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Don't have a lot of info on this, but it looks interesting. The Kenyan Wildlife Service invited bids for the components of a "10-man Compo Ration." Each heavy duty cardboard box (sealed with dark brown "jungle tape, whatever that is) is to contain:
-2 cans (440 g each) beans in tomato sauce
-2 cans (420 g each) garden peas
-2 kg rice
-2 kg maize meal
-1 pkg (250 g) dehydrated vegetables
(kale, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, & onions)
-1.5 kg service biscuits in tins
-1 can (500 g) margarine
-5 cans (340 g each) corned beef
-4 cans (432 g each) pineapple
-1 can (250 g) orange drink powder
-2 cans (410 ml each) milk
-1 bag (50 g) tea leaves
-1 bag (400 g) sugar
-1 bag (200 g) salt
-1 bar soap
-1 box matches (at least 40 sticks)
-1 roll toilet paper
-1 tin (100 ml) shoe polish

It looks like several items require cooking (rice, maize meal, tea), while most canned items may be eaten "as is." I don't know if the Kenyan military ration is similar, but I would suspect so. Pictures I've seen of Kenyans on deployment (UN missions) show them eating foreign rations, mostly US MREs.

Interesting composition there, donaldjcheek. It sounds like some good food but it also sounds like it'd take a lot of preparation. When did this bid invitation go out?

Specifications were written in March 2007, bids had to be in by July 2007. Don't know if contract was awarded yet.

This is not a military ration, hence all the items which require cooking.

I think I know what the reference to "jungle tape" is ---- I believe it's what we here in the US call Duct Tape.


.....of course, I've always called it "Duck" (quack!) tape.....


`rats