Alliance Military Field Ration

The Field/Garrison Rationed Foods is the alliance military ration.

Serving Method
The type of serving varies depending on the location. In the battlefield rations are served on one tray. Starships and bases allow for multiple courses with no tray and with a tablecloth, metal cutlery, and glassware.

The ration typically includes meat (most commonly chicken or beef) or fish, a salad or vegetable, a small bread roll, and a dessert.

Caterers usually produce alternative meals for soldiers with restrictive diets. These must usually be ordered from the mess hall in advance. Some of the more common examples include:

Cultural rations (C-Rations), such as French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese or Indian style.

Medical rations (M-X), including low/high fiber (LDF/HDF), low fat/cholesterol (LFT/LCR), diabetic (DBT), peanut free (PNF), non-lactose (NLC), low salt/sodium (LSA/LSO), low-purine (LPU), low-calorie (LCR), low-protein (LPR), non-spicy (NSP) and gluten-free (GLF) meals.

Religious diets (R-X), including kosher (K), halal (M), and Hindu (H), Buddhist (B) and Jain vegetarian (J) meals.

Grouped meals such as Vegetarian (V) and vegan (N) meals.

Starships also offer age grouped rations (A): Infant and baby meals (B), And children's rations (K), containing foods that children will enjoy such as baked beans, mini-hamburgers and hot dogs.

Ration Code
The rations are numbered according to codes:

JMGR-MXXX-CXX-RX-GXAX-XXX


 * MXXX signifies special medical serving.
 * CXX signifies special cultural serving.
 * RX signifies special religious serving.
 * GXAX signify a special group's serving.
 * XXX signifies a specific meal's number.

Examples:
 * 1) JMGR-MREG-CND-RR-GRAA-001 is a regular ration.