MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat) Genuine U.S. Military Surplus (1 Pack) Assorted Flavor

I bought this back in July 2018 and I just opened it - it's great! I kept the MRE in my car trunk for 6 years through Texas summers and Illinois winters. The flameless ration heater (FRH) still works and nothing was spoiled. Overall, I recommend it. I've listed everything and my opinion below, too. Chili MRE: I recommend buying an extra package so you can try the flameless ration heater (FRH). There are a couple of steps involved in setting this up and the bag gets hot. However, I did it pretty easily with instructions, just be careful with the heater and squeezing the chili out of the pouch...it's hot! The chili tastes good, it's salty with some spice. It's about as much food as a can of chili from the store and comes with a nice long spoon. Vegetable cracker: 2 large crackers break into 4 smaller crackers each. I ate this with the cheese spread. The cracker was good, cheese was thick. Used a sharp knife to open. Cornbread: surprisingly good. I expected bland and dry cornbread, but it was sweet and moist. Almost like a dessert bread. Nicely done. Cheese crackers: I expected Cheezits, but these are Combos. Really nice surprise, cheddar cheese-stuffed cylindrical crackers. Tasty. Beverage bag: basically a plastic bag to hold water and drink mix (coffee and orange juice). You can place the beverage bag in the FRH bag with MRE to heat up coffee. However, just one beverage bag for both coffee and orange juice...I would purchase and carry one of those silicone collapsible cups. Orange juice: powdered drink mix with 20 grams sugar. I would mix this first in the beverage bag before coffee. Then pour into separate cup. Sugar clumped up in mixing bag and juice tasted like a Vitamin C drink mix, just ok. Instant coffee: Most disappointing of the package. Very little coffee and it did not smell or taste good. However, plenty of non-dairy creamer and sugar included. Other stuff: about 15 small napkins for cleanup or fire tinder. Pack of 20 matches also included. Cheap matches, they won't stay lit very long, but they work. Moist towelette was very moist, tore apart as I unraveled it. Will clean your hands and surfaces. Iodized salt packet with lots of salt. Two pieces of chewing gum not super sweet, nice spearmint flavor.

Please read on for an MRE recipe that's pretty ingenious... After serving as a chaplain in the Guard for 6 years I have had plenty of experience eating MRE's. When I was a Boy Scout they took us for a camping trip and we had C Rations. I thought it was a great experience because I felt like I was in the Army. Let me tell you that MRE's are a great improvement over c rats. As an officer I always had enlisted personnel eat first so I would wind up with what ever wasn't chosen by the majority. You had to have a fire or sterno can to cook the c rat entree, which was in a can. That meant having to lug that around and if you didn't have a can opener then you had to use your knife. With MRE's there is a heat pouch that you put your entree pouch in and pour a small amount of water in it and return it to the entree box with it leaning against something like a rock. The water causes a chemical reaction with the powder sealed in the heater pouch and that thing gets super hot really quick and cooks your entree in a couple of minutes. The biggest drawback, which always happened to me, is that you have to be very careful opening the top of the pouch or the super hot steam would burn you. I always got burned because for some reason I couldn't open the flap and get my hand out of the way. Lol. I look back at it and laugh now but it wasn't funny then. I say all that to explain that you can have a hot meal in a matter of minutes with an MRE. They're great to have in the field and a great emergency food source. The entree is printed on the outside of the pouch so you know what your getting before opening it. And if you got one you didn't like then hopefully you can find someone to trade with. I've seen some interesting things offered to entice a trade. Lol The most interesting thing to me is that you saw guys bragging about what dessert they got like M&Ms, a candy bar and in my experience the most coveted was pound cake over what their entree was. Now for the recipe. In the field you are often staying awake for long periods of time. To sleep while on guard duty was a serious offense and during war you could be shot for it. As a chaplain I didn't have to pull guard duty but would be awake during fire watch sometimes as this was a good time to get to know the soldiers in my care. I'm not a coffee drinker as I'm not a fan of hot beverages so I missed out on the coffee caffeine. Inside an MRE there is a tiny bottle of Tabasco sauce and I have seen soldiers rub it under their eyes to help them stay awake. I have even heard of some putting it in their eyes but I never personally saw that. Inside an MRE you get a condiment pack that contains Tabasco sauce, instant coffee, cocoa powder, sugar, salt/pepper, coffee creamer, a ration of toilet paper and a pack of 2 Chiclets which children overseas love. There is a dish you can make called "Ranger Pudding". I don't know if the Rangers actually came up with the recipe but that's what it's called. To make it you open your packet of cocoa powder and pour in your instant coffee, sugar and creamer packs with a little water and stir it with the long spoon you get. Then you eat it out of the cocoa pouch and it gives you a caffeine rush that will help you stay awake or give you a boost of energy. It's not bad and a great use for some of the things you may not want (like my coffee and creamer). So if you get an MRE give it a try and see if it doesn't work for you too. Now I've said all of this to say that MREs are a great emergency food source or to put in your pack to go hiking, hunting, camping, etc...

