Finland Field Ration ~2014~
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The blueberry-raspberry 'drink' is to be mixed with the oatmeal ;)
yeah :D
I put it on vanilla ice cream. Which didn't come with the kit....just saying.
@@imallearsru that sounds outside the box....
you can find all of this in Finnish stores
Yes you can except, VIINAAAAAAAAA
Why do you think Alko is not a store?
didn't meant that, i meant that you can't get them in the normal grocery store, Alko is based on alcoholic drinks
It's intentional makes for easy supply security.
In my opinion that package was the best when i served in Finnish military.
Even that it says it is 24 hour ration we never had time to eat all of those stuff in 24 hours so people always had a LOT of leftover food after military exercises. After 1 year of serving i brought home about 10 of those packages.
säästää hilloo
u finnish bruh?
mistä näitä saa muutenku intist
Fenghuang I've had "a few" of these while serving in the military and I loved Combat Ration Menu 3. At RUK we had different rations
We always had either a field kitchen available, or the food was brought from a base kitchen. Only got one 24h pack during my service (almost 10 years back, so similar to this, not the newer stuff), and that was for an overnight march (which actually ended up being easier than a few 1-day marches). Then again... air force.
"camping juice" :D haha. kippis!
Finns don't lose their mess kit: The spoon-fork combo goes in your combat jacket pocket, and the mess tin (three part) goes in your webbing pack. :)
Also, the hart-sport sports drink is usually poured into your canteen. One package makes just about perfect taste with 1l of fresh water, and gets rid of the 'bottle-taste'.
Wait until you have to jump off of a landing craft, into the water, and drop all of your gear to avoid drowning. Trust me you'll loose you mess kit, spare ammunition, and everything else you have with you. If you're very lucky you'll have your rifle and two or three magazines, if you're lucky you'll make it to shore alive with just the clothes on your back, if you're unlucky you'll either drown or be shot.
Wait until you have to jump off of a landing craft, into the water, and drop all of your gear to avoid drowning. Trust me you'll loose you mess kit, spare ammunition, and everything else you have with you. If you're very lucky you'll have your rifle and two or three magazines, if you're lucky you'll make it to shore alive with just the clothes on your back, if you're unlucky you'll either drown or be shot.
If you have time to pull the spoon-fork out of your inside breast pocket, you can't be really drowning. And yeah, I did the coastal stuff too, including water insertion. Though if you lose all of it, you're not bringing your ration pack with you either. So, a limited problem.
Also, I'm not exactly serious at this, it's just that the argument 'if you lose your mess kit' is kind of similar to 'if you find yourself in combat buck naked and without a gun', as the regular way to pack your webbing gear includes the finnish mess tin, and, as I said, the eating utensil is normally in your combat uniform and removed only for eating.
Finwolven I was just joking, though the French forces will probably drown before giving up their food.
we used to make the pastas right into the bag so the pot for heating water stayed clean for longer! the lobster sop stuff is horrid no one liked it even when super hungry. even sometimes when i was really hungry i chewed on pine cones to make the worst hunger subside
Mixing the Lämmin Kuppi berry soup with the porridge and cooking them together was an amazing combination. Really gave some great flavor to that filling porridge.
+Axt3r Yeah someone said that, I bet that does make it way better. Cheers
as a Swede i have to say this all looks familiar and tasty but is a complete fabrikation, i know my Finn neigbours only go into combat with Koskenkorva and raw Raindeer meat!
That "Kuuma kuppi" that you are referring as "drink" is actually more of a soup than a drink. Works as a drink too but the main idea of it is meant to be a soup, that's why it is kinda thigh. :)
I'm surprised the Finnish Army did not transition to an indigenous-manufactured MRE but opted for the early 20th century practice of procuring off-the-shelf civilian food industry items. Now the Finns are eminently practical people. Given a small army purchasing ready-made, pre-packaged civilian food products would appear to be very practical and saves state funds on manufacturing a Finnish-type MRE.
Insane that the biggest coffee drinking nation in the world, only get 2 coffee per day in the army?! :( poor finns...
