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we ate some old dark brown packed ones on our last camp out. They had to be better than 20 years old.
Tasted great.

+1 on these guys.

I thought they had a half-life of something like 600 years! Kinda like fruitcake & twinkies.

The problem with MRE's is when they come close to expiring, you're eventually going to have to sit down and eat them. We get snowed in here pretty regularly, and have lost power for 2-3 weeks after some Winter storms. All our houses have well stocked root cellars. Gallons of water, cases of soups, bottles of pasta sauce, dry pasta, beans, rice... Stuff lasts for years, and if the disaster doesn't come, you can still eat it. Everybody here goes out for bread and milk when a storm is coming. How long is that going to last? We've got dry goods, canned food, bottled water, Coleman stoves and fuel, Honda generators and fuel, wood piles outside... We get storms often enough, it's just part of life.

We handle hurricane readiness much the same way in the Lee clan, If I never see another MRE or C-RAT it will be too soon!

Haven't ordered from this place, but the price looks good depending on shipping. http://www.armygear.net/ag/store/00231.html

I've used these folks and found them reasonable. Of course the the shipping to Alaska can cripple you, but the products are good.

I've used these guys. If I remember correctly, I got free shipping on two cases. The food is good, too...

I got the "A" pack...

http://www.readymeal.com/

you can use them to make interesting things too, like a bunch of the little tabasco bottles dumped onto a heating packet, makes a nice little eye/nose burn for anyone caught in its vicinity, use in confined areas for more effectiveness

My nephew was in the Army about 15 years ago and he gave me a MRE when he got out. I kept it for awhile and then he said it had a shelf life and I should pitch it so I threw it out, depriving me of the joy of eating a MRE. He said they were pretty bad and the guys in his unit, 1st Cav, called them Meals Refused by Ethiopians or Meals Refusing to Exit.

Jocko, when that's all you have, it's the best there is!

A few months after any disaster in the US Ebay is a good source. I know after Ike/Rita/Katrina there were thousands of boxes of US Military MRE's for sale pretty cheap.

Heh if you go to their site they have a map you mouse over to see what the biggest disaster danger is for your area....Living here sucks we have the longest list of any region in the US lol.

That map does not show volcanic eruptions nor tsunami for my area.

That map is somewhat irrelevant. Some of the regions encompass states, and even various parts of individual states, that have very different disaster profiles.

One example: The states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas are grouped together and the disasters listed for the region include hurricanes, winter storms, and floods. People in NM and the Texas Panhandle don't have to worry about hurricanes, people on the Gulf coast (e.g., New Orleans, Houston, Corpus Christi) don't have to worry about winter storms, and people in various parts of the regions don't really have to worry about flooding for various reasons.

Somebody would be just as well off to look at the full list of potential disasters for the entire country and decide what applied to their area.

That's kinda what I was going for?

What is the advantage of MREs over real food storage like canned and dry goods?

MRE's aren't really that bad cold, hell, I have 4 cases in my utility room, the trick is to keep them at 70 degrees or lower, they are still good past their best if used by date. Some of the meals are downright good now. Ya gotta remember an MRE is 3000 calories per meal, you can easily survive off one a day. Can't do that with canned food. Les