Atomic shrimp would have gourmet meals with lots of veg. He would have much of the non rationed food on hand like flour, veg, fruit, pasta, and would use the powered egg to it’s fullest potential.
Mike would end up with scurvy if he had to live on this diet long term. Where are his veggies? Potatoes and veg are what our great grandparents mostly lived on during the war. Cabbages in particular were cheap and plentiful, even in the war years.
In the movie adaption of Dad's Army there's a scene in Jones' butchers where he tells one of his customers, who only has 2 shillings and tuppence left on her ration book, that "You can only have 1 and 8 pence worth of fresh meat you know, you'll have to make the rest up in corned beef." He then sneakily slips her a sausage from under the counter with a wink. **NOT A EUPHEMISM**
As I understand the points system , he ate a whole weeks points with the corned beef in one meal. I agree that it should have lasted 3or 4 days eked out with many more potatoes and vegetables.
I would've made corned beef, cabbage, carrots and potato. I'd try to fill up.on more non rationed veg and really stretch out the rationed corned beef. I'd have gotten 2 or 3 meals from the corned beef.
My comments from day one stand… You should soak the porridge overnight and you needed to add foraged food as would have been done during the war. Nettles are in their prime at the moment and adding them to your potato soup would have been so much better.
Another game changer for your porridge....golden syrup....can be a game changer for your waistline too but sometimes the calories are worth it. By the way....the average man in WWII during rationing was consuming lots more calories than we do today. Today we eat lower calorific food stuffs back then they were eating higher fat higher sugar meals. Suet puddings beef dripping custard (powdered eggs are good for custard).
They did a lot more manual work. The women were farming and making munitions in factories. However snack foods and such and drinks these days are very very calorie dense, even if we no longer use lard and such
Where are your home grown vegetables, cabbage, carrots, swede, turnips, Broad Beans, butter beans, green beans. All great for filling out stews & soups using the bacon for flavouring and like someone else said, not only wild rabbits but pigeons, & crows were also used. Ever wondered why there are so many pigeons and crows around nowadays? Perhaps people living on the breadline weren't so squeamish back then and were more used to making do with what could be found or scrounged or shot with an arrow. That said, your video journey is interesting and your comment about not feeling as hungry....... Could that be down to less sugar and not having access to fast food full of chemicals designed to keep you hungry so you buy & eat more? Looking forward to the last ones and final conclusion.
If you do this again or just for general breakfasts diced apple in oatmeal with a bit of cinnamon, sugar and milk is really yummy. I add all types of dried fruits, like raisins, cranberries and nuts to my oatmeal or I add fresh fruits that are in season. Peaches, apricots, bananas, berries are all yum additions.
Yep, my parents used to make cornbeef hash like a shepard's/cottage pie too, with baked beans. I remember when I saw a corn beef hash microwave meal and it was the cubed spuds one, and I said to my mate, " Not sure what that is, but that's NOT corn beef hash". Dude looked at me like I was nuts.😁
1 large onion, chopped. Fry until softened, add 1 or 2 tins of new potatoes and half to 1 tin of corned beef. Fry until the potatoes are warmed through and the corned beef has softened and started to crisp. This serves 2 hungry people or can be stretched to 4 people. I like to add a tin of baked beans sometimes, helps it stretch even further.
It's 8AM as I watch this video and I am having corned beef hash for breakfast pretty much the way you made yours. Potatoes onion and corned beef only, no egg. I did add some spices to mine though. Enjoying these videos.
If it really was ww2, you would have had venison out of that lad. (Though that species of deer would only be found in deer parks during the war. It was the war that was partially responsible for they escaping into the wild. Bomb damaged fencing and I suspect effects of material shortages to repair them.)
Porridge on a plate, small bite of butter there and some sugar over it. It is soolo good and add some cinnamon and it is even better. Good videos my good sir!
When you are on the porridge normally add a chopped banana for a minute at the end, it's great warmed up in porridge.( Mind you so are a handful of sultanas)
You never saw bananas and you were lucky to see an orange once a year. They were mainly kept for children. There were children that had never seen a banana - and sultanas and raisins were rarely available, and if they were available, they used up all your points!
