article_snippet: The Robshaws found the 1950s wholegrain National Loaf particularly hard to stomach, and ten-year-old Fred was overjoyed when sweets came off the ration.
article_snippet: ’s writer, said 1950s-style rationing left Mr Robshaw, a freelance journalist and children feeling hungry all the time and was particularly hard on Fred, who ‘literally danced with joy the day sweets came off the ration’.
article_snippet: None of us found the National Loaf easy to digest.
article_snippet: As flour was scarce, the National Loaf was padded out with potato starch.