Thanks for your welcoming, gentlemen (I presume). I went back to pick some more MREs up and talked to the owner for a bit. He said MREs can hold for 10 years but the box only says 3 years. I guess if i'm going to put this in my go bag I should stick to brand new MREs and change em out every couple y...

So it happened, i took a trip to the army surplus and purchased a US MRE. I was quite excited to try it. The menu I purchased was menu 11 Vegetable Crumbles With Pasta in Taco Style Sauce. I opened it up and was pretty excited to begin trying it out. First I diddled around with the heater to get the...