And to use all of it in one meal!!! Oh a small amount left. He could have divided that corned beef has into 3 meals, with all the veg Imagine how much nicer AND HEALTHIER, with roasted diced squash? fried cabbage, green beans, carrot and onion. And I am wondering about how dog awful his farts would be on his no green veg, meat and only spuds and onion diet. Plus he could have done 1/3 of that hash and veg on toast, 1/3 as more of a casserole and maybe added the curry powder that was in everybody's larder, back in those days. Again, on toast, to bulk out. In fact, if you pinched a tablespoon from those 3 meals, you could add that to more of the dried egg scramble, on toast, for a big yummy breakfast
If you're craving rice pudding, try bread pudding. Corned beef as a splurge for the week, I'd have put in another onion, another potato and served it with cabbage and other veg. Last two days should be... cute.
You need soup! Veggies veggies veggies if you want to be more authentic stick to what was seasonally available or preserved. It will help you to feel full with fibre and get some vitamins - you can make it and have it more than one day so it's make ahead. I feel like you are going hungry when you don't really need to!
I've not managed to watch all of these and sorry if someone has said the same but you do not need to butter both sides of a sandwich, try it, you won't notice the difference. Cheese goes further if you grate it. You do not need butter / marge on toast if you have them.
watching this now makes me sad to think we might have the same shortages next year after the dreadful events of October in Gazza middle east we need to think about things that will be needed; there have been a lot of floods won't help vegetable things like rice tea coffee powered milk, jellies, sweets, drinking chocolate, Ovaltine, egg replacers, flour, cake mixes etc I can not cook to save my life im glad i am not the only one. We need to start to think about easy things to make now rather than later no electricity/power. #Batteries, radio
I'd have also had 2 cans of beans at 6 points each and still had enough left after the corned beef and beans for a bag of pudding rice at 4 points which would have given you the rice pudding you were longing for. It was 24 points per person a lot of the time, although the points on items varied and at one point it dopped to 16 points per person. A couple of tins of beans would have given you a so much more pleasant and filling eating experience on this week on rationing. It's a shame you didn't use all your points to make up your food amount.
The Brits didn't eat pasta during WW2 - or before, unless they were very adventurous travellers - and the Italians were the enemy! No way they would eat pasta.
That corned beef hash looked delicious, definitely investing in a few tins to put away. Are you not going to get a few "Black Market" items from your local Spiv? 👀
Because of you, I'm making chips... or fries. Other than the inspiration... I'm a little sad you did little to no research on how ration foods are made.... you seem to make "theme dishes", which are nice when you have something in abundance... but on rations, you generally make food that is tolerable and filling with something that makes you happy in it... like chopped bacon as a garnish... not the bloody focus. I recommend you watch some Atomic Shrimp if you try something like this again... not to impersonate him... but, just to get some ideas. Best wishes, I still love your channel.
@@johannakoo1657 Cooking when you have limited supplies and ingredients is a skill. One you pick up if you don't have a lot. So I guess I can't fault him for growing up with less want than I may have.
I thought you had potatoes and other vegetables ad lib, if you could find them. You just need larger portions of the starchy potatoes, since carbs are Energy Food, and more carrots, cabbage, rutabagas, whatever other vegetables and fruits are in season - Apples? Quinces? Rosehips? Pears? Plums? I'm not familiar with British crops. And you said the powdered egg was acceptable in flavour so why are you not using that? An omelette every day- like a Western sandwich - an omelette with bell pepper and onion even if you don't have the ham and cheese. Or a egg custard with egg powder, milk and sugar + whatever spices you have in the cupboard. Or bread pudding- egg, milk, stale bread, sugar, cinnamon or allspice.
Odd question Mike, but could you tell me where you bought your bedding from pls. I've been looking for that similar pattern myself. Ps, it's not a joke and love your week on videos 👍
I don't know if corned beef was in the rations cheater! Also you should try the American one. I heard there was more available during the war than what you have here.
I think you probably used a lot more of the corned beef than you would have done during the war. I’m not a fan of corned beef but I suppose if there was nothing else I’d eat it. Looking forward to seeing how much weight you loose.
We just did science and tested our identical bowl, with an empty tin, and your half a portion of soup is 1 tin, which apparently is 1 portion, but I think is 1.25 portion if you have with bread. So yesterday you ate 3 tins of soup?????????????????
Good to see grace.got to say I definitely enjoyed watching this one.corn beef hash yummy 😋.in fact guys that's what I'm going to have for sure.peace and love 💛
Atomic shrimp would do this challenge justice.
I was just about to suggest his channel.
I found Mike jeavons through shrimp… funny, they are both named mike
love his Vids.
Atomic shrimp would have gourmet meals with lots of veg. He would have much of the non rationed food on hand like flour, veg, fruit, pasta, and would use the powered egg to it’s fullest potential.
