polian bonaparte's famous quote an army marches on its stomach found its world war one iteration with is ammunition don't waste it part of a massive campaign to educate citizens to conserve food for the war and to raise awareness that individual consumption had an effect on a global scale. much of the war propaganda of that they urged people to buy a local fresh and seasonal food to plant edible victory gardens to eat less meat and more veggies to raise chickens for eating food scraps and providing aid to can preserve and dry excess food for the coming months and not only were people urged to clean their plates there was less on them to begin with largely due to the war rationing portion sizes were much smaller and people were urged to eat a very diet of healthy foods rather than consume oversized portions with little or no nutritional value. although our tastes and habits have changed many of the ideals and very spare great grandparents generation haven't. the language of the past may be couched in war terminology but the parallels between that time and ours abound we're experiencing