The reserve ration, which sought to provide a complete food allowance for one man for one day,
included a one-pound can of meat (usually corned beef), two 8-ounce tins of hard bread, 2.4 ounces of sugar,
1.12 ounces of roasted and ground coffee, and 0.16 ounce of salt. It weighed about 2 ¾ pounds and contained
about 3300 calories. The food was considered ample and satisfying but the packaging, in cylindrical cans of
one-pound capacity, was far from practical or economical.
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