Ration pack boiled sweets

[tombear]

Hi all,
for some bizarre reason the middle son is mad to get hold of the packs of boiled sweets that you get in the current ration packs.

you can get them on eBay, but the ones we found were asking excessive postage and it occurred to me that you can probably buy them by the jar, if you know what the company that supplies them is called.

So does anyone know the civilian version/ name of them is ?

atb

Tom

 

[georann]

They're very similar to those boiled travel sweets and IIRC they sell them quite cheap in LIDL, but the ration pack ones are super dosed up on sugar and energy I don't suppose you can buy them.

 

[georann]

This may be of interest http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRITISH-R...Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item1c2da57677 seems a good price to me!

 

[Shambling Shaman]

I might have a spare packet, if you pm your address will try and get them in the post by the weekend.

 

[Jared]

No idea, but my personal favourite boiled sweets are A J Simpkins (of Sheffield)

Order then from here http://traditionalsweets.com/

 

[tiger stacker]

Very tasty in the cold darkness of 6am a Ben Wyvis. May havea packet or two left too.

 

[Retired Member southey]

the sweets are manufactured by chequer foods LTD, they also supply the same sweets for various selection boxes like the halloween sweet tubs you see in tesco,

 

[Jared]

the sweets are manufactured by chequer foods LTD, they also supply the same sweets for various selection boxes like the halloween sweet tubs you see in tesco,

Thought they were just the packaging people. Though I may well be wrong.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Very tasty in the cold darkness of 6am a Ben Wyvis. May havea packet or two left too.

Lol I think mine are from the last time I was a Ben Wyvis

 

[tombear]

Cheers folks pm sent where relevent.

Chequer Foods from their web site seams to be mainly packaging although they do some drinks related stuff them selves.

I'll have to make sure he burns all the energy off as my side tends to run to fat if not worked like a hos'. He was threatening to spend some of his Christmas money on surplus ration packs which I've explained have over twice the calories a 11 year old needs! Perhaps i should bury them deep out back and he can only eat the contents if he digs in , eats them squatting in the hole and fills it in afterwards! Sad to say he would probably go for it... roll on him discovering girls ;-{D)

ATB

Tom

 

[georann]

Cheers folks pm sent where relevent.

Chequer Foods from their web site seams to be mainly packaging although they do some drinks related stuff them selves.

I'll have to make sure he burns all the energy off as my side tends to run to fat if not worked like a hos'. He was threatening to spend some of his Christmas money on surplus ration packs which I've explained have over twice the calories a 11 year old needs! Perhaps i should bury them deep out back and he can only eat the contents if he digs in , eats them squatting in the hole and fills it in afterwards! Sad to say he would probably go for it... roll on him discovering girls ;-{D)

ATB

Tom

Yea definitely a bit much for a standard day to eat a whole ration pack! Perhaps he should enroll in CCF/ACF cadets then he would get them for free on exercise and do the exercise to burn it off! Plus it's great fun and he'd learn a lot.

 

[Retired Member southey]

They are just normal boiled sweets, suger and colouring.

 

[brozier]

I'm just scoffing some Lidl "Mac Iver" Multivitamin sweets. They are 98% Carbs (of which 66% sugaring carbs)

So plenty of energy there and you get a handy Tin for Char cloth win-win!

Cheers
bryan

 

[tombear]

I'm afraid the scouts got him at 6 with Beavers and he is working his way through, moved up to proper Scouts last year. eldest is about to move up to Adventures but the sloth like youngest deserted Beavers after a year as it wasn't for him.

Correction, it's explorers Jnr moves to next, don't know where I got adventures from?

Cheers!

Tom

 

[georann]

I'm afraid the scouts got him at 6 with Beavers and he is working his way through, moved up to proper Scouts last year. eldest is about to move up to Adventures but the sloth like youngest deserted Beavers after a year as it wasn't for him.

Cheers!

Tom

Don't let that stop him! Started age 6 as a beaver, moved all the way through to explorers (formerly adventures but no for a few years now!) then became a Young Leader with my scout troop and now a proper leader, yet still did CCF at school from years 9 to 13 (could only start in year 13) and left to come to Uni as staff sergeant. I would thoroughly recommend both scouting and cadets, but fair enough we can only fit so much time in!

 

[John Fenna]

I would have sent you a load of packets ... but they all got given away as Halloween "Trick or Treat" fodder - I bet those kids had to be scraped off the ceilings!

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

Are these the ones

 

[georann]

Are these the ones

Yea they look like the old style ones (you can see the new ones in the ebay link I posted), which are even better than the new ones

 

[rik_uk3]

are found in Lidl/Aldi/B&M for 99p, might actually have 89p last tin I got, same type of sweets and the tins are handy when empty.

 

[carabao]

Slightly of track, well a lot of track. Boiled sweets had only once use when I was a naughty Rifleman and that was stuffing them down the hollow end of a thunderflash. Nothing like the smell of burnt sugar in the morning.