FRUGAL WARTIME COOKBOOKS I'M USING TO LIVE ON WAR RATIONS IN 2026 FRUGAL LIVING UK

In today’s video, I’m sharing the wartime cookbooks I’m using for my 2026 wartime ration challenge. These original and reproduction 1940s cookbooks guide everything I cook — from simple vegetable meals to puddings, bread, and ration-friendly dishes inspired by Britain’s Ministry of Food during World War II. I’m following wartime rationing principles to live frugally, reduce our food costs, and learn from the resilience of past generations. Using authentic ration book recipes, I’m cooking from scratch, wasting nothing, and making the most of what we have. In this video you’ll see: • Wartime cookbooks I actually use in my kitchen • 1940s ration book recipes and guidance • WARTIME REFERENCE READING BOOKS • Cooking from war rations in modern times • Frugal living inspired by WWII Britain This challenge is part of my long-term goal to live simply, save towards retirement, and step away from modern excess — while being grateful to God for what we already have. If you enjoy wartime cooking, historical food, frugal living, or simple homemaking, you’re very welcome here. #WartimeCooking #WarRations #1940sCooking #FrugalLivingUK #RationBookRecipes #HistoricalCooking #WildwoodCottage #SimpleLiving #MakeDoAndMend Enjoy ..xx If you liked this video and want to show your support for my channel, you can do so in the following ways:😊😊 Like, Comment and subscribe - these are free to do and will really help me grow my new channel 😀 You can also buy me a coffee via my KOFI Page if you want to help out with the running costs of the channel or buy me a coffee/beer: or STRIPE & THE GIRLS A TREAT 😀🎉😊 https://ko-fi.com/wildwoodcottagediary Link to my other craft & knitting channel https://www.youtube.com/ @faithfuleweknittingpodcast MY SHOPS KO-FI https://ko-fi.com/faithfulewe/shop ETSY https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Faithfulewe If you would like to support my work here on youtube your support really does mean a lot....😊😊🐓🐓🐓🐓💖💖 Lots of love Hazel xx❤️😊🎉🌼🌺🐓🌻 My other knitting & craft Channel    / @wildwoodcottagecrafts   This is where i share all my knitting & crafty makes if you are interested in the kind of thing pop over & say hello... 😀😀🧶🧶🧶 Hi Im Hazel & i recently moved into a remote cottage in Wales which had a very old tired garden sloping down towards the farm fields below. The garden had been tended by an elderly gentle who died at aged 97 & he'd looked after it for 50 years. All it had was shrubs, hedges & trees. This has given me a great opportunity to strive towards self-sufficiency. i'll be growing my own food & living extremey frugal spending as little money as possible. In these days of high inflation & financial crisis my wartime challenge is the ideal opportunity to reduce my spnding & my waste. I am starting 2024 with a new dig for victory garden & cooking wartime recipes in the kitchen on my Prity 2p41 cookstove using my wartime cookbooks. I will be sticking to war rations where i can & trying to follow the ration book as much as i can. I want to do as much as i can for free & still eat & live well. I will be growing organic food setting up a wartime kitchen garden, growing organically using no dig gardening & permaculture principles whilst growing complimentary flowers for medicinal use & dyeing wool. I will be making my own clothes & cooking meals from scratch. I will be making jam, preserving food for the winter, canning, fermenting & dehydrating what i can to keep me going when the garden is quiet. I will be documenting my journey transforming the cottage garden into a beautiful thrivng garden to sustain us & the wildlife that I share my home with. I post videos 2 or 3 times a week dependent on the wifi as its slow, very slow. So tune in to catch up with my frugal living tips & see what im making in the kitchen. I use wartime frugal money saving recipes to cut down on the ingredients & portion sizes. Ive been living this frugal lifestyle for many years & now i want to share that with you. Its a very fulfilling & abundant way to live , its mindful & slow living at its best. Join me as i share aspects of my everyday life in my Woodland cottage in Wales. I live in a hidden valley on the southern edge of the Snowdonia National Park in the UK. I share the rhythms of my life with the wildlife & seasons around my home. i watch the seasons change from one to another seamlessly & i find my life adapting to their changing rhythm. On my channel I will be sharing gardening videos from my new garden in Mid Wales. I hope you find something of interest & that you will join me on my journey to develop this lovely garden in the foot hills in this beautiful Welsh valley.xx A cottage in the Woods A cottage garden in wales Sheep on the hills The seasons changing seamlessly Striving for selfsufficiency & growing my own food delighting in keeping my own chickens