Homemade MRE Weird Food Finds 

The “omelette” in Spain is called a tortilla. Not as many eggs as you think. Mostly potatoes, but a very good dish.

That breakfast omelette with some hot sauce sounds like a winner tbh. Heat, eat, go is a perfect camping breakfast.

"Unusual" is being very kind to that Ramen noodles cup. "Hear again, I question myself regarding my life decisions." LOL! We appreciate your selflessness, DBA.

"Questioning my life decisions...." lol!

I have to admit this MRE was a little on the strange side 😂. But then again I could actually see enjoying the potato omelette plus the chocolate tamale with a cup of coffee. Overall it looked pretty good but I’d scratch the toothpaste pizza. 😂 That being said I would love seeing another video of the things you have left over. Sometimes in life strange can end up being very enjoyable. OVERALL A FANTASTIC JOB AND VIDEO

"It smells like a Denny's." quote of the day. Very interesting as always.

I kept saying salsa...salsa...salsa and laughed when you pulled out that pack. 🤣

Would like to see another one of these crazy food mixs, you are really brave to try some of the foods.

Love the weird food idea. Definitely worth revisiting or making an actual MRE of it.

Not sure if youre familiar with south american style mole (moe-lay) sauce, but most of them have chocolate in it as an ingredient also. I make a budget version of it with barbecue sauce and cocoa powder. Lol

Very interesting selection! The egg dish in a can seemed to me to be the most appealing. I've tried selection of tubed food that said it was for SR-71 / U2 operators. They all tasted like and had the consistency of baby food. The interesting thing was the device that squeezed the tube as you put pressure on the trigger. Thank you for the video.

This was the best video yet. You had me laughing the whole time...well after the omelet. The look on your face after the Russian space food was priceless. 😅. Keep up the great video. I needed a good laugh since ive had a setback after my surgery. Have a great Sunday.

THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO, D.B.A. ENJOY YOUR SUNDAY.....Z...

Definitely need to see more of these types of items

Great video. Apparently the canned omlet is available at World Market. In the morning you want to tank up on chow, so the omlet would be a good choice. I will check it out. The package would be useful. The cup o noodles were on clearance at Wally World for 25 cents. They did not sell.

Someone needs to forward to the MRE facility, the maker of the FRH that looks like it could heat up a bathtub full of water. Follow up vid- yes.

Both the Americans and Russians abandoned "tube food" back in the 70s or so. Ironically, the only ones who still use it are U-2 pilots, because they can't open their helmets while in flight. Oh, and "astronaut ice cream" has never flown in space. It's purely a gift shop novelty.

The savory walking tamales are awesome

This one was a lot of fun. I'll have to look for those omelets the next time I venture into World Market. As mentioned in another comment I suspect that tamale should have been called 'Tamale in Mole'. Calling it a 'chocolate almond' tamale gives an entirely, different presentation and it is completely understandable that you thought it would be a sweet sauce. I think it is a little misleading even though the most common mole does have cocoa in it and often does have almonds or other nuts ground/blended into the sauce to thicken it. I'm thinking the tamale would have been better as a side with the chili (or put the chili over the tamale and make what is called a 'full house') especially since you said there wasn't much food in the chili pouch.

We have places in South Texas that make homemade sweet tamales. They are very good. Enjoyed the step outside the norm with some different products.

He said the thing! "Let's get this out onto the tray."Nice! Fellow Steve1989 enjoyer I see.

There is a chocolate based savory sauce from Mexico called Mole, ( Moleay). It's has a dark chocolate overall flavor but there are usually around seven different types of chili peppers in it, peanuts or peanut butter. It's tangy and savory and tastes like nothing else. I've lived in Texas my entire life and Mole is one of my favorite sauces on enchiladas, tamales and just about anything savory.

The tube pizza made me gag, but otherwise, great selections. 😊

Would love to see more Odds.

Well done. Love it. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I love these videos and your style. Great job! Helping the algorithm!

Great video, I like the canned omelette, gonna try to get some of them.

Space food sticks and Tang powdered orange drink were the astronauts food from my childhood

Great video, I would like to see the follow up video with your other oddball items. I am going to try the omelette for sure!

This was a very entertaining recovery after the Buc-Ee’s/Mr Fish, flat liner episode!…😆🤣 You have a talent my friend and I dig your content greatly 🤟🏼

The tortilla de patatas is often served as a tapas, cut into cubes and served on toothpicks. Or you can cut into thick slices and make a sandwich. There’s versions with chorizo and I’ve seen it sliced and served with salad for a light dinner or lunch

Cool, i learned some things from this vid...lol ya no Russian astronaut food...thank you, Great video !!

Very interesting and i would like to see more like this. Good idea that the Russian Space Pizza comes with a cap, so that you can close up the tube so no more of it escapes.

Another great video DBA, Thanks for sharing it with us. JT

Well, some of us watch a lot of people suffering some kind of discomfort or embarrassment videos. So, absolutely, do another video like this…. 😅😂🤣

Always ready to see more. Thanks for a great video.