+Cexial In Finnish army you rarely drink coffee. It's so poor in quality. The hot drink of choice in the army is tea.
The morning army coffee was great help if you were suffering from constipation, at least in my time (I/12)
Depends greatly on the garrison. In Upinniemi, the coffee came out of commercial instant coffee machine, which was, as you can imagine, shit. Then in Pansio, it was actual pot coffee that was made by normal coffeemaker, and the kitchen people came in and filled the pot with freshly made coffeee. That was decent. although they probably used the cheapest coffee available.
Morning coffe and evening so yuo stay awake
Most excellent review! Good amount of food in that rat pack.
Joliet Jake and Elwood Bluesberry?
+skweek That's exactly the image that popped in my head LOL
+gundog4314 I've been waiting for this video for sooooo long since i'm from Finland, and i've only seen other countries ration, but i haven't seen the finnish ration. Thanks for the great video!
+gundog4314 I was so disappointed to not hear Eric Idle singing about the joys of Finland.... lol
Thanks for another good review gundog. Looks like the Finns eat well.
Please be sure not to store Finnish MRE and Russian MRE in the same box.
It's just asking for trouble.
Wishing you and your family a very happy Christmas.
Nice! Brings back some memories... Still pretty much the same as when I served back in 2006, except they've replaced the canned foods and noodle packs with that bagged dry spaghetti stuff and swapped that godawful sugar & lactose free chocolate with kickass beef jerky. Almost exactly how I hoped they'd improve the rations! That excuse for chocolate was just bad, and while the canned foods did have the advantage of being good to eat straight from the can if needed, they took a lot of space compared to dry foods and weighed a lot.
Wow the food rations are AMAZING!
we have 188 888 lakes here :D
+M1mare no one's perfect
+sidewwinder Just pointing it out.
M1mare Thank you, Captain!
Russia is biggest country so i dont wonder :D
+Kuye Muye and russia is 20x bigger than finland😂
One thing, you never lose your mess kit =) Not when you are in the finnish army...
Camping juice, everybody including me actually laughed, nice one ...Les.
Once when we had a long overnight march, everyone got one of these bags. Most of us did not eat everything in the bag, and they where throwing them away when we returned. I collected many of them and these bags later where my winter reserve. I miss that liha makaronipata :/
Moraren oliko siellä kivaa?
There were so much food that i didn't even carry all the rations with me. Three bags of these monsters kept going like six days minimum. All was cooked with trangia (Google it).
Field stripping rations is a universal thing for all soldiers HAHA! Cheers Anssi!
gundog4314 de nada, bottle of koskenkorva wasnt In the bag though :D
Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!
tämä^
tuon kaljat!
Kivaa!!
Aabohax tuon kossun
Viinaa ja kaljaa :)
wow finish MRE is like something u get from groceries store and just stuffed it in a zipped bag, and walah
Oh damn, this nostalgia rush from that MRE is REAL 8)
Thank the lord no salmiakki in the pack :)
I have to say that Finnish Army rations aren't really MRE's in the modern sense. They're much more closer to a civilian MRE, since they actually contain very few customized "dishes" or food's as you have probably noticed. Most of the stuff there is commercial. Cooking meals out of mostly dry ingredients at the field is quite time consuming and takes a lot of effort, especially outdoors at a bad weather. I'll get back to that later.
Also the food stuff isn't that well protected compared to all other "real" MRE's, so if your ziplock happens to bulge a little bit and water/condensation seeps in, the first thing that will go soggy are the cookie bar's (even through their packaging) and possibly the finnish "hardtacks" or Näkkileipä.
If you've opened even 1 pack of these näkkileipä's , you'll notice (in the silver paper) that they eat up all the humidity there is in the bag at the first place after a while of traveling in a rainy weather. Good thing is that they give plenty of näkkileipä, so given you might be facing some hardship in making the fire, we used to spread shoe polish between 2 dry näkkileipäs and set it on fire from the corner. It give's amazingly long lasting fire making even wet wood to dry at least given you have sufficient cover built. And yes, i'm not joking about this. It's an old trick to start a fire by making Näkkäri (a nickname for näkkileipä) fire with shoe polish in-between.
