Happiness is more important. I also grew up poor, but very happy. We also didn't really know we were poor until we were a little older😅. We were still happy.

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When I tell someone about how I grew up... in that old farmhouse in a rural area - it must seem to young people like we lived squalor. It never seemed to us like that- all our neighbors lived simple, too. And four generations under one roof. The memories I have... 🥰 And yes, I realize it wasn't so happy and positive for everyone who lived that life.

Lovely story

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*out of town

I'm only 36 and I wish I lived in a time when people worked together towards sustainability. I moved from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania and people are generally better here. They try to be a community but we are all still largely conditioned to be dependent upon grocery chains. I'm raising 2 boys to have experience with chickens, goats, ducks, fruit and vegetable gardens. God willing they won't have to rely on big business as I have my whole life. I just wish I had this knowledge passed down to use and teach them.

A lot

We were shown a programme like this in history class when I was in school

@@CeasiusC you got to it before I did 😁

And they wouldn't be such spoilt brats either

I did show these as a history teacher. You have to realise these are made for an adult audience. The narrative is clear cut and understandable, but the pace is too slow (it was slow even for the time it was made) and there is a lack of child centred detail or children characters for the age groups in schools 12-14 that cover this topic. You couldn't show the whole series (there isn't enough time for one thing) but 30 mins of excerpts might work. That may have been the way I did it back in the days teachers had the time to plan and organise lessons and teaching wasn't geared to constant testing to suit outside officialdom. However, compared with the Victorian series this series fairly jogs along! For myself I wish they had made 8 one hour programmes instead of a half hour! Not enough of these wonderful people!

It's good to keep growing your own food.We grow potatoes and grain corn,onions garlic,carrots,squash,beans etc. The grain corn makes good pancakes,cookies and we nixtamalize the corn in lye water made from wood ash to make tortillas. The last three years we've grown sweet sorghum here in BC and get a couple gallons of sorghum syrup. Good on the pancakes!

@@oldplaner Good for you. I live in Northern Minnesota and am lucky to have two maple trees in my yard. I only have 1/3 acre in the middle of town, I turned most of it into a small wildlife habitat and have a lot of fruit trees and my vegetable garden. I do a lot of food preservation. Glad you posted the whole series. Opened my eyes even more. Thanks.

@@1caramarie I grew up with a garden at every house and potted plants in the few places I was unable to garden. This past year I was studying soil health (my sister now has 20 acres and I was researching for her) and I came across many things that exploded everything I thought I knew about gardening. Check out any talk by Ray Archuleta you can find on youtube. There are so many other people, but he always does the soil demonstrations or has video of them. Its mind blowing. I changed up even how I deal with my potted plants.

When planning my own wedding, I was aghast how expensive even just rentals were. My in-laws church were charging $1000 just for a couple hours of the hall. I love the story of my MIL's wedding in the 1950's. MIL wore a borrowed dress, a family member made the cake, many pitched in with food, another the flowers, bridesmaid dresses were made by each bridesmaid. They slipped the minister a small amount to cover his fee and the church. I wish more wedding were like this, so much more meaningful too.

@@oldplaner That is brilliant!

Check out Charles Dowding on KZfaq. He's an excellent resource

Thank you, it breaks my heart that BLM and the woke brigade tried to deface his memorials in London.

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​@@adrianh332They don't like him in India because UK policies lead to famine over there.

What you refer to as a "wrap around apron" is a pinafore commonly known as a pinny in England. 'nuf sed

reminds me of my granma

I found myself saying out loud, "you left some in the bowl!"

That was for the small child to lick the bowl clean!

Flor the kid, where ever he was.

I was thinking about trying it with beets.

@@jessmcg4438 That sounds really good. If you tried it, how did it taste?

Don't trick your kids. My mom did that a few times to us, putting zucchini (one of my most hated foods) into chocolate cake (one of my favorite foods). I found out, and I felt betrayed. Remember that emotions are huge when you're a kid. To this day I neither trust nor like her cooking. Just be honest with whoever is eating your food. Even kids have a right to know what they're eating, and no one likes to feel they've been duped. I have worked with kids for over a decade, and my experience is that kids are happy to eat vegetables if you find some way of preparing them that the kids enjoy, and if you involve the kids in growing and cooking them. Just about every kid will eat carrot sticks and sweet peas dipped in homemade ranch dressing, I've found. Once you've lost the perfect trust of a child, there's no getting it back. Most kids lose their trust of adults at around seven years old, and then they begin to lie and keep secrets. And who taught them that? Okay, rant over.

