What's your favorite MRE... all time?

[rattattoo]

It doesn't look like there's been a "what's your favorite" poll in a while...
Anybody in for it?

I'm unsure of the actual years in the menu [looks like the late 1990s], because I only had main-course pouches and didn't know anything about the date codes, but the one I was always the most impressed with was the "Beef with Mushroom".
I thought it was better than the faithful old beef stew. Great flavor, rich, filling, you could thin it out to a soup with some veggies and a bouillon cube, or pour it straight over rice or potatoes.

[MacGuffin]

Chili w/Beans (menu 1)! Everything in that particular MRE is good on my palate. Love the cornbread!

[dirtbag]

2004, Beef Ravioli.

[Norton]

This would be my opinions from 1980's not now.( I will think about the current after 2000 meals and post latter).

Breakfast Corned Beef Hash good with Tabasco ! This was like eating a real breakfast, but still good for a night time meal.
Filling and with fitting sides of Dehydrated fruit and oatmeal bar.

Lunch Chicken loaf and crackers, Easy to eat clean. Rather bland, but still perfect quick lunch I liked this better than others.
No messy juice to get on your hands and sleeve, I hated that about MCI ham or beef slices, you would spill it on you.
(Again taste was not bad or good, it was just convenient to wolf this entree down with some crackers washed down with grape Kool aid

Supper Meatballs in BBQ sauce At the time considered Very good . They were filling and BBQ sauce was not that bad even cold. If you crushed the crackers up you could dump them in the pouch and soak up the rest of sauce.

[RockyRaab]

I'll answer that after I've had all 24, I guess. I do like the #1 Chili with beans I had very recently. The cornbread and jalapeno cheese is fabulous, especially eaten with the chili.



I was also very delighted with the ratatouille entree - a very tasty veggie stew. The Rib-Shaped Pork Patty meal was quite good (I had it as a TOTM but also have a full MRE one).

In my inventory, I have a #7 Beef Brisket, a #19 Jalapeno Beef Patty, and a #22 Asian Beef Strips, all meals that garner rave reviews. Can't wait to try those. Any one of them might be my all-time favorite.

[rabidwolf]

The 88-89 Menu#* Ham Slice. First full MRE I ever tried. Previously, it had been bits and pieces from one of my uncles. Still remember the look on the surplus shop owner's face. When he realized that I had actually been eating those old brown bag MREs. "Don't you know those things are almost ten years old?!" I replied, "No, but they are still good. Do you have anymore with the ham and potatoes au gratin?"

[rationtin440]

Unfortunately I don't really have a favorite, but I really loved pretty much every chicken entree MRE from the 1980s until 2001. The poundcakes and cookie bars were also a favorite of mine.

[housil]

I also don´t have "a" favorite one. I just don´t like hot/spicy one´s.
If I had to, I would take the spaghetti. This was y most favorite back in MCI day´s in is it still today.

[dirtbag]

The spaghetti and the Ravioli are the same, just different pasta.
Both good, hot or cold.

The beef with Mushrooms are nice too.

I went from MCI's in 1975 to the newer MRE's about 2006.
I skipped all the early FD Mre's entirely.

Dates me, I guess (65 + )

Just about all rations were edible, but tasty?
Not so much.

One of the reasons I went Navy, 3 Hots and my own bunk!

[rattattoo]

The spaghetti and the Ravioli are the same, just different pasta.
One of the reasons I went Navy, 3 Hots and my own bunk!

"3 Hots and a Cot" was why my father joined the Navy Right after Pearl Harbor.
He went in as an ensign fresh out of Great Lakes Training Center and they put him in the North Atlantic convoys... including one of the Murmansk runs.
Tough way to get your "hots".
SIL [the former USMC Capt.and well known MRE pusher]'s baby bro just got his Lt. bars pinned last week as they left for a six-month deployment on the USS Mahan.
I won't be getting any l/o MREs off him, it looks like.