Re: MRE's Revisited.

[Abiscott@erols.com (Scott Ripley)]

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>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


Gamma-irridiated vacuum-packed food will keep nearly forever!!! (you can't
get it cause it's not Govt approved much yet).  It is not dried, dehydrated,
smoked, canned, mixed..it is actual fresh food that keeps about 350 years so
long as the plastic is intact.  THAT is most likely what the project provides.