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1.The diet of a lifetime
Food rationing started in January 1940, four months after the start of World War Two. It ran for the next 14 years and changed our eating habits for more than a generation.


Throughout the war each person was allocated a scientifically devised weekly provision of specific foods.


We often think of rationing as a 'starvation diet' but the daily calorific value was around 3000 calories. This is up to 1000 more than we are recommended today – so was it still good for us?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zqftn39

I think it was a healthier diet then, people use to make meals from scratch with what they had and grew their own veg.