{"id":64,"date":"2011-02-12T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preparedblog.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2011-02-12T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:48:51","slug":"mres-simple-quick-and-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/general-preparedness\/mres-simple-quick-and-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"MRE&#8217;s &#8211; Simple, Quick, and Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The acronym <strong>MRE <\/strong>stands for \u201c<strong>M<\/strong>eal, <strong>R<\/strong>eady to <strong>E<\/strong>at.\u201d\u00a0 An MRE is usually packaged as a full meal, including a main dish, crackers or bread, and some kind of spread like peanut butter, cheese or jam.\u00a0 They usually also contain a snack, dessert, spoon, gum, salt, pepper, instant coffee, cream, sugar, and even toilet paper.\u00a0 Newer MRE\u2019s also usually have a special heater that is activated by pouring a small amount of water into a plastic bag, which can be used to heat the food when the weather is cold.\u00a0 (Some MRE main dishes taste much better warm than cold!)\u00a0 MRE\u2019s can be stored for up to three years at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, although they can last for years longer than that, stored at lower temperatures. \u00a0Although they are heavier than most freeze-dried backpacking meals, they are sometimes quite handy because they don\u2019t require any cooking or boiling water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, it has become very difficult if not impossible\u00a0to obtain surplus military MRE\u2019s, although they are available legally from various distributors.\u00a0 For short-term, easy-to-prepare, high-calorie meals that require no additional water or preparation, MRE\u2019s are hard to beat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acronym MRE stands for \u201cMeal, Ready to Eat.\u201d\u00a0 An MRE is usually packaged as a full meal, including a main dish, crackers or bread, and some kind of spread like peanut butter, cheese or jam.\u00a0 They usually also contain a snack, dessert, spoon, gum, salt, pepper, instant coffee, cream, sugar, and even toilet paper.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/general-preparedness\/mres-simple-quick-and-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MRE&#8217;s &#8211; Simple, Quick, and Easy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,15,26,36,39,41],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-preparedness","tag-3-day-kit","tag-bug-out-bag","tag-disaster-preparedness","tag-food-storage","tag-meal-ready-to-eat","tag-mre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}