It's not a bad idea to throw in a big sealed silica bag in case you happen to have your hands on one, to get rid of the condensation that will come through the big plastic bag anyhow to keep all wheat products as dry as possible.
Another problem with this MRE is that it contains very few (if at all) protein's. The Dried meat helps in that area a little bit, but overall this MRE is very Carbohydrate/fat based, so it will give you at least enough calories. Tastewise to the main dishe's i'd say, that the lobster soup probably tastes the best if you use it as a base for any Fish or such you might find, but again this brings to the problems with the cooking. We are given a huge heater (Trangia) that is clumsy to use, radiates heat and also makes heck of a noise out at the field. I wish the Finnish army would start developing MRE's with chemical heater's and more quality food with better sealing.
After a long hardship at the field (or during), i would imagine it would be much more convenient that you could spend significantly less time cooking the food out in the field and eating it, than cooking it and risk getting exposed by heat signal's or stalling. A chemical heater, premade/packaged food would boost morale at the field significantly in my opinion.
I know there are different type's of MRE's also in the finnish army (but not widely available) with a can of peasoup (which you can eat with a spork as it is) and other "ready to eat" ingredients. Still the MRE shown on this video is the most common one (that is given to all reservists and our special units spending time outdoors), unreachable from the regular food chain of the army.
My personal favorites in this MRE is naturally 1) the dried meat and then 2) those näkkileipä's (hardtacks) with those little can's of goodness (ham and liver pate) that you just scoop out with the näkkileipä's and eat. Quick and easy. :P Just make sure you eat it all within the same day.
Wow that's tons of info, thanks for being so thorough. Cheers!
You could combine the raspberry stuff with the porridge.
you could put that blueberry rasperry soup into your porridge.. tastes better.
noticed some people say all kind of ways to eat this i noticed the best way to eat is use all to make some varienty so you dont need to eat just oat meal 7 days you can make oat meal with choco or the berry drink or others. etc.
Those we're good, the shit they have now is terrible.
Great job Gundog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Different sort of meal. Following you still on facebook also. As I said there, any or all on ration choice, LOL Peace, Magnum, John.
If anyone happens to be interested this is what we used to cook those meals in the field.
scandinavianoutdoor.com/trangia/25-1-ul/
And this is the Finnish spoon/fork.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusikkahaarukka
Exiletheheretic well that or just a camp fire or the tent wood stove. anything that gets water boiling.
You would be screwed with out your messkit but that is again one of the things you have to take good care about it :)
We did use field rations we did have our basic messkit and sometimes a Trangia when i was in service and a every Finnish soldiers basic tool is a thing called Lusikkahaarukka
Best thing is to use little less water on that blueberry-rasberry drink and mix it with oatmeal
And maybe these new rations are missing dark chocolate bar that used to be on every ration and it was one of best things in it and used to have a liver patee also...
But this did bring some nice memories of eating alsomost warm food in a heavy rain in middle of nowhere in Finnish forrest :)
Those have been in service for long time. Certain items (despite being good) did leave some unpleasant memories. Premade meals which were in tough plastic bags and were cooked with hot water were known as "suljusäkki" and one item which had shrimps in it was particularly hated. That package will easily endure for days as worst thing about military eating (for guerilla) was that there rarely was time to cook a really strong meal for yourself.
That package haven't much changed in 5 or 6 years. We didn't have beef jerky thought, which is sad. But we had a can of tuna and it was a good thing. And some ramen noodles. The best main meal was pasta carbonara and I still eat it sometimes as all of these products can be bought from almost any market in Finland. Except I'm not sure about that ham paté or pork paté, what ever it's called. It was reeeally good when you needed some energy fast. Just open the can and dip your crisp bread and after a minute you have the strength of a Hulk. I kind of miss those MREs and the forests.
Also I don't think that the need for whole mess kit whit gas burners or those burning tablets is any problem. We will fight our wars in forests so we can always make a fire out of sticks and a soldier should always have his/her M.1910 Kochgeschirr (I believe its called billycan?) and a combination of spoon and fork (spork? we call it luha as spoon = LUsikka and fork = HAarukka). And you can fill your water bottle everywhere as there is almost 200 000 lakes.
