Doing some training with the first "new" MREs I've had in a couple of years and noticed the new packaging. Is there any info on how the new packaging would affect shelf stability? It's definitely thinner packaging than the old stuff, and perhaps the clear plastic might allow some UV in to degrade th...

After some trades that fell through, I still have the following available:

2x Golden Harvest Cake
1x Breakfast Cake
2x Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The packaging says commercial production, obviously before 2006

Is there a date code pressed or stamped in the packaging anywhere? Sometimes they can be kind of light and hard to see.

Mountain House is good stuff... Also like the Hazelnut Chocolate

You can get Scho-ka-kola from Varusteleka, fairly reasonable shipping to both the US and the EU:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/group/ch ... nacks/1914

That's nice that it has a full year shown, I wish they would use a 5 digit date on the outer packaging of the others to take the guess work out of which decade it's form.

Hmm, I suppose it's possible they could be from 2009/2010? They were from UGRs used for field training, so hopefully they're 19/20. I've also opened two of the cakes and some cookies and they were still just fine.

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Mon Nov 28, 2022 8:15 am

Trays also have a production date stamped on, see e.g.

Yes, their Julian year is either 9 or 0. I don't remember when they switched to the plastic trays, do you?

I salvaged some dessert trays from the Army, who were going to throw them away! I guess their soldiers didn't deserve dessert for something? I think they are all 2019/2020 dates of production, plastic trays with attached icing packet for the cakes. Would be happy to trade for some non-MRE rations, o...

Found this while cleaning out our building for a remodel. Our foodservice has been contracted as long as I've been in, but I heard the tales of when we had our own cooks.