DIY MREs

Good topic. Bump

Also, canned food (at least in the US) has a pretty long shelf life, you can get away with eating it up to a year after the best by fate. I'd consider (if I were to make my own MRE) emulating the C rations. Save money, food's already precooked with a long shelf life. Just pack a can opener.

>>34979179
I wanna make my own for when im out hunting. Thatd be neat.

What's the point of bugging in when 9/10 cops are just come in, take your guns, and make you leave you house. Have fun spending a bunch of money on this shit and not being able to use it all.

>>34979403
kek. Well memed, my paranoid schizophrenic bro

>>34979403
LEL, OP makes no mentions of WROL, just about food, this tard spergs out about "bugging in" and imaginary cops taking his Cheetos and airsoft

>>34979403
Yeah bro. The military has been using MREs for "bugging in" since the 1940s. What kind of idiot doesn't know that MRE is synonymous with bugging in exclusively?

MRE components, all purpose (for camping, hunting, weather emergencies etc)

Canned foods (stews, veg, Chef Boyo etc)
Coffee, instant
Ciggies (just because they don't make MREs with them anymore)
Tea, instant
Water purification tabs
Wet naps
Candy bars
Hot sauce
Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Colt 1911
Grenades
Thermobaric RPG launcher with nuclear codes
PS4 with copy of Halo
Dragon dildo

>>34979403
>Not packing enough explosives in your mre to level the block if the law is foolish enough to try and evac you.

>>34979179
The issue I find with making your own MREs is that a lot of the things you would put in them from the store are really high in sodium which gives me the drizzlin' shits. My general rule of thumb is pack each one with a protein, starch, carb and vegatable/fruit for vitamins. Then a pretty standardized condiment pack with your usual salt, pepper, tea, covfefe, sugar, TP bundle, match book if so inclined. For home rolled MREs I'll usually have a mess kit with utensils and a stove or way to make fire seperate from the MRE.

>>34979658
>Stove

Typical civilian mistake for MRE. Like including Ramen. Anything you need to add water too, or cook, is not a Meal Ready to Eat.

Don't get me wrong, it can be survival food. But categorically, it's not a MRE.

Peanut butter
Honey
A good men's multivitamin
Beef jerky
Pedialyte
A spoon

An MRE isn't a meal meant to enjoy. It's meant to keep you alive. Eat your spoonfuls of peanut butter, honey, take a multivitiman, enjoy some beef jerky, drink some pedialite and shut the fuck up. There. I just reduced your weight by 80% and made it more nutritional.

>inb4 boo boo I want tasty hot meals
Sorry. The war isn't going to comply with your needs. Deal with it.

/thread x1000

>>34979726
Hi, I'm a giant faggot too. Wanna get married?

>>34979685
You can eat it without adding water though you turd
> typical civilian mistake
Shut the fuck up you fag

>>34979726
Bringing heavy pedialite instead of powdered gatorade..... Rookie mistake. Take a lap for the extra weight you needlessly added, also for drinking babby fluid

>>>/ck/catalog

>>34979791
You can eat dirt too if you want scrub. Doesn't make it an MRE you butthurt civilian.

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Not really DIY, but I keep a bag packed with 3 days worth of food, and a small wood stove.

This all comes down to the objectives of your food supply.

In a true disaster I want enough food to keep me until I can rely on food I can farm myself, which to me means at least two years.

Two years can be satisfied with canned goods. You don't need to go MRE or freeze dried. That said a longer shelf stable product may be a good idea to supplement your canned goods. Just a few months worth vs years of canned goods.

For a bug out bag I don't see a problem with putting in those lipton / knorr packages, which have a good shelf life and are cheap. Sure you need water, but you don't have water then you die anyway.

>>34979988
It doesn't?

>>34980552
I'd say if you're willing to eat dirt, the dirt is a Meal Ready to Eat.

>>34979179
Good bread.

Here are some suggestions:

Always have a jar of peanut butter. Or, if you are building MREs put in a couple of those single serve cups.
Spam lite. Has more protein than the regular stuff. Tastes good hot or cold. Wish they made it in the smaller 7oz size. 12oz is a lot of spam to choke down in a single sitting. The 3.5oz pouches are ok, I would put 2 in each meal but they are not as cost effective as doing single cans.
Bega cheese. Does anyone have sauce on 100g canned cheese? They use to sell this. Now I can only find 200g cans. Again, this is too much cheese for a single serving. Fine for a family or squad box, but too much cheese for me in one sitting.
Walkers Shortbread Fine Oat Crackers, 9.90z. 7 servings in a box. Sort of like the French and Russian MRE that give you a days worth of crackers. Each serving has 5g protein and 3g dietary fiber. As anyone who eats MREs knows, these things will bind you up. This much fiber will keep you clean as a whistle.

