Victory

I am reading several cookbooks from the 30s and 40s. I wanted to know what the homemakers of that time cooked while having to use the ration books. I also love this era...WWII and the depression. I am getting some very good ideas, and one that I plan to use is the Victory garden. A victory garden was a garden that the government asked of all people that lived in the US. They wanted the people to use/can their own food to be able to save the metal for the war. Some of the recipes that use this garden are very tasty, some are not. I told the family that we need to live like we are in a depression, because well, we might very well be. I have the cooking/canning down, now if I can just stop spending money. :D Baby steps Dani, baby steps.