Comparison British/Canadian and German Rations

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)〔The gill (pronounced or teacup is a unit of measurement for volume equal to a quarter of a pint. It is no longer in common use, except in regard to the volume of alcoholic spirits measures.
In imperial units
1 imperial gill≡ 5 imperial fluid ounces
≡ ​1⁄32 imperial gallon
≡ ​1⁄4 imperial pint
≡ 142.0653125 ml
≈ 142 ml〕
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