Spanish MRE - Information in general

[carlosflar]

General and detailed information on Spanish MRE (any criticism is welcome, specially mistakes in writing or in unclear subjects I WILL ADD PICTURES SOON!)

The Spanish army has designed a 5 level plan for feeding his troops:
1st lvl: High intensity situations, with no safe suplying routes and during tactical operations without pauses. For this situations are used cold heatable MRE (Example, war)
2nd lvl: High intensity situations with no safe suplying routes but with pauses between operations. For this situations are supplied the same MRE but also reinforcements of fresh fruit and bread.
3rd lvl: Stability situations with no safe suplying routes but availability of long pauses. For this situations squads will be fed collective rations (collective 10 man rations or 10PAX) reinforced with fresh producs and heated in provisional kitchens (Ex. provisional militar bases and temporary settlements)
4th lvl: High stability and suplying routes abailable. For this situation the feeding of the soldiers will be carried by army cooks using fresh ingredients (Ex. OTAN bases in foreing countries or other well stablished bases)
5th lvl: Completely stable locations. Externalization of services, catering. (Army bases in spain or headquarters)

The ones that will get our interest are mainly the food suply for the first 3 situation levels as this is where we will find MREs and collective 10 man rations.

MREs are designed as packages for one meal or as a nutricional complement, there are several types of them:
10 man rations 10PAX, 10 menus, 2 of them muslim friendly
Breackfast, 5 menus, best before 18 months
Meal A(Lunch), 5 menus + 2 muslim menus, best before 48 months
Meal B(dinner), 5 menus+ 2 muslim menus, best before 48 months
Reinforcement ration, best before 18 months
Emergency ration, best before 24 months
Bread crackers, best before 24 months
Equilibrated high energy shakes

Collective 10 man rations are designed to feed a squad and to be eat cold or warm using deployable kitchen equipment and consist of two 3kg cans and provide 260-540kcal for each serving (300gr, 2 servings per person), there are the following:
(C, for cold ration, M for Hal-lal or muslim)
M.1: Chicken meatballs and Madrilenian stew
M.2:Tuna and pasta salad(C-M) and Burgers with tomato(C-M)
M.3:Country salad(C-M) and Chicken marinade (C-M)
M.4:Macaroni with bolognese sauce(C) and German sausages with tomato
M.5:Asturian style beans and Lean pork meat with vegetables
M.6:Spagetti with bolognese sauce and ground pork and Roasted chicken
M.7:Tuna and string beans salad(C-M) and pork knucle confit
M.8:Meat cannelloni and Beef stew
M.9:Tuna with tomato(C-M) and Potatoes with meat
M.10:Vegetable stew(C-M) and German frankfurts

MREs: A one day supply consist of 2 packs of bread crackers, a Breackfast MRE, and one Meal A and Meal B, providing from 3450kcal to 3600kcal, its not recomended to use them for periods longer than 30 days
Nutrients in the meals: 16-19% Proteins, 35-41% Fat, 43-48% Glucids(carbs)
In adition to the food, other several items are included inside the MRE, for a day there would be the following:
-Vitamin C tablet, one each day, containing 1gram of vitamin C
-Water purification tablets, each tablet serves one litter and purifies clear water in 30 minutes
-Hydration tablets, to be consumed with plenty of water, contain electrolytes and are for situations of heavy fisical activity and climates with extreme heat or humidity
-Solid fuel tablets, burn for 8-9 minutes, release enough thermal energy to heat 250ml of water from room temperature to 70ºC under normal conditions, can be blown off and reignited
-Anti-fatigue tablets, contain glucose arginine and carnitine, recomended dose of 3 tablets per day, contraindicated in case of diabetes for its high glucose content, migh be distributed in 4 sachets per dose, mixed with the vitamin C dose
-Dental hygiene gum, sugarless, mint flavoured, provides 186kcal
-Stove, soft steel sheet, to be folded to shape
-Disinfecting gel, alcohol based gel, cleans and disinfects, contains broad spectrum antimicrobians and moisturizing components to avoid skin diseases from continued use
-Toothpaste and brush, mint flavoured toothpaste with every meal, toothbrush with breackfast to be used all day
-Note, general information

Breackfast (diferent options contain diferent items from each point) (aprox. 600kcal)
1)18gr cocoa powder sachet(contains sugar)/ 2*2gr coffee powder
2)Condensed milk tube 75gr (its a hefty amount)
3)Cereals with fruit and honey 30gr/Fruit jam(apricot, plum or raspberry) 25gr
4)Sweet crackers(like cookies but not the ''chocolate chip'' kind) 80gr
5)Chocolate bar 25gr

