Housewife Fail

You know how I said in yesterday's post that lunch for today was cooked and ready? Well it was, but I hadn't packed the boxes because I thought salad would be nicer freshly cut. Which would have been fine, except I forgot that RAF man was going to work early today and he left before I woke up. Oops. Can you imagine a 40s housewife forgetting to give her husband food when he was out on duty? No, me neither. That would be a fail then.

I wasn't going to waste good rations on a cooked breakfast just for me either, so I had porridge. Strictly speaking we should actually be having porridge or cereal alongside our cooked breakfast every day, and probably some toast and jam as well. That's just too much for us though, we don't always have breakfast so just the cooked part is more than enough!

Lunch was beef rissoles, potatoes and salad (or rissoles and potatoes for my poor husband). The rissoles were really nice. I minced some cooked beef and it came out beautifully, really fluffy and light. That was mixed with breadcrumbs, egg and a little mustard before being rolled into patties and fried. Because the beef was minced rather than chopped they were really smooth and unsurprisingly tasted a bit like a burger. A good way to make a little meat go a long way.

The Ministry of food was very keen on salads. They advised you to eat at least one raw vegetable every day (and one "properly cooked") today we have shredded cabbage and grated carrot, quite nice with a bit of dressing.

This evening we had a cottage pie, made with porridge oats to stretch the meat ration. That worked surprisingly well, you would never have guessed there was porridge in there but the sauce was lovely and thick, delicious. I'll definitely be doing that in future! For pudding we had stewed apple, custard and some blackberries I picked earlier. I suppose I should have made them into jam really but I only got a few. They were yummy!