Does anyone know about any MRE meetups going on? The last one I know of was in Richmond VA in 2016.

>>34979429
You forgot a Loli sex doll

>>34980627
Fuck. I'm sunk.

>>34979658
Go to Amazon and look at European products. They usually use less salt and sugar.

>>34980662
Also they are gayer.

>>34979685
This. This is the difference between camping and having an emergency ration. Cooking, having a fire, or making hot water may not always be possible depending on the nature of your emergency. Your meals need to "ready to eat" hot or cold with little prep.

>>34980047
field strip those MRE's dude theres so much unnecassary shit in those

>>34980674
I can eat spam or Chef Boyardee or Ramen without cooking it outside of an emergency. Also, I'm a degenerate

>>34980686
Definitely spam or canned ravioli. But choking down dry ramen? Or are you talking about using cold water? Still...

>>34980722
Nope. Raw dog. It's crunchy. A stoner delicacy.

>>34980679
I like the added protection of the outer pouch. These are for relatively long term storage. In Afghanistan I would usually carry a few field stripped first strikes. I could carry 3-4 days worth of food comfortably.

I thought freeze dried food, which can be bought as well as hand made, is more efficient and longer lasting that most other shit.

>>34981200
its long lasting but not as much as canned. way lighter though.

>>34981200
I like the idea, but very expensive in its implementation.

>>34980662
I'd also gamble they don't keep as long. The salt in processed food is still mostly there as a preservative.

>>34980047
those people look so happy to be outdoors. and so clean!

>>34979685
>including Ramen
>add water to

If you don't have a cup or so of water(doesn't even have to be hot) to soak your noodles and flavor packet in you have big problems. Ramen is lightweight, calorie dense, has a long shelf-life and is cheap as shit. I think the average pack of ramen is like 350 calories and you get 5 for $1. That's 1750 calories for $1. Are they the most nutritious calories? Not by a long shot, but any prepper should also have some stocks of vitamins on hand.

Ramen is good shit in an emergency. Anyone who knocks it has never been poor enough to appreciate its' belly-filling capabilities.

>>34982520
why does the bagged versions taste better then the cupped ones?

>>34982537
I don't know but that bagged chili flavor is fucking crack cocaine. I feel so dirty eating it because I am low carb most of the time but every couple of weeks I have to eat one.

>>34982537
I was trying to find a clip from that movie where they do cup farts, but I can't remember the movie

>>34982558
It's mainly the MSG which imo is crack cocaine in flavor form. It's what makes people want to keep eating awful shit like cheetos and doritos, etc. (Not judging, for real love Flamin' Hot Cheetos)

Why can't someone make fucking proper pemmican? There is a company that makes a "version" of pemmican but they claim they can't build a machine that can grind the meat fine enough to make the "true" version that has FUCKING INSANE shelf-life. If some goddamn indians living in teepees can make that shit why can't the white invader? What is this sorcery?

So pro tip for any rich fags out there. If you can get a for real pemmican business up and running you can make bank with preppers/outdoorsmen.

>>34980722
I knew a guy in college who would regularly eat a brick of ramen noodles with peanut butter. Not what I'd choose, but you can eat the ramen noodles uncooked/unhydrated if necessary.

Still, it's a good point to distinguish something like a "meal ready to eat" from a "compact meal requiring some preparation".

Personally, I'd call the two the same thing for all practical purposes. If you need more than a small pan and some boiling water, that's where you're getting into a different class of food prep.

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>>34979179
every bugout bag needs one

>>34983055
Yeah, that kind of thing is awesome. Since having a heart-attack scare thing about a year ago, I've left off caffeine completely, but a packet like this and/or a teabag or two in each meal pack could go a long way towards keeping up morale and all that.

>>34982520
>Bellie filling capabilities

Your mother has been telling stories about me again, huh boy?

>>34979429
>Candy bars
>Hot sauce
>Flamin' Hot Cheetos
>Colt 1911
>Grenades
>Thermobaric RPG launcher with nuclear codes
>PS4 with copy of Halo
>Dragon dildo
Had me at tea, instant I can give you that one.

>>34983472
If I'm honest, I don't quite understand what you're saying.

>>34983488
I laughed at instant tea, I assume you mean ice tea.
Why would you pack junk food in you MRE or BOB, waste and its junk.
Insta bait.

>>34983555
Are you from the 3rd world? In the developed world, instant tea is very common. It wouldn't be iced until you added water. And ice.

>>34983555
Not that guy, but junk food is calories and tastes good (raises morale). In the short term, it's as good as eating oatmeal and peanut butter and tuna. How applicable shit like that is a good solution depends on how long a term you're packing food away for. A week or two, who cares? A couple months...yeah, you might want to go healthier.

