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Potato and Cheddar Soup

This is one meal, or side dish, had me thinking: why didn’t they invent this earlier? I have to give Natick labs the credit for putting a soup unit in with a MRE. This is the first of its kind and let me tell you I was pretty surprised by it. I did the standard heating the bag and when opening it up I got the smell of cheddar and from the looks of it a thick stew. The soup was kind of small in portion size; not a whole lot there, and the potatoes were few but the taste was actually very good. It tasted a little grainy, but nonetheless very good considering this is probably made from a powder base. I would imagine having this on a cold stormy night coming home from the field or work. I could not even fathom having this cold out in the field. It would be just to horrible to down.

A soup with a MRE?

Housil,

Yes, it is true! Though I'm not sure which MRE has it. Could be a 2008 one, haven't seen this entree' in the 2007 ones. Very odd.

Is this the subtitute stuff for the rather odd clam chowder in the BBQ pork rib MRE?

I ordered some pork ribs online a few weeks ago hoping to score some of this soup as the MRE's I bought were supposed to be "latest freshest MRE's)
I got some 2007 ones......ok I guess thats also classed as fresh.

Mr. F

You know that very well could be the substitute for the very disgusting clam chowder. Though the 2007's didn't mention a soup on there menu list so that would just leave the 2008's. As for the 2007's: depending on where you got them from, that could very well be the freshest ones around. I know that's the best I can find around my area.

I found these on the epicenter and they say it's a 2009 production.

Sure enough: http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/menu-xxix-2009.html

I live in the uk, I mainly order from http://www.armyrations.co.uk as its a great site and its one of the cheapest I have found.

Im guessing that the 2007 MRE's are the freshest that can be aqquired here in the uk atm, although I did just miss out on a small batch of 3 menu# 1 first strike rations
(Im finding it really hard to get hold of these atm ) But am I correct in thinking these were also available in 2007?.

Actually I am just awaiting another dozen or so MRE's being delivered by courier from the site, I will have to try get some review's of them up on the forums,
although I think most have been reviewed but I guess another personal take on the existing review can do no harm.

Ohh and btw I loved the BBQ pork Ribs, very nice taste almost with a smokey bacon flavour, but yeah the clam chowder was quite disgusting
even MRE cheese didn't help it at all.
I'll stay away from that one untill I find some of the later ones with the soup (which sounds great btw).

I actually had the clam chowder from the pork rib menu... I liked it... Not the best that there is, but quite edible.

Mr. F,
I would invite you to try to the epicenter website and see if they can ship to the UK, if so, try the cheddar/potato soup. They also have some of the components from the FSR's on there that you can sample.