/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Why are MREs so expensive when they are just over-glorified Chef Boyardeen?

>veggie Omelet
Why?

>>15830288
Bidens going to take your guns away prepper survivalist scum. You're usually alt right.

>>15830288
Had the chili one once after Hurricane Sandy hit, tasted like shit. Same with the peanut butter. Might as well eat warm plastic

>>15830288
Trump lost

>>15830296
Covid got the preppers antsy so they bought all the surplus MREs that used to be $70/case so now they're twice that.

>>15830288
Where is Steve

>>15830296
MREs are the only decent shelf stable meals that I've eaten.

Sure you can make your own survival shit but it will last nowhere near as long in storage as a MRE.

>>15830340
Mountain House is good for that but boy is it expensive. Or you can buy a bucket of freeze-dried emergency slop if you just want calories.

>>15830333
Dead from botulism

>>15830288
for me its mexican chicken stew

>>15830288
MRE chocolate peanut butter spread is god-tier. One packet kills my sugar/chocolate craving, only 150 calories, and 7 g carbs. Great for keto.

>>15830637
Agreed. Same with the jalapeño cheese spread

>>15830288
mpreg lol

>>15830757
die

>>15830325
MREs were stupid expensive before covid though it must be the laxative gum in my estimation

>>15830654
You can get jalapeno cheez whiz, which is very similar.

>>15830333
Drinking type II and smoking a cigarette

>>15830303
>>15830312
Guys this is literally food in the end, whats the problem?

>>15830288
Anyone know where to get German EPA rations or have tried them before?

I have some like 3 or 4 year old MRE's sitting in my shelf.

Still good?

some russian(?) mre a friend bought me, yet to eat it

>>15831575
They're good for 5 years at least if stored at room temperature

where the hell has steve1989 been?? the old food gambles finally catch up to him and he get sick?

>>15830288
I hate omelette

I honestly wanted to buy a box of them with my stimulus for the gimmick and because I want to camp soon and thought it'd be fun to bring a couple so I could hike somewhere and eat a quick meal without having to lug my cooking equipment and food with me. But yeah, prices are dumb.

Also you pay for the packaging and development they put into making a nutritionally decent meal that's shelf stable, it can't have too much salt or too much sugar, and you get an okay amount of food. Compared to canned or frozen meals which have multiple servings with over 100% recommended sodium and sugar usually.

>>15831647
Dead from botulism

Anons I miss Steve, please don’t joke about him dying from botulism

>>15830288
Everything else is objectively inferior. Prove me wrong you faggot cracker eaters.

>>15830299
I've been out for a decade and I heard they finally got rid of this one. On a plus, the hashbrowns w/bacon and poptart were a good side to have when you're miserable in BFE.

>>15831575
Yes. During my last military deployment in '09, we had MREs from the invasion in '03 and maybe even older than that date, Country Captain Chicken w/noodles still tasted better than alot of other bullshit.

Cheapest MRE alternatives? Just buy a bunch of chunk light tuna?

>/MREG/ - MRE General

>>15830288
For me it's chicken burrito bowl

>>15833141
good choice. for some reason the tex-mex ones were always good. I like the lemon pepper tuna one which most people hated so that worked well for me

>>15830288
I tasted a spaghetti MRE once.....it was unusually gritty.

>>15833231
tex-mex leftovers are always delicious, so it's not terribly surprising that tex-mex MREs would turn out pretty good.

>>15830340
>not just buying a buncha stockfish and lard
ffs, stupid ppl

Chicken noodle soup and the beef stew are the two best entrees.