staples

This year I've been reading the Big Brother diary. Strangely enough it's interesting reading about ordinary people, living a boring and tedious life. Because I'm now reading the diary, I'm paying more attention to the whole deal and have found that a major part of the whole Big Brother thing, besides one person getting voted off every week, are the tasks. The House Mates this year keep betting their whole shopping budget on their tasks, and several times they haven't completed the task to Big Brother's satisfaction, so they lose all their money and have to live on staples. What are "staples" you ask? These things here are one person's allowance of food per day:

Bread making flour - 217g (The HMs bake their own bread)
Yeast - 2.1g
Canola Oil - 20ml
Salt - 6.5g
Raw sugar - 3.3g
Brown rice (raw) - 80g
Chuck or blade steak - 150g
Tinned tomatoes - 200g
Fresh snake beans - 60g
Frozen broccoli and cauliflower - 60g
Frozen carrots - 90g
Cabbage (raw) - 60g
Apple - 1 whole (180g)
Orange - 1 whole (220g)
Banana - 1 large (180g)
Sultanas - 20g
Chick peas (tinned) - 80g
Milk powder - 80g
Tuna - 100g
Rolled oats - 25g

from Big Brother // News : Living on the breadline

It's a strange selection - so much flour! so little rice, and tinned chick peas - urgh. I'll have to weigh some vegetables because 60 g of cabbage or brocolli doesn't seem much to me.