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Ditto the above answers. We, in Australia had food rationing for reasons of shortage and the needs of our allies and own own forces.

Butter tea sugar meat petrol and clothing were all rationed.

Each person in a household was given Ration Books for the above items. Clothing included bed linen. Prices for a pair of sheets could be 20/6 and 5coupons.

We sent tons of food to the Uk.

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I was a kid during WW2. In the U.K. we had the womens land army. This meant that yong women were recuited onto farms to replace the men who were in the forces. And a bloody exelent job they made of it too. Whilst it is true that we had quite severe rationing during, and indeed after the war, I cant rcall people actually starving. In fact it has since been seen as the healthiest diet our country ever had. We didnt have the tons of blubber we have waddling down the street that we see today.

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Maybe because all the farmers went to war and no one was left to work the fields?

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