For me it was rib shaped pork patty. The main was basically just a McRib, but I liked it because it came with peanutbutter, jelly, and tortillas and was fun to make pj's on them.
Its bogus. The only time people get in trouble is because soldiers acquire or steal boxes of MREs from their units and try to sell them for profit. Basically the same as stealing from your employer.
Otherwise it doesnt matter, there are surplus stores with pallets of MREs stacked to the ceiling and you can purchase them from my local commissary.
Dont let him try and dissuade you from endulging in your salty, preserved mystery pleasures.
Post the law then.
Civilians have no need to follow DOD regulations.
Its bogus. The only time people get in trouble is because soldiers acquire or steal boxes of MREs from their units and try to sell them for profit. Basically the same as stealing from your employer.
Otherwise it doesnt matter, there are surplus stores with pallets of MREs stacked to the ceiling and you can purchase them from my local commissary.
Dont let him try and dissuade you from endulging in your salty, preserved mystery pleasures.
If that were true, we'd already seen the "Florida Man is sent to federal prison for eating MREs on Youtube". And then Steve would somehow bring his tray and make a video about Nutraloaf and somehow find absolutely decadent.
they probably give him a pass for helping push up support for the Army, frick knows they need all the recruiting help they can get >this is the 2023 issue Type 3 prison hooch >it was made by Bubba from cell 127 out of sourdough, raisins and tap water >nice hiss >Bubba has done 2 out of 10 for armed robbery >alrigth let's get it out onto the tray >nice >I'm just going to give it a quick stir with this standard issue Department Of Corrections spoon >musical tinkle
MREs are basically just prison food in vacuum sealed bags, and I can't see there being any more assrape than in the Army or Navy. You're told when to shit, shower, sleep, and report for duties.
To the enlisted man, prison is laughable and you are a clown with dick nipples.
>MREs are basically just prison food in vacuum sealed bags
Yeah no, dfac or kids cafeteria food is closer to prison food than MREs, prison food's main quality is how cheap it can be acquired in quantity, MREs main quality is being super high calorically dense while having a high shelf life, they're unironically too expensive for Prisons to use
you have zero fricking clue how actually bad prison food is
https://i.imgur.com/7ApSSHM.jpg
It's wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The tabasco sauce definitely helped quite a lot.
in my experience most such packaged ready-to-eat pasta meals, even commercial, are generally underseasoned
I guess the idea is that you can add seasoning to taste
No. MRE's are closer to astronaut food if anything. Meant to be stored for ever and as calorically dense as possible per gram. Still very often not good.
Post actual case you stupid neverserved piece of ignorant moronic shit.
https://i.imgur.com/q7AC4ux.png
MREs are basically just prison food in vacuum sealed bags, and I can't see there being any more assrape than in the Army or Navy. You're told when to shit, shower, sleep, and report for duties.
To the enlisted man, prison is laughable and you are a clown with dick nipples.
Nonsense, prison food has nothing in common with MREs or even T-rats.
Prison food would be unsustainably expensive if it were MREs which have zero advantages vs. the cheap shit contractors supply to the prison system.
Why do you morons have opinions on subjects of which you are completely ignorant?
>federal offense to sell/buy MRE
what are you talking about you could buy them right from the PX as of 2022. Dont know why you would but you could. The only ones that MIGHT be illegal are the ones stolen from actual military stocks, which is par for the course with any military/government owned item
The lentils are actually fricking delicious. And It's cheap as frick. No reason to not have a case or three.
OK other than yeah its still alot of high fructose corn syrup and seed oils just like the mil ones. And no heaters, prolly cuz the thirdies will burn their tents down idk.
>field exercise >digging trenches half way cause frick the CO of homosexualry >get MRE package >all candy has mold in it
I'm still mad, even te years later.
