#mres

[actualadvocacybruh]

Meal prep can be an issue …

Many experts will tell you to not use MREs (meals ready to eat) and simply make your own prep meals for cheap using ingredients and materials you can buy for pennys at the local Walmart (mostly beans and salt meats)

This is true for 99% of cases but their prep often requires storage and manufacturing methods not everyone can follow as not everyone has facility to store these items properly to avoid spoilage

In these cases a box of MREs is expensive but easier to conceal and store as it all they need to maintain for a few years (up to a decade depending on the type) is a cool dry space like an indoor closet or crawl space in a wall with minimum light exposure

For about 100-200 bucks you can buy a box or two of 30-50 MREs and have plenty of spare (if a bit bland and fiber filled) food that can be tossed into a pack or crate, loaded up and gone without the suspicion as it’s not industrial sized buckets or barrels of fuckin beans (I had to live off beans for a while so I may be a bit bias here)

They also can be eaten on the move so you don’t have to stop and prep a meal or heat anything and depending on the price some come with FRHs (flameless ration heaters) or can just be boiled in their pouch at a campfire in a few minutes while still maintaining mobility as you just need to boil one pouch and don’t need to unpack and pack up your resources

They also don’t require as much water as beans and salt meat tend to dry you out and dehydration can literally kill you in a bug out situation so you can save on having to sterilize water or carry your own (water is heavy so I dont recommend this)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Anne "Annette" Boutiaut Poulard making her famous omelette, one of the Mères of France, a cook and innkeeper in Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy region of France

French vintage postcard

[mremealsmealsreadytoeat]

Field-Tested Resilience: Navigating Survival with MREs – Meals Ready to Eat

In the unpredictable journey of survival, having the right companions can make all the difference. Enter MREs – Meals Ready to Eat, the battle-tested sustenance that stands as a beacon of resilience in challenging situations. Let's explore how these military-style meals become your trustworthy allies, guiding you through the twists and turns of survival.

The Battle-Ready Basics

MREs are no ordinary meals; they're a culinary lifeline designed for military use. Packed with nutrients and carefully curated, they are field-tested to ensure they meet the demands of real-life survival scenarios.

Portability at Its Finest

Survival often means being on the move, and MREs are crafted with this in mind. Compact, lightweight, and easy to carry, these meals are the perfect companions for adventurers, hikers, or anyone navigating the great outdoors.

Diverse Flavors for Every Palette

Banish the notion that survival food is bland and tasteless. MREs surprise with a diverse menu, offering everything from robust entrees to delightful desserts. It's a culinary experience that defies the stereotypes of military-style meals.

Ready to Eat, No Fuss Required

Survival situations leave little room for complicated cooking setups. MREs come with a straightforward solution – a flameless ration heater. Just add water, and you have a hot and satisfying meal without the need for a stove or culinary expertise.

Shelf Life Assurance

When planning for the unknown, worrying about food expiration is the last thing you need. MREs boast an extended shelf life, remaining fresh and edible for an extended period. It's a reliability factor that adds peace of mind to your preparedness plan.

Nutritional Support for the Journey

Survival is not just about calories; it's about nourishment. MREs are carefully balanced with proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals to provide the nutrition your body needs to stay resilient and focused.

Conclusion: Guiding You Through the Unknown

In the field of survival, MREs emerge as your seasoned guides, equipped to navigate the uncertainties with you. Whether you're a daring explorer or someone preparing for the unexpected, the compact, flavorful, and field-tested nature of Meals Ready to Eat becomes your anchor of resilience. When the journey is tough, MREs stand ready to fuel your determination and guide you through the challenges of survival.

[john-halo]

What’s the best and worst MRE in your opinion? And is there anything you like to do to make them any more palatable?

I've gotten to talk about these a little.

Thoughts on the best.

Thoughts on the worst.

First: Find out what's good and what's bad and learn what's valuable for trading. If you learn to like unpopular options and avoid ever having to finesse a bad MRE, all the easier for you.

Won't pretend I have a magic bullet to make a bad meal better. Lot of people just make a habit of carrying hot sauce or something like that. It can help.

Weird trick that works sometimes is temperature. Some things with a strange flavor are easier cold, if you can take the texture. Sense of taste works worse cold.

Best medicine for a bad pull is just being hungry enough you don't care, though.

[mereinkling]

Chocolate Fuels Armies

“An army marches on its stomach.”* Military leaders have long recognized that it is difficult to arouse soldiers weakened by deprivation. Sadly, though, even a king of Israel could be foolish enough to ignore that and order his soldiers to fast before a battle. While logisticians rarely receive the accolades of their peers who serve directly in combat, they have always been vital members of…

[fattylovesfitness]

Meals for the next couple of days!

