Janet Carter from Welwyn said:

As a post war baby I clearly remember rationing and my mother's painstaking thrift and care with every scrap of food. No choices for us: we ate what she provided and nothing was allowed to be left on our plates, like it or not! A piece of bread and butter without jam had to be eaten before we could have any with jam. Beef, other than mince, was too expensive; cheap cuts of lamb and offal dominated, with roast shoulder for Sunday lunch. A much wider range of foods is available and affordable now, but I still practice the care with food that my mother instilled in me.
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