Well - we have fallen off the ration wagon for a couple of weeks - sick kids and lots of household stress.
The children are starting to snack more so it is definitely time to restart the whole process again !
Interestingly - none of the children can cope with eating baked beans anymore - my 11 year old hates them now as she thinks they taste of sugar.
The kids are on whole grain cereal all of the time -porridge and wheetabix - with hot whole milk. My son is now drinking more milk this way than before.
Yesterday i made a massive vegetable and lentil soup from all of the left over vegetables in the fridge drawer. It went down very well and fed 5 last night, 2 today for lunch, 2 portions frozen for the week and at least 2 portions left. Not bad from things that would normally have been thrown away.
Another new recipe - dried apples. This is mentioned a lot in the book/recipes of the period but the instructions are a little vague ( e.g. dry in an airing cupboard - which we dont have !!). I found a recipe on the "love food, hate waste" site which was for apples crisps:
apples sliced with a potato peeler ( peeled and cored first) spread onto a baking rack ( i used my grill one) and dried in a low oven for about 2 hours. Really really good.
So the aim is now to stick to the ration again - with perhaps a little more fruit variety.
Will let you know how we go on !!!
The children are starting to snack more so it is definitely time to restart the whole process again !
Interestingly - none of the children can cope with eating baked beans anymore - my 11 year old hates them now as she thinks they taste of sugar.
The kids are on whole grain cereal all of the time -porridge and wheetabix - with hot whole milk. My son is now drinking more milk this way than before.
Yesterday i made a massive vegetable and lentil soup from all of the left over vegetables in the fridge drawer. It went down very well and fed 5 last night, 2 today for lunch, 2 portions frozen for the week and at least 2 portions left. Not bad from things that would normally have been thrown away.
Another new recipe - dried apples. This is mentioned a lot in the book/recipes of the period but the instructions are a little vague ( e.g. dry in an airing cupboard - which we dont have !!). I found a recipe on the "love food, hate waste" site which was for apples crisps:
apples sliced with a potato peeler ( peeled and cored first) spread onto a baking rack ( i used my grill one) and dried in a low oven for about 2 hours. Really really good.
So the aim is now to stick to the ration again - with perhaps a little more fruit variety.
Will let you know how we go on !!!