| Show Eti europe ropes a great place if you want to reduce war brings ration diets by MARIE BENNETSON released by western newspaper union tanks machine bindon guns and airplanes to the contrary an army still trav els elson on its stomach and in wartime its still the folks back home who must tighten their belts and make the most of a weekly food ration that lets them up from the dinner table minus that it satisfied feeling americas america S world war food restriction which featured meatless 48 and days were childs play corn com pare pared d to restrictions now imposed on S S Z n A CANNED BREAD strange strang e food foods arise in time of war this english djs ish lady is packing bread in lie hermetically ethically eti cally seated sealed tins it tastes like toasted bread and keeps perfectly civilians in germany heres the rations for one week meat including the precious sausage au 17 ounces including the bone butchers are reported trying to r sell ell pig heads because bones will then be reckoned as only 10 per cent of the weight F fats ats 80 grams or less than three ounces of butter four ounces of margarine or oil two ounces of lard bacon or tallow and two ounces of cheese sugar about nine ounces syrup or jam 34 ounces bread five gernian german pounds reduced it if the rationed rat ionee buys flour coffees a fake groceries 25 grams or less than an ounce of barley yellow corn flour rice oats spaghetti or similar foods 25 grams of starch products four ounces of coffee substitute skimmed milk an all you want regular milk a pint and a half dally daily for children up to six years old halt half pint dally daily for older children and a pint daily for pregnant women and young mothers flour less than a pound a week soap one piece of utility soap and 2 ounces of toilet soap shaving soap one stick stack a year potatoes and onions are not rationed and germans can buy all the fish they want except that none are available this winter therell be one egg a we week ek for every german but food prices both in germany and britain are kept low germans who are able try to supplement fundamental foods with high grade vegetables britain has full larder by contrast france has no food problem being principally an agricultural ri nation and britain although she has distributed ration cards has vast amounts of foods stored in her larder moreover she is still able to import while germany is hemmed in by a blockade probably the reich can count on russia for some raw materials but not unless she can supply the soviet with manufactured items in return and ger german m an factories are kept busy turning out war supplies the importance of food in winning a war is not overlooked by military experts who agree that victory always goes to the nation with the greatest physical resistance this is a psychological factor too for a well fed soldier at the front goes weak when he learns that his family at N LITERALLY french sol diers defending a railway really do travel on their stomachs as this photo shows alen can not fight on empty stomachs so folks back home must diet back home is hungry that Is one reason germany has cut off all communications between civil and military groups during the present war reich belch in bad spot it was food that won the world war and germany is making a bad start in the new conflict for in 1918 at the very end of th the e last war great britain was eating better than the germans are today then britaina Brit ains weekly domestic consumption of meat per p person erson was pounds there was one halt half I 1 pound of sugar 45 ot of a pound of fat and pounds of white bread and flour contrast this with ger banys current rations on the oth other erhand hand the reich is accustomed to thin diets ever since national socialism came into power its been a choice between butter and guns and guns have usually won several weeks before the current cir hostilities began german housewives were ordered to limit their weekly purchases hence the people are psychologically and physically prepared for food rationing having learned from experience how to get the most nourishment from the least amount of bf food americans w would id probably starve on the ai et same s a m e diet |
