Well packed, new production, good recipes - I'm buying more!
This is the real deal, not second-rate production or past-expiration surplus goods. The meals come packed in a robust carton (no damage from shipping) and individually wrapped in robust plastic (no storage problems). Each has a large heating pack that you can use with very little water and without the water in any way touching the food package, and the heating pack is easily enough to make both parts of the main meal (a meal and a stew/soup) at the same time, and hotter than you'd want to touch. The meals and the third major component, dessert, are actually good. Benefits versus some others are: better packaging; larger heating pack; better dessert item; food packs are a bit easier to tear open (they tear along the long axis, not along the short axis). Weight seems the same. I'm ordering more.
Lazy mans meals
Not really, I have a wife that cooks great food, but I could see eating one of these if I was hungry one night. I looked around quite a bit trying to find a "survival" meal I could buy and put aside for a number of years. Most of the other kits I looked at were either full of junk that might make you feel full but wouldn't give you any nutrients, or were from iffy sources where people were claiming missing parts or outright different products. Even though this wasn't the least expensive it looked the best so I gave it a shot. I haven't tried to live off of it for a month, but after trying the product I've very pleased with my purchase.
My family tried one of the breakfast packs this morning. It was a maple sausage, hash brown with bacon, chocolate toaster pastry, soft wheat cracker with blackberry jam, instant coffee, chocolate milk powder, and orange "Gatorade" powder. With salt/pepper, creamer/sugar, spoon, wet nap paper towel. It came with a...
Very good meals
The meals are very good. One reason I chose this product was that it is about the only true MRE style meal that has a breakfast selection. It isn't as varied as I would like, but much better than a meal bar every morning. (They have oatmeal for one and a sausage patty and hash browns for the other). The lunch and dinner entree is standard, along with the side dishes. They are very filling. The drink variation is also somewhat limited (cocoa and a lemon aid or an orange drink mix in each meal). The crackers/bread snack items are very tasty (with a cheese or peanut butter spread). The desserts are actually almost restaurant quality. A small item I really liked was the spoon was the same as the military MRE's. This allowed me to use it in my canteen to stir the drink mix, etc. Overall I am very pleased with the product and will be ordering more. BTW - the manufacturing date was only a month before I ordered it. So I have a full 5 years of shelf life. VERY GOOD.
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