You’ve been out in the field for weeks without the gut truck, so Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) on repeat is your reality. MREs are a staple of deployments and field training exercises for the U.S.

Whether it's in paper or plastic, either lovingly packed or thrust out a drive-through window, who hasn't pulled lunch out of a bag? Members of the U.S. Marine Corps often eat out of a bag, too. But ...

Do you hate yourself? Then boy, do we have a gift for you: The world’s absolute crappiest toilet paper! That’s right, you can apparently buy a bulk order of the single packs of TP found in Meals Ready ...

Airmen from the 633rd Medical Group Nutritional Medicine Clinic pose for a photo at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. (Senior Airman Alexandra Singer) One of the challenges of providing packaged food that ...

A provision included in the House version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act is calling for the addition of a popular muscle-building supplement to the military’s traditional Meal, ...

Photo Credit: Dave Kamm, NSRDEC Researchers at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center are investigating nanocomposite packaging for rations (penne pasta in nanocomposite ...

Soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado, try the pizza MRE in 2014. After more recent modifications, now it's ready to be packaged into MREs. (David Kamm/Army) A staple of ...

Nary has a military meal been so odious as a handful of hotdogs vacuum-sealed in a pouch. From 1993 to 2000, the Frankfurters, Beef, Menu #6 MRE wreaked havoc on the bowels of service members ...

The Meal, Ready-to-Eat is a staple of the U.S. military. Self-contained, shelf-stable, and packed with calories, MREs are the ideal food source to feed a formation on the move or when you forgot to ...

The pork sausage patty is out and buffalo chicken is in, as the Pentagon is set to dish up revamped field rations with more protein-filled snacks and caffeine starting next year. Unpopular prepackaged ...