Does every MRE
 

have applesauce?

If not, I'm 4 for 4

No

no, unless they changed them

I have to ask -- are you being forced to eat "Meals Rejected by (starving) Ethiopeans"? or is this some sort of consulting test procedure development gig? wheel chocks maybe?

I know MRE are just about everywhere, but I have never had one. I don't plan to ever need one.

Nope, sounds like you just got lucky.

If that's the fruit serving you hate, that's the one you'll get.

When I went through basic, we ate C rats out on the obsticle course. I got a tin of fruit cake. I hate fruit cake

That's also the day I got my lifetime supply of P38's.

why are you eating MRE's?

I'm testing a mixed box. I have it in the office and I'm trying them on days I can't leave for lunch.

These are an over-run of TOTM.

MREs are what, 2200-2500 calories? Don't eat too many!

1300, but it seems most of that is the carbohydrate enhanced apple sauce

Back in the day you could trade a beef stew and cookies for a M-16

Chicken Ala King, AKA Seagull stew.

MREInfo.com - Home. Everything you could possibly want to know about them.

I have about 10 cases of them.

Any recommendations on MRE or something of the sorts that heats itself - is the food quality in them any good or does it get old pretty fast?

I tried a sample pack from Welcome to eFoodsDirect - Emergency Food Supply > Freeze Dried Food, Survival Food Storage and it's decent - but one needs a stove.

Yeesh...I just keep granola bars in my desk,for when I skip lunch.... I've had enough dried food backpacking, to know ill avoid it whenever I can....

I ate them for 4 straight months in 2003 and still lost weight. Of course I was wearing armor 12-14 hours per day, summer IRQ heat, stress. They never bothered me; was glad to be eating.

They had mixed fruit, pear slices, and apple sauce in the seventies.

used to make a quick stove out of a small can with some holes punched in the sides and a chunk of C4 snagged from a doner claymore. Real hot fire!

Cheers Richard

Military MREs have a water activated heater pouch that works quick and HOT! Just add water. I spent 20 days with the US Marines in Korea years ago and was exposed to MREs - too many calories for old computer geeks like me ;) For someone really hungry they are great.

MRE's hell, I had C rations when they had cigs in them. Smok'em if you got 'em.

If they're anything like ours they'll bind you up big time.

Back in the day I had to live on them for weeks on end. Tinned cheese and bully beef, lots of hard biscuits and sugar packets. The chocolate was hard and had a white coating on it! :confused:

If we were on exercise's with the Yanks we'd swap stuff just to make it more interesting. Lots of sugary products in the US ones. That was good because you needed that quick burn fuel. Your GIs loved our "Bully beef".

My marine friend said the gum I'm the MRE is a stool softener.

Yes! with chocolate nut cake (or maple...) some of the best from the early 90s.

Never served, but did a lot of camping, etc. where MREs were handy, useful, and not that bad compared to alternatives.

i don't have ten cases but the menu is pretty accurate.

I hope to never eat another MRE. I had to eat way too many of them during my career.

I too ended up with a handfull of P38's. I still had one left a few years ago but haven't seen it for a while.
I think the cigs were a "4 pack". Guys that smoked would trade for them.
How 'bout the lima beans with ham? ughhh.. some stuff was nasty.

I have never had the new MRE's. No need.

Some "rats" came with sterno.

No, but don't ever eat the peanut butter!

We had C-rats whan I was in and they weren't too bad. Whan Katrina hit the Army came by and dumped off a bunch of MRE's at a dump site I was working. There was no food around or electricity so we ate them 3 times a day. You could heat them up on the dozer with the little heater in them and not have too bad a meal. When I found out how many calories were in them I quit eating them. Obviously for young soldiers, not old equipment operators. I don't remember applesauce being in them.

Ham & Mother@^X&^%s.
30 year old Pal Malls straights that would burn down 2 inches with one toke....

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When I went to Ranger school (1 MRE a day in those days) you were able to tell what your buddy ate by the smell of his farts; Beef diced with gravy had a very distinct smell; but they all caused a different smell. Back then we used to get rotten MREs quite often, I felt like crying when my only MRE was rotten. Now days we don't eat them too often, and I usually just dig out the candy or what ever is good and throw the rest away. They are a lot better than when I first came in.

Jalepeno cheese... The best addition to the MRE line-up every. Several years ago I was in the field for 2 weeks and the guys in my platoon gathered up all the beef stew MREs and replaced my MREs with them. I still can't eat a beef stew MRE to this day....

Back in the Civil Air Patrol we were on this operation pretending to be terrorist attack victims for the NG and we all ate MRE's beforehand and my knucklehead friend decided to keep the unused little heater thing. To make a long story short he put it in his pocket and got burned while in a blackhawk on his way to a hospital to pretend to be a burn victim.