Ration roundup

I have now completed a week 'on rations', which as I predicted really doesn't make all that much difference -- save that, according to 1940s dietary calculations, I ought to be eating less fat (unsurprising), more meat (which I rather suspected) and a good deal more sugar!
I really am a bit puzzled by that -- I've seen in several places people blogging in a superior fashion about how they adopted 'the WW2 diet' but of course it contained *far* too much sugar while they never touch the stuff, and always wrote it off as (a) health freaks and (b) people who don't bake not realising how much sugar is in the products that they eat on a day to day basis (baked and tinned goods). But I have been having dessert with every meal as per normal and cooking my own cakes and puddings, and even so I've only used about half the ration quantity (eight ounces).

( Cooking with sugar )

( Salad cream )