Ukrainian Armed Forces 24 Hour Combat Ration with a late 2022 expiration. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Support This Channel: / kbsurvival Kitbashed Survival T-Shirts: store.ericstra...
I have been in Ukraine for 9 months and have experience with these MRE's. Thankfully I have never come across that breakfast item. I can confirm that the lunch, dinner and OtHER breakfast items are delicious and proved to sustain me without any problem. GREAT video. PS. The bland hard tack is best used by putting the porridge on top of it and wolfing it down. When you are hungry, it is very satisfying! Cheers
Is that “hard tack”, stuff meant to be first softened by use of boiling water, or hot borscht soup? I believe I have seen things like that. They let it soak in the hot liquid, it makes a thick ‘stew’, mine was not too bad in cold weather.
@@pauljefferies9087 Yep, you sure can soak it, but, I was happy just to chomp on it. It's not too, hard. Good chef tip to let it thicken the soup. Classic trench gourmet tip! ;)
В раціоні насправді натуральний мед, тому він може кристалізуватися. Україна один із світових лідерів по виробництву меду, тому робити підробку немає потреби. А сніданок мабуть дійсно зіпсувався, бо навіть на вигляд не приємний.
I just had a Ukrainian 24 hr MRE shipped directly from "starving, war torn" Kiev with no problems whatsoever. Obviously the narrative we are being fed by the WH and the Media is bullshit. If you haven't figured out that BILLION$ of our tax payer money (which they REFUSE to do an audit on) being sent over there is nothing more than a vast money laundering operation, then..I just don't know what to tell you....
As honey ages, it crystallizes… it is normal. I love it when it starts to crystallizes. If you warm it with some hot water in its pack, it should liquidfy.
Yep, its a mark of purity. To liquify it back - just put the canister in hot watter , it takes a couple of min. However if drop watter in pure honey (even just a wet spoon)it will crystallize in few min. It goes to show you ho much people are gitting used to trash when they dont recognize the pure stuff. I actully offered an american friend a jar of crystal honey and he thout that I was ripping him off... Later after reading about it , he appologized.
The porridges that look more like thick soups are a thing in the Slavic part of Eastern Europe. Having chicken stew for breakfast seems like an acquired taste. When a former president has a candy factory, you have to have nice chocolate.
This is a great looking ration, some parts I don't think I would eat but some others looked great as well, the cherry jam especially. I think the pork and potatoes was my favourite here. Great review!
I"m sure that the breakfast entree probably just went bad for whatever reason. I had an MRE entree that had gone bad one time and it was almost a year away from it's expiration date.
I'm thinking the MRE was put through the ringer in shipping, it sounds like the porridge might have been compromised and gone bad. Then again, maybe the porridge makes you tough enough to keep the Russian Army out of your town.
Hard tack was often used as a thickener for stew or soup. It was necessarily considered something to eat like a biscuit of cracker. Crumble the biscuits into the broth before heating it.
The distinctive green colour of those bags and Russia ones is odd to me, you can spot them from quite a distance away. Including in front line pictures and drone footage.
I like your style, and the way you put all the stuff onto the tray without going through the monotonous displaying of each item before you prepare them. Great job!!
I think that porridge for breakfast was spoiled. My military friends gave me one set, but I haven't opened it yet. But I think I've read enough reviews to say that it shouldn't look like that. Greetings from Ukraine! Thank you for supporting us
The porridge is nasty because you didn't mix it right. You're not meant to pour a little off the top. You should have kneeded the whole bag to get it mixed properly for all of the ingredients to finally blend together. What you did there was like drinking the top grease of a can of chili that you never stirred. The actual porridge is still in the bag, you ate the watery detritus that floats to the top. Also I'm not sure that you understand how expiration dates work, especially when it comes to MREs. They don't expire like that, they don't go bad like regular food. Dates are for reference, it's not like a package of hamburger you bought at the grocery store that now is bad.
In the Canadian army back in the day I think I had one heated IMP and I put my fingers in to warm them up. The rest of the time IMPS were cold in the bush. No time to fart around in the bush.
Perhaps the breakfast porridge package got damaged somehow. I feel like these things are made by nutritionists, so health before flavor, but even then it shouldn't be worst than bland.
There is ton of channels that use the metal tray one MRE company used to sell them and give them away in large mystery boxes. I like Steve’s channel more from his veteran side of the meal. I spent 24 years in the US Army eating C rations original MRE’s no heaters and mostly everything dehydrate to improved to more improved to more improved T Rations. Other countries rations and eating local food will doing combat missions.
Sorry to do a little bit of American bashing ( love your videos btw) but the granular feeling of the honey is because it started to crystalize. All-natural honey does that. I know in America honey is not that natural, I remember a youtube video saying that in America, honey is 20˜30% natural honey and that the EU has a law that all the honey sold in the EU should be at least 80% natural honey. But they made a study across the EU and other non-EU European countries and they found that all the honey tested from supermarkets was 100% natural honey. so that is why the honey is granular like that :P. If you boil it in water, in a jar or cup, it will turn clear again. of course, over time, it crystallizes again.