Meal A or Lunch (aprox. 1400kcal):
All meal A types contain one serving of chicken soup with pasta(powdered sachet 13gr) and the fruit creams can be served as 1 can of 50gr or two of 25gr.
A1: Lentils stewed with spanish sausage(chorizo) and spanish bacon(tocino) 300gr, mackerel in oil 120gr, apple cream 50gr
A2: Galician stew 300gr, squid with its ink 115gr, quince cream 50gr
A3:Madrilenian stew 300gr, white tuna in oil 115 gr, peach cream 50gr
A4:Green beans with spanish sausage(chorizo) 300gr, sardines in oil 115gr, apricot cream 50gr
A5:Tuna salad 195gr, Lean pork 200gr, pear cream 50gr.


Meal B or Dinner (aprox 1000kcal)
All meal B types contain one serving of vegetable soup(powdered sachet 20gr) and the meat spread can be served as 1 can of 60gr or two of 30gr
B1:Sausages with tomato 200gr, octopus with garlic 110gr, peaches with syrup 190gr and spread 60gr
B2:Meatballs with peas 200gr, sardines with tomato 115gr, fruit coctail 190gr and spread 60gr
B3: Beef with sauce 200gr, pickled mackerel 120gr, pear with syrup 190gr and spread 60gr
B4:Beef with peas 200gr, white tuna with oil 115gr, fruit coctail 190gr and spread 60gr
B5:Green beans with spanish ham 190gr, calamari in oil 115gr, peaches with syrup 190gr and spread 60gr

As of today, there are no vegan/vegetarian or gluten intolerant MRE

Reinforcement ration for the individual combat ration:
Designed to provide extra nutricion in situations where there is need of extra calories and nutrients.
Its composed of high calorie foods, concentrated nutrients and complements.
Weights 275gr, provides 1003kcal, 5'15% proteins, 64,78% Glucids(carbs), 30.7% fat
Contains the following:
-2 bars of 30gr each, milk chocolate with almonds
-2 bars of 20gr each, almonds turron
-A.V.E., one bar of 30gr, high energy balanced nourishment
-3 packs of 25gr each or 1 tube of 75gr, natural honey
-2 gums or 5 sheets, gum with sugar
-2 anti-fatigue tablets

Emergency ration:
A vacuum sealed package containing a metal can and plastic lid, designed to provide nourishment in case of emergency (lost soldiers, operations last longer than expected, food shortage in general, not inended for common use, to be consumed in case of emergency)
Contains the following:
-1 sachet of freeze-dried coffe, 2gr
-1 sachet of sugar 10gr
-1 pack of bread crackers 30gr
-1 sachet of instant chicken soup 4gr
-1 pack of candy 24gr
-2 milk chocolate and almond bars 30 gr each
-2 almond turron bars 20gr each
-3 dry meat tablets 9 grams each
-2 A.V.E., high energy balanced nourishment 2 bars, 30gr each
-2 vitamin C tablets, 1 gram of vitamin C each
-4 hydration tablets
-4 water purification tablets
-2 fuel tablets
-1 pack of 20 matches
-1 clamp*
-Note

In adition there are NBC Shakes, 2 sachets weighting 240gr, chocolate or strawberry flavoure nutricional drinks, mix with 0'75l


*Im profoundly clueless about what the clamp is for...

[[ex-Member1]]

It took time to get this all together and it's very informative. Thanks for this.

[carlosflar]

It took time to get this all together and it's very informative. Thanks for this.

Well... actually half an hour to get the intel (jackpot using google ) i happened to find a slideshow from the army logistics, the problem was translating all the info and getting it properly done, took me hours...

[[ex-Member1]]

B menues has vege-soup and A menues has chicken soup? And toothbrush is in some or all breakfast menues?

[carlosflar]

B menues has vege-soup and A menues has chicken soup? And toothbrush is in some or all breakfast menues?

All A menus have chicken and pasta soup, all B ones vegetable, as for the brush i think comes in all breackfast, but i've seen diferent models so maybe it has changed through time...

[parafireboy]

Thanks for the information!

[housil]

Thx for all the work you did with this and sharing

[CRO CSO]

super info... thx m8!!!

[kiyoshi]

thank you for the awesome post!!! Exactly the info i was looking for

[[ex-Member1]]

Can admin put tag this topic as a sticky or something? I guess I'm not the only one using this informations about spanish rations. I see Mreinfo site has international part but it looks like it was updated 10 years ago and there are no spanish ration informations. This is only and best info so please put it on top as a sticky.