Ration Week part 5

Nothing terribly exciting today, either. Breakfast: finished off that egg from the other day...again, that one little egg went really far (It was on the bland side because I bulked it up with some other liquids (and one solid: imitation SPAM!), but hey, it's breakfast). Two pieces of toast, one buttered, one with jam. I'm reminded of what my mother always used to joke about--'bread and scrape' instead of bread and butter or bread and jam. All these years later it still makes me laugh.
Clearly I have more jam than butter, so the jam one wasn't bread and scrape! I haven't had toast and jam in a while, I don't think... I should have that more often.

Lunch: Leftovers from last night's cooked vegetables. From sitting all night in the water they were cooked in, there's a strong-looking broth now and I'm wondering what use I should put that to.

I don't know about dinner yet...there are some more vegetables left (since I'm only one person, a potato, a carrot, some cabbage and cauliflower seem to go an awfully long way!) and some baked beans as well. Mmm, beans on toast!

Bread isn't something I eat a whole lot of in my 'normal' life, so I'm finding all this toast to be kind of a treat, as dull as that sounds. Also, I'm usually pretty unenthusiastic about food in general (unless it's really spicy and crazy), but somehow these simple little recipes seem to be just the thing. Maybe English cooking is the way for me to go! For some reason I'm anxious to try all sorts of things that sound revolting...yet appeal to me at the same time, like steak and kidney pie. That does sound awful. I've tried steak once or twice and didn't like it, and to my knowledge I've never had kidney. I do, however, like pie--savory or otherwise. I'm not going to attempt to make it, but it's one of those fabled dishes that pops into my head sometimes...

Gosh, it seems there are a lot of people trying this out. Here's a ration menu from a fellow who ate the total opposite--Diet Coke first thing in the morning (yuk, that's worse than SPAM, in my opinion--at least SPAM doesn't give me gut rot), frozen dinners all the time, etc.--and found it to be a challenge but perhaps worth the effort in the end as he dropped a few pounds by the end of his week.

One more link. This is a brilliant, really low-key animation about an air raid during a class called 'The Longest School Day.' In the words of its animator: "In WW2 England, a boy's fanciful notions of war are shattered when his school lesson is interrupted by a Luftwaffe air raid." It's really worth watching as it's both simple and chilling.