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Today i am pleased to present a

2010 Italian Armed Forces Module B/Red Ration
(Part 1 Unboxing)

Here it is
The Bag is thinner than MRE packaging but very tough, its metal on the inside, and unless you get a cut its very very hard to tear by hand Back Side has the menu in three languages, Italian, English(labeled GB) and French.

Inside you have three boxes one for each meal Three languages menu is on each box as well Close up, Menu B meal boxes Part 2 will be Breakfast

Great pics!

Continued from the unboxing in part one, today we will consume the breakfast box.

2010 Italian Module B Red (part 2) Breakfast Lets take a closer look at everything.

Many rations seem to have paperwork of some type.
On the USA's rations everything is usually printed on the box/bag/pouch.

So when i see instruction sheets in rations, i expect one of two things;
-mostly unlabeled items(nutrition servings prep etc)
or
-consumer items (they are already labeled)

Lets Eat!
This was more like a candy bar than a cereal bar.
Soft and chewy, good dark chocolate flavor mixed with banana. Next up the jams, they did not put cracker in the breakfast box so i used some MRE crackers. Very Good! not the size of an american breakfast but flavor and quality were very high and made up for that.

After that i was thirsty, good thing we have plenty to drink in this box
That includes the infamous alcohol ration everyone is always talking about Lets start with the tea, i have a bottle of water ill use to make it cold. Not bad, think i used a little too much water, defiantly a "British style" tea Now for the cappucino, since this is an Italian ration i have high hopes Very good, not too sweet, nice coffee flavor and the foam was surprising to say the least it was actually solid foam And Finally the Cordiale Its Grappa So overall a great breakfast although a little small to some.
I could have used some crackers for the jam but other wise everything was good or better.
It seems they put all the accessories in this box also, so we will get to them as we need during lunch and supper

Continued from part 2, Today we eat lunch, the Forze Armate way

2010 Italian Module B Red (part 3) Lunch Overall Contents:
Pasta Fagioli, Canned Turkey, Fruit Salad, Crackers x2, Vitamin tabs, Instant Coffee, Sugar, Bran Tabs x10 First thing first Thirty Minutes later i smelled the water and it had almost no odor, so i took a sip.

It was a sip of poision, i spit it out all over the place.

So i went back to the instruction sheet for a closer look and what did i see I dumped that in to a 5 gallon jug and boiled up some water instead.

Now i needed something to get the taste of poison from my mouth This is very good Fruit salad, Pear Grapes Peaches in a light syrup Continued

After watching the water purifying tablet bubble around i was curious as to how the vitamin tabs worked. Time to cleanse my taste buds Continued

Time to test out the Italian instant coffee Continued

OK enough small stuff it took forever to get some water and Im getting hungry.

Time to open a can, Pasta Fagioli first, i actually cook this for myself from time to time. The seal was fine, can opened with a pleasant smell It looked good It tasted good, a little salt and pepper would help, and its not like fresh homemade, but very nice for canned Continued

That last part was very nice, i waited some until i had the next bit

Canned turkey Need some Crackers to go with this Tons of food in the lunch box for this ration. I should have taken one of he packs of crackers and used it for breakfast.
All the components so far have been very good quality, breakfast was small but lunch is huge, i would like another drink mix but i cant complain about much else in this meal

Part 4 Supper is next