You seem to be forgetting that you would have had chickens or rabbits as well as a garden in your backyard. This means that you can actually eat more than you are. Most people ate more veggies on a daily basis then you are. There are some really good programs on RUclips that you can watch about what was eaten in Britan during WW2.
Way to make that bacon stretch! Just cooking it and eating it. Three whole bites. And oh lord, here's the return of the soup maker. One of the most ridiculous gadgets I have ever seen in my life. A heated blender. But imagine that one piece of bacon mixed up in that soup. How many bites of bacony goodness you could have had. You might have had to fry it off and crumble it then stir it in by hand like a Neanderthal, but it'd be worth all that extra work.
@@lauraMol89 It's a waste of money and plastic. You can literally do the same with a blender and a pot. Hell, some blenders will actually blend fast enough to heat things up. It's just a ridiculous bit of kit, and I say this as someone who is gadget obsessed.
I would have bulked up the burger with re-constituted egg, bread crumbs, chopped onion, celery. I noticed you don’t use much in they way of vegetables, considering they were not rationed.
You should have made up a small bit of the egg mix, bread and some milk to add into the party to expand and fill it out a lot more. That would've nearly doubled the size of the party while enhancing the flavour since you can and should add a pinch of salt and pepper to the mix paprika as well to give a bit of zest
so let's see, he's just past halfway through the week, and all the meat is gone, as well as the cheese. Could definitely have been more inventive to stretch some of that stuff out, these last few days are gonna be sad for Mike
My grandmother made me some nettle soup when I was pregnant to increase my iron levels. She didn't have a pension and had to rely on income support of £22.50 per week back in the 1980's. We never went hungry and she kept a couple of ducks in her back garden. Both the ducks laid a lot of eggs but neither my nan nor me liked the eggs as they were stronger than chicken eggs. Instead of the eggs going to waste I made a deal with a couple of people at the local market. They got duck eggs and we got fresh fruit, veg and meat. One of the stall holders gave me a lift back to my nans and my nan's reaction was hilarious when I told her I bartered the eggs. She said, "If I didn't know any better and if this was still the 1940s I would assume you had been seeing a soldier. You haven't got any stockings as well have you?" I miss my nan as she passed away years ago but I still remember some of the wartime stories she used to tell me. She also kept a couple of rabbits as well but never gave them names. When I asked why she didn't name them she replied, "They're food dear, not pets." All I could think of was "Poor bunnies!". Nan still had a wartime mindset bless her!
Looking forward to seeing what you're going to eat when you've run out of your rations for the rest of the week. Might have to eat that cabbage and carrot.
Love your content, I've watched for years. How about a week on soup (or dishes prepared in the soup maker at least)? :) To help me decide whether it's worth investing in one or not...
You don’t need a soup maker, soups and stews are incredibly easy to make, I do it all the time with either just a pot on a stove, in the oven, or use a blender to finish a soup. An unnecessary appliance if you ask me.
I got one and I love it. When I'm working all day, I just throw in what I want to use and it does it while I'm getting ready for work, then put it all in a thermos flask for lunch. Cauliflower and coconut soup with Indian spices is amazing.
That would be fun. There are so many soups out there, it could be like a treasure hunt finding the recipes and there are no doubt more than enough to cover a week without any repeaters 😊
I can remember when we were very poor (not during WW2) when we would allocate 1/3 pound of ground beef for a meal for 2 adults and 2 small children. One of our favorite meals was fry the crumbled meat with chopped onion (and wild mushrooms in season) then make a pan gravy with that and serve it over some mashed potatoes. This would usually be served with lots of mixed veggies and homemade biscuits (American consisting of lard, salt, baking powder, flour and water). No one ever left hungry. We would also use that amount of ground beef to make vegetable stew or even a good size pot of spaghetti to be served with a basic salad from our garden. Lots of ways to stretch that meat better to creat filling meals than frying up a disappointing burger, which would not likely be something they would have prepared during WW2 and if they did it would have included previously sauteed veggies to make it stretch further so you could have a burger the size of the bread. Just sayin'.
If I had some lard, some margarine, and a little butter, I would NEVER, EVER use any of the butter in a soup. Potato soup? Use lard! Add milk! Carrots, onions! Oh, my.
