Microwaveable Food Cups

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (John A)

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:57:08 GMT

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.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:08:52 GMT

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.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (CajunKing)

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:10:43 GMT

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.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:28:43 GMT

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

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (AHI MPLS)

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:10:19 GMT

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!!

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:39:19 GMT

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.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (QuikFixMeEats)

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:12:36 GMT

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 :-)

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:26:47 GMT

Oh, that must have been fun.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Poverty Pete)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:49:09 GMT

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

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:17:33 GMT

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.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (stricken_detective)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:04:29 GMT

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

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:31:52 GMT

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.

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (NYPIzzaNut)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:15:11 GMT

They don't get good chow there?

Re:Microwaveable Food Cups (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:12:58 GMT

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.

Microwaveable Food Cups (QuikFixMeEats)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:04:46 GMT

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.