I was just gifted a couple of vacuum food sealers and I want to try my hand at making homemade MREs. What foods should I put in them? I have a bunch of old accessory packets lying around from MREs I've eaten in the past, so I can put them in there, but I don't have any flameless ration heaters, so my preference is for stuff that doesn't need heating. Also, food that doesn't require water to be added would be a plus. It should all be as practical as possible, and, of course, as cheap as can reasonably be done while still being something you'd actually want to eat.
Get some peanut butter, beef jerky, some kind of candy, multivitamins, and sport drink mix and throw it into a food processor and blend until it's all mixed together and fill the bags with that
>tfw cant eat most wheat products >gets diarrhea all the time
God damn why am I restricted on what to eat without taking 30 minute diarrhea shits.
@_@ im not gonna survive apocalypse, I mean yeah I can eat it but explosive diarrhea, would be all the time.
I am extremely pissed I use to eat ramen noodles all the fucking time when I was younger.
Tyler Hernandez
Honey sticks are calorie rich, extremly shelf stable, and little weight. Add one to your tea, or oatmeal, or just eat it out of the straw. They can be had for around $.20 a pice
>all that sodium Have fun with dehydration. You could just not be poor and get actual mres or freeze dried meals.
Anthony Wright
Why not throw some fuel tablets in each bag? As long as you have a canteen cup and stand you’ll be able to boil water/ heat canned food. Also if your not planning on having water around then the food isn’t going to be much help to you.
>Have fun with dehydration. The picture is a file photo I got from Google Images. I didn't make them, so you can stop complaining about them to me. >You could just not be poor and get actual mres or freeze dried meals. Too expensive for what they are, and not DIY
Adam Rivera
>Why not throw some fuel tablets in each bag? I want to keep these simple and lightweight >As long as you have a canteen cup and stand you’ll be able to boil water/ heat canned food. Also if your not planning on having water around then the food isn’t going to be much help to you. There's a reason that military MREs generally don't require extra water to prepare.
Juan Rogers
Fuel tablets or gels weigh next to nothing. And just about everyone had a jetboil and carried ramen or mountain house when I was in the military. MREs are great for when there is no time to stop and boil water/prepare food. In the far more likely case that you will have time to boil water/heat food, freeze dried or quality canned food is where it’s at.
Alexander Parker
I feel really sad for people that actually want to pack Top Ramen as an emergency ration. It has a nutritional value somewhere between potato chips and cardboard.
Charles Cook
It’s very useful for short term energy. Definately bad to plan to survive an extended period of time on a ramen diet.
Juan Gonzalez
People confuse good innadorm food for good innawoods food.
Angel Johnson
>There's a reason that military MREs generally don't require extra water to prepare. 102% false If you eat (USA) MRE with little to no water, you're in for the worse time of your life.
Adam Morales
I think you misunderstood the sentence I wrote. They need little to no water *to prepare*. As opposed to whether they need water to wash them down.
Samuel Hall
>globalism in a MRE
Ryder Wright
Oh man, I remember the neighbors angrily giving us their MRE cases after Harvey because they couldn't figure out how the FRH pouch worked. Said it was the worst food they ever had and the cat wouldn't eat it. Was trying so hard not to smile.
Jeremiah Miller
It's not even good innadorm food. When I was desperate, I had the foil pouch SPAM, salmon, and tuna I'd fork onto tortillas, nuke 'em, and add hot sauce. SPAM on a tortilla ain't bad, especially when hot
Oliver Johnson
A small wood burning collapsible stove weighs about 2 pounds. Cooking food is an extra step against illness.
