Text] Chapter 110 Simple meals
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Food is the most important thing for the people, so to recruit refugees, there must be enough food. [Read the latest chapter] ** ** Providing food for 200,000 people on a long-distance journey is an even heavier burden - even if it sets sail from Shanghai or Zhapu, the sea route to Lingao is 900 nautical miles long. The sailing trip takes 10 days.
Even for a healthy person, it is not an easy task to walk this sea route on a crowded and bumpy sailing ship, let alone a group of hungry and chronically malnourished refugees. If they are not provided with rations with certain nutritional content and sufficient calories, it will be difficult for them to survive to see the end of the journey.
Based on their experience in hosting refugees for several years, serving gruel with vegetables is a food that is more beneficial to the refugees’ weak stomachs. After their stomach and intestines gradually adapt, adding protein foods: mainly seafood to the gruel can enhance their physical fitness.
In the quarantine camp, it is easy to simply use brown rice and sweet potatoes to make porridge or other foods, but ordinary grains do not meet Lingao's management and nutritional requirements, and are also inconvenient to transport and use. It was difficult to cook gruel for hundreds of people in the cramped ship's galley. There must be a supply of simple and easy-to-eat food.
Hong Huangnan's supply plan is based on the "Pillar Operation" that landed in Sanya in the past - supplying each ship with enough grassland instant rations. This series of instant rations has developed very maturely: there are already three series and twelve varieties. If you count the different flavors and ingredients, there are even more subspecies. Not only does this series fully meet the standards in terms of nutrition and calories, but the taste has also been greatly improved.
But this plan was rejected by Wu De: it was too expensive to distribute grass rations in large quantities. Moreover, there were insufficient stocks of grassland rations, including those stored in army warehouses. There are only 1.5 campaign stocks. The nutritional structure is also not very reasonable. Grassland rations are high-calorie rations used to replenish a large amount of physical energy consumed during strenuous combat marches, so the ingredients contain more protein and fat.
The rich protein and fat are difficult for the weak stomachs of refugees to bear. Not only that, the human body needs to consume a large amount of additional fresh water to digest and metabolize protein, which can easily cause thirst. This is another problem for a refugee ship that is crowded with refugees and has limited water storage. Increased water supply pressure.
Wu De handed over the matter to the agricultural port and food factory. Let them develop a relief ration specially used to relieve refugees.
The biggest difference between relief rations and grassland series rations is the cost - compared with the grassland series, which has a wide variety and complete content, relief rations consider more of high-volume, low-cost production under the conditions of ensuring energy and basic nutrition.
This matter fell on Xun Suji - as the director of the food factory, of course he had no shirk in this matter. Xun Suji got married and had a family, and his wife took good care of him when he returned home. More importantly, there was no "family fight" between Liu Meilan and Kim Hee Sun. The family relationship is relatively harmonious, and everything is prosperous. Director Xun not only enjoys the blessings of everyone, but is also very motivated at work.
After receiving the task, he immediately gathered with the people who originally developed grassland rations to discuss how to create relief rations.
The relief ration meeting was held at the Lotus Root Pavilion of Nanhai Farm. Different from the cafe, this place has a deliberately created "rural scenery". Compared with the past, the environment around the Lotus Root Pavilion has been deliberately renovated. Next to the pond full of lotus leaves, the original large pavilion made of bamboo and straw has been renovated into three waterside pavilion buildings with wooden terraces facing the water. Fruit trees and willows are planted all around. The bamboo fence is covered with green pumpkin vines.
Being there, it feels like some very elaborate "farmhouse" resorts from the old days.
In addition to the developers and "enthusiasts" of the original agricultural port, Bai Duolu also came to get involved. His enthusiasm for relief rations was entirely due to the need to preach in the Lebanese region. Agricultural production in Li District is even more backward than that in Han District, especially in Shengli District, which is completely slash-and-burn farming, and insufficient food rations in villages is a common phenomenon. The church often distributes relief food as a means of missionary work. Therefore, Lingao Seminary is in urgent need of a cheap relief ration.
The people who originally developed grassland rations were basically a group of "military ration control". Many of the veterans sat at home in their pajamas and ate military instant rations bought at high prices. They had no idea what MRE, the British army's 24-hour rations, and the French single-use rations were. Heated soldier rations and 06 self-heating food for individual soldiers are all treasures.
Now we need to develop a relief ration, which is tantamount to scratching everyone's g-spot. Many people came to the Lotus Root Pavilion, some of whom were not originally on the list of participants, and they all came over in their busy schedule.
According to the refugee supply standards set by Chen Sigen: the food supply standard for a refugee when "transported by public transportation" is 1,790 kcal per day. It is roughly equivalent to the supply standard in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War II, and can guarantee that you will not starve to death. Of course, refugees are neither trained nor engaged in any work when transported by public transport. Children, pregnant women and patients have different supply standards.
