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Oranges and lots of things went short in the war. Food cost men their lives literally. Only one ship in three carrying goods got through. When oranges did come in we got them on our ration books. Only kids got oranges but my mum grabbed the peels and made marmalade. Jam and marmalade were low sugar as sugar was rationed. I don’t know how the parents managed. Even things like eggs were rationed. We were really quite hungry by the end of the war, but we were lean and fit.
We got ¾ lb of sweets for a month on rations — it was hard to make them last for a month. Rationing went on quite a long time after the end of the war as it took time to build up stocks again and lots of boats had been lost.

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