wartime rationing?

Question

looking for details of food rationing throughout the war

Answer 1

Try the DEFRA website - it incorporates what was the Ministry of Food during the war and has an extensive library of leaflets, etc issued at that time.

Answer 2

It was on 8 January 1940 (four months after the war started), that food rationing came into force, and the rations, per person, per week:


Butter or lard: 4 ounces
Sugar: 12 ounces
Raw bacon or Ham: 4 ounces
Eggs x two
Cooked bacon or Ham: 3.5 ounces


Meat rationing started 11 March 1940

I got the information off
http://www.witheridge-historical-archive.com/rationing.htm

but try google it brings lots of sites up about rationing.

Answer 3

I can tell you that everything almost was rationed, except vegetables you grew yourself and if you kept chickens the eggs were not included in your ration. The chickens were rarely killed and eaten as they were more valuable for their eggs. Meat was very scarce, horse meat was very common so was rabbit and hare and the poor old pigeons went into pies.There was a lot of poaching going on both animals and fish in the rural areas. We had gold coloured boxes covered in the stars and stripes which contained powdered egg from the USA. Clothes were rationed, very often families would collectively save their clothing tokens, so that every so often someone in the family could have new clothes, they took it in turns. The second hand clothing market was very successful as they were not on ration. The young women who had American GI boyfriends usually were the only women to have nylon stockings, as they had them sent from the states. The girls without nylons used to put tan coloured make up on their legs and with a brown eye-brow pencil, they would get someone to draw a line up the back of their legs, to make it look as if they were wearing nylons. In those days stockings had a straight seam up the back of the leg.Sweets were rarely available nor was fresh fruit or tinned fruit. Things like biscuits and shop cakes were un-heard of. Childrens` toys were not obtainable, unless they were hand made by someone in the family. Balloons and other toys were not available until after the war.

Answer 4

I lived through the second world war, I was six years old when it started. Rationing was supposed to be a fair way to feed and clothe people but as usual there was a black market and some people managed somehow to get extras. My mother had six children and we were too poor to get anything extra. Only God knows how she managed to feed us all, I suspect that she went without food herself many times to enable us to eat. Nothing was wasted, clothes were passed on, I didn't have any new clothes until I was sixteen as everything I wore until then came from my brother or cousin, my Mother also used to alter my Uncles shirts so that they fitted me, and it is honestly true that I used to wear a pair of my Dad's old boots to go to school even though they were several sizes too big, they had holes in the soles but Mum used to put thick cardboard inside so I could wear them. That is why we older folk hate to see so much waste these days.

Answer 5

It began in January 1940, this is what one person, per week is allowed
4 oz Butter or lard
12 oz Sugar
4 oz Raw bacon or Ham
2 Eggs
3.5 oz Cooked bacon or Ham
Meat was rationed 2 months later rationing ended in 1952.
My mom is a wealth of information.

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Answer 6

It wasn't only food that was rationed. Coal was rationed, clothes were rationed, sweets were rationed, and i believe even furniture was rationed to conserve our timber supplies.

Answer 7

which one .....as post war babe ..no 2 .....sweets suger bannanas oranges loads of things ...didnt have didnt miss