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Anyone know particular post-WWII dinners that are relatively easy to make? Not a google search, please. Been there.?

Update:

I know they did less meat. Top points for family favorites!

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The reason google isn't helping you is that you simply aren't asking the right question. 'Post-WWII' covers everything from 1946 to this morning. 'Dinner' is eaten all over the world. So searching or asking for 'post-WWII dinners' isn't very bright. At the very least you should say what country you are interested in - Japan? France? Italy?

    If you wanted to know about Britain, for example, wartime rationing continued for years after the war, with individual foodstuffs gradually being de-rationed one by one as they became easier to obtain. So dinners in Britain immediately after WWII would have been just the same as wartime ones. The wartime Ministry of Food had published a whole lot of recipes and advice aimed at helping people make the most of their ration, and suggesting substitutes for things that were scarce; plenty of information about these are online, and in fact whole wartime cookery books have been republished for historical interest. So if you Google 'British wartime rationing recipes' you will find plenty of material.

    If you wanted to be specifically post-war, google will also find you info on when specific items came off the ration, or became available at all - for example, many British people remembered all their lives when the first shipment of bananas ( something that nobody in Britain had tasted since 1939) arrived in 1946. They were very strictly rationed at first, so a single slice of banana per person would make a very authentic part of a British postwar meal!

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    In what country? The answer for Japan will be different from the answer for Britain, which will be different from the answer for USA.

    And now that you've found that the children's toy called "Glooble" is, once again, worthless, how about trying the grown-up research tools of your library? There were no doubt cookbooks, and recipes in newspapers and magazines, published during that period; and there are probably books or scholarly articles published in more recent years about the cuisine of that period. If you don't know how to find information other than "just Gloobling it," ask a librarian to help you.

  • bette
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Still not a lot of money chicken fried

    Mashed potatoes peas or green beans.

    Maybe an alaske cake can't remember the name but Alaska is part o f2f it has ice cream in center.

  • 6 years ago

    vegetable soup

  • 6 years ago

    Nazi skulls

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