Chilli Mac is the best because it has two of my favorite things lemon poppyseed cake and twizlers. I got one on my last night on the forge in basic and honestly was one of the best meals I had at the time
there's something about preserved food that just clicks for me. canned, dehydrated, under pressure, you name it, i just prefer it to fresh food and i don't know why
>there's something about preserved food that just clicks for me. canned, dehydrated, under pressure, you name it, i just prefer it to fresh food and i don't know why
based
How good is pemmican when made with other types of meat or pork? Ever since playing Rimworld I can't help but think it might just be the ultimate survival food, I might even make some for myself just to practice the preparation process.
I've fricked around with a lot of deer and hog pemmican because I have hunters who use my property and pay me in meat.
Honestly you can barely tell the difference between deer and beef in that state, hog has a slightly different texture flavor but it's subtle. The seasonings you use have more of an effect honestly.
>If you could do it over again, what would you have done to make it more palatable? I guess the question defeats the purpose of the pemmican though.
Exactly, to a big degree it just is what it is. Famously the Corps of Discovery ate hundreds if not thousands of pounds of the shit and fur trappers and plains indians lived off it for months sometimes.
I used beef tallow and brisket, rendered the fat and cut and dried the meat myself, and mixed dried huckleberries into it which supposedly was done to make it more palatble raw, which it definitely did, but the shit is still pretty damn rough. It's better if you fry it up with veggies or throw it in a stew (and a lot of historical evidence suggests this is actually the preferred way to eat the stuff) but 10hr work days in the mountains covering miles don't leave much time for that lol, and again I literally just brought pemmican because I was on some Young Man Shit™ at the time.
Intredasting, sounds like the Metis had it on lock with their bison pemmican way back then, highly based. I was also looking at some other alternative recipes from this website: >https://www.backwoodshome.com/traditional-trail-foods/
Their peanut butter pemmican recipe sounds fricking tasty, although I'm sure it won't last nearly as long. It's probably good for a few weeks and maybe even a month or two innawoods.
>How good is pemmican
It's not lol. But it'll keep you going.
I work innawilderness and when I was younger and dumber decided to do a full 2-week hitch living off pemmican I had made. By day 2 I was fricking choking it down.
>I work innawilderness and when I was younger and dumber decided to do a full 2-week hitch living off pemmican I had made. >By day 2 I was fricking choking it down.
Holy shit dude, that's fricked lol. If you could do it over again, what would you have done to make it more palatable? I guess the question defeats the purpose of the pemmican though. If it was made to be really tasty, then it wouldn't be a good survival food because it wouldn't preserve as long, and would be getting eaten all the time lmao.
>If you could do it over again, what would you have done to make it more palatable? I guess the question defeats the purpose of the pemmican though.
Exactly, to a big degree it just is what it is. Famously the Corps of Discovery ate hundreds if not thousands of pounds of the shit and fur trappers and plains indians lived off it for months sometimes.
I used beef tallow and brisket, rendered the fat and cut and dried the meat myself, and mixed dried huckleberries into it which supposedly was done to make it more palatble raw, which it definitely did, but the shit is still pretty damn rough. It's better if you fry it up with veggies or throw it in a stew (and a lot of historical evidence suggests this is actually the preferred way to eat the stuff) but 10hr work days in the mountains covering miles don't leave much time for that lol, and again I literally just brought pemmican because I was on some Young Man Shit™ at the time.
When I was still in, whenever we went to the field I would hoard beverage mixes, instant coffees,salt,sugar, pretty much anything in those little packages that people would throw away. Id save them and use them at home. Saved me on some grocery bills LOL plus matches for days.
>do not copy engraved on key >do not sell written on mre >do not remove written on tag >leo/military use only engraved on ar-15 upper
It's all bullshit
I tried eating it today actually, rotating old stock. Absolutely disgusting. Made it about 3 bites in before throwing it away. It got removed because it fricking sucked, good riddance to it.
I bet she's a fox in the sack. Is this shot show? The rations are cute but come with me to the bar momma san, I know that's why the execs back in Nihon sent ya 😀
People always liked the chili Mac, but I never got the love for it. Mid-tier at best IMO
So where do people buy mres? eBay ?
