Please note these are heavy to post but please remember you can order up to 10 of these for £8.50 postage. Contents subject to menu for current stock menus please email us. The British Army use a ration called the 24-Hour Operational Ration Pack. Previous versions of this ration were called the ration packs (GS for General Service). Those rations included a lot of food in cans. By 1999, the GS rations were phased out and the newer GP (General Purpose) ration packs became the primary operational ration pack. Each pack contains up to 4,000 calories - the recommended daily consumption is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men - and is designed to feed a young man aged 18 to 30 who has been involved in active operational duty.

Contents may vary!
All in all, it averages out at 30-odd separate packs of one sort or another:
An Oatmeal block
Chocolate bars or a bar of Kendal Mint Cake, according to the menu Biscuits, brown (malted and hard, pack of six)
Biscuits, fruit-filled (malted hard garibaldi-like, pack of six)
Cheese, processed, or meat paté, according to the menu
Tea, Instant, White, 4 x sachets
Coffee, instant, 2 x 5 grams sachets
Sugar, quick dissolving, 8 x 10 grams sachets
Drinking chocolate mix, 1 sachet
Vegetable stock drink mix, 1 x sachet
Instant soup (varying flavours), 2 x sachets
Beverage whitener (non-dairy creamer), 2 x sachets
Gum, chewing, PK, 5 sticks
Sweets, boiled, 1 pack assorted flavours
Fruit drink mix, either orange or lemon (enough for 1 litre of drink)
Tissues, paper (Kleenex individual pack)
Waterproof matches (10) and striker (1)
Water purification tablets (6)

Features of the 24-Hour operational ration pack are:

An individual ration for normal use in the field
Ration is designed to feed one person for one day
It has been designed to provide a balanced nutritional diet Can be eaten hot or cold
ORP provides an average of 4000 Kcal per ration
Ration is 10% protein, no more than 35% fat, 55% carbohydrate
Continuous consumption up to 15 days, ideally no longer than 30 days
Hot meals in flexible foil pouches
Rations packed in waterproof outer cardboard boxes
All ORPs have a shelf life of at least 3 years

The breakfast, main meal and dessert rations are of the boil-in-a-bag (retort pouch) variety and can be heated up by submerging them in boiling water heated up on a Hexamine Stove. The soup and drinks are in instant and/or powdered form. British soldiers are issued Hexamine stoves, (NOT included in the Ration Packs) also called Tommy Cookers. These pocket-sized, foldable, solid fuel metal stoves use blocks of hexamine for fuel. These stoves be can used to heat up water for coffee/tea and to warm up the entrees. They also come with an adapter to hold a metal mug/canteen cup. These stoves are similar in design to the European Esbit stoves but are larger and come with different fuel.