I'm kind of expecting this series to end early, because Mike is fast running out of animal products. On the other hand, he hasn't eaten any food from animal organs yet, so maybe the "best" is still to come.
11:00 - oh dear.. you know what woulda been a nice addition to that burger.. some bovril thickened with start/flour (assuming flour isnt rationed - blitzed oats would also have made oat flour) to make gravy. You could have had salisbury steak
dude complete forgot he could had eat vegetables, make pies as whole wheat flour was not raioned during the war and canned food. Actually lots of people ate better during the war than before
I just read up about this, it's an excellent idea. The food would be thrown out anyway and it's at a reduced price, and reduces waste. It'd be different every day. Perfect for a week on!
I download that app this week and my dad is hooked. My mum was disgusted at the idea at first, but her face when she saw what we got from Greggs. She expected it all to be dried out sandwiches and stale products.
Yes - exactly! There are plenty of wartime recipes he could have followed - he’s bodged this wartime rationing experience totally, in my opinion! Just watched him wolf down a bacon sandwich in 3 (too big) bites! And then complain there wasn’t enough! Should have used two slices of toast, then put one of the pieces in the frying pan to soak up the bacon grease (or made some powdered egg scramble). Ten cut the cooked bacon into smaller pieces and placed them evenly around the sandwich. He hasn’t put much thought into anything he’s done with this whole rationing experience
You're clearly new. Mike goes about these as lazily as possible. There is essentially no planning and very little research. Any week on that you think might be cool if there was planning and recipes...let go of those dreams.
@@smol-one I am wondering how he got so many subscribers. He should have used no more than half a rasher of bacon per meal, as flavour. He comes across as an absolute air head. His fantasy kilo of spuds. He should have worked half a cabbage and a couple of pounds of carrots into a week's meals. And now I have to be careful, as what I call pumpkin I think Brits call squash? A kilo of pumpkin divided into 10ish mesls... Instead of 2 rashers of bacon in 1 meal, he could have put half a rasher in 4 meals, and perked up the dried egg meal, the potato soup, he could have had pumpkin soup with half a rasher, and fried onion - but I think the potatoes and onions are far too available all week, to be realistic. I don't think he has any meat, cheese, fresh egg or bacon left and it is only the end of day 4? To use a whole last rasher on half a sandwich! I just cannot understand... I think I have to stop.
You're supposed to be eating the same way they did during the war. Thicken your soup with bread. If there was no meat, my old man had a bit of butter on bread, and made a salt sandwich. Not a lot of salt, just the amount you might put on some cold roast lamb slices. It tasted vaguely of a cold roast meat sandwich. Fried bread was a thing too, and let's not forget the dipped butty, which was basically a slice of bread used to mop up the flavoured lard after something had been cooked in the frying pan. Dripping on toast for breakfast was a staple as well.
You should have taken that hamburger and mixed it with a couple of eggs (the powdered eggs), chopped up the onion, and mixed it all with a lot of bread crumbs, along with a few herbs and made a meatloaf. You would have gotten at least a three good meals out of it. Instead you got one burger to eat. When rationing you have to think outside of the box and make things stretch as much as possible. You have a good protein source in the powdered eggs. For breakfast you could make toad in the hole with your bread and the powdered eggs. You also could take your minced meat (whether it be pork or beef) and added bread cubes, leftover mashed potatoes, herbs like sage or whatever was available and mixed it together, roll it out and cut it into rectangles shapes, then use your lard or leftover bacon grease to fry the "mock span" slices. You probably could have gotten around 8-10 slices out of it which could have been eaten in sandwiches, paired with vegetables, or even served with your scrambled powdered eggs. Like I said before, you got to think outside of the box and get creative with what you have. This is what the mothers had to do in order to feed their children during this time. Nothing was ever wasted and they created something from whatever they had.
I need to look up that book he held up in the day 1 video. Surely he looked up popular recipes of the day? Edit: just googled it. There were recipes in there apparently
Back on day 1, I was surprised he had an onion in his sandwich. Onions were super rare in WWII Britain after the Channel Islands fell into German hands. Leeks would have been more available I think.
