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[email protected] Herefordshire’sFront Rosemary Lillico on food in On The Home Front the Forties and Fifties. Food rationing was Dried egg: 1/8th packet. had extra supplies from ‘the black market’ in operation from Children up to five received the same and no one asked too many questions January 1940 to 1954, I rations while 5 - 16 year olds and about where they came from. Herefordshire’swas born in 1938 and can pregnant women had one pint of milk daily Homeremember Front going shopping with and extra fruit when available. My family was very fortunate in that my mother, walking in to Hereford they lived out in Breinton and had a large from Breinton. This, then was our Everyone had a ration book and would garden. My parents did seasonal land weekly allowance (if you could get it!): have to register with a grocer, butcher and work for local farmers (I can remember Meat - 1/- to 2/1d (5p to 10p) dairy. Later on many other items of picking up cider apples by moonlight with Bacon: 4 ozs to 8 ozs grocery were in short supply and put on my father) and were sometimes paid with Cheese: 1 oz to 8 ozs rations too. The contents of the Ration milk, potatoes and other things in lieu of Fat: 1 oz to 8 ozs Book were known as Coupons or Points.