Halal Meals

Halal meals are meals that have been developed as Humanitarian Assistance meals and as meals for the Iraqi Soldiers when they don’t have the opportunity to set up their kitchen and buy food on the local economy, basically an Iraq MRE provided by the US government. Since the Iraqi Soldiers don’t particularly like them we have a stockpile left over from the move to Basrah and the time before we established steady state operations. Rather than let them go to waste we eat on them occasionally. There are two different types one that comes in a self contained box with everything in it and another that has a boxed main entrée and a supplemental bag that goes with it. Below is a picture of the boxed meal.

The box meal contains a canned main entrée, roasted peanuts, dried banana chips, breakfast cereal (frosted flakes, coco puffs, rice crispies), sunflower seeds, pretzels and the regular MRE style sundry items. Since they are designed for the Middle East there are lots of mutton and chicken varieties, some favorites include the chicken curry and the mutton stew with potatoes. The one pictured above is a a chicken chili and it really wasn’t that good too many beans and not my idea of chicken chili at all.