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MREs are awesome, I don't care what anyone says. I've had more than I can count during service and always felt in tip top shape. Maybe some people's sensitive systems can't handle it.
I knew people in the service and could buy things that the general public couldn't. I really wanted to try MREs. Still do.
If you are at REI you are talking about rations that are meant to be eaten when you are exerting A LOT of extra effort. The same goes for MRE's. Your caloric burn and nutritional needs are way different than when you are playing games on your couch.
I'm pretty sure any civilian can go to any military surplus store (normally near most military installations) and buy MREs there. They are somewhat expensive though at around $10-$15/piece.
I still have one of my favorite MREs with the milkshakes from when I was deployed back in 2007.
I'm thinking positive--Amazon could use these to solve a lot of the world's hunger problems in places like Africa, where any meal is preferable to starvation.
The first line on the label isn't the only one that matters. I never even mentioned calories so I don't know why people are focusing on that. The label I posted has 103% of your cholesterol for the day and 9g of saturated fat in a single serving (which probably wouldn't constitute an entire meal in itself).THANK YOU.
I hear stuff like this all the time on MRE's and food from REI, this is not normal every day meal replacement. When you are hiking (or in the Military) and sweating your ass off with very high physical exertion, you want as high a calorie content in the smallest and lightest package you can get, you are packing this stuff with you after all, and people don't understand they are meant to have those levels, as you will be burning it off in no time. My guess is that Amazons will not be of this type, and will have contents of what one would expect from "normal" processed/frozen foods. If they do have high levels like an MRE, depending on weight, I might have a new hiking meal to try out.
The first line on the label isn't the only one that matters. I never even mentioned calories so I don't know why people are focusing on that. The label I posted has 103% of your cholesterol for the day and 9g of saturated fat in a single serving (which probably wouldn't constitute an entire meal in itself).
And you are still thinking in relation to a normal work load of day to day, not hiking 15-20MPD, while carrying a loaded pack over some very steep and varying terrain. Or in the Military where you are dealing with untold situations and physical load. Hiking, depending on speed, personal height, weight, miles, pack weight etc etc can burn 4-8,000cal a day, and all those numbers are based on a 2,000cal diet. Cholesterol intake can also have little to do with your blood levels of good/bad cholesterol, that label does not tell you which or where that cholesterol comes from, and under very active levels you need cholesterol. The problem comes from people eating foods with high levels of LDL and live a very inactive life style with little to no intake of good HDL and developing an imbalance of the two.
Some are good, my issue with them is that half of them all US Army issued ones taste the same. I can't taste the difference between cheese tortellini and beef stew. I think it's all the sodium that just makes all the meals tastes like generic canned food. At least this applies to US MREs, not sure about other countries. The shit this guy eats from places like Russia and Canada look downright gourmet.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA