He and three pals survived on army rations and camped in homes abandoned after the 1986 nuclear accident.

You should not, if you are a prince home from a contentious conflict, say that army rations are 'miserable'.

Did she just think her trousers had shrunk, or she had been scoffing too many army rations?

In a two-hour food ration queue perhaps?

In the past six months, we've handed out 84,000 hot meals, distributed two million gallons of water, given out 700 food ration kits and 14,000 cans of food.

Tomorrow the food ration will be reduced to ¾lb for every two days.

The daily food ration during the trip was 300 grams of bread per person.

The food ration was mostly rice and canned meat and vegetables.

Extra water will be provided along routes instead of recruits being required to ration their supply or refill bottles from streams.

Make your food stocks last: ration your supply, because it may have to last for 14 days or more.

But just as important as rationing that supply over the coming weeks and months will be choosing which chocolates to eat first.

The shortage caused several fast food chains to stop offering tomatoes unless requested and supermarkets rationed their supplies.

Just to clarify, these are a sensible way of allocating resources, not a cynical ploy to massage waiting lists and ration care.

First, ration care to a set level of cost and technology, with new advances being restricted unless they demonstrate a cost saving.

They say they have no choice but to ration care.

Patients die in pain because underfunded district nurses have to ration care, a top think tank says.

They are not just rationing care; they are rationing life.

The greater the threat of a nationwide power shortage, the greater the sums companies would be paid to ration electricity.

It has also dried up crops and forced cities to ration electricity because of failing hydroelectric stations and a surge in the use of air conditioning.

Shops and factories will be paid to ration electricity in order to avoid blackouts, under drastic government plans.

Household energy bills would have to rise to compensate companies for rationing electricity in winter.

The surge comes despite a quarter of a million fed-up customers defecting to rival suppliers — with others rationing electricity and gas.

Then eat the contents of your ration pack cold.

The ration pack also includes boil-in-the-bag rice pudding, biscuits with cheese and a meat spread and plenty of chocolate.

Hider had fallen out of love with the ration pack.

Then they set about fattening the bird on sweetcorn scavenged from army ration packs.

I'd rather see them with better ration packs and kit.