea Cakes. These were absolutely LOVELY and I promise to do a full post on the recipe tomorrow! I was so short of time that I just ended up having 4 of the “pea cakes” and nothing else with them. It had been a long day at work and my knees and legs were hurting and felt heavy (but that is because I’m walking every single day to work again now!) so I just wanted to FLOLLOP! I feel blessed walking in Nike’s to work instead of 1940s Oxford shoes, I bet women’s feet hurt during the war! Calories for dinner = 700 and cost was around 80p
Supper
I had my dessert for supper. I had peaches in juice, from a can. I’ve kind of avoided canned foods (apart from beans) for quite a long time but the convenience of a can of peaches (I made a little hot custard too!) was just lovely. The peaches were from my war-store (I have a cupboard under the stairs where I have pre-war, squirrelled some items away) and not from my points ration, goodness me, if I’d bought them on my points ration I’d have used 1/2 of them up! Tinned peaches would have used up 8 of my points! (we have a monthly allowance of 16-24 points- it varies). Having the whole can of peaches was FAR TOO GREEDY so this won’t be happening again! Calories for supper = 250 cals and cost was £1.20
Total calories for the day 1700 including milk in tea
Total cost of food for the day £2.90 (an expensive day – I must do better!)
Lots of love, C xxxx
Those potato and pea cakes look so good!
That is awesome. What a great start 👍
Those Potato & Pea Cakes/Fritters… as it’s currently in season, substituting asparagus (cut into pea-size pieces) works a treat.
One might also be tempted to add a bit of grated cheese and onion into the mixture too! 😉
The choice in what to add to the potatoes in fritters like these is almost limitless.
Sean, just wanted to say thank you for noticing the comment with the vile video in on the D Day post. I honestly thought I’d posted a bad video (and was horrified) and removed the d day documentary until I realised you had left a comment in response to the comment by Janene. Thanks again xxx
No worries C.
Those so-called documentaries are actually well-known, and tend to be blocked for viewing here in the UK. Unfortunately, some countries are a little more liberal in allowing the expression of extreme and wonky opinions, so the videos just keep doing the rounds.
Personally, I think people are entitled to think whatever they like. But stuff like that is hugely disrespectful to the memory of those servicemen and civilians who lost their lives globally in the conflict that gives us what we take for granted today.
Apologies for giving you a scare about what you yourself posted.
Now then, back to those pea cakes of yours… 🙂
Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The potato cakes look delicious.
LOVE reading these posts. I am almost ready to take the plunge like you did, with a modified ration based on some products from today. I need to figure out what happened. You are doing amazing! Again I love seeing your posts. PLEASE keep them up. 🙂
I am looking forward to the recipe for your Pea and Potato cakes, they look absolutely deelish :-}