Poetic tribute to Mrs Turner's vegetable growing prowess, plus the delights of "wartime steaks". See more public information films free on BFI Player (UK only).
Such a joy to see this video. I grew up in the 50's when food (and money) was still scarce. Today, I still clear my plate in appreciation of food, a rare commodity when I was a child.
America as well!! My stepfather was a WWII vet and we grew up on a farm learning the same thing! Now me and my son have land and continue the gardening!! No waste!
I grew up in the 50s in my grandmothers council house. Her back garden was not that big but it was crammed to the last inch with potatoes, radishes, runner beans, celery (grown under old tin buckets to keep it white and sweet.) Winter greens and bruxelles sprouts. (We ate the leaves of the bruxelle tops too) and lots of mint plants. Rhubarb, blackcurrant, redcurrent, rasberries, loganberries, gooseberries and a small strawberry patch. Chickens in a shed at the bottom of the garden so we always had fresh eggs. I loved it when grandma asked me to pull some of the new potatoes for lunch. Such a rich sweet earthy smell. We would have them scrubbed and boiled and with home made mint sauce Even today, 60 years on, the sight of a potato field makes my mouth water. . We would go for walks along the country lanes armed with sticks and gather blackberries and in the autumn we would use the same sticks to knock down wild chestnuts. My dad would gather elderberries for making wine. We never went hungry and i ate what was served without question. Even though there were a few things i really didnt like.
Exactly I was a bit confused at first. I actually think the "mum" looks younger. Most strange. I'd love to know their real ages at the time of filming!
The daughter was an actress known as Katharine Page. Born in 1908, she tended to appear in bit parts and was 32 or 33 in this. She can be seen in 'On the Buses' (Foggy Night), 'Only Fools and Horses' (Jolly Boy's Outing) and 'One Foot in the Grave' (Hearts of Darkness).
Anyone else watch these videos and feel like you're doing everything wrong in your life? I think... I should eat better, cook more, grow more edible plants, be more appreciative, volunteer more... Also, my grandparents were WWII gen and these vids make miss them and appreciate them and the values they tried to teach me.
@TheRenaissanceman65 for a well controlled and brainwashed society, yes. Fight for the freedom and right to be manipulated into very specific social participation so governments and industrialists can maintain power over your consciousness and free will. Sounds very necessary to any well behaved slave. 👍🏻
Hello, I wonder what they would think about the Wisconsin and Idaho farmers throwing mountains of food away. They could have been rationed out some how, but I don't know how.
If we have the land and resources, I think having a garden and growing veggies and herbs is a wise idea for anyone. You know how healthy the food is that you grow. It teaches you to be creative with cooking. And it provides time outside in the sunshine. After the shelves were cleared in the stores, I want to know that I will have some food available from my garden. Mustard and cress for certain.
Not necessarily. The cook is a large lady. And just because you're overweight doesn't mean you're eating a lot of food or bad food. If you have any type of thyroid issues, trust me and try to take any weight off, it's near impossible.
Great to see how the Brits took care of their own during war time! Adorable children and babies, glad they got very good nutrition at the time. Thanks for sharing BFI!
It saddens me when I see the amount of food that my teenage granddaughters waste, and their parents allow it without thinking about it. Can't say anything though ...
I have a 14yr old daughter, I found getting her to help prep food and getting her to dish up her own plate helps in her not wasting food. She often takes ages to eat, so smaller portions are better. She can come back for seconds. Then again, a friends daughter is super skinny but eats more than her dad.🤣
There must have been part of an ongoing series with this family. I'd love to see them all. This was great, and still relevant today. We can eat more vegetables.
I'm more interested in why there was a period of time where this was considered unimportant so am having to go back and find these old videos to understand what has been passed down from the beginning of time.
The daughter played a part in an episode of "only fools and horses "many years later. The episode was "the jolly boys outing". She was the owner of the b&b which was full up.
you'll eat that wartime steak, missy, and be glad to have somw food in your stomach. or, as my grandmother used to say, "fine. eat sh*t then, see if i care".