Okay, so I’ve always wanted to try an mre because I thought they would be really good to try but overall it wasn’t really good. Anyways the packaging was amazing I don’t know but the main food was terrible but the snacks were amazing and the drinks were not good except the cheeseits tortillas bread and red punch were the only thing that was good. The pricing it’s a good deal because of course it’s a meal that came from the militarly that each branch in the United States eats from which is nice. The heat level that really bummed me out it took time to heat up but it still worked. Ease of use well i threw every thing away when i finished it because I wasn’t keep it because it’s all trash to me lol, the storage capacity was amazing it really rewarded the packaging which awesome but of course there are other choices of meals but it was a worth trying an mre

J'ai voulu varier les plaisirs de la ration française avec cette ration américaine. Je ne parlerais ici que du produit en lui même. Première note : il s'agit d'une ration 1 repas. Cependant, bien plus conséquent que l'équivalent d'un repas français. Mon menu est le n7, beef stripped in tomato sauce. La ration est complète ( pas de manquement, la cuillère est la, le plat et son accompagnement, le snack etc... ) La cuillère est ultra solide : gardez la ;) Bœuf effiloché en sauce tomate. Le réchaud est fonctionnel, pas facile à prendre en main mais fonctionne du feu de Dieu. Le plat est consistant, savoureux, bien conçu. L'accompagnement, le pudding vanille, que j'ai préparé à l'eau froide est comparable à une crème dessert style Danette très consistante, volumineuse. Croyez moi, vous êtes rassasiés après ça ! Le pain snack est dense, mais frais et sent super bon ! Le beurre de cacahuète est très crémeux, et la confiture de mûre excellente, avec de beaux morceaux de fruits. Les bonbons Life saviers à la menthe (de gros 'polo' anglais) sont très parfumés. La boisson saveur limonade est désaltérante, et fait penser aux bonbons PEZ au citron. Le café cappuccino à l'irlandaise est un vrai délice, un bon mug de boisson chaude, légèrement sucrée, un peu crémeuse. Pour moi, c'est une excellente découverte, c'est pour cela que j'ai commandé une autre ration dans l'espoir d'avoir un autre menu. Je recommande !

comprato fondamentalmente per curiosità, il prodotto è arrivato in anticipo e in buone condizioni con tutti i sigilli intatti, il venditore ha fatto arrivare il menù che avevo richiesto senza problemi e il prodotto rientrava ancora abbondantemente nel periodo utile di consumazione. Per quanto riguarda la qualità del prodotto in sè è quello che ci si potrebbe aspettare da una razione creata da un esercito con un grosso budget. Svolge il suo compito egregiamente. Fornisce un grande apporto calorico cercando di ricalcare il più possibile i sapori a cui è abituato il militare americano medio scendendo ovviamente a compromessi con la necessità della lunga conservazione. Se nel comprarla terrete a mente necessità e condizioni di impiego per cui sono state sviluppate e il target a cui sono dirette vi renderete conto che sono delle ottime razioni.

It was a great delivery. Got little confused when it said it couldn’t deliver the the address but it got fix at the end. Loved that it was a surprise so you didn’t know which one you get.

Nos encantó el producto. Lo disfrutamos muchísimo. Calidad 100%. Pero lo más importante de todo, la seriedad y amabilidad del vendedor que hizo todo lo que estuvo en su mano para que nos llegase antes de tiempo. Un trato excepcional. Muchísimas gracias.

Bewertung für Produkt (5/5), es hält was es verspricht. Ein MRE sein. --------------------------------------- Bewertung des Geschmacks. Fazit unten. Ich habe erhalten das: Menü 18 (Beef Ravioli in Meat Sauce) Es war insgesamt ein recht normales Essen. Die Bewertung unterhalb wird lediglich für das Essen selber gelten, nicht für Verpackung und Lieferung. Hauptgericht: (7/10) Vergleiche die MRE-Ravioli mit Konserven-Ravioli von Maggi, ersetze aber die Tomatensauce durch Fleischsauce. Dann hast du die MRE-Ravioli. Die Hot-Sauce war für mich zu scharf. Geschmacklich ganz gut, Menge etwas zu klein für mich. Nichts außergewöhnliches ist mir aufgefallen. Getränke: (9/10) Der Kaffe war duch mich ruiniert. Habe zu viel Wasser dazugegeben. Dennoch lecker. (9/10) Der Fruit Punch ebenfalls durch mich ruiniert. Habe ihn mit zu wenig Wasser vermischt. Dennoch lecker. (9/10) Bei beiden Getränken ist mir nichts ungutes aufgefallen. Gebäck: (6/10) Das Weizenbrot mit Käsecream war... naja. (4/10) Einzeln ist weder noch zu empfehlen, beides zusammen geht aber fit. Der Schokomuffin mit Banane und Erdnuss war sehr gut. (8/10) War mitunter das beste Essen an der Ration, je nachdem wie der Fokus/Geschmack liegt. Sonstiges: (8/10) Die M&Ms schmecken wie M&Ms. (8/10) Die Kaugummis sind okay. Nicht zu stark, nicht zu schwach vom Geschmack. Die Kaukonsistenz ist durchschnittlich. (6/10) Salz und Süßungsmittel habe ich nicht verwendet. Die Taschentücher scheinen fest zu sein, das feuchte Tuch ebenfalls. (8/10) Der Holzlöffel war 1A. Fest und gute Menge die drauf passt. (10/10) Der Flameless-Ration-Heater hat mir nicht ganz funktioniert. Oder ich hab ihn falsch genutzt. Chefkock Mike konnte aber nachhelfen. (--/10) Fazit: (6/10) Der Hauptgrund für diese Bewertung ist in erster Linie der Preis. Die Ration ist meiner Meinung nach nur einmal 25€ wert. Vielleicht sehe ich das aber auch aus den Augen von jemandem, der nicht in einer Notsituation steckt. Geschmäcker unterscheiden sich bekanntlich. ------------------------------------ Die Lieferung erfolgte circa 7 Tage nach Bestellung. Das Paket wurde jedoch vor der Tür gelassen! In meiner Nachbarschaft ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass es geklaut worden wäre. Dennoch, darauf aufpassen, wenn ihr es geliefert bekommen sollt. Verpackt war das MRE in mehrlagiger, undurchsichtiger Folie mit einem Stück Pappe zum Schutz und Halt. Unerkenntlich, dass es ein MRE sein sollte.