Best Tips On Storing Your MREs and Advice On Freezing Them

ISSUE 9 | SEPTEMBER 2018

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TIPS ON STORING MRES AND ADVICE ON FREEZING THEM

BEST TIPS ON STORING YOUR MRES

and the US military was

AND ADVICE ON FREEZING THEM

determined to make positive

MREs, or meals ready to eat, were

changes to keep their servicemen

initially made for the US

and women happy. Now, the meals

military in order to feed their

are tasty enough that the

troops that were stationed away

civilian population is using them

from their camps for days or

for camping, hiking, hunting,

weeks while in combat. There were

emergency survival food, and

other field rations that came

other things. Here are some MRE

before the MREs that were widely

storage and usage tips to help

criticized by those who ate them,

you maintain your supply in the

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best condition until used.

with aluminum embedded in it that can really take some punishment.

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That being said, for the food you’re keeping for the next

The plastic pouches that these

disaster, you really don’t want

meals come in are super tough,

it mistreated at all.

made to take into combat in a backpack while a soldier is

The food inside the packages is

hiking, climbing, fighting, and

all precooked and can be eaten

various other activities for

right out of the package without

days. It’s a multilayered plastic

heating. However, the military

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packages all come with a chemical

The length of time that the meals

heater that can heat the main

are safe to eat after the

dish up to a tasty level of

manufacture date will vary based

warmth for the best flavor. Some

on the temperature that they are

aftermarket meals don’t have the

stored at. This is a

heater, and you either have to

consideration of importance if

eat them cold or warm them up in

you’re buying used, or

a pan. They are cheaper to buy

predeployed, MREs from the

that way, so you’ll have to

internet since they may have been

decide how valuable the heater is

stored in a desert location

for your desired use.

warehouse for months where the

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temperature rises above 125 F or

cut to a mere 30 months. You

more. New MREs aren’t a problem,

really don’t want to store your

however, but still should be

meals at any higher of

stored at a lower temperature to

temperature than that.

maintain freshness and preserve quality. There are full charts

There are people online that have

online, but typically, meals

kept meals for up to 120 months

stored at 55-65 F will last for

and then opened them and ate

84 months. Meals stored at 65-75

them. They weren’t infected with

F will only last about 66 months

microbes, but after a while, the

and from 75 -85 F the lifetime is

ingredients begin to separate,

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and they don’t taste as good.

temperatures, but shouldn’t be

But, you don’t need to store

kept in a freezer. This is

yours that long, and, eating a

because the plastic storage

science experiment isn’t what you

pouches can turn brittle, crack,

really have in mind when you buy

and then break if frozen. That

these meals.

can expose the food to outside air, bacteria, or mold and ruin

Can You Freeze Your MREs?

the contents.

That doesn’t mean that meals that

The meals are excellent all the

you’re carrying in the wilderness

way down to freezing

at low temperatures are going to

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be ruined in just one day, but

supply, be sure and read the

long-term storage at freezing

online comments before you buy.

temperatures should be avoided

That’s the best way to determine

because of the risk of the

the quality of the product before

package cracking. You can squeeze

you receive it. There are lots of

a package gently anytime and know

suppliers and just as many

right away if the air is leaking

opinions on the best

out, it’s quick and easy test.

manufacturers, but if you do your research, you’ll be more than

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