What I would have eaten in a day in1940- Modernized


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  1. Kim Rogers
    Kim Rogers says:

    I live in Newfoundland Canada… my Grandma had a neighbor with over 20 kids… she made 14 loaves of bread a day… she would make 3 loaves of bread into toast… and she said she would start cutting a full size bologna and when it was all gone she assumed everyone was fed

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  2. Shirley Mitchell
    Shirley Mitchell says:

    I was a child in the 60s and breakfast was often a tray of cheese toast and a tray of cinnamon toast baked the oven. Especially on chilly days! The heat from the oven would help to warm the kitchen.

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  3. Cassandra N
    Cassandra N says:

    Hi Amy! I am new here. 🙂 I am newly married and came across your videos researching freezer meals in preparation for my growing family. ^.^ Your videos are a big help and this one was really interesting! I am especially enjoying reading all of the personal stories of everyone in the comments. 🙂 Thanks for posting about this topic!

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  4. Connie Lynch
    Connie Lynch says:

    Our meals were about 1/2 of what we eat today. My Granny always kept a pot of chicory coffee and a pot of beans on the wood stove. I hated pumping water, especially at night in the cold! The men were always fed 1st then we ate last. Oh, when you mentioned the coconut cream pie my Mom had a recipe for cream pies. She was known for her pies. Anyway, she used the same recipe for her coconut cream or butterscotch pie. If Coconut pie you use white sugar and coconut. If butterscotch you use egg yolks and brown sugar.

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  5. Molly Smith
    Molly Smith says:

    Very interesting experiment, Amy. Spam is usually sliced along the narrow side so you showed the equivalent of 4 pieces of Spam. I have an issue of the 'Health for Victory' cookbook put out by the government during the war and it amazes me how little seasoning they used back then. Plus serving sizes were very small compared to how we eat today. The sandwich fillings were interesting too, one I remember was shredded carrots and mayonnaise. There were a lot of organ meat recipes, yuck. I know that I'm too spoiled as a modern woman to cook and eat the way they had to in the 40's, haha.

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  6. ATWH
    ATWH says:

    I really enjoyed this video. It was a cookinghistory lesson. My dad is 81 and I found myself wanting to call him to see what he remembered eating as a child.

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  7. Halfhearted Homestead
    Halfhearted Homestead says:

    There is a WW2 pic out of the UK showing children eating carrots as if they are little ice cream cones. What a treat! I showed the pic to my little one and she just shook her head. It is hard for us to imagine such rationing and scarcity. Great video!

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  8. Sherry Ruddell
    Sherry Ruddell says:

    Great video! You spent a lot of time in the kitchen. I was a child in the 50/60s. We never had breakfasts with so many items. Lots of times, we had oatmeal, or cereal. Mom made fried eggs, and I hated eggs. Still do. We lived on a farm, and had a big garden. Also..chickens and cows. The dang rooster chased me to the school bus, every morning! My grandma used to have people bring her rabbits, and we'd have that for dinner. She also had me go to the butcher, and buy cow's tongue for sandwiches. I don't think many people did freezer meals. Most refrigerators had tiny freezers at the top, and they were a major pain to defrost! But mom did do canning, and she put those jars in the cellar. We had an under-the-house cellar, that Daddy put potatoes and onions in. Meatloaf was a staple at our house, along with hamburgers. On Sundays, mom would always put in a roast, potatoes and carrots to cook, while we were at church. Good memories.

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  9. Catrina Mcgill
    Catrina Mcgill says:

    A lot of ppl live the 1940s lifestyle they wear the clothes decorate their houses etc I rem someone saying that the most frustrating thing was having to queue for everything but ppl were healthier and of course here in London suffered terribly during the blitz I believe in some back gardens theres still Anderson shelters and even worse unexploded bombs one was found just a few yrs back love this video Amy thk you xx

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  10. Rose Jarman
    Rose Jarman says:

    Take the juice out the night b/4. and spam is full of salt. Amy we grew up in the same state I was in Grand Rapids. We had some sort of bread at every meal. We ate a lot of no meat meals and one example of a meal at dinner for 6// Mom would use a chuck roast and make boiled dinner, we would eat the broth with veggies that cooked with it and a small piece of meat, bread and the rest we had the next day in a hearty soup. My grandma and my mom canned the meat and they made noodles and dried them. We lived a lot like the Walton's. I am probably 10 years older than you so…

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  11. Dee Bee
    Dee Bee says:

    Breakfast was served at daylight, with a morning greeting yelled up the staircases to the bedrooms above:
    Rise, and Shine!!!
    Menu was a milk gravy and homemade biscuits, fried apples, fried potaotes and Eggs. If pork was available, we would have sliced ham, or bacon or sausage patties. All Meals were made in our home kitchen on a wood stove. We never ate out at restaurants. Loaves of bread, cornbread or rolls were all homemade and baked in the wood stove oven. Coffee was served at every meal, along with dried beans with bacon, vegetables from the garden and sometimes, meat was wild game.
    Several Homemade pies were made every week and that was our dessert. Or just in case a neighbor dropped in for coffee, there was the pie to serve our visitors. Chicken was reserved only for Sunday dinners. The kids got fresh lemonade or Orange-Ade ( made just like lemonade but use oranges).
    We raised our own chickens for eggs and meat did gardening,home canning. We had a victory garden and a huge potato garden, so the potatoes would last through until the next growing season.
    When there was nothing to eat or snack on, we made butter bread and sugar sandwiches.

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  12. Janet Mitchell
    Janet Mitchell says:

    My daddy went thru the depression and would tell us how bad it was, we need to learn to be happy with wat we have even tho it my not be wat we really want but it is nourishment. God will never let us go Hungary as long as we serve Him from the heart

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  13. Ashley Wagner
    Ashley Wagner says:

    My grandpa grew up during the Great Depression and my dad tells me he’d let everyone eat (4kids & wife) and whatever they didn’t finish he’d put it all in a bowl with milk and eat that for his breakfast! My mom was really poor so meatloaf was always a pound of hamburger, 1 onion and green pepper and a sleeve of saltines with 1 egg, topped with ketchup to feed 6. Love it! Your meatloaf dinner I swear was what we ate all the time as kids!! Mashed and canned green beans too!

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  14. Debra Jackson
    Debra Jackson says:

    Amy, this is one of my favorite videos. I found it very interesting. We just went to the U.S.S. North Carolina a few weeks ago. This went right along with that. I've always appreciated making things from scratch. We just don't know how good we have it with all of the convenience foods we have today. I think you should do more of these videos.

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  15. Stella Papadimitriou
    Stella Papadimitriou says:

    What a nice idea!only to point out that because of editing it seems like you are saying that Leningrad is a leader.Leningrad is a city, named today Saint Petersburg, in Russia.I am sure the reason for starvation overseas wasn't a country but the war!same as in the States!maybe do other decades as well?that would be interesting!have a nice day!

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