Citizen Involvement in the War Effort at Home—

Food Rationing

Patricia Plaut

AHTC Summer Institute 2007

Photographs

Library of Congress, American Memory

• Sugar rationing. Application form which will have to be filled out by every person to whom war ration book no.1 is issued when sugar rationing starts within a few weeks. Applicants will register at public schools on dates to be announced shortly
• Preparation for point rationing. Catherine M. Rooney, 6th grade teacher at the Murch Elementary School, Washington, D.C., explains to her interested pupils how to use war ration book two when shopping for processed foods
• Food in England. A shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a British housewife's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon she is allowed for one week. Most foods in Britain are rationed and some brand names are given the designation "National"
• Preparation for point rationing. Never too young to learn, these future homemakers receive first-hand experience in looking for point values as well as prices and information on labels when buying canned and bottled foods with war ration book two
• Preparation for point rationing. Miss Elizabeth Law, who teaches an adult homemaking class at Mckinley High School, Washington, D.C., explains the use of war ration book two to a group of homemakers at the school. The relationship of balanced diets to point-rationed foods is taught to adult classes open to all D.C. homemakers
• Wartime food demonstration. Explaining methods of "extending" meats now that rationing is limiting civilian meat purchases, wartime food demonstrator Alice Burtis puts finishing touches to a meat loaf before an audience in Washington, D.C.
• Preparation for point rationing. "Know your points and your food values" is the lesson being taught these home economics pupils in the McKinley High School, Washington, D.C. A student indicates the importance of fresh fruits and vegetables in conserving rationing points

World War 2 Ex RAF.co.uk

Food Rationing Time Line

(Quantities shown are per person per week); Food Rationing in World War 2 part 5

Oregon Secretary of State, Archive Division (Oregon Archive Division)

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/services/ratblack.htm

Rationing: A Necessary But Hated Sacrifice, Life On The Home Front: Oregon Response to World War II. Oregon Secretary of State Archives Division, specifically the URL shown below.