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How Military Meals Ready to Eat Can Supplement Your Emergency Food Rations in a Disaster

Disaster can strike in a moment’s notice. If it happened to you, would you be prepared?  Beyond the first aid kit, most people not ready for a true emergency. When tragedy strikes on a large scale, affecting hundreds or thousands at once, how will you get your family what they need?  With large scale disasters, most homeowners are on their own for the first 48-72 hours while emergency workers gather and prepare to assist. All families should have an emergency preparedness kit that contains enough food and water for at least 3 days.

Military meals ready to eat can go a long way to providing your family with their food needs for the first 72 hours.

While you may think you probably have enough food in your pantry to stretch for 3 days, you never know when that food may become contaminated or even inaccessible. When gathering supplies for an emergency preparedness kit, it is best to plan ahead with a food supply that lasts. While canned goods, crackers, and high-water food items are good choices, it is difficult to create a complete and nutritious meal out of them. For that reason, military meals ready to eat, or MRE’s, should always be a part of your kit.

Here are five distinct advantages that military meals ready to eat have over standard grocery store canned goods.

• MRE’s are self contained in tamper-proof packaging that is water-tight and weather-proof.
• Meals ready to eat can hold their nutritional value for up to 5 years making them simple “set-it-and-forget-it” emergency food rations.
• These types of emergency food rations do not require cooking or water.
• Military meals-ready-to-eat can be eaten hold or cold.  Many come with MRE heaters which require only a cup of water to heat the entrée to near boiling with no stove required.
• MRE’s come complete with an entrée, side dish, drink mix, condiments, spread, cracker and dessert.  To be quite honest, they are a lot of fun to eat, especially when kids get to open their own and dump out the “treat bag” so-to-speak.

With more and more families preparing ahead of time for disasters, military meals ready to eat are not made just for the military anymore. There are a variety of suppliers that offer items from the basic needs to gourmet wants, spreading a wide range of budgets.

Military MRE’s are the easiest, safest and most cost effective way to stock your emergency kit. Be prepared. Buy MRE’s. You’ll be thankful when disaster strikes.

About the Author

As an independent and responsible citizen family, we believe in assisting the government in a disaster situation by being ourselves self-reliant and prepared. This requires preparation and planning. We also want to be a valuable resource to you and other families in our neighborhood, county and city. That’s why we created a site specifically designed to provide you with information on military meals ready to eat or MRE’s. Visit MRE Meal Warehouse for information on MRE’s, emergency food rations and other disaster preparedness resources.

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