Me eating an MRE

In order to keep expenses down on a working trip out west, I've got various food items packed into the car, including some MREs that are a minimum of three full years old (they're pre Katrina). I illustrate the typical contents, and (poorly) how to heat up the entree using the heater bag. :)

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• MRE
• stupid
• civilian

[hk1094]

where actually did you get them and do you know the brand these are???

[goodluckfox]

They were Red Cross or National Guard or some such issue during the relief effort. My older sister was in Hattiesburg MS during Katrina, and worked at a shelter, so that's how she came by them. I wasn't even aware that MREs had 'brands". Haven't a clue who actually made it.

[BboyGrimm]

what i do is to just actually put the entree inside the bag of hot water

[goodluckfox]

That sounds a lot easier than what I did. :) And yeah, I was trying to keep it clean; an editorial cartoonist once linked to one of my videos with a language warning on his blog. :) I will cuss like a sailor if I'm not careful.

[rcahoon76]

to heat the entree you take it out of the box and put the food item in the heater bag and then place the heater bag ( with the entree in it) back in to the cardboard box that the entree came in.

[goodluckfox]

Thanks! Yeah, I EVENTUALLY figured that out. :) That would have been MUCH easier, because I could have waited to pour the water in until AFTER I had the entree in the sleeve.

There's a reason I tagged this video "stupid civilian" :)

[pyroguy3211]

Why do people have to throw the items in the MRE around? You are about to eat it!I hate opening up a pop-tart and it falling apart on me.

[oohrah1996]

its not just G.I.s that eat um thay all do

[afterthefox7]

The Boy Is Big. See Jane Run, Run Jane Run. thank you

[Darkcanyon505]

It seems to me like u know alot more about using the mre packet then yr bro which i am not trying to b mean but it is kind of funny to me

[JTAnt2]

you cheep bastard

[Coins4Cheese]

I can buy them at the commissary for I think 8 bucks.

[Silvertrine]

The army somewhat cracked down on eBay sales of them. You can get them but they're like $65/12 shipped. So they're more of a novelty than anything else.

[fairdaleguard1]

you are to put it in the green hot bag

i just ate one about 2 hrs ago

[evilbunnie1029]

lol i got mine from my guitar teacher he's in the army so he has a whole strage of them

[munkyboi]

you can buy them on ebay or a military surplus store.