I agree love mr shrimp
Mike would end up with scurvy if he had to live on this diet long term. Where are his veggies? Potatoes and veg are what our great grandparents mostly lived on during the war. Cabbages in particular were cheap and plentiful, even in the war years.
I think he should have had more vegetables that were available then. He wouldn't have been so hungry at certain times then.
In the movie adaption of Dad's Army there's a scene in Jones' butchers where he tells one of his customers, who only has 2 shillings and tuppence left on her ration book, that "You can only have 1 and 8 pence worth of fresh meat you know, you'll have to make the rest up in corned beef." He then sneakily slips her a sausage from under the counter with a wink. **NOT A EUPHEMISM**
Egg powder, milk, and bread and you can make some french toast.
I would of split that corned beef into two to three portions. That way I could of had it three different days. Just add more potatoes to your hash.
As I understand the points system , he ate a whole weeks points with the corned beef in one meal. I agree that it should have lasted 3or 4 days eked out with many more potatoes and vegetables.
I would've made corned beef, cabbage, carrots and potato. I'd try to fill up.on more non rationed veg and really stretch out the rationed corned beef. I'd have gotten 2 or 3 meals from the corned beef.
My comments from day one stand… You should soak the porridge overnight and you needed to add foraged food as would have been done during the war. Nettles are in their prime at the moment and adding them to your potato soup would have been so much better.
We need a Jeavons's nature watch, even though everyone's favourite section would always be basil time.
Another game changer for your porridge....golden syrup....can be a game changer for your waistline too but sometimes the calories are worth it.
By the way....the average man in WWII during rationing was consuming lots more calories than we do today.
Today we eat lower calorific food stuffs back then they were eating higher fat higher sugar meals. Suet puddings beef dripping custard (powdered eggs are good for custard).
They did a lot more manual work. The women were farming and making munitions in factories.
However snack foods and such and drinks these days are very very calorie dense, even if we no longer use lard and such
GET GOOSE EGGS! And "liberate" a goose for the "war effort"!
We have canned corn beef like that in America too. Even have canned corn beef hash with potatoes.
10:36 is gonna get clipped out of context LOL
And 10:00
Where are your home grown vegetables, cabbage, carrots, swede, turnips, Broad Beans, butter beans, green beans. All great for filling out stews & soups using the bacon for flavouring and like someone else said, not only wild rabbits but pigeons, & crows were also used. Ever wondered why there are so many pigeons and crows around nowadays? Perhaps people living on the breadline weren't so squeamish back then and were more used to making do with what could be found or scrounged or shot with an arrow. That said, your video journey is interesting and your comment about not feeling as hungry....... Could that be down to less sugar and not having access to fast food full of chemicals designed to keep you hungry so you buy & eat more? Looking forward to the last ones and final conclusion.
Great post. Could be those reasons for less hunger. Could just be him mentally adjusting to feeling hungry.
If this really was WWII rations you wouldn't be saying hello to the baby bunnies, you would be eyeing them up for a stew
Hahaha!
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 it's not a joke
People would frequently raise rabbits for meat and then find themselves unable to bring themselves to kill them.
If you do this again or just for general breakfasts diced apple in oatmeal with a bit of cinnamon, sugar and milk is really yummy. I add all types of dried fruits, like raisins, cranberries and nuts to my oatmeal or I add fresh fruits that are in season. Peaches, apricots, bananas, berries are all yum additions.
I'm with Grace on the baked beans in corned beef hash! Must have!
Yep, my parents used to make cornbeef hash like a shepard's/cottage pie too, with baked beans. I remember when I saw a corn beef hash microwave meal and it was the cubed spuds one, and I said to my mate, " Not sure what that is, but that's NOT corn beef hash". Dude looked at me like I was nuts.😁
You should have utilised vegetables more with this challenge as they weren't rationed and you could grow your own.
Great job. I'm in maine USA and I make my corned beef hash exactly like yours. I use a cast ironed pan.
1 large onion, chopped. Fry until softened, add 1 or 2 tins of new potatoes and half to 1 tin of corned beef. Fry until the potatoes are warmed through and the corned beef has softened and started to crisp. This serves 2 hungry people or can be stretched to 4 people. I like to add a tin of baked beans sometimes, helps it stretch even further.
Why would you can a potato? They keep -- like apples and cabbage.
when i was a child my mun used to put butter on my porridge, maybe showing off how much butter we had. will have to try it again
You need a lot more veggies 🥦🌽🥕🧅🥔🤗
It's 8AM as I watch this video and I am having corned beef hash for breakfast pretty much the way you made yours. Potatoes onion and corned beef only, no egg. I did add some spices to mine though. Enjoying these videos.