True. Part of that was because poor people simply got more to eat (especially of calorie- and protein-rich foods) after 1939 because of full employment, and the rationing system assured people of lower income that they could get a fair share of the meat, butter, and milk. Prior to WWII, poorer people in Britain had a much harder time making both ends of the sausage "meat." They were shorter and weighed less than richer people, although the difference was not as marked as it had been prior to WWI. The wartime restrictions on access to protein- and fat-rich foods during didn't hurt the upper & middle classes, although it was a pain in the neck. And it meant the poorer people could get some of it.
Ah, making both ends meat. Now, I know the real meaning of making both ends meat. I'd wondered about that for forty years since I first heard my parents scream it at each other. I thought meet.
@@maunster3414 unsure if serious, but this pronunciation is just jerkying you around. Hot dHam, but one can scarcely expect a poor fellow to be more concerned with his meat supply than his overall finance from month to month. Making ends meet refers to the beginning and end of different paychecks. Anything else does not pass musterd. To think that it is ought but paychecks or rope ends meeting, to be able to make a knot at sea or have money left when one's next check arrives, is plain bologna!
@@annieonymouse4467 Watercress is also in the U.S. Rocket is arugula in the U.S. A healthy green but bitter and hot. I think some foods aren't popular here like parsnips and swedes (rutabaga). I love them but they are not common veggies in the supermarket in the west.
@@njhawksworth1588 what are you, nuts? Yes, there was a class system back then and there is nothing wrong with commenting on it unless you are a fan of rewriting/ignoring history. Why don't you take your own advice and concentrate on your own life instead of trolling youtube.
Interesting to watch. Makes me feel a bit guilty.... growing up in the 1970's we had everything.... and more. My father had a steel company and we did well. I guess that is why now I give back as much as I can.
How is it that back during times of scarcity and war that each child had enough to eat, but today you hear of children in this country who go hungry to school, doesnt seem right.
Addictive drugs were a lot harder to come by. They were also a much more cohesive society back then. Almost all of them had roots going back to before the invasion of William the conquerer.
There have always been parents who would rather spend any money on themselves. My mum grew up during the war, and told me many stories about neighbouring kids who survived on poor diets while their parents went to the pub every night. They'd ask my mum to give them her apple core to eat, because they never had an apple.
Funny, I've always grown all my food, apart from flour, sugar and salt. I no longer have livestock though as the children are all grown and gone, so things have changed somewhat. We grew things then out of being poor and it became habit. Where I live many things stay in the ground or grow all year. It really is sad that more people don't have the opportunity to have real food, but maybe they wouldn't have the interest either.
@Jim Elliott That is where your A1C should be at 6 but it doesn't ' cure' your diabetes. Congrats on doing a great job. I don't want it to seem as if I am taking that away from you. I just don't want others to read your comment and think there is a cure for diabetes. Keep your A1C at 6-7 and keep your blood sugar around 110 every day and you won't have to rely so heavily on your Glucophage or Glyburide and your Lisonopril. Good luck. Edit: I thought I was responding to the original poster.
@Jim Elliott I am a Physician I obviously know what lisinopril is but thank you. Usually with diabetics high blood pressure runs hand in hand with the disease so it is a common combination. And yes of course it can be managed. Good luck.
Interesting that the concept of fresh raw vegetables was being pushed - but nobody put them into a salad. Also, lots of vegetables can be fermented - like the cabbage, turnips, carrots, etc. It increases the nutritional value, and can be stored up to a year if needed - plus the tart flavors are very welcome as an addition to a rather bland diet. So many valuable lessons in these old films.
U can grow greens of garlic 🧄 in water bottles on their side. And a towel in a shallow dish will re grow green onions. More than once. They secret of growing zucchini ect is rice husks, mixed in vegetables potting soil. Also using growing bags or big plastic wate4 bottles cut in half. 🍆🍓🥔🥕🥬🧄
This video is amazing! I've never seen anything like it before! My mom always taught us to cook and eat the skins of the vegetables and most fruits because that's where all the vitimins are. I didn't know if that was real or a south american saying to tell kids. In the U.S. though, I've met a lot of people who peel all the vegetables and think it's gross to leave skin on. They cut the crust off bread too. Why go to the effort of making the bread if you're just going to throw part of it away? Strange.