I don't really have time to go grocery shopping so I'll be eating these while I'm at work the next couple of days. Meals and snacks, plus protein powder. I use cronometer to track food and, unfortunately, unlike MFP, they don't have MREs in their database, so I'm gonna have to guesstimate calorie input. But, with all the walking I'll be doing, I'm not crazy worried about calories.

More concerned with hydration since it's gonna be hot and I'll be walking about 4 miles in the sun each day. Not my favorite, but I gotta do what I got to do. Though I have noticed I'm getting used to walking and it's not as exhausting as it was even a week ago.

So, food is more or less whatever I have on hand. The good news is that I got a lot less picky about what I eat on a day to day basic. I eat what I have available to me and, right now, this is it.

[bicokun]

Yeah, man, when I was in MREs were hell on your guts even when they were not expired. And we generally had access to medical care, even if it was just some medics with a first aid bag, they’d at least be able to stop us from having explosive diarrhea out in the field. And, yeah, it sure as hell ain’t halal; they can’t even manage to make a proper alternative MRE for vegetarians.

So the "food" that the US dropped to Gaza is MREs. Expired. Saw a stitch of this video from a woman saying this is the same thing they did with Hurricane Katrina survivors.

MREs are shelf stable for 7 years. Total. These ones were over 15 years old.

And ofc there were people in the comments being like "ummm well our military eats them just fine, they were expired when I was in the army too" THATS NOT OKAY THO?? NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO EAT EXPIRED FOOD!

Fuck the US, fuck the Israeli government, and fuck you if you think that this is any kind of help to the people of Gaza. They're starving to death and the US is sending expired applesauce while also giving bombs to their murderers.

[lanlambsworld]

If i have to eat one more fucking mre im going to shoot myself .

[chellquin]

On another totally unrelated note, I also passed my assessment ❤️

[paek21]

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[lapisllong]

I've had several MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and they are trippy, stressful, annoying, cool in a sci-fi way, loud as hell, and, if they use the contrast dye, will make you imagine that you are the living embodiment of a Cure song. They never did find out what was wrong with my head and why I was having all the migraines, but it was nice to know that my skull is full of a whole warehouse full of peas brains.

MREs, on the other hand, are an experience everyone should also have, at least once. It's a "Meal Ready to Eat" - the military on-the-go prepackaged meal kits. The less said about them, the better, but I can tell you that some are better than others.

i think they should give everyone one free mri. just so we can see what the fuck is up with our brains

[expressingartwithvideos]

#EatsTreats&MREs #MREs #Survival #Knives #Gadgets #Review #YTChannel Step into the world of EatsTreats&MREs, a YouTube channel curated by the enigmatic admin known as Su. With a deep passion for MREs, survival techniques, knives, and gadgets, Su's channel is a hub of excitement and knowledge for all things related to outdoor adventures.

[learningnewstuff]

1 + 1 MODULAR PATTERN CUTTING SYSTEM

Designed as part of my MRes thesis; the 1 + 1 PROPOSITIONAL PATTERN CUTTING SYSTEM is a zero-waste, negative-waste and additive pattern cutting and clothing design system that scales a single block shape into a variety of silhouettes by repeating and assembling that block shape to create the complete garment. The system can be used with regular lengths of new cloth, end rolls of fabric and textile waste materials

1 + 1 DESIGN RESEARCH OUTPUTS

The design outputs form the  1 + 1 system illustrate a comprehensive working example of a holistic design system that puts waste up front in the design process.

The simple block shape economically utilizes the undeterminable varying shapes of waste material, it is repeated to form the silhouette of the design and can then be disassembled to then re-form a new style. 

The already once consumed fabric can be unpicked and re-stitched into a transmutable shape that can transform the Box Roll Jacket into the kite wrap and the kite wrap can be disassembled to transform into the enclosed within rucksack and so on and so on.

NEXT STAGES for The UN – MAKE & RE – CLOTHE project is to use this work as a propositional tool to gain a deeper knowledge into the feasibility of introducing the 1 + 1 Propositional Pattern Cutting System to the market as an open source platform and a re-design / re-make distribution service.

[john-halo]

do you have a favorite MRE, or is that an oxymoron

You're not far off.

I've talked about them a couple times, might find what you're looking for starting over here.

Can't complain too much, given the logistics of feeding the UNSC are so big they're hard to hold in your head.

But I can complain a little, if invited.

[lantsandlaminin]

New Paper Published - Will people notice differences in eyelid symmetry?

New paper out by Frank Preston et al., looking at when differences in eyelid symmetry can be detected.

Congratulations to Frank Preston for the publication of his Masters work on the perception of eyelid asymmetry in the journal “Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery”. Click the image below to read the paper (open access). Or read on for a high-level overview. This study was born out of a really simple question – “how big a difference between eyelids will people actually notice?”. And…