Really OT MRE A B box contents

Richard from SE AZ · Aug 30, 2015

Recent former military should know, What is the difference in contents between the A and B box and which is better. I carry MRE's while hunting and my remaining MRE's are pretty outdated so I have to update for this hunting season.

Greg1959 · Aug 30, 2015

MRE Contents

There are 24 menu's to choose from. Components are selected to complement each entrée as well as provide necessary nutrition. The components vary among menus and include both Mexican and white rice, fruits, bakery items, crackers, spreads, beverages, snacks, candy, hot sauce, and chow mein noodles for the pork chow mein entrée. The fruits may be applesauce, pears, peaches, pineapple, or strawberry. The bakery items include a fudge brownie, cookies, fruit bars, a toaster pastry, and pound cake in flavors of lemon, vanilla, orange, pineapple, and chocolate mint. Each meal also contains an accessory packet and flameless heater. The contents of one MRE meal bag provides an average of 1250 kilocalories (13 % protein, 36 % fat, and 51 % carbohydrates). Being field rations they had to be designed to take considerable punishment in packs, air drops, and other forms of abuse remaining safely intact until consumed.

MRE Case A = Menu 1-12 MRE Case B = Menu 13-24
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IA Roy · Aug 30, 2015

Greg, not to offend you, but I believe your units are incorrect. According to a conversion web page 1250 kilocalories is 1,250,000 or 1 1/4 million calories. I don't think a soldier could carry a meal weight wise with that many calories.

Greg1959 · Aug 30, 2015

IA Roy- no problem. I had just copied and pasted the info from the website that I had linked in my previous post.

RGMartin · Aug 30, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:26:15 08/30/15) Greg, not to offend you, but I believe your units are incorrect. According to a conversion web page 1250 kilocalories is 1,250,000 or 1 1/4 million calories. I don't think a soldier could carry a meal weight wise with that many calories.

"calories" as listed on our consumer food packaging are the same unit of measure as "Kilocalories" which are used in Physics. Just dumbed down for the consumer.

A pound of butter is about 3,300,000 science based calories, but is only 3,300 if you read the label.

Charles in Aus. · Aug 30, 2015

The designation of Calories has to be one of the silliest and most confusing measurement in existence .

C , [u:82f6c09d54]capital C [/u:82f6c09d54] calories are 1000 times c[u:82f6c09d54] lower case[/u:82f6c09d54] c calories.

Try sorting that out from the fine print on the back of a packet !

oldsarge · Aug 30, 2015

"Meals,Ready to Eat"=3 lies in one packet

Richard from SE AZ · Aug 31, 2015

Thank you Greg. "B" box was more to my liking. Ordered it today.

Really OT MRE A B box contents

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