MPicciotto
Practically Family
- Messages
- 771
- Location
- Eastern Shore, MD
Not to play devils advocate but to actually encourage a broader discussion does your diet take into account non-rationed foods? Or in other words are you planting a Victory Garden and eating unlimited vegetables from it? Have you asked your butcher for some Ox tail? Though I doubt very much that you would be asking him for horse meat what about venison? These unrationed meats I understand are also leaner and tend to be healthier then the popular and therefore rationed cuts of meat. This then bring up a historical question. How many families tapped into unrationed food supplies to make full meals each week? We've all seen the pictures or read the stories about horse meat, fish, vegetables. But with limited gas available and the "suburb" just beginning to develop how many actually had access to these other foods? I've heard that fish was not rationed. But unless you were living near the coast or waterways I imagine your fish availability might be even more limited then rationed foods. Not everybody had a place to grow even a modest victory garden and those who did may have lived too far from the butcher to get in on the few unrationed cuts of venison or horse that came in before those closer bought them all up.
Just my thoughts.
Matt
Just my thoughts.
Matt