Microwaveable Food Cups

Have you tried any of the microwaveable food cups at the grocery store?  For example, the Easy Mac cups, Velveeta shells. the hundreds of Soup cups, etc. just add water or heat and serve.  There are so many...eventually they will have an isle packed with them.

I not only have tried them, I ship some once a month to my grandson and his wife who are in Iraq. I also ship them microwaveable pouches of various foods, including pasta and rice meals.

They don't get good chow there?

NYPIzzaNut


They don't get good chow there?

After a day or a night in the field getting to stay in their quarters and not have to travel to the dining facility (as they call it now) is a pleasant change.

That is very nice of you. I'm from a military family & have heard nothing but bad things about the MRE's.

stricken_detective


That is very nice of you. I'm from a military family & have heard nothing but bad things about the MRE's.

Oh, the MREs aren't bad, so long as you have enough condiments (read hot sauce) for them. But I remember the C rations we had in Korea. Now those were, um, interesting.

I remember once, Viet Nam 1973, opening a pack of C rats dated 1944.  Ummm, ummm, good.

Oh, that must have been fun.

Michael, which ones do you send?  That is nice of you.  My family is on the East Coast and they ship foods to me I don't have in California.  Most Utz and Tastykake :-)

QuikFixMeEats


Michael, which ones do you send?  That is nice of you.  My family is on the East Coast and they ship foods to me I don't have in California.  Most Utz and Tastykake :-)

I send them Dinty Moore stews, Chef Boyardee products, macaroni and cheese (I forget which brand), and I send him the Uncle Ben's 90-second microwave flavored rices, as well as Zatarain's pouches of jambalaya and red beans and rice, both with sausage. I also send him boxed, microwaveable Simply Asia noodle meals.
 
And lots of jerky and Slim Jims, and every so often some summer sausage.

  What!? No Salami from Katz's ?    my brother and I send Hickory farms to our Stepdad in Kabul... mostly as a long standing joke, but his buddies all go crazy for the stuff!!

AHI MPLS


  What!? No Salami from Katz's ?    my brother and I send Hickory farms to our Stepdad in Kabul... mostly as a long standing joke, but his buddies all go crazy for the stuff!!

Salami must be refrigerated. The stuff from Hickory Farms, as with the summer sausage I send, does not

Michael

I know they appreciate the break from using the dining facility.  I have a good friend that just got back from his third stint in Iraq.  I was sending him various canned and pouched goodies every month.

We went out to dinner the other night, he brought along some of his pictures from this last stint.  There were several of them taken on the days the boxes would arrive, and seeing those smiling worn out faces eating zatarains and ravioli made me smile too.

CajunKing


Michael

I know they appreciate the break from using the dining facility.  I have a good friend that just got back from his third stint in Iraq.  I was sending him various canned and pouched goodies every month.

We went out to dinner the other night, he brought along some of his pictures from this last stint.  There were several of them taken on the days the boxes would arrive, and seeing those smiling worn out faces eating zatarains and ravioli made me smile too.

That's really neat.

stricken_detective


That is very nice of you. I'm from a military family & have heard nothing but bad things about the MRE's.

 
I do not think they are eating MRE's (Field rations) in the newly designated dining facilities.