Just thinking about a new game start

[LT. Ox]

Originally Posted by .45cultist

The well done lists are mostly from a field military angle but civilians and bases have domestic food, a subject that can be expanded upon quite a bit. Condensed soup is an interesting subject, since it's sugested that one use an equal amount of water.

As one that carried my meals in cans, a whole lot of cans, I am here to tell you that they take a lot of room, are a major noise problem and the clean up disposal is also a major pain.
but it you have an old time steel helmet then the stews you can make are pretty tasty.
Carried two meals in a wool sock, well two cans of meals add in the dry stuff in the butt pack you tied off the socks for three, four or five days worth then attached them were ever they would fit.
Not only the meals but the load bearing gear is so much better now.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Haha, I remember doing the same sort of thing in the Aussie Army. We were using the US M56 webbing back then with Aussie ammo pouches for the SLR. The buttpacks were good pieces of kit, when we changed to the new Auscam webbing they continued to issue the buttpack (or as we call it, the bumpack). The main meals in our ratpacks were in tins back then as well.

As I recall it, the procedure at the time for the tins was to "burn, bash & bury" them once they'd been used - burn any remaining foodscraps out of them, bash 'em down flat then bury them deep.
That changed some years later when they figured that certain enemies could still locate the buried rubbish by either metal detectors or even sense of smell in some places, and we had to haul all the rubbish back with us.

[LT. Ox]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Haha, I remember doing the same sort of thing in the Aussie Army. We were using the US M56 webbing back then with Aussie ammo pouches for the SLR. The buttpacks were good pieces of kit, when we changed to the new Auscam webbing they continued to issue the buttpack (or as we call it, the bumpack). The main meals in our ratpacks were in tins back then as well.

As I recall it, the procedure at the time for the tins was to "burn, bash & bury" them once they'd been used - burn any remaining foodscraps out of them, bash 'em down flat then bury them deep.
That changed some years later when they figured that certain enemies could still locate the buried rubbish by either metal detectors or even sense of smell in some places, and we had to haul all the rubbish back with us.

Dang burn bash and bury!!!

I had forgot that. Same same for us in Nam. I often wondered why we were so dang carful about trashing the country side just after I called in about forty rounds of Willy Pete.
here is another oldy but goody.
Det cord and c-3 not for the enemy but to heat rations and to cut trees.
Just do not stomp on that c-3 when it is burning, never did nor did I see any results just the idea that it might go bang was enough to let it burn out. a marble size ball would heat the canteen cup boiling hot.
good old zippo lighter and c-4.

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by LT. Ox

As one that carried my meals in cans, a whole lot of cans, I am here to tell you that they take a lot of room, are a major noise problem and the clean up disposal is also a major pain.
but it you have an old time steel helmet then the stews you can make are pretty tasty.
Carried two meals in a wool sock, well two cans of meals add in the dry stuff in the butt pack you tied off the socks for three, four or five days worth then attached them were ever they would fit.
Not only the meals but the load bearing gear is so much better now.

The fruitcake could turn alcoholic according to a marine from that era.

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by LT. Ox

As one that carried my meals in cans, a whole lot of cans, I am here to tell you that they take a lot of room, are a major noise problem and the clean up disposal is also a major pain.
but it you have an old time steel helmet then the stews you can make are pretty tasty.
Carried two meals in a wool sock, well two cans of meals add in the dry stuff in the butt pack you tied off the socks for three, four or five days worth then attached them were ever they would fit.
Not only the meals but the load bearing gear is so much better now.

Ramen is lighter, but the ones in foam containers have a shorter lifespan due to the eco-friendly styrofoam breaking down. The ones in plastic are more compact, one is included in the "Hunger Buster" ration in a Japanese ration book. the plastic bowl ones are more bulky, but some tasty options are there. Probably will have to measure water to get weight. If one eats two kinds of food, which weight applies? I.E. 1kg domestic, 1kg wild food is eaten by a character.

[Bullet Magnet]

Originally Posted by .45cultist

If one eats two kinds of food, which weight applies? I.E. 1kg domestic, 1kg wild food is eaten by a character.

This is where math would come into play. As I recall (without looking it up in my books), a person requires 2kg of domestic food, or 3kg of wild food. So, with your example, the person has had a kilogram of each, or, half the daily "dosage" in domestic food, and then a third of the dosage of wild.
1/2 + 1/3 = 5/6. Personally, I think this could qualify as "close enough", especially if the character is not very large.