It begs the question that if they were undernourished in civvy life, then just how did they survive on the Army rations. It wasn't the quantity (well....., it was, sort of....) but the way the fitters and turners set about it in the cook-house.

THEY liked to call themselves chefs but we called the cooks fitters and turners due to the delicate way that they sloshed it up by fitting it into pots and turning it into xxxt.