MREs

[Fl0und3rz]

Also don't forget salt and a multivitamin.

[Russ McDonald]

I have about 5 cases of MRE's. Have never had the experience of eating them in the military.  Navy here.  Got to eat them on fires.  Mine are military and I sort through them.  Have sone buddies that are Army plus my son in law.  Theu say they eat everthing cold and use the heating units for when it is  cold and put them in their jackets for warmth not for th he food.  Medical supplies and used to be a fire fighter EMT

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[Alchase]

The nutritional value isn't huge.  Some are pretty horrible but the newer ones seem to be somewhat improved.  The bread items in particular tend to be loaded with trans fats, so I would stick to the main course.  I don't think anyone would put together a rational plan to eat them on a regular basis.

FYI

Each MRE provides an average of 1,250 calories (13 percent protein, 36 percent fat, and 51 percent carbohydrates) and one-third of the Military Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals. A full day's worth of meals would consist of three MREs.

[Cougartail]

I enjoy mountain house way more than I do military MRE's.

[bornhunter]

After about 3 days on those suckers you better have a good supply of beano and stool softeners

[Skyvalhunter]

What suckers MRE's?

[pianoman9701]

91C here. 

Yep, always knew there was something I about you that I liked 

Sometimes, people have to look a long time to find it! 

[Machias]

MREs--Meals Rejected by Ethiopia

[Threewolves]

Been places where the meals were MRE's three times a day for three days or until an MKT would be set up. Me, I can only eat two a day. 

Best served hot, by placing them in boiling water. If they are hot I can eat any of them. The best the MRE Heaters can do is get them semi warm.

Spent some time in the artic you would want to keep the main portions that you are going to eat that day in your shirt to keep them warm, makes it easier to get them semi-warm with the MRE heater. That was for lunch.

Dinner, Also in the artic when the army went from "C" rations to MRE. You keep your main meal "C"  can inside your shirt and used a heat tab when you where not around a Yukon stove. To cook on the Yukon stove "Yuk" you put a dent in the can  and put it on the stove and picked it up every couple of minutes to shake it to distribute what ever it hot inside when the dent popped out it was done. Cooking this way keeps the heat inside the can. Usually, did not wait until the dent popped out. I still cook this way when hunting out of the truck with the jet boil.

Folks that opened the top of the can and put it on the "YuK" would wait until the can was boiling on the top and would start eating only to find their dinner "
C" (that was not inside their shirt) frozen in the middle and burnt on the bottom.

95B4E, both winter and summer NWCTC IQC's, 172nd INF BDE AK
 

[Stein]

I worked with a guy who was a UDT, had a job where he would go out for two weeks at a time with a team swimming around looking for mines and disarming them.  He was dropped with a boat and enough MRE's to last two weeks - every single one the exact same - breakfast, lunch and dinner without any variety at all.  He claimed that was the hardest thing he had to endure, worse than things brushing up against you on a night dive with no lights on.

[SGTDuffman]

I don’t exactly have fond memories of starting pre dawn rucks with a cold “beefsteak with mushrooms” MRE. The gellatanous gravy...  just get a bunch of Mountain House stuff. If you’re a vet, and it seems like a lot of people in this thread are, make an account on ExpertVoice, you’ll get a nice discount on Mountain House, plus lots of other discounts too.

That said, newer MREs are much better than the old ones, but Canadian MREs come with wine.

[Threewolves]

The thing I liked about the old Canadian rations was they came with honey. I also liked the Australian rations, but it was one for the day.   

[getreal711]

Unless they are free and I'm starving I will pass on all mres.