Reigniting this thread... hopefully it's not too old.
The Royal Army of Great Nortend has two types of rations: supply rations and field rations.
Supply rations are provided when troops are stationed at garrisons where there is a mess or kitchen providing three fresh meals a day, or where there are established lines of supply. These are usually eaten formally in dining rooms, often at a mess. Sometimes meals may be taken elsewhere, especially when away from the main garrison temporarily, in which case portable foods such as sandwiches, raw fruit, pies and rolls are distributed. Snacks for eating outside of formal meal times generally must be purchased by troops, either from civilian shops or from garrison or mess stores.
When in the field or on the march without fresh supplies available, field rations are provided. These are packed into cardboard boxes and may be provided individually or as a group, depending on expertise and whether a field kitchen is available or not.
Ordinary individual rations provide meals for three meals (24 hours) or two meals (12 hours).
Rations, Field, One Man, Full Day (RFOM-24) have seven menus which provide three meals a day with snacks. The pack contains: two main meals in large flat, rounded tins, pudding in a round tin, two smaller dishes in small round tins, two soup powders, instant barley, oats or rice porridge, dried fruit and nuts, savoury “tack” crackers, sweet biscuits, milk chocolate, dried beef, block of cheese, fruit cereal bar, shot of spirits, assorted sweets, condensed milk, instant coffee, tea bags, milk powder, cordial powder, matches, hexamine tablet, water purification tablets, butter, jam or marmalade, yeast extract, nutmeg, sugar, salt and pepper, alcohol wipes and toilet paper/serviettes. The tins have pull-tabs whilst the sachets and other sundries are in foil or plain or waxed paper with blue and black text. The pack is packaged in a rectangular cardboard box and weighs under 5 lb.
A sample RFOM pack suggested menu is:
Breakfast
- Pork sausage with potatoes and mushrooms (small tin)
- Tea (package)
- Instant oats with dried fruit (sachet)
- Crackers with spreads (package and tube)
Luncheon - Cold tomato soup (sachet)
- Chicken with spring vegetables (large tin)
- Sweet biscuits (package)
- Blackcurrant cordial
Snack - Chocolate
- Musk, liquorice, caramels, &c. (sweets)
- Sweet biscuits
- Dried beef
- Fig bar
- Nuts
- Condensed milk
Dinner - Cream of mushroom soup (sachet)
- Herrings in oil (small tin)
- Beef and onion stew (large tin)
- Rhubarb and apple crumble (“crumble” provided by crumbled up sweet biscuit) (pudding)
- Instant coffee (sachet)
- Cheese and crackers
- Brandy
All troops carry a messing kit consisting of two messing tins, one larger and one smaller which fits inside. Two steel canteens are also carried, one fitting into a drinking cup suitable for boiling water. A small flint and steel kit is carried, as well as a cleaning rag and steel wool. A spoon and fork and carried as cutlery, the fork with serrations for a knife. Rations are heated or cooked, where practicable, on small folding hexamine stoves or directly on campfire.
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:31 pm
