| Eggplant was one of the easily obtainable, unrationed foods, so cooks improvised to vary their scarce diet. |
| Customers had to register with one shopkeeper to obtain their basic foods but could look elsewhere for unrationed goods. |
| To keep the home fires burning local merchants were hoping they would still be able to supply unrationed fuel such as open-cast slack to be used for banking up fires. |
