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  From what I remember of during and just after the war...
  
  Mother (and my two grandmothers) were all good cooks and made the most of what food there was, nothing was ever put in the bin in those days.
  
  Sometimes father would have some nice Faroe Bank haddock given to him by friends who worked on the fish docks, and we often ate 'skate-knobs' which were in fact the bones of the long tail of the skate which had tasty fish around it. Skate is all head with wings and long tail ! And we also had halibut and Hake, too, even in those days of frugality. Even in wartime, Grimsby folk did not eat cod unless they were desperate - it was considered the scum of the sea, and fed to cats and dogs.
  
  Rabbit of course was quite plentiful during and after war, and many people kept them as 'pets' with a culinary end in mind. Macaroni cheese was often made, and milk puddings with rice, macaroni or oats, sometimes with added raisins. We never saw chicken except at Christmas when to have a chicken was a real treat.

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