Posted on 12/31/2015 4:08:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
Depends on where you are. In North Dakota, if you are spending much time outside this time of year, you burn through calories just keeping warm.
I had some after Katrina - not too bad and provided energy for rebuilding efforts....
Wash it down with enough water and anything is OK for a while.
Same here, made me constipated as hell.
Being in Alaska I understand! They issued us Arctic MRE’s a lot of time in the Army. Freeze dried stuff and a lot of “sawdust” bars.
I recall reading that for someone out in the weather in subzero temperatures caloric requirements can top 6000 calories/day.
No, just monotony. . .adding Tabasco to the MRE packages helped. Need to add garlic also.
Ever try making a “Ranger cookie?”
Take the sugar and the cream packages, tear off the top and pur one into the other. Use your spoon handle to mix the sugar and cream. Roll the open top down to seal and then light a match and bring the mixture to the flame and slowly rotate. Will take a few matches to get the mixture to melt. Do not burn. Once melted, squish softly a few times and them put down to cool. When it cools it hardens. Peal off the paper wrapper and there you have it. . .a nice sugar cookie. Tasty.
To this day I laugh when I recall that episode.
Had the MRE Spaghetti and Meatballs twice a day for eleven days in a row once. We'd open a sealed box of MREs, it'd have NOTHING but S&Mballs.
We called our higher, told them if the next truck delivery contained nothing but S&Ms, we'd kill and eat the driver. The next delivery was okay; somebody checked and made sure.
“We called our higher, told them if the next truck delivery contained nothing but S&Ms, we’d kill and eat the driver. “ - Archy
Why am I laughing so hard?
You weren't the truck driver? Or one of the guys who'd been eating spaghetts and mudballs for neartly two weeks, twice a day?
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