Depends on people you know I guess. We always left skin on potatoes except for mashed. Apples, peaches, pears, carrots, parsnips scrubbed( skin on). We also only used a peeler so even if peeling very little was wasted. Vitamins & minerals are in the skins.
Today we'd call that a veggie burger...and it would be delicious. Kudos to all of these people. But raw cabbage is far healthier than steamed with all of that salt they threw in. But they worked so hard, and their diets were probably far healthier than ours.
Children were not spoiled, well behaved and heathy. Now we have brats and obesity everywhere. This video show eating the right thing must be taught at very young age!
My first thought is being amazed at the British, in living memory, having to make do with hunger; and really understanding what they meant by, "A stiff upper lip." My second thought is from a professional perspective a lot of the minutia of their commercial kitchen is recognizable: the pot lids, the plate-washing racks, the commercial dishwasher, the hotel pans of potatoes. Much of what they are using is recognizable, if lacking in plastic fittings.
The german people had it much the same. My grandmother born on a Farm in Königsberg used to grow her own vegetables too. That also of course meant shortened rations for them. But according to her they were still well fed.
Hello Strawberry Jam :-) It was the same here in Ireland. We had very plain and basic food but it was very tasty. We used to keep chickens and a goose which was for Christmas. Today, we still eat basic food without additives, bake our own sourdough bread, what could be better :-)
Hello from USA..SAW your comment about food rationing during WW2. As you may know America rationed from the very beginning. Food was not that plentiful here as we supplied so many other Nations & armies. Luckily both my parents grew up on farms too. Farmers did not have it as bad as city folk. I still home can food, freeze many things & don't waste food. My parents made us eat what ever we were given & to scrape our plate!! We never ate in restaurants, most things were made or baked at home. We ate many meatless meals..beans, macaroni & lots of vegetables. The recent increase in groceries is hard but, I don't feel the pinch like some do.
@Aurora Borealis They didn't have a choice. Food rationing and smaller portions, also many of the foods consumed today were not around back then so it really isnt a fair comparison.
@Aurora Borealis they were in a way, but when they started shoving margarine down people throats, and vegetable oils, they got sicker faster, and it's only increased until today. Plant oils are deadly, low fat plant based diets like these poor wartime people ate, cause heart disease. Nothing can compare to the superior nutritional necessity of milk, eggs, meats.
@@ukmedicfrcs that's about the dumbest thing I've ever read ! People have always smoked and drank lmao even in todays society but they were healthier back then they even grew there own vegetables they didn't have all the processed shit they do today and lots of other chemicals in there food and in the air we breath and they raised chicken for eggs and meat that wasn't injected with crap like today ! My grandmother went thro this and she lived to be 98 years old she smoked the hell out of cigarettes and drank and was a much happier person then you are snowball 😂
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The rising cost of food has made us look back at wartime growing and cooking.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without!
I love this!! Great quote!
Yes!!
Such a joy to see this video. I grew up in the 50's when food (and money) was still scarce. Today, I still clear my plate in appreciation of food, a rare commodity when I was a child.
We always had 2 Veggies and a salad. I was well no matter how low on money we wete
My mom, was born in 49, ate boiled potatoes every day of her childhood and won’t eat them again.
i feel ya.i can't begin to number how often our mom suddenly 'lost her appetite' so my brother and i could eat
Mother has a handkerchief stuffed in her left sleeve, my grandma did that ☺
We all laugh at these old clips now- but these people were hard as nails! And nothing was wasted!
They were definitely united by a sense of purpose.
Stephen Owens
I have *never* laughed at them.
America as well!! My stepfather was a WWII vet and we grew up on a farm learning the same thing! Now me and my son have land and continue the gardening!! No waste!
After the isolation and food shortages because of the Covid19 virus, I think people will learn to be far less wasteful!!
