[PnP] pnp Digest, Vol 140, Issue 4

[David Sanders]

Per a US Army website, the MRE's average 1250 calories...so two a day would keep you going normally, though the folks in combat or otherwise expending lots of energy might need more.

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> 1 MRE is about 2500 calories, so you don't really eat 3 MRE's a day.
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>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Panthera Altaica <draltaica at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I just did a post about food and water on my new Blog<shameless
>> plug>http://yiffiemon.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Recent_posts</shameless plug>
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>> Then to figure out the standard mass of a Food Point I looked up the weight
>> of a MRE and that you are recommended to eat 3 MRE a day, getting 937.5
>> grams.
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>> In PnP the standard FP is only 113.398 grams. Half of a 2000 cal diet of
>> dehydrated beef weighs 229.485 grams. Half of a 2000 diet of pure fat is
>> only 111.111 grams.
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>> So is fat the standard diet in the  Perilous Lands?
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>> In the equipment section 1/4 pound of Dried meat is listed as 1 FP of Travel
>> Rations. That's a 988.204 daily cal diet.
>> 
>> Although Fesh Meat is only 1/5 pound a FP :) and cheese is just 1/8 pound
>> per Food Point.
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>> Don't forget 2 pounds of water only weighs 1.5 pounds.
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>> Using PnP pounds it's still only 1317 cal diet.
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>> --- It is with books as with the fire in our hearths; we go to a neighbor to
>> get the embers and light it when we return home, pass it on to others, and
>> it belongs to everyone.
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