Yeah, @Woodman, that’s definitely funky. I primarily use Firefox and I’ve never not seen the topic separator lines. They’re definitely supposed to be drawn between each topic.
I need to check and see if it’s on my home PC as well, but that will require brain power, not sure if I have it.
… you eat nothing but MREs for 21 days.
Plenty of guys did that when in was in, stupid assholes drinking their paychecks. I used mine for Magic The Gathering like all smart people did.
Maybe not nothing but MREs though.
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It doesn’t say how much the study pays so I don’t know if it’s worth it. 
My friend’s dad told me that when he was in the Army the referred to them as Meals Rejected by Ethiopians (this was during the 80s when Live Aid and all stuff was going on).
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I called them that in the early 90’s.
The awesome was C rats for breakfast (The stuff boiled while inside giant sardine cans, green eggs and ham, and bread pudding ::shudder:: ) then MREs for lunch, then A’s (Real food) for dinner. My colon didn’t know what the hell was going on. C’s causing a certain looseness of the bowels, MREs causing the opposite, and A’s being the tie breaker.
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When I was on the Kennedy in the 80s, we had to shift a lot supplies from one storeroom to another, due to overhaul, on a regular basis. At one point we had over 100 cases of cereal, the extra-large boxes. Every single one of them was at least 10 years past expiration, but the Division chief refused to throw them out because of the paperwork involved (such as explaining why nobody in Supply noticed the stuff had expired, for more than 10 years, and why rotating the stock hadn’t happened in that same period).
The first couple of years the MREs could be fairly horrible - they were still experimenting with menu items and some were nasty.
But d@mn! did they give me the farts.
But current issue are pretty nice… especially if you order ala carte for personal use, like I do.
I need to put back a case or two. Just for tornado,flood, whatever purposes. I’m not going to have enough to live on for any length of time, but if I ever end up without power or something fora week or two, they might be nice to have on hand.
You have to live fairly close to Natick, so you won’t be participating regardless.
It’s been many years since I had any MREs, but my recollection from the ~2004-2005 period was that the ones I snagged were pretty damn tasty. Though I wasn’t eating them every day (or even every week). I can see how they’d turn your colon into a train wreck, though. You eat stuff like that, you gotta drink water like a crazy person to keep the mail moving.
I have canned food in the house, if I’m stuck there.
I have a mix of canned and MREs for evacuation, if it ever comes down to that. If I can’t stay in the RAV, the canned stuff stays behind while the MREs go in the walking pack.
I just want to have enough on hand that I’ll never end up in an evacuation center. I’ll starve and sleep on the floor in a barn before I sleep on a cot in a high school gym with a bunch of other people.
Have you guys considered Soylent for emergency rations? It may be boring, but it’s nutritionally complete…
Thought about it, yes. But a few hangups…
- Haven’t tried it, and I don’t see any sample packs.
- Mrs. Dubious has many food allergies, so I’d have to look over the ingredient list very carefully.
- MRE’s only need a little drinking water as a supplement. Packing Soylent would mean packing water, too
I mean technically yeah, but all the issues with MREs get worse without water. My issue with sylent is dishes, and prep space and that sort of thing. I can eat an MRE laying in the mud, in the rain and it won’t really affect the meal.
Not a bad idea as an additional source though.
There are essentially a lot of powders in soylent. Here’s their current nutrition panel. However, honestly, if she can eat the nutritional gut-bombs that are MREs, soylent ought not be a problem!
The current formulation does include soy and gluten, yeah. The carb/fat/protein ratio is 45/40/15. The bulk of the product is made of rice protein, isomaltulose, and oat flour. There’s also powdered oils (canola and sunflower, plus maltodextrin).
It wouldn’t hurt during prep to have a small dry space to at least pour the powder into a pitcher and add water; you’d definitely want a dry place if you weren’t mixing up a whole pitcher, since you’d want to keep the bagged portion from getting wet.
Bulking the water to do the mix itself might be problematic, since you basically need about, I dunno, a liter-ish of water per bag? You can mix it all in one pitcher, but you need to supply a lot of water to do the mix right. Otherwise you end up with thick pancake batter that you’ll choke on. Plus, once prepared, you gotta keep it refrigerated if you don’t eat it all right away.
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So in a stay in place sort of emergency it might work out. With a family of four could we eat it in one go? I’m thinking tornado screws up the power so bad we’re out for a week, but everything else is ok.
One pitcher is supposed to be three meals (2000 calories), so yes, a family of four could eat… err… drink it all at once.
Well, if we were ordering MREs by the case, and eating whatever came down the pike, then I’d agree.
But we order ala carte - this entree, that one, but not those, or these - so she can eat what we buy.
We also can make a slimmer meal - entree and side, or entree and dessert… not always entreee, side, dessert, bread or crackers, etc…
Current issue MREs are really no different from other foods. The ones you and I had while still in the service were early release… beta testing, almost. You don’t need more water now than with a burger from the fast food joint down the block.