Good soldiers on the home and production fronts are not going to chisel on each other. But the way to solve these and other similar problems is to work together to make point rationing work. Americans have always helped each other to help themselves, whether there was a barn to be raised, corn to be shucked, or a war to be won. One of the best ways we can help each other now is by exchanging ideas and experiences to solve such problems as these. Some families are adding more eggs and meat to their diet by raising chickens or rabbits in the back yard.
Many families can grow Victory Gardens.
Many housewives recommend rendering chicken fat for use in pastries, using bacon grease instead of butter in cooking and baking, adding to the soup the liquid used in cooking vegetables, saving stale bread to make crumbs and dressing. A community might have more trouble in getting a nonrationed food than a rationed one, because of transportation difficulties and seasonal shortages. This does not necessarily mean that the food in question should be rationed. But the community may ration itself. Some storekeepers are already limiting their customers to one half pound of butter in order to distribute the supply evenly.