Gallons Burned: 0.0
I just purchased a box of military surplus MREs (meals ready-to-eat) from my local army navy surplus store. Now I have 7 days of heated emergency rations in the event I get stuck in a blizzard/zombie invasion. I, being a total nerd for these sorts of things, did a little research and found out about the history of military foods stuffs from the Civil War forward. About 1.7 million became ill and 45,000 men died from tainted food in the Civil War. The Department of War (later "defense") has been working on this issue ever since.
Anyways the modern MREs I've got will still be edible for the next 7 years, so I'm all set.
For those who are interested here's the menu:
(No dreaded ham omlets)Here is the US government's official MRE site for further study:
http://www.dscp.dla.mil/subs/rations/programs/mre/mreabt.asp
While I was at Ft. Lewis, WA in the summer of 2009, we had a salmonella outbreak. Apparently it affected all of the dairy shakes in the MRE's we were eating. Gross! I used to think they were fun to eat when my dad would bring some home, but now that I've had to go weeks eating nothing but MRE's, I have lost all the excitement ;)
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