I don't don't know about other armies but in the Canadian Army Rations were only to consumed durring emergencies (IE patrols), primary due to their cost.
In our M113 we had one day worth stored for each man, but we usually eat out the feild kitchens that the BN had.
More feild kitchens were also held by the Service Bn which are the primary combat support units in the Canadian Army.
All of the feild kitchen were old US one which they started getting rid off in mid 1980's or so KO told me once.
To futher feild feed each solider in the Canadian Army was issued, a plate, bowl, coffee cup (Kit Shop had green mugs with Regt Cap Badge), and a KFS (Knife Fork, Spoon), we also had a canteen cup and canteen stove with heat tabs, a bread plate was also aviable but I never got one well not offically anyway
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