Another that I watched was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwXFnwe2UQc (8 episodes, 3 are missing)
Now, I doubt that in the future, should any of our countries go to war, that we'll be hard-pressed to turn all aerable (growable) land into fields of grains and vegetables for the troops, but think about your own situation as you watch the vid. Do you have any property that you could turn into a field of wheat or millet right now, to feed your family? What about orchards for fruits, or long rows of veggies or brambles of berries?
Remember, it takes years and years to get fruit from trees, and a year or two to get at least a few berries from brambles. Get started!
APPLES:
Core the apples and slice into kinda-thin. She used a jar, candle and saucer to prevent them from browning, and a stick and oven to dry them. Have to say .... I'm so very glad I have my Excalibur dehydrator, and more importantly, two SOLAR dehydrators!
ONIONS:
Create ropes like the vid shows. However, you could also use the panty-hose method (which means you'll have to store/stock lots and lots of stockings and pantyhose).
EGGS:
One way they mention in the vid is preserving the eggs in "water glass" which is made with water and sodium silicate. Yeah, I don't know. YOU might do that, and that's fine, but I can't see me doing that. Instead, I would hope that my quail (easily kept in a garage or even in the house) or my chickens would give me at least one egg a day so I can make a cake or an omelet every once in a while.
PASTRY CRUST/LEEK "PUDDING":
In the USA, we think of pudding as a dairy-based glob of sweet deliciousness. In the vid, it's just a boiled (often savory) item. And the pastry crust is made, not from butter because that was rationed, but with self-rising flour, suet (the hard fat in many animals), grated potato (needed for the starch) and cold water. Have you tried to make a pastry crust without butter? Experiment NOW! You'll be surprised how tasty substitutions can be.
NO WASTING:
It was as important then as it is now: if you don't have composted animal waste to spread over your garden or field, you will need something else. Take green plants, add brown/dry straw, add lime and nitrogen, then wet it down. Before long, you'll have a wonderful compost for your garden or field. It takes a while, tho, so start it now!
Just remember: rabbit waste is NOT hot (it will not burn your plants) so you can use it immediately. Do NOT use chicken, goat, cow and other animal waste right away before you will burn and kill your plants.
And certainly don't use omnivore/human waste on your garden. How about you put human waste near trees, instead!
WARTIME CHOCOLATE PUDDING:
Interesting how they used CARROTS as their sweetening agent. Now that I think about it, carrots really ARE a sweet veggie. Hmmm... interesting. Thinking I need to grow more carrots, and be sure to grate before dehydrating!
This was basically a cake and it looked delicious!
SEEDS:
Buy now the heirloom seeds of items you want to eat. Then start learning how to grow them, and saving seed. It might be difficult to buy heirloom seeds in the future.
CELEBRATIONS:
They discuss the rationing of sugar, and how, even when it came to wedding cakes, eventually they were forbade to use sugar to top a cake. Instead, there was a cardboard simulated cake that actually fit over the 8 or 10 inch plain cake, good for pictures. Then the cardboard was taken off and the actual small cake cut in tiny slivers.
Thinking: if you have only a small bit of flour, rising agents like baking soda and powder, and sugar, what could YOU make for a wedding or birthday?
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From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3SmyMvW8C4, they showed how to put up gooseberries, boil ham, harvest and bury some nuts, and how to salt large amounts of beans.
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Showing posts with label Rationing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationing. Show all posts
Could the Modern Us do Rationing Again?
The modern us ... in 2015, we have SO MUCH variety in what we eat. How many of us eat the same dinner every day of the week, for weeks on end? Many autistic people do (just ask my son) but for the most part, we don't.
Breakfast, maybe. I could eat oats for several days in a row, but I still like to mix it up with different add ins, like raisins, or diced apples, or powdered bananas.
Lunch? I don't think so. Dinner? Heck no. Look at your refrigerator. How many leftover take-out containers are in there? Partial tin cans of green beans or peaches? That last two slices of lunchmeat in a container, that has green mold because you just couldn't face another bologna sandwich. Baggies of that last piece of pizza.
We are soooo spoiled. We don't HAVE to eat the same thing over and over. We can afford to eat something different each meal. Many times, we don't even have the same dinner twice in one month.
Look in your linen closet. You have giant bottles of shampoo, extra tubes of toothpaste, bars and bars of soap, and cleaning supplies up the ying yang.
SPOILED.
Recently I watched this video, made by the BBC in around 2000, about living in the 1939-1940's London War Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOxdUF6vcw and it got me thinking.
