Part 9 (2/2)

WHAT YOU MAY EAT

FOOD OBTAINABLE ONLY BY CARDS

1. Bread, 1,900 grams per week per person.

2. Meat, 250 grams (1/2 pound) per week per head.

3. Eggs, 1 per person every two weeks.

4. b.u.t.ter, 90 grams per week per person.

5. Milk, 1 quart daily only for children under ten and invalids.

6. Potatoes, formerly 9 pounds per week; lately in many parts of Germany no potatoes were available.

7. Sugar, formerly 2 pounds per month, now 4 pounds, but this will not continue long.

8. Marmalade, or jam, 1/4 of a pound every month.

9. Noodles, 1/2 pound per person a month.

10. Sardines, or canned fish, small box per month.

11. Saccharine (a coal tar product subst.i.tute for sugar), about 25 small tablets a month.

12. Oatmeal, 1/2 of a pound per month for adults or 1 pound per month for children under twelve years.

WHAT YOU CAN EAT

FOODS WHICH EVERY ONE WITH MONEY CAN BUY

1. Geese, costing 8 to 10 marks per pound ($1.60 to $2 per pound).

2. Wild game, rabbits, ducks, deer, etc.

3. Smuggled meat, such as ham and bacon, for $2.50 per pound.

4. Vegetables, carrots, spinach, onions, cabbage, beets.

5. Apples, lemons, oranges.

6. Bottled oil made from seeds and roots for cooking purposes, costing $5 per pound.

7. Vinegar.

8. Fresh fish.

9. Fish sausage.

10. Pickles.

11. Duck, chicken and geese heads, feet and wings.

12. Black crows.

THE FOOD SITUATION AT A GLANCE

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