Elementry Steam Power Engineering, copyright 1923,1933,1948 by Edgar MacNaughton. Got it at a used book store, in perfect condition.

Managed to FINALLY find my husband a sleeping bag to fit him. Canned applesauce. Got another Kellykettle (stainless). Honey, quinoa and TP all downstairs. Putting our house on the market...fingers crossed!

Tweaked my go bag with some more civilized amenities, real toothpaste, new socks, updated friends/family contact list, repacked the emergency bag for the cat (note, cats don't like being stuffed headfirst into a backpack and zipped in, but when you're in a hurry...)

Tonight's a floor to ceiling scrub for my kitchen and dining room in preparation for the Great Moose Preserving Event this Saturday. The cuts are being done tomorrow, and Saturday is bottling and sausage making for an estimated 100lbs.

Worked out a home made MRE menu...
1 Medium size ziplock bag contains 1 day's meals.

Breakfast is
1 pkg instant oatmeal
1 portion bannock mix (dry ingredients for 2 portions in one ziplock bag - cook all and save 1/2 for lunch)
3 servings instant coffee (sugar and whitener premixed with it in a small ziplock baggie from the dollar store)

Lunch is
Chicken/vegetable.noodle soup (home mixed from dry ingredients and in a small ziplock bag)
1 portion bannock mix (cooked at breakfast and saved)

Dinner is mac & cheese (1cup pasta, 2 tsp milk powder, 1tsp cheese sauce mix, pepper to taste)
1 can vienna saussage
1 tea bag

Also in the package is 1 envelope hot cocoa mix and iced tea mix.

This menu will require about 2 - 2 1/2 cups of water for cooking plus water for coffee, tea, iced tea, cocoa

I will be adapting this to use TVP instead of canned saussage as soon as I pick more up at Bulk Barn.
This will reduce bulk and allow for a cereal bar and hard candy or gum, and some dried fruit.
I also want to try some recipes using instant rice, barley, couscous, etc.
The idea behind the main dinner meal is to be able to cook it with 1 cup of water or less.

Here is a pic of the contents...

Here is a pic of it all packed up...

A very nice MRE, lightweight and practical. It would be interesting to calculate its calorific value. I love Vienna sausages, I vote you keep them.

I'm going to add a blast from the past. Tang, the orange flavored beverage that some love and others hated. When it first came out even some of the Bars were serving it. Gereral Mills developed it in 1959 and it didnt take off until NASA used it for the space flights. Now in 3 flavours

my outhouse

Outhouse! Oh, OK...looked like a gallows to me!
A little drafty though

Hit Bulk Barn last night and picked up small quantities of...
Dry Tortillini
Dry Ravioli
Plain TVP
Tricolor Couscous
Instant Rice
Red split lentils

I'll be testing some more recipes for home made MRE's today.
All main dishes are designed to cook with 1 cup of water and be boil/simmer.
The entire MRE for 1 day will use exactly 2 cups of water, which means 1 standard 500ml water bottle for each day of meal cooking.
I'm feeling lucky about the ingredients I got last night as the total was $7.77!

A very nice MRE, lightweight and practical. It would be interesting to calculate its calorific value. I love Vienna sausages, I vote you keep them.

One MRE I prepared consisted of...
Breakfast...
3 x instant coffee (sugar & whitener)
1 x instant oats
1 x dried apricots
1/2 x bannock
Lunch...
1/2 x bannock
1 x chicken soup w/dried veggies & noodles
1 x cereal bar
Dinner...
1 x Cheese tortillini w/dried veggies & TVP
Misc...tea, iced tea mix, hot cocoa mix

Not including the drink mixes, tea, coffee, dried veggies, etc. it added up to about 1800 calories as per nutritional info on packages.
I figure with everything included it would hit about 2000...just about right for a GHB or BOB!
A serving of trail mix or nuts would bring that up to about 2200.
The major contributor to calorie count was flour for the bannock mix.

Thanks for bringing that up...it made me take a look and I may need to make a few adjustments to get the calorie value right!

lol, im not done yet.

A very nice MRE, lightweight and practical. It would be interesting to calculate its calorific value. I love Vienna sausages, I vote you keep them.

Not including the drink mixes, tea, coffee, dried veggies, etc. it added up to about 1800 calories as per nutritional info on packages.
I figure with everything included it would hit about 2000...just about right for a GHB or BOB!
A serving of trail mix or nuts would bring that up to about 2200.
The major contributor to calorie count was flour for the bannock mix.

Thanks for bringing that up...it made me take a look and I may need to make a few adjustments to get the calorie value right!

I think it may be better to have around 3000 - 4000 calories per day given that you are meeting needs for a high activity / high stress environment not to mention the possible exposure to cold and wet conditions.

A very nice MRE, lightweight and practical. It would be interesting to calculate its calorific value. I love Vienna sausages, I vote you keep them.

Not including the drink mixes, tea, coffee, dried veggies, etc. it added up to about 1800 calories as per nutritional info on packages.
I figure with everything included it would hit about 2000...just about right for a GHB or BOB!
A serving of trail mix or nuts would bring that up to about 2200.
The major contributor to calorie count was flour for the bannock mix.

Thanks for bringing that up...it made me take a look and I may need to make a few adjustments to get the calorie value right!

I think it may be better to have around 3000 - 4000 calories per day given that you are meeting needs for a high activity / high stress environment not to mention the possible exposure to cold and wet conditions.

Absolutely. I will be reconfiguring these for a higher calorie count. I like the dried pasta and bannock mix due to their higher calorie value. A few more snacks would be in order...things that are small and can be eaten on the go.
I may even package up a one day kit using larger bags that would contain meals,snacks, toilet paper & poop bag, and 1 x 1.5. water and 1 x 500ml water.

Added a spinning reel, tackle, and a tire tube repair kit to the BoB.

350 gallon water tank and 48 #10 cans of freeze dried fruits and veggies.