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Let’s Go to the Movies: March 1944

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on March 21, 2021

I’m trying something new this month. I want to find a few movies that were…

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“Let’s Dance!” in 1941

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 31, 2021

I wanted to end the month by showing you a fun article about high school…

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Christmas: Games

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 29, 2020

How might a home front family spend the days between Christmas and the New Year?…

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First Monday Menu: Hasty Holiday Meal

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

This month’s menu is from the Wyandotte County Gas Co.’s Your Gas Range Cook Book…

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Christmas: Kick Off the Season with Holiday Tunes

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 3, 2020December 3, 2020

After taking a few days to recover from all of my Thanksgiving cooking, I want…

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Radio Round-Up: Halloween

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 24, 2020October 24, 2020

I’ve written about books and movies that you can add to your October entertainment choices,…

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October Books: Horror, Mystery, and More

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 19, 2020

October is a great month to curl up with a good book. Here is a…

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Scary Movies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 7, 2020October 6, 2020

One of my teenage sons is a classic film buff and I enlisted his help…

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This month’s First Monday Menu is based on the chart I posted last week. You can find more info on my blog, but here is the main course and the menu for an entire weekend day. These were really good kidney beans, but definitely not enough for a main dish in an evening meal. The menus were for a family of four. You can find the shopping list for the entire week on my blog today, too. Link’s in my bio. Happy Fourth to my United States friends!
This chart from the Bureau of Home Economics was in the May 1942 issue of Woman's Day magazine. It was one of three plans to help women create meal plans on a budget. This one is Plan A. You can see an explanation of how to use the chart on my blog. The link is in my bio. Plan A was heavier on potatoes, dairy, and meat. Plan B had more cereals and leafy vegetables, and Plan C had more dried beans, fat, and eggs. A woman could choose which plan worked best for her family. I'm going to do a short series based on the menus and recipes Woman's Day created for these plans. I'll start with July's First Monday Menu. I'm excited to try some of the recipes and share them with you!
GE Room Conditioners, 1941. You can see the entire ad on my blog today. The link is in my bio. Notice how the ad copy is trying to convince the consumer that they need the air conditioner. Opinions of air conditioning units and what they should do for home owners have definitely changed over time.
This is part of a June 1942 Peter Pan Peanut Butter ad. Peanut butter is surprisingly versatile, and home front housewives in the early 1940s used it in everything from sandwiches to desserts to beverages. If you head over to my blog, I have a couple recipes and the entire ad for you to see. Link’s in my bio.
Here are two of the cold summer drink recipes I have on my blog today. You can find last year's drink roundup in the post, too, and that link is in my bio. These are both from the June 23, 1944 issue of The Family Circle and would be refreshing on a hot day like today! Let me know if you try them.
Today on my blog I have a round up of some movies that folks on the home front would have been watching in the month of June in 1942-44. All are available to watch today. There are a lot of war movies, which is understandable, but there’s also a Bob Hope romantic comedy if that is more your style. The link is in my bio.
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