I admire it.
I grew up in the 50s in my grandmothers council house. Her back garden was not that big but it was crammed to the last inch with potatoes, radishes,
runner beans, celery (grown under old tin buckets to keep it white and sweet.) Winter greens and bruxelles sprouts. (We ate the leaves of the bruxelle tops too) and lots of mint plants. Rhubarb, blackcurrant, redcurrent, rasberries, loganberries, gooseberries and a small strawberry patch.
Chickens in a shed at the bottom of the garden so we always had fresh eggs.
I loved it when grandma asked me to pull some of the new potatoes for lunch. Such a rich sweet earthy smell. We would have them scrubbed and boiled and with home made mint sauce Even today, 60 years on, the sight of a potato field makes my mouth water.
. We would go for walks along the country lanes armed with sticks and gather blackberries and in the autumn we would use the same sticks to knock down wild chestnuts. My dad would gather elderberries for making wine.
We never went hungry and i ate what was served without question. Even though there were a few things i really didnt like.
What lovely memories
The daughter and mother look of same age! The daughter must have had hard life!
Exactly I was a bit confused at first. I actually think the "mum" looks younger. Most strange. I'd love to know their real ages at the time of filming!
Well the mother ate better than the daughter she likes surgery sweets not fruits and veg
Rich Indian Guy Poor casting.
I think it's the clothing/hair styles that create that impression.
Lol, I was thinking that.
The daughter was an actress known as Katharine Page. Born in 1908, she tended to appear in bit parts and was 32 or 33 in this. She can be seen in 'On the Buses' (Foggy Night), 'Only Fools and Horses' (Jolly Boy's Outing) and 'One Foot in the Grave' (Hearts of Darkness).
Thank you, I was trying to work out why the "daughter" was practically the same age as her mother!
Anyone else watch these videos and feel like you're doing everything wrong in your life? I think... I should eat better, cook more, grow more edible plants, be more appreciative, volunteer more... Also, my grandparents were WWII gen and these vids make miss them and appreciate them and the values they tried to teach me.
This is wartime propaganda. Turn off your computer and go outside immediately!!! 🤣🤣
Strangely I feel the same 👍
@TheRenaissanceman65 for a well controlled and brainwashed society, yes. Fight for the freedom and right to be manipulated into very specific social participation so governments and industrialists can maintain power over your consciousness and free will. Sounds very necessary to any well behaved slave. 👍🏻
@@jefferyorton1723 No, not really. My grandparents lived much like these people.
Now what do you think?....better start that garden immediately.
I am thinking, Coronavirus, self-isolation, planting cabbages, runner beans, peas, carrots. Window boxes, mustard and cress, sounds about right.
Hello, I wonder what they would think about the Wisconsin and Idaho farmers throwing mountains of food away. They could have been rationed out some how, but I don't know how.
If we have the land and resources, I think having a garden and growing veggies and herbs is a wise idea for anyone. You know how healthy the food is that you grow. It teaches you to be creative with cooking. And it provides time outside in the sunshine. After the shelves were cleared in the stores, I want to know that I will have some food available from my garden. Mustard and cress for certain.
those kids washing their hands so dilligently made me smile. They're capable of learning so much more than we give them credit for.
Brilliant film, my mother always said they ate a very good diet and that no one was over weight then. She was born in 1939 in London.
Not necessarily. The cook is a large lady. And just because you're overweight doesn't mean you're eating a lot of food or bad food. If you have any type of thyroid issues, trust me and try to take any weight off, it's near impossible.
Even in the 70s I didn't know one school friend neighbour or family member that was obese what are people doing to themselves now
Great to see how the Brits took care of their own during war time! Adorable children and babies, glad they got very good nutrition at the time. Thanks for sharing BFI!
It saddens me when I see the amount of food that my teenage granddaughters waste, and their parents allow it without thinking about it. Can't say anything though ...
