MRE's any good?

Pants - nowhere near as good as Brit 24 hr Rat Packs - once you get passed the novilty heater (I've never known one heat a pack up properly), they're tasteless and you best like peanut butter.

They didn't get the nickname Meals, Rejected by the Enemy for nothing!

Add the tabasco sauce and I like 'em...

just fancied trying them out. they seem in the long run the most sensible option to get. I'll get one and see what they are like.

Any menu favourite's?

Any menu favourite's?

yeah the british 24 hour menu's

I've tried most of the MRE's... most I've liked, I think only one I had was really bad.

Mind you this was a couple of years ago

A few years ago i used to do a lot of camping and bought a lot of US MRES and Brit 24hr rat packs(the old version with tinned stuff not the new freeze dried).
Both were available for £5 each at the time.
The Brit ones had loads more stuff as i believe the MREs are issued 3 for 24hrs so obviously didnt have as much stuff in them but i loved them and the heater was a very good idea and worked every time i tried them.

Wouldnt mind some more but the postage costs more now than the MRE itself

there ok, but the boil in the bag MOD rat packs are better. the heater is good tho,, scrunch it up into a plastic pop bottle , add the water put bottle lid on, and run lol lol lol

THERE CRAP, go for the rat packs mate

......goes to taste. I prefer MREs myself.

You can also get MRE flameless heaters, so you can cook you ratpack meals eaiser

It sounds like its dry ice or something in those heaters....that goes bang when mixed with water and an emtpy plastic bottle.

yeah it does lol , though i dont think its dry ice,,, that stuff is very cold , this gear gots hot .you can also buy the flameless chemical heater bags from blacks outdoors.

not known as Meal Rejected by Ethiopians for nothing! Bloody awful!

I've only had about 3 or 4 and never complained...except when I put an entire bottle of tabasco in one meal...*cough* *wheez*

I've not tried the British Rat Pack, so I can't say if its better or not.

I've had the Dutch/French 24 hour dry rations, which weren't too bad, if you like pate and jam. Unfortunately they don't make'm like that anymore.

Meals Rejected bij Ethiopians
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Brit Rat Pack defintely better than MRE although even those are ropey. try wayfarer foods-far better by far ORRRRRR just have atin of stewing steak, one of boiled tatties or veg, mix lot together along with a slurp of your favourite condiment and you've got something altogether far more palatable and semi authentic too (WW2 tended to use tinned rations). If you do want authenti flavours then Heinz soups are fine-when I worked at Museum of Army Transport we had several WW2 dated tins of oxtail soup and several other flavours (including mock turtle and brown windsor!)-some self heating too.

brown windsor!

Is that made from Queen mothers underwear?

museum of army transport in beverley andy t ?

Hello, is it true that if you eat 'too many' mre's, they 'bung you up'??
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That might be an urban myth, but whenever I've lived off Brit Rat Packs for more than a day it took a few days for 'things' to return to normal.

It makes sense - the last thing you'd be wanting to do in combat is trotting off with the shovel! I guess the same could apply to MREs.

I've always wondered if there was any truth in the other urban myth that they used to put bromide in rat packs!!!

Biscuits - Fruit: The Lembas of the MoD.