I really wish these were posted the same day so comments might actually have some effect. 😭 Do another week on WWII rations, but based on what you learned this week.
People seem to forget he’s using the rations for a week as a single man. In those days women would have planned and cooked everything to utilise everything and stretch it as far as they could. But this is a single male who had to cook aswell as work perspective. Most men wouldn’t really know how to cook anything adventurous in those days 🤷♀️
so you were wondering if burgers were a thing in ww2- yes. according to a 5 minute search the first concept of burgers go back to around 1880. during ww2 in the US they changed the name to "liberty- steak" because hamburger apparently sounded too German. at least that is what 5 minutes of research brought up. also Salisbury steak was another ww2 thing.
You should have really used some recipes they would have backed then .. You didn’t really go into this with a “plan” for the week and I’m fairly sure back then they knew exactly what they were gonna do with every crumb .. Still enjoying the week on though ..
there was many dried spices even curry powder in many larders during the war and even vanilla essence and hp sauce , in fact hp was very popular for spicing up food ,not always available and still used sparingly but was available
It might help if you think of it as dehydrated egg ..lots of dehydrated food these days. It tastes ok so as there is a war on (for you) you should be grateful....you should be volunteering for the draft 😁 (you might get real eggs then) You also wouldn't throw/wash away your lard. It would be kept and used again (just like you tea bags or loose tea as it was). Your lard is fine to use again in fact the smell is the "new lard" smell.
While hiking, I've often eaten dehydrated food in powdered form, including those eggs, milk and coconut milk. I'm not grossed out by it or so. It's just a lighter way to carry your food around.
i'm well aware this'll be too late but little tip for masking the ceiling, mask about a mm or so down onto the wall, it'll mean you get a perfectly straight line as the join between wall and ceiling is rarely straight.
Crispy pancakes I could so imagine how you felt tucking into that delicious bacon 🥓.as for the potatoe soup looked kinda nice but I imagine some chicken pieces in it.i have to say I don't envy you on this one but having said that I just love my weekon fix as busy as I am.fabulous! Peace and love 💛
I would have portioned the bacon out. Instead of cooking it all up in a single strip at a time. I would have cut it up into maybe halves or even quarters. That way you could have had meals with a heavier portion of fruits, vegetables and grains. Sprinkling in some bacon, cheese, butter, margarine and lard to give it some flavor and some sort of “sticking to your ribs”. If somehow you’re still hungry in between meals. Have a bit of Bovril. I would have probably had powdered eggs each morning with a quarter of bacon, a bit of toast with jam and butter and tea. The bacon goes first. The grease could be used to help flavor the eggs. It saves having to use any lard, margarine or butter to grease the pan. Maybe change it up and have oatmeal instead of toast. I know breakfast best. Not sure about lunch or dinner. I’d be making a lot of soups with the bovril. Lots of vegetables with a tiny bit of bacon sprinkled in to give it some protein. Saving the egg until Sunday morning to have a proper egg for breakfast.
I'm sorry but I giggled about the whole cat keeping you up situation.... when our cat did that I would keep him awake all day, anytime I found him peacefully sleeping, I'd oh so happily wake him up by shaking him and making all kinds of noise, till he'd run off with his tail in the air...... it seemed to work for awhile, cause he'd behave at night ..... for a few months. BTW I just found your channel and have been following this sequence of the world War rations. I have watched many others do this and somehow it doesn't get boring to me, I like it when people do rations, either by only buying a certain amount of food, or using only a small amount of cash to buy groceries for a week and change up the menu ... thank you for sharing
You could have added carrots, turnip, leek to your soup for more flavour. You definitely cook like a typical British male 🤣 plain and basic, no extras or pimping your meals. You could have made mince and tatties and pad out your mince with carrots, peas & onion and have cheese mashed potatoes and make another veg side like broccoli for the filling your tummy aspect.
He's doing so bad. Out of all protein but the monthly powdered egg at end of day 4. Shouldn't have used more than 1 (piece of) normal protein a day... And there still would've been a missed protein day.
