MRE(Meals Ready-to-Eat) Genuine U.S. Military Surplus (1 Pack) Assorted Flavor

I bought this back in July 2018 and I just opened it - it's great! I kept the MRE in my car trunk for 6 years through Texas summers and Illinois winters. The flameless ration heater (FRH) still works and nothing was spoiled. Overall, I recommend it. I've listed everything and my opinion below, too.Chili MRE: I recommend buying an extra package so you can try the flameless ration heater (FRH). There are a couple of steps involved in setting this up and the bag gets hot. However, I did it pretty easily with instructions, just be careful with the heater and squeezing the chili out of the pouch...it's hot! The chili tastes good, it's salty with some spice. It's about as much food as a can of chili from the store and comes with a nice long spoon.Vegetable cracker: 2 large crackers break into 4 smaller crackers each. I ate this with the cheese spread. The cracker was good, cheese was thick. Used a sharp knife to open.Cornbread: surprisingly good. I expected bland and dry cornbread, but it was sweet and moist. Almost like a dessert bread. Nicely done.Cheese crackers: I expected Cheezits, but these are Combos. Really nice surprise, cheddar cheese-stuffed cylindrical crackers. Tasty.Beverage bag: basically a plastic bag to hold water and drink mix (coffee and orange juice). You can place the beverage bag in the FRH bag with MRE to heat up coffee. However, just one beverage bag for both coffee and orange juice...I would purchase and carry one of those silicone collapsible cups.Orange juice: powdered drink mix with 20 grams sugar. I would mix this first in the beverage bag before coffee. Then pour into separate cup. Sugar clumped up in mixing bag and juice tasted like a Vitamin C drink mix, just ok.Instant coffee: Most disappointing of the package. Very little coffee and it did not smell or taste good. However, plenty of non-dairy creamer and sugar included.Other stuff: about 15 small napkins for cleanup or fire tinder. Pack of 20 matches also included. Cheap matches, they won't stay lit very long, but they work. Moist towelette was very moist, tore apart as I unraveled it. Will clean your hands and surfaces. Iodized salt packet with lots of salt. Two pieces of chewing gum not super sweet, nice spearmint flavor.

Good seller and zero issues with my test MRE order. Got the chicken burrito bowl. Quality of food is good.That being said, these modern MREs are plain boring and sad compared to the way they used to be.There is no coffee, no proper candy, no smokes. The beverage is like stale Gatorade. The US Mil needs to up their game if they want to boost morality with this.

The MRE was delivered in good shape and the Beef Goulash tastes pretty good. Meal was dated from 2019 and the only issue was the flameless ration heater no longer worked.

From what I can tell, it's the real deal, reminds me of the ones a friend of my dad's gave me when I was a little kid. I remember them being very filling then and still are. Haven't eaten everything from it but so far so good. The seller I got them from was contracting LLC, they were made by wornick and the date code puts them made in March of 2022, so well within the shelflife. unfortunately I couldn't find a date code anywhere outside the package, only after I opened which defeats the purpose of keeping a few for emergencies and rotating out based on age. Not the cheapest pricewise to keep in my hunting pack or vehicle but not too badUpdate: Now that i have eaten everything in it (not the drinks), I can honestly say, "not bad". I got menu 13, which is unfortunately vegetarian, but it didn't taste vegetarian if you know what I mean. it didn't include the reses pieces or energy bar or apple pieced like the picture showed though. It included trail mix, entree, accessory pack, crackers, peanut butter, and smoked almonds. The tortellini tasted a lot like chef boyardee ravioli. The trail mix and crackers were dry making me thirsty, but not bad tasting. Again the main gripe is that there was no visible marking that I was able to find to let me know the age of this until I opened it, breaking the seal and essentially rendering a rotation for freshness impossible