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Video: War-time food rationing & tips for the American home-maker.
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You can click on link to view this Food Rationing in WW2 America Video at YouTube.
Sample materials are compiled from a 1940s booklet issued by The Nutritional Committee at General Mills, Inc.
The purpose of the booklet was to help the American home-maker solve war-time problems,
to plan meals to fit the ration points and to fit whatever foods are available.
Photos: Home-maker photo is of my Mother Mattie (1942).
Family photo (early 1940s) is my family – Dad Jim, Mother Mattie, Brothers Tom and Jerry. The Family photo was taken a couple years before I was born.
Victory Garden photo: my brothers Tom and Jerry.
The Collage is pictures of family and friends from our 1940s California farming neighborhood.
My Mother passed away October 2011. These war-time materials and booklet were found among her old photographs.
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Comments by my brother Tom - things he remembers as a child during the war
We had Blackout Drills. Everyone turned their lights out and we would huddle down. If you looked out you couldn't see your hand, it was so dark.
I remember Dad was an air raid warden. He would go out at night with a flashlight, whistle and little helmet that looked like a bowl.
His duty was to watch and make sure no planes came over. Because Dad was Italian (Passalaqua) he had a curfew and had to be in early.
We had a Victory Garden because we needed to save on food for the Army, children were enouraged to help. We grew our own vegetables and this helped us
save money and help with having more supplies at the store - that way the Army would have more.
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