One major consequence from the Liberation Of The Netherlands was that everyone was at huge risk of a famine in the Western Netherlands. Because of this, Canadian Corps stopped on paused the battle on April 22nd and negotiated a truce with the Germans to allow food supplies delivered by trucks and aircraft to come into the area, through that day to May 3rd, over tones of thousands of food were distributed throughout the area. The food stocks in all of the western parts of Netherlands ran out rapidly. This affected over 4.5 million people, even butter disappeared in October of 1944. The people of Netherlands would have to walk tens of kilometers just to be able to trade valuables for food at farms, there were over 18,000 deaths from only the malnutrition, more deaths were caused from malnutrition with other factors. The majority of their food was cheese, 100 grams of cheese was allotted every two weeks, they had meat coupons in which became useless because no one had meat to sell, the ratio of bread had dropped from 2,200 to below 1,400 grams per week. Once the agreement with the Germans to be able to bring nutrition in, there were airdrops coordinated by the Royal Air Force with food.