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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Claire Broughton of Leicestershire Library Services on behalf of visitors to Age Concern coffee morning at Coalville Library on Tuesday 12th October 2004, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

Janet and Doreen's memories -
Dried eggs were very nice, especially if mixed with water and fried in a pan with Spam. Beetop (which had a bee as a logo) was also good with this.
Salt and pepper was put on bread and butter to give it flavour if nothing else was available.
Onions were rationed and so Grandfather grew them on his allotment to sell in his shop.
Very few sweets were available and I had 1 penny a week to spend on them and they were eaten as a treat on Sundays.

David's memories -
Father was in the services so mother and uncle looked after the allotments. I had never eaten sweets as I was very young when the war broke out. Father would bring a little fruit when he came home on leave but this caused a lot of arguments when having to share with my three sisters. I remember having a side of bacon hanging in my bedroom.

Other memories:
My family did not like butter so we saved up rations and swapped for a fish and chip supper.
We ate boiled horse meat.
We queued for hours to obtain food, and would know by word of mouth if anything was available.
We kept two pigs, one for the government and one for the family.

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