Tuesday, June 24, 2008

UGR-E

The big brother to the MRE is the UGR-E it is a meal designed to feed 18 soldiers and includes a main entrée, vegetable dish, and desert as well candy, instant coffee, and wet naps, everything you need comes in the one box.
You take out all of the sides and utensils out of the box and then place the heater pads in the trays with the food. Once the heater pads are in place then you pull the tab on the edge of the tray and a water solution is released onto the heater pads which causes a chemical reaction that produces heat and heats up the meals.

After about thirty minutes the meals are hot enough to eat. Supposedly there are 13 or 14 dinner varieties and 6 or 7 breakfast varieties. We have only seen Chicken Breasts, Pork Ribs in BBQ Sauce, Beef Burgundy, Spaghetti, Pasta with Sausage, and Szechuan Chicken. Sides include mashed potatoes with gravy, jalapeno cornbread, glazed carrots, mexi-corn, green beans, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake, and a type of pound cake, M&Ms, Shock-a-Lots (chocolate covered coffee beans), Twizzler nibs and Reese’s Pieces. This is what a heated up meal looks like on Chinese/Italian Night (szechuan chicken and spaghetti and meatballs).

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