I have a friend who tends bees and makes his own honey that’s 100% pure and I use his honey these days instead of buying it. I’ve seen the crystallization before, but it just it didn’t occur to me at the time I was filming the video. Hindsight is 20/20. Also not sure where you heard that 20-30% thing, I’ve always bought locally made honey that’s 100% raw honey. Maybe McDonalds uses something like that haha. Thanks for watching! Where in the EU are you?
@@KitbashedSurvival Romania. The 20~30% was about big box store honey so, locally bought should be 100%. I remember seeing a video about americans living in romania for a while and they talked about how they loved the bread here and then going back to the states and not being able to find any good tasting bread in the big stores. Also about american companies putting a lot of shugar in the food so i was just poking a little fun at that, i did not mean to be mean about it. Local food, home grown and home made food should be just as good everywhere. But the generaly available food in america, like in big box store...... it is just made to get people addicted to it trough lots and lots of shugar. But, unfortunately, i see a tendancie to buy more and more stuff here as well. People start to forget how to pickle, how to can food, how to smoke it, towns are starting to be less friendly twards people raising animals. I am glad i still have my parents in the country that grow and raise basic stuf and they make most of the things we use to cook our food with. Btw, after watching your videos on the battle boxes, i wanted to get them myself but....... they do not ship to europe :(. That was sad. I do not know of something similar in europe. Love your videos. Keep up the good work. Have a good day, for me it is close to bed time here.
First time watching I believe, I guess because I watched Nathan's the other day your video popped up, and I'm assuming you're talking about Steve he was probably my first one I watch years ago about MREs. I kind of like him he's pretty good he doesn't do it too often anymore baby hard to get the stuff for he looks like in a good shape so maybe not a everyday thing LOL. Nathan had issues with the language barrier and his phone and he did it like live on the phone. I suggested do it before you film so he's not messing around with the phone on camera, so your video was pretty set up well and you plan ahead and getting the correct names on the items of screen to prep for us. So that's cool. Not a huge fan of Music in the background but that's just me. It just takes away from you as you're talking and now I have to focus on background music while you're talking or sometime it might be too loud and will overpower your voice. Don't mind at the closing end I guess. But a good video for my first time watching and I think you did a good job I enjoyed it
It is strange how many countries make the midday meal so heavy. British rat packs make the midday meal pretty much pocket grub. So you can get on with the fight in daylight. All your cooking is done at your bivvy.
I continue to watch and suggest that with these I feel you should eat as we do. No tray, tables or mats. Filet that bag open and lay out flat and enjoy it that way. You will have the open view to show audience, cut down on cleanup and also....keep it real for those which these are made. Will help folks learn a thing or two as well while we all grow. For instance the semi-sterile status of the bags as they are opened presents an option for covering a would bandage or also water carrying/gathering vessel. Limitless when necessity is present.
Hi, like your reviews. Just curious as to why you refer to the main items as entrees? An entree is something you eat before the main meal, entrees = enter, which is the start of your meal.
I'm from U.S.A and at least in restaurants from where I'm at most of the time call the main dishes entrees. What you get before the main plate of food comes is usually called an appetizer. Main dish/entree may contain side dishes like a salad or cup of soup, or stuff like vegetables or a form of potato.
In the Russian tea culture the cherry jam can be used to flavour the tea. Don't know about current Ukraine, but at least in the Soviet era that was the custom in the CCCP...
One thing all these rat packs have in common ........after 5 days of eating then you end up passing a brick ........and it hurts , great review though 👌
It's the vowels making trouble for you. English short-U is a strange noise that gives trouble to Slavic speakers and to Spanish speakers -- you aren't alone here! Ahem!... this noise comes from very deep in the throat. The throat is completely relaxed, as wide open as you can make it. The back of your tongue is as low in the back of your mouth as you can make it go: it feels like you are starting to swallow. Speak through that: a kind of grunt. In the IPA, the letter for it looks like a Cyrillic L -- an inverted V to the Roman-alphabet readers. 'Ration' is much easier for Slavs -- more forward in the mouth. English short-A, like "cat, cash" rather than "father," that sounds more European.
hey, new here,,, but im glad you brought up you could heat up in boiling water. the hotter they end up the better! lol i was curious under todays times what Ukraine might be eating? some of the Russian ones are great! but seems those soldiers are getting the oldest of the oldest junk. Arkansas here,,,,
I can totally imagine that the breakfast porridge didn't taste good because you opened the package and then you put the heating chemicals into the bag and then you turned it sideways and Shake It shake it so I'm sure it didn't taste very good and it's probably a good thing you didn't eat much of it
Ugh. The rice porridge with chicken reminded me far too much of the "vomlette"; which, for some reason that escapes me, they reintroduced into the US MRE menu. I feel for the poor sods that came after me. I mentioned on another channel where MREs were being tried; don't the British beef stroganoff. But the US Army MREs have items in them that are really nasty; items best thrown at the enemy rather than eaten. The "vomlette" is just one of them.
@@seankane8628 true, but from long personal expeirence whenever I take a can out of a shopping bag or the cupboard any cat I've ever owned assumes this to be food for them - even if it's simply tomato puree for a pasta sauce I'm doing. When I actually start opening the can they get very insistent with many meows and much clawing of leg.
