What food did the soldiers in WW1 receive?

Answer 1

This is too general a question to answer here. Rations and supplies varied greatly with the individual armies, the territory in which they were fighting, and the year.

Also, as a general rule of thumb, army food logistics mostly didn't exist until the 1800s. Prior to that, armies got virtually all of their food from the local area ("living off the land"). They would requisition (or mostly, just take) food from the local farmers and towns to feed their soldiers. There was no means to be able to ship food long distances over-land. Starting the in 1800s, the advent of extensive road and (particularly) railroad networks allowed food shipments to be made to an army in the field from storehouses back in the mother country. Generally, the first conflicts where armies received the majority of their food from their supply train (rather than the local land) would be the American Civil War and the Austro-Prussian War.

Answer 2

They took a lot of food with them in cans. They also had food posted to them from their loved ones back at home.

Answer 3

Beans, hardtack, salt pork, hoe cakes and dried meats were eaten by soldiers of both sides.

Answer 4

Biscuits and canned meat