Adults Weekly Ration in May, 1941
- 3 pints of milk
- 55g of tea
- one shilling's worth of meat
- 225g of jam
- 170g of butter
- 55g of cooking fat
- 225g of sugar
- 115g of bacon
- 30g of cheese
- 1 egg
Not a lot to last you for a week is all that I can say!
This is the ration for one adult per week: * Bacon and Ham: 4ozs ( 100g ) * Meat: Sausages were not rationed but difficult to obtain : offal was originally unrationed but sometimes formed part of the meat ration. * Butter: 2ozs ( 50g ) * Cheese: 2ozs ( 50g ) sometimes it rose to 4ozs ( 100g ) and even up to 8ozs ( 225g ) * Margarine: 4ozs ( 100g ) * Cooking Fat: 4ozs ( 100g ) often dropping to 2ozs ( 50g ) * Milk: 3 pints ( 1800ml ) sometimes dropping to 2 pints ( 1200ml ). Household ( skimmed, dried ) milk was available. This was 1 packet every 4 weeks. * Sugar: 8ozs ( 225g ) * Preserves: 1lb ( 450g ) every 2 months * Tea: 2ozs ( 50g ) * Eggs: 1 shell egg a week if available but at times dropping to 1 every two weeks. Dried eggs ----- 1 packet each 4 weeks. * Sweets: 12 ozs ( 350g ) each 4 weeks.
Any meat to the value of of 1 shilling and 10 pence per week:-)
the same as children eg: eggs milk fruit and veg and sweets things like that
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The ration group of WWII was the Office of Price Administration (OPA).
the shopkeepers in world war 2 had to stamp the ration books to make sure that the person collecting the rations could not collect more.
Nothing
Really everything was rationed in WW2.
They were called K-Rations.
yes they have it in world war 2
whem did the rations finish in world war 2?
Yes there were.
Yes
The ration group of WWII was the Office of Price Administration (OPA).
the shopkeepers in world war 2 had to stamp the ration books to make sure that the person collecting the rations could not collect more.
Nothing
Everyone in the UK
yes
ration
Really everything was rationed in WW2.
Unwanted ration tokens.