Lessons Learned on Disaster Deployments

[CharlesHarris]

Ordinary chocolate bars do not do well in summer heat here and most of the energy bars are mostly carbs and sugar.

In my anorak pockets I ordinarily keep a quart Ziplok bag with MRE foil packets of peanut butter, cheese spread or fruit jam, plus instant coffee sachets and teabags, and several packets of the fortified MRE "John Wayne" crackers, which resemble pilot biscuit.

In the ruck emergency rations consist of either a Seven Oceans or Mainstay 2400 lifeboat ration, a pound plastic jar of peanut butter, another plastic jar of fruit jam, a dozen teabags or instant coffee sachets, and a dozen or so restaurant packets of crackers, sugar, salt, pepper and whatever free condiments are there to be had, packed in the mess tin.

I don't carry Harveys, but have been known to keep a 300ml flask of the Pusser's Rum, or the Famous Grouse, just for medicinal purposes, of course!