| Meals ready to eat are getting to be a very popular | | | | food from at an altitude of thousands of feet? Or go |
| option for people wanting to stock up their | | | | through minus temperatures or extreme heat? If the |
| emergency disaster kits. And why not? If it is good | | | | answer is no, then you don't need military MREs. |
| enough for the U.S. military to feed the soldiers in the | | | | You might also be wondering about the caloric |
| field, it should be good enough for civilians as well. | | | | differences between the civilian version and the |
| However, the problem is that military MREs aren't | | | | military version. While it is true that military meals |
| available for commercial resale to the public. However, | | | | average about 1200 calories each, the civilian versions |
| that hasn't stopped cases of military MREs from | | | | are not far off at 1000 calories. This is for one |
| appearing for sale online or in army surplus stores. | | | | individual package. If you have one for each of your |
| Obviously, if there is a demand for the stuff, people | | | | three meals, you'll be consuming 3000 calories for the |
| will supply it. | | | | day which is more than enough for even an active |
| Seeing as how there is a demand for MREs for the | | | | male individual. |
| general public, manufacturers are also producing a | | | | Civilian MREs are a good choice for the public as |
| civilian version of these convenient meals. The | | | | there really is no need to go all out with a military |
| question is, how do civilian MREs compare with | | | | version. In fact, when you buy civilian MREs, you will |
| military MREs? The answer is, there is not much of a | | | | probably be getting a better quality product because |
| difference. After all, it's the same companies who | | | | you don't know where the military MRE came from |
| supply the U.S. military with their MREs. They are just | | | | or how it was stored since it wasn't purchased from |
| expanding their market to civilians. | | | | a direct source. |
| While military MREs go through more stringent testing | | | | Those are the pros and cons for military and civilian |
| with their packaging requirements, you also have to | | | | MREs. Whichever MRE version you choose, it is |
| realize that they are made to withstand parachute | | | | always a good idea to keep a case in the house for |
| drops and extreme ranges of temperature. You have | | | | emergency situations. |
| to ask yourself, do you really need to drop your | | | | |