Potato Pete is very impressed by your efforts this week
A week on greggs and poundland
Cats are very intuitive. Basil knows something. Mine knew when I had gallstones. And when I was pregnant.....
Much more amazing: Apparently your cat can talk! Or write? Or how the hell did you get that these were the reasons for it's behaviour?
She writes.I know, pretty cool eh?!
If it really was ww2, you would have had venison out of that lad.
(Though that species of deer would only be found in deer parks during the war. It was the war that was partially responsible for they escaping into the wild. Bomb damaged fencing and I suspect effects of material shortages to repair them.)
Yummy venison
The can of corn beef was kind of a cheat.
Porridge on a plate, small bite of butter there and some sugar over it. It is soolo good and add some cinnamon and it is even better. Good videos my good sir!
Briwn sugar!!!
When you are on the porridge normally add a chopped banana for a minute at the end, it's great warmed up in porridge.( Mind you so are a handful of sultanas)
Bananas weren't available during WW2.
You never saw bananas and you were lucky to see an orange once a year. They were mainly kept for children.
There were children that had never seen a banana - and sultanas and raisins were rarely available, and if they were available, they used up all your points!
That corned beef tin would have cost you 14 ration points. You wouldn't have been able to buy anything else that week.
And to use all of it in one meal!!! Oh a small amount left. He could have divided that corned beef has into 3 meals, with all the veg
Imagine how much nicer AND HEALTHIER, with roasted diced squash? fried cabbage, green beans, carrot and onion.
And I am wondering about how dog awful his farts would be on his no green veg, meat and only spuds and onion diet. Plus he could have done 1/3 of that hash and veg on toast, 1/3 as more of a casserole and maybe added the curry powder that was in everybody's larder, back in those days. Again, on toast, to bulk out.
In fact, if you pinched a tablespoon from those 3 meals, you could add that to more of the dried egg scramble, on toast, for a big yummy breakfast
As a correction to my previous comment about the corned beef being 1 weeks points. It was actually a months points !
Swear you were starting the day off out of protein, except powdered egg. ....... Where did that can come from? Lol.
If you're craving rice pudding, try bread pudding. Corned beef as a splurge for the week, I'd have put in another onion, another potato and served it with cabbage and other veg. Last two days should be... cute.
You need soup! Veggies veggies veggies if you want to be more authentic stick to what was seasonally available or preserved. It will help you to feel full with fibre and get some vitamins - you can make it and have it more than one day so it's make ahead. I feel like you are going hungry when you don't really need to!
Mike thinks jam on porridge is a revelation wait till u try syrup and jam with porridge now that mike is what u call beauty at its finest
Shhhh... No one tell him about maple syrup on oatmeal
I've not managed to watch all of these and sorry if someone has said the same but you do not need to butter both sides of a sandwich, try it, you won't notice the difference. Cheese goes further if you grate it. You do not need butter / marge on toast if you have them.
cornedbeef is amazing have you seen the use by date on a tin it lasts for ages
watching this now makes me sad to think we might have the same shortages next year after the dreadful events of October in Gazza middle east we need to think about things that will be needed; there have been a lot of floods won't help vegetable things like rice tea coffee powered milk, jellies, sweets, drinking chocolate, Ovaltine, egg replacers, flour, cake mixes etc I can not cook to save my life im glad i am not the only one. We need to start to think about easy things to make now rather than later no electricity/power. #Batteries, radio
First person to die from scurvy since two centuries.
Potatoes have vit c and hence no scurvy.
Lol
The way you did your hash is the only way I've ever seen it in my life.
They had gardens and ate a ton of veg. You are skewd on this
I'd have also had 2 cans of beans at 6 points each and still had enough left after the corned beef and beans for a bag of pudding rice at 4 points which would have given you the rice pudding you were longing for. It was 24 points per person a lot of the time, although the points on items varied and at one point it dopped to 16 points per person. A couple of tins of beans would have given you a so much more pleasant and filling eating experience on this week on rationing. It's a shame you didn't use all your points to make up your food amount.
just missed the ketchup squirted on top of that corned beef hash ! :)
Corn beef hash I make is corned beef peny pasta and baked beans.
The Brits didn't eat pasta during WW2 - or before, unless they were very adventurous travellers - and the Italians were the enemy! No way they would eat pasta.
That corned beef hash looked delicious, definitely investing in a few tins to put away. Are you not going to get a few "Black Market" items from your local Spiv? 👀
i love oatmeal (porridge) with peanut butter and strawberry jam.
i bet a little smoked paprika would be good in that soup you made. give it a bit of a bacon flavor. ;)
Porridge with butter and salt is my favorite. I never enjoyed sugar on my porridge.
