The War in My Kitchen: Food Rationing and Life on the Home Front During WWII

While Soldiers, Marines, and Sailors fought the Axis of Evil overseas, women were fighting the war from their kitchens and factory floors. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without,” was a rallying cry for those who met the challenge of food rationing rules and were limited to what was available at the butcher’s shop or growing in their Victory Gardens. Kitchen grease and scrap aluminum needed to be salvaged to make ammunition. Food waste of any kind was unpatriotic. Travel back to the early 1940s for a peek inside the pantries, cupboards, recipe books, dinner tables and lunch boxes of the WWII home front.