Brit forces to get 20 new rat packs

[MrD]

When boil in the bag meals came out they weren't that bad, honest! At least compared to the old tinned food packs. But the 3 varieties only we had on offer must real drain you after you've been eating them for a few weeks or more concurrently.

20 new 24 hour ration pack menus were unveiled.



These new Multi Climate Ration Packs have been developed based on feedback from troops on operations and sees the replacement of things like chocolate bars, which melt, with energy bars and flapjacks and the introduction of such dishes as cold pasta which are far more suitable to the conditions and tempo of operations troops are working in. Six extra menus have been created for Halal, Vegetarian and Sikh/Hindu diners. The main aim though is to give troops living off the packs for weeks at a time a bit more variety.


The project manager for the development of the new packs, Lieutenant Commander Neil Horwood Royal Navy, explained further:

"The current general purpose ration pack is perfectly fine but troops are eating rations now for up to four months so menu fatigue is a real issue. The key is variety and we are now introducing much more variety than we've historically had. I think the troops will be really pleased with it."

A soldier tries a new Multi Climate Ration Pack at DVD
[Picture: Andrew Linnett]




The new menus were developed with the help of soldiers from the Household Cavalry recently returned from Afghanistan. Trooper Danny Skipper was mostly based working on the frontl ine in Forward Operating Bases. Speaking about the new menus he said:

"They're not better, there's just more variety which makes it better, When you're out there you eat it at the end of the day you just get bored with it. I did a fair bit of fighting out there and food is mega important. You survive on it and when you get some extra supplements, something nice it's a real morale boaster."

The new menus will be trialled in Afghanistan for next summer and 300,000 are currently being produced to be sent there for a six month Brigade deployment.

[Undies]

More rubbish to be thrown in the bin i have no doubt Call me sceptical but the 14 different menu's we have now tend to be thrown away, when they mix filth like butterscotch sauce with fruit dumplings is there any surprise? No, thats right, you can wash it down with some tasty orange screech!!

You only have to look at the breakfast menu's to see these people have no clue, beans with old biddies' eyelids, beans with small badger testicles, beans with a lump of fat shaped like a burger, or mixed up left over potato peelings with some out of date corned beef mmmmmmmmm my favourite.

[Harrod200]

No more Biscuits Brown

I actually liked those somewhat...

[Teek]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Undies

More rubbish to be thrown in the bin i have no doubt Call me sceptical but the 14 different menu's we have now tend to be thrown away, when they mix filth like butterscotch sauce with fruit dumplings is there any surprise? No, thats right, you can wash it down with some tasty orange screech!!

You only have to look at the breakfast menu's to see these people have no clue, beans with old biddies' eyelids, beans with small badger testicles, beans with a lump of fat shaped like a burger, or mixed up left over potato peelings with some out of date corned beef mmmmmmmmm my favourite.

beans and mystery meat for breakfast? wow, that is crap.

[Scot]

urgh fruit dumplings my worst enemy...

[MaxBoZ]

Isnt there Chocolate or something in it? The Dutch Ration packs are teh jummy!

[[R-DEV]ZZEZ]

IDF ration packs are cool, you get bread, chocolate, canned peanuts,canned tuna and the legendary meat "luff"[I save the luff for my dog].
For drinking you get raspberry powder.
Living on this ration pack for more then 2 days makes you want to miss the horrible food they serve at the base.

[Epim3theus]

Originally Posted by MaxBoZ

Isnt there Chocolate or something in it? The Dutch Ration packs are teh jummy!

The Brits are replacing the chocolate bars with something else because they melt apparently.

[Hitperson]

NO!! not the Yorkies with "not for civies" wrintten on them??

i wan't to try the burger and beans menu!!

i like the neat stuff you get in a Rat pack though like hexy blocks, matches and chlorine tablets.

there is a really nice short bread in the rat packs i think and the yeast exctract drink (kinda like bovril) is cool.

[cplgangster]

i do love the screech in rat-packs i dont know what all the fuss is about.
i also liked the biscuit browns with the mith of not making you go toilet when the biscuit fruits did when they both didnt . The yorkies are well good as you can eat them thtough out the day square by square lol. The greatness of the not for civvies on the front of them aswell.