Eat for Victory
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2014
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Eat for Victory - Sheila Dillon meets the people who are using the techniques of WWII rationing to improve their diet today. Clare Millar likes to dress as a land girl, and eat like one too. She isn't interested in eating Woolton Pie but she finds that the mantras from the time of rationing such as Grow Your Own Food, Don't Take More Than You Can Eat and Don't Waste Good Food are still useful today.
60 years after the end of rationing Sheila and Clare find that there is still a lot to learn from that period. They meet women in their 80s and 90s to hear the cooking techniques that they learnt during rationing.
Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill in Bristol.
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| 0:03.8 | podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC. |
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| 0:30.2 | Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment, |
| 0:36.1 | you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds. It's 60 years since the end of rationing. |
| 0:53.2 | The word evokes a grim time of doing without, food being restricted, rationed. |
| 0:59.2 | But now, strangely, in an era that sees choice as a near human right, there are people all over the country |
| 1:06.9 | newly interested in the ways, the food, the recipes, and the philosophy of the 1940s and 50s. Waste not want not. |
| 1:15.5 | Grow your own. We're all in it together. |
| 1:18.7 | Women are learning how to prepare foods with greatest economy, with least waste of vitamin content, how to |
| 1:25.0 | substitute the food we have of the food we can't get. |
| 1:28.0 | I went to meet one of those modern make-do and menders. |
| 1:31.0 | Claire Miller, a nutritionist who runs a website Eat for Victory |
| 1:36.2 | and who recently spent a month living on World War II rations. |
| 1:40.3 | Hello? Well we would have known you anywhere with your with your pinny. |
| 1:45.0 | Claire came dressed for the occasion, a floral overall, brogues, pin curled hair and bright red lipstick. |
| 1:53.0 | We sat and talked on a park bench in Bristol. |
| 1:59.0 | What's this park called? |
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