Ration Kitchen

Like most, my grandparents endured the hardship of rationing throughout World War Two and beyond. In Britain, rationing was introduced in 1940 and did not end fully until 1954. For my grandparents, fourteen years of rationing changed their lives and gave them values on wastage that have stuck with them until today. Unfortunately, both my grandfathers have passed away, but both my grandmothers (one 90 and the other 84, who still live on their own) still recall this period and the lessons it taught them. I do hate wastage of all kinds and when you read in the media that a third of food is thrown away this does seem criminal!

I intend to revisit food rationing and cook through the recipes supplied by the Ministry of Food to keep Britain going through the War. Hopefully, I will discover whether these principles can be applied to our modern wasteful society and if these were healthier times.

An important note is that this will be my experience of the rationing policies of the 1940s and 50s. I do not presume to know what living with food shortages was like for 14 years with the constant fear of bombings and loss of loved ones throughout WW2. I have the upmost respect, for the generation who fought for our liberty and who endured so much so that we can have the freedoms we have today. I just hope that from my meagre experiment, I can experience a small modicum of what rationing was like and hopefully bring some of those lessons into the modern day.   

Within this blog I will also be incorporating the stories of all four of my grandparents who all experienced the war in a very different way. I find these stories interesting and I hope you do too!

Now where to find powdered egg?????