I am going to start this blog out by first collecting information about the time period being covered. Some of this maybe a little random and out of sync but hopefully not to badly.

British Daily Ration - 1914

• 20 oz. Fresh or frozen meat, or 16 oz. preserved or salt meat
• 20 oz. bread, or 16 oz. biscuit or flour
• 4 oz. bacon
• 3 oz. cheese
• 5/8 oz. tea
• 4 oz. jam
• 3 oz. sugar
• 1/2 oz. slat
• 1/36 oz. pepper
• 1/20 oz. mustard
• 8 oz. fresh or 2 oz. dried vegetables
• 1/10 gill lime juice if vegetable not issued (for scurvey)
• 1/2 gill rum (at discretion of commanding general)
• not to exceed 20 oz. tobacco per week

Substitutions

• 4 oz. oatmeal or rice instead bread
• 1/3 oz. chocolate instead of tea.
• 1 pint porter instead of rum
• 4 oz. dried fruit instead of jam
• 4 oz. butter, lard, or margarine, or 1/2 gill oil instead of bacon

German Daily Ration - 1914

• 26 1/2 oz. bread or 17 1/2 oz. field biscuit, or 14 oz. egg biscuit
• 13 oz. fresh or frozen meat, or 7 oz. preserved meat
• 53 oz. potatoes, or 4 1/2 oz. vegetables, or 2 oz. dried vegetables, or 21 oz. mixed potatoes and dried vegetables
• 9/10 oz. coffee, or 1/10 oz. tea
• 7/10 oz. sugar
• 9/10 oz. salt
• 2 cigars and 2 cigarettes, or 1 oz. pipe tobacco, or 9/10 oz. plug tobacco, or 1/5 oz. snuff (at discretion of commanding officer)
• 0.17 pint spirits
• 0.44 pint wine
• 0.88 pint beer 

French Infantry

British Infantry