Personally, i've always wondered what the difference between a "tommy cooker" and an esbit stove was. Left you see my (never used) UK "Tommy Cooker" vs. TC4.jpg right my (often used) German "ESBIT" cooker. As rationtin440 mentioned, the name "ESBIT" is for the company that made them, starting in 19...

The wife retires in 22 months time, and we'll be spending the winter months on Gran Canaria, to use the words of Oddball I'm going to "soak up some rays, drink a little wine and eat cheese"

dirtbag wrote:Mmmm, Olive loaf!

The only thing better is jalapeno loaf...

Howdy, Richard, How they hanging?

Hanging well chap had four nights in mainland Spain last week, great break and off to Gran Canaria end of the month for a couple of weeks...retirement is a real bitch lol

If you like Tulip brand meats, try and find a can of this

Thank you my friend for your sympathy... http://www.smilies.4-user.de/include/Traurig/smilie_tra_022.gif Lucky me, there is a company making fat free "Wurst" that even I can eat and Mrs Housil knows a recipe how to make a fat free pate "Teewurst" from ham and fat free creme cheese :D Housil, 'fat f...

Shortbread is very easy to make, flour, sugar and butter, thats about it. The high fat content makes it a good 'food' in terms of energy.

It looks like they've gone the way of the MRE, lots of sugary junk food... Not quite, not all sugars are the same, our bodies use them in different ways and at different rates of absorption and utilisation so its not so simple as putting sugar into a guy or gal, its the type of 'sugar' and the mix ...

I have not opened one of these before so decided to have a look. Some things Americans will spot like peanut butter and Orio biscuits. These are a big change from the packs of only two or three years ago. The new rations have to reflect the multicultural aspect of life in the British army today. htt...

Hexi stoves are a separate issue so still used. These days a lot of stoves are available for patrol use, Primus Omnifuel and the likes of small Coleman may be there to use. One lad I know said a lot of troops took there own small stoves ETA stoves/Jetboil sort of thing.

Note the American Cherry slice made by Bridgford with a use by date of September 2016 and tabasco sauce