Menu Suggestions - anyone got any?

The Glass Key

What I'm asking is does anyone actually make out a daily ration menu from what they have in store or from what they plan to store.

Its great to have a store of food in a famine but better still if you have a plan how you are going to make it last.

My plan is to try and build up something similar to the older style army 10 man compo ration packs http://www.forces80.com/ration_pack.htm that way I know a given box should last a given time for a given number of people.

I'm getting some ideas from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_ration

http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/equipment/personal/rations.htm

http://www.crusader80.co.uk/ration.html

but I'm still looking for some old compo menu's

wolfeye

Good article extracted from the book Ministry Of Food:Thrifty Wartime Ways to feed your family.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1252240/The-food-won-war-The-weird-wonderful-ration-book-dishes-helped-Britain-victory.html

ShadowFox

I tried rationing my supplies per meal and I found I lost more through spillages and it took more time and space that could be used for other supplies. Then you have to work out how many ration packs are you going to make up? Can you store it safely so it dosent go bad. 90% of my supplies I use daily so its always being rotated Ive a 3 month supply of food and a 4 week supply of water (which I hope to double). The other 10% of my supplies I rotate every 6 months to a year depending on what it is. I do have ration packs made up in the bug out bags just in case these are used on camping / hiking trips