Morning: tea with sugar and soy milk. I'm running low on sugar cubes but can't buy any more sugar until Sunday at the earliest (rationing) Egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, water.
Lunch: big honkin' deli sandwich, diet Dr Pepper, water
Evening: homemade chili and corn muffins, a beer and a half (maybe. I used a lot of the first beer in the chili and drank about half of the second)
2 comments:
People traded in war time too - it may be possible to add that into the mix? My mother (when I told her of what you were doing) told me that during the war my gran sent my did into town once every other week with extra stuff to barter and a list of what they needed on the farm (10 mile walk there and 10 miles back would have taken him off of work for a whole day)- she says he showed her one of those lists once - I can't help but think the list is out there somewhere on the farm
That's amazing!
I know there was a lot of black market in the UK, but I'd never heard of local trading there. They probably didn't have the resources. Before the war, the UK imported 70% of their food, so they really had to change their whole way of life to produce enough for everyone.
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