DIET IMPROVEMENTS ABANDONED
“It was announced earlier in the month that our programme of food purchases from hard currency countries would be reduced by £12,000,000 a month,’’ said the statement from Eowning Street. “This reduction cannot be secured at the expense of stocks because in the present circumstances it is essential that our existing stocks of food should be conserved. It will be secured p rtly by abandoning improvements which had been planned in the nation’s diet and partly by economies in current consumption. “The nature of these economies must depend to some extent on the agree-
i ments which have now to be negoti- . ated with the supplying countries.” The monthly allotment of food points i had already been reduced from 32 to 28, and further adjustments upwards and downwards in the points values of ; various foods would be anounced bet fore the beginning of the next ration . period on September 14. A Ministry of Food announcement i says that the composition of the new i meat ration of Is a week will vary i from time to time according to supplies. It is not expected that more than twopence worth will be canned ; meat, and at times the ration will be • all carcase meat.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25275, 29 August 1947, Page 7
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