A Week On WWII Rations DAY 2
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The advice was to eat a pound of potatoes a day and a portion of green vegetables .They provided valuable vitamins when fruit was scarce .
Are you really expecting Jeavons to do the bare minimum of research?
and the english picked local rose hips and other wild edibles to suppliment what they couldn't bring in, since oranges and fresh exotic fruits weren't avaible, they made rose hip syrup instead.
Where I live, every (just lost war) council house that was built, had a currant bush planted in the garden by the council. EVERYONE grew rhubarb, potatoes, cabbages etc. Forraged for crab apples (and apples), kept rabbits and pigeons to supplement meat and often "shared a pig" between a few families.
Post, not lost 😐
When I were a lad we'd break a slice of bread into our beef broth and let it soak up the flavour. Better than just plain broth. In fact, it was considered a bit of a treat.
Sad that the week ons are actually over by the time they are on TH-cam so comments do not help. Things like cheese sandwich or pure bacon for dinner are pure luxury. To make it last(tip for calorie or money saving today as well) use mainly unrationed food and flavour it with the rationed items. Two slices of bacon could flavour a family size vegetable/potatoe soup soup/stew and will fill you up nicely instead of starving after tiny portions.
From war times Uk favourites like pie come from as well, pie crust had available ingredients and are high calorie while you can stuff it with any available veg for volume
Yes! I'm sitting here watching this going "no no no, you could have had more potato/bread/veg". I guess it makes better content if he is struggling along without help from the comments?
Man don't Starve yourself they had a lot more during the war than you're using! And put the stuff into recipes! Like a bacon cabbage stew, or use the egg flour to make pastry for pies or pasties!
People used to go rabbiting etc
My grandparents lived through ww2, bread and butter pudding used to Be an end of the week treat. Also almost any vegetables that they could grow in there gardens were there, almost everyone had fruit trees in there gardens
It was also very common for households to bread rabbits for meet.
Did your grandparents raise rabbits as well?
I bet you could use the powdered egg to do french toast and top it with simple syrup (just sugar and water) and jam
Lots of opinions in regards to how you should go about doing this Week On. There are tons of videos here on TH-cam of people that have done lots of research in order to do it authentically, as well as a large number of blogs online that do as well. I like the fact you're adhering to the general rules, but trying to adapt it to the way a normal person eats today. It really shows just how different things are now.
I would have fried 1 piece or even half a piece bacon, in the skillet, and saved the fat. That could have been seasoning, and cooking. I would have chopped it up, and mixed it with something, to make it go further. Growing up with little money and lots of kids, we learned all kinds of tricks to make food more filling, and to make enough to serve everyone.
How much research have you done for this week-on? From what I see, not enough...
The reason your Nan would have seen having her teeth removed to get dentures as a great birthday gift at the age of 21 is a great example of how insanely recent dentistry as we know it today is. Most of what we know now didnt really fully develop until the 1900's and before that if your tooth got a cavity it would start to hurt, bad. And as i just had an infected tooth removed i can testify to how painful an abscessed tooth is but i am lucky that i live now when i can take antibiotics to heal it. 100 years ago that could and did kill a lot of people. So people that could afford false teeth out of fear might choose to just replace their teeth with ones that were in their minds less likely to kill them.
I had the old horrid metal braces as a teenager i would love to hear what the invis align were like for you!
So you've had most of your cheese, your only egg, half your mince and both bacon rashers by day two...
I'm envisioning five days of glorious whining coming up! LOL
He could’ve made a Monte Cristo with his bacon, cheese, caramelized onions, bread and used the egg as a wash stretched with a little milk, then topped with some sugar, and had some chips with it. Would’ve been a substantially better meal, granted that’s one meal, but still better than nothing.
The rest of his ration got thin real quick, he’s got half a loaf of bread, sugar, lots of milk, a few ounces of mince, tea, the beef bouillon, his butter, lard, and margarine. Can’t imagine how this will last five more days 😂
@@10191927 Sounds delicious but still uses an awful lot of his components in fact more.
your being extravagant having marge and jam, I am pretty sure they would have had one or the other not both, also you can eat more green things, maybe some rabbit people kept them to eat during the war as well as chickens.