>buying MRE's
Not worth it. I only eat them when I can get them for free. Make friends with someone who's in the military. At like $12/ea you can get better meals for cheaper with a jetboil and shit from the grocery store
Yeah you can buy picked singles or whole A/B cases on ebay. Check reviews if buying a case some shit vendors will open and swap out the best meals to resell as singles.
) if you're just starting out. They're cheaper and you're not missing much from the mil ones. Just order a box off Amazon. Even if you don't like it that much it's food that will last for a long fricking time in decent storage conditions.
>been out for 7 years >recently got a case of MRE's from a buddy who's still in >had one of the new pizza ones in there >cool, had been wanting to try that >tasted just like that same old MRE flavor
I didn't expect it to be great, but I thought it was kind of funny that they could even make pizza taste like that. I wouldn't be unhappy to get the pizza but I'd still rather have meatball marinara or shredded bbq beef. Also the jalapeno cheese wasn't as good as I remembered...
When I tried onez it felt like there wasn't enough substance. I understand that the nutrients are all accounted for, but the melains are small and the rest is basically candy. To be fair, I am an Eastern Euro, so I may be biased, but the Ukrainian 24 hour MREs with a decent amount of grandma's soup or porridge for every meal are the closest to what I had imagined an MRE to be like
>with a decent amount of grandma's soup or porridge for every meal
they're very nice to eat but heavy in weight
the Anglo nations quickly discovered that candy bars are the most calorie dense you can get, and infantry - who, let's face it, are mostly about 20 years old - will scarf that sort of thing no problem
also, candy bars are very easy to eat when you're absolutely exhausted and sitting in a cold muddy foxhole under a poncho and it's bucketing overhead and you just want to throw something down your neck and sleep
under such circumstances the army isn't interested in nutrition, it's interested in calories. MREs have a lot of empty calories because. the army has proper kitchens and caterers for proper food
This right here.
Remember that A-ration (actual food made by cooks in a kitchen, served in a mess hall or equivalent) is ALWAYS the preferred method of feeding people. It's cheapest, most nutritious, and usually most palatable way to feed your men.
Hell, even B-rations (cooked from tin cans and other preservatives, but still in a field kitchen by a dedicated guy who cooks them) are the second-best option.
MRE's are for situation where you don't have a kitchen available. And should never be eaten for more than a week or so. Get those men some proper food!
You should seriously think just getting loads of tin cans and allocating time for cooking, if you at all have chance for it, or if you spend any longer time in one place. MRE's are neat and light-weight option if you are on the move, but otherwise get real food.
>with a decent amount of grandma's soup or porridge for every meal
they're very nice to eat but heavy in weight
the Anglo nations quickly discovered that candy bars are the most calorie dense you can get, and infantry - who, let's face it, are mostly about 20 years old - will scarf that sort of thing no problem
also, candy bars are very easy to eat when you're absolutely exhausted and sitting in a cold muddy foxhole under a poncho and it's bucketing overhead and you just want to throw something down your neck and sleep
under such circumstances the army isn't interested in nutrition, it's interested in calories. MREs have a lot of empty calories because. the army has proper kitchens and caterers for proper food
Fair enough. Didn't consider the weight of water in those items and also, to be fair, the longest I've had to subsist on MREs has been two days
>MRE's are for situation where you don't have a kitchen available. And should never be eaten for more than a week or so. Get those men some proper food!
Why so sensitive? I and the rest of my squadron and many others ate MREs for months with no quibbles. They were far more convenient than driving to the DFAC from the Al Dhafra flightline (Desert Shield/Storm, before MREs were actually tasty). We packed the flightline crew vans with them for convenient snackage.