Right! That chocolate pudding caught my eye

@@chrissyttrs looked yummy

Exactly. My grandmother was born in the 1930's and would tell me how every Monday, the women would spend the whole day scrubbing and washing all of the week's laundry. Something like loading a washing machine that takes us less than one minute today was a whole day of hard effort for them. We complain so much about our lives these days, but we really don't have much to complain about. My grandmother's phrase "The good old days? What was so good about them?!"

Anyone know the song i cant seem to find it anywhere?

@@EmmaAppleBerry you found it yet? :p

@@squitboss3301 nope. Lol

@@EmmaAppleBerry :((

@@squitboss3301 the d day darlings have some similar songs. And if you search popular wartime music youll find a decent amount with the same nostalgia optimistic type feeling. Let me know if you find the song! I think maybe it was made for this series...

They should have given margarine to the soldiers as well and they could have saved that for their guns.

Butter has Vitamin K. Needed by the body.

Think carrot cake!

Beetrootss are supplying most of sugar in northern europe

One medium sized carrot has about 5 grams of sugar in it, thats equal to a teaspoon plus of white sugar.

@@gemofthewoods5802 Wow. Well..when you think of it that way. I'll be trying this cake.

I grew carrots last year omg so sweet like nothing I have ever bought in the store

So fruit that has to be cooked before eating was to be wasted instead of being turned into a nutritional morale boosting filling dessert?

In the U.K., pudding is, unless otherwise stated, a term for any sort of sweet dessert.

Think of bread pudding and you'll be pretty close.

Pudding stands for dessert in the UK. But steamed puddings are dessert placed in a bowl steamed until done. My favorite is plum pudding.

They dig tunnels and holes throughout the garden which can affect the crops.

Alecto 79 ah, ok. I guess it’s a matter of location- here in California I have heavy clay soil and the moles help with aeration. Pocket gophers, on the other hand, are a bit of a plague and I generally “discourage” them. Thanks for the reply!

@@StrikeMirror-oh3cn clay soil is more stable. It doesnt break apart or collapse if tunneled through. Where I am if a mole tunnels under your crops they end up falling into the space made by the mole or they fall over. Either way they cant get what they need from the soil and they die.

Alecto 79 I can only dream of having soil that friable! Thanks again!

@@StrikeMirror-oh3cn there must be things you can do to make it work or plants that thrive in such soil. If not just take up pottery.

Because Britain didn't have the money to import goods. Also much of Europe was devastated by the war, and keeping the European countries, including Germany, from starvation took priority over the needs of the Brits who were in marginally better shape. The Marshal Aid heaped on West Germany was a political decision and put Germany back on it's feet within five years. Britain however, had to wait another 20 years to glimpse the daylight.

It wasn't until the end of 2006 that Britain was able to make its final repayment of the over 2 billion dollars that the USA made as a war loan. America only loaned its money, but it gave its soldiers, sailors and airmen.

@@Thepourdeuxchanson lets be honest, it was in US favor for the allies to win the war

Id be surprised if the kitchen front cookbook wasnt online somewhere i doubt theyd be for sale unless it was a reproduction.

www.lavenderandlovage.com/2014/11/on-the-home-front-original-wartime-recipes-from-the-great-war-1914-to-1918.html

Did a quick google search on the kitchen front war cookbook recipes and there is also a reproduction book that youd be able to find and a few websites like the one i just posted with some recipes posted on them.

Larry R. Johnson There is a little cookbook called “Favourite Ration Book Recipes” published by Dorrigo in the UK. It has about 36 recipes and also lists a typical ration from 1945. May not be strictly authentic, but it’s fun to read.

The Kitchen Front: 122 wartime recipes broadcast by Frederick Grisewood, Mabel Constanduros and others, specially selected by the Ministry of Food by Bruce, P. J. (ed)

Started by your president Zelenski, who was bribed by the Americans to make Uki land part of Nato, the North American Terrorist Organisation. Russia had good reasons to do what it did. The US is having second thoughts now that they see that Russia is going to win....

Anita it is a re-enactment film made way way after the war it's acting and lots of rotund people didn't end up thin as a stick during the war.

Some people also hold their weight differently.

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Certain things were rationed, certain things were not. I gain weight with carbs, myself. If I had a garden and lots of wheat, I could quite gain that much. Easily.

Bread was a huge staple during the war and bread and jam was what was eaten when there was nothing else so cards and sugar all the way