I finally remembered to buy my tickets for The Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942! It’s coming up next weekend – it snuck up on me! You save $10 if you buy them in advance, and I’m all about that.

I better go get my picnic basket out of storage! (I mean, right after I move the contents of my whole house 30 miles south tomorrow. 😉 In case you were wondering, there was not yet US government rationing of food in February of 1942, so if you want a period-accurate picnic you don’t have to skip the meat and sugar! I’m glad – I’ve tried a couple wartime ration recipes and they aren’t very good. I quickly learned why people hated rationing so much!

Sugar was the first food to be rationed in the US, starting in the spring of 1942 – but tricky homemakers found ways around the rules, like using marshmallows to make desserts instead of plain sugar.