Last week primary 2 and 3 had great fun doing their topic homework. Their task was to choose a recipe from the wartime recipe book and make it! Lots of foods were rationed during WWII because the German submarines cut off most food supplies to Britain by attacking the ships that brought food. Before the war, Britain imported 55 million tons of food, a month after the war had started this dropped to 12 million! So British people were issued with a ration book to make sure that everyone had a fair share of food. Items such as eggs, meat, fruit and milk were all rationed. Food was rationed for 14 years, food rationing ended in 1954, 9 years after the end of the war!