The ration bars are made by Sterling Foods out of San Antonio. I had contacted them years ago about getting some, and I could then buy directly from them, but the minimum order was too large for my needs at the time. I did get them to send me some for free, however. I think I need to contact them about getting a load, if they will sell me any now.

I've eaten these things, even out-of-date but I doubt that much out-of-date, and they are not bad - and they are pretty well protected by the triple laminate barrier material. They are edible for quite a while, the intention being to have something that was stable at ambient conditions for at least five years. They get more stale over time, but they never had much water in them, so they hold up. There is a minimum of protein to them, they are mostly carbohydrate. I kind of like the cornflake bars, maybe because there isn't anything else like them, but I like them the best. The shortbread bars are okay, not really good shortbread like Walker's, not so buttery, more like a hardbread, but okay. The wintergreen bars or tablets are like the English Kendall mint cake - pure sugar with some flavoring; unfortunately for me, the flavoring in these is wintergreen, and I hate wintergreen. The chocolate chip cookie bar leaves a cloying aftertaste, and it makes me want water to get it out of my mouth. The granola bar is okay, too. The instant tea is okay; you can get this in MREs - some of the bars occur in MREs as well. The soup base is basically the same thing you would have with a package of Herb-Ox chicken bouillion, maybe packaged a little more robustly..