Wu Nanhai suggested that the raw materials for rations should be priority to use sweet potato flour - not sweet potato starch. Sweet potato starch is pure starch, while sweet potato flour is made by drying sweet potato slices and grinding them directly into powder. Contains high amounts of fiber from sweet potatoes.
Lingao has a large reserve of dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato powder. Tiandihui has promoted improved sweet potato cultivation on a large scale in Lingao. Both state-owned farms and ordinary farmers have produced a large amount of sweet potatoes. It can be said that the supply of raw materials is very sufficient. It has become an important raw material for Lingao food industry.
In addition to sweet potato flour, there is a small amount of protein. Wu Nanhai suggested adding a small amount of soy flour or bean dregs. Leguminous crops are widely grown as nitrogen-fixing crops in Lingao's new crop rotation system. In addition to the tight supply of soybeans used to extract oil and make tofu, there are still considerable reserves of broad beans, peas, black beans, chickpeas, etc. in the grain depot.
"...Add sugar and salt, hún some dried vegetables, and if you think the bean dregs are not enough, mix in fish meal and finally dry it into lumps." Wu Nanhai said.
Ye Yuming said: "Why do you want to make bricks? It's a waste of labor. I don't think it's necessary. If you are purely considering low cost, dried sweet potatoes will do - we have a large reserve of this stuff, and it is not easy to break. Every ship can load it." Several hundred sacks are distributed to the refugees for each meal. We guarantee 500 grams of dried sweet potatoes a day to ensure that they will not starve to death. We just need to ration some soup: the refugees cannot eat salt."
He proposed: Make a concentrated and dehydrated condiment made into bricks: a three-in-one concentrated soup cube made of miso, kelp, and dried vegetables.
The miso soup cooked with this soup cube is a commonly used dish in Japan and North Korea. It is rich in nutrients, although the taste is not very good.
"If you like, you can add some dehydrated vegetables or dried fish to the miso soup to supplement nutrients. Sweet potatoes are rich in fiber, so there is no need to add fiber such as fiber."
Hong Huangnan continued to promote his potato flour plan. He has a special liking for potatoes and has always advocated that the army and workers should eat more potatoes.
"It's still the plan I mentioned before: dehydrated potato powder, animal fat, and spices are mixed together. When eating, just add water and mix together to make mashed potatoes. Potatoes are rich in nutrients and can completely replace rice grains. If it can replace the supply of 5,000 soldiers, calculate , each person consumes half a kilogram of rice grain every day. If you eat mashed potatoes as much as one day a week, you will save 2,500 kilograms of rice grain every week and 10,000 kilograms of rice grain every month. This number is very impressive. Of course, refugees can eat it more. I I don’t think it’s necessary to provide protein to sea-going refugees. Water is needed to digest protein, so it’s better to add fat.”
"I still want the grease myself," Dongmen Chuiyu, the representative of the General Staff, said, "Grease is not enough even for the senators to eat, so why should it be given to the refugees? Besides, we have never grown potatoes on a large scale."
"Potatoes have a short planting period and high yields. They can be used as a vegetable or as a staple food. The excess potatoes are dehydrated and made into potato powder, which can be stored for a long time! I have never understood why the Ministry of Agriculture doesn't like to promote potatoes?"
"Lingao is not suitable for growing potatoes, so we should promote it in the north," Wu Nanhai said. There are potatoes planted in the experimental fields of Nanhai Farm - purely to maintain the source of the seeds, with no intention of promotion. Judging from the small amount of planting, the yield is not as high as in the north, and there is no advantage compared with the sweet potatoes planted.
The yield of potatoes is very high, but potatoes have a lot of water. The actual ratio of grain harvest will be greatly discounted. According to the standards of the old time and space, five pounds of potatoes were worth one pound of rice.
After discussion, the final relief ration program was named the "Simple Meals" series. Easy Meal No. 1 is sweet potato flour “cookies.” The same half-pound standard brick contains two cake bricks, and there are two flavors of salty, sweet and light. At the same time, the "No. 1 instant soup cube" was finalized and put into production, which is the "soy soup" that Ye Yuming boasted. Making miso requires the use of beans or rice. The raw materials are limited, so it can only be produced in small quantities. One No. 1 instant soup cube can make miso soup for ten people.
The simple food series later developed into a comprehensive supply of rations like the grassland series. But it has fewer types. Just simply classify them according to their usage. In terms of purpose, it is divided into "on-site relief", "camp relief", "vehicle and boat transportation relief" and "foot relief". Each variety is divided into winter type and ordinary type. Each ration has different calories and nutritional content.
However, the contents of relief rations produced in each batch vary greatly. According to the different seasons of dry food production, the continuous expansion of the territory controlled by the Senate and the improvement of agricultural production levels, the content of rations is also constantly changing. There are deluxe versions with brown rice flour and whole wheat flour mixed with minced meat and dried meat, and there are simple versions that just add some sweet potato leaves and fish meal to the sweet potato flour during times of stress. Generally speaking, there is no significant difference in the weight, size, energy and nutritional content of each batch of relief rations.
