From June 16 to June 23, Americans participating in the challenge will be living off "ration packs" of rice, lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans and canned sardines in support of refugees.

A discovery made in the basement of Bardwell Elementary School in Aurora harkens back to a tense time in this country during the Cold War. The items found turned out to be boxes of long-forgotten s… ...

The roughly 12-foot-wide house of military ration boxes tops a ridge above a sprawling tent city near a base for the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne division.

Each ration box contains: 10 kilos of flour, 5 kilos of rice, 3 kilos of lentils, 3 litres of cooking oil, powdered milk and spices. Each box can sustain a family of seven for one week.