I did a charity ration challenge and the key is combining and bulking out your meals with the plain ingredients.
Also using the ingredients in various combinations so you dont get bored to tears of plain rice or whatever.
Baking certain items or meals would really stretch things out if you have flour/oats/potato/rice etc in these type of challenges.
Next do a follow week on the equivalent of the Soldier's rations for the war. That would be cool.
Outside of a field kitchen, they had arguably less than the civilian rations, some kits they had were tea, biscuits, and dried beef, and not much else. Granted they had other allotments in their daily rations, but many times you read about soldiers not having enough or not getting a full daily ration like they were supposed to especially when food supplies were not great on the front lines. So Mike would truly be miserable.
@@10191927 HE could eat 7 24 Houre MREs and it would be great to see him rationing it for the day i brought it up yesterday in video 1 of this week on
@@TheCotzi He's already done that. He did a week on MRE before.
@@Rexal_The_Saltiest_Brit thanks i didnt knew it i have to watch it
@@TheCotzi ☝️😲 It would be better if he did the equivalent of British WW2-era daily rations, it usually consisted of biscuits, tea, dried beef or bouillon, boiled sweets, and that was about it. And during the war, sometimes that’s what British soldiers on the front lines had for days, a single tin of those few things, sometimes even being shared in a group.
So Mike would have even less food than the civilian ration, and he wouldn’t be allowed anything else since at times that’s all British soldiers had, so he wouldn’t be allowed anything like food that was served in field kitchens, those wouldn’t count since it was what a soldier could carry. Either way he would be a starving dog.
You can make some pancakes with the egg powder and the milk. And put jam on as a topping. Thats we do in Eastern europe for centuries now.
Sometimes a nice cup of milk takes the edge off when you're hungry, I see you got a decent amount rationed...
That's what my former cheap daycare boss said to do when the children were still hungry and while there's some truth to that you don't do that to children among other shady practices. Good thing she is no longer in business.
I’d be out of luck since I’m lactose intolerant when it comes to drinking milk.
@@10191927 no problem from other animals wasnt made for uis and after we get no longer breastfed we all loose the ability to consum milk because its not needed anymore
@@fanofpink seems fine to do between meals
Ironically it’s the cost of cooking it that we now need to ration!
Fuel was rationed during ww2 and after as was food some ie sugar until 1955
My grandmother told me about rationing in the Netherlands in WW2.
Each person's butter was cut into daily portions. My grandmother saved hers, my mom's older sister kept strictly to her daily allowance and my mom, the youngest went through her week's portion in a few days, often getting some from nan's later in the week.
Even when I grew up, my mom wasn't worried about finishing nice foods like Christmas treats quickly, but she would say "when it's gone, it's gone."
My grandmother said the same thing. Once it's gone, it's gone. Fortunately for them, they had multiple businesses and never went hungry by any means. During the war years, my grandmother was trained and worked as a teacher before getting married.
@@applegal3058 Thanks for sharing. The people who lived through WW2 are an amazing generation, aren't they.
My parents were OK because they lived in a fairly rural region, not in the western part, where people went through the winter of hunger.
@@diedertspijkerboer indeed they were a strong group of people.
I'm glad your family had it easier too at that time.
@@applegal3058 Yes, I think that the war made them tough, while everything became so. much easier afterwards.
My family was lucky. Sadly quite a few others didn't. Our Jewish population was also hit very hard: 70% didn't survive the war, a figure that's third behind Poland and Czechoslovakia.
@@diedertspijkerboer oh my, it's so sad to think about the massacre of so many people 😞 Tough times definitely test us as people.
They had curry powder. And a tub lasted ages. Many war time recipes call for a teaspoon of curry powder. They didn't eat Indian food as we know it but did use curry powder to add flavour to things from time to time. They also had mustard, and if you could get it or still had some in from before the war Cayenne pepper, which had been available in this country for a long time. In one WW2 recipe I saw for some sort of fishy mush on toast Cayenne was sprinkled on the top. I feel more research would have done you some good. You'd have been less hungry and less bored by what you were eating during this week.
