Thread 64225110

I ate an MRE for the first time. Pic relaetd, menu 19, first inspection date november 2027
It was legit inedible. I did go beyond a little bite, it was cat food tier. The "bread" is more like a dry barley powder held together by magic. The gratin was even worse.
The FRH also barely worked at all, not getting hotter than if I had been sitting on it for 15 minutes.
how the fuck do soldiers stomach this shit every day

Anyone wanna trade peanut butter for Jalepeano Cheese Spread?

>>64225110 (OP)
>how the fuck do soldiers stomach this shit every day

by having empty stomachs

>>64225110 (OP)
You sound like a little fairy baby boy. Not all food is from a Michelin rated restaurant, fucking nigger. Sometimes you just need calories and it doesn’t matter where they come from

>>64225163
it was absolutely disgusting. I thought it was going to be a bit like airplane food, but it was so disgusting I couldn't take it and threw it away
the M&Ms were good, and the orange drink was also quite refreshing. I thought the coffee was alright too

>>64225110 (OP)
>how the fuck do soldiers stomach this shit every day
Most Americans are used to a steady diet of shit-tier food as cooking skills were lost generations ago. MREs are on par with fast-food slop & microwave meals.

>>64225163
I agree expecting quality out of anything shelf-stable like a combat ration is absurd. However there's an awful lot of shit food being served for no reason other than incompetence and laziness. But hey, grandma really wanted to watch TV instead of teaching her kids to cook, so here we are.

>>64225163
>posturing anonymously

>>64225110 (OP)
>how the fuck do soldiers stomach this shit every day

They don't. MRE's are meant to be a short-term solution to feeding men on the field where they don't have reliable ways to feed them with other means.
It is ALWAYS preferrable to feed the men in military mess halls with actual food cooked from fresh ingredient by profes... by skil... by military cooks.

There are loads of horror stories on how prolonged periods of eating nothing but MRE's will cause horrible constipation. They are just that: a shelf-stable, easy to carry food meant to give you enough calories to last up to a week or two "out there". Being delicious was never a high priority but more of a bonus, if you manage to find an actually decent MRE.

>>64225277
>by profes... by skil... by military cooks.
kek, I heard Navy cooks are pretty good though

>>64225110 (OP)
1. you are a pussy
2. the FRH was either fucked or you just did it wrong (it can be either of the two no matter how many you've eaten)
3. you literally got one of the worst meal options lmao

and to answer your question: hunger is the best spice

>>64225277
>There are loads of horror stories on how prolonged periods of eating nothing but MRE's will cause horrible constipation.
Scientist who used to do research adjacent to the MRE program here. We would constantly hear two totally different urban legends about MREs. One was that they contained ""anti-laxatives"" specifically designed to cause constipation so that soldiers wouldn't shit themselves. The other was that they contained laxatives so you wouldn't get constipated. Frequently the gum or the candy was said to contain the laxatives. Neither story is true.

The other odd thing was what people seemed to think that MREs were some absurd number of calories, like 3000 or more. That is complete bullshit. the calories vary by menu but they're about 1300 on average, and this is no mystery as the nutrition information is printed right on the package.

>>64225284
>I am a pussy for not enjoying catfood
okay retard

I suspect the FRH was bad then. I read the packaging like 5 more times afterwards and I'm sure I did follow the instructions correctly. I've been reading there are some ways to activate the FRH better though, by adding a little bit of salt and massaging the package when you add the water. However, there was not a single part of the meal that felt even close to acceptable food quality. I had the MRE mayo separately with my real food and even that had a disgusting chemical after taste that continued to linger for hours after

>>64225110 (OP)
>The Jalapeno beef patty is one of the shittier menus still left.
>The FRH also barely worked at all, not getting hotter than if I had been sitting on it for 15 minutes. how the fuck do soldiers stomach this shit every day

You don't have to use an FRH. If you have access to a vehicle engine or hot water, you can heat the pouches up that way. Also soldiers don't eat them everyday, only in the field or missions. You don't eat MREs for pleasure, your eat them because you have to. People who can't stomach MREs (there are plenty of them even in the military) usually just bring a shitload of snacks to the field when they go.

>>64225277
Speaking of constipation, hwy haven't the yankees solved that already? It's about having enough fiber in them, isn't it? Just add some proper high-fiber crisp bread or something into them instead of those bland-ass crackers.

This crisp bread stuff might not be as tasty (It's a bit of an acquired taste) but since when did military care about that? Calorie-dense, too. Having good, healthy shits out there in the field is worth it.

>>64225296
Yeah. Next time Ill just warm it in water if the FRH isn't hot enough.
I thought there was something magic going on that kept the meal super hot inside and it was just not hot outside because of the clever US space tech packaging or whatever kek. I know better now.
I stupidly bought a full case of Menu B inspection date november 2027 btw. 165 euro

>>64225308
Good. And stop being a whiny bitch while you're at it. MREs suck and being a soldier sucks. That's why you didn't do it.

>>64225301
>It's about having enough fiber in them, isn't it?
No, there is fiber in MREs. It's just the usual thing when people suddenly switch their diet and eat something different they're not used to they can very easily get either constipated, or the shits, which explains the two memes >>64225286 describes.

>but since when did military care about that?
They care a lot about it actually, at least the US does. The reason is that they want the soldiers to consume a certain number of calories & proper nutrition otherwise they can't do their jobs properly, and if the food doesn't taste good then people won't eat it. That's why there is a focus on including name-brand things, like say M&Ms candy, because they know those are things the soldiers will eat and therefore get calories in their belly.

>>64225110 (OP)
The fuck are you talking about nigger.
I've been camping my entire life, eaten every fancy brand of dehydrated, canned or vacuum sealed food from REI and whoever the fuck else. I spent 8 years in the Army. MRE's are only bad if you're a gay retard, they're completely fine. They are actually better quality food that preserves more flavor without any aftertaste over 90% of more expensive options. Stop being a picky faggot and eat your lemon pepper tuna like a man or I will pour the entire battalion's tiny bottles of Tabasco into your anus.

>>64225324
>I AM A RETARDED MUTT AND I EAT DISGUSTING SLOP EVERY DAY
weird flex but okay

>>64225295
>I am a pussy for not enjoying catfood
unironically yes, and i say that as a very picky eater (its okay, i'm a pussy too)

i've eaten the same meal option as you have, and it does legit suck balls, also ate it cold
you probably got some serious bad luck on your end, the others like beefaroni or the like tend to have good extras, stuff like jalapeno cheese & pb&j

i feel like the FRH's have been getting worse though, they're already very finicky, but i had 7 fucking ones in a row that were all dead
i even did the salt trick, and while it did make it warmer on a few, it didn't actually equate to anything, all cold meals

>>64225110 (OP)
>menu 19
Literally the worst one, by a lot

However other anons are right you're a gay retard

>>64225277

If I recall, even in Joe Kassabian's memoir of Aghanistan they only ate individual MREs sometimes, and their FOB was extremely basic.

Unitized Group Rations, rations made to be prepared in field kitchens for groups rather than individually, are more like dining hall food.

Hard to imagine US troops primarily relying on MREs except in the most extreme situations or in training exercises.

Wright's book about his time embedded with the Marines during the 2000's invasion of Iraq had them eating MREs quite a bit, but that was an extremely mobile unit fighting in a break-neck pace campaign where the defense lines were rapidly receding. They were also consuming huge amounts of Rip It caffeine drinks, driving for extended periods of time, and eating within their convoy vehicles.

>>64225286

> 1,300 calories per meal is quite a bit and the 3000 number you're recalling is if you're eating an MRE for every meal.

