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Ministry of Food: Thrifty Wartime Ways to Feed Your Family Today by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

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If you happen to be looking for wallet-friendly ways of feeding yourself and your family, it might be worth looking to the past for inspiration. You'll get plenty of it with Ministry of Food: Thrifty Wartime Ways to Feed Your Family Today by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Produced in assocation with the Imperial War Museum (to accompany a new exhibition there), it offers ideas first created 60+ years ago to stretch your food budget a little bit further, dipping into the archives for foodie classics, throwing in a few inspired by the era too – around 60 in total.

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Retro Series Nostalgia Electrics 50s style popcorn popper

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Popcorn popper

More Fifties style but with a very different look courtesy of the Retro Series Nostalgia Electrics popcorn popper. Once you get over that lengthy name and, as you start settling in for the weekend ahead, you'll realise how much better your life could be with some popcorn hot from this little device. 

It is looks like it comes straight from a movie theatre in the 50s but, at just under 40cm high, is sized to fit a normal size home. There's been some other updates for the 21st century too: the machine uses hot air, rather than oil, to do the popping making it a little bit healthier. 

The draw back to its good American looks is that it's an American electrical item and so is set up for such. That means to use it in the UK you'll have to think about adaptors and the like. 

The price? For £34.61 you'll be able to get yourself an awful lot of popcorn. 

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Tea Sub Infuser – inspired by The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine

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Love tea? Like brewing your own tea? Mad about The Beatles? Well that makes you the ideal customer for the Tea Sub Infuser.

Just drop the Yellow Submarine-inspired silicone tea infuser into your cup (after you've filled it with your favourite leaves), let it brew and you've got a tasty cuppa, not to mention a very inexpensive Beatles collectable. Presumably because it's only inspired by the band, not official gear.

How inexpensive? Utility Design is selling them for just £9.

Find out more at the Utility Design website

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Fuff City Espresso cup

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Fans of 1960s architecture may like to sip their coffees from this Fuff City espresso cup.

The cup is decorated in a panoramic illustration of what they describe as 'traditional British landscape' which translates to high rises and concrete buildings. If you look a bit closer, you can even see the Trellick Tower rising in the background. The scene is topped off with an image of a typically British bird – the pigeon that crops up on all of Fuff City's wares. 

The company also sells an estuary design with a similar look. This cup and saucer will set you back £12. 

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Fika cups new at ISAK

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Fika cups

Regular readers will know that we are massive fans of the Scandinavian retro stylings of ISAK, so a new product is always exciting. And here are the Fika cups: two small handle-less cups used for drinking or snacking, or just looking nice! 

The cups come in a set of two. One cup is decorated with a 'Familjen' design, featuring heads of people in a similar style to their Blossom and Bill range, and the other is covered in a 'Harvest' food-inspired design (which reminded me of some of the rediscovered 1950s designs we've featured from New House Textiles). 

Another great addition to the ISAK collection, they come in an attractive presentation box and cost £18 for the pair. 

Buy them from the ISAK website

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Alpine Meadow range from Next

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Alpine dinner set

The naturally-inspired pattern on the mugs, dinner set and table runner in Next's Alpine Meadow range have a definite 1950s feel. 

The dinner set, shown above, is representative of the other products with its retro colouring and pattern. It's got a similar style to Miss Print's Dandelion mobile wallpaper or Sanderson's design through its skeletal depiction of the floral forms.

The set includes four dinner plates, four side plates and four bowls, all for £28. The other products are similarly reasonably priced and will all hopefully bring some of the freshness of a meadow into your home

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