bread and water

I am better off now; but I have lived upon bread-and-water as well as you have.'

They put me in prison for a month; and between bread-and-water and darkness I went nigh foolish.

If you do send me to the shop you will have me home again in less than twenty-four hours, one of your bread-and-water boarders.

He receives no medical attention, and is fed on a bread-and-water diet.

She was to have a bread-and-water supper, and then go straight to bed.