Better stuff yourself with cabbage and carrots. And where are your puddings? Come on, make an apple crumble.... I am so loving your struggle, brightening my day no end😁
Toast and marmalade for tea, sailing ships across the sea...
You should really be making this stuff stretch by including it as part of a recipe like you did with the cottage pie last night. Just cutting up the cheese and plonking it on bread and just eating two rasher of bacon with nothing else is incredibly wasteful. They could have been used in so many other ways. The same with the egg. Use it to make something, not just having two bites of egg.
He could make a Eggdrop soup with bacon and potato and a bit of onion with the vegimite stuff i think it would go much further even a bit of lard to fry the bacon and some flour to bind the fat would be great and a good tip is to chew every bite of food 30+ Times and counting it silent for yourself then you lower the eatin speed and you dont eat as much as you would otherwise because you get fuller with less
Yup. People don't realize that it takes time for your body to kind of send that "You're no longer hungry." signal. So eating slower to achieve that off less food is definitely a thing.
Totally agree 👍
My gran used to make potato cakes with the egg powder, potatos and onions. She grew veg in the garden to help with the 'war effort' as it was known. If some people had more of one thing tjey didnt use they would swap it with another household for something thwy weren't perhaps fond of. Also alot of house houlds came together to combine thier rations to feed a whole street, especially war mothers with young children.
@@TheCotzi egg drop soup hadnt been invented in the 1940s, plus major waste of the egg.
You could had cup bovril with bread..anything to keep hunger at bay
You could have made an apple crumble with tha appel, some oats and flour and a little butter. Also should have add beans to your meals or made bean soup, they are very filling.
Will point out that you could have also baked some muffins and using applesauce instead of a egg for the fat or some of that egg powder. Baked your own bread. You got flour during the war as well for your ration. Peanut butter was around then so a PB and jelly sandwich would have been beautiful any time of the day. and they did have spices during the WW2. Not a lot of exotic ones but they did have spices and herbs. I really liked watching the Wartime Kitchen and garden series myself and Wartime Farm for information.
I never seen Mike make homemade bread or muffins
in addition you had 16 point system each month which allowed you to get a can of fish .or meat spam corn beef, 2lb of dried fruit ,you made things like potato and watercress soup soup filled you up ,was a good staple ,if you were a manual worker you had a slightly bigger allowance .And you also had state run canteens for workers and cafes were you could buy meals i think for around Shilling , or 5p in todays money
Realistically you could have foraged for fruit and veg, as many people during the war would have grown their own. Maybe a week on foraging?
That's a great idea!
My mum told me that her sisters used to pick fruit up in floor of market
Could have jacket potatoes aswell with baked beans or some other fillings x
Just found your channel and started with this series. I was SHOUTING about the last meal with the 2 bacon, egg, and everything. I remember when I was in college all I could afford was rice with thickened bouillon "gravy" and a cheap frozen veg. Lol. I would have loved some bacon to mince, render and use to add flavor to my meals haha.
I do like the modern approach to ww2 rationing though, shows how a lot of people would act nowadays. They'd eat 2 days and spend the rest of the days at the wartime restaurants.
Bovril on toast!!! Winner for my breakfast. Savoury, filling and full of B12. Don't knock It :)
I flippin love Bovril on toast!
@@heidilou1985 Oh, yes. It’s got to be swimming in butter as well. Delicious.
You could of added tomatoes or peas to your evening meal and eat that lard fry stuff in it to fill you uo
People ate a lot of bread as a filler in hard times. I can imagine WW2 people on rations would do the same. Bread or potatoes whatever you can get.
Try the woolton pie recipe from the wartime period
Bread with every meal
It’s May ! Bordering on June and I shouldn’t be craving Bovril… it’s a drink you have in the harsh Scottish winters at a football game… However I haven’t had a Bovril in yeeeeears !
