They had no possessions and survived on a meagre diet of tiny helpings of rice, lentils and wild plants.

Lunch was a selection of delicious fresh salads, rice dishes and pasta, served buffet-style so you could eat as much as you liked — no meagre diet rations here.

Meals also punctuated the day, although it was a meagre diet.

In the developing world, the poorest struggling to eke out existences are being forced to cut back on meat to afford a meagre diet of rice and vegetables.

It prescribed hard manual labour, silence, a meagre diet, isolation from the world, and renunciation of most studies.

Are we to believe she could have saved thousands from such a meagre income?

Meagre income, but a healthy nest egg that it would be bad form to dip into.

The farmers, to the fury of conservationists, say that sea eagles have been targeting their lambs and destroying their already meagre income.

He supplemented his meagre income by writing short stories.

He left school at 14 in order to contribute to the family's meagre income.

This means a daily (or nightly) destruction of tents, sleeping bags, and their meagre possessions.

During the first night bandits raided the adjacent truck, intent on parting the economic migrants from their meagre possessions.

Many are ordered to leave their meagre possessions behind.

Their goal was not to strip their victims of their meagre possessions but to restock the commodity they most value - people.

Many families were reunited after years of separation arriving with no more than the clothes on their backs and a few meagre possessions.

But now that she no longer has to do this she wants to save the equivalent sum - about 800 a month - and build up her somewhat meagre savings.

Many ordinary people regret ever investing their meagre savings in a fickle market that has been rigged in favour of insiders.

Whatever course of action we take, her meagre savings and the value of her modest home will not be spared.

As a result of this change, 60,000 elderly people whose meagre savings had previously reduced their pension entitlement received the full state pension.