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1940 Times 9 Sept. 9/4 Some butchers are buying more meat than they can sell legally to their customers in order to sell the balance ‘off the ration’.

1943 Times 4 Aug. 3/3 The provision of facilities for off-ration consumption by special groups—especially factory workers.

1959 in I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren vii. 105 We are three spivs of Trafalgar Square Flogging nylons tuppence a pair, All fully fashioned, all off the ration, Sold in Trafalgar Square.

1975 S. Briggs Keep Smiling Through 150 Some articles off the ration could add an exotic touch to the menu. There was turbot in 1940 and whalemeat in 1942.

1975 S. Briggs Keep Smiling Through 161 ‘Off the ration’ foods..like salt cod were publicized as ‘grand for children as well as grown-ups and what a bargain!’