Whats your survivall foods in your kits?

whats your experience or opinion on them,taste,storage,etc..?

I've seen mre's which ive never tried and dont plan to any time soon.i heard that soldiers hate them because of the taste and such, but idk,anyone have experience with them?

survival food tabs-dont know much about them,but they sound like vitamins.

freeze dried

dehydrated
etc.............

anyone have experience with any of these?

"MRE's...i heard that soldiers hate them..."

From what I have heard, soldiers hate them because in the sandbox that is often all they get to eat for months and months and months. No matter what it is, the same basic thing for long term gets boring. Plus they tend to cause constipation, which is never fun. I have eaten quite a few MRE's, and right this minute have probably 20 or so entrees under our bed (we are currently full-time RV'ers), just in case. Bad thing about MRE's, if you have to carry them, is their weight. You can lighten the load a bit by opening the bag and tossing a lot of the stuff in there, packaging if nothing else.

A friend of mine once bought some of those survival tabs that come in a GI canteen sized bottle. Supposed to be a months worth or something in one jug. As a test he once ate nothing but the tabs for a week or so. He said that he felt OK, but was really craving real food by the end of that week.

If you have room, and can handle the weight, regular canned goods will give you more variety, at a much lower cost than MR's...

ther soldiers hating rations and mre's thing i saw off wikipedia.

I keep a few packs of instant oatmeal, couple of bags of dehydrated fruit (apricot & cranberry) and a few packs of tuna fish along with coffee (the kind that look like tea bags) along with 4 bottles of water in my BOB.

Looks like wikipedia pretty much confirms what I had heard.

I will say one thing, and have said before, anyone complaining about MRE's never had to eat C-rations. The worst MRE is far better than the best C-rat...

Since my BOB is not a huge hicking backpack. i have to watch what i put in my smaller Bob.the bob is not huge but not small.
For food:
[list] 2 intstant oatmeals.
small pack of cajun trail mix
pack of placebo caffein pills(for extra boost of energy)
2 mini travel size jif peanut butter
small pack of candy
mints
2-4 tea bags
sugar
salt / pepper
different flavors or drink mix(so water taste better)
several beef and chicken buillon cubes

i want to add some beef jerky in individual strip packets.or maybe panut butter crackers.and maybe some freeze dried food or maybe a mre(yuck,lol).

o yea c-rations are horrible....so my uncle and grandpa says.

But they ain't all bad, they spawned the P-38!!!

I think that the PB is a good idea. I once had a short class on nutrition, and the instructor informed all of the single guys in the class that they could eat nothing but PB the rest of their lives and remain reasonably health.

I've gotta ask this...do those "placebo caffein pills" do any good???

Soldiers have complained about thier issue rations since the start of warfare, becuase it about the only safe topic to complain about.

I'm going to say that anyone who complained about 70s-era C-rats never tried K-rations. And those who complained about K-rations never had dried beef, hard beans, "coffee" made out of chichory, and hardtack to live on for a year at a stretch.