"basic food supplies" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the essential or fundamental food items that are necessary for survival. Example: The natural disaster left many families without access to basic food supplies, causing widespread hunger and desperation.
The church runs monthly missions to the jails to dispense toothpaste, shampoo and basic food supplies.
They collected fees, distributed basic food supplies and enforced their strict religious codes, including on beards.
The national academy of agricultural sciences expects basic food supplies to become insufficient around the year 2030.
The same smart card will also allow people to buy basic food supplies such as sugar or rice.
If royal officials did not assure basic food supplies at affordable prices, then people would act directly to seize food.
Basic food supplies, medical services and even burials were paid for by gang leaders who maintained a precarious peace.
What had begun as subsistence gardening during the war, to ensure basic food supply for families, turned into colonies of urban settlers squatting public land by adapting allotment-sheds into living space.
The sea reaches depths of 5,000 23,000 feet (1,500 7,000 m) and is characterized by weak currents, low precipitation, high evaporation, light winds, and warm, saline waters, all combining with the lack of thermal mixing to create a biological desert largely devoid of plankton, a basic food supply for fish.
The family's small herd of sheep and goats started to die, hitting their income and basic food supply.
Efficient marketing infrastructure such as assembly, wholesale and retail markets and storage are essential for cost-effective marketing, to minimise post-harvest losses, to reduce health risks and to ensure an adequate stability of basic food supply.
On the ground, citizens are struggling to buy basic food and supplies, while the country's minimum wage has been increased 21 times since Maduro took charge in 2013 — most recently on March 1.
