Rationing
Rationing in the second world war was considered as "THE NECESSARY EVIL".At the start of the war every-body any age adult or baby was issued with a ration book.Inside a ration book was pages and pages of coupons for different types of food.These foods would include things such as tea,eggs,butter,sausages and bread.Sometimes you could have fruit and vegitables.However these wouldn't be like the fruits and vegitables we have today there was no imported exotic fruit like bannanas all thefruit you could have would be whatever was in season. Every week house wives would go to their registered shop to collect their weekly rations.The house wives would give the shop keeper a coupon for whatever food they needed but this would only include a certain amount such as 2oz of buter or a 1lb of tea.Although this was a sufficient amount for most families some had a large number of children and so needed more food so they turned to the "BLACK MARKET".The Black Market was were people could buy and sell things at advanced prices.Say a mother of six hadn't enough meat from the rationed amount of food to feed all of her family but she had enough potatoes because they were cheap she would save up her rationed meat and sell it on the black market for more potatoes.
