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OP - The "best" MRE's are the ones you make yourself. Get some quart-sized Mylar pouches on Amazon, and fill them with dehydrated foods that need nothing but boiling water (poured right into the pouch) to reconstute in 10-15 minutes. They taste great, have no chemicals, and the price is right.
Plenty of menu ideas on Youtube...look for "meals in a jar". Shelf life is 5-7 years, if you can leave 'em alone that long!
OP - The "best" MRE's are the ones you make yourself. Get some quart-sized Mylar pouches on Amazon, and fill them with dehydrated foods that need nothing but boiling water (poured right into the pouch) to reconstute in 10-15 minutes. They taste great, have no chemicals, and the price is right.
Plenty of menu ideas on Youtube...look for "meals in a jar". Shelf life is 5-7 years, if you can leave 'em alone that long!
First, military (Mil Spec) MRE's are not designed for long term storage, they are designed for deployment in hostile zones. As such their shelf life is only 5 or so years and taste is secondary to caloric and nutritional value.
Second, There are "camp packaged food" products that have much longer shelf life based on the preparation process and packaging. Their taste and appeal is important as they are selling these to people as meals to be eaten and enjoyed (unlike Mil Spec MRE's).
You also have the disaster packaged foods which can be just dried products or dried product meals or long-term packaged food items. Some are actual meals while others are products used and combined to make various meals. Some are freeze dry, some just canned and others just packaged. Some are whole products, some are powdered and others are genetically equivalents. All have their own features and benefits as well as drawbacks.
Third, "MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) is now a generic term used to describe any packaged food designed for "outside the kitchen wilderness style use" and not necessarily Mil Spec MRE's, commercial freeze dry foods, prepackaged camping meals, etc. So, people need to be a bit more specific when disusing this so as not to be talking two different items.
But then again...I've eaten them, and have no desire to hoard them to live on. We have a years supply of assorted foods on hand from Patriot Pantry, plus we garden, fish, hunt, gather berries etc.
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