World War 2 Food Rationing

September 1989

June 1930

January 1940

December 1946

The British government wanted to sell food to other countries to make money in order to build more bombs

The Prime Minister wanted to save most of the food for himself

The British government thought that British people needed to lose weight

Rationing made sure that everyone got an equal amount of food

No

Yes

British people needed more exercise

Winston Churchill wanted people to grow their own food because he wanted to keep most of the imported food for himself

The British Ministry of Agriculture encouraged people to grow their own food during times of harsh food rationing

The Ministry of Agriculture wanted British people to grow fruit and vegetables to send to the soldiers who were fighting in the war

9 weeks

6 months

3 years

14 years

British people did not like bananas, they found them to difficult to open.

The Prime Minister Winston Churchill encouraged people to eat apples, he did not like bananas.

Bananas were too expensive to buy and money was needed to buy meat, butter and eggs.

Bananas were banned, the ships that brought bananas to Britain were now needed for the war effort.

They had just 1 blue coloured ration book, this was for the whole family.

Ration books were green, green coloured ration books reminded people to grow their own vegetables.

There were 2 ration books, a red one for meat and a blue one for fish.

There were 3 ration books, brown for adults, green for children under 5 and a blue one for children aged 5-16.

The equivalent of 50 shopping bags

Enough to feed 55 families for a year

55 tons

55 million tons

Lamb

Beef

Rabbit

Pork