I remember the ration book and I know my mother did wonders with the food allowed. Up till recently I ade some of the meals she made bacon pudding being one of them. Very interesting video, thank you. Franx
I miss your movie reviews but I also love these vids too. Keep it up
Please do a week on Costco food 🙏🏼
You missed a piece of shell in your egg, Mike.
If you'd read e.g. Wartime Kitchen and Garden you would've had a better idea on how to get the most out of rations. There's no way they would just eat bacon, egg and chips it's a waste.
I agree you don't eat egg two rashes of bacon in one meal
I hope that Mike is going to talk to some elderly people about their experiences with rationing.
Same he's doing it wring
Parents sometimes had all their daughters teeth taken out to make them more marriageable (they wouldn’t need expensive dental treatment and it was a truism at the time that you lost one tooth for every pregnancy anyway). There is a very interesting memoir of east London (Silvertown Melanie McGrath) which contains a great account of how traumatic this teeth removal could be.
You missed out on a real treat with the National Loaf apparently lol.
You would have bread with every meal, this was encouraged to fill you up, and the national loaf was usually available daily. Vegetables were not rationed and frequently grown at home. You are under doing the bulking foods.
Love this video! However you definitely added another potato to your dinner! If that one potato made all them chips then I’m very impressed !!😂
You can get those Bovrils in the powder form, that are better for drinking btw Mike. They usually come in premade little plastic cups, clearly designed to just hand out to workers or blah
Can confirm that they tasted a lot nicer than trying to make it myself with an actual jar of bovril.. no matter what I tried it just never came out as nice
They didn't have bovril in powder form in the war.
We did have oxo
I sure during the war people would pad out their rations with a lot of veg like boiled cabbage, carrots, sprouts, peas, corn, and potatoes. Plus fresh fruit and some desserts where they could get a pudding in. I have seen shows and videos how during the depression people would forage for food such as dandelion greens and mushrooms and in the country I'm sure they weren't limited to one egg a week if they kept chickens. Brake into those powdered eggs and have Grace make a depression cake. No eggs, just water, flour, baking soda, and vinegar with sugar and cocoa or they have a vanilla one with no cocoa. I have made it and it's lovely.
We're talking British wartime rations here, not stuff available in the USA. Almost nobody kept chickens, outside the rural community, and their hen count was known (had to be declared to the Government), so that an estimated daily yield could be expected, thereby eliminating the black market.
@@gordonburns8731 I was thinking most egg production in rural areas may be monitored but wasn't 100% sure. Thank you for making that clear.
You should have made scrambled egg and bulked it with milk and butter. Yummy 😋
Wait!!!! In the car without Grace driving you??? Since when do you have your license???? BTW, after this week's rationing Old also love to see a week on rationing from after the war!! Apparent Britons have never had a healthier , more balanced diet than what was on rations after the war.
And there was no obesity. I know because I was there.
I cant believe dude has bread and cheese and doesn't make a grilled cheese.
This is a good video. I know it's a year or so later, so you can't change anything, but you know that you could've bulked those meals up with what wasn't rationed, like fruit and veg, don't you? Even make things from scratch with what was in a lot of pantries back then. Make your own bread, biscuits and the like. You didn't have to stick to only what was rationed.
Insert Mike looking despondently at the camera midweek when he's tired of the diet "When will the war be over?"
Rationing in Britain did not end until 1954. So it will not be enough for the war to end. By contrast, rationing ended in West Germany in 1950.
@@redrackham6812 By contrast, people in Germany were extremely undernourished and underfed during the war as there was no rationing system in place. There was no food. Sawdust bread wasn't just an expression, it was an actual thing.
You should have made a plan for the week on you rushed food to far today from the rationed foods you could have streched it far more in form of a soup
just found your channel through your first week on rations video and now watchig them all, love the interesting topic and you're funny - the little vloggy bits are a nice touch instead of just documenting the food too and your cat is beautiful! 🖤 only thing is it's sad that i know people still eating like this because of the cost of living crisis :/
eating like some opulant glutonous ruler from history would be interesting, you're bound to be able to find some recipies for that haha
Wow mike they had flour ww2 too, I'd make pastry with a lot of that fat in it to make a few pasties with minimal mince meat and potatoes possibly carrot too, made a large quiche with some bacon, onion, cheese filling for a few meals for the week, a jam tart or tarts and a sponge too, not very creative here, still enjoying it though!
