It was sufficient. Not meat. Vegetable. Rice. Sometimes the rice was infested with maggots. Yeah. You eat those as well. You know? When you’re in that state you eat anything. You didn’t pick them out. You don’t look, you just swallow. A lot of… there were always maggots in the rice for some reason.
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