Antonia The rations you quote are for those foodstuffs that were rationed, many foodstuffs, including fruit and vegetables were not rationed.
The items on the list are animal products and in the circumstances land produces more food if growing arable crops than cattle, so production was limited and supply rationed. The other items, sugar and tea, needed to be imported, although the war did lead to the expansion of producing sugar from sugar beet.
paddyann54 I was born in wartime and lived in Lewisham, the archtypal inner city borough. Even when people did not have gardens parks and commons were ploughed up and divided into allottments, also bomb sites.
In this modern world, there is nothing to stop that happening again. Modern housing developments, even in inner cities tend to have areas of grass, even quite small ones, around them and as many city farms, community gardening projects and windowsill gardens show can be productive of food even the most unpromising surroundings can be.
Is there such a thing as delicious ready meals?
Shall we reboot our cartoons thread again? 😁