"Fresh" and "delicious" are adjectives that have never been used to describe a Meal, Ready-to-Eat. Packed into a brown plastic bag, an MRE is 1,200 calories of sustenance designed to fuel soldiers ...

MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) are self-contained military combat rations provided to soldiers to use when in combat or other field conditions where organized food facilities are not available.

The Army is looking for a few brave men and women to fight the urge to eat fresh and wholesome food for three weeks. The U.S. Army Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass., is seeking ...

Pentagon cooks up new MRE kits for U.S. troops 04:54. American troops have been consuming MREs -- "meals ready to eat"-- in combat and training for 35 years.