FEEDING IN THE ARMY.

Shannon News, 8 February 1929, Page 2

FEEDING IN THE ARMY.

GENEROUS DAILY MEALS. Figures recently published from t: annual report of the Director of H I giene and .Pathology on the Scottif Command Depots disclose 'the fa that recruits, during their Depot pe iod of 20 weeks, put on an average < 7.291 bin weight. This is a pleasin comparison with the old days, when to quote from the statistics of 1887 the average during an equivalent per iod was only From a specimei menu, picked at random from a Scottish Depot, the following items wil show that a fine organisation is at work which can provide such meals on the Government allowance of Is 7d a day:— Sunday.—Breakfast: Bread, tea, butter, bacon and eggs. Dinner: Tomato soup, roast meat, potatoes, green peas. Tea: Bread, tea, butter, marmalade. Supper: Cocoa, bread and cheese. Wednesday.—Breakfast: Bread tea" butter, porridge and milk, bacon and sausages. Dinner: Lentil soup, shepherd's pie, Rangoon beans, rice and raisins. Tea: Bread, tea, butter, cold moat and sauce. Supper: Bread and soup. Supper is provided on five days 0* the week, and there is early morninc tea at 6.30 o'clock every day except Saturdays. * In time to come there will be no point in the ditty which says: "Old soldiers never die—- " They just fade away."