A good performace Burrito!

On the boxes of the MRE’S
Military Rations are good performance meals. Food gives you energy. The more energy you burn, the more food you need. You are more active during field training, deployment and combat that in garrison. You need to eat more and drink more water or other fluids in these situations.
When you don’t eat enough to meet your body’s energy needs, you lose weight. This can lead to a loss of body fluids and degrades your performance. In the field you NEED three meals per day. Ready-to eat (MRE) contains 1200 to 1300 calories. Average daily calorie requirements in the field are 2800 to 3600 calories for males and 2000 to 2800 for females.
Tips-- If you can’t eat all the food in the ration….
· Eat some of each component to get a balance of nutrients
· Eat the high carbohydrate items first(crackers, beverage, base, fruit, jelly)
· Save unopened dry snacks items to eat when you’re on the move.
I ate the MRE’S for lunch and I just have to say one thing----If we are serving these (MRE) to our troops in Iraq we better bring them home “NOW”. They need are help and prayers!
How were they on a scale of 1-10 (10 being best)
Black bean and rice Burrito-- # 5-- looked more like tamale than a burrito, plan tasting
Mexican rice—#10 – nice favor, best of all the meal
Soda Crackers---- # 4, no salt on crackers had to add my own.
Beverage Base Powder—Lemon Lime # 1—very weak
Salt and pepper---? on # How do you judge?
Gourmet Instant Coffee and creamer--#6—ok for instant—a question on the Gourmet
Apply Jelly--- # 3, tasted like corn syrup, runny
3-Chocolate Chip cookies--# 8 – I think they were Mothers brand cookies. A little dry! One cookie broken.
Spoon— # 5--White plastic fork which will survive all wars
Napkin—wiping all the stuff off my desk and going to taco bell for a better Lunch!