What are the three meals a day for the rural production team?
Introduction: Nowadays, many young people seem to be very demanding about the meals cooked by their parents and cannot meet their needs for dining in restaurants abroad. It's a shame that they don't know the elegance and taste of their parents' cooking, and they don't experience the taste of hard times. As an editor from the mainland, I still remember the three meals a day of the members of the production team at that time, which is a memory that I will never forget. At that time, due to the shortage of materials and backward productivity, people lived in an environment of scarcity of food rations. However, every family lives frugally and contentedly. Although they eat simply, they are never picky about the taste of their food, and as long as they can fill their stomachs, they are satisfied.
Prudent. For decades, each family has had to make a careful budget based on the rations allocated for the year. In addition to handing over most of the rations, the annual ration per person consisted of about 40 boxes of wheat, 80 boxes of corn, 20 boxes of cereals, and several hundred boxes of sweet potatoes, as well as 1 box of cooking oil. In order to sustain themselves for a year, they had to grow some grains and vegetables on their land. When processing wheat to make flour, they make the most of almost all the wheat grains, leaving only a small amount of wheat bran, and even chop the sweet potatoes and dry them, crush and peel them, and then grind them into flour, which they put in the nest and steam them for consumption.
At that time, the family life of the members was frugal, and the daily staple food was mostly corn flour tortillas, woks, steamed sweet potatoes, and boiled sweet potatoes, and white flour steamed buns, noodles, and white flour pancakes were only occasionally improved. Nowadays, we usually use a spoonful of grease or pour the oil directly into the pan when we cook pancakes, but in the past, every household would flatten the cabbage root, wrap it in an oilcloth, drip a few drops of oil, and then quickly and evenly spread it on the cabbage root. When the family needs to build a house or marry a new daughter-in-law, they will start to save money, usually not willing to use white flour and cooking oil, and only use it for Chinese New Year gatherings or when receiving relatives and friends.
Time for rustic food.
In order to be able to harvest the crops, the members have to eat breakfast in the fields except in winter. In summer and autumn, before dawn, the members will hear the captain ring the bell, get dressed, and go to the fixed place of each platoon to work in the field according to the captain's agreement. The members are divided into several groups, led by the deputy captain, military and civilian platoon leaders, clerks or team leaders to different plots, and there is also a special person at home who is responsible for delivering meals. After about two or three hours, the person in charge of delivering the food will go out into the street with a flat pole to sell it, and when the women of the family hear it, they will prepare a clay pot filled with polenta and pickles, wrapped in a cloth and tied with a special one"Rope dry", insert chopsticks, and hang them on the flat shoulder of the person who delivers the meal. The breakfast delivery person carries a dozen pots of rice to the workplace on his shoulder. When it's time to eat, everyone gathers around to pick up their own marked rice bowls. Breakfast is usually cornmeal porridge or millet porridge with a few slices of white radish and pickles, and dry food is steamed buns and dumplings, and less pancakes and small pancakes. After a morning of farm work, it was almost noon when they called it a day and went home for lunch.
A simple and healthy meal.
The dishes for lunch are basically the same as for breakfast, all very simple, such as dumplings, noodles, steamed buns, gnocchi soup or stir-fried vegetables with little to no fat. Dinner was basically the same as breakfast. At that time, meat only appeared on the table at parties or Chinese New Year's Eve, and people were not picky about the taste of food, as long as they could fill their stomachs.
Conclusion. Looking back at that era of material scarcity, although the three meals a day of the members were simple, they were full of satisfaction and gratitude. People don't have too many requirements for the taste and texture of food, as long as it can solve the problem of food and clothing. The frugal use of food rations and the scene of eating in the fields are unforgettable memories. Compared with the current young generation, we should cherish and be grateful for the current life, don't be too picky eaters, as long as we can fill our stomachs, we will be very happy. Reminiscing about the past makes us understand the true meaning of life more and cherish everything we have more.