I must conclude most G.I.s are b***hbois with respect to food. Food is fuel, that's all. Chow goes in, turds come out (unless the TCN makes koolaid using non-potable water then the base gets explosive shits, those wise enough to only drink Coke and bottled water excepted), mission goes on. If you aren't hungry, don't eat. If you are hungry, you WILL eat.
to be fair to the Americans, their equivalent of "babushka's cooking" is in fact beans, cornbread, pies, casseroles, and roast beef or chicken. soup is less common there, my personal theory is that this is because they were strongly influenced by modern (post-Renaissance) cooking styles, whereas European soup dates back to medieval times. they do have thick soups or stews like seafood chowder and beef stew, and those are on some MRE menus, you probably ate something else. but I notice that US MRE versions of chowder and stew are much thicker than you'd expect commercially; again, less liquid, less weight
MREs also have a lot of American-Hispanic menus like tacos... and remember, they do try to suit the menus to reflect what the troops want
For Standard current ones-
1. Chili mac
2. Pork Sausage breakfast
3. Beef Ravioli
Also, I remember people b***hing a lot about spinach fettuccini but its actually fricking good man. Cranraz strike, honey mustard pretzels, and you get to put hot peppers in the pasta.
For me, it was the Country Captain Chicken -- now discontinued due to most other troops hating it, but I fricking loved it. Why? Well, for one thing, you get a whole spread, plus *all* of the extras -- I'm talkin' mashed potatoes & gravy, a biscuit thing, COCA POWDER, I'm talkin' AWL DA TANGS -- and I want to commission an entire run of Country Captain Chicken MREs for my personal enjoyment.
How excited are we about the fact that based Chinks are developing more and more MREs to prepare for a war where they can’t have their soup kitchens alongside the troops?
I finished off a couple boxes of MREs recently and I gotta say they're pretty bad. Too much sugar and water and not enough protein and fat. It's like they're made for little kids instead of grown men.
NOOOOO >Seem delicious on surface >Good shit you wouldnt expect >Shit tons of fatty meats >Patés galore >Very calorically dense >Honestly all good eating wise >Except that they substitute your entire diet for them you start off by not shitting for the first week and then the second you do nothing but shit, some times up to seven times a day at least 3
Good day Steve, I am saving a few MREs from my time enlisted because of your videos. In 40 years I hope to sell them to you for your audience sensory VR MRE review cyber experience to help pay for my grandchildren's education
For me it was rib shaped pork patty. The main was basically just a McRib, but I liked it because it came with peanutbutter, jelly, and tortillas and was fun to make pj's on them.
i can't eat pbj cause im allergic
Blame someone in your gene pool for being a vegan or vegetarian.
meatball marinara was almost better than jerking off
you guys know it's a federal offense to sell/buy MREs right? where's your fricking opsec
oh look it's the MRE cops
Stolen valor and stolen nutrition.
Steal this nutrition nerd
*Grabs wiener through pants while dipping my fedora down to cover just my eyes
you can buy the civvy version if you want, no frh though
Post the law then.
Civilians have no need to follow DOD regulations.
Its bogus. The only time people get in trouble is because soldiers acquire or steal boxes of MREs from their units and try to sell them for profit. Basically the same as stealing from your employer.
Otherwise it doesnt matter, there are surplus stores with pallets of MREs stacked to the ceiling and you can purchase them from my local commissary.
Dont let him try and dissuade you from endulging in your salty, preserved mystery pleasures.
You know you're moronic and that's not true.
enjoy prison, morons
If that were true, we'd already seen the "Florida Man is sent to federal prison for eating MREs on Youtube". And then Steve would somehow bring his tray and make a video about Nutraloaf and somehow find absolutely decadent.
they probably give him a pass for helping push up support for the Army, frick knows they need all the recruiting help they can get
>this is the 2023 issue Type 3 prison hooch
>it was made by Bubba from cell 127 out of sourdough, raisins and tap water
>nice hiss
>Bubba has done 2 out of 10 for armed robbery
>alrigth let's get it out onto the tray
>nice
>I'm just going to give it a quick stir with this standard issue Department Of Corrections spoon
>musical tinkle
>sourdough, raisins and tap water
Excelent recipe for kvass.
MREs are basically just prison food in vacuum sealed bags, and I can't see there being any more assrape than in the Army or Navy. You're told when to shit, shower, sleep, and report for duties.
To the enlisted man, prison is laughable and you are a clown with dick nipples.