I have a 14yr old daughter, I found getting her to help prep food and getting her to dish up her own plate helps in her not wasting food. She often takes ages to eat, so smaller portions are better. She can come back for seconds. Then again, a friends daughter is super skinny but eats more than her dad.🤣
I found some letters at my grandfather's. Into the 1950s he was still sending dried milk to his cousins in Europe.
“I pity the fool”... says Mrs T
What is the greatest feeling of all?
That is putting a smile on another's face.
Hello from Russia.
Thank you!
There must have been part of an ongoing series with this family. I'd love to see them all. This was great, and still relevant today. We can eat more vegetables.
I just found 1 episode about Miss T. The daughter.
@@rosrychaplet could you link us to it please
I see that Dad married up! Naturally, Mrs Turner's family continues to disapprove of him.
Joking aside, his generation was so thinned out by WW1 he probably could bat above his weight!
Was thinking that myself 👍
I read somewhere that the English of all ages were in tip top shape during rationing due to the balanced diet.
Precious footage 🤩🌻💛
I'm more interested in why there was a period of time where this was considered unimportant so am having to go back and find these old videos to understand what has been passed down from the beginning of time.
Long story short---eat what you given! no parents catering to picky kids, or picky adult!
What a lovely atmosphere and friendly and healthy. I am fascinated to see the beautiful well spoken English a delightful video.
The supervisor is Marguerite Patten, the wartime doyen of British cookery
Oh what a good spot! She was an amazing lady and had an incredible life x
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Patten
She lived to be 99, dying in 2015. Think of all the changes she saw in her lifetime.
@@irongrl - wow, she was so close to seeing her 100th birthday
I wouldn't have recognised her !
The daughter played a part in an episode of "only fools and horses "many years later. The episode was "the jolly boys outing". She was the owner of the b&b which was full up.
And also she was the grandma in Friday night dinner ❤
Exquisitely British quote "People miss the variety of flavours they ENDURED before the war."
I think it was 'enjoyed', but honestly I prefer your version
"Who'll eat this wartime steak?" at 6:20--hilarious
WHO’LL EAT THIS WARTIME STEAK?? who’ll eat this wartime steak? wHo’LL eAT tHIs wARtiMe sTEaK?
Everyone did! Today its called Vegan!
you'll eat that wartime steak, missy, and be glad to have somw food in your stomach.
or, as my grandmother used to say, "fine. eat sh*t then, see if i care".
What a wonderful program the community kitchen and victory gardens were. The British public came out of WWII healthier than they went in.
True. Part of that was because poor people simply got more to eat (especially of calorie- and protein-rich foods) after 1939 because of full employment, and the rationing system assured people of lower income that they could get a fair share of the meat, butter, and milk. Prior to WWII, poorer people in Britain had a much harder time making both ends of the sausage "meat." They were shorter and weighed less than richer people, although the difference was not as marked as it had been prior to WWI. The wartime restrictions on access to protein- and fat-rich foods during didn't hurt the upper & middle classes, although it was a pain in the neck. And it meant the poorer people could get some of it.
Ah, making both ends meat. Now, I know the real meaning of making both ends meat. I'd wondered about that for forty years since I first heard my parents scream it at each other. I thought meet.
@@maunster3414 unsure if serious, but this pronunciation is just jerkying you around. Hot dHam, but one can scarcely expect a poor fellow to be more concerned with his meat supply than his overall finance from month to month.
Making ends meet refers to the beginning and end of different paychecks. Anything else does not pass musterd. To think that it is ought but paychecks or rope ends meeting, to be able to make a knot at sea or have money left when one's next check arrives, is plain bologna!
Chris Deizell, read my post again. I already explained my thought.
No they didn't.
I think that menu would suit me, too. This video is, so far, my favorite one.
They ate healthier and much better in those days than now.
Watercress is amazing nutrients. Gord Kiddos are so gorgeous!...
Good for the lung it is
@@annieonymouse4467 Watercress is also in the U.S. Rocket is arugula in the U.S. A healthy green but bitter and hot. I think some foods aren't popular here like parsnips and swedes (rutabaga). I love them but they are not common veggies in the supermarket in the west.
