Crumbled oatmeal blocks mixed with the reconstituted powdered milk and bilberry flakes, plus one sachet of sugar, from a ten-man rat-pack made superb field porridge. The compo we had on the Falklands just after the landings in '82 had been boxed up in 1958! It also contained the giant Rollos we used to buy as kids. Those Dextrasol "go-faster" tablets kept most of us going on the yomp. The worst was "Bacon Grill". It consisted of bacon-flavoured grease hard-packed in even more grease. Handy for helping to waterproof boots, though.