That amount of meat should have gone into a pie and the cheese into something else, like a savoury tart. Both of which would have fed you for a couple of days each item. My mother was 9 when rationing started and 22 when it ended. She learnt to cook entirely during rationing and it never left her. Especially since we were pretty poor when I was growing up. So my own childhood was littered with war time recipes and managing of food. As well as having done it myself for a charity I was sponsored to do it to raise money for. You think in too modern a way with your food. It has been all about you seeming to think what can do with this for one meal. It should have been how can I get as many meals as possible out of this for as long as possible. That is what they did during rationing. They stretched it so it went further, even when you got a tiny bit of meat per portion you got more meals out of it.
I don’t remember eating any of the meals you are making. We had milk sop for breakfast,stews ,no fruit, rice pudding very filling meals because there was no snacking in between Franx
Please sauté the veg, its like you hate flavour, cant believe you threw raw mushrooms into an omelette
Yeah… it’s.. ugh nevermind, not worth it.
Well he is British
I screamed when I saw him throw in all the soup ingredients at once. And again - he could have had some leek in there.
@@Jargas101that idiotic I know loads of Brits that are incredible cooks
He's far from the first Brit who seems to hate flavor.
You seem to be forgetting that you would have had chickens or rabbits as well as a garden in your backyard. This means that you can actually eat more than you are. Most people ate more veggies on a daily basis then you are. There are some really good programs on RUclips that you can watch about what was eaten in Britan during WW2.
I've decided that he doesn't like vegetables. That's the only way this makes sense.
Love how he's remembering the bacon while standing in front of a poster for a movie starring Kevin Bacon.
ground beef will go farther if you add some filler like cooked oatmeal or bread crumbs. Tastes basically the same and might even hang together better.
Way to make that bacon stretch! Just cooking it and eating it. Three whole bites. And oh lord, here's the return of the soup maker. One of the most ridiculous gadgets I have ever seen in my life. A heated blender. But imagine that one piece of bacon mixed up in that soup. How many bites of bacony goodness you could have had. You might have had to fry it off and crumble it then stir it in by hand like a Neanderthal, but it'd be worth all that extra work.
i Would love to have that gadget most time i eat soup and so i could geht creamy soup in one go
There's nothing wrong with a soup maker love
Mike can't cook for shit, you expect him to be creative and make good food?
@@lauraMol89 It's a waste of money and plastic. You can literally do the same with a blender and a pot. Hell, some blenders will actually blend fast enough to heat things up. It's just a ridiculous bit of kit, and I say this as someone who is gadget obsessed.
@@justme002 you sound like you've been really hurt by one in the past, I've never seen anyone so pent up over a soup maker
I would have bulked up the burger with re-constituted egg, bread crumbs, chopped onion, celery. I noticed you don’t use much in they way of vegetables, considering they were not rationed.
So is that all the good stuff gone in 4 days? Should have carried on bulking out the mince with the oats to stretch it further
You should have made up a small bit of the egg mix, bread and some milk to add into the party to expand and fill it out a lot more. That would've nearly doubled the size of the party while enhancing the flavour since you can and should add a pinch of salt and pepper to the mix paprika as well to give a bit of zest
Not sure paprika was a thing during the war, but definitely agree with the other stuff you said. Maybe a bit of onion in the patty too
That bacon probably would have gone really well in that soup.
so let's see, he's just past halfway through the week, and all the meat is gone, as well as the cheese. Could definitely have been more inventive to stretch some of that stuff out, these last few days are gonna be sad for Mike
Could also forage some nice things, nettle soup!
My grandmother made me some nettle soup when I was pregnant to increase my iron levels. She didn't have a pension and had to rely on income support of £22.50 per week back in the 1980's. We never went hungry and she kept a couple of ducks in her back garden. Both the ducks laid a lot of eggs but neither my nan nor me liked the eggs as they were stronger than chicken eggs. Instead of the eggs going to waste I made a deal with a couple of people at the local market. They got duck eggs and we got fresh fruit, veg and meat. One of the stall holders gave me a lift back to my nans and my nan's reaction was hilarious when I told her I bartered the eggs. She said, "If I didn't know any better and if this was still the 1940s I would assume you had been seeing a soldier. You haven't got any stockings as well have you?" I miss my nan as she passed away years ago but I still remember some of the wartime stories she used to tell me. She also kept a couple of rabbits as well but never gave them names. When I asked why she didn't name them she replied, "They're food dear, not pets." All I could think of was "Poor bunnies!". Nan still had a wartime mindset bless her!
