Meals ready to eat

grover99 · Nov 3, 2020

Midway had a good price on a case of MRE's With my birthday discount I got them for $3.88 a meal. Having got out of the service back when C-rats were the thing you got fed in the field I have no idea how good MRE are. Kind of a back up if leaving the house is not a good idea sometime in the future. Can't be much worse than McDonalds and cheaper. Did I make a mistake or will I be able to choke the things down

THE PILGRIM · Nov 3, 2020

This will work better if You eat a fair amount of the MREs and then you tell us!

Rpg · Nov 3, 2020

They will sustain life.

pharmer · Nov 3, 2020

Rpg said:
They will sustain life.

3,000 calories at a time.

Jessie · Nov 3, 2020

Buy Tabasco sauce

grover99 · Nov 3, 2020

THE PILGRIM said:
This will work better if You eat a fair amount of the MREs and then you tell us!

Nothing like being the guinea pig

ContinentalOp · Nov 3, 2020

FWIW, if you do an Internet search you can probably find some MRE reviews. I think there are some on YouTube, too.

Probably the only way you'll know for sure is to try them.

Racer X · Nov 3, 2020

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bigwheelzip · Nov 3, 2020

Can't help ya. When I want an MRE, I eat at my brother's restaurant.

sigp220.45 · Nov 3, 2020

I never minded MREs. No matter what you feed GIs, they are obligated to complain about it.

I still keep some in my rig.

Rustyt1953 · Nov 3, 2020

Jessie said:
Buy Tabasco sauce

My SIL did a combat tour in Camp Leatherneck/Camp Bastion and got monthly care packages from home. His most requested item was Sriracha.

Eric300 · Nov 3, 2020

Better than eating twigs and grass..... Get yourself one of these; KBAR Spork with built-in pig sticker.

Jessie · Nov 3, 2020

Rustyt1953 said:
My SIL did a combat tour in Camp Leatherneck/Camp Bastion and got monthly care packages from home. His most requested item was Sriracha.

Even better. The next step up. BAM!

Justin T · Nov 3, 2020

Some MREs are better than others. Chili mac’s usually a winner.

carpriver · Nov 3, 2020

I am old enough to have enjoyed C-rats from the Korean war era and Vietnam, Never had a MRE. my wife sent me Tabasco, Heniz steak sauce the manager got a boat load of surplus G.I. food, they were for use in a field kitchen, and everything was dehydrated. The folks didn't work how to prepare them and were either not able to read English or lazy.. I showed the you just need to add to the pans and let them sit for 4 hours, I cooked a pan pork chops and a pan of cheesy potatos, It was pretty good.

One thing I learned while in the military eat when you can; and eat what is available.

Hair Trigger · Nov 3, 2020

grover99 said:
Midway had a good price on a case of MRE's With my birthday discount I got them for $3.88 a meal. Having got out of the service back when C-rats were the thing you got fed in the field I have no idea how good MRE are. Kind of a back up if leaving the house is not a good idea sometime in the future. Can't be much worse than McDonalds and cheaper. Did I make a mistake or will I be able to choke the things down

Nothing is worse than McDonald's. MRE's aren't terrible, but I wouldn't want to eat them every day. They're a lot like the commercial brands of freeze-dried backpacking meals you get at camping supply stores. I never had to eat them while in the military, but I did have a couple of K-rations when doing survival training, one part was a pressed corn flake bar that doubled as a hammer. I think the ones we had were left over from WWII, I did survival training in 1988.

Be sure to add plenty of water, those things will stop you up like a wooden plug in a beer barrel

lkabug · Nov 3, 2020

I have no experience and little knowledge of MER's. But I fondly remember opening up a claymore and heating my C-rations with some C4.

Lee Barner · Nov 3, 2020

you got the title wrong: it's MEALS REJECTED BY EVERYONE. Lee

vonn · Nov 3, 2020

Ate a lot of C rats MRE’s can’t be that bad . Think they are lighter to hump.

Rustyt1953 · Nov 3, 2020

I have never had a MRE. They have got to be better than Ham & MoFos.

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