>>34983641
I only put junk food in there as a joke, but otoh, a candy bar is calorie dense, and nutritionally harmless if you're active. Plus, yeah, morale boost. One time I compared the nutritional values of a can of Slim Fast and a Zero bar, and they were very similar aside from fat.

>>34983555
If you're burning 4,000 calories a day, you can eat 4,000 calories a day.

>>34983620
No, I drink tea warm...Like coffee.
>A week or two, who cares? A couple months...yeah, you might want to go healthier.
Oh no definitely I just would rather so energy bars and some peanut butter.
I feel like candy and other "chips" wouldnt be work hauling around at all calorie wise.
Plus if you have a small bag that room that could go to water, first aid or other denser foods.
I also have a thing for meat and meat like things.

>>34983676
Is this when you are hiking or camping or would it be better long term.
For me long term would be week tops.
But thats assuming SHTF isnt in play because if it was Id rather pack string and .22 ammo.

>>34979400
The best after date is only a manufacture's recommendation for the best taste. It doesn't necessarily go bad. Some foods can potential last decades after the expiration date. Though that would require extra research on the buyer's part.

>>34983704
I'm talking about working hard to survive.

>>34979429
you forgot
>cumlube

>>34983704
MREs are made for hard working people. It isn't meals for betas playing video games.

>>34983736
Fuck. Back to the drawing board.

>>34983762
BULLSHIT I EAT MY MENU 69 VEGETARIAN SLOPPY JOE MRES WHILE PLAYING CSSTOP

>>34983689
honey, everyone here can see how much you like the meat.

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>>34983813

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>>34983809
>>34983762
I had three potatoes today and some beer.
>>34983813
Nice...gotta stay frosty.

>>34982586
Anon, what are you talking about? I have a debilitating fart fetish, and I need more informoation please

>>34983898
There was some movie where bros would say "do you like cupcakes" then fart in their hands and throw the fart with a cupped hand into the other bros faces. It was either a movie or my life, can't be sure

>>34983916
Darn, I'm afflicted with attraction to women's gas. Possibly you are thinking of benchwarmers

>>34983898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSYWvZ9i28

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>>34983941
I think that was a cup of soup

>>34983947
Thanks for taking the time out of your day to show me this. Definately will listen to on the way to work.

>>34983941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2KRpq8rBQ

>>34983941
No that would be beef stew

>>34979179
I think it's a pretty cool thread, but not a weapon or military equipment.

>>34983955
Beefstew

>>34983970
Fuck off this is a fart fetish thread now

>>34983762
>MREs are made for hard working people
Ha, good one.

>>34983706
>It doesn't necessarily go bad. Some foods can
> potential last decades after the expiration date.

You're totally right. The best-buy date is the date where the company and FDA will absolutely guarantee the nutrition stuff on the label is 100% accurate. A year or two later, who knows? It's probably the same, but it's never been formally tested, so no one will put that as a guarantee on the label.

>>34979400
I did this on multi day hikes races. It's heavier but it's not back breaking to take a few tins as opposed to a few packets. We could just stop to heat up my little cooker, heat the cans on it, douse and cool the cooker, carry the cans in a gloved hand and eat.

>all day breakfast
>tinned curry
>beans
>soup
>mixed veg or sweet corn if you fancy it

Easy

>>34983970
MREs are military equipment, Captain Buzzkill.

>>34984019
Do you normally eat equipment?

>>34984015
Makes sense. When I was in, I actually heated the MRE 1 in 20 times. Only the shitty omelettes really need to be heated imo, and they're still awful but less awful when hot.

>>34984046
If you call your wife's pussy "equipment", then no. That's your job, after I've bred her.

>>34984046
Only consumables. KEK, but not all of the MRE contents are edible, are they, champ? You eat the spoon or the TP? Plz autismchan, chill out and count ceiling tiles until you get sleepy

>>34984082
I'm not even sure what side of the argument your on.

>>34984051
Yeah these were basically hikes where we would race eachother. About 10 of us splitting into groups. Different routes but same distance. We didn't always stop to heat the food. Like you say, most can be eaten cold happily. However a tin of cold beans is pretty depressing

>>34984200
Cold Chef Boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyardee spaghetti and meatballs right out of the can is one of my guilty pleasures.

>>34984213
Tinned sausages and spaghetti yes. Cold baked beans nope

>>34984273
Can't say I'm a fan of cold baked beans, but have been known to eat cold chili, so I have no moral high ground to speak from.

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How bout these, anons? I keep a couple in my get home bag. They're basically MRE entrees and they're yummy. Hell, im having one for dinner rn

>>34984512
Ever try these?

https://youtu.be/DZ2vc4LEo8Q

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>>34984577
Y tho?