3 a day is indeed intended to pack the calories in, as the estimate is that intense combat can result in the typical soldier exerting some 4,000+ calories. Without a high calorie diet, soldier fitness and effectiveness quickly deteriorates in combat situations.

>>64225110 (OP)
Some people have a hard time with the beef pattie, I quite like it, heated up with some real bread an condiments it makes for a nice burgerish sandwich. The other menus are probably more to your liking, and I bet you paid too much.

They are unusually cheap right now, $67 for two cases at time of posting and I bought two for $64 last month.
https://www.amazon.com/Wornick-Inspection-Emergency-Survival-Camping/dp/B0FBW7SFDW

>>64225343
I'm buying from Europe though. I looked around a lot, there's not a lot of vendors as it is. ~160-180 seems to be what one case with a future inspection date tends to go for. May also have to do with a lot of civilians buying food rations ahead of the incoming troubles

>>64225301
I like the taste of that, but it feels like eating pumice, I'm always suprised my mouth isn't bleeding after having some.

>>64225301
Wikipedia claims they upped the fiber content of MREs back in 2015. 12 g of dietary fiber per ration.
2015 is too late for most troops eating these during the peak War on Terror days, but I suppose future soldiers won't be plugged up quite as bad.

>>64225110 (OP)
You are weak

>>64225210
Go spend some time out in the REAL bush and tell me how disgusting an mre is. I’ve been to places that only exist in your nightmares, you shuck-jiving, wall-eyed, claw fingered mongoloid nigger. Places like Gary, Indiana. I’m talking REAL combat zones, not like that pussy shit in the middle east.

>>64225325
Nigger what do you think people eat when they've been in the woods every day? I understand that Europe doesn't have anything close to a secluded wilderness, but you're hopefully not retarded enough to believe there's a convenience store 50 miles into a national park, are you?

>>64225358
Then if you poke around you can probably find some more cost effective mres from european countries, french and italian ones are supposed to be pretty good. If you just wanted the experience of a us mre, imagine you got the equivalent of a can of ravioli and some jerky with the rest of the stuff you got and that would be a fairer representation. The heaters are hit or miss and tend to take longer than people expect to heat up. Mres main objectives are to be healthyish food that can last years at room temperature storage and still be edible with no prep. They aren't going to be as good as a fresh home cooked meal, but I've had ten year old ones that still tasted good, the variety is fun and the convenience can't be beat.

>>64225281
marine cooks make the best omelets but unfortunately cannot cook anything else

>>64225424
I wanted a US one because I assumed it to be the best. But I am cured of that retarded thought now.

chipping in:
>>64225321
>there is a focus on including name-brand things, like say M&Ms candy, because they know those are things the soldiers will eat and therefore get calories in their belly.
this is in fact NATO STANAG ordinance now

>>64225301
knackebrod is like eating rocks
I've had army hard tack and I much prefer it

>>64225325
>every fancy brand of dehydrated, canned or vacuum sealed food from REI
>DISGUSTING SLOP
you just outed yourself as a picky faggot

>>64225398
You dumb mutts are beyond parody

Beef patty is fine with the jalapeno cheddar spread or the cheddar and bacon spread, break it up and throw it on a tortilla and it's very decent
By itself it does kind of suck
Also MRE mayonnaise is gross

>>64225444
it is the best in terms of logistics, it does get mogged by other countries mres that dont last as long but taste better

>>64225110 (OP)
You are a zoomer cunt. A spoiled little fuckbag that questions why you have to do anything at all. You do not possess the intestinal fortitude to drive forward and achieve on a level playing field. Those meals are what you need to drive on, not for amusement and enjoyment to fill your boredom faggot.

>>64225340
>and the 3000 number you're recalling is if you're eating an MRE for every meal.
No, I've seen countless people swear that it was 3k PER MRE.

>>64225466
you sound like you inhale dicks as a hobby

>>64225471
those people clearly cant read

MREs are really not that bad these days, it's just canned food in a pouch. I like to take them camping for a super low effort lunch.

But I stay away from the mystery meat slabs

>>64225308
>165€
jesus, I thought prices came down

>>64225301
>Speaking of constipation, hwy haven't the yankees solved that already? It's about having enough fiber in them, isn't it?
It's not a fiber thing, there's enough fiber in them.
It's a hydration thing. Many of the MRE components are partially or fully dehydrated for preservation.
You rehydrate them during prep, but often it's not enough, and depending on climate you're probably not drinking water as much as your body needs to at the same time, so you're becoming dehydrated even without consumption of a dried out food item.

>>64225471
>No, I've seen countless people swear that it was 3k PER MRE.
Maybe they're not wrong, but thinking instead of the First Strike Rations (FSR)?
Those are like 2900 per pack, and it's supposed to last you a whole day.

I've tried every box A and B MRE. Have not yet tried the winter MREs. They're all edible, some even good. Much better than food on a carrier.

>>64225398
>Places like Gary, Indiana

>>64225635
>winter MREs
I've had the turkey tetrazzini one.
Shit was fucking delicious. I used a little too much water, so it was a hair too thin, but still fucking great.
Honestly I wish I could get the little freeze dried main package by itself, I'd buy cases.
They weigh fucking nothing and I could eat them every day for weeks and not feel bad about it.
I really want to try the rest of them too.

>>64225110 (OP)
I haven't had a bad FRH in years, but I suppose it's possible. I suspect that you just didn't use it right though, they are simple, but not fool proof, too much water or too little water will result in a luke warm meal instead of a hot one. Menu 19 is the worst meal in current circulation, others range from school cafeteria edible to actually tasty.

>>64225398
you ever deploy to baltimore?

Since they dropped to less than 40/case I've been living on them since July and OP is a faggot. If you can, heat the pouches in hot water and if you can't you have to be careful to put exactly the right amount of water in the FRH. You still need to knead the package as it's heating and sometimes flip it around to get it evenly warm. The FRH is dick and only useful if you have no other options. I boil water at home and dump it in a pot with the mains and wait a bit which makes it piping hot. Some of the mains suck but the variety of shit they put in for sides makes up for that. I eat the boring bland mains when I just need food at work and I enjoy the gems like chili Mac with a good movie on the weekends. The boring mains usually have good sides like recovery trail mix or pizza combos.

It's no Jersey Mike's or whatever the fuck corpo slop but it's calories for cheap and it is a step up from the garbage food they serve at public schools. Plus they put extra shit like vitamin a in the peanut butter and purees so as mid as they taste they give you everything you need. Also I poop just fine, drink water you dumb cunts who complain.

NO FAIR
I WANT TO TRY THE AMERICAN MRES TOO
Our MRE equivalents were just boxes of off-the-shelf canned foods, I never got the specialized slop experience.

>>64225301
>Krispy bread

Not that good unless had with that toothpaste fish/roe spread from Ikea. Then it becomes amazing.

>>64225451
>I've had army hard tack

>>64225110 (OP)
Flavor is not important. Stop caring. The purpose of field rations is energy, not pleasure (which also encourages excess consumption).

If you're hungry the flavor is irrelevant. If not then do not eat.

>>64226215
modern ones of course

>>64225110 (OP)
So you are complaining that you cant even figure out how to properly use the mre heater, you stupid or something?

>>64225295
You most likely put too much water, didnt massage it a bit before you set it aside to get most of the heater to activate and didnt elevate ut slightly. Or it could have been a defective heater in which case the food is still efible to give you nutrients just wont taste good

>>64226374
>hartkeks
lol

>>64225286
The "crazy calories" thing comes from the idea of eating three per day.

