If you haven't seen these essentially fire-proof, water-proof, thick brown packages before, let me introduce you to what some of the military lovingly call "meals, rarely edible." Each package comes ...

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.

When I first met my now-husband, Dane, he was heading to U.S. Army Ranger school, and during his time there, he wrote me letters on the cardboard packaging of his MREs, or a Meal, Ready-to-Eat, while ...

Not many people who have ever indulged in an MRE would say they were overly concerned with things like "nutrition" or "recommended daily allowance." Still, on the label of every one of the U.S.