3,240,948 tons of food was sent from Britain to the soldiers fighting in France and Belgium. The British Army employed 300,000 workers to cook and supply the food.
At the beginning of the war, a soldier was given 10 ounces of meat and 8 ounces of vegetables a day. As the size of the army grew and the German barrier became more effective, the army could not maintain these rations and in 1916 the food was cut to 6 ounces of meat a day.
Later troops not in the front-line only received meat on nine out of every thirty days. The daily bread ration was also cut in 1917. The British Army attempted to give the soldiers the 3,574 calories a day that dieticians said they needed.
However, others argued that soldiers during wartime need much more than this.