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During the dark days of the Second World War, the wartime diet's low fat, high fibre and sensibly sized portions meant that the British population enjoyed a level of health and fitness that has never been matched since. Using wartime diet as a model, sixty recipes have been specially created to enable you and your family to eat more healthily. Some are taken straight from cookery books of the time, with only minor adjustments to suit the twenty-first century palate. For the most part, however, new dishes have been created using the range of ingredients that was available during the war. Created by a cookery specialist and checked by a dietician, these original recipes and variations have been combined to produce a weekly meal plan for all the family, plus recipes for treats and special occasions and some helpful advice on what to do with leftovers. In addition, a series of physical fitness routines have been drawn and adapted from wartime sources.
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Carol Harris and Mike Brown are experts of the history of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War. They are co-authors for Sutton of the Wartime House. C. J. Jackson is a food consultant, writer and chef. She has created ready meals for Tesco and writes for BBC Good Food magazine.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The presentation of the material is beautifully done and attracted immediate attention from my teenage children. After reading about the rationale for wartime rationing and scientific basis for the way the rations were determined, they set about trying the recipes. The recipes work well and are filling and healthy. Grandparents who had been teenagers themselves during the war recognised and enjoyed the dishes.
This marvellous book gave my children an excellent set of recipes and a grounding in an important part of their grandparents' social history. If I had a criticism it would be that it could have contained more recipes.
For interest I compared the wartime diet with the current recommendations of the British Heart Foundation and found them to be remarkably similar, except that we currently advocate the use of olive oil for its monounsaturate properties. (Up until the 1960s, in England, most people used olive oil to soften ear wax as medicinal agent!) It is well worth reading and using this book.
This marvellous book gave my children an excellent set of recipes and a grounding in an important part of their grandparents' social history. If I had a criticism it would be that it could have contained more recipes.
For interest I compared the wartime diet with the current recommendations of the British Heart Foundation and found them to be remarkably similar, except that we currently advocate the use of olive oil for its monounsaturate properties. (Up until the 1960s, in England, most people used olive oil to soften ear wax as medicinal agent!) It is well worth reading and using this book.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i was actually hoping for a diet plan based on wartime rations and portions,this is actually a little cookbook with factual info about food distributions. if you are looking for wartime recipes you are better off with the marguerite patten 3 book set called "the war time kitchen"
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Very disappointing- thought this would tell me how to use rationing to diet- give ideas of amounts of food allowed/how to create diet plan based on ration amounts in the modern day.
What this is is a recipe book with information on rationing in the war- if that's what you want then buy it- if you want to know how to use rationing for yourself- don't bother!
What this is is a recipe book with information on rationing in the war- if that's what you want then buy it- if you want to know how to use rationing for yourself- don't bother!
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