Introductory Post

The basic idea of this blog is to document for myself my progress during this diet. If someone comes across this blog and finds it useful / inspirational, then it will have achieved more than I intended it to.

I chose the "Ration Book Diet" as it means I don't have to stop eating foods that I enjoy. It just means changing the amounts I eat and the cooking methods used. I intend to cook as much as possible from scratch - perhaps excluding bread as it was available to buy during wartime rationing.

Here I'll include a list of rationed foods I'm allowing myself along with the amounts (and in some cases, the reasoning behind those amounts).

Per Week:

• 4oz (113g) Bacon and Ham
• 4oz (113g) Butter
• 4oz (113g) Margarine
• 4oz (113g) Lard
• 8oz (226g) Sugar
• 3oz (20-ish bags) Tea
• 3 Shell Eggs (replacing Dried Egg powder as I can't find it locally)
• 3pt (1.7litres) Milk
• 1s.6d (£2, but I'll be using £3 due to current money-to-amount ratios) Meat

Per 4-Week Month:

• 1 box Breakfast Cereal
• 1lb (453g) Jam / Marmalade / Treacle / Syrup
• 12oz (340g) Sweets / Biscuits

Unrationed Foods:

• Vegetables
• Bread
• Native Fruit

I'm also allowing myself 20 points every 4 weeks to buy tinned food with. 2 points will allow me a small tin or jar, while 3 points will allow me a big tin or jar or a tin of meat such as Spam.

At some point further into the diet I'll probably drop the Butter and Bacon/Ham rations, and perhaps the Lard ration,  down to 2oz (56g) apiece, but only once I'm used to the diet.

I'll publish a post, including a picture, for every meal I eat along with the amounts and methods of cooking it. However, I won't publish posts for sandwiches / snacks, etc.

Now to see how long I can keep it up!