What you should know
What military site would be complete without at least some MRE recipes!?
Although MREs have gotten a lot better and now include milk shakes, mocha drinks, slim jim treats, and an assortment of new and interesting flavors, it never hurts to have some recipes to turn those "mystery meals" into something more, well, home cooked.
If you have any recipes that are not on this site, please email them to the web team!
Index of MRE recipes
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mocha frosting
> ranger pudding
> ranger bread pudding
> peach cobbler
> ranger cookie
> peanut butter pound
cake
> cheesy spaghetti
> beef & dumplings
> peaches & cream
> cafe mocha
> peanut butter cups
1
pouch of MRE cocoa
1 packet of instant coffee
water as needed
Add only enough water to the cocoa mix to resemble frosting. Add coffee granules as you wish to create a mocha flavor. Spread this frosting on such items as MRE pound cake, cookies and crackers.
1
MRE packet of cocoa beverage powder
1 MRE packet of coffee creamer
1 MRE packet of sugar (optional)
water.
Mix together creamer, powder and sugar. Add water and stir. Yum!
1
batch Ranger Pudding (see recipe)
1 half MRE pound cake
Crumble pound cake (if you're lucky enough to find one) into Ranger Pudding for a thicker, more delicious dessert.
1
MRE pouch of peaches
1 packet of sugar
2 crackers
water as needed.
Add more water to the pouch of peaches than usual. Add the packet of sugar and stir. Crumble the crackers and add to the contents of the pouch. Add more water if necessary and gently stir. Heat this over your source of heat while you eat your entree. Enjoy this warm and delicious dessert.
1 coffee
creamer packet
1 packet of sugar
Open both sugar and creamer packet. Add the sugar into the creamer packet, shake it thoroughly, and then fold it up together. Heat the packet over the book of matches until the contents have melted. Let it cool. You should have a caramelized cookie.
1 MRE Cocoa Powder
packet
1 MRE creamer packet
1 MRE sugar packet
1 MRE Peanut Butter packet
1 MRE Pound cake (vanilla flavor is best, avoid pineapple or orange)
MRE coffee packet (optional)
Begin by taking the spoon handle and slicing the pound cake so that you have two flat pieces. Empty the whole packet of peanut butter onto one piece and set it and the other pound cake half aside. Next, mix up the Ranger Pudding (see recipe). If you need the caffeine, then mix in some of the coffee, but not too much. Take this concoction and pour half of it over the piece of pound cake that you've just covered in peanut butter, put the other piece on top, and then pour the other half over it.
Cheesy Spaghetti
Spaghetti with Meat sauce main meal MRE
MRE cheese spread
Heat main meal and cheese spread in same stove for at least 10 minutes. Mix
together in main meal pouch. Add Tabasco sauce to taste. Garnish with crushed
MRE crackers if desired.
Beef and Dumplings
Beef stew main meal
MRE crackers
Water
Heat main meal for a minimum of 10 minutes. While cooking, crush crackers, while
still in package, into a uniform powder. Open package and add a small amount of
water to form a pasty dough. Form into dumplings. Add dumplings to hot beef
stew. Add Tabasco sauce to taste.
Peaches and Cream Cake
Peaches (not freeze-dried)
Pound cake
Coffee creamer
Heat pound cake and peaches in same stove (this can be done after your main meal
has been heated). Add creamer powder to peaches and stir. Pour peach-creamer
mixture into pound-cake package.
This recipe also works with pineapples, but omit the creamer in that variation.
Cafe Mocha
Recipe by GySgt Daniel Rosson
1 pkg instant coffee
1 pkg hot chocolate mix
1 pkg sugar
1 pkg non-dairy creamer
Mix and drink.
Peanut Butter Cups
Recipe by SPC Amber Scott
1 pkg peanut butter
1 pkg cocoa mix
1 pkg sugar
1 pkg creamer
water
Mix all ingredients together in the Cocoa mix package (or other available
package) and only using enough water to get mixture completely mixed (doesn't
take much at all) form into cups if desired or use a spoon to eat.