Where can you find MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat)?

Question

I'm going on a six-day hiking trip and food is an issue.

Can you find MRE's at the grocery store, or do they have to be ordered in, or what? Help please.

Answer 1

try a sporting goods store like Cabela's.

Answer 2

Go and talk with the forest service, Cabellas or any out door recreation store.

I usually just buy alot of top ramen, and crackers.  You can find Salamanders and other small animals to put in your food for different days.  Might sound gross to most, but hey, your surviving right?  I went on a two week hiking trip, and took nothing but top ramen, crackers, Cans of Stew, WATERPROOF MATCHES, Pistol, knife, rope, and your spirit.  It will be fun..

Answer 3

You can find them online easilly enough.  Don't let these guys scare you off.  MRE's are great.  When you get them from anywhere online,   you just open them up and package  some main meals and some heaters and some snacks and some drinks, all from the meals individually or in daily kits.  YOU DONT HAVE TO CARRY THE ENTIRE PACKAGE.    Also,  Tell me where to get millitary MRE's. please...  civillian version which is what you get online is much lighter in weight and light duty,  Your crackers may be broken when you open them from the civi version, but not the military version.  Any way, dont let the closeminded shut down your mind too!!

Enjoy

Answer 4

Try an Army Surplus store.

Answer 5

If you're mind is set on MRE's then try this site www.cheaperthandirt.com.

But I really think you'd get more (enjoyment of flavor and menu, cost savings, weight savings) from Mountain House brand of freeze dried camping food. If you're local sporting good/outfitter stores don't carry it you can find it on these pages:

www.campmor.com

www.mountainhouse.com

www.rei.com

Good luck, and have a great time!

Answer 6

REI, local outdoor store.

Answer 7

You won't find them in a grocery store, but army surplus or outdoors stores might have them, and of course online.

But I'm worried about you because most people do not buy MREs for backpacking because they're unnecessarily heavy, are over packaged to survive shipment and use in a war zone, they are often unappetizing, and they're expensive.

You can purchase all the food you'll need for backpacking at the grocery store, package them yourself in Ziploc or other plastic bags, and have much better and varied meals and snacks, much lighter, and much less expensive.

Carrying MREs might seem like a simple way to take care of the "problem" of food for your trip, but it might very well ruin your trip because of the reasons I already mentioned. Backpackers spend a lot of time thinking about food and planning theirs meals and snacks and it's really an art learned over time through experience.

Ramen noodles represent a similar newbie error in backpacking, as they lack in nutrition and the quality of being "food."

A typical menu for me would be multigrain crackers, a loaf of cheddar cheese, dehydrated beans, corn tortilla chips (slightly crushed), hot sauce, instant brown rice with dried vegetables and a chicken packet (flat foil sealed pre-cooked chicken available near the tuna in the grocery store), curry couscous from a box with a tuna packet, hot sauce, soy sauce, olive oil, sandwiches for the first day, frozen egg beaters for the first breakfast, raw fruit like apples and bananas, and dehydrated fruit for later days such as mangoes. Peanut M&Ms and hard or soft chocolate chip cookies are for all day hiking energy.

As you can see, other than the excess of the foil packets of meat, I don't go in for freeze dried meals or special energy bars or any of that newfangled expensive stuff of dubious worth.

Answer 8

FarCry2 pretty much nailed it on the head. This is definitely an art form. Plan carefully, remove anything that requires to be cold. Cured summer sausage and chicken&tuna packets (note, NOT cans) will provide all your meat. Pastas with some cheeze and light sauces will be all that you need. Peanut butter & honey are great for protein, fat, and sweetness.

Plan and package your meals so that you dont have too much but not too little. I usually create "meal bundles" that has all the major ingrediants together with a rubber band or ziplock bag with any special instructions written w/ sharpie on the package. That way you can leave any boxes at home.

Lastly, bring small amounts of spices. They can really add some flavor to a relatively bland meal w/ a dash of this or that.

Answer 9

here is one prob you may not hear about a lot MRE's will cause you constipation if you dont counter them with fresh fruit and fruit juices (although this may have been only my experiance with them-- other will have to weigh in on this) i really dont know if the military ordered them that way but it would cause a good hike to become a bad run in a few days of nothing but mil-mre's the other answers are better than most MRE's but if you are deadset on Mil-MRE's try www.sportsmanguide.com or www.shotgunnews.com both have advertisments for MRE's