As one poster from the era explained it, people over 12 were allotted 2½ pounds of beef, veal, lamb and pork a week. Kids under 6 got three-quarters of a pound.

The federal government began rationing sliced bread on this day in history, Jan. 18, 1943 — marketing the darkest days of World War II on the home front. Restrictions continued after the war.

An original Office of Price Administration rationing poster is shown from the archive at the Rochester Public Library in Rochester, New Hampshire on Nov. 8, 2018. Charles Krupa / AP ...

Rationing, therefore, controls the size of the ration, which is the allotted portion of the resources in question to be distributed at a particular time.During World War II, […] ...

Almost 40 per cent of the public would welcome a return to World War II-style rationing for meat and fuel in order to help fight climate change, a new study reveals.

Today many people follow vegetarian, vegan and a variety of eclectic diets, but before World War II meals were commonly based on the meat and two veg philosophy. And so food rationing, which began ...

A World War II ration book belonging to Charles Stowell of the Belmont Gardens neighborhood of Chicago was found at an antique shop on Feb. 2, 1982.

Toward the end of WWII, late 1944 or early 1945, I was in downtown Decatur shopping with my mother, Margaret, when I noticed my mother was getting very excited. She ...