>>34984684
Albert Fish

>>34983736
>>34983797
You can use the hot sauce if you're desperate

https://youtu.be/hmnB9yatX-U

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>>34980047
>vienna sausages

>>34980047
Your entire picture is excess weight.

>>34987823
But that's not a picture of your mom....

>>34983055
but how does it compare to coffee instant, type 1

>>34979179

I think you should add these to your shopping list. Canned Sardines, especially Ligo brand ones, are an excellent MRE addition. Good amounts of protein and nutrients from the tomato sauce. Also if you get sick of eating canned meats, it's a great alternative. Also they are more compact.

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How easy is it to emulate C-Rations? What's some calorie dense stuff I could put in there and preserve? I don't even care about SHTF, I just want to have them for the hell of it.

>>34979403
>make you leave you house
Evacuations cant be forced.

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>>34988163

>>34983444
kek. nice trips, jay z

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>>34988265
What in the seven hells is that?

>>34988278
Food. Don't be such a precious princess and eat it.

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>>34988285
I can't eat my computer, anon.

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>>34988316
Why not? You fuck an anime pillow

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>>34988278
It's CEЛЬДЬ, can you not read?

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>>34988336

>>34988265
Russian herring is weird

>>34988178
What an uneducated and uninformed post.

>>34979685
You can eat ramen raw. It's pretty ok.

>>34980669
Also they've made me gayer.

>>34979429

Wtf kind of list is this? Are you a God damn retard? Only faggots go with instant tea.

>>34980047

If you're doing anything moodily physically active that's about a day and a half of food at best.

>>34988910
Hello London.
his list is gay, but you outgayed him. Anything in MREs is instant. He chose tea like a tranny, or a Brit like you, instead of coffee tho.

>>34981598

Get a dehydration machine. Make all your own shit. I use mine for long /out/ trips, amazing to have home made spaghetti that I made and dried myself. Splash of water, don't even need to heat up if you don't want.

>>34987823
Nope, nothing I can't handle. Sorry 3 cans is heavy for you

No one seems to have commented yet that you should never heat food in it's can, as that will break down the can liner, which is toxic to eat

>>34988951
Expensive.

>>34988928
Hmm, list includes coffee, but you create false dichotomy anyway.... Gay millennial detected

>>34982631
Just use a small grist mill. You are welcome.

>>34990315
Like gluten free beer? I AM GAYYYYYYYYYYY

>>34990334
>I AM GAYYYYYYYYYYY

Then you are guaranteed all the hot meals you want, and the more you eat, the bigger they get.

I, however, am not gay but a grist mill is quite capable of grinding OPs meat if you aren't already doing it between your gums.

>>34988926
Nope, even while being physically active that's 3-4 days for me. i know my body and it's needs quite well.

>>34990556
>it is needs

You don't know shit.

>>34990556
Nice argument pal. I now see things the way you do. Thanks!

>>34990568
>better correct his grammar, so I have an argument

>>34990619
>have an argument

Nah. This isn't a debate. It's a thread about MREs. Go be a faggot somewhere else.

>>34990646
>getting this upset about my caloric intake

Hang it up anon

>>34990658
>why are you so triggered, /pol/? Keep your Nazi beliefs to yourself, fascist

>>34981245
Mountain House has a 30 year shelf life on their freeze dried.

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>>34982631
>post about buying pemmican in a DIY thread
I work innawoods in the summer and just make my own.

Easy as fuck, this year I did it with a brisket.

All you need is a dehydrator (I guess you can do it old school and use the sun but a dehydrator is faster) and a food processor:

>trim all fat from meat
>cut meat into thin strips
>salt meat
>dry the piss out of it
>like so dry it cracks when you bend it
>use food processor to grind meat into as fine a powder as you can
>render trimmed fat from earlier
>mix with meat powder in a 1:1 ratio until it feels like a fine paste
>probably you will have more meat than fat, so simply leave the extra meat as jerky
>spread paste out in big sheets on butcher paper
>allow to dry and harden
>cut into bars

Bam, pemmican. If you want to get really fancy you can add honey and dried fruit (my parents have more strawberries and raspberries on their property than they can use) to the paste for a sweeter flavor and some additional carbs and vitamins because the strict fat-and-meat stuff is super bland.

There you go: calory dense, long shelf life survival food. I basically live off this shit, summer sausage, cheese, and peanut butter during the 6 months each year I spend in the wilderness.

>>34982520
The ROK army pretty much runs on Ramen and they are modern combat ready force. Someone above mentioned to dried fish for shrimp from an Asian grocery. I would highly recommend this.

>>34982537
That Chinese styrofoam seasoning.

>>34993826
>The ROK army pretty much runs on Ramen
Source?

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>>34979726
If there is anything i learned with Steve from MREinfo is that Peanut butter is eternal.
nice