Dear all, one has to share the love when you find the latest #RationCore (yep- I just made that hashtag up!) videos that appear on YouTube! I know you’ll love these!
Wildwood Cottage Diary is currently doing a rationing challenge and I’m really enjoying her updates!
Rebecca at Railway Cottage is one of my favourites in all things slower living and this week she is living on rations! Rebecca has recently moved to an old railway cottage and I love her knitting chit-chats!
Life Plus Cindy is a US channel I’ve enjoyed for a couple of years. I really enjoy Cindy’s content as she navigates life. I feel she has an older soul. This week she is living on WW2 rations!
I’m trying to do more daily updates either on the blog here or on my YouTube channel at http://www.RationBookRecipes.tv – it’s honestly difficult though but I have got to get used to it!
I also wanted to let you know about a few clips I quickly put together from the “Highworth VE Day 2025”. My eldest daughter and I loved visiting this little event as we love Highworth and want to live there one day! It’s very close to Swindon where I currently live and we need to be close by as I want to be close to my parents. There is a lovely sense of community in this small little market town.
I’m now beginning to cook more proper meals again from my rations rather than nibbling through small, light snacks. I’m still going to be mindful not to fill my tummy too much just in case the abdo pain was anything to do with large meals or high-fat meals. I’m trying hard to generally have a high-fibre, low-fat diet right now and keep the meals on the smaller side. As my fear of the pain coming back subsides, my appetite is increasing though so it will be hard work to keep that under control this week but so far, so good and I am honestly loving being back on rations! I’m using the hashtag #rationcore now on my posts as I truly believe all us “rationers” need our own hashtag and recognition for our obsession!
Finally, here is a little video I posted on YouTube this morning with some snippets of some of the food I ate last week. I just LOVE rationing!!!
I survived to end of week 3 on wartime rations! AND had a really frugal week too in regards to what I spent on my rationed food as I STILL haven’t used up any points. However, this coming week will be completely different as my supplies are running low!
Starting weight: 287 lbs
Week 1 weight: 276.4 lbs
Week 3 weight: 271.2 lbs
Weight-loss week 1: 10.6 lbs
Weight-loss week 2: 4.4 lbs
Weight-loss week 3: 0.8 lbs
Weight-loss total : 15.8 lbs (1stone 1.8 lbs) in 3 weeks of wartime rations
What I’ve eaten and what I’ve spent
Another simple eating week with smaller portions. Here are some of the things I’ve eaten!
Faux fish with steamed potatoes and kale
Salads
Mashed potatoes
Sausage sandwich
Stews
Porridge
Toast & Jam
Weetabix
Apples
Baked potatoes
Bread and butter
Slice of birthday cake (victoria sponge my daughter made for her birthday)
Again, a week where I haven’t spent much but mostly because I haven’t yet to buy any sugar from my main rations and no points needed for the first three weeks either but this week I will need to stock up so it will be more expensive.
My total expenditure on food in week 3 including main rations and extras (which includes buying the faux fish) was £17.70p.
I’ve also been trying to find old photos of families during the war, sitting down to eat as I really want to see what they have on their plates, what size are their plates, what portion sizes, what type of plates they are using? These things fascinate me!
The main photo to the left was the recommended food store to keep in the pantry for one person in 1942. I’m loving that we see coffee there! I am having one cup a day in the morning which makes my day quite frankly!
My ultrasound went well….
I had my ultrasound on Friday (I’ve been having upper right abdo pain) and nothing sinister was found (phew!) so now I’ll be back to the doctor at some stage but it is looking like what they expected which is maybe “post gallbladder removal syndrome”. The main treatment for this is a high fibre, low fat diet with smaller, more frequent meals so trying to achieve this via the rationing!