>>64226407
if you're actually an infantryman in combat (as opposed to sitting on your lardass as an Abrams driver) three a day IS in fact what you need

You seem like that guy who withers away and dies the moment mommy stops cooking for him.
If you aren't a stuck up child, most things taste good when you're hungry and worked hard

>>64225110 (OP)
I've had this one before, I'm not a picky person, but God it tastes awful, this one and the Pizza MRE are the worst, this is coming from someone that likes MRE's.

>>64226215
Love his channel. The old West ones are my favorite

>>64225110 (OP)
I would love to eat a No. 1 Pork with Rice and Barbecue Sauce again. They were the perfect MRE.

>>64226449
fucks sake, just get a couple of pork burger patties (or better still, proper pork chops), Heinz bbq sauce or whatever fancy bbq sauce looks good in your local supermarket, boil some rice, coat the patties with cooking oil and throw them on a saucepan on medium heat until they're no longer pink in the middle, drown with the sauce and eat with the rice

it's really not rocket science

>>64226461
I refer you to the concept of qualia and invite you to never respond to me again

>>64226504
>qualia
faggot

>>64225110 (OP)
They're not bad, especially at bulk discount.

>>64226427
I've got two full set cases (2x A+B) coming in on Monday.
I've never really had complete MREs before, just a few bits and pieces here and there.
Tons of exp. with mountain house stuff, my uncle used to buy in 10lb drums and just let us take ziplocs of whatever was nearest expiry when me and my friends were going camping.
Most of that stuff was great (he was old school USMC and said it was much better than govt issue), I imagine real-deal govt stuff isn't quite as nice to the pallet but lasts longer.
I'm trying to get a feel for which menus are the absolute worst, so I can get them out of the way first.
If you've had the others, which ones are bad alongside these ones?
Which ones would you consider to be the best?

If anyone else wants to rank them worst to best too I'd appreciate to gather a general consensus beforehand.

>>64225110 (OP)
>menu 19
It's a low-tier MRE but it's by no means inedible. If you've been exerting yourself it's quite filling, especially if it's been warmed up against a rock or something. Try the beef strips in savory sauce (menu 4) it's pretty damn good. Also menus 15, 16, 17, 22, and 24 are all pretty damn good

>>64225532
Not in europe, $67 will get you two cases in America though

>>64225753
That's just mountain house dehydrated food. Available separately at most camping stores.

Anyone else getting nostalgic for MREs? Was in the Norwegian army and our MREs were banging. I think freeze fried foods are the best since if you dont have water to boil you have bigger problems than getting a warm meal. Some of the Norwegian MREs had tuna with either lime or sweet chili and to this day I still crave it.

>>64225110 (OP)
It's sustenance not a gourmet meal.

Think of how Spartan's main meal literally being boiled pig blood or whatever it was

>>64226803
> real-deal govt stuff isn't quite as nice
the winter mres are literally mountain house, as for what's best, it's totally subjective and depends on your personal tastes. However, as evidenced by this thread 19 by consensus is the worst currently.

>>64226907
That might have been the most fucked sentence I have ever wrote. To reiterate:

Think about how Spartan Warriors main meal was boiled pig blood

>>64225110 (OP)
This is OP.

>>64225110 (OP)
I just don't like they're full of preservatives

Menu #14 : Mushroom omelette with gunk-sauce.
For force's sake, why they don't just discontinue this shit?! I know some waterworlder lizards like the manaan like it, but for everyone else it's disgusting!

>>64226881
The cold weather MREs have sides and drink packs. Better deal than Mountain House when they're on sale around $10 a pack

>>64225121
platoon jew

>>64226994
>future rations are a boxful of jerky strips, candy and tictacs
teenage me: how lame, lazy, and gay
>looks at 2025 MREs
boy was I wrong

>>64226803
hey i'm one of the guys that was basically living on these ever since the price of US MRE's suddenly dropped to a third of their post covid price a few months ago

i've eaten 15+ cases of A and B, i will say that i was boiling the pouches and saving the heaters though, so your experience will likely vary compared to mine if you mostly use the heaters

first thing i'd say is that case B's meal selection is far more consistent across the board, even if it doesn't have chili mac, it also doesn't have some of (what i'd consider to be) the worst selections like the two spaghetti meals (spaghetti / meatballs in tomato sauce). both of those are incredibly bland and the only meals i can't really enjoy in any capacity, there are some other ones i'd consider to be lower-tier like beef strips in barbecue sauce but they work well with their components

the mexican meals in case B are the best imo
the patty meals like the one in OP's post might seem odd but they're very flavorful and they're the most calorically dense menus in either case, cut the patty into strips and put them into the tortilla that comes with them instead of eating them straight
one patty menu doesn't come with tortillas if i remember correctly, but the replacement (au gratin potatoes if i'm remembering right?) heat well and mix decently with the patty

always heat the sides and cheese packets (the cheese seperates a bit in the packet but it helps it spread more)

both pizza menus (one in each case type) are pretty low on calories / substance so i'd say to eat them along with another menu item since they're pretty small portions, they also likely don't heat well from an FRH (just guessing) but they're decent, eating the pizza entree with another menu item lets you add a sauce or topping onto them which helps counteract that they're somewhat dry (they're pretty decent though, things considered)

MREs by definition have to essentially be the equivalent of the cheapest off-brand dollar store food items, and then chemically engineered to self preserve for a minimum time.
If you actually expected or expect true combat rations to be "good" compared to something else you had a mistaken frame of mind.
It's like wondering why reconstituted powdered milk is dogshit compared to a fresh(ly opened) gallon of full fat milk.

Congrats OP you meme'd yourself.

>>64225110 (OP)
They're not bad, they're not terribly good either, but you're just being a bitch.

>>64225295
FRHs are a waste of time, just eat the main, save the snacks, have a cigarette and harden the fuck up, we still have 6 hours of patrolling left.

>>64225200
Only going to get worse as boomers/Gen X slide into senescence. Gen Alpha is going to have to learn everything from AI.

>>64225444
>I wanted a US one because I assumed it to be the best.
They are technically sophisticated and have an unusual amount of snacks. They also have an unusual amount of different meals and are packaged per meal rather than per day.

They're bland even by the standard of shelf stable food though.

French and Italian are great, Brit aren't bad. Some of the Polish ones are good. Really depends on what you consider that good food should taste like. If that's gatoraid,M&Ms and the blandest mexican food imaginable then US rations have you covered. If you like pate and rich chocolate then go French. If you like cabbage and black tea with everything then go with any of the ex-soviet countries.

>>64227138
Here is how you can maximize cleaning power by mixing bleach and ammonia!

>>64227140
Almost no other country provides true long term shelf stable MREs, they make pseudo-gourmet home cooking with preservatives in sealed packaging.
It's because they don't actually field full militaries, and haven't had to deal with the cost of such.

If a global WW3 happened you'd see european MREs rapidly get cost-cut.

>>64225301
We know you mean well but be VERY VERY CAREFUL about calling US troops "Yankees." It's on par with calling an Irishman a Brit.

>>64226204
What cunt?

>>64225444
>I wanted a US one because I assumed it to be the best.
US field rations ARE the best, hands-down - at being field rations. It doesn't matter if you go swimming with them, or hike in the desert with them or drop them from a plane or leave them outside in the arctic circle - they will still be sealed, edible and nutritious. About the only thing you can do to fuck up an MRE is to try to use the FRH when everything in the bag is literally frozen solid.

As far as the actual quality of the food goes, I've heard that the French beat everyone but with the Italians not far behind.

>>64226400
The heartiest

>>64225286
The gum and/or candy may contain sweeteners which in bigger doses may act like laxatives.

