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#272757 - 11/08/14 06:35 PM Homemade MRE's
TeacherRO Offline
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Link 1 Making your own MRE's

Link 2

there are many more links on Pinterest.

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#272758 - 11/08/14 06:53 PM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: TeacherRO]
hikermor Offline
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Nice organization tips, but those aren't MRE's at all. They are dealing with fairly standard backpacking fare (ramen, etc.) that can be cooked quickly and easily (boil water, combine, and wait five minutes). MREs can be eaten cold, right out of the package, like pizza.

What this country needs is an MRE pizza - pepperoni and black olives, please
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#272760 - 11/09/14 02:59 AM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: TeacherRO]
gonewiththewind Offline
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How will you melt the cheese?

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#272761 - 11/09/14 05:06 AM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: gonewiththewind]
AKSAR Offline
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Originally Posted By: Montanero
How will you melt the cheese?
I think he means cook the pizza, then put it in the MRE.

Cold pizza is good! I think it was Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod, who said cold pizza was her favorite trail food. Course she had to keep in a Coleman cooler on her sled to keep it from freezing solid!
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#272762 - 11/09/14 01:37 PM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: hikermor]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Quote:
What this country needs is an MRE pizza - pepperoni and black olives, please


Military Grade Type 2 Experimental Pepperoni Crumble Pizza.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/foods-lifetime/story?id=22522167

NOooooooo.

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#272763 - 11/09/14 03:20 PM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
hikermor Offline
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Bravo!

I like pizza, both hot and cold varieties...With something like this available, I may just have to reenlist...
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#272765 - 11/09/14 04:03 PM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: TeacherRO]
Chisel Offline
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Registered: 12/05/05
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Peanut butter is my favourite MRE

Instructions are simple:

Open the jar
Dip your finger
Put it your mouth !

Enjoy !!

LOL

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#272766 - 11/09/14 10:48 PM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: Chisel]
yee Offline
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Registered: 12/10/11
Posts: 169
Originally Posted By: Chisel
Peanut butter is my favourite MRE


http://www.ultralightbackpacker.com/moosegoo.html

I've been experimenting with Moose Goo with great success. [and its related plumpy'nut] I prefer to use milk powder over corn flour. As far as I can tell, corn flour has the nutritional value of cardboard (before being vitamin fortified). Milk powder has an acceptable shelf life.

Moosegoo tastes great but is a bit thick when it is cold. I don't have a good solution for packaging yet. The refillable toothpaste tube works but only in warm temperatures.

I am trying to solve packaging issues using individual serving vacuum sealed bags. I have yet to figure out what bread/tortilla to put the Moosegoo on for best results since everything simply falls apart. Of course, the Moosegoo can be eaten directly.

Honey has pretty much infinite shelf life. Peanut butter about several years. Milk powder a year or two. Unrefrigerated, MooseGoo should have a the shelf-life should be on the order of a year or two. Not quite SOLAS/Coast Guard 5 year requirement but quite acceptable.


Edited by yee (11/09/14 10:49 PM)

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#272767 - 11/10/14 01:56 AM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: TeacherRO]
chickenlittle Offline
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Registered: 06/06/10
Posts: 102
Loc: Canada
Canned refried beans and a bag of corn chips?
Crunchy granola trailmix?

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#272769 - 11/10/14 02:53 AM Re: Homemade MRE's [Re: TeacherRO]
hikermor Offline
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My favorite (other than the yet unsampled MRE pizza) quickie meal is any of several energy bars (Lara, Clif, etc. combined with a Tanka Bar, essentially pemmican. Lots of quality protein, but a bit expensive. I eat them only on special occasions...

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...sl_3iepfg00pz_e
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