re: #133 austin_blue
MREs stands for Meals-Ready-to-Eat. Some are Meals-Unable-to-Eat, or MURs.
Save yourself! Get some big cans of Chef Boy-Ardee double stuffed Ravioli, a jar of Italian Seasoning, and some garlic powder.
You’ll at least survive.
I was on a month-long exercise that included an E7 from the Rhode Island NG. She had a personal cookbook of amazing things that could be made using MREs as raw material. She went around the tent city collecting this-and-that, made some really good chocolate brownies.