And the chemical reaction produces a minimal amount of hydrogen gas since water is not used.

Next time I'll lay the box flat with the entree in the FRH on top of the heater chemical pack.

The time after that - I'll try the entree inside the box, but outside of and on top of the FHR, with the box flat.

The entreé and the pears were packaged 2012. I didn't check the other items. I put a bunch of water in the FRH later and from doing that the top 2 sections of the 4 heater sections started producing heat. So I guess the top 2 sections didn't get wet enough. Next time I'm going to add enough water to...

The Vegetable Lasagna was tasty enough but I don't associate beans with Lasagna. After I had eaten about half of it I added all the hot (not all that hot) sauce to what was left. Next time I'll add the hot sauce from the get go. The wet pack fruit was pears and the beverage in the B accessory packet...

I watched a YouTube video review of the Vegetable Lasagna and am going to try it tomorrow.
For 2 reasons - it doesn't include a hot beverage bag and seemed the least appealing of the 12 meals.

It looks like when the B accessory packet is included with a meal there is no hot beverage bag.

I just got my 1st 12 MREs
Case A, menus 1-12 http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/menus-xxxii-2012.html.

How would you rate the 2 vegetarian meal entreés - menu #11 (Vegetable Lasagna) & menu #12 (Spicy Penne Pasta) compared to the other 10?