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Lead Dog Member
Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 790 | TRs | Pics Location: Kent Wa |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:20 am
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For the first time I am going to take MRE'S with me on a week long hiking trip. Each one has the main coarse, peanut butter, crackers, fruit, flavered drink mix, pound or coffee cake, Tabasco sauce, M&Ms, a spoon, napkin, matches, and gum to chew. I'll let you all know how it works out.
My hair's turning white, my neck's always been red, my collor's still blue.
Lynard Skynard
My hair's turning white, my neck's always been red, my collor's still blue.
Lynard Skynard
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Lagerman UnAdvanced User
Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 1314 | TRs | Pics Location: Crab'n on the Hood Canal |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:57 am
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If there the goverment issuse MRE's then beware. They used to drop us those when we were stagged out on a fire or what have you. Half the bread type stuff is moldy, and they suck!
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Lead Dog wrote: | For the first time I am going to take MRE'S with me on a week long hiking trip. Each one has the main coarse, peanut butter, crackers, fruit, flavered drink mix, pound or coffee cake, Tabasco sauce, M&Ms, a spoon, napkin, matches, and gum to chew. I'll let you all know how it works out. |
Man that's just NUTS! GO guy those mtn house one person jobs. They're great and light weight too.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Quark Niece of Alvy Moore
Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 14152 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:07 pm
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MRE's are heavy! I'm not a lightweight freak and even I wouldn't take 'em on a weeklong.
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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Steve Phlogiston Purveyor
Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 769 | TRs | Pics Location: Bothell |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:14 pm
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Is this like some fear factor or endurance test to see how much you can punish your stomach before you puke? I admit I've only had the bread but that stuff would make a goat regurgitate.
Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.
Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
I get about 20 oz. a serving for weight and that is just a dinner for seven ay that is over 10lbs. maybe you should move this thread to "Pack animals"
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Stones funk soul brother
Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 1594 | TRs | Pics Location: in your soul kitchen |
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Stones
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:21 pm
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MRE: Meals Rejected by Everyone
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
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ActionBetty Im a dirty hippie!
Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 4807 | TRs | Pics Location: kennewick, wa |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:25 pm
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my father n law unloaded a bunch of those on me thinking I would eat them on the trail.. I gave them out to the neighborhood kids that were bothering me..
"If you're not living good, you gotta travel wide"...Bob Marley
"If you're not living good, you gotta travel wide"...Bob Marley
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wildernessed viewbagger
Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 9275 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
Mountain House, the meals that follow you out of the mountains and back home !
Living in the Anthropocene
Living in the Anthropocene
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Lead Dog Member
Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 790 | TRs | Pics Location: Kent Wa |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:53 pm
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My hair's turning white, my neck's always been red, my collor's still blue.
Lynard Skynard
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ActionBetty Im a dirty hippie!
Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 4807 | TRs | Pics Location: kennewick, wa |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:05 pm
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"If you're not living good, you gotta travel wide"...Bob Marley
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Dante Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 2815 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:18 pm
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Not to be a snob, but MREs are only better and lighter than what they replaced - C Rations I'll take reconstituted freeze dried food or store variety "just add boiling water" meals over MREs every time.
For those of you who are too young to know what C Rations were, they were MREs, but instead of plastic retort packages, the food was in steel cans.
At least MREs include Tobasco now. I was in the Army when they were introduced (we had to eat our WWIII supply of C Rations before we could start eating the MREs in the field) they didn't have Tobasco.
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#19 Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 2197 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:07 pm
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My son-in-law (a newly commissioned Lt in the Army) gave me some MREs for hiking. I kept them in my car and gave them to the beggars by the freeway.
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Lagerman UnAdvanced User
Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 1314 | TRs | Pics Location: Crab'n on the Hood Canal |
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:22 pm
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I frequent army surplus stores often, and I have noticed that pretty much 99% of the MRE's they have in there store, and the ones no wanted on the fires.
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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sarbar
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Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:40 pm
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