T. Gum Chewer

Also you're a shit scientists if you haven't taken into account that

>>64225281
cookie is good at cooking.
cookie does not want to be an ingredient.
cookie is good at cooking.

>>64225277
Many G.I.s self included had zero problem with living on MREs for all or most of a deployment, and that includes the 1980s shit we were issued in Desert Shield. We kept the launch truck stocked because eating at work is far less hassle then going to DFAC and back.

G.I.s are a bunch of crybabies when it comes to food but having done base housing inspections I've seen how many live and it's not impressive. They just crave things to whinge about.

If you want gourmet food stay the fuck out of the armed forces, problem solved. Then you can prepare all the exquisite delicacies your cunt requires.

One can solve many of life's problems by being a man and not caring about trifles. Granted, early MREs weren't as good as C-rations but other than the defective Ham Slice (check pouch for bloating) they served their purpose.

>>64226507
>doesn't read
nigger

>>64226204
Jewistan, It's a small country so even when we spent days in the field it was rarely tricky to just get someone to resupply us, so the fact we carried a lot of extra weight in the form of water in those cans wasn't too much of a big deal.

You know I forgot about it until now but I have some kind of chocolate flavored protein thing we got a box of near the start of the war, I grabbed one "for later" and it spent like two years in my plate carrier since.
The package says the manufacturer is "sterling foods" and a little googling suggests it might be pic related
Anyone know if it's any good? Is it actually something a US soldier might get or is it just marketing bullshit for wannabe preppers?

>>64227143
>No more messes ever again.

>>64227260
I've never had one myself, but I recall seeing those first strike bars in SteveMRE videos, so I assume it's probably legit

>>64225110 (OP)
Seems its unpopular but That was one of my favorites, instead of the bread i would try to find a tortilla to put the patty in cause it held up better

Shredded buffalo chicken was one of the best but they got rid of it and replaced it with chicken chunks which i didnt like nearly as much. Beef brisket smelled like dog food but was pretty good once it was warmed up

>>64226833
yeah it was completely inedible. I threw it away after 1 bite. I get its different when you are literally starving, but I would rather eat 10 cans of beans than that shit stinking catfood patty. I was actually shocked with how bad it was and I already harbored low expectations. Forgot to mention the BBQ sauce: holy shit that is completely and utterly disgusting too. What a waste of 12-13 euros.

I do sort of regret not trying the cheese/bacon spread and just throwing it away. It just smelled disgusting and looked plastic to me and I was already almost puking from trying that shit patty and even worse the fucking gratin.

I am going to try the other 11 menus over time but I'm not holding my breath. Man I was so excited for this too. Especially while the FRH was going off and I was enjoying the orange drink.

btw, why did they do away with the wraps? The bread and gratin surely are far worse than that. Or do they just have different versions or something?

>>64227260
>First Strike Bar
loved those but you had to put them somewhere warm to soften them up. They were a chore to chew when cold. I usually put them in my flak somewhere until I was hungry

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4VPM70q_Xcs

How long do these god damn MREs last? Paul Harrell is eating a 23 year old pop-tart. What?

>>64225110 (OP)
>I ate an MRE
no you didn't

>>64225799
Baltimore? What kind of pussy shit is that? Try Springfield, Mass. You don’t know combat boy

>>64225110 (OP)
i liked pretty much all the italian food ones and hated everything else.

>>64226933
Kel's, saved and forwarded to my spouse who works in Education.

>>64227315
If kept in proper storage conditions, they have no identified expiration date. I think Steve ate an mre from the desert storm era and it was completely fine

>>64226994
They update the menu every year. 1985-2021 menu 14, nor any other, has never been mushroom omelet. Defense logistics Agency also confirms 2022-2025 #14 is Mexican rice and bean bowl. https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/
So what the fuck have you been eating retard?

>>64227260
Yeah those are legit military food, included in newer mres. Good, but oddly solid with onions nugget? crunchy bits.

>>64225286
As a MRE scientician, how do you find Steve's videos?

>>64227336
/end thread

>>64227315
Frozen ones last forever, if you keep them at a reasonable temperature they will last 10+ years but won't look or taste as good, and in the teens might start giving you some gastrointestinal issues.

>>64227366
Did my schooling there. Grew up in DC and live in Nig Orleans. You ain't shit Carl.

>>64225110 (OP)
I remember them being better in the '00s, but maybe that's just the passage of time.

>>64227315
This year I ate two cases that were packed in 2012, that I had bought in 2015 when surplus'd. If the packaging is sealed and the heat sticker has not turned, still good.
It is rumored that after they are packaged the things are irradiated to kill any and all mold / bacteria / etc so it doesn't spoil.

>>64226803
I'll give you a quick rundown on box B
Cheese Tortellini and Pepperoni Pizza are the only mains that are actually unpalatable
Beef Ravioli is just bland, like Chef Boyardee but with less flavor, but perfectly edible
Jalapeno Beef Patty is fine, but as stated it needs a tortilla and a cheese or bbq sauce to dress it up a little
Maple Pork Patty is surprisingly good
Italian Sausage is about the same tier as Maple Pork
All the Mexican options are tasty, and the Chicken Stew is especially good
Beef Goulash is actually amazing, I could eat that every day

>>64227260
Cran-Raspberry is the best one by a pretty big margin, the chocolate and apple ones are just 'okay'

>>64225301
It's Soldiers not properly hydrating during the field conditions where they most likely are employing MREs. And also many Soldiers have such shitty diets that when they actually eat something with balanced nutrition their body struggles to adapt by holding onto it as long as it can to extract all the micronutrients it rarely gets, resulting in backups, especially in conjunction with previously mentioned hydration issue.

>>64225277
>prolonged periods of eating nothing but MRE's will cause horrible constipation.
Can confirm this is real

>>64225452
The only parody here is that you actually do not comprehend that people can't just buy food in the middle of the fucking wilderness and need to eat a meal that can be carried long distances without spoiling it taking up too much space you retarded nigger faggot. The only thing funny here is that you don't even know what camping is and you're acting like we're the idiots.

>>64227489
You should try living in Atlanta, get on my level you cracker bitch

>>64225110 (OP)
Jesus Christ you whining faggot.
It is better than:
starving
spoiled food
hunting
looting
chinese shit in american supermarkets

It is equal to:
chef boyardee
cheap ramen
most of Dinty Moore brand
cheapshit fake tuna
lunchables

>>64225398
kekd

>>64225412
50 miles into? Do they have a fucking 50 mile wide park at all in Euro-suck?

>>64225608
FUCK FIRST STRIKE! Fucking cheap shit kike fucking no joy trash rats.
Those energy bars are legit tho.

>>64227664
>dumb mutt thinks the only thing you can eat outside is an mre
Theres plenty of food that stays good for a month lardass
>bragging about camping as if its like a hardcore thing to do
Kek, little retarded mutt

>>64225110 (OP)
Grab literally any other. Chili Mac is fucking delicious

>>64227689
Where did I say it was not?
>lists microwave brands as if I know them
I don't eat that shit. I don't own a microwave. I guess American diets are so poor that this MRE shit is somehow acceptable.

>>64227556
Oh that sucks. I basically chose menu B because it had pizza and that sounded awesome. How do you fuck up a pizza?

By the way, the sheer volume of plastic packaging was depressing. I suppose there is no other way, but, damn.

>>64227463
Hey, relax, okay?

