US MRE 2014 Menu# 24 Southwest Beef & Black Beans

[Conrad]

Great pics and review! This is one of my favorite menus as well. The entree is incredible, and I've always liked the spiced apples, so getting both in the same meal is all the better!

Put some cheese spread with jalapeño in with it and a grape beverage mix and some M&M's and that would be the perfect MRE

Pretty much add jalapeño cheese spread to the wornick one I most recently had and it's right up there for me.

[FunkOffJack]

So I got a few MREs from Eistee a week or so ago and #24 was one of them. I tries the nuggets, you got the better deal. They were really greasy. More than one would expect for being turkey. I only ate 2 of 5 and didn't finish them.
The MRE I have is packed by Amriqual and had Mango-Peach Apple sauce and TFF vanilla pound cake. I was unsure about it being trans-fat free and expected it to be overly dry. While it was a little dry, it was probably the best thing I've ever had out of a package. If I was in the field, I would trade for those every day if I could. I tried the raspberry in a #21 and it was terrible. I don't like the taste of artificial sweeteners.

I still have the main, tortillas and cheese. I'm actually looking forward to trying them this weekend after reading your experience. I hope mine is as good but is made by Amriqual.

Thanks for the pics. Interesting to see the same MRE packed by another company.

[FunkOffJack]

What type of cake did you get?
I'd be interested to see what the Ameriqual version of this one has.

An absolutely delicious TFF Vanilla pound cake. Broke off a small piece and was skeptical about the TFF but ate the whole thing in like 6 bites. It had crystallized sugar on the outside. not sure if it was intentional but it was perfect.

[BTemple]

What type of cake did you get?
I'd be interested to see what the Ameriqual version of this one has.

An absolutely delicious TFF Vanilla pound cake. Broke off a small piece and was skeptical about the TFF but ate the whole thing in like 6 bites. It had crystallized sugar on the outside. not sure if it was intentional but it was perfect.

I've had the TFF Spiced Cake and the Lemon Poppyseed Cake and both were great as well... both had the crystallized sugar on the outside edges, made for a good texture.

I bought a case of 2014 Menu A's recently and didn't realize when I bought them that they were made by Wornick... hopefully they'll be alright. Haha