March Challenge- MRE

This month's challenge was to come up with a concept dish for an MRE (meal ready-to-eat). These little pouches of deliciousness are what our servicemembers eat when they're in the field. Actually, MRE's take a lot of flak, but they're not really that bad. Well, I've never had to eat them 3 times a day for an extended period of time, but every now and then they're actually pretty good! The food is all in separate pouches, and they're designed in such a way that with about an ounce of water you can have a hot meal! Can't beat that when you're out in the middle of nowhere. There's a chemical of some sort that reacts with the water to create heat, and you slide the indicidual pouces of food into a cardboard box, and viola! Dinner! (or lunch... you get the idea)

Anyway, when coming up with our ideas, we didn't have to worry about how the food would be processed or packaged for the MRE. We only had to think about what we thought the troops would like to find inside of one of those meals in a tiny little box. Now, my GI Joe is currently unavailable for giving guidance, so I apologize if this idea already exists. I was thinking, though, that since our men and women sometimes have to eat these things morning, noon, and night, that maybe they should actually have some breakfast MRE's. (To my knowledge there aren't any, but I could easily be wrong.) I decided that a good old fashioned omelette would be just wnat a soldier out in the woods would want to eat on a chilly morning. I made up a tomato, ham, and Monterey Jack omelette and home fries, and served them up with some fresh fruit and vanilla yogurt, and an English Muffin on the side. It would certainly warm them up and get them going for the day!