 Thats a great bit of advice Jon. Cheers for that. I do however strongly disagree with one statement: Kendal mintcake is lovely stuff! I cant understand how you can call it un-palletable 
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 'Orrible stuff.
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 KMC = caca . Edit: Actually it looks like a broken Hexamine tablet  - No wonder it tasted so bad...!
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 Joking aside, it's arguably better to carry something you're unlikely to eat in the normal way of things - ancient Mars Bars for example - so I suppose from that point of view, mint cake does sort of fit the bill 
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 And so to the all important question.... White, Brown or Choccy covered...??? Has to be choccy covered for me. 
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it's arguably better to carry something you're unlikely to eat in the normal way of things That explains the compo rations of years gone by, with nearly white Mars bars and Spangles that were inseparable from their wrappers.......
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 Aye, it's pish. Anything from High5, SIS, Honey Stinger, Clif or beef jerky is what you should be packing.
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Aye, it's pish One often marvels at the Scottish dialect, and it's succinct capability to transpose a feeling into words.
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You need a flask (Stanley Aladdin's best) with coffee, dark muscovado sugar, laced with a good single malt. Anything more is just making up the weight!
This time of year, I like a goodly chunk of Stollen too.
FB, did you ever notice that the old rat packs were invariably labelled something like "Eat before ..." with a date well in the past. Did you know powdered milk can go sour?
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 Take goggles. After a rubbish descent from Cairngorm in somewhat unpleasant conditions(!) last winter without them, I realised why they're necessary. Navigation is inevitably more awkward when you can't open your eyes... 
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lol Yes noticed the dates, years past in many cases, the milk would just end up like grey sand in your coffee. However 'cheese possessed' was always nice on top of 'bicuits brown eating for the use of'. I nearly ended up on a charge once for putting on a store requisition for: Snake Tartan, draught excluding for the use of.
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My favourite was the dried apricots, oatmeal block, dried milk (when still creamy coloured & not sour), mixed with rolos, made up into a porage. A guaranteed kick start in the mornings.
My 'fat civvy' version is Ready Brek, chocolate powder (Green & Blacks - very civilised), some muesli (Grauniad reader you see), some extra nuts (preferably Brazils), milk powder, and a chunk of dark chocolate. I'd love to add dried apricots, but don't know where I might get some.
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 Ian, I'd love to add dried apricots, but don't know where I might get some Try Julian Graves...
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Buscuits brown, eating for the use of. Covered in a layer of butter Layed with anchovy fillets (in olive oil) from the tin. . My wife, among others, finds this odd.
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John, ration packs used to contain dried apricot flakes. I eat the Julian Graves type dried apricots for a pastime, but they're much heavier than the properly dried flakes.
Anchovies on biscuits brown sounds pretty good FB. My wife would also find it odd though.
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Aye, sorry, goggles and apricots, obviously.
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Apricots taste better, will keep spindrift out of your eyes, though not as good as goggles in this respect. Anchovies are bloody useless.
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Well I'm glad richard G agrees mint cake is good stuff My mouth is watering thinking of a big chocolate covered slab of the stuff, that minty cool fresh taste. MmmmmmmmmmMMmmmmmMMmmmmmm
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Colgate does the same, but without rotting your teeth. One draw back however. I knew a guy once who mixed up his Anusol with his Colgate. Ended up with withdrawn gums and the ring of confidence.
I'll get my coat.
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