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Beef & Blackbean - this was amazing one of the best meals I had in rations, I used rice with this one
Lamb with Rosemary - this was dissapointing, you can taste and smell lamb but overall very bland and it's also very oil/fat meal, used mashed potatoes with it
Peppered Steak with Mushroom soup - wow this was one of the ration highlights lol, first time I had this kind of soup, you can tast pepper and mushrooms
Sports drink lemon lime - 1 pack for 1 liter... would be much better as 2x500mil or 4x250mil... you can taste the fruit in it, but it also reminds me of apple juice...
Biscuit cream cracker - just crackers, only 1 packs of them but it's OK since you get rice and mashed potatoes
Fruit cake bar - it's eatable but nothing that I will remember, it's not bad, it's not good... real army dessert
Fruit marmalade - citrus fruite marmalade, small tube but it's enough to get more tastes in you over the day
Diced peaches in syrup - Matt told me it goes bad almost the same year it's made. Mine was still OK I liked it, classic peaches in sugar water..
Cereal bar apricot - not something I imagine as creal bar, more like some strange fig bar but it was really good
Muesli natural with skim milk - this was very good, does not say how much water to add
Instant mashed potato - the lowpoint of the ration very bad strange smell from the start, it had something like lamb smell all over it
Instant noodles - although it's listed (that's why I posted a picture of menu C contents) I didn't get any noodles
Lifesavers candy - the big one, classic pepermint candy
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Instant rice - this was great to have
Chocolate drink - this was great
Instant coffee - it's OK, reminds me of polish SRG coffee I hated but it seems it's growing on me
Tea - classic dark-indian-ceylon tea
Sugar - it's just enough of it
Chocolate ration - changed colour but very nice tasting chocolate, very crumbly and not bitter at all
M&M's - they lived to see opening of the bag
Cheddar cheese - I don't like it it had nice cheese smell but taste was a little bit off to sour
Yeast extract - very salty, I liked this... now I want to taste marmite and vegemite
Tomato ketchup - more like tomato concentrate, still didn't helped mashed potatoes to get better RIP
Pepper - only one bag
Salt - only one bag
Sweetened Condenesed milk - it went bad, so hard I could not squeeze it, start leaking on the other end... didn't want to risk it so I didnt used it
Chewing gum - nice lemon lime gum, very soft from the start... chewing more and longer = laxative
Chocolate spread - this was great, I liked it, no nuts just cocoa I guess
Beef steak bar - peppered kind, little hot not much, softer then usual beef jerky
Tabasco sauce - one pack but it bloated so I didnt used it... good thing it didn't explode all over the bag
Ziplock bag - great addition to ration
FRED - it's great little tool, spoon is ok for eating cheese but not for anything else but to use it as a spread knife/spoon
Spoon - THE BEST RATION SPOON BY FAR
Menue-ingredients list-infrmation for users - very nice, lot's of information

Minus - there is no wet napkins, only one bags of salt and pepper, only one bag of drink powder looking like a solid mass to powder

Sorry if I missed something... this is really big ration LOL

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Video review (missing parts of breakfast)

Excellent review! I figured the fruit cake bar would be better though. I have only had one of these CR1M's back in like 2009, maybe soon I can manage to trade/ get another...

Awesome review! These Australian CR1M's certainly do have a nice amount of components, and of course, with all military rations, some entree's are simply "hit or miss".
I've got a Menu A coming in the next few days, I can't wait to see what might be in it.

Thanks guys. Now I'm thinking maybe switching sides with the entrees would be beter even though beef and rice was just amazingly great for a meals that came from a pouch. Maybe someone in the future tries beef with mashed potatoes and lamb with rice, I would like to know if rice would soak up that oil and fat and by doing that make this dish better. Too bad I could not try it with tabasco, but there is a lot of CR1M's nowadays so I'm looking forward to see more reviews here and on the youtube.

@BTemple

You are getting this peppere steak and mushroom soup. I hope you will like it. Just don't forget to drain the rice.

The packaging of CR1M's are the ones I don't like but to my suprise there where no problems with damaged contents beside that crushed crackers and we all know they tend to crush even in better +cardboard box packagings.

Great review, thanks for sharing!