MRE: Meals-Ready-to-Eat

A friend from U.S. gave us MRE yesterday. It’s my first time to see one of those and I’m quite excited to see what’s inside the package. I’m really curious about this food’s life span. Imagine you can store it for 10 years! Yes, and even more than that! It has an excellent packaging to withstand rough conditions and exposures to elements. Amazing right? Hmmm ….. I wonder if there could be scarcity of food, people would definitely search for this. Unfortunately these are not available in public and it was also prohibited to sell on Ebay because of the risk from the heaters and matches inside the package. They cannot be shipped by certain carriers. I did some research because I find MRE quite intriguing.

MRE or Meals, Ready-to-Eat is said to be a self contained meals which is the current operational ration for U.S. military. It provides all the necessary nutrition soldier needs to sustain themselves. You will see the nutrition facts on each package. MRE comes with different menus. Currently it has 24 different menus to choose from but they make changes every year.

What’s inside MRE? You will find these things inside the package:

• The entrée – these are the main course

• Side dish – it could be rice, potatoes, corn or some other types.

• Cracker or Bread – I got scone cinnamon last night and cracker w/ apple butter

• Dessert – cookies or pound cakes

• Beverages – it maybe a coffee, tea, drink mixes, cocoa or dairy shakes

• Seasonings – I got cute Tabasco last night J

• Accessories – condiments such as creamer, sugar, salt, wet wipes, spoon, matches, gums

• Candies – it could be Skittles, M&Ms, or Tootsie Rolls

• FRH – Flameless Rational Heater, used to heat the entrée. (The part I’m curious about)

For those who want to find out how FRH works. I searched one from Youtube.

We tried the Cheese and Vegetable Omelet from 2007 menus. It comes with the omelet, hash browns with bacon, toaster pastry crackers, cinnamon scone, apple butter, sugar free beverage, seasonings and accessories.

Summertime

Its super hot this March. I can feel the heat through my veins. I've been craving for fruits such as mangoes, singkamas (turnips), watermelon, pineapples, coconuts (buko), and other mouth watering fruits. I prefer eating these fruits when chilled. Greenmangoes with bagoong or shrimp paste; singkamas with vinegar, salt and a little chili; Chilled buko juice thats still on its shell. haysss... It is so relaxing to sit back and relax while eating these fruits.

Don't ever forget the cool and sweetened halo halo. You can find it just anywhere. They're just blocks away from home. From php10, 15, 20 and above. Every stores near my home have their own strategies on how to crash ice. From the traditional way of scraping manually giving the scraper sweat all over before filling up the halo halo glass, and the high tech ones that can only be plugged. Let me just imagine how many ingredients we can find in halo halo? Halo in english means mix. Let me call it mixy mix. Cool huh. First the crashed ice, milk, sugar, then the sweetened bananas, sago, jellies, macapuno, white beans, black mongo beans, kaong, langka, pinipig, nata de coco; the toppings ube, leche plan and a scoop of ice cream. Did I forgot something? Oh well what can I say.. Just hmmm really mouth watering. Can't wait to have one after writing my post here. Lols.


One more way to enjoy summer. Nothing else but SWIMMING!!!!. Its a very lovely day being with your loved ones and families enjoying God's nature, the water. And sometimes meeting new friends on places like resorts specially for singles. This is one way to go to the outside world and start to meet new people. Swimming, playing, chatting and the most special way to enjoy... EATING.

Go ahead and enjoy summer!!! Just always remember to take a bunch of care and watch out for the foods you eat.. Have a wonderful vacation to everyone.

Iron Chef

Lets just say I love eating that's why I also like watching cooking shows. I was just influenced by my best buddy to watch iron chef. Every time we had our meal on breakfast we make sure our eyes are also stuck at this cooking show on youtube. Felt like eating with a gourmet even if theres only "tuyo" (dried salted fish) on our meal. ahihi:).


I cant forget Chef Morimoto and Bobby Flay's battle in New York. Because of time constraint chef Morimoto was unable to finish all his prepared dish making Bobby flay stand on the chopping board raised his hand as if he already won. I noticed that all the judges were Americans and I was uncertain if Morimoto will win. But judgment calls for the one who deserves it. Morimoto still is the Iron Chef.

I admire Japanese in their discipline and great respect on their work. It was indeed a good fight. At the end you'll be judged not just to your finished product but how you perform in finishing it. I just smiled when someone commented "how would you eat in someones restaurant if your unsure he didn't stepped on his chopping board before he cooks". Maybe it was very overwhelming for him but you cant blame people to make such comments. Next time if you'll be in national tv, take an extra care.