Actually this is newer than I had. Back in the days we used to have a liver and pork paste, dark chocolate bar and cacao as well. I think, the meals were more soup based. I'm not sure is it good idea to have so much pasta in it. It's kind of lacking the necessary protein which keeps you going, but in other hand - there was beef and jerky in it.
+Martti Asikainen I think the contents vary. I remember that some guys always wanted some particular bag. I didn't even know why but there definitely differences between bags.
+Martti Asikainen 2/07, brunbergin tappelusuklaa ja kaakao oli ainakin vielä.
+Martti Asikainen Noi pussien sisällöt vaihtelee koko ajan.
+salo nii aina ei saanu kuivalihaa... :c
''camping juice''
it's going to be vodka, isn't it..
yep :D my friend would call that ''the weekend juice''
Its interesting to look at this because I know Finland requires military service or social work. I can see that its cheaper to use existing forms of food and could help moral. Another hidden plus is it helps the service members get an idea good idea of a diet and prepare them for civilian life after their service .
If you mean why we don't have dedicated MREs for the military, there is a very specific reason for that: size of the wartime army and maintaining production levels.
The thing is also that FDF is build upon to stop large scale invasions against Finland. As such there is little point to produce MREs just for the military, as during war time the armed strength would go up tenfold (230k troops). That would mean that MRE production would also have to go up tenfold. The US or UK don't have to worry about such things, as they're build more on power projection and fighting localized conflicts abroad. Also the military forms small part of total population, as such even in war little percentage of food stocks are directed to soldiers, unlike in wartime Finland (most young men are at the front).
By using civilian goods, you can simply transfer food that would normally go to inactive ("civilian") reservists going instead to the front line with activated reservists. That means you can keep on producing and importing the same type of food without having to do nation-wide diet change (besides more exotic foods like bananas, coffee or chocolate). During wartime MREs would look pretty much the same, same with field kitchens using civilian goods.
Well we do have a class called "Home Economics" in Finland which should teach that stuff (and how to cook it, too). It is mandatory for all 7th graders and also a popular elective subject among 8-9th graders, even among boys. Also everyone has already been eating healthy lunches at school usually for 11+ years.
This is my favourite army combat ration.
Wasa is kinda fancy to me,i recall stocking up when they would show up at Biglots (its a store when all the sold out stuff goes) cuz they are kinda pricey, and still are, in other stores.
Hey gundog... I was bored so I've been watching some UA-cam videos, a lot of the MRE ones, which I do alot, mostly from you guys from MREinfo. I so do enjoy watching them also a lot of the non-English ones can get me researching and before I know it hours have past and I have learned a lot!
The berry drink caught my eye this time, since everything else I sort of know, Knorr is common and so are the breakfast biscuits. We'll to start to correct what a "Hot Toddie" is is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey, in some recipes, sugar, herbs and spices served hot like a tea or it can be regular tea spiked with typically whiskey. What you had is a hot cup of fruit soup of blueberries and raspberries (finnis: kuuma kuppi kiisseli mustikoita ja vadelmat.. Swedish[Blå Band is from] varm kopp fruktsoppa blåbär och hallon), which would probably been good mixed into that plain porridge!
Blå Band makes a variety of soups, gravies, sauces and they have a line of outdoor/expedition freeze dried food used by several countries for their troops, you will always find breakfast porridges and cereals in the Swedish 24 Hour Meals. You can also find Blå Band soups and meals too.
Oh yeah, what happen to the chokladdryck (cocoa)? It would have also been good mixed into the porridge too.
I participated in a winter exercise in Finland, and we got this ration. I am wondering if there is also a summer version, because of all the hot water this one requires?
Way cool review!
I forgot whole thing because relocation and so on....
But better late than never!
Thanks Mr Gundog for great review, hope that vodka was tasty!
"kissell" as such is more commonly a sauce to put on grains than a drink, so maybe it was ment to be on oatmeal but it also looked less thick than usual so who knows...
