Jonathan’s Home Front

During World War Two and in the immediate postwar years, fats were rationed in the UK. People went to great lengths to squeeze the last bit of fat out of…

Rosehips are very high in vitamin C. During the Second World War, when Britain was not importing fresh fruit, rosehip syrup was made as an alternative source of vitamin C….

During the second world war, food was not wasted. Leftovers from meals were used as the ingredients for new meals. We did 2 weeks on a wartime diet and ensured…

We are on a wartime diet for two weeks, complete with rations and cookbooks from the 1940s. Oneof the recipes is how to make curried rabbit so we tried it…

We are living for 2 weeks on a wartime diet, complete with rationing as well. We wanted to try out a 1940s version of junk food so made potato crisps…

Meat was rationed during the second world war in Britain and people had to make their meat rations last for a number of meals. Sausage meat was rationed from 1942-4…

In Britain during the second world war, oranges were in short supply and jams and marmalades were strictly rationed to one jar every 2 months per person. It was possible…

We are living for two weeks on a wartime diet, complete with rations and wartime recipes. In this video I make Lord Woolton pie. This was a vegetable dish invented…

We are living for 2 weeks on a wartime diet, complete with rations. We each have 2 oz (50g) of loose leaf tea a week and have workout out it…

We are doing two weeks on a wartime diet. It’s day one and I’m having my first wartime lunch, a potato salad. Salads for lunch saved on energy on cooking…