mmmmm sounds delicious. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> haha. just kidding

MRE's are fine for most folks. I only found one variety that I really didn't care for. I suppose it is like anything else. Even the finest french cuisine doesn't site well on everyone's pallatte, and having the same food day after day will wear on anyone, regardless the quality or quantity.

I know people have long grown weary of me lauding the wonders of pemmican, but as long as people keep bringing this issue up, I will keep mentioning how wonderful a survival food it is, and how versatile. It is infinite in variety, both in recipe as well as preparation. It is durable, it is efficient, and it is proven. It was a survival staple for hundreds of years, long before modern processing methods made more perishable foods last long enough to be useful. It is economical and convenient, and straightforward.

It may not be pallatable by some (as if pallatability were an important criteria for a survival ration), but it works, and if it was good enough for millions of our ancestors, then why change what works?

Considering all the characteristics that make it so uniquely functional, there really is nothing else that even comes close. Categorically it can't be improved on.

The injuns got it right. Anything else is too civilized.

You are so right. Kinda shoots down the old theory that the troops aren't happy unless they are complaining...

I only keep Datrex food rations now. They taste great, high in calories and dont require cooking.

I think I have found the root of the problem with soldier's rations. In an Army survival manual, they state:

"The three basic types of food are plants, animals and issued rations."

I've eaten about 20 different ones and I like just about all of them. Of course, I've never had to go 3-4 months on them either, but I bet I'd survive a lot better on them than any sort of power bar. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Why don't you buy one and try it for yourself? After all, tastes vary, and asking somebody else how they taste isn't very useful is it?

I keep 1 months worth of MREs for 2 people in the basement (cool, dry place)

If bugging IN, they can stay where they are.

If bugging OUT, it will take me about 10 minutes to pick up 3 duffle bags of MREs, and 4 others full of stuff, (the dogs and cats have their own duffle) throw them in the back of my car, and hightail it.

www.longlifedepot.com is where I get them. They sell a sample pack for $23

I have mres in my car & truck. It's hard to leave them alone as I think that they are delicious. Yes, the old c-rats were pretty strange. I once had to eat nothing but c-rats for nine days. They had a chocolate disk in them that would break your teeth if you tried to bite it. Also, the peanut butter separated & a wick in the can would burn the oil.

I'm not a fan of factory packaged jerky meat for survival rations, high in sodium, low in food value... If you jerk your own in the sun or even in the heat of your oven at home it retains a lot of its food value and wont speed along dehydration (if you don't add the salt when you do it).

Someone mentioned pemmican somewhere in this thread.. If they hadn't, I would have.

I learned how to make both out of a friends copy of The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use by Reginald & Gladys Laubin; it also tells how to make brain tan hides and parfleche (rawhide), some furniture.. basically anything you would need to make to live in a tipi full time, in the way the natives made them and how they lived in them, as well as tips on how to do just that. I bought the book just to have as a refrence in my library.

How does datrex food taste compare to US army MRE? is Datrex food bland ? Does it have high calories, tasty? Datrex food look like granola bars. I can't survive on 200 calories a day. I would lose weight very fast.