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Hello MRE Info; this is my first review. Please bear with me as I will be on a learning curve here.

Now for how some of the items tasted and etc.

Pork Sausage with Gravy:
For some reason I was expecting saw mill gravy. It was close, but not quite the same. Not a whole lot (or any that I could tell) pepper. It was creamy and had a slight salty taste
I could believe the sausage was real.

Dehydrated Granola with Milk and Bananas:
This was better than I thought it would be. I added close to 3 ounces of water. Then let it soak while the Pork Sausage with Gravy heated in the FRH. Approximately 12-15 minutes.
It wasn't crunchy, but it was not mush. The banana flavor was noticeable.

Cheese and Crackers:
Not much to say about either one. Unless you have never eaten either one.

Orange Flavored Drink Mix:
Pretty good. Tasted like most instant orange drinks.

I didn't bother with the toaster pastry. Didn't have room in the tank for it.

Good job, especially for a "firstie."

I wish they would pack a biscuit with that one, instead of the crackers. Even a slice of snack bread. Then you could have biscuit and sausage gravy. It also rather cries out for hot sauce of some kind, do you not agree?

Now that I ponder it, a breakfast MRE that I'd like to see would be the military classic, SOS. Chipped corned beef in cream gravy, on toast. known as "Chit on a Chingle". I enjoyed it a lot when I was a youngster (I was born in the late Holocene Epoch) and haven't actually thought of it in years. It was not at all the same as sausage and gravy.

Fantastic review, man!

I really enjoyed that MRE. You couldn't have said it better, though.


I like to carry the Granola and a spoon in my jacket's inside pocket, makes for a quick, awesome snack if you're on the go.

Thanks for sharing, keep going!
I like your way of serving in the messkit

Welcome to the site, and good on ya for coming out swinging with a full review as your first post! The granola's one of my favorite current production ration items - although I prefer the blueberry kind to the banana kind.

RockRaab - I've never seen the SOS as an MRE, but I've served it as a UGR to quite a few folks at Burning Man over the years. A while back I stopped at an Army Surplus store in Idaho and snagged a dozen or so trays of Creamed Ground Beef for about $5 a tray. They were 6 or 7 pounds a piece. Just about everyone I served it to was afraid to try it, but they all came back for seconds. Served on toast it's really quite excellent breakfast fodder

Thank you all for the kind words.

RockyRaab: Some type of bread or biscuit would be nice. Yes, it could some more kick. Though I would prefer ground black pepper. My mother makes S.O.S., should would just smile when I asked her what that meant. By the time I was old enough for her to tell me. I had pretty much figured it out.

SierraTangoDelta: That is a good idea. I always have a bottle or something of water with me. Wouldn't take much to add the water and let soak while on the move.

housil: That mess kit is late Vietnam era. I got the idea from looking at other reviews on this site.

Ruleryak: I have a couple of the blueberry, hadn't tried them yet.


On the topic of S.O.S. and creamed chipped beef. Stoufers makes a frozen creamed chipped beef entree. While homemade is always better, it will do job if needed.

Welcome aboard, nice review.

You got shorted! This meal should have a biscuit!

Biscuits and gravy mmmm



Also that granola is ok to eat Dry, and wont make you want to die like a mcw will with no water, great snack

Now you've done it...gotta find some of that Stouffer's CCBoT. SOON.

I love SOS, either with the chipped beef or the sausage/ground beef!

It's great over potatoes also...

Name not Found: A biscuit would have been nice. Though one makes do with what one has.

dirtbag: A sausage version is good. What about deer sausage?