I guess he doesn't have the cooking skills or the desire to make the effort. If you want to watch a British man make great food on a budget, you should check out Atomic Shrimp.
@@applegal3058 I do watch atomic shrimp, good taste lol, I've seen mike make things before he's not the best cook but I know he can make pastry
@@Rogers1000 true enough, anyone can make the basics if they tried
@@Rogers1000 and yes, Atomic Shrimp does indeed signify good taste lol
@@applegal3058very true I love watching atomic shrimp, his ability to make do with limited resorces.
I got some Invisalign a few years ago, most people get 5-9 attachments and I had about 15. So they weren’t really invisible as I had attachments on almost all of my teeth
I would love to see you do this again using what you learned. I would have made a crustless quiche and veggie minced beef soup.
Im not a cat lover but I do love to see Basil, my fella loves Basil as well Mike, he also lives not far from you, hes in Aylesbury
I think your being a bit hard on yourself. you can add more grains/cereals/bread into your diet and unlimited vegetables that are grown in your climate. most people had victory gardens and had to learn to preserve some of it because at times they had amounts they could not possibly consume. also you have to think about the 1940 era of food and what was the normal diet. ie they ate larger meals than is common today with our sedentary lives.
On the contrary; we do have more sedentary lives, but we certainly didn't cut down on food. Hence the current obesity rate.
@@anonmouse15 Our food nowadays is more highly processed and calorie dense. This kind of food alters your setpoint weight. They didn't have it back then, so people could eat more whole foods without becoming obese.
My father's parents lived in a rented terraced house and had no garden.
My mother's had a small hill farm in Wales. (She once had to delay an inspector whilst the adults hid an unregistered pig.)
Congrats on passing your driving test 👏
We forget that there was not many of of thousands if products in the grocery stores as we can choose from today. Not much junk food and 😢definitely no high calorie coffee drinks and no giant size burgers and fries like we can take out now. They would have consumed way less calories in a day then we eat now. Pictures show thin skinny people back then not the fatties nowdays.
If fruits and vegetables are not rationed, why not fill your stomach with that. What about wheat flour, was that rationed too?
Would love to see the Invisalign journey Mike!
You need to eat a lot more veggies. Try Woolton pie very delicious & will fill you up 🤗
You could have had bread with your meal !
Keep bacon grease
You need more veg to fill you up!
Love these videos
You could have done something like the egg powder suggested and made a pasta with it (unsure of the availability of flour at the time but im sure just egg and milk may have worked in a pinch)
I would have cooked up one piece of bacon in a bit of the lard and then after the noodles are done put them in with some more milk and lots of salt and pepper. Back in those times they also had gardens so i would have, for this challenge, bought some in season produce as well. Seems a bit lazy considering at the time people would have been way more creative with the rations to make them stretch.
Room and board meant surrendering your rations to landlady/cook.
My mam always said you would either have bread and jam or bread and marg during the war …not both 😊
He should put the bacon on top of the fries so the grease gives it a crisp flavour
☝️😲 He could’ve made a Monte Cristo sandwich with his ingredients, he had enough for one sandwich at least.
Wow, you used most of your protein ration in the first two days.
Wondering why you didn't use legumes and many other veg to bulk out your meals.
I've been watching your videos for years and today I learned I pronounced Jeavons wrong. Also a toast sandwich was a thing.
Put bacon on top chips to cook
Mike just wanted to say I loved your role as Martin in the Benidorm TV series fantastic acting.
Your channel is British perfection putting your colon on the line for are entertainment please never stop.
They look nothing alike 😂
😂
Toaster be like: sorry, mate. Really not feeling it today. Can you charge me up real quick?
Did you finish al your proteins on day two????
