Testing Out A 2 Year Old Home Made/Packed MRE! 

We have a similar store. Get a lot of my spices there too.

i do that too. i add some dehydrated cabbage and carrots, soy sauce and chicken or shrimp respectively. two pkgs noodles 1 flavor packet. makes two good meals.

Agreed. I add all kinds of stuff to ramen. Peppers, carrots, corn, meat chunks, etc. Tomato juice is good. A few tablespoons of quick barley will stretch it.

WinCo also sells a dehydrated soup veggies mix.

My daughter complained that her chips/crackers always get stale before they eat them. (The kids tend not to clip the bags back tight 🙄) I told her that I often "baked" chips and crackers at a low temperature in the oven when they were at school so that it took the moisture out and they were crispy again. She had 3 separate bags of corn chips that were stale, so we cranked up the oven and toast them about 10. Maybe 15 minutes. Let them cool and put in a big zipper bag. They were just as nice as when they were first opened. Grandkiddos were impressed and thought grammy was a genius lol

@@Emeraldwitch30 That's because grammy IS a genius! 😀

Dont get a cheap one. I love mine.

@@sharoncorippo4069 What kind did you get? I was thinking about a food saver.

@@debbiekerr3989 Foodsaver is the best of the sizes like this. Perfect for one or two people. For a larger family, I'd buy a commercial one. I've had and killed 2 Foodsavers but I love it. The bagging is not cheap but often I reuse them..don't wait. I also bought the caps to vacuum jars, too. Well worth the costs

Don't skip on bagging. Most bags are 3-ply but FoodSaver bags are 5-ply and well worth the money

Thank you very much for the good advice. I'm definitely going to buy a foodsaver.

haha don't worry I survived. :)

The Walmart in Houston TX (Dunvale) has plenty of Mountain House entrees. Beef Stew, Lasagna, Chicken and Dumplings, Breakfast Skillet and Chicken and Rice marked down to $7, Biscuits and Gravy $6 and ice cream sandwiches $2.50

I never really worried about an oxy absorber, as all the food is sealed, might help keep the package sealed tight but the others I have made back then are just as tight as the day I packed them, that's sort of why I chose this one, it wasn't as tightly packed as the others :) As for leeching, I would not worry too much about it, as for the most part, you would need to heat the plastic for it to leech.

Oh good idea

I will have to try that, sounds good.

A spoonful of peanut butter stirrred into the broth also works..

It was really good!

If you can find the packets of emergency water its not a bad idea but honestly i would carry it separate from the meals

That ramen was probably about 4 years old Tasted just like a new one.

Awesome! Thanks George.