Bread was rationed from July 1946 for two years. You mist be older than me if you can remember that. Rationed goods which could be stockpiled included tea, canned, dried and bottled foods, petrol and coal. During WW2 the nation's health actually improved because everyone got a better diet than before. My mother hated butter but accepted her allocated ration then mashed it up with margarine to disguise the taste.
I remember throwing snowballs at mi mum in food queues in the winter of 1947, I was 10 when sweets finally came off ration and 11 when meat came off ration. My eldest sister had to take her ration book with her when she went to university in 1948. The middle sister went to university in 1953 so presumably had to take her ration book too. Something ain't quite right if it takes nine years to stop rationing basic food stuffs, greedy toffs notwithstanding. Or it could be we are not self sufficient in food nor have been since the Napoleonic Wars.
I made it to 75 this year. Mr Reaper had a pop at me late spring. He came down the road with everything he had hoodie, scythe and all but failed dismally. I'll go when I am good and ready don't phone me I'll phone you Mr Reaper....
Wikipedia is quite amusing in places on rationing, especially the Cambridge experiment. The eye opener is the extra points given to diabetics all those years ago. There is an interesting display in Poole Museum re early 1950s rationing shown as a typical kitchen and pantry/larder of the time. It's not particularly inspiring. Having lived through rationing and digging bleeding allotments at age seven/eight I don't have many nostalgic memories of it.
If it happens soon I'll sit on a wagon with an overunder 10 gauge making sure Chris Grayling hoes his row....