On March 1, 1943, readers of The Appeal-Democrat learned that grocers in Yuba and Sutter counties reported light sales of newly rationed groceries during the first day of war time “point rationing” ...

John Delaney, who works as a curator at the Imperial War Museum, explains ... here are four (surprisingly delicious) wartime rationing recipes from the IWM’s cookbook, Victory in the Kitchen.

Germany will conscript the young, ration food and turn subway stations ... a 67-page document which outlines how the outbreak of war will affect the civilian population, in particular those ...

To the relief of many, cigarettes and whiskey weren’t subject to rationing during World War II. But practically everything else was. Each man, woman and child in the United States required ...

Rationing of food and other goods during World War Two changed the social landscape of Britain for a generation, creating a national culture of ingenuity, austerity and making-do. Photo ...

Rationing has helped to stop people starving. And during the war we’ve learnt not to waste any food. As the war went on and food became harder to find, the Government had to introduce it.