See, this family of 5 (mom and dad, daughter, and daughter's two young boys) were "transported" from close to the year 2000 into 1939/1940's London. They lived in an appropriate house. They wore appropriate clothes. They had time-period appropriate toys, furniture, appliances, and so forth. During the course of the 9-week experiment, they build an Anderson bomb shelter, struggled with rationing, dealt with overworn feet, simulated air raids, volunteering, working on planes and the struggles that day-to-day life back then brought.
It was eye-opening for me, as the viewer. Can you imagine how it affected the participants? The mother appeared to be completely transformed.
Thus, I urge you to watch it. Even if it's only from the prepping standpoint.
Let's talk about the rationing.
They did get, at least, one loaf of "National" bread, regularly. It was fortified with calcium and other nutrients. But it got old, when that's the only thing you have to eat. COULD YOU do it?
They got a small amount of fat (bacon, lard, butter) per WEEK.
Flour? A tiny bit.
Sugar? Rarely.
Jam? Yeah, right.
Vegetables? Only if you had a garden. Or "points".
Fruit? Same.
During the entire course of the video, I never heard about rice or potatoes. Spam was mentioned but only if you had the "points" necessary to buy it. Chicken, beef, pork (other than bacon) were non-existent. The children had two eggs, the adults none (unless they didn't mention it).
As rationing got tighter, parents rarely ate more than the dry bread. The parents suffered so that the children could eat.
I would do that too. Would you?
Right now, assuming your cupboards are bare and you had to get your food daily from a ration shop. Imagine that you only have rations... day in and day out? And maybe one egg a week. Maybe a few bits of lettuce from your garden.
Could you do it?
Could you live on what 1940's London did?
Now, replace that daily "National" bread with what you stored as a prepper, like the beans everyone says is a must. Okay, add in a little rice. COULD you really, truly, serve that to your family, day in and day out? Very little variety. Maybe even no spices or herbs. Just rice and beans.
Just something to think about.
Breakfast, maybe. I could eat oats for several days in a row, but I still like to mix it up with different add ins, like raisins, or diced apples, or powdered bananas.
Lunch? I don't think so. Dinner? Heck no. Look at your refrigerator. How many leftover take-out containers are in there? Partial tin cans of green beans or peaches? That last two slices of lunchmeat in a container, that has green mold because you just couldn't face another bologna sandwich. Baggies of that last piece of pizza.
We are soooo spoiled. We don't HAVE to eat the same thing over and over. We can afford to eat something different each meal. Many times, we don't even have the same dinner twice in one month.
Look in your linen closet. You have giant bottles of shampoo, extra tubes of toothpaste, bars and bars of soap, and cleaning supplies up the ying yang.
SPOILED.
Recently I watched this video, made by the BBC in around 2000, about living in the 1939-1940's London War Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOxdUF6vcw and it got me thinking.
See, this family of 5 (mom and dad, daughter, and daughter's two young boys) were "transported" from close to the year 2000 into 1939/1940's London. They lived in an appropriate house. They wore appropriate clothes. They had time-period appropriate toys, furniture, appliances, and so forth. During the course of the 9-week experiment, they build an Anderson bomb shelter, struggled with rationing, dealt with overworn feet, simulated air raids, volunteering, working on planes and the struggles that day-to-day life back then brought.
It was eye-opening for me, as the viewer. Can you imagine how it affected the participants? The mother appeared to be completely transformed.
Thus, I urge you to watch it. Even if it's only from the prepping standpoint.
Let's talk about the rationing.
They did get, at least, one loaf of "National" bread, regularly. It was fortified with calcium and other nutrients. But it got old, when that's the only thing you have to eat. COULD YOU do it?
They got a small amount of fat (bacon, lard, butter) per WEEK.
Flour? A tiny bit.
Sugar? Rarely.
Jam? Yeah, right.
Vegetables? Only if you had a garden. Or "points".
Fruit? Same.
During the entire course of the video, I never heard about rice or potatoes. Spam was mentioned but only if you had the "points" necessary to buy it. Chicken, beef, pork (other than bacon) were non-existent. The children had two eggs, the adults none (unless they didn't mention it).
As rationing got tighter, parents rarely ate more than the dry bread. The parents suffered so that the children could eat.
I would do that too. Would you?
Right now, assuming your cupboards are bare and you had to get your food daily from a ration shop. Imagine that you only have rations... day in and day out? And maybe one egg a week. Maybe a few bits of lettuce from your garden.
Could you do it?
Could you live on what 1940's London did?
Now, replace that daily "National" bread with what you stored as a prepper, like the beans everyone says is a must. Okay, add in a little rice. COULD you really, truly, serve that to your family, day in and day out? Very little variety. Maybe even no spices or herbs. Just rice and beans.
Just something to think about.
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