The “miracle” of MREs these days is that they come with a self-heating unit, which is flameless. \u00a0 The meals contain a full regiment of calories, and an entree, side, dessert. \u00a0When my father’s generation dipped into their “K-rations” during WW2, packs also contained smokes and condoms. \u00a0 No such luck these days. \u00a0They generally contained a hard biscuit, dry sausage, hard candy, gum, and a bullion or powdered drink packet.<\/p>\n
Then, as now, they came in varieties to suit breakfast, lunch, or dinner. \u00a0My favorite after Katrina was the ‘chili mac.’ \u00a0 \u00a0Tho I admit, at times, tearing through other packets just to retrieve peanut butter and crackers, or tootsie rolls.<\/p>\n
This is on my mind because my daughter (who also went through Katrina) still lives in New Orleans, and the National Guard was handing out MREs in her neighborhood today.<\/p>\n
They won’t have to survive on them for weeks like we did; fortunately, a few hours after the delivery, their power went back on.<\/p>\n
It’s not a bad idea to have a couple cases of these on hand in your home, for an emergency; under ideal conditions, they have a shelf life of up to five years.<\/p>\n
Order yours online<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was blistering hot, humidity off the scale. \u00a0No electricity. \u00a0No AC. \u00a0No phone. \u00a0No interwebs. \u00a0No hot water. \u00a0It was a few days after Katrina, and the previous descriptions would be my life for a couple months back then. The cuisine? \u00a0MRE’s, (meals-ready-to-eat), courtesy of the United States Government, handed to me by prisoners… Continue reading What I Was Eating, 7 Years Ago Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[368,1842,2366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hurricane](\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mres.png\" "\\"mres\\"")
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