Looking forward to seeing what you're going to eat when you've run out of your rations for the rest of the week. Might have to eat that cabbage and carrot.
They ate a lot of veg...carrots, sweed, leeks, cabbage etc, which bulked out the rations, do less hungry. Also had a points system for other foods
He could have done with a ww2 recipe book, maybe he could make lord woolton pie
3:26 - we can see how you've made your cup of "tea". Not surprised that you make omelettes that way!
Love your content, I've watched for years. How about a week on soup (or dishes prepared in the soup maker at least)? :) To help me decide whether it's worth investing in one or not...
You don’t need a soup maker, soups and stews are incredibly easy to make, I do it all the time with either just a pot on a stove, in the oven, or use a blender to finish a soup. An unnecessary appliance if you ask me.
Spoiler: it is
I got one and I love it. When I'm working all day, I just throw in what I want to use and it does it while I'm getting ready for work, then put it all in a thermos flask for lunch. Cauliflower and coconut soup with Indian spices is amazing.
A week on soups? (that you make in your soup maker)
That would be fun. There are so many soups out there, it could be like a treasure hunt finding the recipes and there are no doubt more than enough to cover a week without any repeaters 😊
I felt that intro. I knew you would've gone back to Basil as soon as you finished breakfast
I can remember when we were very poor (not during WW2) when we would allocate 1/3 pound of ground beef for a meal for 2 adults and 2 small children. One of our favorite meals was fry the crumbled meat with chopped onion (and wild mushrooms in season) then make a pan gravy with that and serve it over some mashed potatoes. This would usually be served with lots of mixed veggies and homemade biscuits (American consisting of lard, salt, baking powder, flour and water). No one ever left hungry. We would also use that amount of ground beef to make vegetable stew or even a good size pot of spaghetti to be served with a basic salad from our garden.
Lots of ways to stretch that meat better to creat filling meals than frying up a disappointing burger, which would not likely be something they would have prepared during WW2 and if they did it would have included previously sauteed veggies to make it stretch further so you could have a burger the size of the bread.
Just sayin'.
Basil trolling a cranky Mike, how I giggled, lolz.
But I think Mike is doing pretty well on this week-on.
You almost had a patty melt. Grill the bread next time.
Basil seems so happy in his new home! ♥️
I'd have toasted the bread in the pan the burger cooked in to give it more structure but otherwise not a bad dinner.
If I had some lard, some margarine, and a little butter, I would NEVER, EVER use any of the butter in a soup. Potato soup? Use lard! Add milk! Carrots, onions! Oh, my.
That Slack sound haunts my dreams. 3:33
That kind of soup would be best served with some nice rolls.
I'm kind of expecting this series to end early, because Mike is fast running out of animal products. On the other hand, he hasn't eaten any food from animal organs yet, so maybe the "best" is still to come.
I've yet to see any kind of limited resources cooking video on RUclips that features liver or other offal. Too many fussy eaters nowadays.
@@bethel1019liver and bacon would have gone really well with mash potatoes and carrot
11:00 - oh dear.. you know what woulda been a nice addition to that burger.. some bovril thickened with start/flour (assuming flour isnt rationed - blitzed oats would also have made oat flour) to make gravy. You could have had salisbury steak
Mike "Three Bites" Jeavons.
6:45 so I killed the cat.
go buy some fish and chips they were available during the war usually as an occasional treat i think
whale meat was off ration during WW 2, so was rabbit meat, love a nice bit of bunny
Mike, would it be possible to get some timescales in your day? Like how long did you get on the soup before you were hungry again.
Week on b&m.
Hot gravy burger with oat meal and onions in beef
Fish n chips from the chip shop are off rations 👍
can i ask why you didn't have any sausage as most of the war but not all they were not rationed? xx
Or even go fishing, my grandparents use to do this! Even some poaching!! Sssshhhhh
The powdered egg is better in baked goods- not so much by itself.
Confused.. thought you already used your bacon ration?
You've got nothing left mate with 3 days to go.lol.🙄🙄
You should of had more vegetables
And fish and chips on Fridays !
