Anyone know how WWII rationing worked?

[Dr. Who]

Thanks for the help!

I had heard about 'saving stamps' from working with WW2 rationing ephemera and WW2 propaganda films. Recently I found out what they are.
People would buy .10 or .25 war stamps and put them in a special folder. Once they got to $18.75 they could buy a $25 war bond to fund the war effort.

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Can you imagine funding a war at .10 at a time. What a different world it was.

The gal I mentioned was able to contact her aunts. One had broken her back, but it was not too bad and she was recovering. The aunts were too young at the time to remember much of the rationing era. I thought they were in their 90's, but they are only in their late late 80's and were only 10 years old during WW2. Anyway, I'm doing a good job piecing the rationing mystery together little by little.

It seems to me that provisioning one's household involved a significant degree of long range strategic planning, tracking pricing fluctuations, shortages and stamp changes in the newspaper. You didn't just run to the corner and pick up a pound of butter and a quart of milk. My mother was fortunate, she grew up on a farm, so during the war they really didn't have to buy much other than sugar, coffee (or what passed for coffee), salt etc. and items of clothing.

[sark]

...the Brits did not ration lobster.....

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..at least they didn't have it as bad as the Brits, Germans, Italians, etc....some places had more than others .....
..the POWs said they would think of nothing but food--thought of food much more than woman/etc
..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_...4%E2%80%931945