{"id":9013,"date":"2007-09-27T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/vegetarian-mres\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:09","slug":"vegetarian-mres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/vegetarian-mres\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian MREs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, these should make camping a little more interesting. Based on the descriptions they appear to be from menu year 2006<\/a>. These are designed to provide 1250 kcal (Calories, as we know them) per meal and taste good enough that they don’t degrade morale. The last time I ate an MRE was in the mid-80s when my dad brought one back from either Panama or Honduras (wherever he was deployed at the time) and I ate a cold patty of what was essentially spam. I always really did like the dehydrated fruit, though.<\/p>\n

I suspect these will be better, with the two menus as follows:<\/p>\n

(Left) MENU NO. 14: VEGETABLE MANICOTTI<\/p>\n

Vegetable Manicotti, Pound Cake, Wet Pack Fruit, Peanut Butter, Crackers, Cocoa (Hazelnut), Hot Sauce, Accessory Packet B, Spoon, Flameless Heater, Hot Beverage Bag<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Right) MENU NO. 12: VEGGIE BURGER WITH BBQ SAUCE<\/p>\n

Veggie Burger w\/BBQ Sauce, Dried Fruit, Chocolate Banana Muffin Top, Wheat Snack Bread (2), Potato Sticks, Beverage Base (CHO Fortified), Hot Sauce, Accessory Packet B, Spoon, Flameless Heater, Hot Beverage Bag<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, ACCESSORY PACK B contains:<\/p>\n

Tea (Instant w\/ Sweetener & Lemon Flavor), Salt, Chewing Gum, Matches, Toilet Tissue, Hand Cleaner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t expect them to be good<\/em>, but I think they’ll at least be decent. Unless I intend to eat about a gallon of soup, four Tasty Bite entrees, a pound of oat bran, and a pound of dried blueberries on top of these MREs I’ve way over-packed food wise for camping. That’s okay, at least there will be variety. It all fit within a pretty small box, anyway.<\/p>\n

More info on MREs and other pre-packaged military rations from all around the world can be found here<\/a>. By the way, it’s worthwhile for you to order a few cases of civilian MREs<\/a> for survival food. mentioned a good idea of eating one every two weeks or so, then order a new case when one runs out, rotating the stock.<\/p>\n

In a disaster situation two cases would safely feed you for two weeks, and the waterproof-ness ensures they will last through some pretty awful weather. The only down side is that, unlike the ones pictuerd above, the civilian ones don’t contain the heaters in the pouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, these should make camping a little more interesting. Based on the descriptions they appear to be from menu year 2006. These are designed to provide 1250 kcal (Calories, as we know them) per meal and taste good enough that they don’t degrade morale. The last time I ate an MRE was in the mid-80s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24640,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/24640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}