bread and point noun a meagre meal, mainly bread CANADA Another surviving, related expression is “bread and pullet” or “pull-it”.
During the lean years of the depression there was usually some homemade bread at mealtime, but often little or no butter. You were told just to point the knife at the butter dish. To this day some prairie parents will refer to dry bread as bread-n-point. — Chris Thain, ColdasaBayStreetBanker’sHeart, p. 20, 1987