Someone just gave me a case of these (Southwest Style Chicken with Rice and Beans).  Each meal kit contains 1 pouch of food, a commercial version heater, a pouch of salt water for the heater and a condiments bag.  They've got a date of Sept. 2013 on them.

I think remember a thread on this a while back but couldn't find it.

Has anybody tried these and are they good, mediocre, horrible?  

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You got em for free, so try one.   When the food is free and I'm hungry that is one thing.  When I'm shopping with my own money I will buy what I like to fit my needs.  Heater Meals score in the "not with my money" category for me.

The ones I had where good but not worth the price you pay for them! Since you got them for free like how I did who cares!! Truth is the Cal count is really low something like 350-450 cal and at about $5 a box it costs almost twice as much as a MRE.


The taste of them where good I have had a lot worse MRE's when I was in the military.

I'd rather eat an MRE and I avoid those like the plauge. I'll eat with my terps or ISF before I'l eat an MRE.