Shoot, now I want to grow my own garden and have some of those wonderful vegetables.......
For 9d (about £2.50 today), customers could get a three-course meal in the wartime community kitchens / British Restaurants.
They showed this in the 50's aswell times have sure changed
I do all that Mrs T does . My vegetables and fruit will get me through any shortages.
Extremely well preserved film! Fantastic!
So funny to hear the two women's 'posh' voices but the man had a local dialect! Lol...
It's 2020, can we stop with the classist attitudes now? Yes, people of different backgrounds sometimes marry. Concentrate on your own life.
@@njhawksworth1588
Keep your hair on! What's MY take on this video anything to do with you, anyway? Mind your own opinions and stop policing mine! 😡
@@njhawksworth1588 what are you, nuts? Yes, there was a class system back then and there is nothing wrong with commenting on it unless you are a fan of rewriting/ignoring history. Why don't you take your own advice and concentrate on your own life instead of trolling youtube.
Women spoke the Queens English, men were stuck in the pits saying 'aye up lad'
@@njhawksworth1588 woaw there sonney Jim! Calm down you little melt
Fantastic history, will good for our current troubles as well
Interesting to watch. Makes me feel a bit guilty.... growing up in the 1970's we had everything.... and more. My father had a steel company and we did well. I guess that is why now I give back as much as I can.
This is pretty damn good quality.
I love these old films!
My goodness,this is fascinating to watch.
Those children have better table manners
than some adults I know.
How is it that back during times of scarcity and war that each child had enough to eat, but today you hear of children in this country who go hungry to school, doesnt seem right.
Addictive drugs were a lot harder to come by. They were also a much more cohesive society back then. Almost all of them had roots going back to before the invasion of William the conquerer.
Where are all these hungry children? We have the fattest kids in Europe. Many are malnourished because their diets are awful but few are hungry.
There have always been parents who would rather spend any money on themselves. My mum grew up during the war, and told me many stories about neighbouring kids who survived on poor diets while their parents went to the pub every night. They'd ask my mum to give them her apple core to eat, because they never had an apple.
When I suggest to people that they grow a couple kale plants they look at me like I have 3 heads.....
Funny, I've always grown all my food, apart from flour, sugar and salt. I no longer have livestock though as the children are all grown and gone, so things have changed somewhat. We grew things then out of being poor and it became habit. Where I live many things stay in the ground or grow all year. It really is sad that more people don't have the opportunity to have real food, but maybe they wouldn't have the interest either.
I wonder how they kept the bugs from devouring their allotment. Those vegetables look gorgeous. So healthy.
Probably hard work and a good pinch of salt along the edge of the allotment.
Birds. A good healthy ecosystem is key.
Natural things soap suds in water spray on keeps green flies away
I cured my type 2 diabetes with exactly this kind of diet.
You will always have diabetes. It doesn't magically disappear.
@Jim Elliott That is where your A1C should be at 6 but it doesn't ' cure' your diabetes. Congrats on doing a great job. I don't want it to seem as if I am taking that away from you. I just don't want others to read your comment and think there is a cure for diabetes.
Keep your A1C at 6-7 and keep your blood sugar around 110 every day and you won't have to rely so heavily on your Glucophage or Glyburide and your Lisonopril. Good luck.
Edit: I thought I was responding to the original poster.
@Jim Elliott I am a Physician I obviously know what lisinopril is but thank you. Usually with diabetics high blood pressure runs hand in hand with the disease so it is a common combination. And yes of course it can be managed. Good luck.
@Jim Elliott I think you're right!
No, you just cut sugar. That's what helped.
You will still have all sorts wrong without good animal fats.
Interesting that the concept of fresh raw vegetables was being pushed - but nobody put them into a salad. Also, lots of vegetables can be fermented - like the cabbage, turnips, carrots, etc. It increases the nutritional value, and can be stored up to a year if needed - plus the tart flavors are very welcome as an addition to a rather bland diet. So many valuable lessons in these old films.
