Eating is the most basic need of people. In the early 1960s, it happened to be a three-year difficult period. I was four or five years old, and we usually ate rice. Sometimes there is not enough rice, so I cook porridge and put some carrots or sweet potatoes in it. I'm full, no problem.
After three years of difficulties, the situation has improved. The production team grows grain in two seasons, strictly speaking, it should be three. First, spring flower crops, such as barley, wheat and rape; Second, early rice, which is a kind of wide indica rice with a little hard rice quality, is generally used to pay public grain or sell surplus grain and hand it over to the grain management office; The third is late rice, with long sunshine time and good rice quality. After the late rice is harvested and dried, the production team distributes grain according to the population of each household, and each person is about six or seven hundred kilograms of rice. If the production team has surplus grain, put it in the grain storage of the production team. So, at that time, the food we ate here was basically fine.
At that time, some goods had to be supplied by ticket. For example, you need an oil ticket to buy cooking oil, a cloth ticket to buy cloth and even a cigarette ticket. But in our countryside, there are also self-produced things. This edible oil, except this ticket, is extracted by the production team after the rape is harvested, taken to the oil mill for processing, and then distributed to households. Generally speaking, one year's cooking oil is enough. For example, eating meat, pork is definitely a meat ticket. At that time, we wouldn't eat meat every day, so meat coupons could be adjusted among members. Moreover, the production team has a livestock farm, and members will also raise pigs at home. Every time a member sells a pig, he will give you a few pounds of meat coupons, so you can eat meat. Fish don't need tickets except meat. In the countryside, there are fish in the rice fields of rivers and canals. If you want to eat, grab it yourself.
In the sixties and seventies, we had three meals a day. Although I can't eat chicken, duck and fish every day, I still ate some simple meals and the food I ate was safe.