Hey guys, Hopefully you all can help me out. I'm trying to get in the ration game probably quicker than i should have and bought 6 CR1Ms... unfortunately the picture I was sent did not turn out to be the goods I received but as I made the "purchase" over an local online buy sell trade board I have ...

add salt to the water you put in the FRH, that normally kickstarts them. If it still won't heat up, then you can always drop in boiling water for about 7-8 minutes, leave on a car dash in the sun til it warms up, or put in front of a heater until it warms thru. Or empty on a plate and microwave. As ...

it's been a while, but I think the Jammie Dodgers or McVities Fruit Digestives were the closest.

Let me preface this by saying I did something very stupid tonight. I had a nice fire going and decided I would be clever and throw in an FRH from an MRE. This was all in the name of science of course. :mrgreen: At first, it went along nicely as the top portion of the heater burned. It wasn't too ex...

I'm a big fan of the spanish, with norwegian, dutch, german, french and british not far behind. Each has their plus's and minuses. The french have some of the most intriguing entrees, and the canned cheese is the best I have had. Norwegian is just overall good, German is a real mans meal, British is...

Chicken with Tomatoes and feta, if it has the stuffing side. Thats about the only one that pops out of the recent menus.

here's the chart under MRE Storage on the site.
https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-shelf-life/



couple of weeks, depending on previous storage, should be ok for the next little bit. Don't think I'd earmark it for long term, tho.

if you can find them in good shape, those Milk Caramels have always been a treat. Nice vanilla backed flavor, perfect level of sweetness, you can tell that things just tasted better back then...not sure what happened...

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Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:26 pm

I just checked my treasure box and apparently I have a full set..... but it's not as old

I showed this to a Coworker and asked if he remembered them...he said he had his butt over them all the time, they were kept under the flight seat....

http://hotchow.natick.army.mil/history/ ... s_1950.pdf


That gives more info about the Food Packet, Individual, Survival, SA around the time period of what you have.