Ha! Ha! Just as Mike said, "this is a nature channel now," a couple of sandhill cranes started shouting outside my window 😄
Because of you, I'm making chips... or fries. Other than the inspiration... I'm a little sad you did little to no research on how ration foods are made.... you seem to make "theme dishes", which are nice when you have something in abundance... but on rations, you generally make food that is tolerable and filling with something that makes you happy in it... like chopped bacon as a garnish... not the bloody focus. I recommend you watch some Atomic Shrimp if you try something like this again... not to impersonate him... but, just to get some ideas. Best wishes, I still love your channel.
Yeah, this was made as if the rationed items were the only food available, which was not the case at all.
@@johannakoo1657 Cooking when you have limited supplies and ingredients is a skill. One you pick up if you don't have a lot. So I guess I can't fault him for growing up with less want than I may have.
Cabbage would have gone well with the hash.
I would have gotten 3 meals out of that corned beef
I thought you had potatoes and other vegetables ad lib, if you could find them. You just need larger portions of the starchy potatoes, since carbs are Energy Food, and more carrots, cabbage, rutabagas, whatever other vegetables and fruits are in season - Apples? Quinces? Rosehips? Pears? Plums? I'm not familiar with British crops.
And you said the powdered egg was acceptable in flavour so why are you not using that? An omelette every day- like a Western sandwich - an omelette with bell pepper and onion even if you don't have the ham and cheese. Or a egg custard with egg powder, milk and sugar + whatever spices you have in the cupboard. Or bread pudding- egg, milk, stale bread, sugar, cinnamon or allspice.
"Corned" just means "salt" beef
Corn was the size of the salt crystals-- the size of a grain of wheat or barley, which Europeans call corn. (Our North American corn is maize.)
Can caterpillars be part of the ration? 😂
Did he use the whole can of corned beef in one dish?
He said he had a little bit left forvanother meal. He could havevadded so maby yummy veg and made 4 meals with that!!!
Our can of corned beef is half the size.
where are the carrots?
America has canned corned beef also
Odd question Mike, but could you tell me where you bought your bedding from pls. I've been looking for that similar pattern myself. Ps, it's not a joke and love your week on videos 👍
Cornbeef sandwich with brown sauce raw onion yummy 😋
My ex's mum used to make corned beef mash. I love mash potato, but I Defintiely did not like that at all and I'm completely put off corned beef.
Love your channel any chance you can do a week on slimming world foods or weight watchers? Be interesting to see!
I think he did a slimming world week on about 4 yrs ago
@@Lorin-lo1um thank you just found it could by see it before x
feels like cheating with the corned beef surprise - but easier for to me to say than to eat this diet
I don't know if corned beef was in the rations cheater! Also you should try the American one. I heard there was more available during the war than what you have here.
you would have cornbeef 2 0z thln from the butchers
I put jam on my weetabix one tablespoon is enough no sugar needed super nice
A tablespoon of jam is a lot.
@@nat3007 not completely full though kinda halfway apricot jam is nice
Brown sugar is the best!
@@georgielancaster1356 I do like the taste of brown sugar better than white castor sugar haha
Not enough Bovril!
More onions???
Canadian Geese in Europe??? Wow 🇨🇦🇨🇦
We saw the vicious buggers when we were in London in spring 2014. Warned some people to keep their kids away from them.
I think you probably used a lot more of the corned beef than you would have done during the war. I’m not a fan of corned beef but I suppose if there was nothing else I’d eat it. Looking forward to seeing how much weight you loose.
maybe do a week on american food
We just did science and tested our identical bowl, with an empty tin, and your half a portion of soup is 1 tin, which apparently is 1 portion, but I think is 1.25 portion if you have with bread. So yesterday you ate 3 tins of soup?????????????????
Where’s the vegetables ?
Haha you stole the "name of a band" joke from Ashens :') x
Good to see grace.got to say I definitely enjoyed watching this one.corn beef hash yummy 😋.in fact guys that's what I'm going to have for sure.peace and love 💛
Those are web worms, not caterpillars - they are not good for the tree.
They are still caterpillars, they are the larval caterpillars of the web worm moth.
This is starting to seem like a masochistic endeavor.
Sorry to say but your can of corned beef looks like dog food.
Grace is pretty. :3
Cheet. Didn't show the tin in the beginning. Yes @emmaforbes8306 I agree, Atomic would