Cheese rationing started with hard cheeses, since they were more easily shipped overseas. However, on June 2, , rationing was expanded to cream and cottage cheeses, and to canned evaporated and condensed milk. War Ration Books Two, Three, and Four contained blue stamps for processed foods and red stamps for meat, cheese, and fats. Each person received 64 red stamps each month, providing 28 ounces of meat and 4 ounces of cheese per week.
The stamps were printed with a number for point value and a letter to specify the rationing period—such as C8. Rationing calendars in newspapers declared which stamps were current and for how long. To prevent fraud, the stamps had to be torn off in the presence of the grocer.
The system was simplified on February 27, , when plastic tokens were issued as change. Each cut of meat was assigned a point value per pound, based not on price or quality, but on scarcity.
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Colleen Wilson. How do I have vivid memories of rationing I was born , I vaguely remember shortages of sugar and them using egg powder but if tell anyone they call me a liar.
William Davies. These ration times went beyon , l was born in and remember my mother using food coupons in the Co-operative. Sausages, poultry, rabbits, offal, fish, bacon and other processed meats were not rationed. Once again it is likely that poorer families ate far more meat during the war than before. Fruit and vegetables were not rationed, but there were periodic price hikes and many shortages. Australians were urged to plant vegetable gardens in any available plots of land, and many did.
An unnamed First Nations woman studying her new ration book at an issuing centre in the Brunswick Town Hall, Little has been written about the impact of wartime conditions on local First Nations people, but it is likely that the rationing system enabled many families to eat better than they had before.
The shortages and the rationing continued after the end of the war, longer for some items than for others. Although the restrictions did not last as long as those in Britain, Australians were very weary of rationing by the time it ended. Tea and butter rationing continued until , although rationing of other items ended earlier, from Managing ration coupons, and finding substitutes for scarce household items, made the job of the housewife much more difficult.
Meat ration stamps from rations booklet One cup — about grams — of sugar was given to each adult per week. That may sound like a lot, but we eat at about half of that, or about grams, every day now. They could also get two ounces of tea about 24 tea bags and only four ounces about 1 stick of butter. The Perry sisters help look after the vegetable garden at the Dominion Arsenals Ltd. To help with food rationing, many people started to grow their own food.
A lot of families grew Victory Gardens — little vegetable patches — to help provide nutrition for themselves and their neighbours.
Way have supper in their kitchen before Mr. Way leaves for the night shift. Just because you had a ration card, that didn't mean that the ingredients you wanted would be available in the grocery store.
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