So today our family main meal was a large potato floddie, served with some mince in a thick gravy and veggies. For pudding the request was for ‘bread pudding’ yet again. To avoid this wartime pudding permanently being referred to as “bread-pudding-yet-again” I turned to a large bowl of sorry looking apples for divine inspiration- [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Bread and Apple Pudding
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bread and apple pudding, carolyn ekins, ration diet, wartime recipes on February 21, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Potato Floddies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 100 wartime recipes, 1940sexperiment, carolyn ekins, potato floddies, rationing recipes, wartime recipes on February 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »
‘Potato floddies’ are nom, nom nom! (sorry there was no other description that fitted the bill) Potato floddies are 1940s junk food… only to be used when you need something quick, tasty, a little greasy and are missing those trips to the nearest fast food establishment when only fried potatoes will fill the void. Floddies [...]
I am alive…honest!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1940s experiment, carolyn ekins on February 14, 2010 | 21 Comments »
I can’t believe its been a few weeks since I’ve updated my blog….. I posted this piccy from the webcam now so you could see that in the three weeks of non-blogging I HAVEN’T returned to being a full size Jabba the Hutt but have remained at Jabba’s Slightly Slimmer Sister level… still nearly 70 [...]






