Aircrew Rations
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To be honest it will stop the bean stealers taking it out of the draw for their kids or for the journey home, if you want parity of treatment with civvies it goes both ways - bring a packed lunch or prep your own butty box......................its not difficult.
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Our meals were supplied by the officers mess and they were getting X amount of money per head from the budget. The X outweighed the product* so I bet they ain't happy bunnies loosing out on several flights a day!!
*usually made from the previous evenings leftovers. Those who ate in the mess the evening before a flight were rarely impressed.
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*usually made from the previous evenings leftovers. Those who ate in the mess the evening before a flight were rarely impressed.
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I`m told there are still aircrew lockers full of tins of Heinz Tomato soup in the old Flying Clothing Section at Waddo.....Been there since the Vulcan days...
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I so remember with a degree of satisfaction of receiving my first 'Butty Box' for free on an MCT trip cos i had just moved out of service accommodation. 
Such a sad feeling that this emotion won't be felt by those (if not already made redundant) young thrusters that follow.
Bye Bye Pies & all those bruised apples etc
Such a sad feeling that this emotion won't be felt by those (if not already made redundant) young thrusters that follow.
Bye Bye Pies & all those bruised apples etc
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I remember a Nimrod sortie where we had some chap with gold stuff on his hat along for the ride. Fair play to him, we were informed before the trip that he did not want to bother with VIP rations, he would eat the same as us.
Stu B***** in the galley doing the cooking sets a chix curry in front of the man who duly tucks in. He turns to Stu and suggests that the food is not as warm as it could be.
Stu leans over, sticks gloved finger in the middle of the curry, tastes it and announces "Naah - its OK"
One very surprised VIP wishing he had gone for the fancy rations!
Stu B***** in the galley doing the cooking sets a chix curry in front of the man who duly tucks in. He turns to Stu and suggests that the food is not as warm as it could be.
Stu leans over, sticks gloved finger in the middle of the curry, tastes it and announces "Naah - its OK"
One very surprised VIP wishing he had gone for the fancy rations!
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I'd say a certain cook's (oh, sorry chef's) kids won't be happy here either. Many's a Sunday morning I'd go to the mess to pick up our box of rations to be short choclate bars or yummy hazelnut yougurts.
"there's none left im afraid ".
Funny how the press had a couple of boxes of Kit Kats and Mars Bars in it on Friday then?
Only seemed to run out when he was Duty Coook??
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"there's none left im afraid ".
Funny how the press had a couple of boxes of Kit Kats and Mars Bars in it on Friday then?
Only seemed to run out when he was Duty Coook??
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Can someone in the know please confirm that this cut is to high energy rations only and NOT in flight rations. Some of the previous posters seem to be talking about both.
Thanks
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A RN Surgeon Commander has completed the paper that has killed high energy rations. I need a sugar buzz sometimes during a 7hr leg east/west bound 
3-5 hr rate down from £2.97 to £0.15. Looks like the RN are still exacting revenge for moving Guam and scrapping the Harrier...what next, no Merlins for the Junglies as a parry&repost?
3-5 hr rate down from £2.97 to £0.15. Looks like the RN are still exacting revenge for moving Guam and scrapping the Harrier...what next, no Merlins for the Junglies as a parry&repost?
Back in the early 80s some bright spark in the system decreed that IOT cadets could no longer take Mars bars to camp. That meant staff could not either. People started to lose weight and feel odd, so someone - a nutritionist or some such like measured the work rate at camps 1 and 2. Long time ago but I seem to reacall the reqirement that generated was an astonishing 7000 calories a day, against a ration (enhanced) of about 3500 or 4000 calories a day. The ban on Mars bars was lifted! (I cannot eat a Mars bar other than when sailing, but even I was eating 2 or 3 of them a day!)
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At the secret Oxfordshire base crew meals have gone, replaced by pax meals (which are tiny). Rumour has it (& this is a rumour network) that a Tri* steward set fire to a crew meal in the food warmer so they are now considered to be 'unsafe' to prepare - even in those ac equipped with microwaves.
Butty boxes are still being supplied for MCTs.
So we're not yet at the stage where crews have to stop at Lidl (opening soon....!) on their way to work to get their rations before departure.
But it's probably only a matter of time......
Butty boxes are still being supplied for MCTs.
So we're not yet at the stage where crews have to stop at Lidl (opening soon....!) on their way to work to get their rations before departure.
But it's probably only a matter of time......
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I would try to avoid MCT like the plague but my hound looked forward to my return with the Scotch Egg from the Gateway House 'Butty Box'. She would catch it mid-air as I bounced it off the kitchen floor 
And as for the Robirch pork pie, which was usually so stale that the inside rattled around like a dice in a cup...
On Vs, I always gave my Mars Bar to the AEO for his young daughter. She was really upset when we were re-crewed later. I also used to give the piece of cling film wrapped moustrap cheese to one of our Air Engs on the VC10K - his shih tzu loved it. But then In-Flight started giving us some wrapped soft cheese instead - he tried his hound on that and then spent half an hour combing the residue out of its whiskers/ears/paws....
To be honest, I'm surprised that crew rations (except for trips of over 5 hours) weren't binned years ago.
On Vs, I always gave my Mars Bar to the AEO for his young daughter. She was really upset when we were re-crewed later. I also used to give the piece of cling film wrapped moustrap cheese to one of our Air Engs on the VC10K - his shih tzu loved it. But then In-Flight started giving us some wrapped soft cheese instead - he tried his hound on that and then spent half an hour combing the residue out of its whiskers/ears/paws....
To be honest, I'm surprised that crew rations (except for trips of over 5 hours) weren't binned years ago.
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To be honest, I'm surprised that crew rations (except for trips of over 5 hours) weren't binned years ago.
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Can someone in the know please confirm that this cut is to high energy rations only and NOT in flight rations. Some of the previous posters seem to be talking about both.
From my end (I'm not British Forces) its a complete cut in rations. Unless you include the ration packs in the life rafts !!
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I've started driving around the ring road to avoid the traffic lights by the building site so I'll bow to your superior knowledge of discount supermarkets.
More of a Waitrose man myself......
More of a Waitrose man myself......
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[QUOTE=BEagle;On Vs, I always gave my Mars Bar to the AEO for his yong daughter. .[/QUOTE]
Beages, a Mars Bar for an AEOs young daughter sounds like a fair swap to me.
Beages, a Mars Bar for an AEOs young daughter sounds like a fair swap to me.