I had weetabix written on my menu plan for this morning, but I just didn't fancy it, so I made myself a slice of toast. To save on rations I had half with butter and the other with jam. I have never really had butter and jam on toast together it's a bit of a weird combination in my mind, so it's always one or the other. Although thinking about it I do have butter and jam together on scones occasionally ... and I used to love clotted cream piled high on top.
I'm a strange one ... and always happily the first to admit it. 😄
Lunch was almost as per the menu, but I just decided on bread instead of toast to go along with my vegetable soup. I think I have another three portions of this in the fridge.
As well as two bowlfuls of soup in the fridge. I froze it this way so I would have an exact portion size ...
.. and still free up my dishes for immediate use.
Now my evening meal was to have been Carrot Croquettes, but as we were really tired after a horrendous journey in heavy rain to visit Mum in hospital, neither of us felt like cooking so we called to the chip shop on the way home.
Sadly, our chips weren't wrapped in newspaper the way they used to be, but at least the chippy has moved away from polystyrene trays to a much more environmentally friendly cardboard tray.
Who remembers chips all piled high on a piece of greaseproof paper and then wrapped in layers of newspaper. And if you took a pile of nice clean newspapers to the chip shop where we lived when I was small, children would get a free scallop.
Not the fish sort, but a good old Northern slice of potato dipped in batter and deep fried ... and usually 2d each to buy.
And now for your Sunday entertainment here is a brilliant little YouTube film. It's an American made and narrated film and is a brilliant description of rationing in the UK.
Well, I had a word with Mildred and Lucinda, and they said I need to pull my wrinkly stockings up and get back to rationing .... so off we go again.
I'm having a word about the non-veggie foods on the tray that the grocer has gotten ready to show us, and to query whether it's true that as a veggie I get a whole 4oz of cheese.
Meanwhile Mildred went off to join a queue as there were rumours of fish.
And Lucinda said something about a man on the corner with a suitcase full of nylons ....