>MREs are basically just prison food in vacuum sealed bags
Yeah no, dfac or kids cafeteria food is closer to prison food than MREs, prison food's main quality is how cheap it can be acquired in quantity, MREs main quality is being super high calorically dense while having a high shelf life, they're unironically too expensive for Prisons to use
you have zero fricking clue how actually bad prison food is
in my experience most such packaged ready-to-eat pasta meals, even commercial, are generally underseasoned
I guess the idea is that you can add seasoning to taste
No. MRE's are closer to astronaut food if anything. Meant to be stored for ever and as calorically dense as possible per gram. Still very often not good.
Thanks, I will, Patrick. I'm sure I'll meet a lot of guys to fart in Nikki's vegana while I'm there.
Post actual case you stupid neverserved piece of ignorant moronic shit.
Nonsense, prison food has nothing in common with MREs or even T-rats.
Prison food would be unsustainably expensive if it were MREs which have zero advantages vs. the cheap shit contractors supply to the prison system.
Why do you morons have opinions on subjects of which you are completely ignorant?
I wanna grab her hair
>federal offense to sell/buy MRE
what are you talking about you could buy them right from the PX as of 2022. Dont know why you would but you could. The only ones that MIGHT be illegal are the ones stolen from actual military stocks, which is par for the course with any military/government owned item
Good? Frick you DOD Black person, I WILL consoom the ration I FRICKING FUNDED.
>orders 10 cases
Frick the feds and ever pooping normally again.
crickey it's the rozzers
for me, its the 24 hour stuff
HRDs are a neat gimmick to pack on camping trips but the food is intentionally bland so it can be enjoyed by any thirdie palate it gets airdopped on
Correct, can't go wrong with bland.
Better than piss attempt at making a hot dog dehydrate.
The lentils are actually fricking delicious. And It's cheap as frick. No reason to not have a case or three.
OK other than yeah its still alot of high fructose corn syrup and seed oils just like the mil ones. And no heaters, prolly cuz the thirdies will burn their tents down idk.
HDRs entrees have less garbage ingredients than standard MREs. Still not that healthy but they’re not as bad as standard milspec MREs.
>food gift
Sauce on the rest of that, you degenerate
not that anon hope this works
https://rule34 xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=8563915
Man those pea ones suck ass unless you mix em with another meal and only then do they taste good.
You don't have to do that. Just save the salt/pepper packet and half the red pepper flakes for it. The other meal is usually palatable on its own.
>field exercise
>digging trenches half way cause frick the CO of homosexualry
>get MRE package
>all candy has mold in it
I'm still mad, even te years later.
Beef Stew
Cheese Tort
Hash Browns
Goulash
and pretty much any of the mexican ones are all good
But cant forget the one true God of Chili Mac
Chili is good too
Chilli Mac is the best because it has two of my favorite things lemon poppyseed cake and twizlers. I got one on my last night on the forge in basic and honestly was one of the best meals I had at the time
Dump two of those little tabascos in there and mix in the cheese and we are in buisness
Finally, a man with good taste
good list
Pretty good
>Napoli
That better be some goddamn wood-fired pizza.
Spaghetti wi the meat sauce is fire, especially when you get the spicy cheeze it’s.
there's something about preserved food that just clicks for me. canned, dehydrated, under pressure, you name it, i just prefer it to fresh food and i don't know why
>there's something about preserved food that just clicks for me. canned, dehydrated, under pressure, you name it, i just prefer it to fresh food and i don't know why
based
who let the cats into the pemican?
How good is pemmican when made with other types of meat or pork? Ever since playing Rimworld I can't help but think it might just be the ultimate survival food, I might even make some for myself just to practice the preparation process.
I've fricked around with a lot of deer and hog pemmican because I have hunters who use my property and pay me in meat.
Honestly you can barely tell the difference between deer and beef in that state, hog has a slightly different texture flavor but it's subtle. The seasonings you use have more of an effect honestly.
Intredasting, sounds like the Metis had it on lock with their bison pemmican way back then, highly based. I was also looking at some other alternative recipes from this website:
>https://www.backwoodshome.com/traditional-trail-foods/
Their peanut butter pemmican recipe sounds fricking tasty, although I'm sure it won't last nearly as long. It's probably good for a few weeks and maybe even a month or two innawoods.
