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
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) |