Sometimes those cat-skin slippers are SO tempting, aren't they? (Cat = Roof Rabbit)
Feel like you didn't really try with this series :(
The fat from the bacon could be used in some broths.
Please could you post a link to the soup Mike? I'd love to try it.
What about the 2oz. a week tea rations?
Awww don't blame basil it's the only way he can communicate
I think sausages were off ration & offal was too.
Day 4?!? I’ve missed them all…
Sometimes I wake up grumpy. Usually, I just let her carry on sleeping !
dude complete forgot he could had eat vegetables, make pies as whole wheat flour was not raioned during the war and canned food. Actually lots of people ate better during the war than before
I think Mike might be kind of dyslexic when it comes to cooking, whatever the equivalent is. Dysculinaric?
My youtube subscriptions are merging
A small cup of milk will help fill ur tummy
Haaaaahhh English "soups" are just sad. More like blended veg smoothies.😂
My 10 year old is disappointed in all your swearing.
Shoulda toasted the bread in the pan, you would have made a proper patty melt!
Feel like Mike's going to be left with lard sandwiches for day 6-7, so much more he could be making wasting a lot of stuff on one meal on this week on
Yeh mikes an idiot, lol. He fried up and ate his one egg.
can't believe he used most of his leftovers today,
next 3 days will just be potatoes and egg powder
He should have divided the mince, bacon, cheese and egg over 7 days.
@@BLY99 Not a good wartime housewife, he needs to learn to make do and mend with food.
Just watching now, and I can't believe he hasn't discovered cabbage yet. What in the world will he eat at the end of the week??
You should do a week on “too good to go” orders and cook whatever they give on the day. That’ll be a challenge. Also love your videos.
I just read up about this, it's an excellent idea. The food would be thrown out anyway and it's at a reduced price, and reduces waste. It'd be different every day. Perfect for a week on!
I download that app this week and my dad is hooked. My mum was disgusted at the idea at first, but her face when she saw what we got from Greggs. She expected it all to be dried out sandwiches and stale products.
I was half expecting you to use some WW2 era recipes like Potato scones, carrot cake cookies, condensed milk cake, etc.
Yes - exactly! There are plenty of wartime recipes he could have followed - he’s bodged this wartime rationing experience totally, in my opinion! Just watched him wolf down a bacon sandwich in 3 (too big) bites! And then complain there wasn’t enough! Should have used two slices of toast, then put one of the pieces in the frying pan to soak up the bacon grease (or made some powdered egg scramble). Ten cut the cooked bacon into smaller pieces and placed them evenly around the sandwich.
He hasn’t put much thought into anything he’s done with this whole rationing experience
@@richardpoynton4026 YES. I'd love to see him try again with some actual recipes and plans for how to stretch the ingredients.
You're clearly new. Mike goes about these as lazily as possible. There is essentially no planning and very little research. Any week on that you think might be cool if there was planning and recipes...let go of those dreams.
@@smol-one I've been watching Mike for over 9 years. I just thought he would have done some WW2 recipes as he said he "did some research"
@@smol-one I am wondering how he got so many subscribers. He should have used no more than half a rasher of bacon per meal, as flavour.
He comes across as an absolute air head. His fantasy kilo of spuds.
He should have worked half a cabbage and a couple of pounds of carrots into a week's meals. And now I have to be careful, as what I call pumpkin I think Brits call squash? A kilo of pumpkin divided into 10ish mesls...
Instead of 2 rashers of bacon in 1 meal, he could have put half a rasher in 4 meals, and perked up the dried egg meal, the potato soup, he could have had pumpkin soup with half a rasher, and fried onion - but I think the potatoes and onions are far too available all week, to be realistic.
I don't think he has any meat, cheese, fresh egg or bacon left and it is only the end of day 4?
To use a whole last rasher on half a sandwich! I just cannot understand... I think I have to stop.
You're supposed to be eating the same way they did during the war. Thicken your soup with bread. If there was no meat, my old man had a bit of butter on bread, and made a salt sandwich. Not a lot of salt, just the amount you might put on some cold roast lamb slices. It tasted vaguely of a cold roast meat sandwich. Fried bread was a thing too, and let's not forget the dipped butty, which was basically a slice of bread used to mop up the flavoured lard after something had been cooked in the frying pan. Dripping on toast for breakfast was a staple as well.
