1. [Weekly Ration for Two People per Week]
- Creator / Contributor:
- unknown.
- Date Created / Date Issued:
- 1943
- Rights - Use and Reproduction:
- Public Domain
- Description:
- On average, one adult’s weekly ration was 113g bacon and ham (about 4 thin slices), one shilling and ten pence worth of meat (about 227g minced beef), 57g butter, 57g cheese, 113g margarine, 113g cooking fat, 3 pints of milk, 227g sugar, 57g tea and 1 egg. Other foods such as canned meat, fish, rice, condensed milk, breakfast cereals, and biscuits, available in limited quantities on a points system. Fresh vegetables and fruit were not rationed but supplies were limited.
- Type:
- image
- Topic:
- Rationing
- Owning Repository:
- © IWM D 14667
- Place Name:
- Great Britain