Save money eating the right food!

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1. Jeanette Jordan October 27, 2024 Reply

   Born in 1945 l grew up in fresh foods, few times and packages or frozen, were invented for ordinary mortals back then. Everything was weighed and from.birth, to ten years old, all l knew were ration books, and limited amounts for each family member, weighed out by the butcher, the baker, the grocer, the greengrocer, the fishmonger, as well. The government set amounts from birth, to adult size. And we learned to cook at home by trial and error, watching mum, or big sister, never dad’s, and never lessons, until the mid 1950s. And only basic foods, and mostly how to do everything l already did at home, like setting and lighting coal fired. Learning how to heat the bavkboiler in the grate, to heat the water for our baths and washed, and how to use the gas cooker, and the copper boiler. Washing machines didn’t exist in my childhood for ordinary folk. We boiled our clothes and bedding. We boiled, grilled, or fried and baked out food. Playing with it wasn’t an option on rations, experimenting either, basic recipes, basic pints, but for sure, no one was over, or underweight. We even had daily orange juice and codliver oil in spoonfuls, daily, provided by the government. The exciting newbies on the shelves for us, were tins of baked beans (on toast)and bananas, we’d never seen them before. all.packaging was brown paper, and white tissue, and brown carrier bags with either string handles, or thicker brown paper. You queued and waited, and gave your ration books to the shopkeeper, who looked at your list from mum, and weighed everything by the governmental book! Nobody was cheated, nobody wanted more, we shared and shared alike! People were much nicer, but then all my parents generation, and my grandparents generation, had fought, won, survived, two world wars. So we were taught very young, to be grateful for our lot, and we truly were. So, tightening my belt is easy, even in old age, if you never had it young, you never miss it old. I’m a basic foodie even in old age, meat, two veg’, and a nice cuppa tea. Don’t knock it, it’s kept me alive through many NDEs and both lean and good times. I’d hate big banquets.

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