Wait, you had to make your own PB? WTF?

The older MREs had peanut butter that separated. Cheese spread did the same. So, you would have to knead the packet before opening it.

Oh man you brought back memories. My dad had a couple of cases at home and I would go through looking for the pound cake and pineapple spread...yum yum. Moist in a can!!

NOTHING beats C or K Rations! (wink, wink)! Especially the beans canned in 1952!

Youl can always tell when someone is new to MREs. Sure, the new brown bag MREs aren't bad, but they sure as hell aint what i would choose to eat. I have over 100 sitting in my garage that I aint gonna touch unless I really have to. The pile will most likely be added to as well with those that I'm issued that I don't eat.

if you do what we call rat-f*ckin them and mix n match pieces of meals together you can actually make some pretty good meals out of em, the pasta stuff is my preferred grabs, oh and the chilli mac and mexican chilli are good too, they finally started actually makin some meals with actual spice and taste to them without havin to add tobasco

I only had one, most of it was decent, I loved the jalipo ?spelling? cheese on the flat piece of bread! got M&Ms as well, but the one I had gave me smoked Ham... first off I hate Ham, and second I hate anything smoked as it tastes like your easting cigarettes IMHO....

jalapeno cheese, try heating it n the jalapeno cheese with bacon is better, I use the cheese to mix in with meals with sauces, thickens em up n adds some spice to em too

This post has been edited by Warlike: August 15th 2009 9:13 PM

Hamburger Mac with the Tabasco is the only way to go, along with the Lemon Poppyseed Pound Cake. Mmmmm, 2800 Calories per Bag! And yes, the old dehydrated ones sucked!

I dont mind em to much, never had to eat them for extended periods of time. Whenever i am given one at drills etc... nowadays i save them and bring them home for SHTF situations. Good to have around i figure.

Try 20-30 days straight,3 times a day. You will kill for Fruit and veggies! That little bottle of Tabasco was most prized poscession.

Yeah they were really bad when they first came out. Usually they would send out both C-rats and MRE's and we would all rush the C-rats box first. MRE's went to the weak and the slow.

Tasting the newest ones they aren't that bad now. You can eat them but they certainly will never be premium chow.

Another reason we liked the C-rats was because you could improvise things with the refuse. Great to string the cans in the barbed wire for a cheap early warning system on the perimeter. Stay in one place long enough and the sheet metal came in handy for ruggedizing just about everything. A couple quick cuts on the meat tins and you had a great little stove when you put the triox tab in it.

Also you sometimes got smokes in the C-rats boxes and always got matches.





In C-rats we never ate the peanut butter ever. It was too useful. A regular triox tab lasted about 10 minutes at best. But if you sunk a triox tab into those C-rat peanut butter tins all that oil made the triox last for about 40 minutes. You could heat a whole squad's meal that way. Also the Gunny and Old Man always liked coffee handy and that peanut butter rig meant the two important platoon leaders always had hot water on tap for java. Keep them happy and your life is always better. When the coffee disappeared it seemed that there were more latrine digging duties handed out.

I want to try an MRE. I need to buy a box for my SHTF stash..

Hummmmmmmm

Wonder who you know that has a good source for current military MRE's.......

Think school cafeteria food jammed into a plastic bag.....cold.


But they do fill the hole when you are hungry.

okay, I'll be over friday night for dinner

Know of anywhere Sir Rampy, where a dude such as myself, can buy one MRE instead of a whole box?

I figured.. but you just make it sound like crap. Or I went to a crappy school..

Depends a lot on you. Some people these days are used to lousy tasting food, especially younger folk. How many younger people today had a stay at home mom trained by her mom to cook? It's no wonder fast food is so popular. Growing up and becoming an adult I went through lots of women and they all sucked at cooking. High cuisine was being really good at doctoring Ramen noodles for a lot of them. No woman in my life cooked better than me, except my grandmothers. Even my mom was only average since she worked.

So unless you had a great cooking family, worked in a restaurant early on, or were rich enough to have fine dining regularly then MRE's might not taste so bad. But for someone who knows good food they will realize MRE's are just handy calories when you are hungry.

I always liked the de hydrated strawberries. Ate them dry , like a big strawberry cookie.

Wow, I somehow remember those.....I think. Can't remember if if it was C-rats or elsewhere. I know I liked them. Wherever I had them I do remember them being tasty.


Found a cool info site on MRE's. Covers even the international ones. Always remember the Brits and FFL having great field meals.

http://www.mreinfo.com/