I LOVE MREs, but I've been super broke lately. Some bored googling at 4am some morning lead me to some food storage sites. Lo and behold, a few had free samples available. This particular one is from http://www.dailybread.com/ and I cooked it up. Excuse the poor picture quality, I didn't think about doing this until I mangled the bag open.
That's a good amount of protein! Let's take a look at what's inside.
Curiosity got the best of me and I tried a piece of chicken while it was still dry. Pretty tasty. A lot of flavoring clung to it so it was pretty salty, but this stuff isn't meant to be eaten dry. Added one cup of boiling water. About 10 minutes later it looked like this.
This stuff smelled terrific. Tasted just as good too. The chicken had a good flavor to it and the veggies were just as good if not better. The pasta was...well, pasta. It was fine, but I'm not a huge pasta fan to begin with. Regardless, it was a terrific meal and if you had just given it to me without me seeing the bag I wouldn't have any suspicion of it being dehydrated in the first place.
(the mushrooms were by far my favorite part)
All in all, I really enjoyed this and would love to have it again. Uh, 8/10 Rocks or something. Next time there's nothing appealing to eat in the house, I'll review another one of the dehydrated foods I got.
edit: Just remembered - if you're American (or if they have this other places) I instantly thought this reminded me of Chicken Helper. Although, I found this to be a lot tastier than Chicken Helper.
