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Getting food to the font line was often a problem. The soldiers' food was sometimes terrible. The British Army employed 300,000 field workers to cook and supply the food, but conditions were very challenging. 3,240,948 tons of food was sent from Britain to the soldiers fighting in France and Belgium during the First World War. As the size of the army grew, and more food supplies were blockaded, rations were cut to 6 ounces of meat a day. Later, troops, not in the front line, only received meat on nine days out of every thirty.