Mrs Lillie Taylor of Oldham, Lancashire, at work in the Ministry of Food kitchen during 1942 as one of 25 housewives selected to show cookery experts how a variety of food could be produced from rations.

Food Chart - Body Building Foods - Energy Foods - Protective Foods - Eat Something From Each Group Every Day

Christmas food hampers in Selfridges: 1953

A Liverpool dockyard worker enjoys a meal of American baked ham during a working day in 1941.

Four children help load tins of Meredith and Drew Ltd. 'Welfare Biscuits' onto a lorry for dispatch to civilians in liberated Europe, 1945.

Mrs Bell from Guernsey shows off the contents of her full shopping baskets after the liberation of the Channel Islands in 1945.

'Flies Foul Food', 1944 (c)

'Bad habits - to finger the nose', 1947-1955.

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