Greetings from England !

[Demolition_Man]

Hi vespa, welcome to the board!

As I tried some international ones myself in the past few months I'd recommend to grab a few Norwegian Arctic Field Rations. They come in a great variety and are the only European ones to feature the MRE pizza.

If you look for German EPAs, try to find a type 1-5 2015 production EPA, which expire 04/2019. The 2015 ones offer the biggest selection of snacks you can find in an EPA. Type 5 is vegetarian, and any of the other ones I can recommend for their main meal choices. I attached a photo for reference.

[vespa]

Quite a variety ! Thanks for the photo

I will see if I can snap up a Norwegian

[RSMRE]

The US MRE while good enough is clearly lacking in wow factor, I never really found it very substantial, it seems to be "ok" but not quite there, the content will probably last you 8 hours not much more.

It's only meant to last for about 8 hours anyway

You're probably right mate, I haven't seen any 24hr version, I find that quite curious, I will say they do put a quite a bit in the pack, they could make more of it IMO.

I'm looking for the Chicken Fajita version as I believe this is considered the best of all menus, read a few US soldiers comments about it, highly tradeable between troops

You should check out the US First Strike Ration if you want their 24 hour ration. I personally find them underwhelming as they basically contain a lot of caffeine infused items, sugary snacks and gas station food...Nothing really substantial. My personal opinion is that the French nailed it with the RCIR.

[vespa]

I'm hearing lots of recommendations for French RCIR.
Spanish seems to be getting good reviews.
British ORP is getting good reviews.

On the other hand, I've been told Italian Rations are a bit overrated.

[RSMRE]

I'm hearing lots of recommendations for French RCIR.
Spanish seems to be getting good reviews.
British ORP is getting good reviews.

On the other hand, I've been told Italian Rations are a bit overrated.

I can only speak from what I've seen in reviews, but I'd have to agree that the Italian are overrated simply based on the contents that I have seen come out of them.

[carlosflar]

The thing is that they are uncomon... Even in Italia they are expensive and hard to come by... And menus B and F have the licour wich makes them even more expensive...