Chocolate Muesli / Pasta Porchini / Chicken & Potato Stew
- Slovenian Ration - Type B
- Slovenian Type B Contents
- Coffee, Instant
- Coffee whitener
- Tee, Instant
- Vitamin-mineral drink x3
- Sugar x2
- Vitamin Enriched Bonbons
- Energy bar x2
- Chocolate
- Jam
- Chocolate muesli with milk, dehydrated
- Wild Berry Yoghurt Dessert, dehydrated
- Pasta Porchini, dehydrated
- Chicken & Potatoe Stew, meal in a pouch
- Fish and Vegetable Pate
- Tuna fish in olive oil
- Bread Substitute x2
- Chewing gum, sugar free
- Antiseptic towelette x3
- Can opener
- Waste bag
- Matches, pack
- Set of cutlery, pack
- A closer look at the drinks and accessories
- A closer look at the energy tablets
Here's what I chose to make up the dinner:
- Dinner Items
- Meal In Pouch Contents
- Chicken & Potatoe Stew
- Bread Substitute
- Wild Berry Yoghurt Dessert
- Fish and Vegetable Pate
- Vitamin-mineral Drink
- Vitamin Enriched Bonbons
- Chewing Gum
- Dinner Items - Prepared
The yogurt started out looking fairly thin. I wasn't sure it was going to be very much like yogurt, and the instructions were a bit vague. The package said to use 100-125ml water, stir and let stand "for a short while". Minutes? Hours? YEARS? 6 or 7 minutes seemed fine
The color was a neat contrast to the rest of the meal. It was great - first powdered yogurt I've had and it was as good as any I've had fresh. The berries didn't completely rehydrate, but I liked them crunchy so that was fine by me.Ok. On to the pate experience. The box had no ingredients listed in English. I'm not necessarily expecting that - it just seems to happen with most foreign ration items. That just means that in this case, thanks to the generic naming on the bag all I know is that this contains fish (one type? several?) and vegetables. Not so bad. I take some, spread it on a cracker, and go to give it a taste. The smell stops me for a moment. Clear as can be, I smell pumpkin pie. This is odd. I convince myself to go for it. The immediate taste was sweet, spiced pumpkin pie! The follow up taste a few seconds into chewing? Oh, that was unknown fish. I shared a tiny bit with my cat and devoured the rest. Why did I like this so much?
Throughout this I drank the vitamin-mineral drink, which was essentially lemon-lime gatorade. I had four of the vitamin tablets (bonbons?) with the meal too. They were candy with vitamins, but the candy part won out taste-wise. Last on the list - finished the meal off with the Wrigley's Orbit gum - sweetmint flavor.
Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3.