>>64227874
It's a pretty impressive feat of food science to make a pizza that can sit in a conex box for years, be dropped out of a plane and still taste somewhat like school cafeteria pizza

>>64227689
it is unironically 1 tier above those and you know it. Some MREs are good, no idea if I think that because anything tastes good when you're starving and when I ate them I was usually very hungry.

>>64225110 (OP)
>thinks beef patty is bad
Op has clearly never tried cheese tortellini. I let the other guys grab that one and will happily take 19.

>>64227751
Are they that bad? Never had one myself but I hear they've got caffeinated chocolate pudding in them which I kind of really want to try.

Worst MRE I ever ate was Omelette with Ham. I had to be really REALLY hungry to bother eating the actual omelette. I found them stomach turning. Luckily we got a complete fucking freak in our platoon who koved the acursed things and he'd almost always trade for them.

>>64228147
From what I've seen they are just big packs of the high calorie treats that can be eaten on the move that come with normal mres

>>64228026
>>64227556
Finally some guys with taste, cheese tortellini was one of the favorites in the last thread, I've got a pile of them I'm just not interested in eating.

>>64225324
If you don’t like the Backpackers Pantry Chicken Pad Thai, you are definitely the problem. I eat that one at home some times even. It’s widely considered one of the, if not the, best freeze dried prepackaged meal.

>>64227827
I refuse to believe you aren't a fucking Indian. In which case, you people eat literal shit, please leave.

>>64227743
Lol no. They put fucking handrails around any drop deeper than 6 feet lol. These mongoloids live in the most sheltered nanny state continent to ever exist and have the audacity to patronize us as if they're not actually retarded and backwards and just projecting their own ineptitude.

>>64228650
Thats your comeback?

>>64228651
We're the only country they're legally allowed to complain about or they go to jail for "hate speech." I remind myself of this and it makes me smile.
All they can do is make impotent, snide passive-aggressive jabs behind our back like the bunch of Redditors they are.

I never understood why they bothered with multiple menus, all that effort and money spent just for it to taste like shit anyway.
Just give the grunts snack items like dark chocolate, nuts, dried fruit, canned fatty fish, multivitamin/electrolyte drink mix, and a main that doesn't require an FRH to be edible.

>>64228904
that's an FSR
MREs are for when there's time to get a brew on

>>64228904
If you've ever cooked a large amount of something you like thinking you're saving time by cooking in bulk and then beginning to despise it on week 2 of eating just that, you know how impactful variety (or lack thereof) is on moral.
If there's one thing US armed forces understand, it's that moral isn't a nice to have but a requirement for a competent military force.
(At least that's what it looks like from yhe outside)

>>64229085
Shit if you've lurked the chans for more than a year you know how effective demoralization can be

>>64227292
>yeah it was completely inedible. I threw it away after 1 bite
I mean just wasting food because you didn't like it is pretty dramatic and childish if you ask me but hey I get it, you didn't like that menu
>>64227292
>btw, why did they do away with the wraps?
Idk the specific reason they did away with the wraps in menu 19 but they're always tinkering with menus every few years to balance weight, space, nutrition, and shelf stability. Personally the wraps seem like the perfect solution for that equation but hey, i'm not a bureaucrat so what do I know
Anyways, you should definitely keep trying the other menus& especially the ones I mentioned in my previous post. And I would recommend eating them after a hike or some sort of exercise - it'll be much more filling and tasty. I literally use MRE's as an excuse to go hiking on the weekends, even got my woman to start eating them with me on our outings. Also they mains are fantastic for keeping your belly warm while hunting

>>64225110 (OP)
You sound like a massive faggot. MREs are far from gourmet, but they're perfectly edible. I would suggest that the problem is with you.

>>64225110 (OP)
don't eat too many of those. they'll fuck up your gut health for a while or permanently

>>64228824
Wait he WAS RIGHT?
He picked you out, just like that, and you're owning up to it?!

>>64229246
I still come here just to demoralize myself on purpose.
Underwater basket weaving discussion has a tendency to harden a man to the difficulty of confronting utterly retarded debate opponents.
I'm not just sinking to their level, I'm going BEYOND to a place no normie can fathom.

>>64229737
you think jeets buy mre's? for 165 euro? and that they complain about food standards? kek, dumb as a rock mutt

>>64225110 (OP)
They are overoptimized, shit tier, shelf stable, calories wrapped in plastic.
100% edible when you're hungry, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why they don't buy what's already on the market. There's canned food out there that actually tastes good and it lasts forever too.

>>64229782
Cant line the pockets of MIC bigwigs when you just buy off the shelf

So what is the single best case B inspection date 2027 MRE? I'll do that next and share my thoughts if you'd like.

>>64229782
>why they don't buy what's already on the market
I love sardines and canned meat as much as the next guy but I can only eat so much of it.

That is indeed, however, what the Baltics do for their high-speed-low-drag to-go baggies.

>>64228898
True. The only people alive who are actively letting themselves be raped and conquered by foreign invaders more and more every day, yet have the audacity to claim superiority to a country they have never visited based off of the media they obsessively consume from that country. Europoos are a fallen people, it's actually pretty sad.

>>64229776
I know more than you about wilderness survival and packing a ruck. Why would I stoop so far as to explain myself to a "person" who doesn't even comprehend basic field packing? Especially one with brown skin, yuck.

>>64229908
I get it, you went camping once
do you want a gold star? kek. you do know that going camping is a basic activity for european families right?

MREs are peak /k/omfy BUT! the snack bread really is legitimately vile. I once made the mistake of trying to make a sandwich out of it using bacon cheese spread, 2 snack breads, and a grassfed jalapeno beef stick my sister sent me. It was the worst fucking thing I've ever taken a bite out of and I could genuinely feel the dead cow judging me for daring to waste it's meat on something so heinous. Then I tried to salvage it by foraging dandelion greens and clovers and basil but the dandelions had too much of that latex shit in them and it made the whole thing worse.

Moral of the story is don't touch the snack "bread"

>>64229923
Lol the weird obsession you all have and get embarrassed about, so you all mask it as hatred or condescension. It's cute, man. It's always been pretty adorable. But you have brown skin so it ruins it.

>>64225110 (OP)
Try following the instructions when using the heater, retard. And no shit the bread sucked ass, nobody fucking eats it when you get regular bread in field anyway.

>>64225200
>Fucking Americans and their... 10 year shelf stable combat rations

>>64230032
>foraging dandelion greens
You're supposed to eat only the leaves.

>>64229776
LMAO

>>64230061
Anon... what do you think the greens of a plant refers to?

>>64230032
The picture really doesn't do justice how fucking abysmal this thing. The sky darkened as I assembled compinents. Birds fell out of sky. It left a snail trail on the table. Sirens and Geiger counters went off.

>>64230250
Are you eating the crayons next?

>>64230034
>mutt accusing european of brown skin
kek. You wear your ignorance proudly, dumb mutt. Dont look up the numbers or your lard ass might have another heart attack

>>64229085
>week 2 of eating just that
At least change it up weekly, or make 2 different items and alternate, who the fu/ck/ makes 14 portions of the same damn thing

>>64229923
>going camping is a basic activity for european families right?
NTA but yes, and going camping in European managed parks and timber estates is nothing compared to proper wilderness with bears or elephants in it
Sit down and shut up

>>64230300
Go back

>>64230298
Deflecting, Patel.

>>64230354
Either you're a funny motherfucker or a stupid motherfucker.

>>64230354
>Not That Anon
has been around since at least 2013
I don't even have a rddit account
Suck my dick, tourist

>>64230357
>the mutt calling europeans non white
btw, since this is what you care so much about: there is not a single country in europe that has less percentage of white people than your 'whitest' state.

>>64225110 (OP)
Constantly consuming meth kills tastebuds.

