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You can have my milk as I don't drink it. Hoping to trade it for something I want - like yogurt. Don't drink tea (or coffee) either. so I won't miss that.

I support British farmers by buying British beef,lamb etc.

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I've been gathering my month's rations together. A few additions to be purchased tomorrow - a big tub of yogurt each week, 8 eggs for the month, a pound of porridge oats and a tin of sardines. There'll be 2 cartons of milk a week but I doubt that I'll drink that much. The small chunk of cheese in front of the bigger block is 4 ounces - a week's supply. I've marked the butter into 4 sections, one for each week. Also have some cooking oil - 8 oz a week and 8oz of preserves a month - probably homemade jam.
I've "spent" 8 of my 16 points for the month so I can still buy more pulses or a packet of biscuits if I get desperate!
It doesn't look much but there's unrationed bread, potatoes, UK grown fruit & veg, flour and fish, plus, of course, whatever I can find in the shop at the end of the garden.

A little clarification - as I was confused too. The weekly rations are, as it says on the tin, available each week.
The Points system is for a calendar month, not 4 weeks as I thought. So I've had a rethink and I'm only spending 4 Points this week (until the 31st July). On 1st August I'll have all 16 Points to spend. Party, anyone? It'll be lentils and oats on the menu this week.

(23-07-2023, 09:15 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]A little clarification - as I was confused too. The weekly rations are, as it says on the tin, available each week.
The Points system is for a calendar month, not 4 weeks as I thought. So I've had a rethink and I'm only spending 4 Points this week (until the 31st July). On 1st August I'll have all 16 Points to spend. Party, anyone? It'll be lentils and oats on the menu this week.

Clear as mud veggie!

I can’t even begin to try to work out what you’re up to now . My head’s ready to explode with other stuff . But I’d spend my 16 points on rice, herring, split peas, oats & baked beans.

Firstly I'd cheat and have my 16 points for July even though its only two weeks and stock up on the allotted longlife milk, butter and eggs plus the rest allowed. That would give me an idea of how things were working out so as to plan my next month. If I was on my own it would be good to join you in the experiment.

(23-07-2023, 09:15 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]A little clarification - as I was confused too. The weekly rations are, as it says on the tin, available each week.
The Points system is for a calendar month, not 4 weeks as I thought. So I've had a rethink and I'm only spending 4 Points this week (until the 31st July). On 1st August I'll have all 16 Points to spend. Party, anyone? It'll be lentils and oats on the menu this week.

Having rethunk it overnight I'm going  back to Plan A (a month = 4 weeks). It ties in with my Garden bed Plan better! After all, why have 2 confusing systems when you can one.

(24-07-2023, 09:47 AM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]Firstly I'd cheat and have my 16 points for July even though its only two weeks and stock up on the allotted longlife milk, butter and eggs plus the rest allowed. That would give me an idea of how things were working out so as to plan my next month.  If I was on my own it would be good to join you in the experiment.

When war broke out, most households would have had some food in their cupboards anyway but they wouldn't have had the luxury of a freezer full of grub, as we do. I've read that people were encouraged to buy a week's worth of food, before rationing started as that meant food was being stored safely, instead of in bulk in warehouses where it could be bombed.
Its a bit like lockdown during Covid, I had enough food in the house that I didn't need to rush to the shops panic buying. I could do the same now if I wanted to - so, instead of "buying" rations from the shop, I'm "buying" it from my storecupboard as a way of using it up!

I'm surprised you haven't said that P lived through rationing once and doesn't want to do it again. 

(24-07-2023, 10:43 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]

(23-07-2023, 09:15 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]A little clarification - as I was confused too. The weekly rations are, as it says on the tin, available each week.
The Points system is for a calendar month, not 4 weeks as I thought. So I've had a rethink and I'm only spending 4 Points this week (until the 31st July). On 1st August I'll have all 16 Points to spend. Party, anyone? It'll be lentils and oats on the menu this week.

Having rethunk it overnight I'm going  back to Plan A (a month = 4 weeks). It ties in with my Garden bed Plan better! After all, why have 2 confusing systems when you can one.

You need a SPREADSHEET!