field nutrition

[11madman]

A question for some of you active duty guys... What type of nutrition do you carry when deployed? Complete MRE's take up an ungodly amount of room in a ruck.

Anyone breakdown their mre's into more reasonable packages with only the essentials? Ever use backpacking food as an alternative?

In my E&E bag im packing a couple main courses (chicken stew) and carbs (pound cakes/brownies). Thoughts on this??

And finally.. what about a sniping environment where most of the day is spent in hides and stalks? Anyone know a guestimate for ideal caloric intake in a sniping environment? Duane? Anybody?
Thanks for your insight

 

[HAMMERHEAD2]

3 days at the approx size of single MRE.

 

[Dean C.]

They take up alot of room but they give you the right amount of calories you need. You can break them down for more room and throw away the junk you know you won't eat. Pogie bait, or civlian food brought out to the field is a good break but you don't too many guys living off it. Besides MRE's are not that bad once you reside yourself to thinking "it's these or starving for the next X number of week/months".
Arctic Rations which taste way better go up into about 3600 calories and come in two MRE sized pouches for the meals. But those two are for the whole day and have what you would consider civilian freeze dried type food.
Besides, by the time a long deployment is over we usually have resorted to canabalisim, just for a change of diet and to get us prepared both mentally and physically for that first trip to a steakhouse when we get home.

 

[NIB]

As they said breaking them down and takin what you need is the way I use to go. "Pogey bait"=lickies and chewies and drink mix with the weenie tots thrown in. Everybody made fun of me with my duffle bag full of pogey bait....that is until the 2nd week of our excersie and they were lining up for a hand out.

MREs.....make your bowels right! :barf: