Does anyone from the UK remember rationing?

It was 13th April 1950, my 6th birthday, a secondhand pair of shoes, grey socks up to the knees with a red line on the skin from the elastic, a NEW camelhaired coat bought with a provident cheque, a shiny sixpence and two ration coupons to buy my birthday treat of sweets at the local corner shop. My shoelace was undone so I placed my sixpence on the two coupons on the counter and bent down to tie them, on standing up my coupons were missing. I asked the shopkeeper if he had seen them and got a clip on the ear for being cheeky, no coupons no sweets, some birthday treat. although my parent were sympathetic, there was little they could do, I never forgot. Did anyone else suffer as a child with rationing?