You should have taken that hamburger and mixed it with a couple of eggs (the powdered eggs), chopped up the onion, and mixed it all with a lot of bread crumbs, along with a few herbs and made a meatloaf. You would have gotten at least a three good meals out of it. Instead you got one burger to eat. When rationing you have to think outside of the box and make things stretch as much as possible. You have a good protein source in the powdered eggs. For breakfast you could make toad in the hole with your bread and the powdered eggs. You also could take your minced meat (whether it be pork or beef) and added bread cubes, leftover mashed potatoes, herbs like sage or whatever was available and mixed it together, roll it out and cut it into rectangles shapes, then use your lard or leftover bacon grease to fry the "mock span" slices. You probably could have gotten around 8-10 slices out of it which could have been eaten in sandwiches, paired with vegetables, or even served with your scrambled powdered eggs. Like I said before, you got to think outside of the box and get creative with what you have. This is what the mothers had to do in order to feed their children during this time. Nothing was ever wasted and they created something from whatever they had.
Brilliant ideas and I shall put those to use. Thanks
I need to look up that book he held up in the day 1 video. Surely he looked up popular recipes of the day?
Edit: just googled it. There were recipes in there apparently
If you mix the bacon grease with some lard, then it all tastes like bacon. Fry the potatoes and mushrooms in it. Then have your next omelet.
Most of your main food is gone, not much really left, by day 7 you’ll be really miserable.
Could have stretched a bit more of your meat out of your burger by mixing some of onions into the meat before cooking.
Back on day 1, I was surprised he had an onion in his sandwich. Onions were super rare in WWII Britain after the Channel Islands fell into German hands. Leeks would have been more available I think.
And a shredded carrot to 'stretch' the meat.
Carrot, onion & potato soup is really nice, especially if you add some herbs and or some nettles, which are extremely nutritious.
I really wish these were posted the same day so comments might actually have some effect. 😭 Do another week on WWII rations, but based on what you learned this week.
I googled the book he showed on day one. According to reviews there's recipes in it
Crossing my fingers we see some beans or vegetables over the next few days.
I'm wondering if he even likes veggies as he's used so few
People seem to forget he’s using the rations for a week as a single man. In those days women would have planned and cooked everything to utilise everything and stretch it as far as they could. But this is a single male who had to cook aswell as work perspective. Most men wouldn’t really know how to cook anything adventurous in those days 🤷♀️
"Romancing the Bacon," the less action packed sequel to "Romancing the Stone."
so you were wondering if burgers were a thing in ww2- yes. according to a 5 minute search the first concept of burgers go back to around 1880. during ww2 in the US they changed the name to "liberty- steak" because hamburger apparently sounded too German. at least that is what 5 minutes of research brought up. also Salisbury steak was another ww2 thing.
My Dad said saurkraut was called "liberty cabbage"during WWI for same reason.
You should have really used some recipes they would have backed then ..
You didn’t really go into this with a “plan” for the week and I’m fairly sure back then they knew exactly what they were gonna do with every crumb ..
Still enjoying the week on though ..
How about a week on 3 ingredient recipes from Barry Lewis's channel?
there was many dried spices even curry powder in many larders during the war and even vanilla essence and hp sauce , in fact hp was very popular for spicing up food ,not always available and still used sparingly but was available
And this is why there were pamphlets for learninhg how to make the most of rationed food.
Powdered egg feeds the modern armed forces 😅
It might help if you think of it as dehydrated egg ..lots of dehydrated food these days.
It tastes ok so as there is a war on (for you) you should be grateful....you should be volunteering for the draft 😁 (you might get real eggs then)
You also wouldn't throw/wash away your lard.
It would be kept and used again (just like you tea bags or loose tea as it was).
Your lard is fine to use again in fact the smell is the "new lard" smell.
While hiking, I've often eaten dehydrated food in powdered form, including those eggs, milk and coconut milk. I'm not grossed out by it or so. It's just a lighter way to carry your food around.
