DIY MREs.....a tutorial...

Step 2 Menu Preparation...

***Step 2.....Dig through your stockpile and arrange the types of meals you want to package...remember to diversify if you don't want the same, boring meal every time you crack one open...

Comments

[Servelan]

If you use canned goods, make sure they have pull tops so you don't have to pack an extra can opener.

Cheap plastic utensils should be in each pack. Ditto for an individually packaged wet wipe.

If you pack carefully, you could also get a paper bowl in there to eat out of/mix up stuff in.

[panzerfaust379]

I use Splenda at home,but in the wild it has no food value.No calories.Otherwise nice kit.

[jbird1981or]

All I can say is...... Water water water. Take it from a Marine. Water is the single most important thing you can have in a situation outside of the normal routes. In this case, you'll need alot of it to eat. In addition to what you'll need to drink to stay alive.

[HTWTUSA]

I agree, but if you look closely at my menu choices, you'll see that all of the foods are suitable for eating without adding water, and even if prepared according to directions, well....a cooked noodle which is digested is still stripped of water by the digestion process itself...thus introducing nearly the same amount of water as if it were eaten dry, and washed down with a nice, long tug of cold H2O.

Many of the foods we eat -both raw and cooked - still deliver water to the body, even though the water doesn't come from a cup or canteen.

[mflores]

Also, watch the SALT! Between the spam, ramen and rice you will really need the water But generally speaking, the idea is great!

[HTWTUSA]

Actually, though salt ingestion will increase one's thirst, reasonable salt intake is the BEST way to encourage water storage within the body itself....you MUST have a higher sodium intake in a survival situation.