10-11-2011, 12:58 PM
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Backpacking Noob
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Midlands of SC Posts: 210
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Originally Posted by Newanderthal If you're dead set on MRE's, do this: Open the packs. Then open the cardboard boxes. Then take out all the little food packs. Bring the packs of food, the heating elements, one of the heating bags, and one of the big brown bags. Leave the other 40lbs of packaging behind.
Most MRE's have about 1200 calories. 2 per day is probably all you need. | Completely agree on this - Once you open them up you'll see a lot of stuff you probably DONT need. The coffee creamer, a spoon in each meal, extra toilet paper (you're hopefully already packing), stuff you don't like (those oily raisins are NASTY). They make a LOT of trash you have to pack out.
I would suggest, if you're dead set on MREs - buy a couple of boxes. Learn what you like and what you don't like. I love the wheat bread thing, some don't. Figure out how to use the heater things, there's a knack to doing it properly.
My favorites are the vegetarian meals - although I'm not vegetarian. Ill fight you for the Spicy Penne Pasta...
But considering the cost, its probably a lot cheaper to go Mountain House or something else. They work out to around $9 a meal in the box, and if you start throwing stuff out or giving it away, that's cash in the trash.
*I'm a noob hiker, but I've been eating MREs for years with our summer kids program at work. We have four MRE meals each summer, so I've had a lot of them.
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