what was ration for consumers in the 1940s?

Question

was beer rationed? what meals did they have?

Answer 1

Certainly meats, coffee, sugar and butter were tightly rationed, which is why many have "Victory Gardens" to help suppliment the food needs

Answer 2

Gasoline. Each car had a sticker on the windshield to give the priority. Doctors made house calls in those days, so they had A stickers, giving them all they wanted. People with B or C stickers got a limited number of gal.

Meat. People got monthly ration books with sheets of stamps called points. In addition to the price of the meat, you had to give the seller so many red points. If you ran out of red points before the month was up, too bad. T-Bone steaks took more red points per lb than flank steak. I don't remember if fish was rationed. Toward the end of the war, people got tiny red cardboard coins as ration points, smaller than a dime. They also got little cyclinder cases to keep them in.

Butter, eggs, milk. These took blue points, also in the ration book.

Fruits and vegetables were not rationed. The government rationed them early on, but there was plenty of them, and rationing actually led to some produce spoiling.

Shoes. People got a limited number of pairs a year. A mother of growing children could petition the ration board for an exception for a child whose feet "just grew." Ration boards were local in each city and town.

People ate normal meals of meat, potatoes, and vegetables. The woman usually managed the family's ration books. Each person, even children, got a book. It took some thinking to plan what kind and how much meat, butter, eggs, and milk to buy and to make the ration points last the month. But everyone ate well.

Answer 3

Here's some quoted information on food rationing. Also gasoline and items made from petroleum products were the most rationed items. I don't think that liquor was rationed but it was in short supply.

Answer 4

During WW2, I know copper, rubber and gasoline were.

On a personal note, I know of gasoline rationing in the early 70's. It depended on your license plate number. numbers ending with a even on one day, odd number another day.