Food
for the Marchers
I request the mahajans and the workers of the respective places
to bear in mind the following. The satyagrahi party is expected
to reach each place by 8 o’ clock in the morning and
to set down for lunch between 10.00 and 10.30 a.m. It may
be half past nine by the time the party reaches Aslali on
the first day. No rooms will be needed for rest at noon or
night, but a clean, shaded place will be enough to have a
bamboo-and-grass covering. Both bamboo and grass can be put
to use again.
It
is assumed that the village people will provide us food.
If
provisions are supplied, the party will cook its own meal.
The food supplied, whether cooked or uncooked, should be the
simplest possible. Nothing more than rotli or rotla or kedgeree
with vegetables and milk or curds, will be required. Sweets,
even if prepared, will be declined. Vegetables should be merely
boiled, and no oil, spices be added or used in the cooking.
This is my advice for preparing a meal:
| Morning,
before departure |
Rab
and dhebra; the rab should be left to party itself to
prepare. |
| Midday |
Bhakhri,
vegetable and milk or butter-
milk. |
Evening,
before the
march is resumed |
Roasted
gram, rice. |
| Night |
Kedgeree(khichadi)
with vegetable and butter-milk
of milk. |
The
ghee for all the meals together should not exceed three tolas
per head: One tola in the rab, one served separately to be
smeared on the bhakhri, and one to be put into the kedgeree.
For me goat’s milk, if available, in the morning, at
noon and at night, and raisins or dates and three lemons will
do. I hope that the village people will incur no expenses
whatever, except for the simple food items named above.
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