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Lick your spoon clean! If you are cooking actual food, rather than boil in the bag or dehydrated, then carry a small brillo pad to get any excess off. Garbage goes in a ziplock bag to be carried out. BTW, general caking of nastiness in your mug adds to the flavor! Wipe your stuff down but there have been studies done and if you are too clean you will suffer in the field. Just like your kids should eat dirt.

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You need to get used to the germs. Yes you need to be careful of catching gastro-enteritis the shits from badly cooked local food and all that, but that is not the same as wiping out a canteen cup in which you just cooked up a bit of food. I have some anecdotal memory about the Aussie SAS determining that their guys were going down with illness because their hygiene standards were too stringent. First, remember the heat kills bacteria. To remove left over food particles, scrub your items with sand. It is a great abrasive and will take those tiny particles of matter off of the utensil surfaces.

Remember the five Fs: Flies, Feces, Fingers, Food, and Filth. Dirty hands will make sick quickly. Clean the hands well, including under the fingernails.

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Especially under the fingernails. Food, flies, fingers, and feces. Put up fly paper.


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I use them for: We will typically go for unscented biodegradable types that you can find in hunting sections. We get ours on sale after the hunting season at less than half the original MSRP…they stay good for another year or so….

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If you wish to live in the bush long term you must bath. In hot weather it can vanish in as little as hrs. Some of them come in bar form so there is nothing to spill.


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  8. But there is really no reason at all to do it unless you just want to be dirty and die of something gross. I almost forgot you can brush your teeth with baking soda. Bottom line is that infantry work in the boonies is dirty and nasty. The rest can wait. Smell — yes you will, but I mean preventing detection by it.

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    If you are a more secure location then you can heat up water to wash with soap. I use such examples in the base in Patriot Dawn. If you can rig up showers, do it.

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