Hi everyone, I am delighted to have found this forum as I am writing a blog (on a weight watchers forum) on my memmories of the war. Am very pleasantly surprised at how many people have urged me to continue as they are so interested in it. I haven't had anything spectacular happen to me during that time, it's just a few odds and ends of life as I remember it. Soo, have a few questions I want to ask to refresh my memory! .....
Good day Emmeline, As you are going to be writing about your wartime memories for a Weight Watchers Blog, do you intend covering wartime rationing, availability of food, recipes etc? This should be of real interest to a modern-day Weight Watchers group. A few years ago I was a BBC "People's War" volunteer and helped out at some open events where the BBC had a wartime version of "Ready, Steady, Cook" (if you remember the format). It involved two 'professional' chefs cooking food to wartime recipes helped by a member of the public. Then there was a public vote to determine a 'winner'. This generated a lot of interest and as a result there were quite a number of wartime memories contributed to the PW Archive, including a lot of ladies who had probably thought the "People's War" project was about soldiers, sailors and airmen. Those were the days (B.E. - 'Before Edwina') when fresh eggs were good for you (if you could get them) and it might surprise today's "youngsters" what you could do with a sheep's head, a pigeon or a rabbit, especially if you had some dandelion leaves! Depending on where you lived, although there was wartime food rationing it was possible for some families to have fresh salmon, trout, rabbits, pigeons and eggs as part of their diet. I scribbled down one or two of the wartime recipes. If your Weight Watchers group would like to try one or two of the recipes I could send them to you via the 'private message' link of this forum if you wish. I wonder how the wartime diet would fit in with the 'Weight Watchers diet' of today?
Thanks everyone for your welcome. Wasn't thinking of posting memmories on here as I am sure you all have quite extraordinary tales to tell whereas mine are just humdrum episodes....
Welcome to the forum Emmaline. I was travelling around Norfolk at Easter photographing Royal Australian Air Force headstones of ww2 and following my ancestors roots in Little Dunham. There are a couple of threads on this forum which cover some areas of your interest in food in the areas of recipes and using alternatives to those foods that were not readily available. I am travelling however I will try and hunt them down if nobody lists them before.
Hello Emmaline Posted on behalf of Spidge http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/united-kingdom/5896-rationing-points.html
hello and welcome. that pic is great! Awesome...............can almost hear the "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooon:d:d:d
Hello Emmaline Posted on behalf of Spidge http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/united-kingdom/5896-rationing-points.html Thanks Cive - Well done! Cheers Geoff
Thanks everyone for your welcome. Wasn't thinking of posting memmories on here as I am sure you all have quite extraordinary tales to tell whereas mine are just humdrum episodes.... Post away, be great to read them.
that pic is great! Awesome...............can almost hear the "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooon:d:d:d Thanks.
