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[[Rationing in the United Kingdom|Rationing was introduced in 1940]] to cope with the shortages caused by the wartime blockade. Foods such as bananas and chocolate became hard to find, while unfamiliar items such as [[dried egg]], [[Instant mashed potatoes|dried potato]], [[whale meat]], [[Centropomus|snook]] (a South African fish), and the tinned pork product [[Spam (food)|Spam]] appeared in the national diet. Since butter, sugar, eggs and flour were all rationed, English dishes such as pies and cakes became hard to make from traditional recipes. Instead, foods such as carrots were used in many different dishes, their natural sugars providing sweetness in novel dishes like carrot [[fudge]]. The diet was less than enjoyable, but paradoxically, rationing meant that overall the population was healthier than ever before, and perhaps ever since. The [[Ministry of Food (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Food]] employed home economists such as [[Marguerite Patten]] to demonstrate how to cook economically. After the war, Patten became one of the first television cooks, and sold 17 million copies of her 170 books.

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