New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
Appendix A — Food Ration Scale, Middle East, 1940 (1941 variations in brackets)
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Appendix A
Food Ration Scale, Middle East, 1940 (1941 variations in brackets)
| Fresh Ration | Ounces | |
| Bread | 16 | (12) |
| Meat, frozen | 14 | (12) |
| Vegetables | 8 | |
| Onions | 2 | |
| Potatoes | 12 | |
| Beans, lentils | 2 | (1) |
| Bacon | 3 | |
| Cheese | ½ | (¾) |
| Butter or margarine | 1½ | |
| Fruit, fresh | 3½ | (4) |
| Fruit, dried | 4/7 | |
| Jam | 1½ | (1) |
| Oatmeal (or flour) | 1 | |
| Rice | 1 | |
| Salmon, tinned | 3/7 | |
| Herrings, tinned | 4/7 | |
| Tea | ½ | (?) |
| Sugar | 3½ | |
| Salt | ? | (½) |
| Milk | 2 | |
| Pepper | 1/100 | |
| Mustard | 1/100 | |
| Tobacco or cigarettes | 2 oz. a week | |
| Matches | 2 boxes a week |
| Tinned Ration Equivalent | Ounces | |
| Biscuits | 12 | (10) |
| Meat | 12 | (9) |
| (M and V ration 20 oz ? frozen meat 14 oz, potatoes 12 oz, vegetables 8 oz, and onions 2 oz.) | ||
| Bacon | 2½ | |
| or sausages | (4) |
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