>How good is pemmican
It's not lol. But it'll keep you going.
I work innawilderness and when I was younger and dumber decided to do a full 2-week hitch living off pemmican I had made. By day 2 I was fricking choking it down.
But it keeps you going.
>I work innawilderness and when I was younger and dumber decided to do a full 2-week hitch living off pemmican I had made.
>By day 2 I was fricking choking it down.
Holy shit dude, that's fricked lol. If you could do it over again, what would you have done to make it more palatable? I guess the question defeats the purpose of the pemmican though. If it was made to be really tasty, then it wouldn't be a good survival food because it wouldn't preserve as long, and would be getting eaten all the time lmao.
>If you could do it over again, what would you have done to make it more palatable? I guess the question defeats the purpose of the pemmican though.
Exactly, to a big degree it just is what it is. Famously the Corps of Discovery ate hundreds if not thousands of pounds of the shit and fur trappers and plains indians lived off it for months sometimes.
I used beef tallow and brisket, rendered the fat and cut and dried the meat myself, and mixed dried huckleberries into it which supposedly was done to make it more palatble raw, which it definitely did, but the shit is still pretty damn rough. It's better if you fry it up with veggies or throw it in a stew (and a lot of historical evidence suggests this is actually the preferred way to eat the stuff) but 10hr work days in the mountains covering miles don't leave much time for that lol, and again I literally just brought pemmican because I was on some Young Man Shit™ at the time.
When I was still in, whenever we went to the field I would hoard beverage mixes, instant coffees,salt,sugar, pretty much anything in those little packages that people would throw away. Id save them and use them at home. Saved me on some grocery bills LOL plus matches for days.
You can still get free salt and sugar packets at McDonald's, can't you? Also a lot of Caffès have cups with the sugar sachets in them.
sugar and salt is, what, two bucks a pound? if you can't afford that you shouldn't be anywhere near Mcd's let alone cafes
Anyone remember veggie omelet?
They only one I physically couldn't swallow. It just wouldn't stay down.
Considering some of the foods I've eaten in the past that is pretty amazing.
Same, I can eat nearly anything, but not that. It was almost like they knew too, as the sides it came with were usually pretty good.
vomlet was always a bad day, tabasco could make it almost tolerable. almost
>do not copy engraved on key
>do not sell written on mre
>do not remove written on tag
>leo/military use only engraved on ar-15 upper
It's all bullshit
Chicken Pesto Pasta. I have two left. FRICK I miss that one. They dropped off the menu in 2017
I tried eating it today actually, rotating old stock. Absolutely disgusting. Made it about 3 bites in before throwing it away. It got removed because it fricking sucked, good riddance to it.
Peak zogslop
Yaaaaaa kawaaiiii tbh!!!!
I bet she's a fox in the sack. Is this shot show? The rations are cute but come with me to the bar momma san, I know that's why the execs back in Nihon sent ya 😀
Yeah, they were at shot. They were actually Thai selling nylon IIRC, but just also imported Jap MREs
>come with me to the bar momma san
her blowjobs are fantastic, once she's taken out her dentures
>Halal
>Japan
Is there like 4 or 5 Muslims there?
Around 200 000, about 90% of muslims in Japan are from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and other migrants
Oh, those short, brown, muddy, dime a dozen asians?
Jungle asians, yes
chicken chunk gang
The white man's MRE
People always liked the chili Mac, but I never got the love for it. Mid-tier at best IMO
>buying MRE's
Not worth it. I only eat them when I can get them for free. Make friends with someone who's in the military. At like $12/ea you can get better meals for cheaper with a jetboil and shit from the grocery store
Every MRE is for browns because like half of all grunts are fricking Mexican. White people eat at the DFAC on an AF base.
yum
That DOES look yum. Did you order the scho ka kola off Amazon?
Kur rast šokakolos? Girdėjau nuostabiai skanus saldumynas
Try varusteleka, buy 10 pack so one tin can will only cost you 2.50 instead of 3 euro
Thanks!
