Day 18

Sorry Blogger isn't letting me upload photos today! :(

Todays Menu is a direct result of a real 1940s style shortage at the butcher!! I went in to our local butcher earlier in the week and asked for OxTail. He didn't have any but would order some in from his supplier. I went back today and found out his supplier had none either - bother!! As I walked out the door I uttered those words I had been dreading since the start of this experiment...."You haven't got any rabbit instead have you?" Of course being a country village - he did!

It shouldn't have but my heart sank. A few people have told me how rabbit got them through the war, either wild or from the garden, rabbit pie was a weekly dish in the country. So I hid my sqeamishness, asked the butcher to chop it into 'unidentifyable portions' and took ine home to make rabbit and ham pie for supper.





Breakfast

Toast & Marmalade

Lunch

Soup & Bread

Supper

Rabbit & Ham Pie, Kale and Mash

I told the kids it was chicken thighs and ham! The children had thirds and asked to take it cold for lunch the next day!!!

Day 15 - Week 3 and weekly weigh-in

Well today marks our half way point in our journey!! A quick ask of the family and everyone is still pretty happy to be staying on the rations although we're all missing certain things....

Kids - Chocolate (no surprise there! funnily they only chose sweets for their rations not chocolate!)
Hubby - Snacks in between meals and beans on toast! And most of all bigger portions!
Me - Tinned Tomatoes - didn't expect it to be that did you! I used alot of tomatoes in my pre-ration cooking!

We weighed ourselves this morning...

Weight this week :-
Hubby  = - 0.2kg   overall =  +3.2kg
Me =  - 0.8kg        overall =  -1.9kg

I havent been very active this week and we've had more  'nice' food and puddings because of the birthday tea! So I'm pleased its a minus figure but not surprised its low.

A deliberate change this week has been to swap our plates to smaller ones - makeing the food look bigger / more!
Not so deliberate, i keep forgetting to take photos till we're half way through / finished!!!

Breakfast

Toast and Jam or  Cornflakes

Lunch

Cheese Sandwiches or egg and cress sandwiches

Supper

Mashed Swede & Potato, Carrots, Gammon

[Wartime Recipe} Mums Pork Rissoles

This is a recipe handed down to me from my mum (and probably from hers too!) so please excuse the lack of exact quantities!


Left Over Roast Pork - I used pork shoulder
Onion
Stale Bread made into breadcrumbs or Oats
1 Egg or Powdered egg made up

Mincer the pork in a mincer or food processor. Finely chop an onion and add to pork.  Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Next add enough breadcrumbs / oats to stiffen the mixture so you canmould  it. Roll into balls, flatten slightly and fry in lard until golden on both sides.

Serve with Wartime Champ for a lovely warming meal!

This recipe is pretty forgiving so play around with it a bit for variety. I think it would be lovely with some diced apple or grated carrot included!!

Day 13

Honey Biccies

Breakfast

Bread and marmalade

Lunch

Rissoles and wartime champ - leftovers from yesterday

Supper

Cauliflower cheese and baked potato
 
Snacks

Potato floddies, honey biscuits

Day 12

Breakfast

Toast and jam

Lunch

Ham and cheese !

Supper

Pork rissole and wartime champ

We had a bit of a disaster on the bread front today as the breadmaker died in the night! As a result I pulled a few slices of shop bought bread from the freezer, big mistake, it was hollow and empty and by lunchtime we were starving! We went out and brought a new one asap! We tried out the new meat Mincer today too! A bit of elbow grease needed but we got there in the end! Te resulting rissoles were gorgeous and definitely didn't feel like we were making do!

Day 11

Breakfast Welsh rarebit Lunch Jaket potato or jam fritters Supper Roast pork, roast potatoes, veg Snacks Leftover birthday cake I chose pork for this weeks meat ration. Leftovers can be sliced and used as a 2nd roast meal tomorrow or minced and eaten as rissoles. Luckily I found a meat grinder for sale yesterday - unused in a charity shop! So I think I'll try my hand at rissoles instead of fishcakes I was planning this week. On the downside our breadmaker died last night and wasted the ingrediants, so we're having to go buy another one. We've been loving the homemade bread we've been making for this experiment and it was one of the first things the kids have requested continue after! I used to hand make but a problem in my wrist means I can't anymore.