Grilled Chicken Breast Fillet 2004

[Biltong]

Greetings,

Recently I ran across this site when I decided it was time to upgrade my emergency supplies for the upcoming Hurricane Season. Currently my supply consist of MRE's that was handed out after Katrina. What I have has an inspection date of 2008. Before finding this site I assumed they needed to be thrown out. The last thing I wanted to do was to make my family sick during an emergency situation.

After reading some of the post and information, and lurking for a few weeks it appears that what I have is still usable. To that end I decided to taste an en tree that I had loose. So I tried the Grilled Chicken Breast Fillet with Rib Meat. Over all the taste wasn't bad, smell and appearance appears to be fine. It has a dry/graining taste after a bit of chewing. Surprisingly it has only 1 gram of carbs! Possible the healthiest I have seen of the en trees at that particular time.

The numbers on the package and the box are 4340. Please correct me if I am wrong but would that not be 2004, December?

Cheers

[kman]

Welcome to the forums, Biltong! Yes, you have it right on that datecode - that should be December 2004. That chicken breast probably isn't that great by itself even when it's factory-fresh. I usually like to eat with some cheese spread and wheat snack bread.

But looking at that Chicken Breast entree reminds me of another low-carb entree I have sitting around - a Beef Steak from 1999. It's actually sitting on top of a Chicken Breast from 2000 right next to me. Maybe I'll give them a try later on and post some pics.

And yes...for whatever reason, I actually do have 9 and 10 year old MRE entrees sitting on my desk.

[housil]

Welcome to forums from Germany too

Never mind of age as long as TTI (red sticker) is OK

[Biltong]

Thanks, glad to be aboard.

I wish I knew about the TTI (red label). We have had hundreds of cases thrown away over the last several months here at work!

[Dekard]

Thanks, glad to be aboard.
I wish I knew about the TTI (red label). We have had hundreds of cases thrown away over the last several months here at work!

WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thrown away?!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Biltong]

One of the local Parishes decided to clean out a warehouse (non-air conditioned) and throw out hundreds of cases of Katrina era MRE's. In the past I relieved them of there accesory packs which were still good but I didn't try the rest.

[kman]

That too bad they threw them all away but since they were stored in that part of the country in an un-air conditioned warehouse, some of them probably weren't good anymore. There's a thread over in the members forum about a simliar situation in Florida where we got to sample some of these "heat stressed" MREs. They mostly held up but there were definitely some parts had gone bad.