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April 1. 94. 3United States Office of War Information,Overseas Picture Division. A Ministry of Food was created to help with the homefront food situation, and rationing was introduced starting with sugar in December 1. February 1. 91. 8.
The government congratulated itself on its measures, and the Ministry of Food was dissolved on 3. March 1. 92. 1. In truth, though, it wasn't a great success: food prices rose by 1. Britain would do better during the Second World War, 1. The government was always able to honour all ration coupons, and food prices during the war rose by only 2. The British population emerged healthier than it had ever been before, and families had been educated in putting nutritional, frugal meals on their tables.
In many ways, it was home economics that would win the war. Leadup to the Second World War. In the 1. 93. 0s, before the outbreak of the Second World War, the British population was somewhere between 4. Britain imported 7.
Of this, 1/6th of meat imports, 1/4 of butter imports and 1/2 of cheese imports came from New Zealand alone, a long ways away by shipping lanes. Knowing this would lead the Axis powers into hoping to starve the British population into submission, by cutting off those food supply lines. The British government began planning for wartime rationing in 1. Should war occur again, this time they hoped to be better prepared based on their experiences the last time around.
A Food (Defence Plans) Department was set up as part of the Board of Trade to do the project planning. Ration booklets were printed up in 1. Ministry of Food. Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1. Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, serves up food to dinersat a mobile field kitchen in Sussex 1. Marquis (his real last name) had been a former social worker and former managing director of the Lewis store chain in Northern England. He had proven experience in communicating with consumers, and had been awarded a peerage in 1.
British industry. He had not been involved in politics or government previously. He would remain Minister of Food until December 1. Churchill transferred him to the Ministry of Reconstruction to start planning to rebuild Britain after the war. Woolton decided that it wasn't enough to just ration food or limit what people ate; he set the Ministry the goals of treating the British public as consumers, and explaining nutrition to them in simple terms so that they could get the most nutrition out of the available food despite the rations. Consequently, it was widely accepted by government in the UK that there was a strong link between diet, and a healthy population. Woolton's chief scientific advisor was Jack Drummond, who worked closely with Wilson Jameson, British Chief Medical Officer from 1.
Their methods of communicating would prove to be effective: by the end of the war, housewives had become very educated in nutritional vocabulary. The Ministry issued many cooking leaflets, often dedicated to specific topics such as the magic of carrots. The language used was practical, and realistic for the time - - in listing ingredients for suggested recipes, the government leaflets would often say beside an ingredient such as butter: . Educational short movies on cooking were made for showing at cinemas; BBC Radio ran a morning radio programme called . There were 1. 8 Food Officers in Great Britain, and 1 in Northern Ireland; 1,5. Food Control Committees (with consumer and retailer representatives on them), and 1,3.
Local Food Offices, who distributed ration books and licenced shopkeepers to handle them. The Ministry of Food went so far as to regulate how grocers got the food that they sold to their customers. They were told to get their supplies from the nearest wholesaler or maker of the item, in order to reduce distribution costs and save petrol, rather than shopping around and ordering in items from around the country. By 1. 94. 2, this applied to items such as margarine, bread, flour, cakes, biscuits, and bacon. This was unknown to the wider population. Ration Booklets: Coupons. British WWII Ration Book.
The already- printed ration booklets were issued to the public on 8 September 1. They were not actually used until four months later, however. Bringing rationing into effect was postponed several times owing to a campaign in the press led by the Daily Express newspaper, which called rationing an unnecessary folly and government interference with civil liberties. The government finally overcame political resistance and rationing came into effect on 8 January 1. It's important to note that the food coupons in Ration Booklets didn't entitle you to, say, butter, for free.
Instead, they entitled you to purchase a certain amount of butter - - you still had to come up with the money. A ration book was issued to each person and each child. The public went to their local designated Ministry of Food offices to collect their ration books.
A responsible person in the household could pick up and sign for the ration booklets for everyone in the household. New ration books were issued about once a year. To replace a lost booklet, you had to sign a declaration, and pay a 1 shilling fee. You had to register at a store that you wished to use the coupons at, and could only use them there. There was no shopping around for those items.
At first, you had to use the coupons during the week indicated for those particular coupons being valid. Later, you could save them up a bit: bacon/ham for two weeks, other items for 4 weeks. There actually was some flexibility in the system for special dietary needs: special ration books were issued for vegetarians, for those with religious dietary restrictions (Muslim and Jewish), people with special health needs, those engaged in hard physical labour, people from poorer backgrounds, etc. Vegetarians, Jews and Muslims, for instance, were allowed to use their ham or bacon allowance on cheese instead.
Jews could get kosher meat. Rationing meant that no matter how rich you were, the food available was equally shared at fair prices. Rations applied to the Royal Family as well - - even they were issued ration books, and had to register at merchants to use them. In 1. 94. 4, Queen Mary was registered at Hall & Sons at 2. Buckingham Palace Road for meat, and at Warren Brothers at 3. Buckingham Palace Road for eggs, fats, cheese, bacon and sugar. The goal was to ensure that the consumer's ration entitlement would always be honoured.
A ration coupon was your guarantee that you would get your share of something, however small the shares were. Rationing wasn't applied to seasonal items - - say, summer fruit such as berries, as the government couldn't guarantee, clearly, their year- round supply. Oranges on restricted sale. US Office of War.
Information, Overseas Picture Division. April 1. 94. 3. Notable items that were never rationed included salt, and coffee (Brits weren't big coffee drinkers at the time anyway.) Other items such as lemons and bananas weren't rationed, either - - because they simply disappeared from Britain for the entire war. Some people growing up during the war didn't see their first banana until they were 1. Bread was unrationed during the war, and then oddly, rationed after it.
It ran in conjunction with regular coupon rationing, but was more flexible than coupon rationing. A butter coupon would entitle you to purchase x amount of butter that week. But if you didn't use it on butter, that was that: you couldn't use it on anything else, and you couldn't carry it forward; they were valid only for that four week period. The points rations gave shoppers greater choice than the ration coupons did, putting them more in control of their shopping. You got a certain number of points to use on any of the items, in any combination you wished, that were covered under points rations.
Later that was raised to 2. May 1. 94. 5 reduced downward again, to 2.
The Ministry of Food could adjust upwards or downwards the number of points that a food item would cost, depending on the supply of it at the time in the nation's food chain. Housewives would watch the newspapers to monitor news on the . People weren't trying the American canned sausage meat, so the Ministry of Food raised the points requirement for the salmon to 2. The sausage meat in question was Spam; the British public eventually came round to it. Shopping for Food In World War Two Britain. Once the ration booklets were received for that year, you would take them and register them at the grocery stores you intended to use them at. Ration booklet store registration.
Note the plural, stores. This was before the days of supermarkets. You went to different stores for different items: the greengrocer, the butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, etc.
You would register at one store for meat, another for dry goods, etc. Sometimes, a grocer would sell more than one of the rationed items, and you could register for purchasing both there, if you wished. Shoppers would debate whether it was best to spread their registration slots around to different stores, in the hopes of spotting more items suddenly appearing for sale, or to concentrate them all at one store, in hopes of gaining favoured customer status for special items held back under the shop counter. The exception was tea ration coupons: you could use them at any store you wished. You did not need to register them.
Note that the tea then would have been loose tea, not tea bags, as tea bags hadn't caught on at the time. And as for using it, the Ministry of Food advised . That was a good time to change who you were registered with, if you wanted to. You could change at other times, if you wished, but it was tricky to do so without offending a shop keeper that you might later need to return to or want favours from later. Shopkeepers got just enough food for the customers they had registered with them.