Retired Tanker
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Ahhhh!!!! Flashbacks!!! Radiological survey team!! Turn back dose rate!!
Make it stop!!
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building the kitchen -vs- forgo that and use MRE's???
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Make it stop!!
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MOguy
Explorer
OK. ALL CLEAR.
rayra
Expedition Leader
Arty FDC. All we ever used it for was pens. And spoons.
/our job was to give radiation to people, not experience it.
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Retired Tanker
Explorer
And we have successfully hi jacked the thread.
Sorry.
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rayra
Expedition Leader
To be fair, someone did utter the incantation 'MREs'
/it's kind of like saying 'Beetlejuice'
I think it makes us former service people a good resource on how bad 'instant' processed food can be. There's certainly been huge advances in the stuff over the last 20yrs+. And a lot of the civilian outdoor market freeze-dried stuff is not terrible either. I'm actually curious to try some of the new 'shelf stable' sandwich / hand meals that have come out recently. Probably take a couple of those and some freeze-dried pouch meals on a solo road trip up the eastern Sierras soon.
/it's kind of like saying 'Beetlejuice'
I think it makes us former service people a good resource on how bad 'instant' processed food can be. There's certainly been huge advances in the stuff over the last 20yrs+. And a lot of the civilian outdoor market freeze-dried stuff is not terrible either. I'm actually curious to try some of the new 'shelf stable' sandwich / hand meals that have come out recently. Probably take a couple of those and some freeze-dried pouch meals on a solo road trip up the eastern Sierras soon.
M35A2
Tinkerer
OP, I like the way you think and suggest you go for it.
However, just because I am a backup-to-the-backup type person, I would still stow a small amount of some basic kitchen equipment 'just in case'. A frying pan, soup pot, knife, cutting board, and perhaps a few odds and ends. So not a kitchen, just some kitchen stuff.
However, just because I am a backup-to-the-backup type person, I would still stow a small amount of some basic kitchen equipment 'just in case'. A frying pan, soup pot, knife, cutting board, and perhaps a few odds and ends. So not a kitchen, just some kitchen stuff.
JuliusPepperwood
Observer
Just an ice chest and a Coleman stove man. I like to vacuum seal my meals before hand so I can just empty them into a pot. Saves a lot of space in the cooler also.
MOguy
Explorer
Sounds good.
Let me start by saying that my last pre-packaged meals served up by my Beloved Corps were C-rats. Lurps were just around the corner and MREs were a distant dream of some begoggled clerk. Therefore, I lack experience, much less expertise, on the modern military or civilian bowel blockers known as MRE.
Also, I understand that the OP may have some digestive tract issues that make MREs suitable to him in that they don't trigger disastrous gastric consequences. That pretty much points him to one solution over others.
Personally, I travel with canned goods sometimes, and sometimes I travel with groceries. Either way, I have to have a heat source to heat my soup or Spam (and morning coffee), so I travel with a stove (or two). Moreover, even when I don't travel with groceries, I travel with my refrigerator/freezer for cold refreshing drinks in the day and evening. Finally, since I need water to survive, I always have water with me, and because cleanliness is next to Godliness, I have a wash basin.
Clearly, I am traveling with a suite of kitchen appliances. They require room, take up space, etc. If traveling in the Outback without the trailer, they are in their little allocated spaces, separated to accommodate efficeincy (except for that refrigerator which takes up a hunk of the back). In the back of my trailer, they are organized more like a kitchen. Either way, I have a kitchen.
Don't we all travel with kitchens, really? You can save money by minimizing the size of the appliances (and arrange them for storage efficiency instead of looking like a kitchen), but when we examine what we pack, we usually have a stove (or a grill to put over the circle of rocks around the campfire), a cooler for beverages, and water with a basin.
I love my Spam, but I love it most with fried eggs and hash browns.
Also, I understand that the OP may have some digestive tract issues that make MREs suitable to him in that they don't trigger disastrous gastric consequences. That pretty much points him to one solution over others.
Personally, I travel with canned goods sometimes, and sometimes I travel with groceries. Either way, I have to have a heat source to heat my soup or Spam (and morning coffee), so I travel with a stove (or two). Moreover, even when I don't travel with groceries, I travel with my refrigerator/freezer for cold refreshing drinks in the day and evening. Finally, since I need water to survive, I always have water with me, and because cleanliness is next to Godliness, I have a wash basin.
Clearly, I am traveling with a suite of kitchen appliances. They require room, take up space, etc. If traveling in the Outback without the trailer, they are in their little allocated spaces, separated to accommodate efficeincy (except for that refrigerator which takes up a hunk of the back). In the back of my trailer, they are organized more like a kitchen. Either way, I have a kitchen.
Don't we all travel with kitchens, really? You can save money by minimizing the size of the appliances (and arrange them for storage efficiency instead of looking like a kitchen), but when we examine what we pack, we usually have a stove (or a grill to put over the circle of rocks around the campfire), a cooler for beverages, and water with a basin.
I love my Spam, but I love it most with fried eggs and hash browns.
You don't even need to empty them into a pot. Most vacuum bags can go straight into boiling water, no mess, no fuss.
MOguy
Explorer
I suppose the kitchen guys could just pop them in their microwave.
Buddha.
Finally in expo white.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is if you are going to bring in mre's to eat, get rid of all those boxes and excess plastic packaging that are in every meal kit so you don't have to pack all that stuff out with you. It never ceases to amaze me one box of a mres turns into an overflowing garbage bag full of wrappers and packaging all sticky and Smelly.
I don't eat the things myself, just the mention of them brings back memories of my sleep system that constantly smelled of mre farts.
I don't eat the things myself, just the mention of them brings back memories of my sleep system that constantly smelled of mre farts.
Coachgeo
Explorer
yeah that was mentioned as a disadvantage to using them.... you'de need a larger garbage storage system.
Microwave - LOL! That's real overlanding.