Like the Trmors Poster at the wall my favorit Animal trash series its briliant and pls do a week on soldier MREs with 7 24 Hour rations
Pufta Lunch but given what You had to work with….. more than forgivable. lol
New here. Enjoying your channel.
Oh that chicken. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT HEART-SHAPED ORGANIC MATTER?
Mike seems to be rushing through his animal products today.
My Dad had a mate call Mr. black who work in a market's. one of the Krays heavy's state that it was a sad day when the was WW2 ended.
Bovril cubes are nicer, tastier than the liquid bovril. There is a definite taste difference between the two.
You could have allowed yourself more veg. It would have reduced your hunger.
your forgetting the evening pint. that was an important part for meany it had calories and vitamins
He missed a trick with lunch, if he'd have made lard on toast he could have had a version of Pobs.
You could spread Bovril on the toast
To make omelette without breaking it put it under the grill to cook the top without turning it
Just turning on the different cooking implements was not done, in WW2. You tried to use one pot to prepare anything and you should have wiped a piece of bread over the bacon and potato flavoured fat, left after cooking, as extra part of dinner.
By the time you wash the oven tray, it should be wiped clean and dry with bread. But you are living in a bit of a fantasy of non rationed food. It might not be rationed, but often it also wasn't available.
In reality, your coal for cooking was a very small amount. It might have to heat your water for your bath, too, and you were only allowed 4" of water to wash in, as well. And that also often meant your house only had that same coal as the only heating for the house.
You aren't just eating a restricted diet. You had the diet, plus cold, plus limited hot water.
You should be adding carrots to most meals, as bulk. And a cabbage used to bulk up a meal. Or turnip.
Your cottage pie should have been twice the size it was, with extra vegetables.
You've eaten half your minced meat, 2/3 of your bacon, 1/2 your cheese and it's only the end of day 2 of 7 days!
Where are you from.. From the north?? Just curious where you accent is from..
For the evening meal instead of chips you could have made potato skins with the inside of the potato with bits of one rash of bacon mixed in. Them made a small omelet with the other rash of bacon in it with some of the onion from earlier
Damn, do you collect bed pillows?
Use only fillet of bacon leave rest for stew
I think I would have fried the egg hard, then added the bacon and pototoes to two slices of toast to make a sandwhich
Did you think of researching what people actually ate? You should be eating more veg - tons of veg. And if you've fried your chips you'd have had fat, which would have upped your calorie count. If you'd made a pie (flour not rationed, remember) with the bacon and some veg and eaten it with potatoes (people did not often eat chips at home in those days), you'd have been full and it would have been much better nutrition wise. You can make a jam roly poly with the jam and some flour and a bit of fat and you'd have been full.
I don't think I would have been too happy with the little bit of food. It makes me realize what I take for granted. One thing to check on is your jam. One pound of jam was for 2 months not one, and the article I read said your bread was rationed.
Bread was not rationed until after the war, however it had to be the national loaf - which was mixed grain as well as whole grain and apparently not very popular.
I couldn’t do the dairy portion of this challenge. I also would have saved the egg and bacon for my last meal as it looks like the best one. What if you happened to own chickens? Could you have more then one egg a week? Or is it all for the war effort? Or is that not really a thing in the UK? Fish is pretty easy to get where I live so probably a pretty heavy fish diet for me even though its not my first choice but if chickens are in play alot of eggs and toast too.
if you owned a chicken then the eggs were yours as you owned the chicken, and yes fishing you could have another good source of protein also fish were not rationed so you could have as many as you wanted , you would also have whatever you could grow in your garden potatos,greens herbs fruit its was hard but you would not starve 😄
@@samgorwill9666 Very nice to know. I don’t eat much as it is so I would probably do ok on rations. I imagine if you don’t need items you don’t have to take them or share them with people who do need them. I would Imagine washing food would be a big problem. Not that I would though.
Fry slices of bread in lard or dripping or whatever that is…
Don't eat two rashes bacon and egg at once
She just wanted you to open the blinds so she can look outside. 😄