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I stumbled across a dark brown-wrapped Oatmeal Cookie Bar that somehow had gotten into a bag of old hunting stuff. It's probably from the mid-80s, packed by Sterling Foods of San Antonio. The vacuum pack seemed still intact, and I thought, "What the heck..."

The bar was completely intact and smelled fine. It still had a toasted cereal taste, even though it crumbled to a sawdust consistency when bitten. All things considered, it was still fine - and I'm still fine eight hours later. I regret not taking a picture of it before I ate it. Just wasn't thinking of a review at the time, and when I did it was too late.

Amazing.

Rocky I had a 1986 bar and it to was like compressed sawdust, but the taste was still good. Almost like some WW 2 survival ration. Did you eat it all?

Absofrickinglutely! I'm possibly the guy Andrew Zimmern modeled his slogan after" "If it looks good, eat it!"

I'm taking pictures pretty much all day today, just dug out one of these bars:
Looks like it's either from 92 or 82:
These were one of the first MRE items I ever had. I remember getting one in the very first MRE I ever ate, on a hiking/camping trip when I was a boy scout. It was neigh unbreakable back then. I just ate a cornflake bar from the same batch yesterday and it was still excellent

Yup, that's the critter! When they vacuum sealed those babies, they REALLY vacuum sealed them!

Jesus! Looks almost like Han Solo in carbonite!
Those little babies are sure sucked in vacuum like no tomorrow!

the oatmeal cookie bar didnt arive in the mres before 1988.
so yours are from 1992.

even when fresh the feel was dry when eating them.
have eaten a few i have in my collection and al of them was still fine

cheers ken,norway

Thanks for the info Ken

Have some Survival Packets ( the canned ones) from the 90's and I have eaten some of those oatmeal bars and they are good. make sure you have something to drink to wahs them down....

Yum, I really enjoyed those in the old MREs. the chocolate covered oatmeal cookie wasn't bad either. Thanks for sharing!