>>64230388
>there is not a single country in europe that has less percentage of white people than your 'whitest' state.
Buddy, France is at least 20% maghreb or african, probably more
Britain is officially 83% white but unrecorded migrant estimates might drop that by 10%
As for Spain... the whole country is spic lmao

>>64228904
Back when MREs were first introduced, there were only 12 varieties: Pork Pattie, Ham & Chicken Loaf, Frankfurters, and Ham Slice. There was also some Omelet with Ham in the very newest boxes.

4 of them contained some kind of pork/pig main.

Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saudis thought they were next, and screamed for Uncle Sam's help.

We told them "Okay, we're coming, but get YOUR guys out in the field in case he heads straight south."

They did, but their army/National Guard is not set up for field duty. They had no large stock of field rations. We said, no problem, we have huge dumps of the things in Europe, we'll send you a million or so. So they sent a million MREs on a ship.

Problem: Muslims can't eat Mr. Pig

So the Saudis got some of their slaves - sorry, guest workers - to start pulling the MRE boxes apart and pulling 25% of the rations out.

82nd Airborne Division was the first large American formation to arrive in-country. Field kitchens lagged behind. Somebody asked "What are we going to feed them?"

Somebody else remembered the quarter-million MREs the Saudi rejected.

So American paratroopers living in shitty camps in the middle of the desert heat spent months eating & shitting just 4-5 varieties of MRE, all pork

This was known as the "Great Pork Disaster of '90". No wonder they were so ready to rip up the Iraqis for putting them through that, when Desert Storm kicked off!

This also directly lead to:
-The ongoing quest for more variety of menu in MRE

-MREs that were vegetarian, and specialized "Humanitarian" MREs that were orientated towards those with religious taboos against certain kinds of meats, primarily Muslims.

>>64225321
They're universally nutritionally suboptimal in the name of keeping simp-conscript meat from going insane with pathetic representations of actual dishes, and there ought to be a neo-K Ration pemmican thing that just gets the entire job done in something cheaper, smaller and minimally taxing on digestive tracts.

Yuronig janny didnt like me pointing out why >64230388 is statistically wrong
Why is that i wonder?

>>64226855
checked
so I just looked up local sellers here and and 2026/2027 cases go for 90 to 100. Still too high for my liking though.

>>64230890
2024/2025 free shipping, no tax, even the candy is still good with best buy 2022 dates on it from the two cases I've eaten.
>>64225343

>>64225110 (OP)
>cat food
Sounds like projection, if anyone has a pic of zigger MREs

>>64230032
What knife?

>>64231259
Didn't Markiplier try them and (apart from the "questionable" canned meat) really find them not to be that bad?

>>64230388
You're trying really, really hard to convince us you're white when you could literally just post hand.

>>64225121
You mean the ones I would never ever pilfer when I signed for those cases?

Whining about food is lame. If hungry, you'll eat. If not hungry, you'll gain less weight on deployment. If babby is too pwecious for that don't defile my armed forces with your troonery.

>>64231497
Dunno. Twas a gift from my uncle who hunts. Mark on the blade says Imperial

>>64230250
>>64230277
>crayons
I kinda wish foodstuffs were manufactured to appear like that. Nutribars, food cubes/waffers/sticks. Like a bunch of starbursts being one big thick stick instead of just smol cubes. Proper sci-fi.
>got the purple one
>its blackcurrant
>got the blue one
>blueberry+tropical berry mix
Heaven. I love food that looks like crayons and is chewy.
>>64226994
>that box
I want to try all of that stuff.

In spirit of the thread, considering that i have no MREs and nothing like that watsoever, i will sate my awakened appetite with a frusli bar.

>>64225121
https://www.instacart.com/products/16986622-velveeta-jalapeno-cheese-sauce-pouch-4-oz

>>64225343
Does the TTI on that case not look a little spent?

>>64232534
It does, but that's just a stock photo. Here are two ttis I got from that same seller recently.

>>64225110 (OP)
The only thing more gay and retarded than this thread is op himself (herself? troon? seems likely)

>>64225452
>>64227827
>>64228824
>>64229776
>>64230298
>>64230388
>a zero percent White nation calling anyone mutts
India is so muttified that they have over 700 fucking languages because they kept getting invaded and raped by so many empires that in order to have a "functioning" country that they had to use ENGLISH, a language of their most recent conqueror in order to get everyone on board.

>>64225277
Thread about to die, but dubs are acknowledged and the best MRE ever was Chicken Pesto Pasta. Sadly discontinued, they should have kept it. Worst of all time was...oh I guess Creamy Spinach Fettucine. Some fucker opened one in a van and the entire van wanted to puke.

Honestly why doesn't the US Army just issue Stag Chili rations. One tin is 600 calories, Stag Chili has carbs, fats, protein. Just put the Stag Chili in a bag instead of a tin to reduce weight. I could live on Stag Chili.

>>64237247
Lemon pepper tuna is hands down the best MRE ever made. Especially because it comes with the Reese's, blueberry muffin, mini Tabasco, tropical sports drink and all the other best shit that comes in an MRE. Didn't have to trade shit, didn't have to leave half the MRE uneaten. Pure bliss in the field.

>>64238349
That's pretty much what they do just with more variety and preservatives

>>64225110 (OP)

i like that one.

>>64226215
Love this guy.
Hardtack is pretty easy to make. the trick is knowing how to use it. smash it up as small as you in a bandana or something and then use it in soup. bouillon also has a functionally infinite shelf life, and same with ramen. mix them all together and its a decent meal.

>>64225277
As I recall they actually made the chocolate bar in the MRE inedible on purpose, so the troops don't just wolf it down but ration it properly. Plus they had to make sure the thing doesn't melt.

We need deep woods jello shot survival technology

>>64225398
>>64225799
>>64227366
>>64227489
>>64227669
>Laughs in Detroit

>>64230300
>who the fu/ck/ makes 14 portions of the same damn thing
Me ~10 years ago, when I lived on my own just long enough to know what things I need to do to stay alive but not quite long enough to make sensible decisions
>Hmm it's late, I'm hungry, I don't want to cook and all I have is some leftover rice, I'll just throw a string cheese on the rice and call it a night

>>64225340
>Hard to imagine US troops primarily relying on MREs except in the most extreme situations or in training exercises.

It's easy to do which I and tens of thousands of others did without fuss. I don't get why flavor is a matter of passion.

Eating in the field is utilitarian. Food goes in, turds come out, repeat as necessary. MREs are more convenient than (for example) driving to the DFAC and back from the flightline. We kept cases in our step vans and trucks until someone bitched about the expense (with DFAC available USAF unit funding had to pay for MREs like other supplies).

Avoiding DFAC avoids their mistakes. One TCN fucked up and filled our DFAC koolaid machine using non-potable water with predictable results. My tent city in Al Dhafra got food poisoning so bad victims shat themselves spontaneously. Sufferers would sprint towards the latrine tents then abruptly slow down, desperately clunching their butt cheeks to no avail. Chocolate chip camo hides watery sharts passably but the walk of shame was obvious.

Latrine tents were so drenched in liquid shit (floors, toilet seats, the works) Civil Engineering bulldozed them into a pit rather than trying to clean them. MRE peanut butter is a reliable turd densifier but food poisoning gives zero fucks.

Eating MREs and drinking only bottled water or soda is why I never had aerosol shits.

BTW water bottles make excellent night time piss jugs but the trash detail TCNs took exception to hauling trash cans full of aged G.I. urine in the Saudi sun.

