has really opened my eyes to just how little you need to add to these wartime recipes and they taste delicious. Yes, those who had chickens and an allotment or garden, were the lucky ones, and eggs became valuable currency! Karen You seem to be doing remarkably well, helped in part by Mrs Patten and her way with a ration book. War or no war the hot pot looks delish. Beetroot does seem an unusual partner to some eyes, but you and I both love our root crops and I for one eat beetroot with all manner of unlikely things (pizza!). Great effort, and very informative too. Thanks Kellie, I am doing well and I am NOT hungry either....the thing is, is that even when meat was used in these wartime recipes, it is a very small amount, such as this recipe, which feeds 4 and only has 225g of meat in it, very thrifty and just as flavoursome as dishes with lots of meat. Beetroot is one of my favourite veggies, as you know, and it did go very well with this dish, like pickled red cabbage I suspect too. Karen Hi Karen, That hotpot looks delious, for the non meat eaters you could swop out the blood pudding and sub lentils. The spice cumin can be used to trick the mind, that you are eating more meat than you are. During the war in London, all left over food i.e., peelings, were dropped in the "pig bins" placed