+asdfdsa16 Well that would have been delightful. I'll have to mix another glass of it with some oatmeal sometime. Cheers!
Why can't I see the like on this vid?
We used to just pour that hart-sport powder in to mouth during long marches :D has more kick that way
Very interesting, one of the few European rat packs without any chocolate bars.
oh watching this brings back memories, ate these packs many weeks on Finnish army 2012 as an motorbike courier.
Great now i want Koskenkorva and i only have beer and long drinks :( . First world problems. Also i like to drink only on Mondays to ephasize that i can because i'm unemployed.
*100 000 lakes
Koskenkoorva (sp) is not legally a vodka in Finland.
this is so awesome. I want to get started into making mre reviews but I don't have the money to purchase ever it sucks thank you for sharing and letting us live through your eyes lol
You should try and pour just a little of amount of that blueberry/raspberry soup in that oatmeal to get the best damn oatmeal ever.
You put sugar into porridge... If you ever wear a kilt, you will also wear underpants.
The British Army usually put boiled sweets into it. Spangles. Or the revolting packet of apple flakes.
That Pasta Bolognese thing tastes fantastic after you've marched for 40 kilometers(about 25 miles) and know you still have 20 to go. Even if you burn some of it it's still pretty good.
Soak those raisins in the camping juice and put it in the oatmeal. Duuuuuuuuude
2:55 is a blueberry dessert _soup,_ not a drink. Popular in Sweden, and in Finland apparently; though Finland has a Swedish minority population. (It's an official language in addition to Finnish.)
BTW, this ration, if it didn't have the meat spread and jerky, would be a little carb heavy (for my taste, anyway). 'Upside? Finland can get quite cold, I hear, so anything that might add fat to your diet would be great.
This is a hit!! They treat there soldiers right!! Lucky MRE
when I was in Finnish army at 2015, we didnt had beef jerky in our MRE. What a rip off!!! I feel bad now.
ite olin saapumiserää II/14 ja koin nää vanhemmat safkapussit sekä uudemmat jotka säki vissii opit tuntee (punaset jauhoruokapussit) ja siis nää vanhemmat oli parempii 😂 uusissa ei ees tullu tulitikkuja niissä pusseissa. ainoo hyvä puoli uusissa oli että niissä joissain oli sitä fazerin suklaata messissä, ja wihuri 15 jälkee aliupseerina pääsin rohmuamaan mulle ja ryhmänjäsenille niit suklaita kasoittain huoltojoukkueen kuorma-autoista #wihuri15nevöfoget
+monstercocie Mmmm... in 1997 there was pasta with bacon and BANANA.... not so quite of succes... if I made a good translation. Not good at all.
+Matti Friman Näkkileipä toki maistu loppuun asti, saatto jopa vähän päätyä silti roskiin sillon lokakuun lopulla, kun tyhjättiin kaapit viimesen kerran.
Great review sir, really enjoyed it...Thank you gundog4314
I'm a big fan of those oatmeal bars. Been meaning to buy a box for the office.
This is the old ration pack. Not sure if they're used at all anymore.
We were issued these newer MRE's that they bought from Sweden during my service.
Wonderful thank you for the video.
Shoulda dipped the 'fibre cookie' in that (seriously) thick fruit drink... ;)
At my time (1993) some of those sets had few cigarettes also. If i remember right, there was around 10 different sets and 2-3 of them had few cigarettes. Sometimes i get access to warehouse and me and my service mates always steal few sets with cigarettes :)
I have one Finnish ration pack, I can swap it for something else (preferably with a flameless burner).
When i was finnish army (saapumis erä l/11) we don't get that Field Ration. We only get Dinner bag. In that bag was only breads and too many raisin box there was 8 box. Best was Lämmin Kuppi soup.
Finnish army use Lusikkahaarukka when you on the field.
lusikkahaarukka=Spork
Nice video. That lobster-shrimp soup was universally hated when I was in the army :D
These are more like "field training" extra rations. That is why they are quite heavy on snacks and only on commercially available products. I never had to cook any of those while I was in the army. Field kitchen was always handling the food.
