Sunday 11 November 2007

Some history

Food List
Ten to eleven days - for a fairly strenuous trip.


lb.

ozs.

lb.

ozs.

Tea 4 Sugar 2 0
Salt 2 Boiled Bacon 2 8
Dried Vegetables 2 0 Biscuits (Vita Wheat) 3 0
Cheese 1 0 Rolled Oats 1 4
Macaroni 1 0 Barley Sugar 8
Raisins and Sultanas 1 0 Dates 1 0
Dried Fruit 1 0 Egg Powder 1 0
Sunshine Milk 12 Butter 1 8
Oxo Cubes 4 Chocolate 8
Peanut Butter 8

Total

21
2

Drawn from the Tasmanian Tramp, No 7. December 1946, the magazine of the Hobart Walking Club.

They were pretty hardy souls in those days!


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