MRE's

[EarlyPrepper]

In your opinion, what are the best MRE's?

[QUAID]

It's either US or British ones.

US ones have a lovely flavour range, have lightweight food heaters and come in handy thick plastic packaging, on apearance are smaller and lighter, but take into account the number you need for a day, then they are on par with the UK ones. (You dont get much toile paper!)

UK ones - Great, and have come on leaps and bounds in the years, but you can get easily bored of their flavours and dont have a great menu range. Water/windproof matches included. Can be eaten hot or cold as per US rats.

Given the choice i would opt for the American ones purely for the novelty factor of the range of menus and quality of 'puddings'. I like the handy thick plastic outer - good for many other uses and the fact you can seperate bkfst, lunch dinner into self contained packaging.

[Trojanhorse]

I would suggest a mixture of both US and UK then you get the best of both worlds!

[pseudonym]

Norwegian Army Artcic rations- nom nom nom. But hard to get hold of.

I have both the UK and USA ones in storage and as already stated above, will use the US ones as a menu break.

[DundeePrepper]

I'm just not a fan of MRE's at all.. Overpriced and you need alot of them to keep you going for any length of time.. I wouldn't rely on a large supply of these.. Maybe 10 per person for emergencies in a SHTF situation.. bulk storage of rice/pasta easy cook noodles etc is whats going to keep you going for a month or so but we're maybe prepping for different things (me being 3 months initially for 3 people - pandemic/severe weather/civil unrest.)

[Yorkshire Andy]

For what you pay for a 24hr MRE box you could fill a kitchen cupboard

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Now ok if your after some short term food to stick in a bug out bag or evacuation bag to keep you going till you reach safety fair enough but most MRE's are very salty (to preserve them) and dont usually offer much in the way of nutrition or flavour

http://evaq8.co.uk/Ration-Packs.html


But also base your purchases on what you will eat pointless buying food just to chuck it away when it goes out of date..

add a few big bags of pasta / rice/ lasagnia/ dried milk powder/ tea/ coffee/ porrage oats to the stockpile and you can feed a family of 4 fairly well for a good while


Things like

Tinned curry , stew, caserol, meatballs, sweet & sour, Bolagnase, meat in gravy , meat in white sauce, Hamburgers, peas, carrots, potato's

all the above will go with rice or pasta, bolagnase will make lasagnia too... with a few other ingredients you could make pie's (assuming the oven still worked or you have a camp oven)


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even tesco is riding on the back of the packeted MRE style foods

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/ ... =272385294

[Bad Wombat]

Has anybody tried using standard supermarket packet meals like these:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/HeaderSear ... t+we+found

[ForgeCorvus]

Has anybody tried using standard supermarket packet meals like these:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/HeaderSear ... t+we+found

Yorkshire's Tesco link is to one of those.

I've not tried any of the LWWF range.... Anyone got a review?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Has anybody tried using standard supermarket packet meals like these:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/HeaderSear ... t+we+found

Yorkshire's Tesco link is to one of those.

I've not tried any of the LWWF range.... Anyone got a review?

will have at some point soon...




They look to only have a short 12 month BBE date but no use by

they look to be precooked in the bags reading the blurb on the back

[ForgeCorvus]

Thats what I thought, 'Retort Pouch'= Tinned in a plastic bag.

The FAQ's on their site are interesting reading
http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/