Mrs T also appeared in the Britain CanTake It information films taking in bombed out neighbours
The acting in this film is remarkable!
Awesome
U can grow greens of garlic 🧄 in water bottles on their side. And a towel in a shallow dish will re grow green onions. More than once. They secret of growing zucchini ect is rice husks, mixed in vegetables potting soil. Also using growing bags or big plastic wate4 bottles cut in half. 🍆🍓🥔🥕🥬🧄
The ladies were so chic, no yoga pants!!
@spirals 73 Me too. You are my twins I swear... ;-)
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Yeah what happened? Should still be like this. I grow my own food it's satisfaction
Real food ♡
In the 1980s we reaped the rewards of Mrs T's efforts, with the release of the Cabbage Patch Kids.
How well behaved, polite, and well dressed those kids from London were back then compared too today where they are rude violent and just grab
She pities the fool who doesnt have a cabbage patch...
well, so do I. Cabbage kale and broccoli grow all winter and go a heck of a long way.
War time steak seems to be meatloaf or hamburger. I like how they show the childcare center. Reminds me of #headstart. Children under 5.
Yes meatloaf is so versatile. The children look content but that first Nurse is in the wrong job! She looks so bored holding that adorable child.
This is for everybody, head start is for poor people.
Vegan burgers
That's nice of you.Thank you for subtitles.🇷🇺
We were lucky, we had a chicken run in our garden, so we had fresh eggs as well.Don't forget your gas mask before you go to school.
Such a shame there is nothing like this now!
What WWII?
You can still get cabbage down the shop.
"food (and money) was still scarce" Food will again be scarce; but 'money' will be so plentiful as to be worthless.
This video is amazing! I've never seen anything like it before! My mom always taught us to cook and eat the skins of the vegetables and most fruits because that's where all the vitimins are. I didn't know if that was real or a south american saying to tell kids. In the U.S. though, I've met a lot of people who peel all the vegetables and think it's gross to leave skin on. They cut the crust off bread too. Why go to the effort of making the bread if you're just going to throw part of it away? Strange.
When my grandkids didn't want to eat the crust, I used used it for bread pudding and they ate it then.
Depends on people you know I guess. We always left skin on potatoes except for mashed. Apples, peaches, pears, carrots, parsnips scrubbed( skin on). We also only used a peeler so even if peeling very little was wasted. Vitamins & minerals are in the skins.
And watermelon rine can be pickled, So don't throw the rine away. YT hyas a vlog
on how this is done.
Today we'd call that a veggie burger...and it would be delicious. Kudos to all of these people. But raw cabbage is far healthier than steamed with all of that salt they threw in. But they worked so hard, and their diets were probably far healthier than ours.
Maybe, but steamed cabbage is pretty good too.
Can't believe the children are such well behaved. Can you see this happening today lol
Even with a gun to their head, they'd waste food or outright turn their nose up at it.
The vegetables gave them the fiber that is needed for proper digestion.
They still have allotments.
Yes but I bet they're stolen or vandalised every night with today's grubs , no respect for anything. Back then they'd get a boot up the you know what.
5:08 "Vegge tabbles..".
@TheRenaissanceman65 It sounded peculiar to me, that's all
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it's spelled and pronounced vegetables, Americans just say it wrong.
mother and daughter look about the same age 😁
Wheres Mr T .?.. i love it when a plan come together
I can’t imagine not having protein
Lovely educated kids..
There was a caterpillar eating the time lapse caulifower.
Now I know where they got the recipes from for my school dinners back in the 50s. That watery custard was vile.
So was school milk, even if it was good for us.
@@ronahart219 oh yes. And they'd store the crates next to the radiator so it was warm and slightly sour. Yuk.
Children were not spoiled, well behaved and heathy. Now we have brats and obesity everywhere. This video show eating the right thing must be taught at very young age!
I only clicked because of the suggestive video title. Yep..."cabbage patch" 😉
Any body have a recipe for the wartime steak? I would like to try it.
I see microgreens aren't a new idea.
My first thought is being amazed at the British, in living memory, having to make do with hunger; and really understanding what they meant by, "A stiff upper lip."