>>64225110 (OP)
Why do they insist on disgusting ass flavoring? Like that shitty jalapeno toothpaste, its like they slap it on everything

>>64239456
Thank you for responding to my Stag Chili inquiry.

Stag Chili.

>>64225110 (OP)
I'm sure it was fine.

I wonder if I'll ever have to eat these tortellini mres

>>64225301
I got tricked into buying some of this bullshit. 0/10 would not recommend

>>64225277
TBF, a lot of the constipation is also due to underhydration.

>>64230300
>who the fu/ck/ makes 14 portions of the same damn thing
/fit/

>>64226205
The ham pate spread included in the FDF MREs is/was where it's at! Just scoop it right out of the tin with a piece of crispbread. The current MREs reportedly have switched to pate packed in tubes. Guess that's even more convenient, but I can't help but feel that's it's a little bit of a shame that consripts nowadays don't get to experience the joys of that tin opening and crispbread scooping action.

>>64237247
Southwest Style Beef and Black Beans was top tier. Chicken Pesto isn't even better than Asian Style Beef Strips With Vegetables.

>>64240486
That's the D-ration from WW2. It was the emergency chocolate bar meant for that desperate moment when you have no other food left.

Military specifically requested from the company that made the bars that "It should be about as palatable as a cooked potato" so that the troops would not eat it until they really needed it. It still had the calories of a chocolate, just not the good taste.

Modern MRE's have chocolate that is actually tasty.

>>64225187
I've eaten French freeze-dried food packs marketed for hiking and it's really hit or miss. It depends entirely on the dish; some can really be delicious, others vile.

>>64241522
the bacon taste is what puts me off. it's like day old grease in your nose.

>>64228276
Which version?
The one that kind of looked like an omelette but was just disgusting, or the earlier one that was kind of greenish with pink bits and swimming in some unknown fluid but did not taste that bad if you warmed it up and drowned in in hot sauce?

>>64241490
There's not a single uplifting or pleasant sentence in that entire post

Thank you for your service o7

>>64228110
I like cheese tort, but spinach feta, undesirable.

>>64228904
Damn thats a dumbtake.

>>64230829
What an utterly insane way of saying "send food aid pls :("
Bro if you're that hungry, you can just say so, and the Americans will show up on your doorstep with thousands of packages of shelf stable ready to eat foods.

>>64256902
Uplifting and pleasant things are not necessary but optional. That reality is also not uplifting or pleasant, but adults need not care about those trifles.

Shitting is quite central to military life hence G.I. fascination with defecation. Too dry and nuggets ensue, too wet and areosol ensues. (mixed payloads are not unknown as they can stack up). Odor varies by meal and when hatching a jack shack the garden of olfactory delights may include Ruck March Ass or equivalent pong which wafts upward from ones nether bits fermenting from tinea curis and heat rash. Local fauna may attempt to make frens but green shampoo gets rid of them. Severely matted anal thatch can be pulled free like little mutant poop crustacea rather than trying to dissolve and wash off hardened nodes.

If you get body lice and want them gone without sick call, pet flea and tick shampoo is strong and buying it doesn't make the cashier give you the hairy eyeball.

>>64261011
What sort of disorder leads to this type of prose?

>>64230388
What was that again?

>>64261171
I've already been janny'd for pointing this out
(French numbers obviously are worse, and let's not talk about the Italians and Spanish)

Janny's either a yurofag or brown

>>64225110 (OP)
I am a frenchfag, I find them funny to eat, like a treat, I forbid myself to eat them at home, it's always outside, when hiking, camping. It's not real food, it's a happy meal, it's for kids : pizza, spaghettis, maccaronis and cheese, meatballs, tacos, tortillas, sweets of all sorts, it's not serious.
Taste is waaayyyyyyy off for a european, too salty too sweet and too spicy at the same time. What I love is cinnamon bun, with some coffee it's wonderful.
Salty peanut butter was a surprise, I mean what the fuck americans.
I cherish my forbidden Skittles pack (with titanium oxyde) I think I'll keep them and sell them in 10 years on ebay kek
As for the FRH : DO NOT OVERFILL, also put them almost horizontally on a rock or something, like 15° from horizontal so the heating element can be entirely active, not just the bottom.
picrel

>>64225277
MREs are literally luxury items. That's why they have snacks, desserts and sugar drinks. It's a morale package meal that's shelf stable. They are actually pretty amazing and as far as food tech goes take a look at what other poor bastards eat before bemoaning the miracle of science that gives you a shelf stable pizza AND cappuccino AND a jalapeno cheese packet with skittles. Eating utensils and hot sauce also included

>>64229782
Because canned food doesn't come in a setup package with all components (including condiments, seasoning, napkin, and warming tool). MREs are great if you like the tech and food, but taste aside they are incredible pieces of kit

only the garlic potatoes are bad. would still eat it if hungry, but it makes me gag. maybe they are edible with the heater but i've never tried them

Yet another thread of
>why does this meal meant to be eaten when there's no access to a field kitchen not as tasty as food from a kitchen?
>why does this meal meant to be stored for 10 years and dropped out of an airplane across the globe have so many preservatives
>oui oui why does ze meal not include ze european specialty of boiled pork foot with digestif
>why so many options, if I was in combat I'd eat 5 hamburgers a day and be happy to get em
The answer to all of this is that the US once again sets the standard because we have two oceans to cross and have figured out how to invade you from all the way across the globe, and we figured out how to eat what we want while doing it.

>>64225308
…one of my first field ops, as a Junior Enlisted Warrior one of the AAV mechs taught me to save the hot water bag and two heaters. You can then throw a crush up bag of ramen in there and get the water near boiling so it cooks pretty well, even Shin packs. To do this you had to perfect the art of activating the heater. It is a secret passed down from Corporal to Lance Corporal.
Other highlights of MRE cooking:
>save the lemon-lime drink powder and combine it with vanilla pudding to make a lemon meringue filling
>the chocolate protein powder with water filled to about half way combine with one crushed cracker and M&Ms sprinkled in, shaken thoroughly to create a nice batter, then thrown in-between two heaters can create a brownie
>Mexican chicken stew main meal can be heated up with the cheese sauce to make it easier to stir in. Add the chili flakes and dip you crackers in it to save the spoon for the 240 blank trick
If you get the Chili with Beans menu the cornbread is really good inside of it. The old Beef Taco menu was also really good, as well as the Chicken Noodle Soup being a very safe bet.

>>64228428
First Strike 24 hour rations are mostly just a bunch of carbs with a main meal somewhere in there. You are almost required to rat fuck them as preparation for any patrol or op. A “pepperoni sandwich” is literally a Slim Jim backed in to a roll. They do have some really good snacks, but the main meals are atrocious. Our MEU decided it was a great for logistics: 1 MRE is a whole lot less than 3! Of course the leadership never went to the field so they never knew how much they fucked that one up.

>>64267497
>loses in grenada, korea, vietnam and afghanistan

>>64268573
>my irrelevant thirdie "nation" got invaded
>from across the globe
>by a nation so advanced that they might as well be space ailens
>after a decade of alternating between killing us and trying to make us use toilet, they leave
>this makes my thirdie shithole feel important

>>64269023
No, you don’t understand! America getting frustrated that subhumans can’t ever live like the rest of the developed world and leaving means the subhumans won!

bought an american mre a few years ago out of curiosity, and chose the pizza mre since i saw that mre jesus review it. i'm from eastern euro
and it's legit like NOTHING i've ever tasted. it's bizarre that i can't even describe it. like it tastes like bread but it was nothing like a normal pizza, not even like a frozen aisle pizza. it was surreal
the mre also had some spicy nuts and those were the fucking bomb, easily the best thing out of the whole pack

>>64231683
You think like a nigger/sovshit slave
White man chooses, lessers do with what they can

>>64225110 (OP)
...What did you do with the Flameless Ration Heater? Did you try to set it on fire?