Great video! Today's food choices sparked some ideas for some new videos you might like to try: 1. MRE Use Me First - the food in this MRE would all be packaged in containers you could reuse (for instance the omelet tin), so if you are in a crisis which requires you to survive on MREs for a multi-day period, you would eat this MRE first and use the containers to consume later MREs in less user friendly packaging. 2. MRE All Cups - Everything comes in a cup like insta-noodles. 3. MRE Super Hot - One item in the MRE comes with a self-heater like today's chili and you use it to heat everything in the MRE one after another until the self-heater poops out. How much could you cook before the chemical reaction stops and the bag loses its heating power? Keep up the great vids!!!

If you open the MRE entree pouch the other way (tear open the side instead of the top), then it makes it easier to eat.

Love your videos! You should try to do a MRE from thrive market. It’s an online market so might be tricky with the expiration dates but they have healthier options and lots of fun stuff. Would be interesting.

Awesome. That was a blast and I'd be happy for a second one. Line of the show: it smells like a Denny's.

The Russian space food really raised my interest. I am showing my age.

one thing many dont realize is that in many asian countries noodles are actually common breakfast items the spacefood items are designed to be minimalistic in design and bland due to the insides of the ship and suits as well as in space its noted your taste buds will not activate the same, i can verify this from time in a simulator that alone made those meal items taste 20 times better than before hand

I think some sweetened condensed milk would have been great on the tamale also seen some individual small cans in some stores

Would you be willing to make a video of your cool teardrop trailer? Maybe I missed an old one. But a walk-around would be great!

Heck yes, follow up video please. That omlette looks delicious, but the only place I could find it was at World Market (and Spain, of course). It is $4.99+ $8.95 S&H, which wouldn't be terrible if you ordered several. Someone said that FRH is huge, and it really is!! Never seen one with it's own water supply either. Keep up the great videos, I really enjoy them and look forward to each one!

Another fun video, DBA! I didn't see your wishlist. Where is that located? Also, have you shopped at a Meijer for supplies? They are a Great Lakes area chain.

Would you mind doing a comparison of various chemical heaters? Magnesium vs lye vs drano vs etc.

Great video. Thank you.

Love your show. As far as the chili goes; You got some on your fingers, you got some on your shirt, but you missed your beard! YOU DA' MAN!!!😆

Sure loved this one. Opened my eyes to different breakfast foods. If you have similar items I sure would be interested.

The content is great as always but the commentary puts it over the top! lol! keep up the great videos!

Thank you ❤

Try the savory Walking Tamales by Filos instead.

Just found your channel and am enjoying it. May I suggest listing the MRE items in the video descriptions? Also, is there a reason you use mylar bags rather than just using ziplocks? I use mylar for storing raw rice, beans, etc and drop in oxygen absorbers. All the items I've seen you use (so far, I just started watching the videos) come in their own packages so I'm not seeing the need.

I'm always down for the odd and bizarre. Nothing here I have seen before. The breakfast cup of noodles is something I would grab out of curiosity for sure. I think the egg & potato is the winner, especially with salsa. Heck yeh! I'd pass on tube pizza. I imagine that being my walking around snack, and any folks passing by would just presume it is a tube of toothpaste I'm snacking on.😆 Bet they'd keep their distance. 🙃 Was hoping(?) it at least tasted something like pizza. I have had meal purees before. Not something I recommend as it is void of texture (and joy), but some taste exactly as they should, like down to layers of flavor and nuance. (I do product reviews/testing and have tried a lot of stuff over the years). This was a blast, thanks :)

Very entertaining content, 10 out of 10 for taking one for the team.

Very interested in more of this!!!

I’d absolutely like to see another video like this! 😊 Have you tried “o meals”? They are a self heating (just add water for the heater) meal. I got some at REI and, for 10 dabloons, they didn’t sock 😎

I’m been very curious about those breakfast ramen cups. Thanks for trying them so I don’t have to 😂

The tamale is probably meant to be more along the line of molé, which is a spicy chocolate sauce, not sweet at all.

Hot sauce makes everything better! That's what I was thinking with the omelet, it needs hot sauce.

Hey, if You're ever in the area around Cincinnati, Ohio, we have a store called Jungle Jim's. It's an international market that has foods from around the world. There are only two locations, but it is one of the must sees if you visit here. You'll find all kinds of things there, but be warned, you may end up spending some money like you did at World Market!

Interesting food choices, I enjoyed the video 😎

So the "russian" food tube had a drawing of the American space shuttle on it, that was my first bit of questioning !

Wonderful! I can't imagine astronaut ice cream actually being used in space, too many crumbs.

I tried the Fillos Walking Tamale Salsa Roja and it was absolutely delicious. Excellent corn and bean flavor, and a surprising amount of heat, although labelled as medium heat...They sell them at my Walmart, and I'll try the Salsa Verde next. I'm going to skip the Habanero one, which is labelled as hot, and the medium heat Salsa Roja was plenty hot for me.

