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Nah the French army rations sound great - salt pork with lentils, cassoulet, sauteed rabbit, duck mousse... I mean, I know it's tinned, but both tinned salt pork and tinned cassoulet are delicious!
I have been backpacking a lot, and eating local food is the ideal situation - but if you don't want to carry a stove and you don't have a lot of money, you end up eating sandwiches for weeks. Taking a few ration meals with you with the chemical heater would ensure you get at least a few hot meals - much better for your morale. You can buy individual meals off of ebay with chemical heaters that don't weigh a lot and don't take up much space.
It'd be interesting to see how hot the chemical heaters get - presumably they are hot enough to make the tea and coffee supplied with the rations. Perhaps a lightweight alternative to a stove? Not for actually cooking things, just for warming them up. Buying local tinned foods and heating them is a reasonable way of living... especially if you can find tinned cassoulet.