My second thought is from a professional perspective a lot of the minutia of their commercial kitchen is recognizable: the pot lids, the plate-washing racks, the commercial dishwasher, the hotel pans of potatoes. Much of what they are using is recognizable, if lacking in plastic fittings.
They used all the food not even thinking about waisting it..2020 we are going threw difficult times, farmers throw the food out on the ground!!
The german people had it much the same. My grandmother born on a Farm in Königsberg used to grow her own vegetables too. That also of course meant shortened rations for them. But according to her they were still well fed.
Hello Strawberry Jam :-) It was the same here in Ireland. We had very plain and basic food but it was very tasty. We used to keep chickens and a goose which was for Christmas. Today, we still eat basic food without additives, bake our own sourdough bread, what could be better :-)
@@goinghomesomeday1 Selfmade is always the best. If I had a garden I would grow my own veggies.
Hello from USA..SAW your comment about food rationing during WW2. As you may know America rationed from the very beginning. Food was not that plentiful here as we supplied so many other Nations & armies. Luckily both my parents grew up on farms too. Farmers did not have it as bad as city folk. I still home can food, freeze many things & don't waste food. My parents made us eat what ever we were given & to scrape our plate!! We never ate in restaurants, most things were made or baked at home. We ate many meatless meals..beans, macaroni & lots of vegetables. The recent increase in groceries is hard but, I don't feel the pinch like some do.
@@shirleybalinski4535 Yes definetly. The recent inflation hasnt been to harsh on us since we always preserve and stock well
Mums younger than daughter !
We are all doomed 😖
If Ron Swanson had been in the UK during the war, he’d have started up his own cow & pig farm plus slaughterhouse.
People were healthier back then we should learn from them.
No they weren't. Most chain smoked and alcohol was a huge part of their lives. Stress etc.
@Aurora Borealis They didn't have a choice. Food rationing and smaller portions, also many of the foods consumed today were not around back then so it really isnt a fair comparison.
@Aurora Borealis Aww do facts upset the snowflake? Here is a tissue Nancy.
@Aurora Borealis they were in a way, but when they started shoving margarine down people throats, and vegetable oils, they got sicker faster, and it's only increased until today.
Plant oils are deadly, low fat plant based diets like these poor wartime people ate, cause heart disease.
Nothing can compare to the superior nutritional necessity of milk, eggs, meats.
@@ukmedicfrcs that's about the dumbest thing I've ever read ! People have always smoked and drank lmao even in todays society but they were healthier back then they even grew there own vegetables they didn't have all the processed shit they do today and lots of other chemicals in there food and in the air we breath and they raised chicken for eggs and meat that wasn't injected with crap like today ! My grandmother went thro this and she lived to be 98 years old she smoked the hell out of cigarettes and drank and was a much happier person then you are snowball 😂
It’s healthy Frankenmeat!
You will never know the true taste of any vegetable until you grow them yourself.
Shop bought veg, are tasteless compared to own grown veg............
And that goes double when it comes to tomatoes.
cannabis too
Tries growing my onw potatoe sover the summer but only the stems and flowers grew not a single potato
Watermelons so good. how bout watermellon kush? haha
Try planting corn, and eating the smaller ears-- best taste ever! I don't even eat corn now, knowing how good it CAN be
Who'll eat this wartime steak?
Who'll eat this wartime steak?
Who'll eat this wartime steak?
I will!!!!!
And people were healthier even their teeth were healthier
They had a good diet, far better than most eat today, ie JUNK food!
Wonder what those tots are doing today.
"I love the smell of cabbage." That's optimistic.
Oh dear
I really hope people don't think that we in the U.K. speak like that 🤣🤣🤣
Very old daughter!
2:12-2:14 - she looks like a young Celia Imre, to me.
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Is THAT what they used to call it.
oh dear they don't know how hard we have these days hahaha
Ooooo-K! Vegan "meat" even back then! 😜😁
Not with all that beef in it! 😁
Even the margarine had whale oil in it.