I recommend the Cheese Tortellini MRE.
Its far superior to the fit and comfort than shepherds pie. Hopefully you have the lemon pound cake for dessert. I do like the Mars bar though. I have been thinking of installing one of those to see how it affects my performance. If it were me I would put the peanut butter on the Mars bar and throw away the shelf stable slabs of saw dust.
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I was wondering if anyone would comment on the meal. It is a Canadian IMP combat ration: 2015 Shepherd's PIe. I wanted something from my ration cache that was aging, but also at little risk of making me sick. Sounds like you have some experience with the IMPs!
I didn't think we would stop very long for lunch, so I brought a US MRE heater for my meal. While my main course was heating, I made a peanut butter sammich. The hamburger bun was dry, as expected (sawdust indeed). I only had Peanut Butter to put on the bun--no jam, just 2 PB packets.
The orange beverage powder was a tasty change from the water I had been drinking.
Not knowing how long I would have, I ended up not giving the entree long enough to fully heat. It felt hot to the touch (even hard to handle). Actually, it was basically room temperature inside even after more than 10 minutes in the heater. Still, the main course was pretty tasty. Beef, potatoes and corn in gravy. I didn't think it needed any ketchup, but would have liked some hot sauce.
Dessert was a Mars Bar and a boxed spice cake which I did not eat yet. The Mars Bar was a bit hard and the chocolate seemed a bit waxy or hard, but tasted pretty good at the end of the trail.
I do not have the Cheese Tortellini, if that is an IMP rather than US MRE. I do have other Canadian IMPs (2016 and 2017 dates):
Meatballs w/ Gravy |
Lasagna |
Chicken and Vegetable Stew |
Beef Macaroni |
Smoked Meat with Mustard Sauce |
And several older 2011 ones that are not holding up well (particularly commercial products inside that are not packaged as well as the mains).
Rob