Great kit, mine is very similar. With the exception that my water bottle is stainless steel and has a stainless cap as well, just the o ring is rubber. I keep a survival water straw in the canteen when not in use as well as a small bottle if iodine pills. My canteen cup is the same one you have and fits perfectly to my water bottle. Like you, I store rice in my mess kit but not the Uncle Ben's just short grain white rice. I generally carry enough to make eight bowls of rice once cooked which is roughly four cups dry. I also collect and store a few of the little soya sauce packets from sushi trays and Chinese take out to add to my kit as well as a few dehydrated Okinawa style umeboshi. I supplement this with a small bag of dehydrated lima beans as well as some salt and pepper packets, about two cups of dry beans. It all fits pretty easily in my mess tin, which is stainless steel as well, though I can't remember the make. The fork and spoon thing I prefer to forgo for a stainless steel pair of thin hashi or chopsticks, it is just more versatile tool I think. While living in Japan my father in-law was into bushcraft and would always just make his own hashi quickly with his knife whenever we went out hunting. The camp knife I keep is just a cheap mora knife. I am planning to get a few good swamprat and scrapyards to have some decent blades though. Thanks for creating this thread JarheadJournalist, brilliant idea. I look forward to seeing or reading about what other peoples kits are like as well.