Lesson Planning

Consider the impact of rationing during WW2; prepare and cook a wartime recipe using a limited range of ingredients.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To prepare and cook a family meal using only rationed allowances and seasonal fruit or vegetables and to practise the skill of peeling a potato.
• To understand why most people on the home front, especially those who grew their own vegetables, had a surprisingly nutritional and healthy diet.

Children will:

• Consider rationing of food during WWII and ways to counter it.
• Prepare and cook using limited range of ingredients.
• Begin to consider what impact the limitation of some food types may have had on the health of people on the Home Front.