The pizza in the tube made me laugh a little harder than I should have. Lol!! Thanks for the weird food video. Loved it!!

Regarding the chocolate tamale, you absolutely can both like/dislike something at the same time.

Thanks for bravely sharing your not so normal food finds!

Of course I'd like to see more!

Very much fun😅

Now I can start my Sunday!

can't believe you ate the space food

Beautiful Bride has been scoring a few new items each week at the Korean food shops popping up around town. Absolutely, we try everything out at home and get a "score" from the gang before it is considered for addition to their school emergency kits. Some of these products such as Korean Bulgogi noodles have become family favourites and Maria purchases them in the economy five(5) pack. ***Follow up on the tamarind from a past video. Maria informed me that it is available as a dried powder in small sachets and is finely ground the same as spices like pre-ground pepper. She always attempts to use fresh tamarind in her cooking saving a few sachets for emergency use, if the fresh product is not available. She agreed that what you displayed in the video surely looked like tamarind. You may not find it in the ingredients list as many things like this have different names in the various regions where it grows

thanks for the video

You took one (or more) for the team and I salute you. Don't think I could have done that. Thanks for the chuckles along the way! I noticed that every time you took a bite there was a cut in the video. I am assuming that either it was messy to eat or the face you made after taking a bite wasn't one you wanted to share? Or both?

Good stuff today. I like that you covered mains for breakfast. Sorry to “Walking Around Snack”, you’ll be back!

Dad Dad can I have more please. And I think for serendipity you should try the chicken nugget cosmonaut food. ❤

The Russians aboard the ISS usually eat canned foods such as borscht and canned meat and potatoes, along with packages of dehydrated food. Very much like old C-rations or K-rations. They don't use tubes any more. It's easier to send a commercial can of tuna fish than sending a specialized tube. The Americans, on the other hand, will use a variety of different MRE-type components and dehydrated and preserved food. They've displayed improvized "pizzas" and "burritos" that they made out of tortillas with MRE cheese to stick the toppings in place. But, whenever a supply ship is in town, it's highly popular because they usually get fresh fruit on the shipment. Spicy dishes are popular in space because your face becomes puffy due to the lack of gravity to pull your blood downward, so you can't smell or taste as well as at home. Freeze dried spicy shrimp cocktail is a classic US favorite. The astronauts from different countries trade items during meals, just like our soldiers do with MREs. Eating is a community event to share time together.

Good one. Very entertaining. Yes do another. 😁

Thanks for taking one for the team! Have you tried the Hereford brand beef taco meat or their chili?

I so appreciate your sufferings for our amusement and education. I am curious though. Have you come across anything yet that you just had to spit out? The wife and I love your videos and every time we go grocery shopping we are looking for things that would make a good MRE.

Yes on the Russian space food, worst is the borst

Please do the rest. Thanks

This is cool, I travel for a living so I appreciate the taste test of these shelf stable meal items

going to have to go in search of the omelette in a can they look so amazing. One thing i recently tried was self heating rice meals from Fairiemor, these come with a water activated heat pouch and taste so good, one thing to note all of the instructions are in mandarin, however the google camera translate converts the cooking instructions perfectly, worth checking out

I seen a video where someone tried the chicken nugget tube and it made them sick 😅😂 like one bite and it was not pleasent i guess. Very very bad. ❤ thanks for the video. Me and my son decided were gonna get the breakfast ramen and try it!

Couldn't find those kind of canned omellette on amazon but after searching "thickit canned food" I found two options of canned omelettes along with a whole host of other canned food purees for people with swallowing dysphagia. So texture will be drastically different I imagine.

I could not find the Seet Treat you showed, where did you get it from? BTW loved the Spanish omelet, I've never seen it in a tin

Thank you for going through a latin food store. Now can go through a Asian food store.???

I bought a few piles of the other tamales in that brand (And others, slightly cheaper too) but not the chocolate.

I think Billy Idol said it best... More, more, more... more more more! I finally built my first two MREs this week. Though I am going for more of an all day pack, to be supplemented with other emergency ration types of food and relying VERY heavily on snacks like nuts and other high protein items with only two entre items per day (one that can be heated for dinner and one best eaten cold for a quick lunch). Mostly put together for a day of heavy activity, like hiking distance, with minimum number of breaks. So really just going for energy to stay moving without much care for comfort, with the dinners being something to look forward to at the end of the day, for morale. 🍻

I wonder how the Chef 5 minute meals compared to O meals?

Very interesting video! I’ve always been curious about the Russian astronaut food. I think I’ll pass. 😂

Where do you buy these items and how much are they? Tried looking for the omelets.

Hey DBA! Happy Sunday!

What was the name of that one? OddMRE1?

What was the name of the omelette I take a lot of your recommendations Thanks

I saw Canned German Potato Salad at Walmart. I just could not get myself to buy it.

One man's trash is another man's... MRE...? Great job falling on that russian scythe for us. Sorry you had to do that )= Have you ever tried to make a homemade flameless heater?