So where do people buy mres? eBay ?
checked. ebay, amazon or local surplus stores for me
Yeah you can buy picked singles or whole A/B cases on ebay. Check reviews if buying a case some shit vendors will open and swap out the best meals to resell as singles.
Try the HDR MRE's (Orange ones, see
) if you're just starting out. They're cheaper and you're not missing much from the mil ones. Just order a box off Amazon. Even if you don't like it that much it's food that will last for a long fricking time in decent storage conditions.
>Civilians
Online is usually the go to unless you go to one of the military surplus store that probably has a frickton of them in stock
>Military/Contractor/Dependent
I seen MREs just thrown to a random pile and sold at $10-15 a pop, or $120 for a case box full of them.
>been out for 7 years
>recently got a case of MRE's from a buddy who's still in
>had one of the new pizza ones in there
>cool, had been wanting to try that
>tasted just like that same old MRE flavor
I didn't expect it to be great, but I thought it was kind of funny that they could even make pizza taste like that. I wouldn't be unhappy to get the pizza but I'd still rather have meatball marinara or shredded bbq beef. Also the jalapeno cheese wasn't as good as I remembered...
When I tried onez it felt like there wasn't enough substance. I understand that the nutrients are all accounted for, but the melains are small and the rest is basically candy. To be fair, I am an Eastern Euro, so I may be biased, but the Ukrainian 24 hour MREs with a decent amount of grandma's soup or porridge for every meal are the closest to what I had imagined an MRE to be like
>with a decent amount of grandma's soup or porridge for every meal
they're very nice to eat but heavy in weight
the Anglo nations quickly discovered that candy bars are the most calorie dense you can get, and infantry - who, let's face it, are mostly about 20 years old - will scarf that sort of thing no problem
also, candy bars are very easy to eat when you're absolutely exhausted and sitting in a cold muddy foxhole under a poncho and it's bucketing overhead and you just want to throw something down your neck and sleep
under such circumstances the army isn't interested in nutrition, it's interested in calories. MREs have a lot of empty calories because. the army has proper kitchens and caterers for proper food
This right here.
Remember that A-ration (actual food made by cooks in a kitchen, served in a mess hall or equivalent) is ALWAYS the preferred method of feeding people. It's cheapest, most nutritious, and usually most palatable way to feed your men.
Hell, even B-rations (cooked from tin cans and other preservatives, but still in a field kitchen by a dedicated guy who cooks them) are the second-best option.
MRE's are for situation where you don't have a kitchen available. And should never be eaten for more than a week or so. Get those men some proper food!
You should seriously think just getting loads of tin cans and allocating time for cooking, if you at all have chance for it, or if you spend any longer time in one place. MRE's are neat and light-weight option if you are on the move, but otherwise get real food.
Fair enough. Didn't consider the weight of water in those items and also, to be fair, the longest I've had to subsist on MREs has been two days
>MRE's are for situation where you don't have a kitchen available. And should never be eaten for more than a week or so. Get those men some proper food!
Why so sensitive? I and the rest of my squadron and many others ate MREs for months with no quibbles. They were far more convenient than driving to the DFAC from the Al Dhafra flightline (Desert Shield/Storm, before MREs were actually tasty). We packed the flightline crew vans with them for convenient snackage.
I must conclude most G.I.s are b***hbois with respect to food. Food is fuel, that's all. Chow goes in, turds come out (unless the TCN makes koolaid using non-potable water then the base gets explosive shits, those wise enough to only drink Coke and bottled water excepted), mission goes on. If you aren't hungry, don't eat. If you are hungry, you WILL eat.
to be fair to the Americans, their equivalent of "babushka's cooking" is in fact beans, cornbread, pies, casseroles, and roast beef or chicken. soup is less common there, my personal theory is that this is because they were strongly influenced by modern (post-Renaissance) cooking styles, whereas European soup dates back to medieval times. they do have thick soups or stews like seafood chowder and beef stew, and those are on some MRE menus, you probably ate something else. but I notice that US MRE versions of chowder and stew are much thicker than you'd expect commercially; again, less liquid, less weight
MREs also have a lot of American-Hispanic menus like tacos... and remember, they do try to suit the menus to reflect what the troops want
>Thicc soups
I want Pierce to design a MRE he would feed his wife with. And then have Steve review it.
