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Cracker wrote: It's very easy to eat, and all crackers (hartkeks, wheatcrackers like the dutch/british, MRE etc etc) fill you up, like you're eating concrete bricks.. It's also the easiest to simply dip the cracker in the spread instead of smearing it on (saves you a dirty knife or spoon in your gear) and it's a lot faster

This cracker were more than "danish sweet crackers". Nothing close to German "tank sheet" (Panzerplatten). If you dip them, they will crumble so you have to spread them anyway.

US crackers with cheese or peanut butter are the "easiest" way of eating them. Just squeeze them out of the pouch on the cracker

those crackers are got with a cup of coffe

or crush them in the closed packet,open in one end and add
the jam pouch you can gett in some norwegian rations
and mix=eat with spoon .

cheers norge

We have several makes of dehydrated foods here. I like the Mountain House brand ones. As previously stated, the big problem is adding the water.

Since you have to boil the water anyway, you don't necessarily chemically treat it. The boiling will take care of the nasties for you.

The powered foods have a very very very long shelf life, but I also prefer a good MRE over them. Easy cooking with the FRH and nothing really to prepare. You can eat them cold if need be.

Todays snack was the Energy Chocolate:



Note the nutrition facts

50g chocolate are 262kcal (similar to a whole MRE entree), but from 16.45g fat

It´s a

dark chocolate, not as sweet as milk chocolate, but will not melt into the sun

Is there caffein in the "energy" chocolate?
Like the ones in the Dutch and older German rations (and with the older German ones I mean the ones with Scho-ka-kola )

Cracker wrote:Is there caffein in the "energy" chocolate?

Due to the nutrition facts - no.

Cracker wrote: Like the ones in the Dutch and older German rations (and with the older German ones I mean the ones with Scho-ka-kola )

Ya, but we lost that war so they took it out

It doesn't have to be on the nutritional facts, some species of cacao beans contain a high amount of caffein.
Except for the "staying awake" part, it also helps with the taste. It bitters the choclate on another way, what you can't achieve by "just making it darker". But mostly there is somesort of warning like "this product contains caffein". But for example, the dutch ones tasted different then normal dark choclate, more like scho-ka-kola. I read it in the handbook later on, that it contains caffein. (1 bar of 40 grams = 2.5 cups of strong coffee).. combined with a lot of sugar, it helps to wake up in the mornings

>>> dark choclate fan <<<

By the way, scho-ka-kola was also in the bundesluftwaffe rations in the beginning, I believe it was untill the sixties.
I believe it was on the scho-ka-kola website were I read that. I still buy it civil.. just love those cans, and it doesn't melt that easy..

the real chocolate does not contain coffein.
i have checked with the finish company that makes them
since my yungest son have milk allergy and can only eat milk free stuff
they gave me a complet list of wath it contained.
i didnt want to feed hem with a lot of coffein eather.

cheers norge

cocoa, cacao....has some caffeine not as much as the coffee beans.
Cacao ia a powerful antioxidant. It has twice the ammount of red wine and three times more antioxidants than green tea.
Pure cacao has good cardiovascular benefits,but the more is processed the least are the benefits... So it helps with heart diseases.

So ...enjoy your chocolate!!!!!
Peace!