You're talking about 5kg/wk or 20kg/mo of an unwieldy, difficult to manage and carry, and hard to trade bulk item (which also has to be carried by the army logi

You're talking about 5kg/wk or 20kg/mo of an unwieldy, difficult to manage and carry, and hard to trade bulk item (which also has to be carried by the army logisticians to hand out) vs a compact and easily tradable item that can easily be converted into the former, if need be. While you're correct that it's not impossible, it's logically backwards enough for us to say it probably didn't happen. And, to corroborate that, there are no historical accounts of the former beyond some colloquial offhanded remarks. I've seen family mention they're bringing home the bread before, are they being paid in bread?