No wonder they're priced so high; other than the hamburger bun and the ground meat, the rest of it is all junk food and snacks. It's an insane ration to hand out - as the nutritional value will be almost nil. You'll have a fast carb-high energy boost and then your blood sugar will crash, resulting in drowsiness and poor endurance.Twobravo wrote:
Just to let you all know. Those Sunmeadow Shelf Stable Meals are a joke. They cost $98 for a case of 18 of them. They have to be kept frozen too. MRE's are a much better, and can you believe, CHEAPER alternative. That's why the jacka$$ mudrfukrs don't put a price on their webpage.
I'm glad the info was brought to our attention. It looked like they may be an alternative to MRE's for my use in wildland firefighting, but not at those prices.
I can see wanting to give the guys a bit of "familiar home-style junk food" from the 7-11, but this is overkill and esp. if the price is so ridiculously expensive, plus the fact they require expensive cooled storage.
I wonder who came up with the approval to issue these? Most of the items in this "ration" can be picked up in the commissary or the on-base store, so why even have these as a "ration"?