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First Monday Menu: January 1943

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on January 3, 2022

This month’s menu is a bit different. It comes from the January 1943 issue of…

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December 1944: Hot Wineade

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 27, 2021

This warm holiday drink comes from “Your Holiday Week-End Recipes” in the December 1944 issue…

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Christmas Songs and Christmas Cookies

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 20, 2021

Lots of you are listening to Christmas songs this week. Here are a few tidbits…

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Planning a Party, December 1940

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 18, 2021

Sometimes it’s nice to take a peek at life before the United States was officially…

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First Monday Menu: December 1941

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on December 6, 2021

Can you believe that it’s already time for December’s edition of First Monday Menu? This…

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Thanksgiving 1945: Turkey or No Turkey?

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 17, 2021

This is a long post, but I wanted to show you this article from the…

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Thanksgiving 2021

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 6, 2021

Building a 1940s Thanksgiving menu last year was tons of fun. I think that this…

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Del Monte Corn, 1945

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 3, 2021October 29, 2021

This is a Del Monte corn ad from the October 1945 issue of Better Homes…

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First Monday Menu: School Lunch with Campbells Soup

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on November 1, 2021

This advertisement for Campbell’s soup from the autumn of 1945 includes a menu for a…

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More Halloween Fun

  • by Shawna
  • Posted on October 30, 2021

Here are a few posts from last year for movies, books, and radio shows to…

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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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