Re: MRE's Revisited.

["michael cessna" <clinkerbuilt@hotmail.com>]

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>Subject: Re: MRE's Revisited.
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>Hey guys-n-gals:
>       I was passing through gary's page and noticed the question on 
team
>meals  thereupon so I decided to answer it here:
>       A few weeks ago we went over the MRE's vs dried vs Meal bars and
>discussed each ones flaws.  As I see it they can be summed up like so:
>     Dried food:   Modern versions can be pretty tasty  and they are 
very
>non-bulky compared to MRE's.  Their primary probems are they require a 
good
>deal of water to prepair (only a problem if a fresh water supply is a
>problem, filters and tablets won't last forever though) and you need to 
cook
>them for a fair amount of time. 
>      Meal Bars:  Yucky taste, cannot be too satisfying, long term they 
would
>be an unhealthy diet.  On the other hand you could fit a days worth of
>nutrition in your pocket and eat them any time with no preperation.  To 
quote
>one list subscriber "If you call that living."(sorry, can't remember 
who said
>it)
>      MRE's:  Will not last as long as dried, bulkiest of the three.  
However
>this is a good meal and it is "ready to eat" as advertised.  Like the 
Bars
>you can eat most of this stuff on the march and even heat up the main 
entree
>without a fire (a chemical heating devise is included).  There are 
varied
>meals, although not as varied as you could acheive with the dried 
campers
>rations.
>      In the matter discussed of how many MRE's a day are required I 
must
>agree with Ross (Antinwo7@Aol.com) who said one should be enough for a 
normal
>day. On two seperate occasions I tried to go a day with just the 
contents of
>one MRE Package, and my normal daily vitamins.  Now understand that I 
am 200
>lbs (not all lean and bone I must admit) and my workday consists of 10 
hours
>of high energy output, some of wich is proabably equivalent to low 
impact
>arobics (and on one of those days most of it was thus.) although there 
is
>little heavy lifting involved.  I must report that by spreading the 
various
>items troughout the day I was never hungry or unhappy.  I realise that 
this
>was not a completely scientific study but it should indicate something.  
By
>the way, one bad thing to report was that their corned Beef Hash was 
unkind
>to my nether reigons (You did want ALL the results of the experiment 
didn't
>you?)
>     So each has their advantages and disadvantages.  If the team is on 
the
>run, or in very hostile territory where a fire or even a campstove 
would be a
>signal flare to opponents the MRE's would be best,  If you were a lone
>character running for your life, the bars might be best.   I the team 
is
>primarily facing animal and scattered sentient opposition and can build 
a
>fire, set up a nice, comfy camp every night then the campers dried 
foods
>would be my choice.
>     So whats a Project Director to do?  I am certainly not saying set 
up the
>rations to suit the campaign you are planning.  My solution was to 
combine
>the stuff, I put 14 MRE's and 14 Trail Bars in each personal pack. IMHO 
that
>is enough food for 14 days+. The ration Packs I left as described in 
the book
>(TM 1-1 3rd Ed.) ie, Dehydrated food, Canned juices, and vitamins.
>I am eager to receive any input be they comments, suggestions, or even
>flames.
>(HAH! I laugh at flames!)
>Bill I
>
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>Bill,                                                                >    
I answered that one,too. The only realistic thing I could come up >with 
was dried rice & beans, w/ honey, salt,& dried vac-packed fruit. >    My 
reasoning went like this: these items will keep you alive(tho' >not in a 
very appetizing way),until you can either start on a crop,or >buy, 
pick,or kill something else; also, they will store indefinately 
>(www.fema.gov/home/fema/emfdwtr.html);MRE's have an approx 6-8yr 
>storage life, most other packaged food will go bad sooner.       
>                        M.Cessna

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