Old MREs

How old of an MRE will you eat? I know ...if they don't stink its probably ok but old is old. I've got about 25 of these that were stored at room temp, the inspection date is 2014.

 

7 years is about the max. I have some that we opened after 6 years that were a bit rank. The condiments and extras are normally ok for about 10 years

 

K-rats forever
C-rats forever
MREs- https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-shelf-life/

 

Meal combat individual rations is what I always looked forward to eating when I was active duty in the early 80's

 

Yeah we were getting K and C's back then and when the MREs started coming it was like luxury. The only thing I missed was the Franks and beans and the canned peaches. Got sick of MRE's real fast though. Tabasco baby! Makes anything edible at any time.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ing-gear-thread.340757/page-412#post-18423302

 

Green eggs and ham are good forever.

 

My favorites were Frank's and beans or the spaghetti and meatballs . Also nothing like combining a packet of instant coffee , creame and hot chocolate and with warm water enjoying a nice cup of coffee in your Foxhole

 

John Wayne cracker tin modded with P38 and sterno tab for the coffee/hot coco heat up...

 

dug up some old ones from a fighting pit and ate it....it was about 8 years old. these were the old dark brown bags. I bet the newer ones don't last as long.

 

I had about three cases in the garage one time. Came home one day and the kids got into them. Bags all over the front yard they were young. They never did it again because they could do shit for a month. Lesson learned.

 

Shit I’m still eating ones dated 2011 and stored in my barn…
Not dead yet.

 

Some dude on YouTube that eats Civil War era hard tack and he's still alive.

 

Your bowels called. They said they hate you.

 

You're eating 11 year old MREs? You've gotta be full of shit...

 

My grandpa, who I am named after and who sadly died from Alzheimer's 7 years before I was born (He was 61 when he died in 1982; I was born in 1989), served in the Army during WW2. When we went through some of his stuff in 2018, we found some of his Army stuff; This included a survival pack of sorts that itself included cigarettes and an uneaten chocolate bar! When we divided his stuff among the family, I got to keep the war stuff, which included the survival pack; I obviously would not have eaten the chocolate, but I wanted to open it and see what it looked like. My mom wouldn't let me open it in the house.

On another note, I like the freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches that astronauts eat; They sell astronaut food at the Air and Space Musuem, and I impulsively bought some when I was there almost twenty years ago to see what it was like; Back then, we lived like half an hour from the big museum in Dulles, but I haven't been to DC since November 2019. Whenever I'm at a museum that sells astronaut ice cream, I buy some!

 

Back when Katrina hit the power got knocked out in my parents’ town on the gulf coast and there was no gas for about a week, so the National Guard brought some MREs.

For some reason I think a few of the MREs were Halal.

Mom and dad ate those for like a week until they restored power to the gas stations and trucked gas in and they could actually drive a few cities over to buy normal food.

My dad still has about a dozen of them sitting in a box in his garage.

 

Sad thing is the Halal meals are better than the shit they feed Joe.

 

I’m not commenting in any negative way about them, I just thought it was weird that they showed up to rural ass Mississippi and like a third of them were Halal.