>>64241490
The amount of cope one has to huff to think that a nation that treats you like that is worth fighting for is hilarious
All that just to protect interests of business that don't give a single shit about the people they pump money out of
the state of mutt cuckoldry KEKW

>>64269290
Chink

>>64269295
nigger
t. Euro

>>64269290
>le muttmuttmutt
Post guns or go back to redd/int/.

>>64269301
>t. irrelevant thirdie
Turkey doesn’t count as Europe, retard

>>64269290
treats you like what? gives you food? where is the bar here? it just sounds like you would use any excuse to complain

>>64226079
>I've been living on them since July
Nigger what? I guess the cheapest option is $2.80 per meal but that's gotta be rough. I make a giant vat of poorfag stew for $20/week that has fresh meat and veggies, plus as much rice as I can stomach. Did you get molested on a camping trip?

>>64268573
US accomplished its objective in Korea.
North Korea/China did not.

>>64269925
Don't care what niggers have to say
dilate

>>64270057
Post hands, turkroach

>>64225163
>Sometimes you just need calories and it doesn’t matter where they come from
Original way to admitting sucking dicks

>>64271194
Amazing that’s the first place your mind went. Did you learn this from your fat whore mother?

>>64227099
>MREs by definition have to essentially be the equivalent of the cheapest off-brand dollar store food items, and then chemically engineered to self preserve for a minimum time.

They don't have to be and it's a usurious grift with inferior nutritional and morale outcomes with what amounts to American School/Prison Cafeteria pig slop. French ones demonstrate there is another way.

>>64225110 (OP)
>opening up a shelf-stable combat ration designed to supply soldiers in the field with calories at low weight and expecting a gourmet meal
this menu is fine and you're just a bitch.

>>64268273
>save the spoon for the 240 blank trick
Never heard of this, what's the deal here?
Writing down those other recipe tips for sure, thanks for them.
>>64269207
>spicy nuts and those were the fucking bomb
I fucking love the nuts they slide in these things.
They're great, I'd buy the little packs of them on their own if I found them somewhere at a reasonable price

.>>64271789
I don't know anon, current menu 19 is the only one that gave me severe stomach cramps.
I think OP is being a bit dramatic, I ate it and it was fine, but there were issues and concerns later.
Also had the most vivid, strange nightmares I've had since I was 8. Like wake up sweating and screaming bad.

>>64226525
MRE's of any kind are extremely expensive outside USA, so expensive you don't even want to try them in the first place.

MREs suck and it's silly to seek them out on any civilian situation. A pack of poptarts, beef sticks, and drink powder of choice is way better tasting and probably cheaper.

With that said MREs are fucking cool and 80 percent of anything I do is for the larp

>>64273103
pop tarts are massively inferior to the various MRE cakes (pound cake, turnover, muffin top, whatever)
cheap beef sticks also suck and I would sooner have spam or pouches of chicken or tuna

>>64275260
Costco beef sticks are good bro, also I'd grab a bag of swedish fish or peach rings before I grabbed pop tarts. Was just using it as an example

>>64272556
i've had it. The patty's texture is a little off-putting but I just break it up with the spoon and put it on the tortillas with the cheese spread. I find it more edible than shredded beef in BBQ sauce #02. that shit is literally just beef slop drenched in BBQ. Its the only one that I haven't actually been able to finish the entire entree, but I ate everything else.
the maple patty one has similar issues to the jalapeno patty but that one comes with pepper and onion hashbrowns and I just mix those two together in the same pouch and its good.

>>64273103
>A pack of poptarts, beef sticks, and drink powder of choice is way better tasting and probably cheaper.
That's exactly what's in some mres, if you get them surplus at a good price they're cheaper than at a store assuming you like most of what's in the case and aren't just buying them for the poptarts and jerky.
A good bit of the extras are snacks you'd find at a gas station, combos, snyders onion mustard pretzels, that kind of stuff.
>>64275260
Standard mil mres come with chocolate chip poptarts, fema ones have a commercial pack of brown sugar cinnamon poptarts vacuum sealed in a brown wrapper in every meal, hdrs have unfrosted strawberry ones in every meal.

>>64273103
i like popdart
but mre got the cooling heaty bit
i like the sound

A bunch of people hype up the pizza slice but I thought it was kind of meh. The chicken burrito bowl, goulash, any of the rice dishes honestly are the peak IMO. The only MRE I don't like is the chicken chunks one.

>>64276283
pizza slice is interesting that they were able to actually do it and I think it could be some needed variety, but ive found both the pizza menus to just be OK. they naturally somewhat dry by necessity so nothing stays on it when you unpack it. the packaging it comes in is also very difficult to work with the heater too.

>>64276283
Chicken chunks are great with sauce, teriyaki, bbq, tabasco, cayenne, mayo if you want to make chicken salad.

>>64273103
They might taste better but they are not cheaper. An MRE isn't just food and if I have to type this again I'm going to scream. An MRE is a luxury meal package. It has utensils, appetizers, dessert, both hot and cold drinks (with one being coffee based), a snack course, and a meal. It also comes with condiments, napkins and no fire chem heater at a unit cost of about $7-8/MRE on the open market (gov probably pays a quarter of that per unit). There is no civilian option that can do this as cheap. You can mix and match and create a civvy MRE (complete with less shelf stable luxury items), but this raises cost and likelihood of spoilage. MREs are not the one size fit all solution for I'm hungry, they are a luxury travel meal made for grunts so you can fast deploy them and feed them. Private citizen meals still use fire, no military does that anymore by default because it lead to countless fire accidents and injuries. The chem heater conversely works at any altitude or temp and can be used in a variety of applications

>>64277720
I ant reading all that, I'll stick to Costco beef sticks and tasty cakes

>>64277913
>I'm sure to win because my field kitchen is superior!

>>64278410
I have a real kitchen I can make food in and bring with me when I go larp on the woods

>>64278470
I'll let Natick Soldier Systems Center know that they can cut MRE development entirely, you've obviously got it from here.

>>64278532
Could you also let them know to stop wasting my tax money? Also, you fucking retard, this entire thread has been about the civilian use of MREs

>>64278557
>You don't NEED an MRE!
>Common sense ration control NOW!

>>64278638
Whoa buddy, are you ok? Do you have brain damage? I never said they would be banned or whatever, as a matter of fact since they are tax payer property they should be given back to us for free if they are unused.

I'm just saying they taste bad, though as I said a few times. I'm still very nostalgic for them as they remind me of my childhood when we used to get them cheap from the army nazy store and go camping and larp in the woods with our 22s pretending we were in Vietnam

If I heat up an MRE, then decide I don't want to eat it, can I heat it up the next day and eat it?

>>64279915
bruh you're not supposed to do that with any food

>>64279965
I didn't open the package, it's still sealed.

>>64277720
Last time I looked up the cost from the Defense Logistics Agency, the government is paying $196.xx per case, so basically $16.50 per meal. Government wastes money and pays more, they don't get it cheaper. They have $700 rolly chairs in most government offices.

>>64280000
Enjoy your microplastic soup, quads-goyim

>>64280095
Damn that military industrial complex loves to waste our tax dollars.

>>64279915
There shouldn't be any micro organisms to juice up in a sealed packet, should be alright.

>>64280299
That's what I was thinking.
>>64280102
The MREs are all sealed in plastic, what did you think was happening?