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In terms of my experience in putting together this blog, it’s been extremely time consuming! A blog requires a vast input from the creator; you start with nothing and have to create everything!



In relation to modern day times, blogs provide an easily accessible online WORLD to publish your works. Once you’ve named your blog and created the link you can post it anywhere you like for anyone to read and with this comes the danger of judgement from others but hopefully those who do read our blog find it interesting whether it be because of the videos or the historical context it can provide. I would argue that the majority of blog users or readers are adults, a little complex for a child or novice to the computer, but the same risks apply to blogs as they do to other well known areas of the internet such as Facebook and I would advise anyone with a child wishing to view blogs to moderate what they are viewing and always keep an eye on them.


My argument was initially to discover if rationed foods were still as good in terms of nutrition and perhaps taste as the foods they replace. I may have gone slightly off tangent as I became more absorbed by the context of the period, I find life during World War 1 + 2 extremely fascinating to say the least but through our cooking I found that the recipes often appeared great but the result was not so appealing. Take the corned beef hash as our prime example. It looked tasty on paper but was absolutely foul! However, don’t be surprised if I take to making potato piglets on a weekly basis though!


From what I have discovered during the making of this project, food during the War period was very important. By rationing food it became highlighted and by growing it in our gardens, we became more dependent on it. It caused a vast boom in the amount of literature available on food as the government also became involved and I felt, from reading through it, a real sense of pride and morale based on and taken from the cooking of their period. They did their best to hide how they wanted their dishes to be as nutritionally packed as possible by offering ‘mock’ alternatives turning the focus to what is missing rather than what now exists. I would also say it remained important to maintain an image of an unchanged household, very little is said in regards to the lack of men but also interestingly in acknowledging its audience made up almost entirely of women.


So in my final words I would say that whilst rationed food is nutritional food I myself would have struggled and most probably would not have been satisfied. I have nothing but respect for those who lived through this period and adapted the way that they did, it would be a huge change to anyone’s lifestyle in today’s world.