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.
Food and clothing rationing was instituted in 1940 and continued until 1954. Every man, woman, and child in Britain received a ration book of coupons that were used to purchase rationed items.
