Week 8 weigh in

Start weight: 315 lbs (22 st 7 lb) Last weeks weight: 291 lbs (20st 11 lb) This weeks weight: 289 lbs (20st 09 lb) Week 8 weight loss: 2lbs TOTAL weight loss to date: 26lb (1 st 12 lb) I am OVER THE MOON with another weight-loss this week despite shoveling it away during meal [...]

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A typical two day meal plan…

Got a message a few days ago on Facebook Hi Carolyn, My name is C***** from Australia  and I have been following you on your website “1940′s Experiment”. I was just wondering what is your typical meal plan for the two days. I was thinking about doing what your doing too. It just sounds so [...]

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Week 7 Weigh In- 2lb off!

Start weight: 315 lbs (22 st 7 lb) Last weeks weight: 293 lbs (20st 13 lb) This weeks weight: 291 lbs (20st 11 lb) Week 7 weight loss: 2lbs TOTAL weight loss to date: 24lb (1 st 10 lb) I seriously can’t believe that I’ve lost weight this week but am obviously pleasantly surprised.. Have [...]

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The 1940′s diet- a healthier diet for you and the environment

As I sit here, waiting for the children to finish their showers so I can hog the bathroom and get ready too, I just wanted to share a few thoughts on WHY I truly believe that we as a society should take note of the way people fed themselves in 1940′s Britain during World War [...]

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Rock Buns

I had a real sweet tooth yesterday but now I live in a world without JUNK FOOD (the closest I get to junk food is wholewheat bread with jam!) my craving had to be cooked from scratch.. It was so worth the effort though…..only 30 minutes after weighing out the ingredients I was enjoying a couple [...]

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Extra tea ration fell from the sky..

With TEA being strictly rationed, all my birthdays came at once on Saturday when I was given a present of not only a pack of 80 tea bags (the difference in the 1940s would be that it would have been loose tea) BUT the tea had come all the way from ENGLAND! (I am British [...]

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Mock cream recipe 1

I have noticed a number of mock cream recipes in my 1940′s recipe books so have decided to try them out and see if there really is something that can replicate fresh cream using ingredients available to the 1940′s housewife… it cured my sweet tooth though! This one looked pretty good and tasted OK but [...]

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Spam Spam Spam Spam- everybody loves Spam..

The last time I ate Spam (and it has only been once until today) it was not a memorable experience. Infact I seen to remember I wretched as it slithered out of the can.. All that changes when you are HUNGRY and when your food choices are limited so for the sake of authenticity I [...]

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The eating out challenge..

I knew it was going to be difficult .. living for a year on wartime rations. Because I am committed to trying to do this as close to 100% authentically as possible, when I go out to friends houses, parties, the pub, or any social function, inevitably there are real challenges when faced with modern [...]

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The lumpy BOOB!

I was feeling my boobs the other night (you should try it- feels nice….I mean feel your own not mine!) and immediately underneath I felt a strange lump that had never been there before. I poked around a bit and was disturbed to find that the lump was quite large and bumpy. Fleetingly thoughts of [...]

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