For time to time people gave a service by providing families with an amount of food that was equal for everyone. If you were to complain ,tough, what you were given had to last you until your next round of food. Foods mostly were either grown or shipped from other countries, though that has it's downfalls as shipping food from country to country could be dangerous as the enemy could stop the ship and people would not get what they'd expect.
In order to get your food you owned a book. they had pages full of little coupons. One coupon gave you your weekly food. Or instead you could swap and trade deciding on what you want and plus you still needed money. The food that you would normally receive would be:
Sometimes, people might of ran out of food too quickly, especially if you had a big family. On the other hand, people were encouraged to grow food, like the Propaganda posters some posters were made to make people grow more and more food. They had mascot: Potato Pete & Doctor Carrot.
In order to get your food you owned a book. they had pages full of little coupons. One coupon gave you your weekly food. Or instead you could swap and trade deciding on what you want and plus you still needed money. The food that you would normally receive would be:
- Bacon
- Sugar
- Tea
- Butter
- Meat
- Sweets
- 1 egg a week (but only from 1941)
Sometimes, people might of ran out of food too quickly, especially if you had a big family. On the other hand, people were encouraged to grow food, like the Propaganda posters some posters were made to make people grow more and more food. They had mascot: Potato Pete & Doctor Carrot.