Can we see some recipes from the book?
such a waste of peel removal from the potatoes...
i'm well aware this'll be too late but little tip for masking the ceiling, mask about a mm or so down onto the wall, it'll mean you get a perfectly straight line as the join between wall and ceiling is rarely straight.
What have people got against the soup maker!
Hey love your content, been watching it for years.
Would you ever do the 800kcal diet by Michael Mossley?
Do a week on things you normal eat before you did week ons
Basil is giving you baby experience. Better version than the doll - post crawling stage!
Crispy pancakes I could so imagine how you felt tucking into that delicious bacon 🥓.as for the potatoe soup looked kinda nice but I imagine some chicken pieces in it.i have to say I don't envy you on this one but having said that I just love my weekon fix as busy as I am.fabulous! Peace and love 💛
These videos are so relaxing and affirming, it's so nice.
6:45 Mike's riddler arc??
hmmmmm in the olden days of ww2 did they have electric soup makers?
No out of a tin you do know he’s not eating the soup maker 🤷🏽♀️
@@scousemummy8856 But in WW2 there wasn't a fancy soup maker to make soup...
I would have portioned the bacon out. Instead of cooking it all up in a single strip at a time. I would have cut it up into maybe halves or even quarters. That way you could have had meals with a heavier portion of fruits, vegetables and grains. Sprinkling in some bacon, cheese, butter, margarine and lard to give it some flavor and some sort of “sticking to your ribs”. If somehow you’re still hungry in between meals. Have a bit of Bovril. I would have probably had powdered eggs each morning with a quarter of bacon, a bit of toast with jam and butter and tea. The bacon goes first. The grease could be used to help flavor the eggs. It saves having to use any lard, margarine or butter to grease the pan. Maybe change it up and have oatmeal instead of toast. I know breakfast best. Not sure about lunch or dinner. I’d be making a lot of soups with the bovril. Lots of vegetables with a tiny bit of bacon sprinkled in to give it some protein. Saving the egg until Sunday morning to have a proper egg for breakfast.
I'm sorry but I giggled about the whole cat keeping you up situation.... when our cat did that I would keep him awake all day, anytime I found him peacefully sleeping, I'd oh so happily wake him up by shaking him and making all kinds of noise, till he'd run off with his tail in the air...... it seemed to work for awhile, cause he'd behave at night ..... for a few months. BTW I just found your channel and have been following this sequence of the world War rations. I have watched many others do this and somehow it doesn't get boring to me, I like it when people do rations, either by only buying a certain amount of food, or using only a small amount of cash to buy groceries for a week and change up the menu ... thank you for sharing
You could have added carrots, turnip, leek to your soup for more flavour. You definitely cook like a typical British male 🤣 plain and basic, no extras or pimping your meals. You could have made mince and tatties and pad out your mince with carrots, peas & onion and have cheese mashed potatoes and make another veg side like broccoli for the filling your tummy aspect.
He's doing so bad. Out of all protein but the monthly powdered egg at end of day 4. Shouldn't have used more than 1 (piece of) normal protein a day... And there still would've been a missed protein day.
That amount of meat should have gone into a pie and the cheese into something else, like a savoury tart. Both of which would have fed you for a couple of days each item. My mother was 9 when rationing started and 22 when it ended. She learnt to cook entirely during rationing and it never left her. Especially since we were pretty poor when I was growing up. So my own childhood was littered with war time recipes and managing of food. As well as having done it myself for a charity I was sponsored to do it to raise money for. You think in too modern a way with your food. It has been all about you seeming to think what can do with this for one meal. It should have been how can I get as many meals as possible out of this for as long as possible. That is what they did during rationing. They stretched it so it went further, even when you got a tiny bit of meat per portion you got more meals out of it.
I don’t remember eating any of the meals you are making. We had milk sop for breakfast,stews ,no fruit, rice pudding very filling meals because there was no snacking in between Franx
Chicken wasnt rationed apparantly, offal an off cuts, rabbits also werent rationed either. There was so much u could be eating and getting 😂 x
Such a bad boy owned human scolding the cat you should be grateful he shares his house with you and bed with you human!
You cant beat a beefburger sarnie Mike on its own I have it for my brekkie sometimes very filling and very tasty 😋
Was there any salt and pepper on the burger? So many missed opportunties. Does he make it through 7 days?