For Standard current ones-
1. Chili mac
2. Pork Sausage breakfast
3. Beef Ravioli
Also, I remember people b***hing a lot about spinach fettuccini but its actually fricking good man. Cranraz strike, honey mustard pretzels, and you get to put hot peppers in the pasta.
>more expensive
>less healthy
>worst taste
Why are people inflicting MREs onto themselves when not in a restrictive environment? Did they learn to love the pain while inna sandbox?
Anons take better care of yourself. Also at $20 a bag thats like 4 or 5 spam cans.
>at $20 a bag
anon youre getting ripped off hard, fresh mres are usually 8-13 bucks
Around christmas AWS had full cases for $60 lol
>AWS
Amazon Web Services?
lmao no
What does it mean then?
Lurk more newbie
AWS Inc
its aight
For me, it was the Country Captain Chicken -- now discontinued due to most other troops hating it, but I fricking loved it. Why? Well, for one thing, you get a whole spread, plus *all* of the extras -- I'm talkin' mashed potatoes & gravy, a biscuit thing, COCA POWDER, I'm talkin' AWL DA TANGS -- and I want to commission an entire run of Country Captain Chicken MREs for my personal enjoyment.
This right here is going into my go bag as the *only* source of food.
>24 pack of mre jalapeno cheddar cheese packets purchased during an amazon spree
dude you're just gonna shit orange lego bricks lmao
I actually intend to trade it for ammunition -- 1 magazine of 5.56 for 1 packet of jalapeno cheddar cheese spread.
>Ate more of these in Boy Scouts than I did in four years in the military
Why yes I was an Air/Space Force POG, how could you tell?
Also the thing about Donald Trump and Kanye being on the design was hilarious.
Kek hadn't heard of that. I'm going to see Trump and Kanye every time I look at one of those now
How excited are we about the fact that based Chinks are developing more and more MREs to prepare for a war where they can’t have their soup kitchens alongside the troops?
Considering chink rations are so bad they can drop Nice Steve I'm extremely excited that a lot of subhuman bugmen are going to die
Wait if it was really a chink MRE that put Steve on his ass for months I'm inclined to believe it was legitimately poisoned specifically for him.
No, it was a Ukrainian one that got him sick. The Chinese one was horrible inedible plastic.
>the infamous ration 13
That 13 isn’t there just as an accident.
Asians have 4 as their unlucky number, not 13
1+3=4
Is that some zoomie shit? Real og's only get hard for chili mac
How do these compare to prepper meals you can find on amazon?
Depends entirely on the company. The issue is that MREs don't last as long (officially).
It's wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The tabasco sauce definitely helped quite a lot.
I finished off a couple boxes of MREs recently and I gotta say they're pretty bad. Too much sugar and water and not enough protein and fat. It's like they're made for little kids instead of grown men.
>a couple of boxes
ಠ_ಠ
sounds like you have all the fat you need already, and more
New prototype MRE just dropped.
2023 Cuban Beef Picadillo Prototype US MRE Review Meal Ready to Eat Taste Testing
Looks like the best one yet.
Are french mres really the best?
Yes, because they are actual people food and not some shitty parody of an already shitty dish with 10 gimmicky snacks on the side.
NOOOOO
>Seem delicious on surface
>Good shit you wouldnt expect
>Shit tons of fatty meats
>Patés galore
>Very calorically dense
>Honestly all good eating wise
>Except that they substitute your entire diet for them you start off by not shitting for the first week and then the second you do nothing but shit, some times up to seven times a day at least 3
Yeah
>no galoises
sacrebleu
Currently selling these
Good day Steve, I am saving a few MREs from my time enlisted because of your videos. In 40 years I hope to sell them to you for your audience sensory VR MRE review cyber experience to help pay for my grandchildren's education
New Steve