WWII Rations

black-saturn

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

hi.. just a thought.. what about a catering... supplies..or maybe ask your local baker... maybe he will sell you some.... as i am sure they use it.....

Thanks, I'll try asking them.

sairy2005

I think by comparison food is actually cheaper now than it was after the war and for a long time after too. My mother used to have a little tin with slots in and my Dad's wages were handed straight over and allocated to each slot. She put in more for food than she did rent. I think we paid about 17/6 ((87 1/2p) for rent but some thing like 30 shillings for food (£1.50). Rents and mortgages are now so high that if we had to pay for food by comparison none of us would be able to afford to eat.

My mother always said that the worse thing about rationing was that every thing was so dreary. Clothes were rationed too and by the end of the war every one was walking around in almost worn out clothes. There was no colour every thing was made out of the cheapest cloth and such dreary colours. My parents were married in 1939 and my Mums wedding dress was passed around the family for each wedding as no one could afford the coupons to buy a new one. I still have the dress and the fabric is silk but so thin it looks as though it could fall to bits any time

Also of course the Channel Islands were occupied. Those poor people were starving by the end of the war. There is a book by one of the Dotrices about his childhood in Guernsey which is worth reading.