OK..the chair and the green glop in the bucket over the fire-
when i did this program last year i sat on the chopping block or a log next to the fire,that got a bit old after the first few days.so this time i brought a lawn chair,put an insulated pad on the seat and covered the rest with three Army blankets and a red trappers blanket,a badger pelt was the finishing touch.all that plus a log with a axe driven into it and a wood pack frame behind it gave the aluminum chair that "heap of blankets" look.
the "green stuff"..that's pea soup made from compressed blocks. not sold in the States i had a contact in Germany send me 25 or so tubes of the stuff.made by Knorr it's about the same as the WW One German Army "iron ration" only made with less lard.i plan to use this in the PFD survival kit i'm working on and this was a good test to see how it cooked up over a fire.i have made the soup at home or over a camp stove on canoe trips but i wanted to try it out and this was a good place to do that.i found that it takes a long time to dissolve that tablet of compressed soup so i may replace it with a powdered one in the kit.