Hot or Cold

[Hrusai]

(10 August 2012, 08:48)IB1 Wrote: I can appreciate the morale boost a hot meal can provide but I guess where I'm coming from is that I am trying to treat my food like I do all the other parts of my BOB, what is the most efficient and effective tool to do the job and is it's weight worth carrying. I'm trying to to regard food simply as fuel to get from a to b.

Maybe I will have to compromise and add a stove and MRE's for the winter months and remove them for the rest of the year

Thanks for the responses, plenty to think about.

no worries dude, its the point of the site after all, and it does create a few good points...

..you may want to make a few different configurations for your GHB or BOB...and then rotate all year round, so cold seasons you pack a lightweight meth stove, and a small container of meths. something like this http://www.instructables.com/id/Aluminum...hol-Stove/

and in hotter months you go for just an mre, with a few flameless heating packs and mainly dried food and energy bars....may be worth adding a little slingshot in too, that way you can keep gathering food, pick up some stones, shoot a few birds, that way you have a choice between eating what you pre packed and also the ability to hunt for some small game

another good thread to refer to is this one posted by morgan
http://forum.survivaluk.net/showthread.php?tid=2248

has some very good tips on packing food to be as compact as possible, certainly worth looking at