This was the daily food ration for the average resident of Leningrad, though essential workers got twice that.
"The North Korean military elites are skimming from their budgets, cutting down the average ration for soldiers," said Ms. Lee, whose husband served in the military.
My mother's tale, the saddest of all, was that her mother, Grandpa's crazy second wife, gave up eating so that she could save her ration for my mother.
The monthly egg ration for each person was half a kilo, and, most of the time, the store did not even carry eggs.
The Army's 5-1 emeration ratisn, is a box about the size of an unabridged dictionary and contains a day's ration for five men.
The compounded ration for a milking cow generally contains about 50 80 percent cereals, consisting of wheat by-products, flaked or ground corn, barley, sorghum, wheat, and oats.
Some people, like René Odge, 29, said they stretched the ration for more than a week by breaking the biscuits into small pieces.
While my pork porterhouse was large enough to be my pork ration for a month, it was a bit dry and dense.
You could live off soy and water for a long time: in the second world war, the standard ration for Japanese soldiers was just a bag of soy flour.
These include cooked midday meals for all school-going children and nutritious food (either a cooked meal or a take-home ration) for all children below the age of 6.
A shortfall of international aid has forced the World Food Program to halve the food ration for 2.6 million malnourished people in Zimbabwe, and aid officials say supplies for that country of some staples like cooking oil will completely run out early next month.