I think they have totally different rations for troops that are actually deployed somewhere (like UN missions in Afghanistan etc.)
They changed the field rations last year to easier to prepare ones. To similar "just add water"- bags they have in Sweden. (+protein bars and coffee)
+jonespumppu Thanks for the info, I knew this one was older. Someday perhaps I'll try one of the new ones. Cheers!
We used to cook those things in Trangia. There's actually a different kind of ration which includes Blå Band Expedition meals, which IMO are a lot better, as you can cook them in their own bag and don't have to mess up your trangia etc. I'll check my local store tomorrow and see if they still offer them. :)
+EHliveFin I've had a Bla Band breakfast in the Swedish ration. I agree it is a very nice design and I'll have to eventually get a few of their main meals. Cheers
I think they need to put more colourful things inside and more sauces.It looks brown and grey and its kinda depressing even more then being in battle
Nice review and the best is at the end. Smooth with a capital SMO
360p life is real but Idgaf because Its a RATION REVIEW FROM GUNDOG WHUHU!
+Yannik Mroos Mega Thumbs Up!
Where did you get the combat ration ??
I interest about Finnish Combat Ration...
October 2014 wasn't packing date on that ration, it expired then.
Pretty smart (and practical and economical) to use stuff already on the shelf in the market. The US MRE like most other US stuff is over engineered
I totally agree. Why spend more $$$ on fancy tactical rebranded packaging and equipment. Off the shelf in the bag, heatseal it and done!
Knorr - german company for dryed meal and other kitchen meals and soups
MFW its midnight and most stores are either far away or closed, and i have no food, this looks like a buffet meal.
that's a pretty box.
The Blues-Berry MRE on a
mission from God !
Way cool review - good eats
and plenty of it.
Hey, i just wanted to ask if i can sent you something, would that be ok for you?
+Hotdogweurstchen1 Sure if you would like. Shoot me a email at gundog4314@gmail.com Cheers
As others have already said, last thing a Finnish soldier would lose is their mess kit, it just doesn't happen :D
As of 2015 we got new rations that are even better and you only need water to eat everything. no mess kit needed. spoon will make it easier of course.
+SneakyCheese8 Really? I'll have to try to snag one someday. Cheers!
The hot cup is a fairly popular breakfast item.
love this review im from finland
I didn't see any elbow macaroni, I think it was all Cavatappi
omg i just thought of something,if you really wanted to you could make the "hot totty" drink really thick so its like a jam and add it to the oatmeal.
I'm looking to branch out and try new mres if anyone has one they would like to donate I would love to see what u have please and thanks
I have a lot of these in my kitchen and took many of these items to school with me. Not too bad, but salty. Troops need the salt tho after all the sweating all day.
Thought they would include more coffee in the package
Aw, Jesus.....that soup seriously looks like a soft dook.....
however you want to plate it,,,,,,,,its still food porn.
Love the review, but what happened to the chocolate drink?
Spagetteria, used to take them with me on camping trips good food.
what no reindeer? to bad I was looking forward to seeing rudoulfh get eaten
A very interesting mix of things! I would be very tempted to pour some of that thick berry drink into my oatmeal I think!
+goodi2shooz You can get one liter cartons of that stuff at most grocery stores here in Finland!
happy holidays! :)
Nice one! Informative, to the point and honest. I dunno about calling it a meal ready to eat though, with the cooking of some of the items with sourced water etc. Same as a few of the items in the Canadian IMP's, technically its a meal ready to make... lol. Carry on!
oatmeal and your suppose to add the blueberry/rasberry drink, or alot of people does
Sees a fellow MRE nut. Subs.
Are you sure the soup didn't require 0.5 liters?
+Hairysteed It could have, but not like I can redo the review. Cheers
+gundog4314 It's just that these soups are commercial off-the-shelf which I remember preparing myself from time to time (quite handy when you don't have a lot of time) and I normally start by heating up a half a liter of water :)
So you needed 13 times more water for the soup then :D
I can smell the sock sweat mixed with smoke in the tent in a cold wintery night as I watch this vid... hrrrr
I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes the smells take me back to the fox holes too. Cheers Mate