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Hello! A few weeks ago, I ordered some 2016 MREs from eBay and decided to dig into them. Since this is a new menu for the 2016 year, I decided to try it first. This is Menu 12, Elbow Macaroni In Tomato Sauce. Let's open it up!
First off, I noticed that despite it being a vegetarian meal, it wasn't imprinted on the bag.

Here's everything laid out
This looks like a really good menu so far! You can never go wrong with an MRE that has candy in it. But as you can most likely see, we have:
-TFF Wheat Snack Bread
-Entree
-Sour Skittles
-Hot Sauce
-Accessory Packet with Coffee
-Nut Raisin Mix
-Chocolate Protein Drink Powder
-Cheese Spread
-US MRE Spoon
-Hot beverage bag
-FRH
-Cardboard sleeve (you can't see it - I forgot to include it in the picture)

And for those who are curious, let's look at what's in the accessory packet
It contains:
-Genial Instant Coffee (I've never seen this brand before)
-Creamer
-Toilet Paper
-Matches
-Gum
-Moist Towelette
-Iodized Salt
-Sugar

Sweet! Let's look at the entirety of the meal.
I can confidently say that this is likely one of the best, if not the best MRE I've ever had. The entree had a nice, sweet and tangy tomato flavor and the noodles were of perfect consistency. The smell alone was amazing. The wheat snack bread was the freshest I've ever tasted. It was still a bit moist and you could taste the wheat and the yeast in the bread. Amazing! The cheese spread was pretty good, although I would've preffered cheese spread with jalapenos. The nut raisin mix was a great addition, ensuring that you get a good balance of protein combined with the dairy shake. The dairy shake had a good balance between dark chocolate and standard milk chocolate. It was so perfect! The Skittles added a perfect taste for those with a sweet tooth, like myself. In the end, I was able to wash it all down with some coffee which made the experience well worth it.

I'm sure even most meat eaters would enjoy this ration. If you have a sweet tooth, then I think you will really enjoy this one! Like I said, this is easily the best MRE I've had thus far! If you're ever shopping around for MREs at a surplus store or something, I recommend that you pick this one up!

Sounds great! Thanks for your contribution

That doesn't look bad! It might be a good one to bring along for a planned family camping trip in It Wales as my sister, a committed vegetarian will be joining me and and some of our cousins to relive our camping trips we had as kids and I've yet to get anyone in my family other than one of my cousins to try MREs .
Its pretty amusing / interesting to see new people try them.

SentientTootsieRoll - Great review... great pictures as well... I'm a certified non-vegetarian but that looked delicious... my only problems, not Skittles fan... give me chocolate or give me death!

mahalo

Have never seen this meal in a actual mre case might have to check it out.

I just got one in a TOTM and am looking forward to it very much. As I've often said, the veggie meals often go begging but I think they are tastier than many of the meat entrees -- especially the horrible "chicken eraser" meals. Ratatouille was my favorite, but I like the Veggie Taco Pasta, the Cheese Tortellini, and even the new Spinach Fettucine (which leaves me belching garlic for an hour afterwards).