Rationing in WWII

1. Rationing in WWII By Katie and Abidha

2. Food Rationing • The very first items to be rationed were bacon, sugar, tea, butter, and meat. • Lots of food were rationed later like sweets and milk. • Vegetarians were allowed to swap meat coupons for other foods.

3. Clothes rationing • It wasn’t just food that was rationed though clothing also became scarce. • Each person was given 48 coupons to spend a yr.(Most people made with make, do and mend.) • Children were allocated another ten tokens to allow growing out of clothes.

5. Cosmetics • During the war cosmetics were expensive and hard to find. That’s because everything, including the ingredients used to make them, were used mostly for war efforts. And everything was rationed too. In such cases, even taking a bath or washing your hair wasn’t easy. You would have only a few inches of water available, which certainly weren’t enough to fill a bath tube and shampoo was rationed. Soap was another luxury during the war and most of the time, people washed themselves using only that little bit of water they could get. • Because everything was scarce, women had to be creative and resourceful: if they wanted to dye their hair they could only use vegetable dyes and if they wanted to shave but didn’t have a razor, they’d use a soapy pumice stone instead. As for hair, it was usually wrapped in scarfs or hairnets.

6. Petrol After World War II started in September 1939 the first commodity to be controlled was petrol. Petrol rationing was briefly reintroduced in late 1956. Petrol rationing ended in 26TH Of May 1950